Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04
How Girls Study.

Did you ever see two girls get to-
gether to study of an evening? L have,
and it generally goes like this:
I'm 1873 Marquette discovered the
Mississippi. In 1873 Marquette dis
What did you say. Ide? You had ever
so much rather see the hair coiled than
braided? Yes, so had l. It's SO much
more stylish, and then it looks classical.
too; but how do you like:O, dear! l
never will learn this lesson!
I'm 1868 Lafayettedisc the Wis
consin. In 1868 Lafayette discovered
the-well! what's the matter with me.
anyhow. In sixteen serent1-three Mar
quctte dtScorered the Mississippi!
don't care if he did. / suppose the
Mississippi would have got along just
as well if Marquette had never looked
at it. Now, see here, Ide, is there any
thing about my looks that would give
you to understand that | know when
Columbus founded jamestown, and
how George Washington won the battle
of Shiloh? OF course there isn't. His
tory's horrid study, anyhow. No use
either. Now, French is ever so much
nicer. can introduce French phrases
very often, and one must know I have
studied the language. What is the
lesson tomorrow? o, yes; coniuga-
ton of parler Let's see; how does it
commence? Fe parle, tn parle, il
par-il pa-il-well. il, then!
''Conjugations don't amount to any,
thing. know some phrases that are
appropriate here and there, and in most
every locality; and how's anybody GO
ing to know but what have the coniu-
cations all by heart?
Have / got my geometry? No, I'm
Just going to study it. Thirty-ninth, is
it not?
''Let the triangle A b G, triangle A
B-say, Idle, have you read about the
Jersey Lily and Freddie? | think it is
just too utterly ut. and Freddie is SIM
ply gorgeous. I'm completely crushed
on him
''Oh, this theorem.
LET the triangle A BIC be right
angled at B. On the side b C, erect
the square b ID. On the side A Il, the
square A 1. On the side-did l tell YOU
Sister Carracciola gave me a new piece
to-day, sonata? 1t is really intense?
The tones fairly stir my soul. 1 am
never going to take anything but sonatas
amer iu1c. Il EOb dHOinCE new piece,
too. Its name is Etudes. Isn't it
funny? i asked Tom this noon what it
means. and he says it is Greek for moth
ing. 1t is quite apropos, for there is
really nothing TO 1.-THE same thing
over and over gsf
Where was /? o, yes, the side A C.,
the square A +. Draw the line-come
on, let's go at our astronomy. It's on
Arc the planets inhabited?
snow. Ide, / think they are, and l
have thought about it a great deal. /
banged my hair again last night. 1
wanted LaDgtry bang just too bad for
any use, but pa raved, and / had to
give in. Yes. / think they are inhab-
tied, / should like to visit some of
them, but you would not catch me liv-
ing on Venus. Eight seasons. Just
think how often we would have to have
new outfits to keep up with the styles. .
What, you are not going? l am so
sorry. but l suppose you are tired. l
am. 1t always makes me most sick to
study a whole evening like this. 1
think sister ought to give US a picture"
And they go to school the next morn
ing and tell the other girls how awfully
hard they have studded Chicago Tn
btxne.