Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — Great Idea. [ARTICLE]

Great Idea.

John, aged 7, was very fond of running with his younger brother through the ash pile near hojne. Their mother remonatratetd in vain about their shoes until she hit on the plan of making the boys dean them, John one day and little Arthur the next. This seemed a great -joke until' John had actually puffed over/ the task through the best part of gn hour. He stuck it out, putting a shine on the four little shoee; then he went to his mother with serious face and said: “Mother, I’ve got the idea- I won’t ever run through the ashes any more —except on Arthnr*a day to clean!”