Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — Children and Fools. [ARTICLE]

Children and Fools.

The boy wee an idiot Hie heed wee twice the normal size, and he would lit for hours without speaking. However, when he did emit a remark, it was sure to be startling, and couched h apt language. One day, an extremely “plain" old maid was celling in his mother. After a long period of apparently thoughtless silence, the idiot remarked suddenly, “Do you know, Mias Perkins, you are absolutety the homeliest woman I ever laid ny eyes upocT” In agony, the mother turned to hfan: ’Charlie, do not let me ever hear you make such a remark again," she cried, tererely. "Mother," quoth the idiot, 1 never shall have oeoeeien to."