Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — A Modern Ginevra. [ARTICLE]

A Modern Ginevra.

Louisville Courier-Journal. 4 Miss Lida German, the daughter of Mr. Louis German, with a little party, went to spend the afternoon with a little friend, Miss Mamie Parsons, at the residence of Mrs, llosseau, on Walnut street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, and after other games had been tried and given up, there was a call for hide and seek. The little girls amused themselves for some time at this, until at length oneof the party, Lida German, could uot be found. This caused the iuteiest to droo out of the sport, and all the little girls Joined in looking for their missing companion. They looked high and low for her but failed to discover her hiding place. After a considerable time had been spent in the fruitless search, Mrs. Itosseau heard of the circumstance of the child’s disappearance, and she attempted to find her. Failing in this, some alarm was occasioned, and messengers were started out to look for the child in the neighborhood. It appears that during the play a small closet had been visited by some of the girls with a view of biding there, and a peep in this was taken, but it failed to discover the child. During the time the messengers were out a servant, having occasion to go to the closet mentioned, Jilted some clothing and uncovered to view tne trussing child. Khe was in a fainting condition and swooned several time* after being taken out of her close quarters. From the time she was first misseduutil she was discovered was about one hour. She bait gone in and covered herself with clothing. and the door being closed she was overcome before she became aware of her situation. Khe soon recovered arid was able to return to her home. W. —‘t— An editor at Dover, N. H, feels called upon to glowingly describe, as an important local improvement, a “new bread wagon, painted in the highest style of decorative art, bearing upon its side in golden letters the talismanic word Biddle, and drawn by a coal black steed, clad in a neat fitting and ornamental harness, to which were added broad white reins,skilfully handled by a good-looking driver.” S; Herma^d* 109 8 snuggle goods into