Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — What They Learned. [ARTICLE]

What They Learned.

Few manufactured malapropos speeches are so droll as those which little children make without knowing it. The Pittsburgh Bulletin gives- the following: Mamma—Did my darling little Nellie hear the words of the w edding ceremony ? Nellie—Yes, I heard every word. Mamma —And what did the minister say? Nellie (glibly)—He said: “We have now entered the holy bands of padlock, and you twine are now’ one “fish.” The Hartford Post reports another, which, as the Irishman said, is “equally worse. ” A little girl, just old enough to enter the infant class at the Sunday school, was ambitious to repeat a• text of Scripture as the older ones did at the concert exercises. In order to humor her ambition and make it reasonably certain that she' would succeed, the mother selected the brief text, “It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.” and taught her until she rehearsed it several times correctly. When the supreme moment arrived, Jhowever, the little orator electrified' her audience and mortified her mother by saying, “It is awful to do good on the Sabbath day.”