The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-12-08
A GIRL OF 1925.

1870 Will ne quite INHERENT from
one of 1898.
/ don't know, but | think they
will wear pants, trimmed in lace,
ruffies and silk. Silk will be very
cheap. Servants will wear very
fine silks for cooking dresses;
there will be some other kind of
fine goods made for the higher
class. Girls will wear their hair
done up on top of their heads,
trimmed with flowers, or else
they will wear it short around
their necks and parted in the
middle. The girls will take all
boys places. They will be wear
ing boys pants, for they have al
ready gotten waists, coats, cuffs,
collars, and ties.
Men say that ladies have al
most taken. their places, for they
are clerks in stores, telegraph OPP
orators, and nearly everything
else; but that men can paint
church steeples and fix electric
lights, but in twenty-seven years
from now | believe they will be
doing this work. Ladies will vote
and be marshals. When this
comes to pass the men will have
to stay at home to see if the
house-work and cooking are done
all right, while they rock the
babies.
Now, | will draw a picture of
girls in 1925, taking for example
some of Of my classmates:
Just think of Earle Glover run
ming for United States president
and Mary Granting United States
senator, or Bertha Banks colonel
or stateswoman, Berth Lawhon
clerk of the superior court, Myra
Moss setting on the supreme
bench instead OF Judge Gober,
Minnie Burton tax collector, Mary
Sanges sheriff, and Alley BULGE
city marshal. For a mayor have
Ethel Ray; for councilmen we
may have Viola Baker, Sallie Nc
Clellan, Bessie Motley, Claudia
| Burton, Effie and Ollie Carnes.
Then for banker take Elsie Nc
Candlish, and Eva Henderson
contractor, builder and undertake
er; Mary VIII Banks, plumber;
Ruby Fleming, hardware mer-
chant; Clio Evans, engineer; the
superintendent of the Brumby
Chair Co. may be Lois Welsh; Dr..
Argyle Martin, physician and sur
geon and for a preacher take Su-
sic Anderson.
Why, hello! what will our
young men be doing? | had al
most forgotten them. Poor things.
If the girls go and take their
places what will they do? Well,
| suppose / will have to reverse it
and let them take the ladies
places.
For a very fashionable dress
maker we may have Eugene
Matthews; for a milliner have
Leon Gilbert; Richard Pratt,
first-class house-keeper; for a
music teacher we may have Cecil
Manning; and Guyton Farmer
Reynolds giving lessons in all
kinds of fancy drawings; Claud
Quillian may be teacher of a kin
dergarten. Just suppose Grover
Meinert, J, R. Brumby and John
Fields sitting at home with their
faces powdered and hair curled
playing on the piano, or sitting
by the fire with favorite novel
OF piece If fancy work waiting
for their best girl to call and
take them to church or an enter
tainment.
Well, if things should be this
way, what will / find to do.
Well, | hope | will be superin-
tendent Of some college. But all
any of us can do, is Just to wait
and see; trying everyday to fit
ourselves for whatever occupation
Fate may put upon us.
Trusting God for Divine guild
ance in all our walks of life, be
they humble or great" Isn't
that true.
ZELMA NJ. SMITH,
Age II. 18th Grade Grammar