Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — The Main Thing. [ARTICLE]

The Main Thing.

Little Henry’s. father and mother wish him to be a French scholar, and knowing that a foreign language is most readily acquired in childhood, they have given him a French governess, with whom he is expected to talk French. Henry gets along pretty well, hut is not yet to be mistaken for a natiye Parisian. The other day he discovered that the barn- was on Are. He ran into the house quite out of breath. “O madamoiselle, ” he exclaimed, rushing into the school-room, “I don’t know whether it sla feu or le feu, but anyhow there’s a big blaze in the bam!” ' .*■ ■■■—.•■' ....I.;,:, t ..... Braxii. will greatly oblige the rest of the world by making up its mind as to what kind of government it wants and remaining in that fame of mind four or five consecutive weeks.