Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1917 — LED HIM TO THE SLAUGHTER [ARTICLE]

LED HIM TO THE SLAUGHTER

Chorus Girl Neatly “Worked" Admirer When They Went to Buy Her Diamond Brooch. In “My Own Past,” by Maude Ffoulkes, the authoress tells some good stories of her experiences as a chorus girl. One of the best concerns a girl whose rather mean-minded admirer had at last been persuaded to make her a present of a diamond brooch. “Something simple for me,” she told him. “I hate clusters and twirls.” “Well, dear, I admire your taste. Something simple let it be,” answered the careful lover. “I’ve been thinking,” said the artless girl, “how nice It would be to have my name made Into a brooch. Will you go with me and order one?” “He came like a bird,” she told her appreciative audience In the dressingroom, “and I those a fine brooch—nice large stones, too.” “Well, I never!” cried an amazed listener. “Fancy that! But your name is so short; it couldn’t have cost much. You were a fool, Ida.” “My name wasn’t ‘lda’ In Bond street,” said the young lady demurely. “I asked him to let me wear the name by which mother called me before I went on the stage. . “‘And what is that, darling?’ he asked. “ ‘Gwendoline,’ I said, “but, girls, I tell you that I didn’t dare look at him when I said it.”