Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1911 — GLADSTONE AND DOROTHY. [ARTICLE]

GLADSTONE AND DOROTHY.

Her Literal Translation of the Bibk This is the season when good house wives have trouble with the servant* who cannot gist up. But I doubt if it ever occurs to them, a* it did to Miss Dorothy Drew when she was not more than seven, that the Scriptures empha size the vanity of early rising, says the “Tattler.” Dorothy positively fe fused to get up, and her grandfather. Mr. Gladstone, had to be called to overawe the rebels . ”Why don't you get up, Dorothy?’ he asked. • ■ : . “Becrihse the Bible doesn’t approve of early rising, grandfather,” was the . unexpected reply. “Really, Dorothy,” said the astonished statesman, “you must be mistaken." “Oh, no. I’m not,” she persisted; "here is it," and she turned up the second verse of the 127th. Psalm: “It is vain for you to rise up early." The old parliamentarian had nothing more to say. The argument floored him. ,