Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — JOHNNY IN 1909. [ARTICLE]

JOHNNY IN 1909.

|*He Wasn’t Going to Take Too-Many Chances on Making Resolutions. “If WILL-not put pins in my dear | ■ teacher’s chair.” (Tacks will hurt the old duffer just as much, anyi way.) “I will not quarrel .and fight with my big brothers in 1909.” (What have 1 got a little brother for?) “I will not play hookey from school | to go fishing or swimming.” (That is, ! in the winter time.) ‘‘l will be a regular attendant at . Sunday school.” (At Christmas time and just before the summer excursion, of course.) “1 will not take mother’s currant j Jelly from the pantry without permis- | sion.” (Her raspberry jam is good | enough for me.) “I will be kind to dumb animals, such as tigers, lions and elephants.” | (Stray cats and dogs, however, had better keep out of this neighborhood.) “I will not throw stones at the chinks and dagos.” (Bricky make them I holler louder, anyway.) “I will not— (Oh, gee, that’s enough! They say the good die young, and I want to live until I catch that red headed boy on the next block who stuck his tongue out at me yesterday.) —A. B. Lewis In Judge.