Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1909 — Happy Thought. [ARTICLE]

Happy Thought.

There is a very pretty girl in Syracuse who, with the best of motives and most kind intent, Is generally, as she herself expresses it, “in a mess.” To s chum she recently said; "I seem to have offended Mr. de Lancey, and I can’t imagine how. I sent him a little token on his birthday, and he acknowledged it In the coolest manner.” "What did you send?” her friend Inquired. "Well,” she explained, “I wanted to give something that would have some connection with his lovely verew, you know, and by what was almost Inspiration I thought of a rhyming dictionary.” Harper's Weekly.