Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1917 — Favored by Nature, [ARTICLE]

Favored by Nature,

Tillie was of the coal-black-rose variety and for a few nights had been joining the white chillun of the neighborhood in some rousing games of hide-and-seek. Tillie was a good little body and the white mothers looked with favor upon the fact that in one instance, at least, racial‘barriers were forgotten in. innocent fun. But one evening Tillie’s happy little face did not appear until late and soon it was suffused with childish tears. The ipother of one of the boys perceived that something was amiss and took her offspring to task, thus: “Walter, why haven’t you allowed Tillie to play with you tonight; doesn’t she play fairly?” “Oh, yes, mother, she plays all right, but —but—lt seems like she always wants to hide in real dark places, and none of us can ever find her.”