Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — A Mean Feminine Trick. [ARTICLE]

A Mean Feminine Trick.

This edifying conversation was heard on a Norristown train. The two girls were rather pretty, and one of them carried a novel from the free library, aays the Philadelphia Record. First girl: "So your engagement is broken off?” Second girl: "Yes, I broke it off last Wednesday night” First girl: "But you still have that beautiful ring. Didn’t he expect you to return it to Mm?” Second girl: “I suppose he did, but I got around that matter splendidly. I have half a mind to tell you all about It.” First girl: "Oh, yes, do tell me!” Second girl: “Well, I will. You see, I knew I should throw him over bn Wednesday night, so that afternoon I bought from a fakter on Bth street a 10-cent ring that resembled this one considerably. I wore the 10-cent ring 1b the evening. We were sitting on the front porch, and, Just as I had hoped, we had a dreadful quarrel. ‘I am done with you now!’ I said. And I took off the ring and threw It out in the middle of the street. A trolley car came along and passed over it. ‘There is your ring,’ I said. ‘Go hunt for it if you want it.’ ‘Oh, It doesn’t matter about the ring,’ he said. ‘I wasn’t thinking of the ring, Mary. You were wise to throw it away, for it is of no value to either of us now.’ Then he went away, little suspecting the trick I had played on him. He was easy, wasn’t he?” First girl: “Wasn’t he easy, though?”