Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1920 — Mercenary Maid [ARTICLE]

Mercenary Maid

“The modern girl,” said Miss Louise Bryant, the Socialist leader of New York, “is altogether too mercenary. “I. know a young Socialist who said to a beautiful girl of whom he was enamored: “ ‘Shakespeare recommends that we grapple dur friends to us with hooks of steel.’ “ ‘But,’ the girl answered, ‘but if we tied them to us wllh ropes of pearls, wouldn’t it be nicer, dearY ”