Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1909 — Yum! Yum! Yum! Who Was It? [ARTICLE]

Yum! Yum! Yum! Who Was It?

Two of Rensselaer’s mail cle ks occupied seats in the day coach on the northbound 6:32 train last Saturday evening, having gone there from the mail car to seek the comforting warmth of the more luxurious coaches. They had no thought of the entertainment that -awaited them there. The car was almost unoccupied, but with two seats turned together a couple that looked at first glance like father and daughter,, sat confidently close to each other. The mail clerks dropped wearily into seats not far away and were preparing for a long rest when a sudden smack followed by a long-drawn kiss arrested their attention. They sat up, and took notice. The noise came from the double seat, and the faces of the man and girl were pressed firmly together. There was an entanglement of arms that resembled a third Sown at a football match and a heaving of heavenly sighs that bespoke a bliss of perfect affinity. It was too good to miss, and the mall clerks took a point of more perfect observation. Presently the couple broke apart and it was observed that the man was about 40 years of age, all of it, and no particular Joy to the optica The maiden was different. She was near 18, with a rose in her cheek, a curl to her hair and a ourve to the figure that would have been sufficient to have brought many of the young swains on bended knee at her feet.. It was a study; evidently it was net father and daughter, for such affection never existed in that relationship. The facial study was going on when there was another sigh, another grappling for a hold and the faces went together with a vim that dispelled the papa and daughter j theory. The program of long hugs and short intervals of rest proce2del alternately all the way to Rensselaer. At Delphi three girls got on the train. They occupied seats directly, across the aisle from thg spooning couple. But this did not serve to abash the pair. Probably they thought all Delphi girls were used to it. Finally the girls from Carroll county decided to hug a little on their account and every time the man and girl hugged and kissed they did the same thing. But It* • didn’t bother the affinities. The people who were in the coach saw the comical side of the situation and giggled and it was a good show for all who saw it. The D. girls got off at Monticellp and the show was less interesting, but the main performers never let up. After the Monon stop the conductor went through the coach taking the tickets for the Rensselaer passengers. Imagine the surprise of the Rensselaer clerks when the checks were pulled from the bat of the old spooner. Yes, they were Rensselaer passengers. They took the bus and came down town. Evidently it was a bridal couple. They registered at least as man and wife. This brings out a very good story about a young married couple that wanted to act just the reverse, and the groom gave the hotel porter a $5 bill to deny to the other guests that they were a newly married couple. However, the following morning when the bride and groom entered the dining room they were overcome at an uproarous laughter which seemed to be directed at them, and the groom, believing that he had been betrayed by the porter went in search of him. He encountered that worthy in the hall and entered vigorously into Dili presumed betrayer. "What did you mean," he said, “in telling those people that we were a newly married couple after I gave you the $6 to deny it for?" "Deed I didn’t, sah," answered the porter, “I told them that you weren’t married at all.” You can’t always tell