Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — Persuasive Boyhood. [ARTICLE]

Persuasive Boyhood.

“I want some preserves on my bread,” whined a boy to his mother. i “You mustn’t have it, Johnny,” coaxed the '"mother. "That nice butter and'- sugar is just the thing for little boys.” “Wow, wow,” he howled, “I won’t have it. ’Taint nothing but glucose an3T oleomargarine. I seen it in a newspaper this morning and it’s pizen. Gimme preserves if you don’t want your little boy to die.” The little boy got preserves.—Washington Critic. A foreign exchange says: “Statistics do not at all corroborate the opinion that girls are delicate, fragile flowers. They prove them to be energetic, ambitious, resolute, and determined; asserting their" right to predominate even in numbers from the time they are born, and, with the exception of about four years of their life, keeping on the winning side and gaining, as a rule, two, three, and even four years more of life than men.” In France, where children get less of good mothering than in other countries, the baby girls show the same amount of determination to overcome negle t. Of 10,000 born alive of each sex there died in the I , Boys. Girls. First year .....1,844 1,50 V Three next years 1,078 1,04 G Dick Lyndon of Newnan, Ga., was attacked by a huge water snake while fishing. It swam at him with its head reared high above the water, but he kept it from crawling on shore where he stood by flinging clubs at it. l?he snake finally retreated.