Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — He Wanted Something Doing. [ARTICLE]

He Wanted Something Doing.

The late Dr. Edward Everett Hale was a great student of child life. Dr. Hale once dilated on the incorrigibly bad tastes in books that children have. He instanced the case of his own sbn, now a famous architect, whose taste he had a hard time forming. Jack Harkaway and Deadwood Dick seemed to him the very topmost pinnacle of literary excellence. He yawned over the splendid historical works his father read to him. One day, however, Dr. Hale had a gleam of hope. The little boy brought him a volume of English history, and said, “Will you read me some more out of this, please?” “Why, certainly, my boy,” the father answered, cordially.” ‘What part would you like to have?” “Read me,” said the little boy, “about Mary Queen of Scots getting her head cut off!”