Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1905 — Why the Golfer Married. [ARTICLE]

Why the Golfer Married.

“In Scotland,’” said an Englishman, “golf is almost a disease. I heard not long ago of an elderly bachelor in Edinburgh who had played golf from his boyhood up. He had never courted a girl because, he said, golf hadn’t allowed him the time. * “Hence everybody was surprised one day to hear that the crusty old gentleman was to be married. A caddiethe caddies are men in Scotland—-went to him, wrung him by the hand and said sentimentally: “ ‘Man, I’m glad yer going to wed. I think ye must love her dearly. I know your life will be all bliss and sweetness now, and I envy ye the goldeu days o’ romance in store.’ “ Tooh, pooh, Robert,’ said the other. ‘lt’s nothing of that sort. Macmann, the champion, took a wife last j'ear, and it improved his game. I am just taking one in the hope that it will improve mine.’ ”