Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1910 — WIT AND HUMOR [ARTICLE]

WIT AND HUMOR

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * AN INVESTIGATING BOY. A charming young society woman who lives near Thirty-seventh*’and Chestnut streets, and who is the mother of a 7-year-old boy of an intensely practical turn of mind, tells with some pride and also misgivings of hja penchant for investigating everything for himself. She was Bitting with some friends on the roof of the Bellarvue-Stratford yesterday afternoon talking about her son. HCb outgrown the Santa Claus story already,” she said. “He reads well for such a youngster and he pronounced Santa Clans a fake last Christmas. At Easter this year he refused to have any candy rabbits or ducks, saying that if he couldn’t have the real thing he didn’t care for any such toys. So I bought him a live duck and a rabbit, which he plays with out ia the back yard every, day. “I was telling Mm stories the other night before he went to bed and was trying to explain to him about the fairies. He Wouldn't listen to the fairy proposition at all. “.‘1 don’t believe In ’em. muvver,’ he said, and then he added as an af-ter-thought, apparently: “ ‘And there’s another thing I’m looking into and that is thi3 God business.’ ” —Philadelphia Times.