SHE DID HER DUTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3711, 21 December 1912, Page 22

SHE DID HER DUTY.

There’s a great deal said against old maids, and some okl maids object to the title as a term of contempt. They prefer to be called maiden ladies. J don’t. T’rn an old maid, and proud V of it. I don’t bother about my age, neither. I’m fifty, and if any one goes sacheyen’ round to find out how old lam 1 te’l ’em. I say I’m half a century old. j haven’t any use for those persons who are mealy mouthed about speakin’ right out when there’s anything disagreeable to Ire said. If my friend needs information I’m a-goin’ to give it to her or him, whichever it is. I don’t propose to let a friend suffer from wantin’ to know somethin’ that nobody has the courage to tel! ’em. ft’s risky, I admit. But what’s the credit o’doin’ somethin’ that anybody is willin’ to do? 1 hoard Marne Perkins’ son-in-law roastin’ her awful. I went to her and said: “Marne, I’ve got somethin’ to tell you you’d ought to know.” Then I to’d her. She thanked me very much. Neither her son-in-law nor her daughter lias spoken to me from that day to this. But 1 done my duty.