Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1915 — A Bad Example, [ARTICLE]

A Bad Example,

“Mother, what’s a ‘bonehead’?"--“That’s a vulgar word applied to a stupid person, my son, but you must never use it. Mother wants her boy to be refined and speak correctly." A "All right, mother. I Wouldn’t have asked you what it meant if I hadn’t heard you call father a ‘bonehead’ last night after I left the room."