Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — A Toned-Down Declination. [ARTICLE]

A Toned-Down Declination.

Clinton—And so you finally got up courage to ask Miss Felton to have you? And did she say no? Dumlelgh—No, she didn’t go so far as that. She merely said the Idea was absurd.— Boston Transcript