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Show Couldn't Make It Go on That Much Money M. Elisabeth Mortimer Miller, the eugenics expert, told a story to a Du-luth Du-luth reporter. "Our children," she said, "live too much with their elders. They hear too many ttilnjrs that are unfit for children's ears. This makes them precocious. pre-cocious. 'In my native Sioux City a boy answered an-swered a butcher's want ad. "What ran you do?' the butcher asked him. 'Anything,' said the boy. 'What will you pay me?' "Two good dollars a week, starting start-ing right here and now, said the butcher. 'Rut what can you do?' "'Anything, 1 told you, said the boy. 'Anythlng's no nnswer,' said the butcher. 'lie specific. Can you dress a chicken?' "Gosh,' said the boy, 'not on $2 a week.'" |