Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — Edna's Conselence Clear. [ARTICLE]

Edna's Conselence Clear.

“Don’t you think you ought stay at home like a good girl sometimes and let motlier go to the theater? Don’t you think mother likes to have fun, just the same as'you?” Thus a strategic aunt addressed her tearful niece of six, who had protested when she saw her mother laying out an evening dress. The argument appealed to Edna’s reason. She ceased to weep and considered the justice of the proposal. Then, having thought it out, she lifted up her voice again in walls. “No/ sir, auntie, I. now, have done it I’ve done the best I could. This, now, morning I tried to make mother have some fun. I want her to! So I asked her and asked her to go Ing with me. And she wouldn’t"—New York Evening Post.