Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — WAS TO BE MORE YELLING [ARTICLE]

WAS TO BE MORE YELLING

Safe to Say That Father’s Prediction Turned Out to Be Absolutely Correct The sweetly peaceful scene in the little sitting room was suddenly disturbed by a loud yell, and the honored guest sprang wildly from the chair into which he had just sunk, while the daughter of the house felt her face grow pale. She had had hopes from this visit Alas, poor girl, were they to be blighted? But father took the matter —and his small son—firmly In hand. With a (graceful apology he removed the bent pin from the chair and the aforesaid small boy from the room. “Now, look here, Charles,” he said sternly. In the back yard, “why did you do it?” “It—it was an father!” faltered the laddie. “An experiment!” snorted father. “The only man who has visited your poor sister for years, and you go and drive him away!” “Well, dad,” explained the boy, “he advertises that he is a painless dentist, an’ I wanted to find out if it was true, an’ It wasn’t You should have heard him yell?” “Yes,” was the father’s grim comment -“And some one else is going to hear you yell now?”