Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1908 — No Wonder She Didn’t Know. [ARTICLE]

No Wonder She Didn’t Know.

Before he bad been in the car three minutes most of the women passengers and some of the men were explaining to their neighbors what they would do with the little imp If he belonged to them. Spanking was the popular remedy, and If that boy had received then and there all the paddlings that his critics were aching to administer be surely would have been well blistered. To the general babel of advice and fault finding, however, there was one woman who contributed nothing. She was a gentle, gray haired body who remained unruffled lb the midst of the small tempest raging. “If that child was mine,” said the determined woman beside her, “I’d make him mind 4f I had to half kill him. Wouldn’t you ?” “I don’t know,” said the little woman mildly, “what I’d do.’ ‘ •You don’t?” said the determined wouan. “Well, 1 know. Bnt maybe you ire not used to children? Maybe yon lever had any of your own?” •Oh, yes,” said the little woman. “I Wht up thirteen. That is why I •t know what I would do.”