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Show RESORTS TD AD T0EETDI1EI1 Obtains Meal, Also Makes Acquaintance Ac-quaintance of Charming Young Woman. ALSO RECEIVES INVITATION TO MAKE ANOTHER CALL Advertisement Tribune Dispels Loneliness, and Matrimony May Follow. There is a. certain excellent young man in this city who believes la the efficacy of advertising, especially if that advertising adver-tising Is done in The Tribune. If you're from Missouri call at this office and you'll be shown. This young man resorted lo advertising advertis-ing to obtain a home-cooked Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing dinner. True, tho dinner did not materialize until Sunday afternoon, but it was all the more enjpyable on account of the short delay. The young man had been In the city for three years without receiving an invitation in-vitation lo a Thanksgiving dinner, lie-suiting lie-suiting llncllncss cuuscd him 10 Insert an advertisement for an Invitation to such a dinner in a newspaper. Naturally he chose the host advertising medium In the west, The Tribune. And results fol-,' fol-,' lowed. An attractivo and altogether admirable young woman of cxcollont family, who lives on the west side, saw the advertisement adver-tisement and It aroused her curiosity, so .she answered It, telling thu lonely 5'Oiing man that she is "20 years old and not so bad looking when washed." "Invite" Not Accepted. The young man. of course, hastened to answer, but before he got a reply to his answnrho received another Invitation. Invita-tion. This, however, was slightly mercenary, mer-cenary, for tho writer merely told the young man that she conducted a private boarding house In the north central part of the city and that he could gat a good, home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner at her establishment at a reasonable rate If ho did not object to a privato boarding board-ing place. Thl. invitation also carried a "menu. but. needless lo ssiy. th yotlng man did not accept the "Invite." ' When a reply lo I11S0 answer to the west side woman's Invitation rcnehed him It then was too late to arrange all the. details of a dinner for Thanksgiving day. so a dinner for 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon after-noon was substituted. Mot Charming People. In addition to a toothsome dinner, the voung man enjoyed a" delightful conversation conversa-tion with a charming hostess and the voung people ho m'ol, and when ic left ho took with him an Invitation to call again. Needless tn say. he will avail himself of this invitation. In fact, tho young man Is smitten with tho young people and it may be that ' something bCvoiid a more social acquaintance may result, and It is likely that this lonely I v'oung man Wjll cea.t-i lo be .quite so Touely. As a matter of Tact, male friends say "his designs wcro deeper than a Thanksgiving dinner when he inserted that ad In, The Tribune. |