Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — A DEEP SILENCE FELL. [ARTICLE]

A DEEP SILENCE FELL.

The Figures Seetneq to Warrant a Thea-ter-Goer’s Demand. < “I beg your pardon,” said the man with the slightly bald: head, who sat in a parquet seat near one of the boxes in a downtown theater the other evening. “I beg your pardon,” he repeated, “but would you mind looking at the figures on this check and telling me what they are? I’m a little nearsighted.” The youngest member of the noisy .box party, an amiable-looking youth with highly plastered hair, suspended his conversation, says the Chicago Tribune, with the interesting blonde in the green dress a moment, leaned over the front of the box, and, in answer to the questioner, who had risen to his feet and was smilingly holding out for his inspection the check end of a ticket, he said: “Certainly, sir. The figures are $1.50.” “Well,” rejoined the questioner, “that’s exactly what J paid to hear this play to-night, and I’m going to get the worth of my money or I’ll lift my voice right now and raise a fuss and make a scene! You’ll oblige me by telling the rest of them.” He was not disturbed again during the evening. ‘