Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1916 — Daughter's Idea. [ARTICLE]

Daughter's Idea.

Mrs. Brown was In the habit of introducing her big daughter as, “This Is Jane; she is only fifteen—you’d never think it, would you?” • At last the girl protested. “It’s mean of you to tell everybody how young I am. I could have a lot better time If you didn’t.” "Perhaps you could. But I don’t propose to have people saying, after you’ve been out In society a couple of seasons? ‘Don’t tell me Jane Brown is only twenty —why, she was a grown girl years ago.’” “Just the same,” retorted the daughter, "you wouldn’t like It if I Introduced you to my friends as "This 1* my mother. She’s only forty-eight—-you wouldn’t think it, would you?* ” Judge.