Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-03
PET.
BY Bryant c. Rogers.

Copyright, 1914. by the cClur News
paper Syndicate)
When a person Is referred to as a hoy
den. one knows that a. girl is meant. No
boy is ever referred to by that epithet.
Instantly there arises to the minds eye
q picture of a girl from II to 16 years old.
She mas a gypsy face and figure. She has
has long hair flying in the wind. She is
sunburned and. freckled and impudent.
She remembers a box on the ear and an
admonition about 30 SECONDS.
"A hoyden romps. she climbs trees, she
Jumps fences, she throws stones and
Tubs. She breaks windows. she attacks
the g%rocer's or the butchers boy at the
and teeth-any old way to lick him and
send him away Inundated.
The hoyden hides behind the rose bush
and ''plunks'' a stone at a tin peddler
drivtng past.
She makes up faces and filters at the
young man out with his girl.
She crouches outdoors under a parlor
comes, and a 3 eho o.ais' waili hns 'eau
She turns handsprings in summer and
slides down hill on a board or any old
thing In winter
She hates the boys. and whether they
offer her peanuts or their love there is
hair pulling unless they can outrun her.
No wonder they never call a boy a hoy
hundred miles.
June Eaton was a hoy,1en. She began to
be a hoyden at about a year old and she
kept 1t up until she was almost 10. She
ought to have been in long dresses at Is.
but she wasn't She ought to have dis
carded the braid down her back. but she
wouldn't. She shouldn't have sat on the
gate post, blu she would do it.
When youth called on her and was
shown into the paflor she shouldn't have
Uttered and giggled and embarrassed him
half to death, and ended by seizing his
ankles and Impending him on the floor, but
that was the way she saw things.
on her and her hair was done up high.
but they had to stand over with a club to
accomplish 1t. That year she also at
tended two or three parties and didn't
turn a handspring nor pick a fight. By
threats and brides they got her to church
and she only Uttered aloud once during
the sermon.
Then grandma came and heard all about
the hoyden. Indeed. she was made to feel
as well as to hear. On the first night OF
her arrival a Ghost visited ed her bedside
morning, when she was too nervous to
leave her bed and there was talk of hand
cuffs and shackles and a bread and water
diet for the hoyden, the good old lady
said:
blame her one mite"
But she's most 49, was replied.
II don't care If she's most a hundred;
That girl has got some life about her. and
l don't want to see it crushed out"
but. grandma, If you only knew what
a hoyden she Isl"
Makes no difference. She sees one side
of life and you another. 1t would be a
good thing if you and Stephen would do a
would make any one thihk there was a
funeral in the house"
Let me tell you what she did yesterday.
I had the minister call to talk with her.
but she ran away. When he got ready
to go he fell over a lot of stove wood
she had piled on the steps to trip him up
Tn glad of 1T. He had no business
to be here
The other night she hid among the
hollyhocks and jumped out at old Mrs.
Brayton, who was coming to borrow a cup
of sugar, and frightened her most to
DEATH
had sugar in the house instead of Dor
rowing of the ~neighbors. I wish June
would scare away the dozen that come
borrowing of me-"
I'VE want to send her to some board
ing school,. but she won't CO."
"Hain't she been to chool here?'
'Oh. yes. but you know they don't teach
the higher branches nor department.
What does the girl want of the higher
branches? She Is going to marry a man
WHO'D rather have q good beefsteak thar
a CARLOAD OF French and Latin. Let her
department take care Of itself. It's q
heap better as It Is than az II she DIDN'T