Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1920 — Their Choice. [ARTICLE]

Their Choice.

The children were going to have a stepfather. Mother had Jost made the announcement and was waiting to hear their opinions of her choice. Nine-year-old Ruth’s came first “But mother, he hasn’t any hair,” she protested. Mother smiled. She had been afraid they might offer worse ones than this. “But your own daddy didn’t have much,” she smiled. For a minute Ruth was silenced, but she was thinking. “I know, mother,” she admitted, “but you were young when you chose him. Now you know more and it does seem like you ought to be a better chooser.”'