Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1913 — These Revised Versions. [ARTICLE]

These Revised Versions.

Mayor Woodruff of Peoria turned with disgust from.a revised version of “Mother Goose." He said: “When one wishes to give a child a present ‘Hans Andersen,* or ‘Grimm,’ or ‘Slovenly Peter’ —one finds these books all revised, all spoiled. - “Give me original versions. I don’t like revised readings, which are usually as unsatisfactory as the ybung wife found them. “This young wife, after a stormy acene, cried: “ ‘lt was differnt before we married. Ah, yes, you loved me then — and now! “‘I loved you now and then,* said her husband, calmly. ‘Revised version, don’t you know.***