Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — He Misled Them. [ARTICLE]

He Misled Them.

“What has become of that Mr. Jolliem who used to be so fond of your little Percival?” we ask of the proud mamma. “Oh," she says, “don’t mention that detestable person to me again!” “But why? He seemed thoroughly enraptured with the child. He was always dandling it on his knees and getting it to talk for him —” “That’s just it. He would take little Percival on his lap and stuff the child with candy, and encourage him in every way to try to talk, and then —and then —” “And then what? He didn’t try to kidnap the infant?” “Worse than that!" she lamented. “We learned that he was the manager of a biscuit factory, and his only purpose in fawning over our darling was to get him to say something that could be converted into a name for a new brand of goods.”