Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1882 — “Make it English.” [ARTICLE]

“Make it English.”

Mr. Fox, the father of the orator, Charles James Fox, trained his son from childhood to share in the government of England. This anecdote shows the child’s precocity: While the elder Fox was Secretary of State he used to allow Charles to read all his dispatches. One day, when the boy was only ten years of age, the - Secretary brought home a paper which he had very carefully written—an answer, to be sent to a foreign government, with whom England had good cause to find fault. He gave the paper to Charles, anil asked him to read it. The lad did so. “ What do you think of it?” asked the parent, earnestly, for he thought it extremely good. The boy shook his head. Then he looked into his father’s face ; then he straightened himself to his full height, and smiting his little fist upon his swelling breast, he exclaimed : “Oh !—make it stronger ! make it big !—make it—English !” Fox canght the inspiration from the look, the tone, the words of his boy. He threw the paper into the fire, and then sat down and wrote again, and produced a paper which electrified the country.

A boy’s composition on girls : “ Girls are the only folks that have their own way every time. Girls is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several thousand girls if she wants anything. This is all I knew about giiis, and father says the less I know about them the better off I any