Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — Too Far Off. [ARTICLE]

Too Far Off.

“Diplomatic language,” said Secretary Lansing, “is all very well, but it won’t work miracles. “It’s like the young woman’s case. She refused the old gentleman most diplomatically, but I’m sure that, nevertheless, he was very much put out. k“<l told old Gobsa Golde,’ suid the young woman, ‘that his age compelled me to refuse hirn.’ . - “‘What!’ said her companion. ‘YoU told him to his face he was too old?’ ” “ ‘Oh. no! I managed more "'diplomatically than that.. He said he’d love and cherish me till death, and I told him he was too young.’”—SL Louis Globe-Democrat,