The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-13
Daily Short Story
CRANDMA'S PET.


Whsn pcrson II referred % a. .
hoydsl. one knovs that XII Il
meant 10 BOP l. ever rcefrEcd 10 By
I Instantly there arises 10 tie aindrs
eye a picture % n girl f-o-u ~ 10 ID
yam old sh- has a rypsy face and
hSur- she Las very short dresses
sud very long l-rs she hAs iols han
ryirE Ira the Stnd She IL Sunburns-,l
and frecklec and I'm pdeut
A hogcen rcmps. she climbs tre@fs
she jumps fsnces. she throws stones
AMI clubs. she breaks Window. she
attacks the growers or the butcher ,
/ toy ~ the back door and nrhts witf
hands aud feet and tseth-any ole
nay 20 iCk him and send htm AWAY
I humiiiated.
She crouches outdoors under . mar
Tor window when her sister Janet :
beau CONES. and makes ghostly vail
lnEs
She hates the boys and whether
they ofer her peanuts or their love
theer T. hair pulling unless they can
Outrun her
June Eaton was a hoyden. Sho b.
gan 20 be a hoyden al about a year
old and she Kept p up until she was
almost 10. She ought TO have beer
10 long dresses at i6. but she wasn't
She ought 10 have discarded the braid
down her back. t.It she wouldn't She
shouldn't have sat on the gate post
but she would do H.
When a youth called on her and
/ was shown into the parlor sh.
shouldn't have tittred and Eiggled and
embarrassed him half 10 death. and
ended by selling his ankles and up.
ending him on the noor. but tha. was
the way she saw things.
Then grandma came and heard all
about the hoyden. Indeed. she was
ms a to e. .HaNN -.
the FIRST night OF her arrival a ghost
visited her bedside and scared her
into cold At on the next morning.
when she WAS too nervous 10 leave
her bed. and there was talk OF hand
cuffs and shackles and n bread and
water diet for the hoyden. the good old
lady said
You jest let that girl alone! ]
don't blame her one mite"
But she's most IS" was replied
Il don't care II she's most hun
dred' That girl has got some life
about her. and ! don't want to see II
crushed out"
But. gradma. N you only knew what
a hoyden she is,'
Makes no difference She sees one
side OF life and you another. II would
be good thing IL you and stephen
would do little Erinning yourselves.
Your faces would make anyone think
Let me tell you what she did yes
terday. | had the minister call TO
talk with her. but she ran away
When he got ready 20 20 he fell over
lot OF stove wood she had piled on
the steps TO trip him up"
I'm glad of II! lie had no business
to be here"
We want 10 send her to some
boarding school. but she won't go"
'Hain't she been to school here"
oh. yes. but you know they don't
teach the higher branches nor deport-
ment"
What does the girl want of the
higher branches She Is going to
marry a man who'd rather have a
good Deefsteak than a CARLOAD of
French or Latin. Let her department
take care OF itself. It's a heap bet.
ter as IL is than as IL she didn't know
how 10 laugh when a laugh was due. "
Shell never find a husband-ney-
err said June's mother
shes more likely 10 marry within
year. I've seen such girls, and they
always got good husbands, and they
made the straightest kind OF wives %
tc-ia PR i. .AE sh sh shr sh shrdd
But IL she would Ony steady
down"
Sarah, have some sense about YOU
boy may be full OF the Old Nick
from l6 to 20. and then steady down
girl may be hoyden up TO Is or
10 and then sober up"
But what can sober Jane up?"
Leave that to chance and stop
pecking at her"
One day. three months after grand