Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — And They Met by the Sea. [ARTICLE]

And They Met by the Sea.

*T didn’t want to come here, in the first place,” confided the first guest of the expensive summer resort “No more did I," answered the second, "but my wife Insisted that we ahould come." “So did mine,” said the first “She said we just had to come here, because the Smithsons were coming, although I told her I simply could not afford the expense.” “Neither could I afford it,” explained the second, “but my wife said we had to come because the Brownsons were coming.” “Why, look here, my name is Brown•on.” “And mine is Smithson.”