Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-10-18

PAS Lesson in Geography.
When me and Little albert got Home
from school few mites ago l thot
would find out If paw new all about
Everything or not, So after he Got his
sigar lit and we were all Sittin' out on
the portch and the pupp had Captuu
Drinkers wife's cat up tree says:
paw"
"Whatw he asst.
do you no what's the Largest lake
in the United States?" told him.
"Of corse," he anserd. Lake Soup
peerior."
THAT'S whar you're rong, paw" I
says.
Paw took his sigar out from between
his teeth and made some rings OF
smoke. Then he says:
George, been livin' in this country
Several years longer than You, and l
haven't been keepin' my eyes shut nor
my Ears plugged, neither. Lake Soup
peerior is the biggest lake in the United
States, and 1t makes me feel sad to see
you sitting there Grinning like poleas-
mum that got cot asleep on His beat
becoz you think you no more Than your
fawther."
"Well. just the same" l told him,
Lake Michigan's the biggest one in the
United States. learned that when the
teacher gave us Our joggerfy lesson to-
day."
"There's wher say Chicago people
make a mistake" paw says. Its all
rite to Stick up for your town when you
can do 1t sensible, Bnt they amt emmy
use tryin' not to notus Facts when
they don't make you feel proud. You
mite as we'll try to keep a baby with
Pin jabbin' it in the side from squallin
by tellin 1t some Of its ancestors were
offusers in the revolushenerie War as
to think you can ever twist Fact so
1t won't fly rite back in shape the min
ute you let Go. So say it's rong for
Chicago people to try to make out that
Lake Michigan's the biggest just becoz
they can see 1t from the back end Of
Their flats"
"Well," told him, "it's so emmy way.
They amt anuther lake in the United
States as big as Lake Michigan. becoz
our teacher told us about It,"
George" paw says, looking like II
his hart was tutched, 1--WE tride all my
life to Be good, reasonable pairunt to
you, so when you Grew up to be'a man
and come sometime to where the Grass
was green and the Leaves russeld soft
~ abuv the mound and all was still and
PEACEFUL, you would look down with
luv in your brest and think of the Dear
old days when you could hear the glad,
onnust ring or my voice around the
House, and blamed IL Pm a-goin to Be
contradicted by my own children rite
to my face when no I'm rite. Here
60 working away and saving my
mummy to give you Home and send
you to school. and Then you Come back
at mite and Tell me l don't no as
Mulch as some teacher that hast to
keep at 1t a Hole munth to ern what
make in Week. 1t would of Been
sad day for me IL would Of Ever
talked to my fawther that Way. and
amt going to put up with Emmy more
of It,"
"But paw" nav says, don't be too
impaishunt with the Poor boy. You
wouldn't want him to Think sunthing
r0ng was rite becOz you happened to
Get mistakened about 1t, would you?
Mebby he mite be correct about 1t, af-
ter ALL"
THAT'S itv' paw told her. "Go on
incurridging him to Think his Fawther
duzzent no map from a sheet of
Sticky fly paper. or corse couldn't
hardly expect you to think mite no as
mulch about some things as Leven
year old boy. but I'm not Going to let
emmy of the rest Of the Family tell me
so rite out in plain words. And how
can you sit There. nav, and say the
boy mite be rite about this Thing? How
could he be rite? They are no mite
about It,"
Then he had to lite his sigar again.
and l whispered in maw's ear when he
didn't see me, and she says:
"Well, l kind Of think he Is rite. emmy
way. tell you what. II you're rong
you don't Get new fall overcote and
I'll have my sealskin made over"
"Oh, shaw" paw ansered, whats
the use tryin to Enliten people that
won't lissen To reason? That's one
thing l like about me. Whenever I'm
not sure of ennything I'm willing to
Lern insted of sticking to what sed
first. Pm always reddy to hear the
other side. and don't want emmy more
of This contradiction or emmy more of
these 'mebbies' or mites when / no
what I'm talking about neither"
So l showed paw the map where he
could see Lake Sup peerior izzent in
the United States. but Lake Michigan
Is, and paw Looked at 1t a seckond or
two and then he didn't say ennything.
but commenct to smoke hard and Look
like II he was thinking sollum thots.-
Chicago Times-Herald.
COdified Laws for China.
WI Ting Fang. the Chinese envoy at
Washington, who seems to be drifting
fast into the position Of IA man with.
out a country" Is law writer Of ablli.
nv Ha hnS cOdifipl the hOdv Of inter.