Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1915 — Old Maid's Opinion of Boys [ARTICLE]

Old Maid's Opinion of Boys

‘ln the Woman’s Home ‘ Companion, Zona Gale, writing a story of an old maid wise suddenly found Jierself face tp face with the responsibility of taking care of a small boy, presents the bid maid as making the following observation: “ "Though I love the human race and. admire to see it took care of, I couldn’t sense my way clear to taking a boy into my house. Boys belong to the human race, to be sure, just as whirling egg beaters belong to omelets; but much as I set store by omelets. I couldn’t Invite a whirling egg beater into my home permanent "‘And I don’t ever rent to ’em. They ain’t got enough silence to ’em.*