Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1899 — Isherwood Grows Poetic. [ARTICLE]

Isherwood Grows Poetic.

Delphi Times: In the general roundup of events the short skirt fad has struck Delphi and as a result neat fitting shoe tops and bits shapely ankles that have never before been profaned by public gaze, are now exposed to view. Not the slowest to take advantage of the change are a certain elderly class of young girls, so to speak, and the apparent effect is the subtraction of at least half a dozen years from their ages. This result is sure to render the fad permanently popular. Why shonldn’tit when it furnishes women who are sedate and thirty in long skirts with an opportunity to once more look frisky and fifteen? It is a dispeller of care, a chaser away of sorrow, a smoother of wrinkles, a panacea against old age and a preventative of gray haire. The short skirt is a greater institution than the bicycle and like it, has come to stay. Estray taken up— At my farm, 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Rensselaer, (old Paxton farm) on Saturday, Sept. 23, a two-year-old heifer, weight about 800 pounds, color red. Owner may have same by proving property and paying charges. Charles Burbage.