Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — PLEASURE TO BE PAID FOR. [ARTICLE]

PLEASURE TO BE PAID FOR.

How Wise Mother Directed Little •I Daughter’a Steps. She was a very little maiden and she thought that Willy Smith, whom she met at a party, was the very nicest boy she had ever seen. “Mummy,” she told her mother the morning after the party, “I want to write every day to Willy Smith; I said 1 would.” "All right, dearie,” was the cheerful reply. A very inky letter went off that day to Willy Smith. But the nest day, when the small damsel had finished writing her missive, she looked up at her mother. “Must I pay two pennies every time I write to Willy Smith?" she asked, plaintively. “Why, of course, darling,” said the mother. “But if I pay two pennies every day to write to Willy Smith, I won’t have any pennies of my own.” “No, that is true.” "Mummy,” in a pleading voice, “won’t you give me two pennies for my letter?" “No, dear, I don’t care to write to Willy Smith. Why should I spend my pennies on him?” '“Then,” with a sigh. "I think I won’t •write any more to Willy Smith. I’d rather have my pennies.”’ The modern parent seems to be adopting Herbert Spencer’s advice — to leave the children to be taught by the penalties that life inflicts.