Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1914 — A NEAT REBUKE. [ARTICLE]
A NEAT REBUKE.
Chances Are it was Wasted on the ITivolous Young Woman. “The late Julia as her brilliant books show, detected the married flirt,” said a Washington woman. “I once heard her, at the seashore, rebuke a married flirt rather neatly: “The woman, young and pretty, was always surrounded by a throng of adorers —football and golf tennis champions from the leading coL leges—very young, but very handsome, very charming lads. “Late one night, on Miss Magruder’s return from a dinner, she found the young woman and a young man seated in the hall of the hotel alone. “It was very late. Every one else bad gone to bed. The young woman was embarrassed. But she looked up and laughed nervously, and then, for something to say, she extended her handkerchief and murmured. " 'See, I have a knot in my handkerchief, and I can’t remember what it was put there for.’ “ 'Perhaps/ said Miss Magruder, smiling gravely, ‘perhaps it was put there to remind you that you are married.’ ”
