St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-01-01
Mita Wheeler's Mistake.
aBY1ELIZABETH \. ;. CHESTER.


q nIssRt ii perfectly horrid, We're
Eg0iHg to have that Winslow girl next
door 10 3Als.' remarked Miss Nita
Wfieelef % her room-niate just after
ROOMS h:AsP been assigned at the ely
Feasale College''
tltsWbafE jof that ~ responded Nell
Chapman. "Tlere'll bc plenty of 9TH
er girls i'll the hall to associate with, if
we don't like her"
'''li"t may he; but you cant think
how ;iroying Miss WmsIow's famil I
iarlticS are to me. She's i'll my dNt
sion. you know, and she addresses me
by my first name, just as Lou Wild,
Nell Thornton, or amy of the girls of
our set do. Yesterday. when we were
going down to lecture. she actually
threw her arm around me, and said.
Wont You please let me look ut Your
notes on vest .rday'S lecture. Nita: Eve
miSlaid mine Nitd. indeed | Just
looked ut her and said, Il don't think
You could read my notes, Miss Wins
low She didn't know enough then to
take away her hateful artA.a Just de-
'".' 'l's . - .0ni iissS, A.. s,sale.s I,
/ MIin rNcil body :
Its dreadful :" ciaculated Men, But
Nell was just leaving the room, and
Lou Wild, who passed her in the hall.
SIM II sarcastic expression on her face.
Nell WIS Judge Chlpman'S daughter.
and Nita was fond of referring t" her ;,S
her most intimate flirnd,' and of say
ing that she ''ptIicctlN adorcd her"
Nita WIS II somewhat piquant. rather
pretty. very stylish Young lady. VIII"
had ;" much to say about first ilmi-
lies. people who were lin society" and
people who were mot in society" ;S
t" create II suspicion among her teach
"rS and the older girI> that the social
position of her own family WAS not Just
" hat she wished. People who are we'll
;,>>urcd in regard to their own position
aIc not in the habit of referring to the
subject OF worrying lest they may lose
caste 10y making acquaintanccs beneath
them.
Mabel Win>low WAS Il large. good
maiuicd. PLAIN looking girl entirely
destitute of ''stN r." and apparently
quite indifferent to matters of dress L"
hr sue she WaS always neat and could
never hc called ''>l"uchN : but then.
She never seemed to raIr whether She
were exactly in fashion nr not.
At the lii II glance \i1L had decided
'ii'' 'ii' w IlNi"NN 'n"Idh ne IN So
cirtl. and. l> she informed Nell Chap
man, she "didn't wish tn form any ac-
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N'i" M'"i' '> Ni'" Htrplrd "'Ii "f - the
evening alter rooms had been assigned.
an" saw Ma on i"r ihlr,h"ld "i -.
II"''" i''i"hh'd MIA very dis
''n!iA.
h""Sh Mabel t""ih nav" had moth
In@ M'iir\ti to II" with her location IN
me "'ilI"ihG Mia APpcHltd I" iinh%ihr
'"''' >''' ""'' come l"'" ,N"' - 'i'I sue
,"'Sn' u" h'tl hF' ana cultivate her
hI@h'H "r>lia"i' acquaintance. Shr
'''"I"i"@'\ ""It il'io'u WIN lh' III
most reserve towards MdhtI, ana soon
came I" utterly ignore her h"I@hh"l-
h"""-
W "I>c than that. she was - pos
S''S>rd with thc ldca that Mabel cnNct -
ed her >"cictN, aud WAS try ing tn push
h"I>cli into her good gIacr>. that She
was once oT twice positively rude, to her
IN ia" classroom.
Nell Chapman. on the contrary
though She II, lon srd to \ higher class.
and might naturally have been Il little
more exclusive and diwnitird used to
spend h"'u> l"nngImg on Mahrl> bed
trllim" stories. and shall say it suck
ing oranges.
Il don't see how You can hr =" iii
tin'atr with her l"u don't know wh"
hcI people may hc. said Nita one
day.
Il h'li"N" do. though. replied Nell
with Il twinkle in her eve. she spoke
the other day about her father having
an interest in the New York CrntIal.'
Possibly hes Il brokcman"
''Quirc likely"
Vacation came. and Mia. whose
h"m" was hundreds of miles from Ely d.
had received an invitation - visit Mrs.
BrockIc>bIc. II friend of hci mother.
VIII" lived IN an adjacent State. After
starting, Mia WAS somewhat disturbed
To lInd Miss W lnSIow III the ears.
~ nur bcfc hoiS, Mcb WinSlow. lives
III Ninona: :" You wont hr lonely" mis-
chieNonSly whispered Nell Chapman H.
she badc Mia goodbye at the Samosct
Junction.
Horrors responded Nita.
Lon lld and Nell Thornton, girls
whom Mia felt that she could associate
with. went beyond the "Juncti"n" and
the thrr" established themselves ON
seat tacllg each other, SocIahlN enough.
while Miss Nlnslow sat alone at the
other end of the car
81 wonder who that nicc-looiing
Young man is that she's talking with -