Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Listen Daughter. [ARTICLE]

Listen Daughter.

Your mother tells me that you and she have been talking over the matter of getting a hired girl to do the house work. She also says that she feels sure that you and her could get along nicely with the housework alone, but that the young fellow who is coming around here evenings will think that we are not swell enough if he knows that you and mother do the housework. Don’t worry about that for if he thinks such stuff, he is not good enough for you. But he looks pretty good to me and if he is half the fellow I think he is he'll think all the more of you when he knows you know how to cook, bake and mend and that you are on the job. • So let’s put up a little game on him. The next time he comes receive him in your kitchen apron. Tell him to amuse himself in the parlor a. moment while you finish manicuring supper dishes. I won’t be here, you know, he picks out my lodge nights, to make his calls, so I won’t be in the parlor to embarrass him. Then, along about ten o’clock, ask him if he would like a bite of lunch. Ileill insist that it will be,too much trouble but you ask him to come along and help. Any man in the world will fall for that. He’ll trail along after you- to the kitchen. You’ll have the stage all set and the proper costumes ready. The costumes will consist of two aprons, one for ydu and one for him. Oh, he’ll put it on. H there is anything a young fellow will fall for its a kitchen apron and a job doing nothing but keeping out of the way. Then you get the lunch ready, tell him to slice the bread and no matter how he butchers it, tell him he done fine. Ask him if he can make a salad dressing, if he saye he can, let him go to it. And you praise it to the skies. Ask him for the recipe. Tell him you’ll keep it a secret. What would you like for a wedding present?-—Exchange.