Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1915 — HER SIDE OF THE CLOTH [ARTICLE]

HER SIDE OF THE CLOTH

Younger Sister Was Anticipating What in Time She Knew Would Be Hers. How often it is that the younger of two children in a family is at a disadvantage, in the matter of what is done for him, the clothes which he wears and the attention which he receives generally. It is sometimes pathetic, although occurring not so much from any real difference in the feelings of the parents for the two as from thoughtlessness and the natural order of thing 3. The handing down of clothes from older to younger, for example, is almost necessary in many a family, but it is a hardship for the younger one, nevertheless. One family once had two girls in exactly this situation, the younger being Just so much behind her sister in growth and development that it came perfectly natural that the elder’s dresses should fall to her lot in the course of time. And so it happened that all the new things were the older’s and the younger always had them made over for herself. One day the elder was told by her mother to go downtown and select some material which she liked for her graduation dress and bring it home for approval. Pull of glee, the girl started to go, when the younger spoke up in all seriousness: ‘Don’t you think I ought to go with her, mamma,” said she, "tq see if I like the other side?" It set the mother to thinking, and after that the younger got some new things of her very own.—Rochester, N. H., Courier.