Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1920 — Romance of Childhood. [ARTICLE]

Romance of Childhood.

The little boy who hunts Indians is every little boy in America. Along the. alley warpaths of the congested city and out on the rolling prairies of the back pasture the relentless pursuit goes on day after day. Each night millions of little hearts are uplifted in thanksgiving that the redskinned savages lurk about the world to be hunted. An occasional greenapple nightmare in which the hunter is scalped and tied to the stake only serves to enhance the thrill of fob lowing the trail next afternoon as soon as school Is out. The eye of the six-year-old which makes a piece of barrel hoop look like a tomahawk Is the romantic spirit. The form of this spirit of romance persists beyond the alloted three score and ten. Because st ft no theater is fittingly equipped unless it has sundry coats ofmail and backdrop castles,