Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1911 — Bad Enough, Anyhow. [ARTICLE]

Bad Enough, Anyhow.

Robert, aged tin, was playing with the other boys on the corner of Nineteenth and Tioga streets, when his mother, who had been listening to the .conversation, called him. "Robert,” she began, ip a grieved 'tone, “I never thought I’d hear yon I swearing." "Why, I wasn’t swearing, mother,” the boy defended himself. "I only said ‘the devil.’ That isn’t swearing.” “Well," replied the mother quickly, ‘“maybe it isn’t exactly swearing, but it is making light cf sacred things.”