The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-29
Some Advantages To Be
 Found As She Grows Old
Spster Looks On and Sees Her Friends Children Grow Makes Few Observations s-Very Different From the Good Old Days-Manners and Customs
 of the Long Ago
RY DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

"Then the regimen did not kill her, I said, rejoicing
 No; but instead she has grown up into beautiful young woman, and I have no seen her in many years until yesterday when she came in to call on me" was tho answer. When she arrived I said to hel after our greetings:
 You have finished school, I sup. poser
 " Yes. indeod-y,' she replied. and, Gee I am glad of it. I am sick of the sight of books, and I'll be darned if I ever looR | into another one, unless it happens to be some of George Ades Fables in Slang. T or Robert Chambers, or maybe O. Henry she replied, glihy.
 T suppose your music is a great pleasure to you" I suggested.
 Tt is,' said the girl enth usiastica1 ly I've got brand new Victrola and it plays all the new things. Have you heard Has Anybody Seen Kelly? and I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? They're just dandy"
 Ignoring her levity I asked:
 Are you fond of pictures?"
 'Never have liked pictures in all my life except Fishers and Gibsons she said quickly. I'm like the old fellow who went to the Corcoran art gallery in Washington and seeing all the great masterpieces exclaimed
 T ain't no connoozier (connoisseur) of art, nohow."
 And that's the way with me. I just wish you could see my room, Mother has got it stuck full of pictures of fat Madonnas and ugly babies that she brought home from Europe at various times, and as soon as I can I'm go- ing to swipe a lot of up-to o-date pie turcs and put them in the place of the ones I've got"
 And what does your mother say to all this?" I asked as the young lady got up to leave and whisked her skirts airily.
 "Oh, she fusses and fumes and bouts and says I am a disgrace to the fam fly and that all her efforts in my be- half are wasted" said the girl. "Sha seems to think that l take after some fearful old reprobate of an ancestor and she vows that all her taking me to art galleries and symphony concerts and such things avail nothing. Oh, sh e's Q fearful grouch when it comes to mel Wish you'd come around to see her and cheer her up. ood-by-so long"
 And so,' said the spinster, there has been this compensation as the years go by of seeing results of forced cul tivation upon the human mind. I told Eltza beth from the first that her expert ment would probably be a failure bu, she insisted it would not and that sat isfactory results would be the natura sequence, so now that her young lady daughter Is through school I can say "I told you so" with perfect impunity and it will be something of a sa tIs. faction for Elizabeth is rather self. satisfied and a most priggish person. and 1t will do my soul good to even things up with her"
 Well at least the lady in question has the satisfaction of knowing that she gave her daughter every oppor- tunity to be cultured and highly edu- cated and if she didn't take advantage of the advantages it won't be her mothers fault and she could never have 1t thrown into her face that she neglected any single chance to do ev- erything she could for her child" l sai id"
 There is no doubt something in that" said the Spinster as she folded up her knitting (which I took for a sign that it was leaving time for mel but there is such a thing as running things into the ground by over-edu- eating girls and 1t Is nothing like the satisfaction l am experiencing in st- ting calmly by and seeing how it turns out