Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1909 — Flattery Pays. [ARTICLE]

Flattery Pays.

“You will become the wife of a famous man,” says the fortune teller. “But I don’t want to be the wife of a notable, and be unheard of all I—e time for that reason.” "Ah, miss,” explains the soothsayer, “your husband will be famous only because he has such, a beautiful wife.” With a pretty smile of deprecation the damsel inadvertently pays the fortune teller twice his usual fee.— Exchange.