Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — His Reason for the Change. [ARTICLE]

His Reason for the Change.

The small daughter of a friend of mine has just had her first experience with the fickleness of the male sex. The little boys and girls in the neighborhood where she lives have all been going to the same dancing school, and one afternoon last week the teacher arranged for them a dancing party. There was to by a cotillon, and each little boy was to invite his partner beforehand. Charley N., who Is quite a beau of the classi, was selected to lead, and he Invited n;y small friend Bess to assist him. Bess is the most obedient of daughters, and told the young gentleman she would have to ask her mother -for permission to attend the party before she could accept his invitation. Mother was quit# willing for her to go, and little Bess, radiant with joy at the prospective honor, wrote a neat little note of acceptance to Master Charles. Next day there was a ring at the door bell,'and the maid who answered it found a note thrust uKJer the door. It was from Charley, anl it ran thus: “Dear Friend Bessie-: I am a-going to change my Mind and !ede with Lucy Davis her Brother has got a new air Gun.”—Washington PoS?.