Excerpt from Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 4: My Girls, Etc Making a call in New York, I got a little lesson, which caused me to change my opinion, and further investigation proved that the rising generation was wide awake, and bound to use the new freedom well. Several young girls, handsomely dressed, were in the room, and I thought, Of course, that they belonged to the butterfly species; but on asking one of them what she was about now school was over, I was much amazed to hear her reply, I am reading law with my uncle. Another said, I am studying medicine; a third, I devote myself to music, and the fourth was giving time, money, and heart to some of the best charities Of the great city. So my pretty butterflies proved to be industrious bees, making real honey, and I shook hands with sincere respect, though they - did wear jaunty hats; my good opinion being much increased by the fact that not one was silly enough to ask for an auto graph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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