Miss Heck's Thanksgiving Party; or, Topsy Up To Date

By IDA HAMILTON MUNSELL. Dedicated to The Woman's Club Of Evanston, Illinois.

MISS HECK'S THANKSGIVING PARTY OR TOPSY UP TO DATE
(Copyrighted by the Author.)

To the Woman's club of Evanston:
Devoted, as it is, to mutual helpfulness in all the affairs of life, and to a union of effort towards attaining the higher development of humanity, this little brochure is dedicated by one of its members.

MISS HECK'S THANKSGIVING PARTY;
or, TOPSY UP TO DATE
IDA HAMILTON MUNSELL, B. M.
Any person with but half an eye could recognize at a glance the extraordinary character of Miss Myra Heck! And furthermore, if novelists did not show such decided preferences for white-skinned heroines, Miss Heck would long since have won the world-wide renown which of right belongs to her. But, unfortunately, Miss Myra was born of black parents away down in the sunny southland, and the dark hue of skin and wisps of woolly curls which are characteristic of the negro race have descended upon their offspring. This is the more unfortunate in that this daughter—now a young woman of twenty-four or thereabouts—is possessed of really uncommon talents, while her brain teems at all times with schemes worthy of a French diplomat; and were she fair and dainty as to exterior, she would not now be occupying the situation of maid of all work in the little town where we first discovered her.