Leon Reporter
Thursday, April 27, l922

It really doesn't make any difference where we found her, but she wore a lace cap and was knitting when she said: "The present-day middle-class girl has been spoiled; she is lazy, restless, pleasure-seeking and egotistical; has a better time than any other woman in the world, but is never satisfied."

This dear old grandma, so rare herself at this period of short skirts, bobbed hair and painted cheeks, smiling through her glasses and continued: "The young married woman of today appears to think she is the only woman who has ever had any domestic difficulties, or had to do any work. The fact is, of course, that she has a far easier time than any woman had in my day. In those days we didn't grumble or look upon ourselves as victims. We didn't talk about any "revolt of housewives" or worry our husbands with demands for an easier time. We worked hard and cheeerfully, did without luxuries and expensive holidays and brought up large families without considering ourselves martyrs."

Grandma had a look of mother-love in her eyes as she took off her glasses and wiped them on her apron. "Yes, the trouble is that the present middle-class girl is spoiled. Usually she dislikes children, and resents having to give up any time to look after them. She would rather pour tea than listen to a child's prayer. The more I see of the young married woman of today and the more I hear of her constant grumbling, the more thankful I am that I lived in those splendid days of the Civil War."

Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
*This is sweet!!