Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1913 — GATHERED TO SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED TO SMILES

FIXING THE BLAME.

“Auntie, when you were a young <irl were you very pretty?” “Yes, my child, very pretty.” “Were you popular?” “Oh, yes, very popular. I was the belle of the neighborhood." "Didn’t any young men ever come to call on you?” “Oh, yes, my dear. Lots of them.” “Then, auntie, why is it that you never married?” “Nobody ever proposed to me, my dear.” ~ “Why not?”' “I don’t know. But I’ve often thought it must have been the high cost of living that scared the young men off In those days.”