Patience is a virtue common to men of genius—and asses. Fine manners and fine clothes often cover a multitude more sins than charity. A Strategist.—A little girl in Cleveland was playing with her trinkets on the parlor floor while an older sister with much persistency was drumming on the piano. “Play louder, Floria,” spoke up the child. The girl at the keys felt flattened, and with an elated smile, asked, “So you like to hear me play, do you darling?” “No I don’t,” came the unexpected and emphatic reply. “I wanted you to play louder so papa would tell you to stop.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2191, 21 September 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)
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102Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2191, 21 September 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)
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