Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — SUBTLE. [ARTICLE]

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How tlse Late Caller Waa Induced to Hurry Away. This may not be a new way of getting rid of a persistent caller, but it has certainly not grown stale by application and has the Interest of a recent local occurrence. The father’s business takes him out of town a good deal, and the daughter has a caller with whom there is an understanding that is only the final stage before the engagement The other night the father served general notice that he must take an early train and must be called for It That same evening came the fortunate young man referred to. By 10 the old gentleman had the fidgets and rapidly reached the conclusion that his comfort was a minor consideration In that household. This Is not true, but It Is a conviction that frequently seizes the head of a family when he is out of sorts. He slammed several doors as a reminder to the caller. He raised the same noisy window three times, and it always makes more noise when being lowered. He put out lights wherever they were not an absolute necessity, called to the younger children that It was high time they were asleep and dropped a shoe every three or four minutes with a hope that It would serve a hint. When everything else had failed and his patience was about exhausted, he went to the top of the stairs and shouted, “Jennie, did or did I not tell you to call me at 4:30, so that I could get my train V “You told me, papa.” “Why In creation didn’t you attend to it, then?” For less than a minute there was some tall hustling below stairs, and one could have heard a pin drop while the caller was making his sneak Into outer darkness.—Detroit Free Press.