Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — HIS COURTSHIP WAS BRIEF [ARTICLE]

HIS COURTSHIP WAS BRIEF

Real-Bstate Man Tried Business Methods and Met with a Rebuff. One day last week a little South Side widow called upon a real-estate man who has charge of some of her property. They engaged in tecie earnest conversation relating to business matters. The widow’s telephone rang the next morning, and the real-estate man said that another c-all at his office would be necessary. In the course of the second visit q, jest or two interrupted the talk on rentals and taxes. The widow has a gay little laugh, and it sounded like music to the weary ears of the man. He asked if he might not bring certain facts which he would glean during the next twenty-four hours to her personally. In other words, he wanted to call, and, being a good-natured body, the widow said he might. He went, he saw, and he proposed. "And tills is how he did it,” the widow explained afterward. "I certainly am in love with you,” he said. “When you came into the office I said to myself, ‘My, but she's a fine piete of furniture. She would be an ornament to my house.’ Now I am going to go at this matter right, and what I’ve got to say I’ll say quick. You suit me. Your clubs and societies must go. for I must be all. I want to marry you to-morrow. Any time after 10 a. m. will suit me. What do you say? Here’s my hand. Is it a go?” The astonished woman replied: “Why, I don't know you.” * “Oh, that’s all right; don't let a little thing like that stand in the way,” the man said. “You just come down to my office to-morrow morning. I’ll take you over to the bank, then I’ll introduce you to some of my friends. That’s no trouble. Will you be there?’.’ “Why, the very idea!” said she. “No.” Then he was very indignant and felt he wasn’t appreciated. “That’s like a woman,” he growied. “Never knows when she’s got a good thing.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.