Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — Why He Was Lonesome. [ARTICLE]

Why He Was Lonesome.

Tommy, whose Varying points of view are thus illustrated by the Farm Journal, had not yet learned the Golden Rule. Neither have a good many of his elders. “I should think Tommy," said his father, “that you might find some boy i to play with you. Now, what’s the matter with Johnny Jenkins and the little Dobbs boy?” "Pooh! Why, they’re a whole year younger than I am,” said Tommy, contemptuously. “I couldn’t play with them!” “Well, there’s Jack Spear and Willie Harlow. Woh’t they do?” “Yes, but they’re a year older than I am,” said Tommy, wistfully, “so the mean things won’t play with me.”