Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1913 — SHOWING REAL BOY’S HEART [ARTICLE]

SHOWING REAL BOY’S HEART

LetteVby No Means Brilliant Literary Composition, but the Sentiment Was There.

From a thlrteen-'year-old boy in a far-away ocean Island comes the following belated fetter to- a woman "pal" of hie: “I hope through the year that has began success will follow you in all your projects and if you have made any resolutions which you wish to carry out, you will be enabled tn so doing. “If the superstition comes true that what you are doing at New Year’s you will do all through the year, I certainly will lead a very quiet and temperate life; I was peacefully slumbering.

“I received your letter this morning, and am glad to hear that you en-

joyed the presents. Shall I take the Statement that you were surprised that I made the leather articles as a compliment or otherwise? “I am sorry, too, that the suit would not look appropriate on me. I will make the best use of the money you sent, and can enjoy a spring suit as much as the other, if different circumstances prevailed. "My cold was not so bad on Christmas as before, so I was not made miserable on a day to be given to joy.” And he was hers truly—and no foolishness about it Yet he is the same boy l who can’t eat if Her letters don’t reach him on time.