Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — Joe’s Mistake. [ARTICLE]

Joe’s Mistake.

. .STs-wen radd-. Knowing "that Aunt Anne always brought gifts to her sick nephews arid nieces he expressed a desire to see her. She fame and brought with her several toys anil books. Eight-year-old Virginia ami Aunt Anne wore both at Joe’s bedside when mother brought in his medicine. Joe fretted against tnkins it. ami Aunt An?te 'gerieroiis!y offered: "If you'll take it like a Hftle man auntie will get n>u a new soldier's cap.” she promised. A few minutes later in the difiEng" room adjoining tile room -she heard the gift discussed. “You didn't take, on jnongh.. Joe.” Virginia was, er 11 i eiz ing h er. J) ro the r. “If you had cried lomVlike everything you’d a got a whole suit of clothes."