Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1890 — The Successful Essay. [ARTICLE]

The Successful Essay.

Miss Vassarbred—Oh, Emily! I understand you took the prize offered by the Ladies’ Magazine for the best essa ivritten by a young lady under ■8 Miss Homebred—Yes; somehow I got it—l don’t know how. Did you compete? ‘ ‘Yes; I sent them my graduation, essay on <The Buddhistic Extinction of Desire.’ What did you write on?” “ ‘How to Knit a Patch in a Stocking.’ ”