Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — Those Tell-Tale Violets. [ARTICLE]

Those Tell-Tale Violets.

The circumstantial evidence might not hare been admitted In court, bnt It wu sufficiently strong at § dinner given last week to be significant to those present. She Is a pretty debutante and wore a great bunch of purple violets, and he is a member of tbe Bachelors’ Cotillon Club. Both were at the table and the marriage was announced before the meal was half over. She asked her hostess to excuse her a moment while she ran jjswn and gave some personal directions to tbe coachman. The gentleman volunteered to accompany her. The next course was being served before they reappeared. She slipped demurely to her place, Ignorant of the fact that her violets seemed to have been through a tornado. The other guests let that pass, but when he appeared, blithely unconscious of broken violets clinging to his vest and crushed violet stains on his shirt bosom, mirth reigned. It is said he sent her another bouquet of violets next day—but they were white.