Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — Acceptable Substitute. [ARTICLE]

Acceptable Substitute.

“Ah!” sighed the summer girl, “I wish you owned a yacht, and would place it at my disposal.” "Sorry I can’t force your dream to rome out,” replied the youth with the noisy tie, “but the only thing I have to offer in that particular is a little smack.” And slightly thereafter the silence was punctured by a soulful sound resembling the expulsion of the cork from a bottle of ginger pop.