Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1909 — Why? [ARTICLE]

Why?

Aj little girl named Mary was noted for her propensity to ask questions. So fixed was the habit that she seldom knew when she was nsklng questions and life became to her one prolonged Interrogation. Her mother, slightly worn by this peculiarity, sometimes took the opportunity of speaking “a word in season.” “Mother,” cried Mary, bursting Into the room one day, “what shall I name the kittens?” “I should think," said the ; tired mother, fixing upon her a meaning eye, “you might call one of them ‘Why’ and the other ‘What.’ ” The names seemed to strike the child’s fancy and were at once adopts ed. Rut the moral refused to stick.) and indeed Its existence was not even 1 suspected, ns was shown a day or two lntef. “Mother,” said Mary innocently, looking up from a prolonged cuddling of her pets, “why is Why’s imrne Why?”