Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — She Clasped. [ARTICLE]

She Clasped.

“I want to ask your advice about a novel I am writing,” she confidentially remarked to a Woodward avenue bookseller. “The hero of my. story is wpundedby Indians and Comes home with his arm iu a sling.” ~ "That’s good. ” “My heroine meets him with great joy, and he clasps her in his arms.” * ■ '“Perfectly proper. I’d do it myself. ” “Yes, but don’t you see one of his arms is in a sling? How could he clasp?” “That’s so. And yet he must come home wounded ?”• "He must.” “And she must be clasped?” “Blie ought, to be.” ; “Yes, that’s so. but you must look out for the critics. How would it do to have her clasp him ?” • ._ “Wouldn’t it look immodest ?”_, “Not under the circumstances, and you can add a foot-note that the joy of seeing him carried her off her balance for, a moment. Yes, let her clasp and take the consequences. If you get the right kind of covers on a book you needn’t care much about what is inside.” “A erv weß&'mv heroine shall clasp; I thank you; good day.” — Detroit Free Press.