SALLY’S EVOLUTION.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 10

SALLY’S EVOLUTION.

When the old farmer’s daughter first left her good old country home, with its quiet simple ways, for a year in a fashionable hoarding-school, she signed her name “ Sarah Jane Smith,” and took no offence at being called “ Sally.” Three months later a letter came home signed “ Sadie J. Smith.” Six months elapsed, and she had become “S. Janie Smithe.” Time rolled on, bx’inging its wonderful changes, and when the June came she blossomed forth as “ S. Jeannie Smythe.” Then her father hitched the old blind horse to the vegetable cart, and said: “ I’m going to bring that there Sal home, and let ’er know that she can’t bring ojeum on the good old name of Smith by ringin’ in any more ‘ y ’ and ‘e ’ changes on it. There can’t nobody say a word o’ harm agin’ my branch of the Smith family. I’m proud o’ it, an’ glad I’m one of ’em. I reckon a month of hard work in the tater-time T 1 let Sary Jane know that ‘J-a-n-e’ don’t spell no ‘Jeannie.’ ”