Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1920 — JUST DISAPPEAR, THAT’S ALL [ARTICLE]

JUST DISAPPEAR, THAT’S ALL

Englleh Newspaper Potato Out How ’ Baay It to to Booema "Talk ><. A../" es the Town." 1 Aniy inhabitant of any English village can make himself the “talk of the town” If ho will only go away, from it suddenly without leaving any address. There is no person of any consequence too dull, too harmless, or too respectable to become the hero of any imaginary crime or good deed if only he , will disappear. In a moment he is a center of romance. If he came back Incognito at the. end ’of the proverbial “nine days,” which means of course s much longer , time than a week and a would not recognise the highly colored portrait which would be shown him of. himself. What did he ever do, he might wonder, to be thought so bad or .so good, so strange of so silly? There is no reputation stand op unaccountable departure. Such a vague heading *• “Disappearance -of a Lady” obviously nt?, tracts many renders or we should not see It so often In the public press. Of course, if it can bd made a definite, and the disappeared person’s birthplace, daily work, or social condition can be particularized, the romantic Instinct of the multitude ’!• even more certiin to be awakened. TbV notion 'that someone has not been buried, though every evidence is there to prove that he or she has died, Is a recurrent source of squalid ro* mance.—London Times. , t