Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — Poor Daysey Mayme [ARTICLE]

Poor Daysey Mayme

IF DAYSEY MAYME Appleton were to fall in the river, and drown, and her body be picked up twenty miles away, the police would have a hard time determining her name, for the slues would be as tangled as a drunken spider's web. ' Her own underwear is embroidered TX M. A.” but she borrows so often from her mother that half she wears is marked “C. B. A." in indelible ink, and hare of late so many things come from the laundry marked wrong that her lingerie bears every known combination of letters from A. to Z. Her handkerchiefs bear the letters CL, H. and G„ Indicating that she was one engaged to marry men whose names begin with those letters, and she got ready for the wedding. She carries a watch engraved;/‘Darling,’’ given to her by her father before he knew her so well; “M. V. 0. P.“ Is engraved on her watch charm for a setret society at school, no one knows fust what;'her ring contains Initials denoting a society In her church, and If she is still holding on to her novel and umbrella when fished out, they will be found to contain the initials or names of some neighbor, for Daysey Mayme goes to a neighbor’s every day to borrow a book, stays till it rains and then borrows an umbrella with which to go home. d'rue, her monogram is on her belt pin, her ehopping bag, her breastpin her bracelet, a ring and a hatpin, but a Web woven by a spider suffering with delirium tremens would be easier to follow than, the combinations engravers make of one's initials. Men and women who have sat opposite Daysey Mayme in the street car, and have tried to make out her initials from the various monograms in view, have been known to clap their hands wildly to their heads and rush out of the car. The alphabet holds high carnival on Daysey Mayme, but not a letter would serve as a means of identification if anything happened to her. “But I try to look on the bright side,” said Daysey Mayme, putting buckles on her slippers engraved with a big A “Nothing in this world Is wasted, and these letters serve a purpose. . Little children riding on the cars with their mothers may learn the alphabet on some fashionably attired girl like me, and save the cost of lettering blocks and primers. It Is a grand, ennobling thought to feel that I am an Educational Bureau.”