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Show IX OVERALLS The musical comedy "farmerette" is now as familiar an institution as the nnwical comedy bathing girl. Hiawaiian girls, harem girls,, golfing golf-ing girls, military girls, baseball girls, and bathing girls, of course. Each costume change means a different s-ong. and as each show carries about the same assortment the rotation becomes be-comes monotonous. So they invented invent-ed the stage farmerette in silk over-tills over-tills with a hayfork like an overgrown tiy-swatter. In the meantime, at the State Normal Nor-mal School of Agriculture, Wisconsin, a young lady whose name is withheld went through the course like a rip-raw rip-raw through a plank. She mixed concrete in most of the standard forms, and investigated grades of wheat for stripe ergot and smut; she studied surveying, and platted a 240 acre farm; she made elaborate milk-tosts, milk-tosts, w rote theses on stock-breeding, inhaled the science of crop-routine, and for some inartistic reason, made a specialty of pigs. That the lady-was lady-was raised on a farm is not considered consid-ered by the faculty as contributing in a great measure to the profundity of her erudition. There are plenty more like her in Wisconsin, and, thank Heaven, there are still more outside Wisconsin. It 1, o t-r-. r' f i (.-, 'i 'hit !:': '.er,. j u., L,uiie as much as the musical comedy kind. Show troupes don't flock much in Sanpete, but we have girls who can dun overalls (not silk ones) and take the place of boys as effectively as the most boyish chorus girl that Broad way ever generated. ( leaning a hog-pen is not an elegant job. And there is little elegance in washing vermin from the filthy body of a wounded soldier a common place in the daily experience of a Red Cross girl. Not many duties are more unsavory or more sacred, and the picture needs no spotlight to illuminate its glittering moral. |