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Show "BEYOND THE ALPS." Out in Kansas a sweet girl graduate who had been given the theme, "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy," according to the Topeka Capital, dashed off the following: fol-lowing: "I don't care a cent whether Italy lies beyond the Alps or in Missouri. I do not expect to set the world on fire with my future career. I am glad that I have a good education, but I am not goivur to misuse it by writing poetry or essays on the future fu-ture woman. It will enable me to correct the grammar gram-mar of any lover I may have should he speak of 'dorgs' in my presence, or 'seen a man.' It will also come in handy when I want to figure out how many pounds of soap a woman can get for throe dozen eggs at the grocery. So I do not begrudge the time I spent in acquiring it. But my ambitions do not fly so high. I just want to marry a man who can lick anybody of his weight in the township, who can run an eighty-acre farm and who has no female relatives to come around and try to boss the ranch. I will, agree to cook dinners for him that won't send him to an early grave, and lavish upon him a wholesome affection and to see that his razor has not been used to cut broom wire when he wants to shave. In view of all this, I do not care if I get a little rusty on the rule of three and kindred things As the years go by." |
