Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1910 — Baseball and Grandma. [ARTICLE]

Baseball and Grandma.

I remember being on a Chicago street car, says Ellis Parker Butler, in Success Magazine, sitting beside a nice old lady in mourning, a year or so ago. She was nervijas and kept glancing at me, and then glancing away again. It made me uncomfortable. I thought she took me for a pickpocket or some other bad man. .Finally she could contain herself no longer. She leaned over. “Excuse me,” she said, “but have you heard yet how the Cubs’ game came out?” I hadn’t, and her face fell, but in a moment she saw a possible opportunity for consolation. “Well,” she asked, ‘can you tell me who they are put:ing in the box to-day?” How was that for a gray-haired grandma? In Chicago (hey all talk baseball, from the cradle to the grave. Up to three o’clock in the afternoon no one talks about anything but the game of the day before. From three o’clock on the only subject is the game that is being played. The school child who can not add two apples plus three apples and make it five apples with any certainty of correctness can figure out the standing of the Chicago nines with one hand and a pencil that will make a mark only when it is held straight up and down. When a man prolongs his handshakes with a modest girt it ta apt to make her blush.