16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Monday, November 20, 1911:We got a good joke off on Carrie at school today. It was a most outlandish fib she told, and oh so shocking.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Hmm. . . what was the story behind this entry? Carrie Stout was a friend of Grandma’s. I can’t quite figure out a probable relationship between a fib and the others (the class?) somehow playing a joke on Carrie.
Maybe Carrrie lied about homework? . . .but what would be the follow-up joke?
Or maybe she lied about why she was late getting to school? . . . and then the class . . .did what??
I might as well quit guessing. Some things are just impossible to figure out a hundred years later.
