Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1910 — “Sounded So Pretty.” [ARTICLE]

“Sounded So Pretty.”

There is probably as little poetry in the average English workman as in any. class of men in the world. But “the omnipotent baby” will evoke poetic sentiment in the prosiest nature. Some years ago a Nottinghamshire clergyman, in baptizing a baby paused in the midst of the service to inquire the name of the infant, to which the mother, with a profound courtesy, replied : “Shady, sir, if you please.” "Shady ’ replied the minister, “Then it’s a boy, and you mean Shadrach, eh?’ “No, please your reverance, it’s a girl.” “And pray,” asked the pastor, “how happened you to call the child by such a strange name?” “Why, sir,” responded the woman, “if you must know, our name is Bower, and my husband said as how he should like her to be called Shady, because Shady Bower sounds so pretty!”