Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — A STOLEN KISS. [ARTICLE]

A STOLEN KISS.

Du Chaillu, tha Venerable Explorer and Writer, Was the Offender. Paul B. du Chaillu was stopping not long since at the home of a lifelong friend whose pretty daughter had lately made her debut. There were a number of guests about the rooms, but happening upon his beautiful young hostess monieintarily alone and unconcernedly humming: An' a laddie brave he'd be. Who to touch my lips would dare, deftly accepted the challenge,as might a man old enough to be her grandfather, and who had carried her in his arms since the swaddling clothes age. But the tall beauty rose in apparent w rath and tow ering above the humiliated little man delivered a declaration of independence, and scathing rebuke that brought sauntering guests upon the scene. “How dare you,” concluded the glowing girl—M.. du Chaillu had never seen her look so beautiful—“how dart you. Paul du Chaillu, take advantage of my hulplteenteo tu steal a kiss from me!” Then, with inimitable grace, sinking upon her knees so that her rosebud of a mouth was just temptingly below the old traveler’s, she demanded w ith a bewitching smile: “I’aul du Chaillu, put it back!” But the adventurous traveler was so rattled by this time that the matter of restitution was an awkward one.—N. Y. Times.