in the privacy of your room. You have tried to effect in public, at school and elsewhere a hoodlum way of curling your lips and talking out of the side of your mouth and in your room you have devoured catalogs show- ing feminine lovelies and in private you have changed this same mouth into a cute little rosebud affair with lipstick. This is what you were doing when Alice and I caught you. Well, my dear daughter Elsie, we are honest in our village. This is an honest house and we are all going to be honest at all times. There will be no double lives or secret lives here. You will act and live and be and dress as Elsie, my daughter. You cant be Elsie in secret and Ellsworth in public. Alice and I have weighed the logic and it would either have to be you, 100% Ellsworth or an 'all out' 100% Elsie and after all the evidence was considered we decided on Elsie. You will thank your Cousin Cora some day my dear."
I next had to remove my gown and Miss Cora gave me a good bath all over. My new mother was efficient! She slipped a new and lovely negligee on me and told me, "You see, Elsie, I have some things all ready fro you as I knew what was coming. A mother knows when she is going to 'produce' a new offspring and nowadays even know the sex in advance, so I planned as any good mother and even named you--Elsie". I blushed.
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Miss Cora took some odd smelling cream and applied it to my body. It made a very stiff paste. After about 10 minutes Miss Cora rubbed it off and what hair I had had came off with the rubbing. Miss Cora next treated my face to a very efficient session with the tweezers. Miss Cora told me that a few treatments would fix things up fine.
Next she fixed my hair. I had needed a haircut when this all had started but Miss Cora said,
"I could put a wig on you, but you look enough like a Miss as you are. Your hair will be quite wavy when it grows out. Right now you look like some of the girls one sees in Greenwich Village. I think we will just let you hair grow out and not use a wig."
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