Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — Knew What He Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Knew What He Wanted.

In the Seventh avenue district one of the first requisites for satisfactory existence is to learn the language. Seventh avenue has a language of its own and the great difficulty of mastering it is that it is so much like English that it becomes unusually confusing. A roughly dressed boy of twelve wandered into a drug store at Thirty-fourth street and approached the soda fountain. There was a crowd about it, but he forced his way through and ordered ’’bonnella” soda. The clerk, after some delay, provided it, but the boy immediately objected that the drink was not for him. "I meant t’ tell yuh,” he explained, "I wanted it in a sanctuary container. It’s for me kid sister out in. the pennamherator.** —New York Herald.