Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — LITTLE LAUGHS [ARTICLE]

LITTLE LAUGHS

THEIR FACES WERE TWISTED. While children learn foreign languages with astounding ease and rapidity, they are often puzzled as to why children of other lands speak in strange tongues. This was amusingly exemplified the other day when little Mary Burrell, who Is just 5 years old, was playing on the front porch in West Philadelphia, watching some little Italians gather wood from a nearby , building affixation The youngsters had gathered two express wagons full and were busily at work when a dispute aro.-e. Their slight knowledge of English was forgotten in their anger, and they began to talk fast and angrily in Italian. Little Mary watched them in wonder for a moment, then ran to her mother, t “Mother, mother,” she cried, “come quick, here's a lot of children that’s got something wrong with their faces, and you can’t understand a word they say.” Philadelphia Times.