Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — In the Days of “Seventeen.” [ARTICLE]

In the Days of “Seventeen.”

“What’s the matter, your girl turn you down?” asked a sympathetic friend of John, whose long face indicated such trouble. “She told me that her folks were going to the country ope Sunday to see some relatives,” replied John, without answering the direct question. “I didn’t know what to do myself, so 1 went to Broad Ripple swimming. I was standing near the pool and heard a loud smack, as a’ girl mt de a high dive and instead of going into the water .head first hit too tl*it. It knocked all the breath out of her. A guard picked her up and got het* to the bank, and as I was the nearest person I helped her out. She looked at me and I looked at her. Then she said, ‘Hello, John!’ and I said, ‘Hellp, Mary!’ and she hadn’t gone to the country at all. Then I walked away.” x . “Well, how you and Mary making it now?” asked the friend a few days later. “Oh, Igo out to her house 'bout every night,” said John with a smile.