Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Her Father’s Child. [ARTICLE]

Her Father’s Child.

The six-year-old daughter of a wellknown evangelical preacher was playing on the sidewalk one day, when a shabbily dressed and downcast man approached her father’s house. Halting at the foot of the steps, he looked at her, and in a weary Voice — the voice of an unsuccessful book agent—he asked if her father might be found in his study. “He Isn’t home,” said the little girl, drawing close to him, and gazing up into the tired face, “but he’ll be home pretty soon. You go into the house, you poor,, perishing soul, and mother’ll look after you till he comes.” —Youth’s Companion.