Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — "Many Worser Giris.” [ARTICLE]

"Many Worser Giris.”

Prof. Chapman, professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, was ths bright, particular*star of tho alumni dinner the other night. He boomed the little Institution "away down in Maine” in a manner that delighted the boys. “Bowdoin may have some failings,* he said, “but I’ve known many a worse alma m.ater than she. In this respect I feel like the little daughter of a friend of mine in Portland. She had Just mastered the art, of express Ing herself in intelligent sentences. One day she had done something for which her mamma had to reprove her. The lady gave her daughter a sound lecture, and then told her to go upstairs, alone, In her room, and ash God to forgive her for her error. Ip a few minutes she was surprised to-see the liaby conic down stairs again, appear in the sitting-room, and stand back with a grout deal oi seriousness. "Well, did you go up and do what J told you?” asked the fond mother. “Yes," replied the guilty one, “and God said: ‘Great Scott, Elsie Murray, I've known a great .many worser girls than you. ’ "- Boston Herald.