Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — THE Metamorphosis of Maggie. [ARTICLE]

THE Metamorphosis of Maggie.

“Travel, sure, is a great thing, ain’t IL for expanding the mind and developing the ambitions?” said a man from a little town in Central Penntylvania. “There's an old maid In my town who has been making togs for the women of the place for more yearn, prob’ly, than 6he would care to admit, and, until last fall, the sign tacked In front of the little shack where ahe lives with her parrot and cats read this way: eeaaaaae ee* • MAGGIE MONAHAN, • • Dressmaker. • eeeeee eeeee “Well, after saving up for a good many years for the purpose, Maggie was able, at the close of last summer, to take one of those forty-day Cook's tours of the continong, as they call It I blleve Maggie spent all of four days hi Paris. Anyhow, she hadn’t been' back In the little old Pennsylvania town twenty-four hours before s new sign took the place of the old one that had ornamented her shanty for so long. The new sign read this wayt • eeeeaeeeee • MLLE. MARGUERITE, • • Robes et Manteaux. • , e a ***♦*##* a “Sure, Is broadening, kind o’ travel, hut itr