Jun 22, 2026 · 13 min · 10 segments
Episode 191 Little Town on the Prairie ch. 17 "The Sociable" Join us this week as we discuss how much a dime is worth, what a sociable is, Mrs. Addie Tinkham, princess style dresses, the history of…
This is episode one hundred and ninety-one, chapter seventeen of Little Town on the Prairie, "The Sociable." One Saturday evening, L- Mary Power came blowing in to see Laura.
The Ladies Aid Society was giving a dime sociable in Mrs. Tinkham's rooms over the furniture store next Friday night.
That night, Laura did not take off her school dress, but she put on a long apron and pinned its bib under her chin.
Supper was early, and as soon as she washed her, the dishes, Laura began to get ready for the sociable.
They did not show when they were brushed back, but now she combed them all out and a little forward down.
Laura took the shears from Ma's work basket, and standing before the glass, she cut her hair above her forehead into a narrow fringe about two inches long.
She laid her sl- long slate pencil on the heater, and when sh- it had heated, she held it by the cool end and wound wisps of the, around the short hair around the heated end.
"Well, if you must wear this lunatic fringe, I think you've made a good job of it." And Pa turned back to his newspaper.
Lamplight made glowing patches on the sidewalk in front of the hardware store, and the drugstore, and the dark furniture store, two window- and above the dark furniture store, two windows shone bright.
Mary Power came out of the tailor shop, and together they climbed the outdoor stairs between it and the furniture store.
This is episode one hundred and ninety-one, chapter seventeen of Little Town on the Prairie, "The Sociable." One Saturday evening, L- Mary Power came blowing in to see Laura.
The Ladies Aid Society was giving a dime sociable in Mrs. Tinkham's rooms over the furniture store next Friday night.
That night, Laura did not take off her school dress, but she put on a long apron and pinned its bib under her chin.
Supper was early, and as soon as she washed her, the dishes, Laura began to get ready for the sociable.
They did not show when they were brushed back, but now she combed them all out and a little forward down.
Laura took the shears from Ma's work basket, and standing before the glass, she cut her hair above her forehead into a narrow fringe about two inches long.
She laid her sl- long slate pencil on the heater, and when sh- it had heated, she held it by the cool end and wound wisps of the, around the short hair around the heated end.
"Well, if you must wear this lunatic fringe, I think you've made a good job of it." And Pa turned back to his newspaper.
Lamplight made glowing patches on the sidewalk in front of the hardware store, and the drugstore, and the dark furniture store, two window- and above the dark furniture store, two windows shone bright.
Mary Power came out of the tailor shop, and together they climbed the outdoor stairs between it and the furniture store.
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