Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1910 — Selfish Youth. [ARTICLE]

Selfish Youth.

“Youth Is apt to be selflsn," said Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, the distinguished novelist, at a Matuchen picnic. “Woman in her youth,” she went on, “Is especially apt to be selfish. I’ll never forget the story of the young man from Boston who stood in the center of Boston common in a downpour of torrential rain. “As he stood there, soaked to the skin, a little boy in a mackintosh accosted him. '“Excuse me, sir,’.said the boy, 'but are you the gentleman who is waiting for Miss Endicott?’ “ ‘Yes,’ the young man answered “ ‘Well,’ said the boy, ‘she asked me to tell you she’d be here just as soon as it clears up.’ ’’ %