I think Mamma is either getting purer-minded all the time or is losing some of it — I can't tell which — for she isn't shocked as easily as she was a few months ago.
But I got a shock myself recently.
I found out that plants have Sex, you know.
Just think of it — carrots, onion, turnips, potatoes, and everything!
Isn't it frightful to think that this agitation has spread to the vegetable kingdom?
I vowed I would never eat another potato as long as I lived!
And, after all, what GOOD does it do — letting the vegetable kingdom have Sex, I mean?
Even a good thing, you know, can be carried too far.
"Mamma," I told her, "you are hopelessly behind the times. Sex is a Great Fact. Someone must discuss it. And who but the Leaders of Thought are worthy to?"
I intend to say nothing more about it now — but when the time comes I WILL reopen my Salon.