Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — HELPING MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

HELPING MATTERS.

Here’s a New Use, Girls, For Tour Little Brothers. , 5 No youth who has uot been through the trials and tribulations of courtship has any adequate conception of what they are. Out In the suburbs there Is a handsome group of residences, and the people occupying them are largely a community unto themselves. They have their own “set,” exchange visits Instead of calls, and gossip about each other with all the freedom that obtains In a small town. A young, man from down in the city regarded one of the girls out there as hls “steady" and was correspondingly attentive. At every visit he ran.a gantlet. In winter there were faces smiling from the window panes, and when weathej permitted he had to pass groups that studied every phase of his looks and movements as he were an Imported curiosity. The climax came during one T>f the earlier summer evenings. It was light long after the evening meal, and those who wore not in their gardens were on the front verandas, so that nothing passed unnoticed. One youngster had broken hls bicycle while trying to ride through an old apple tree, and the largest of the groups was at the.scene of the accident. As he approached, his girl’s brother spied him. “Say," shouted the irrepressible, “are f you goln to be engaged to my sister?” The young man hurried on as though he did not hear the question or the laugh that greeted it. “Don’t git uppish bow,” called the lad in a still higher key; “mother said •he’d give $lO to know how the land laid, and I’ll go snooks with you.” There was an engagement within a week, and the whole neighborhood received immediate notice.—Detfoit Free Press.