Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1904 — A Hint to Papa. [ARTICLE]

A Hint to Papa.

Twenty times William Archibald Stewart had been forbidden to cross the trolley tracks to buy candy, and twenty times William Archibald Stewart had disobeyed. Patience had ceased to be a virtue with William Stewart's father. “Don’t be too hard on him,” the mother pleaded. But William’s father had his dander up and his rattan ready as he summoned the culprit into his august presence. “Willie," lie snirl, “how many times have you been forbidden to cross the trolley tracks to buy candy?” William did not answer, but stood with head lowered and bands ready to press to his eyes. “Don’t you know it hurts papa even more than it does you to have to punish liis little boy? Now, suppose you had a little boy and you had told him twenty times not to cross the trolley tracks, and suppose he disobeyed you—what would you do with him?” William swallowed a lump in his throat and threw back his shoulders With a visible effort. “Papa,” he said, “I don’t think I’d like It. But—but I’d—l’d try everything in this world before I’d lick my child!" —New York Press.