Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1916 — A Ringer. [ARTICLE]

A Ringer.

Ernest P. Bicknell, national director of the American Red Cross, said on his return from Belgium to a Washington reporter: “if pence is to come each side must do its snare. Advances must be made like the girl, you know. “A young millionaire said to a beautiful girl on a moonlit beach between two dances:—- -—„ _ _ “ ‘Don’t you like that Shakespearean quotation: "‘“The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.” ‘ “The girl.sighed. “ ‘Beautiful,’ she said. ‘Beautiful. But wouldri’t hoops of gold be better?’ ”