Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — Getting Mary Ready to Attend High School. [ARTICLE]

Getting Mary Ready to Attend High School.

“Come hither, little Mary Anne” the doting mother said: “I have about three pounds of jute to put upon your head I see the neighbor’s daughters go to school, fixed up eo fine, and I won’t have it said, my dear, that you are not in line; so let me kalsomine your face with pigments rich and rare and put some red paint on your lips and cook and curl your hair, and pudh you in a narrow skirt that shows your every curve, so you will get from rub-ber-necks the notice you deserve. And you must wear your snowy shoes that advertise your feet, and eke that crazy hat that horses on the street, for I won’t have the neighbors say that my dear little maid is not as good as any or as stylishly arrayed. Of course you don’t look like a child with all your paint and curls, but your upholstered just as well as any other girls, of course you run and play, as children used to do, but we must show the neighbor’s girls they have no edge on you, of course you are like a monkey dear; of course it is a shame; but since the nighbors turn out apes I have to do the same.