Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1919 — WHEN THOUGHTS ARE ASTRAY [ARTICLE]

WHEN THOUGHTS ARE ASTRAY

Foolish Expression* Frequently Made Use of in Moments of Complete Surprise. When taken by surprise, the moot sensible persons are often startled Into saying foolish things. The passengers on an electric car the other day were amused when a frivolous, dainty butterfly of a young girl fluttered In, and half way down the aisle dropped her hand upon the shoulder of a large, tompetent-looklng lady with a basket full of parcels, exclaiming: “You dear Aunt Isabel! So here you are at last I” The lady addressed started, turned upon the speaker the face of a total stranger, and said icily: Tm not dear, and I’m not here, and when I’m an aunt I’m not Aunt Isabel Shd grew very red, and so did the snubbed young woman as, amid the titters of their neighbors, the girl begged pardon and hurried forward to her real 'Aunt Isabel, wildly beckoning her from a seat farther forward, Still more thoroughly confused in speech, although clear enough in her meaning, was the young wife, who was addressed by a strange gentleman in a railway station. She was wearing a raincoat and blur veil —most deceptive of costumes^—and her height and general appearance led him to mistake her for his wife, whose train had been delayed. Coming up behind her, he took her familiarly by the arm, exclaiming: “Thank goodhess, I’ve found you, Mary! I began to think you were lost!” mistaken, sir!” she gasped, jerking nervously round. “You haven’t found me, and she is lost. I’m Mary, but she isn’t meYouth’s Companion.