Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1910 — He Was a Boston Boy. [ARTICLE]

He Was a Boston Boy.

"Your little boy must be very intelligent,” said a visitor to a Boston school teacher whose five-year-old son was forming Greek words with building blocks. “Intelligent!” exclaimed the proud parent. “He is phenomenally gifted. As an example of his early erudition, what do you suppose was the first words he ever spoke?” “ ‘Papa’ and ‘mamma?’ ” “Stuff and nonsense!" ejaculated the father, in a tone of disgust. “Why, the day he was 12 months old he suddenly laid down his algebra and said to me: ‘Father, the longer I live the more indubitable proofs I perceive that there is in Boston as much culture to the square inch as there ever was in the ambient area of ancient Athens!”’