Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — History Cleared Up. [ARTICLE]

History Cleared Up.

The third grade was “having history." Forty youngsters were making guesses about the life and character of the Father of His Country, when the teacher propounded a question that stumped them all. “Why did aWshington cross the Delaware ?” Why, indeed? Not a child could think of anything but the answer to the famous chicken problem: “To get on the other side,” and, of course, that wouldn’t do. Then little Annie’s hand shot into the air. Little Annie crosses the Delawarfe every summer herself, hence the bright Idea. “Well, Annie?” "Because he wanted to get to Atlantic City.”—Philadelphia Times.