Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — Too Much For Mother [ARTICLE]

Too Much For Mother

A Pasadena boy asked his father what was meant by the expression: “The woman had a Greek profile.”* The father put down the paper he was reading and replied: “Why, it merely means a classic outline.” The mother took a hand, declaring the answer was too short, and really a shifty euphemism. “Give our son a long and clear answer,” she insisted. Paterfamilias sat up and made this lucid, ornate reply: “A Greek profile is a bold silhouette blending the Doric and lonian expressions .and depicting that clear-eut, plastic work of Praxiteles, which is entirely free from the rococo renaissance school, and which, in modern melodrama, would be called the marble face.” Both mother and son took the count, and father resumed his reading of the article, “Why Oysters Have Strong Lungs.”