OCR Interpretation  The Day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917,
December 13, 1913, NOON EDITION, Image 17   Persistent link: htt
p://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-12-13/ed-
1/seq-17/  What is OCR?  Thumbnail for  Vf cy t"X jquerors Prior
to" the epoch-making mo ment When his love triumphed over his
native bashfulness young Mr. As kam -would have maintained
against any odds that the hardest thing in life was to propose
to the girl you worshipped. Afterward, however, he decided that
the proposal was sim ply child's play compared to asking the
consent of his father-in-law elect, although that estimable old
gentle man was a great" friend. Flushed with success with the
daughter, he felt filled -with the spirit at a hundred
conquerors, and reck lessly insisted upon seeing the father
rSaf-once. But upon reaching the li the spirit of the hundred
con- suddenly evaporated and left VHirnVwith. pale face and
trembling knees and chaotic mind. D ?,I er er " he stammered in
' ''Indeed!" observed the old gentle-