Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1919 — NO NEED FOR THEM TO PART [ARTICLE]

NO NEED FOR THEM TO PART

Young Man Willing to Sacrifice Himself to Soften Blow to Poor Father-in-Law. The young man had asked him for the hand of his daughter, and a pang wrung the fatherly heart of Mr. Jones as he looked at the youth, and thought of the bitterness of parting with his well-beloved child. “I suppose, Oliver,” he said at last, “it is ohly natural and right that when the" young birds have become old enough to fly, they should leave their parental nest and go with their chosen mates to build nests of their own, and yet it pains me when I think of one of my fledglings getting ready to fly away.” “This seems to be a good-sized nest,” suggested the young man. anxious to soften the blow; ‘perhaps you’d rather have me and Gertie stay here.”