Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Advice to a Girl Who “Finished.” [ARTICLE]

Advice to a Girl Who “Finished.”

Gertrude —Yu tell me yu hav been two years in a boarding school, and hav just finished yure edukashun, and wafit to kno what yu shall do next. Listen, mi gushing Gertrude, and I will tell yu. Get up’ in the morning in good season, go down into the kitchen, seize a potato by the throat with one hand and a knife with the other, skin the potato, and a dozen more just like it, stir up the buckwheat batter, kick to the oven and see how the biscuit are doing, bustle around generally, step on the cat’s tail, and help your good old mother git breakfast. After breakfast put up the yung children’s luncheon for skool, help wash up the dishes, sweep, put things in order, and sumtime during the day knit at least two inches and a half on sum one 3v vure brothers’ little blue woolen stockings for next winter. In other words, go to work and make yureself useful now that yu hav bekum ornamental, and if yu hav enny time left, after the beds are all made, and the duks hav been fed, pitch into the pianna, and make the old rattle-box skream with fi),Bsik. Do this for one year, and Some likely yung fellow in the naberhood will hear ov it, and will begin to hang around yu and say sweeter thingsjrhan yuever heard before, and will finally giv yu a chance to keep house on y«re own hook. Yu follow pii advice, Gertv, amksee if he don’t. Billings, in if. Y. BVatZy