Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1915 — WAS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY [ARTICLE]

WAS NOT AT ALL NECESSARY

Witness Proved That She Did the Best She Could In Just One Glance. In a recent breach of promise suit (as we have been informed by some who were idle enough to go and hear it) the attorneys spoke to the star witness as follows: “You say you saw this plaintiff going by? How do you know it was this plaintiff? How was she dressed?” “I can’t remember,” replied the lady witness. “Aha! You are sure you saw her, and yet you can’t remember how she was dressed?” s "Certainly not. I only had a glance at her out of the corner of my eye. I merely noticed that she had on a little turban with a veil, a mink boa, a gray suit trimmed with jet, cut broad in the revers and gored in the skirt, patent leather shoes with gray tops and one of these cheap 13.96 walrus shopping bags, gathered at the top to look like the sl4 kind popular last Christmas. I only got a glance at her, and so I can’t remember the details of her costume, your honor. What did you expect me to do—stand on the street and rubber at her?” “It was not necessary, of course," put in the judge, ’and the lawyer changed the subject ere he asked the next question.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.