Warning at Midnight Parts Spooning Pair

1920—

Warning at Midnight Parts Spooning Pair

And Another Lingering Soul Hits the Pike for Home

Sweet is the silence which wraps itself round two hearts that beat as one, in other words, Myrtle and Arthur sat together on the sofa belonging to Myrtle's pa, their arms round each other.

Time passed unheeded. Dimly Arthur realized that he would have to walk home, but what cared he? Love rules the world, even if it can't keep the last street car waiting.

Then, with slow solemnity, the clock in the hall struck.

At the same moment heavy footsteps were heard in the room above them, where slept the father of the fair maid. Then his raucous voice broke in on their tender musings:

"Myrtle!" he yelled, "ask that stick-in-the-mud down there if he hasn't got a home. If he isn't out of this house in three minutes I'll put on my heaviest shoes and come down to him!"

"Dearest," whispered the girl sadly, "something seems to tell me we must part!"



Wives of Today

At the now justly famous Jackson day dinner a number of good stories were told and the women were enjoying one told by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska apropos of the growing influence of women. Referring to the habit of American men of calling their wives "the better half," he repeated a story told him by the Prince of Wales during his recent visit here.

Visiting a dugout occupied by American doughboys the Prince was surprised to find there, side by side, large pictures of his father and mother clipped from some illustrated magazine. He stepped closer to note the inscription. Under one was "King George, the Fifth," under the other, "The Other Four-Fifths!"

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 9.