Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — FALSE THOUGHT OF ROMANCE [ARTICLE]

FALSE THOUGHT OF ROMANCE

Sad and Dismal Tale of a Young Man and a Lovely Damsel Who Sold Soap. Love came at first sight to the young man when he saw her. She was behind the soap counter, dispensing perfumed soap to those who wished to buy it, and she was all bis Impressionistic fancy favored in woman. Her face was adorable. Her hair was coiled bewitchingly. Her slender fingers were deliciously pink. Her dress, being neat and Inexpensive, revealed an economic nature, while a necklace prevented the aspersion of parsimony. The young man, Just from college, with high intellectual notions and yet sensible opinions as to necessary thrift, believed her to be his affinity. He knew that, taken from the department store and placed in the social environment that was bis, she would scintillate and charm. He determined to have a word with her—to please his ears with the music of her voice; for he was sure her voice must be musical. Elsewhere he would have waited for the convention al introduction; here, where she sold soap, the matter- of meeting was made obvious. He approached. “Will you let me have a five-cent bar of soap?" he asked—which, though commonplace, was as good as anything else for him to say. She smiled angelically, revealing poetic, pearly teeth. “We ain’t got no flve-cent cakes,” she told him; “them to the case is ten an’ twenty-five." He turned away. His romance had died a-borning.