Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — BROUGHT HIM TO THE POINT [ARTICLE]

BROUGHT HIM TO THE POINT

Maldens Confession Was Something Moot Dilatory Lover Could Hardly Affect to Ignore. For many months he had been eating free suppers at her father’s expense and the fair Mabel thought it time he got a move on. One evening as they sat together In the parlor she carried out her little scheme. “Oh, how funny,” she cried suddenly, as she turned over the pages of the evening paper. “What is it?” he asked. “Why, here’s an advertisement in which it says, ‘No reasonable offer refused.’ ” “What’s odd about that?” asked the young man in surprise. “Oh, nothing,” she replied coyly, trying to raise a blush, “but those are my sentiments exactly.” Three weeks later the invitations. — Houston Post.