Pretty Co-ed Loses Heart to "Doctor," A Lunatic

1920

Pretty Co-ed Loses Heart to "Doctor" Before She Finds He Is a Lunatic

DES MOINES, Iowa — Before a pretty Drake University co-ed loses her heart again, she is going to demand to see the family tree for years back of the subject of her infatuation and receive a report from a reputable detective bureau that he is all he pretends to be.

This is why. This last month, the co-ed in question lost her heart, but without stopping to take the various cautions mentioned. He was a young medical student from the State University of Iowa, so he said, and he, with some other students from the same institution, was studying cases at the insane asylum at Clarinda, Iowa, not far from the co-ed's home.

He came often, and fell into the habit of talking his plans over with her, not neglecting to hint that she had a large share in them.

On the occasion of one of the visits, just as the Drake girl was beginning to feel that he would pop the question that very day, they were interrupted by the tramp of booted feet on the piazza.

"Excuse me, lady," said one of the two men who stood at the door, "one of the trusties form the asylum has been slipping out, and we're trying to find him. Have you seen him?"

The girl averred that she hadn't but allowed them to search the premises anyway. They came at last to the room where the young doctor was sitting. "This is him, Jim," cried one, and they took the alleged medical student away with them.

And so, while the co-ed still believes that love at sight is all very well, in the future she will demand a doctor's certificate before she responds to it.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 20, 1920, page 1.