Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1908 — Proved His Cleverness. [ARTICLE]

Proved His Cleverness.

The heiress to a cool million had been wooed and won by a poet—at least he called himself a poet "Darling,” she said, just before the honeymoon bad, slumped the slumps, "before we were married you said you intended to do something clever some day.” “And I did," replied the versemaker. "I married you.” And for the first time she realised that her bargain-counter purchase wasn’t the real thing.