Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1909 — WHAT WILLIE OBSERVED. [ARTICLE]

WHAT WILLIE OBSERVED.

Mow Xo Remarks Passed About V* Lack of Observation. Willie was admonished by his father to develop the habit of observation. “Cultivate the faculty of seeing and you will be a successful man,” he said. The boy's uncle added to the admonition, and his aunt also dilated upon the necessity of observing everything that went on. The triple lecture made a deep impression upon Willie. That evening he told his father that he had been using his eyes. “Tell us what you have learned,’ said his annt. “Uncle Jim’s got a bottle of whisky hid behind his trunk,” said Willie; ’“Aunt Jennie’s got an extra set of teeth in her dreiser, and pa’s got a deck of cards and a box of chips behind the books in the secretary.” - And the family united in voting him a little sneak.—Exchange.