Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1913 — RATHER GAVE MAMMA AWAY [ARTICLE]

RATHER GAVE MAMMA AWAY

To an Observing Mind There Would A p P ear *° Have Been Some Point to kitty’s Questioning. A new family had moved into the house next door to the Smiths, according to a story told by Postmaster General Hitchcock, and little Kitty Smith was on the back porch of her own home cultivating the acquaintance of the little girl on the opposite porch. “What’s your name?” she asked. “Florence,” replied the newcomer. “What’s yours?” “Katherine,” was the answer, “but they always call me Kitty. The name of the folks that used to live here before you came was Jones.” “Our name is Thompson,” said the new girl. “We came all the way from Baltimore.”

“Our name is Smith,” returned Kitty. “Say, you never met the Joneses, did you?”

“Oh, no," rejoined the new girl. “Not your Joneses.” “They was just something awful for borrowing,” volunteered Kitty. “They used to send over to our house three or four times a week to borrow coffee, sugar and things, and never paid it back. Say, you folks don’t borrow like that, do you?” “Oh, nb,” was the reassuring response of the new girl. “She says they don’t, mamma!” called out Kitty, turning around and facing the half-open door of the Smith hoifie. —Philadelphia Telegraph.