Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1909 — Not a Success. [ARTICLE]

Not a Success.

The experiment was not a success. Frequently she had complained that he was hot as he used to be, that his love seemed to have grown cold and that he was too prosaic and matter of fact. So when he found one of his old love letters to her he took it with him the next time he was called away from the city, made a copy of it and mailed It to her. “John Henry,” she exclaimed when he returned, "you're the biggest fool that ever lived. I believe you have softening o i the brain. What did you mean by sending me that trash?” “Trash, my dear!” he expostulated. “Yes, trash—just sickly, sentimental nonsense.” “That isn’t how you described it whea I first wrote it and sent it to you,” be protested. “You said then it was the dearest, sweetest letter ever written, nnd you insist now that I have changed and you haven’t. I thought I would try to”— “Well, you didn’t succeed,” she interrupted, and she was mad for two days. Sometimes it is mighty difficult to please a woman.—Chicago Post.