Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1910 — Pleasure and Sacrifice. [ARTICLE]

Pleasure and Sacrifice.

An alefrt little 5-year-old was visiting a city park with her mother for the first time. She had noticed the beautiful red and white swan boats as they passed through in the morning, and her mother had promised they should come back after the shopping was done and have a ride. Shortly ( after dinner they stood on the bridge over the lagoon watehing the boats below and listening to the cry of the barker as he tried to induce the passing crowds to patronize his swan boats. But when her mother started toward the boat landing little Elsie declared very vigorously that she did not want to go at all and, as her mother urged her, broke forth in tears. This sudden fear was so different from her former eagerness that her mother could not understand It until she noticed the boatman’s cajl. He was crying: “Come aloflg! Come along! Ride clear round the pond. Only 5 cents for ladies and gents! Children thrown in!”