Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — First Step Is Criticism. [ARTICLE]

First Step Is Criticism.

Two marriedd&dies were talking in a street car. One was recounting the wonderful saying* of her precocious children. “I was traveling in the West,” said one, “accompanied by my six-year-old Freddie. We stopped at a railroad eating-house, where a colored man walked up and down pounding a gong. Fred listened awhile, and with a North-Side look of contempt, said: ’Maybe that feller thinks he’s playing a tune, but he isn’t.’”—Chicago Tribune.