Show CALLING DOWN THE BOASTER Good Little Story Told by William Dean Howells as a Rebuke to SpreadEaglelsm It was William Dean HowcllB said a Chicago editor who first ro baked un Americans for our spread cnglelsm for our foolish boasting I see that Air Howells has just joined a mens society for tho promotion of woman suffrage Trust him to be iu tho forefront always I once heard Mr Howells deliver a fourth of July oration In Maine Tho orator preceding him had boasted a good deal Mr Howells showed that some of the mans boasts were oven Impious He said that these spreadeagle boasters deserved the rebuke that the little child administered to the cackling cack-ling hen that had just laid an egg The child angered by the hens continuous con-tinuous cawkcawkcawk cawkcawk cawkcawk shook his little finger at her and said You fink youre smart But Dod made dat egg You touldnt help but lay it1 |