Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — She Doesn’t Earn It. [ARTICLE]

She Doesn’t Earn It.

“Dear me!” said old Mrs! Jimsonweed, as she laid down the paper, “here’s a piece that says Queen Victoria gets sl,950,000 a year for being Queen. Well, she don’t aim it, now, she jist don’t! I don’t keer how well she puts in her time; don’t keer how airly she gits up of a mornin’, nor how late she sets up nights darnin’ and mendin’; don’t keer how much dish-washin’ she does, nor how much batter she churns, nor how much soap she biles, nor how many geese she raises feathers from, nor how many calves she brings up by hand, nor how free of moths an’ bed-bugs she keeps old Windsor Castle. I’d like the chance to be Queen, an’ do it all for half the monev. Even then I wouldn’t aim no $2,000,000, an’ she don’t either—no, she don’t."— Drake’h Magazine.