Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — The Massachusetts Small Boy. [ARTICLE]

The Massachusetts Small Boy.

A small boy in a bright Melrose family wanted something of his mother the other day when she was very busy writing. She was absorbed in her work, and did not look up at his repeated “Mamma, mamma,” beside her elbow. “Well,” said he last, flinging away from her side in a pet, “it’s no use to try to make my mamma hear when she’s writing; she’s just ignominious of everything!” It was the same boy who was given permission by the hostess at a grownup party, where he was asked, because the family were intimate, to eat a whole mold of strawberry ice cream that was left after all the guests had been served. He sighed as soon as he had said, “No, thank you,” and presently confided to a small daughter of the house: “It’s dreadful to grow up, and I know I’m doing it. Why, last year I could have eaten all that ice cream as easily as could be, and now I can’t eat a bit more than two saucerfuls.”—Boston Record. Thebe needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion. * * * * Stricture of the urethra, however inveterate or complicated from previous bad treatment, speedily and permanently cured by our new and improved methods. Book, references and terms sent for 10 cents in stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y, Why is a girl like an Indian? Because she doesn’t feel dressed without a feather in her hat.