Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — NOTHING UNREAL ABOUT THIS [ARTICLE]

NOTHING UNREAL ABOUT THIS

-J. I — Only an Idealist Would Have Ex- . pected Anything Else From the Modem Gilded Youth. Editor George Horace Lorimer was talking in a Philadelphia club about realism. Tve got no time for realists," he said, "because they paint human nar ture worse than it is. Here’s a typical realist story for you: “A pretty girl was engaged to two young men simultaneously, and one evening the parlor maid came to her and said in a scared voice: ‘“Oh, Miss Bessie, them two gents what you’re engaged tovhas called together, and somehow they’ve found out about both engagements.’ “The pretty girl threw her cigarette into the fire pettishly. “'What the dickens shall I do?’ she exclaimed. “But the parlor maid smiled joyfully. “ Til tell you what to do, Miss Bessie,’ she said. Til go downstairs and say you’re crying In your room because your pop has lost all his money. Then you can be engaged for keeps to the gent what stays.’ “That seems a good plan,” said the pretty girl, and she lit another cigarette and waited. “The maid was gone about three minutes. Then she returned with a frightened look on her whltej face. “ ’Miss Bessie, both on- ’em has gone,’ she said."