Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — CHILDISH IDEAS OF VACCINATION [ARTICLE]

CHILDISH IDEAS OF VACCINATION

Soui* Queer Thoughts That Arise la Juvenile Hindi. A long chapter might be written on the confusion of ideas produced in the minds of children by unfamiliar words and phrases, says the London Daily News. The writer was lately asked by a little girl of six or seven to tell her what “font” meant. Wondering in what connection she had beard the word, "Come, now,” he replied, "tell me what you think it means.” “1 don’t know what it’s like,” returned the little maid, “but I know it’s where you’re vaccinated.” “Vaccinated! What is vaccinated?” The questioner half expected to hear this time a tiny lecture upon infant baptism, but he was disappointed. "Oh,” came the' reply, “every one ought to be vaccinated, it keeps you from being ill.” We were reminded of the above conversation by a paragraph in. a provincial contemporary which, whether the Incident be real or Imaginary, tends to show that the confusion of thought involved was not singular in the case already quoted. “Two small boys were standing by a slippery pavement in one of the inland towns during the recent frost. One of them ventured to slide, and by and by, becoming more courageous he invited his fellow to join him. “Come on, Billy, and let’s have a slur.” Billy hesitated, "How can I come on? Haven’t I been baptized?" “Baptized? What has bein’ baptized to do wi’ it?” Billy gave his companion a scornful glanfee. “Why the doctor said I was to do nothink as ud hurt my arm, an’ I might fall slurrin’.”