Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1913 — Maid Had Helped. [ARTICLE]

Maid Had Helped.

Young Van Winkle waited nervously in the parlor for Julia to appear. He had been sitting there, twiddling his thumbs,, for half an hour. Finally a step was heard in the hall and he rose to his feet expectantly. But it was not Julia. It was her maid. “Marie,” said the impatient young man,, “wbat keeps your mistress so long? Is she making up her mind whether she’ll see me or not?” “No, sir,” answered the maid with a wise smirk. “It isn’t her mind she’s making up.”