Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — Gathered Smiles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gathered Smiles

SAME WITH fiER. Eleven o’clock was the hour, and the lady was both tired and bored. He was paying his addresses to her, but she was not very sweet to him, and yet she did not know how to dispose of him kindly and gently. Half an hour later he was ,sttll rambling on, and then he turned to that ever-effervescent subject, his health. , “Yes, Miss Mollie,” he said, “I know Fm not well. Seldom, indeed, do I feel myself. It’s only my nerve that keeps me up at all.” She was a nice girl, but she couldn't resist the temptation. It was too, too much. “Oh,” she said, meekly, “that’s funny! That’s what’s beeping me up, too!” Then he departed, slowly, sadly, for ever and a day.