Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1912 — CAP and BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAP and BELLS

STRATEGY OF A SMALL BOY Youngster, Who Broke Window in Suburban Home, Seems to Have Making of Clever Rascal. i. An Iron hoop bounded through the area railings of a suburban house and played havoc with the kitchen window, says Lippincott’s. The woman waited, anger In her eyes, for the appearance of the hoop’s owner. Presently he came. "Please, I’ve broken your window,” he said, “and here’s my father to mend itAnd sure enough, he was followed by a stolid-looking workman, who at once started to work, while the small boy took his hoop and ran off. “That’ll be four bits, ma’am,” announced the glazier when the window was whole once more. "Four bits!” gasped the woman. “But your little boy broke it—the little fellow with the hoop, you know. You’re his father, aren’t you?” The stolid man shook his head. “Don’t know him from Adam,” he said. “He came around to my place and told me his mother wanted her winder fixed. You’re his mother, aren’t you?” And the woman shook her head also.