My dear Kate, said her aunt, nowadays a girl has all she can possibly do to fit herself for her future position in society; that is, if her family amounts to anything socially. Why should a girl learn to cook and market unless she intends to marry a poor man, and I don't propose that Ethel should ever do that. And as for being so athletic, I don't approve of that, either.

Oh, Mrs. Hollister, said Lottie Owen, a girl of Ethel's age, have you heard about the 'turkey trot?' We can't dance it anymore. It's been supressed. How does it go? asked the old lady. I've read something of it. [after the dance is demonstrated for Grandmother Hollister] Why that's like the 'Boston Dip,' responded she very much excited. Why, when I was a girl my mother took me away from a cotillion one night because they danced it, and she grew pretty as she excitedly told of her younger days.