Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1901 — Only a Memory. [ARTICLE]

Only a Memory.

It was at a friendly little dinner that one of the speakers asked what had become of the old-fashioned boy—the boy who looked like his father when his father carried the sort of pomposity which was like the divinity that hedged a king in the time when klnghood was in its break of day, the boy wlu> wore a hat which threatened to come down over his ears, the boy whose trousers were made over from his father’s by his mother or aunt or grandmother, the boy whose hair had a cowlick in it before and. was sheared off the same length behind, the boy who walked with both hands in the pockets of his trousers, the boy who wore boots run down at the heels, the boy who never wore knickerbockers or a roundabout coat, the boy whose chirography was shaped by the gymnastics of his tongue, the boy who believed his father was the greatest man In the world and that he could have been president If .he had wanted to be, the boy who was his mother’s man when the man was away from home? And all agreed that he had disappeared from the face of the land and was now only a memory.