Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — Hysteria Barely avoided. [ARTICLE]

Hysteria Barely avoided.

“Tell me, my daughter,” said Mr. Munn with some anxiety in his manner, as he led his Only child to a seat in the parlor, says the Detroit Free Press, “wasn’t young Mr, Gasket here last night?” ’ —\ “Yes papa. Why do you ask?” , “Did you and he have a quarrel?” “No, papa—not a quarrel exactly. But tell me, has anything happened to him?” ' ' “Did he or did he not propose ,marriagetoyou?” “Yes, be did, papa,” replied the girl now thoroughly alarmed. “Do tell me if anything has happened to him. Has he commited sui ” “What was A’our reply, daughter? Did yon accept him?” “No, papa Has his body been discov ’. “Did yougive him any encouragement'whatever?” “‘No, sir. Did he shoot himself, or ’’ '■ “You rejected him finally and irrevocably, did you?” . “Yes, papa, and he said he’d go and'do something desperate,, but I didn’t think "he’d make away with himself. Oh, papa! isrr’tit awful?” “Yes, it’s awful- I suspected that you had rejected hijn when I heard what he had done today.” “Oh, papa! do you think I shall be arrested for it?” “Oh, dear, no! You didn’t have to marry him just because he asked, you.” “But tell me what he has done, papa.” x “He’s gone to work.”