Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1917 — Sudden Growth. [ARTICLE]

Sudden Growth.

Little Jean had been promised she might go to school when she was five, years old. This, with some other promises of similar nature, made her feel she would be a very large girl when she reached that age, so the morning of her fifth birthday, when her mother told her to put on the same dress she had worn the day previous, she said in astonishment: “Why, mamma, do you s’pose it will be big enough?”