Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Possibly She Had. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Possibly She Had.

"You haven't seen my engagement ring yet, have you?" "I don’t know. dear. Who’s the man?" —St. Louis Globe Democrat. Crowning Insult. Sometimes one can hurt another's feelings worse by a slight action than by any number of words. There is an example of this in the young married woman who went home to her mother and sobbingly declared she just couldn't be happy with her busband again. . ' - "I wouldn't have minded it so much, mother," she sobbed, "if Charlie bad. answered me back when I scolded him. bu—hu—but he did something worse!” Her mother was duly shocked at this. • « ■ “Mercy! My dear child." she ex claimed. "He strtick you, then?" "No; worse than that, mother!" and the young wife sobbed afresh. "Tell me at once!” indignantly de manded her mother. "He just yawned!”—Lippincott’s. Warned. "Here,” said the angry old financier asThe rushed into the room where his beautiful daughter and the young man had been alone together for three hours, "I don't object to your coming to see Clara, and if you want her to be your wife I may give my consent, but I'm not going to permit you to or ganize yourself into a bolding company.”—Chicago Record Herald.