Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — The Scrap Book [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Scrap Book

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■■■ ■! ■ 1 ■■ . i Just Then Mamma Didn't Know What She Might Have to Say to Her Son-in-Law. Wimpleton was on the war-path. He had worked his courage up to boiling-

point. And he told the old, old story to the fair one of his heart. To his delight, the maid reciprocated his affections. There was only one stumbling-block —the girl’s prim, proper, and precise mamma, of whom little Wimpleton

stood in great awe, and well he might. “I love you,” said the maiden; “but you must ask mamma.” So little Wimple ton did. “Ahem I Mrs. Doddles,” he said, flushing like a beet, “I have come to inquire—I have come to ask—er — ahem I—er —what would say to me as a son-in-law?” "Why, Mr. Wimpleton,” said the lady, “I really don’t know. If you behaved yourself as you ought to, I probably shouldn’t sav anythine at all But if you didn’t —well, my dear boy, you had better marry Jane, and find out by experience.”