Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1916 — GATHERD SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERD SMILES

A PARTING SHOT. “Perhaps it is best after all,” remarked the rejected suitor as he lingered in the hall. “A man of twentyfive would probably soon tire of a wife who hovered around the thirty-two 4 mark.” “Why, Mr. Ardent,” said the woman in the case, “how very ungallant you are to Insinuate that I am thirty-two.” “Well, perhaps you are not,” he replied, “but it certainly struck me that you were somewhere near the freezing point” And with this parting shot he crawled into his ulster, let his person through the front door, and hastened to flag the next car headed downtown.