Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Awful Warring. [ARTICLE]

Awful Warring.

At sooae rt in Chicago one evening lln da >i if lights rnidflchlj west out leaving the andience In perfect darkness far a few minutes. This was couples present, and. over in the apwthheard to say in a suppressed undexlonc: Susie, whxt

Just then the light blazed up again, and a young man was noticed holding his hand over his ntOnth. A stream of 'bload was trickling through his fingers, and the expression on his face touched the observer’s heart. His girl took something out of her mouth and put it in her pocket, looking pained and guilty: She led him quietly to the door and they passed but. Young ladies should not wear their hairpins in their mouths. It is not the place for them, and a wound in the side of the jaw, made by coming suddenly and painfully in contact with a cruel two-pointed hairpin at a time when his heart is set on a moment of ecstatic bliss, might result in a coolness on the part of the young man which would be heartbreaking. — Peck’s Sun.