Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1917 — ONE THING SMALL BOY KNEW [ARTICLE]

ONE THING SMALL BOY KNEW

He Appreciated the Various Wonders of the Farm but Couldn’t Be Fooled About Tomatoes. The little boy who lives in a big apartment house where almost everybody else is grown up had just the best time out in the country. There were so many things to see and so much to learn that he hardly knew which way to turn. Pheeny. the freckled little girl, was a famous guide and exhibitor, and enjoyed almost as much showing off the wonders of the farm as the little boy enjoyed beholding them. Her knowledge was amazingly widfy but he caught her in one grave mistake. “These are tomatoes.” she said, indicating the red and green globules hanging on their stems. ~ —- “No.” courteously replied the little boy. “Tomatoes don’t grow like that.” “They do. too !” returned Pheeny. “Can’t you see ’em?” “Yes." said the , little boy. , “I see them, but they are not tomatoes?’ “Aw. they are, too!” insisted Pheeny. / “It isn’t polite to con—cont’adict —” (It was a pretty long word for the litthe boy) “—-a lady. But tomatoes, tomatoes don’t grow on weeds; they grow in cans.” —Kansas City Sijtar.