Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — THE BOTHER OF “DRESSING UP”. [ARTICLE]

THE BOTHER OF “DRESSING UP”.

A bunch of young fellows in one of the barber shops the other evening got to talking about disliking to “dress up” to go to a party, whereupon a traveling man present told of a friend of his who, while traveling in the south, was compelled to stay all night in a backwoods cabin. Soon after the frugal meal a tall, gaunt youth of about IS and an equally sallow and gaunt girl of 17, both barefooted, took their hats from wooden pegs in the wall and prepared to go out, whereupon the mother, taking her pipe from between her yellow teeth, said, reprovingly; “Go ’long an’ wash your feet, Levi, you an’ Looly both! Hain’t you ’shamed to go off to an evenin’ party without washing your feet?” They obeyed, but as Levi took the wasbpan frpm a bench by the door, he said, with a grumble: "I’d ’bout as qoon stay home from a party aa to have to fix up for it!”— Exchange..