Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — BUMPED HIS SELF-CONCEIT [ARTICLE]

BUMPED HIS SELF-CONCEIT

Young Lady’s Reason for Choosing Escort Not Exactly What He Had Imagined It to Be.

Mr. Blank (we’ve got to eall him that because he’s really a very decent fellow, and he’d kill us if we told his real name) is first tenor in a glee club. He sings in a choir, too. Everybody likes him. v* The other night a bunch of young people met for a social session at a certain house in the suburbs. They ate and danced and they- sang. And when it was all Over the prettiest young woman there —she hadn’t been escorted thither by her chosen cavalier —said:

“I walk home, but it’s a lonesome walk, and I’m afraid. There have been holdups in this part of town. So I choose, Mr. Blank to see me safe home.” On the way home Mr. Blank was considerably swelled up. The prettiest girl had chosen him from a crowd of personable bachelors, and his feelings of self-satisfaction were excusable. He couldn’t resist saying: “Why did you think I was the strongest and bravest man there tonight?” “I didn’t,” answered the girl. “I picked you because I knew you could holler the loudest!” —Cleveland PlainDealer.