[a:Miriam Young|226589|Miriam Young|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] is perhaps best known today for her children's books like [b:Miss Suzy|652386|Miss Suzy|Miriam Young|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176767372s/652386.jpg|3259972]. [b:Mother Wore Tights|8131511|Mother Wore Tights|mirian young|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1272926704s/8131511.jpg|12927434] is a different sort of tale. Young wrote about her mother's youth in San Francisco in the 1880's in [b:No Place for Mitty|8131638|No Place for Mitty|Miriam Young|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|12927600]. In [b:Mother Wore Tights|8131511|Mother Wore Tights|mirian young|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1272926704s/8131511.jpg|12927434] [a:Miriam Young|226589|Miriam Young|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] writes of her parents' vaudeville career and her life growing up in a vaudeville family. The story begins by introducing Myrtle, a seventeen year old girl who was "Frisco born and Oakland bred" who marries a vaudeville man she meets while she's on the chorus line. The edition I'm reading is the overseas edition for the Armed Forces. It is a tiny little booklet that would easily fit in a soldier's pocket. To keep the cost of production low and the books lightweight, they were printed as magazines and then cut in half to make pocket-sized books. Fairly short books, like [b:Mother Wore Tights|8131511|Mother Wore Tights|mirian young|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1272926704s/8131511.jpg|12927434], were printed on the [Reader's Digest)size presses, and the books measure a diminutive 5 1/2 by 3 7/8 inches.Longer books were printed on pulp size presses. In both sizes, the text was printed in double columns of type and the books were bound on the short rather than the long side. If you want to learn more about the The armed services editions (ASE), I recommend [book:Books in Action the Armed Services Edition|2600137]. ( )