Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1913 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMILES

HIGH CASTE BOSTONIAN. Let no one doubt that noble blood may run in the veins of the humblest of us! She was a wiry little nine-year-old of the south end and he was her tall, lachrymose newphew of five, with long curls that tumbled weakly over his shoulders. At last someone could endure it no longer and boldly ask the question.

“Why,” she demanded, “does not Oscar have his hair cut? It might make him mure manly.”

And then, even before August spoke, the questioner qailed under the glance that was cast at her. It was in a frigid voice truly worthy of blueblooded Boston that August tossed out her answer:

“The Jaconbargs,” she said in the manner of one who condescends wearily, “do not cut the hair until the seventh year!”—Boston Journal.