Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — THEY COULDN’T RESIST HIM [ARTICLE]

THEY COULDN’T RESIST HIM

Young Man Burely Had a Taking Way With the Ladies, if You Lat Him Tell IL

“Oh, I make friends with peoplewhenever I like,” he had explained, “and they never object. They like it They all like It” “And you speak to strange young ladles?” “The last one I spoke to was in London last month. I was standing on the steps of a house in Piccadilly, watching some visiting potentates drive by, when the door opened, and out came the prettiest girl I ever saw in my life. She stood for a moment looking up and down the street and t said to her: ‘Do you know who that fierce, fat man in the last carriage i* —the one who looks like a walrus?* She said: ‘Oh, that’s my Uncle Ethelbert’ ” “But that was the /end of it,” Mary broke In —“you didn’t go on talking) to her?” “The end of it” Krujer Hobbs had concluded, taking off his glove and offering a slim bony hand —“the end wasi that we had tea at an A. B. C. shop* and she said she was sorry she wad engaged to marry her cousin, whoso name, I think, was Lionel.” —From. “Krujer Hobbs,” by Marjory Mortens in Century Magazine.