Article # 79 - Young People Lacking Sense

            I’ve been thinking for some time that I would like to say something to the young

people; and as I have heard considerable about your having a Lyceum and that there was a good many come to it I just thought I would put my ideas down on paper and if you thought worth while to read them you might. It is really surprisen [sic] when a body looks around them to see the condition things are getting into on this earth, it dont seem like the same place it did when I was young. There was some sense in the girls in them days but it is my candid opinion that now-a-days they are not worth raisen, They get dres’t up in their nice silk frocks and pretty morrocco [sic] shoes and then they think they look fine.

            I wonder what they would think if they had to get up in the morning long before sunup and go out thro’ the huckle-berry bushes and black-berry briars after the cows and when milking and all the mornings work was done up, to set down to the wheel to spin tow for the Boy’s trousers that’s the way we had to do but laws, if the girls get their toes wet now they have the high-stericks [sic] I can’t help wondering what they would do if they were to get married; but the queerest part to me is, what any man’s thinking about when he marries such a girl, they couldn’t

do it tho’ if it wasent’ [sic] they haint got one grain more of sense themselves.

            But I have no time now to say anything to them – not but what they deserve it just as

much as the girls. I have said these things because I am really concerned about you and I want you to think about them too, for remember I am a great deal older and have seen more of this world than you have. – I am, be assured Your affectionate

                                                and concerned Aunt Jane