Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — Lemonade Beats Bandolline. [ARTICLE]

Lemonade Beats Bandolline.

Youngstown Ohio, Evening Telegram, “I was out to a dance recently,” said an acquaintance tb me, “and a funny thing happened, It was not so very funny either, but it made me laugh after it was over. You see, it was as hot as a bake oven and the room was crowded to suffocation. I had a girl and we were waltzing around as best we could when suddenly the girl gasped, turned pale and said: 'Get me out to the air.’ I stopped and released her and offered her my arm, when bump! down she went on the floor in a heap. Fainted away see? Dead as a herring. What did I do? Why tried to pick her up and couldn’t do it, for she was a heavy weight. Then I succeeded, with the aid of others, in getting her to the porch, but she wouldn’t revive. Then I ran into the refreshment room for water, but the tank was empty and the only thing they had was lemonade. Some thing had to be done and I got two glasses, ran back and emptied their contents into her face—not exactly ‘into’ but ‘onto.’ After using about 30 cents worth of nice, sweet lemonade she came to. Well, say; you would have died to see her hair. Sticky? Why bandoline, quince seed, gum arabic. and kindred concoctions were not in it. Lemonade beats them all. Was she mad? Well, Igv ess yes. She said I was intoxicated and a natural born fool. Some one else took her home, I didn’t.