Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — In the Daye of “Seventeen." [ARTICLE]

In the Daye 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 she and her folks were going to* the country one 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 sv’imming. I was standing near the pool and heard a loud smack, as a girt made a high dive and Instead of going into the water head first hit too flat. It knocked ail the breath out of her. A guard picked her up and got her to the bank, anti 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,‘‘Helty, Mary!’ and she hadn’t gone to the country at all. Then I wfilked away.” “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.