Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — Gathered Smiles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gathered Smiles

IN AFTER YEARS. Father Time had been swinging his trusty scythe for 20 long years, when they accidentally met again. He was a bachelor of forty-five, bald and slightly disfigured, but still in the ring. She a spinster, fair and forty, but not as fair ns she used to be. “Do you remember,” she gurgled, "how you proposed to me the last time we met. anti I refused you?” “Well, I guess yes,” he replied. “It Is the happiest recollection of my life.” And seeing it was a hopeless case, she meandered along her lonely way.