Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1915 — GATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED SMILES

A GENTLE HINT. Tn the front end of a through car to Bucyrus, the other afternoon, a genial and polite young man sat with a stiff and stern lady of uncertain years. As the car passed Berea and was approaching Medina, the young man produced a package of tobacco and proceeded to load a ripe-looking pipe. But as he was getting out a match, his courtesy asserted itself. “I hope you don’t mind if I smoke, ma’am T’ he said, turning diffidently to his involuntary seat mate. She had been looking daggers at him during the preparatory operations, and she now asserted herself. “Indeed I do!” she Snapped. The polite young man scratched hit mutch “Then move.back,” he said. “This is the smoking apartment” — Cleveland Plain Dealer.