Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-06-14 | Page 7 | "I'm Only a Little Girl"

"I'M ONLY A LITTLE GIRL" Failing Eyesight Responsible for an Old Man's Mistake Rebuke Hardly Effective. A certain group of youngsters in an exclusive West Side residential section had been very noisy throughout the forenoon. The children were still doing their utmost to imitate a bedlam, when a very angry old man appeared at the door of a nearby apartment house. He was quite old, and it was evident that his eyesight was rot the best, but he finally succeeded in picking out a youngster who was aiding very strenuously strenu-ously in the noise making. The aged man walked over- to the child, took it by the hand and walked back to the apartment. When he reached the doorway he turned to the child and said: "Don't you know it's against the law to make so much noise?" "Yes. sir," was the meek reply. "Well, don't you know that you'll be arrested and put in jail, and then you can never be president of the United States?" "Please, sir?" replied the child, "I don't care; I'm only a little girl." 1 New York Mail.