Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Naturally. [ARTICLE]

Naturally.

The youngest member of the family had taken enthusiastically to pyrography. She had just executed a design representing a little girl playing with the cat in front of an old-fashioned fireplace. “It is well done, Bertha,” said her mother, inspecting it; “but you have managed somehow to make the little girl look scared.” “That’s all right, mamma,” answered Bertha. “A burnt child dreads the fire.” —Chicago Tribune.