Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1887 — Reformed Spelling. [ARTICLE]

Reformed Spelling.

A. little boy at a village school had written the word “psalm” in his copybook and accidentally blotted out the initial “p” with his sleeve. His little sister sitting by his side burst into tears over the disaster, but the spelling reformer defiantly exclaimed: “What if I did leave him out ? He didn’t spell nothing, and what was the good of him?” --Presbyterian Journal.