Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1915 — AND AFTER THAT, THE ALTER [ARTICLE]

AND AFTER THAT, THE ALTER

Really There Was Nothing Else to It When He Had Been Led to J Make the Plunge. Of course, when she stopped !n front of the jeweler's window he had to Stop. too. It would hardly have been polite to walk on and leave her there. “Oh, see the tray full of lovely diamond rings!” she crowed. “Tee,” ha admitted.

“They’re engagement rings!” I “Shouldn’t be surprised,” he replied. “But come on; we’ve seen them now, you know.” ~ “They’re the gorgeousest engagement rings,*’ she “The diamonds look diamond-colored now, but when you put them on your finger they turn a bright pink.” “Peruke, I hardly believe that,” he rebuked. > "They do! They do! Come and I’ll show you,” and she dragged him into the shop and had the jeweler

bring the rings in out of the window. “Now slip one on my finger and we’ll see,” she pouted, and held out the dangerous finger of her ifeft hand, and with considerable curiosity he slipped a ring on it ~ “Jack!" she exclaimed. “This is so sudden!” “Ethel!” he cried. And, oblivious of the jeweler, of all else save love's young dream, they crashed Into each other’s arms. As a matter of fact the chorus gtri is merely a matter of form. _