Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Big Enough. [ARTICLE]

Big Enough.

In Mrs. Laura E. Richards’ delightful picture of child-life, entitled, “When I Was Your Age,” are descriptions of the little ones who are now the grown-up daughters of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. Of “Flossy" she writes: If Julia was like Milton’s “Penseroso,” Flossy was the “Allegro” in person, or like Wordsworth’s maiden, A dancing shape, an image gay. To haunt, to startle, and waylay. She was very small as a child. One day a lady, not knowing that the little girl was within hearing, said to her mother: “What a pitty Flossy is so small!” “I’m big inside!” cried a little angry voice at her elbow, and there was Flossy, swelling with rage like an offended bantam. And she was big insider her lively, active spirit, seemed to break through the little body and carry ; it along in spite of itself. Sometimes it was an Impish spirit; always it was an en--1 terprising one.