Eureka Reporter | 1905-01-20 | Page 5 | Girl with Common Sense

GIRL WITH COMMON SENSE had lover arrested for threat to commit suicide A certain young man in syracuse N Y is under bonds awaiting trial under the act reflecting meanwhile on the sound common sense displayed by a young woman to whom he was but recently engaged tha girl dismissed him for good and sufficient reasons returned his letters and presents and received her own the latter being accompanied by a note announcing that the sender was about to end his days and mentioning the method by which he proposed to accomplish his taking off when she received this intelligence the strength of the common sense girl appeared she did not scream or have hysterics or fa nt nor yet did she fly to him begging him to relinquish his dread intention on any terms not at all she quietly handed ane note to the messenger who brought it with a request that he give it to the first policemen he met the result was that the oung man was arrested and lodged in jail he la now out on ball but his former fiancee has shown that it will no longer be necessary for reluctant young women to melt into the arms of ineligible young men in order to save them from i on or in default of this to suffer the blight of a damp unpleasant mem ory during future years