Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — Too Much Culture. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Culture.

“Aunt Penelope Wiggins,” as every6ody called her, was visited one summer by a niece from the East, a Vassar College graduate. Ajmt Penelope was one of the most hospitable souls alive, but she was not gfeeatly impressed by the superior learning of her young relative, and one day she freed her mind about her thus: “Talk to me about what a college education does for a girl! What do you suppose Matilda eaid to me the first day she came? She said, Tm so glad to meet you, aunty! You accent your name on the Aunty Penultimate, don’t you?’ Did you ever hear such nonsense? I had to tell her my name wasn’t Aunty Penultimate, but Aunty Penelope, and I thought she would die a-laughing!”