Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1920 — The Core of the Afternoon. [ARTICLE]

The Core of the Afternoon.

Little Marjorie, who Is three, told her mother the other evening that While the mother was uptctwn shopping In the afternoon the little girl had been taken by a servant to call on her father in the latter’s office. “What, time did you go?” asked the mother. . “Oh, in the core of the afternoon," eplied the little girl. “Mother doesn’t understand what you mean by the ‘core’ of the afternoon,” it was explained to Marjorie. “Why, I mean the middle,” she said simply, as if wondering at the ignorance of grown folks.