Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1919 — SMALL CHANCE TO GET AWAY [ARTICLE]

SMALL CHANCE TO GET AWAY

As It Happened, the Old Gentleman Was Placing the Blame Where It Didn’t Belong. “I don’t know what the young men of today are coming to,” said Mr. Smith. ‘‘ln my young days there .wasn’t any need for all this courting. The girls then —” But he was cut short by the coalscuttle which Mrs. Smith accidentally dropped on bls toes. * "I was only going to say, my dear,” he remarked, when he had recovered his composure, “that I wish the young fellow who is calling on Christabel would go away and let us get the house shut up. It’s past midnight!” At that moment there entered the small boy of The household. He had been, for the last hour or so, behind the draught-screen In the drawingroom, and vowed that he had enjoyed himself better than if he had been at a movie show. “I; isn't his fault, pa,” said the heir of the Smiths. “He can’t go; Christabel’s sitting on him!”