Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1919 — A Boy Just the Same. [ARTICLE]

A Boy Just the Same.

Little curly-headed, four-year-old Joe had often been mistaken for a girl by reason t>f those same beautiful curls, but it was a very sore point with him. He came very near, however, turning it to advantage one afternoon when his six-year-old sister was giving a birthday* party “for girls only.” Poor little Joe wandered around the refreshments spread on the grass, gazing wistfully at the cookies and lemonade which his sister was serving to her little girl guests. joe, this party is only- for little pnor pttle Joe turned nast triimtS-fiag: an argument that would admit him, and wailed out, “Well, sister, I ain’t much of a boy, anyway.”