Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — REAL BOYS, ALL OF THEM [ARTICLE]

REAL BOYS, ALL OF THEM

Visitor Didn’t Quite Know Just What ( Form of Amusement Would Appeal to Them. ; lam a very dignified English woman, or was until a month ago. About two weeks after my arrival in the United States J was asked by a clergyman of a certain Episcopal church if I would undertake the practtctng of the choir Im>.vs. «« the organist was sick. I was only too delighted to be of any assistance, and, besides, they looked such “nice, quiet boys.” Before the practice began, to make the boys feel more comfortable with their strange teacher. 1 offered to play any game they cared to choose with them 4f they did their work satisfactorily. Needless to say, all went fine. “Now. boys, I am ready for the game; what shall it be?” They whispered in a bunch for a few seconds, then the youngest.asked_ me to bend down on my knees. I felt a trifle bewildered,' but there was my promise; so down; f went^onthe I had no sooner done so than one and all began playing “fe'ap-frog” over my back. I screamed with horror and fright, but it made nd difference; the louder 1 screamed the more fierce flew the game, and those “nice, quiet boys” kept me thex’e for quite ten minutes —it felt -10—when luckily for me the dean came into the room to see how the practice vyas going on. I felt terribly embarrassed, but the good man helped me out by saying: “Ah, I see, madam; you-are ‘stooping'to conquer.’ ” I got n v hat and coat and hurried out of that room without even saying good-by. Those rice, quiet American choir boys haunt my dreams still. —Mrs. W. Cookson, in Puck.