Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-07
THEY TALKED IT OVER.
Two Sweet Girl Graduates Have q Nfoe
Confab.

Miss j. Hortense-Oh, slow enough.
It's worse than pulling teeth. l never
Gould write an essay.
Miss Mae-Nor l. But really, you
snow, we have SO little to put in. Pro
lessor Wise was so kind to outhne the
whole thing for us, wasn't her
"Oh, yes, indeed. But l wish now Ia
chosen an easier topic than Drifting
Where? I've only got as far as we are
standing tonight on the threshold OF Ire,
looking out over its tempestuous sea anu
drifting we know not where.
"Oh, that is perfectly lovely, hor-
tense" Il
sit is pretty, isn't it? Igot it out OF
an old scrapbook. How are you getting
ON with your Onward and Upward
TOPPER
go Cesar! Don't mention it! hate
the sight of it. While | think OF 1t, tel
me if Caesar lived before or after the
time of Christ? l want to refer to hnn III
nv essay, and / don't know to save my
soul when he lived.
Il don't either. 1t seems to me 1t was
somewhere about the time OF Peter the
Great that Caesar held forth, but I'm
not sure"
"rll have to look it up. Now, an
other thing, Who and what was Plato
anyhow"
80 Mae, for heavens sake who or what
he was. I haven't the remotest idea"
"Then suppose I'll have to spend nan
a day looking him and lot OF other ola
fossils up in the library. How horrld
this graduating essay business Is, any
howi'
"Oh, hate it. But | suppose-oh, ana
Won know that Sallie Rich was gong TO
wear white silk with train two yards
long?"
'She isn't?"
"Indeed she isl And diamond cres-
cent?
"Oh, my"
"And she is going to get up in that
kind of a rig and read an essay ON SIN
plicity of the AncientsP
.sOh, well, she isn't an ancient.
81 don't care. | wouldn't have the
cheek to say the word simplicity before
a thousand people if | was dressed like
that"
"And Sallie hardly knows enough to
come in when it rains. II was-oh'
has your dress come YETI
"No; but | went down to see it for the
fiftieth time yesterday, and it's perfectly
lovely, and it's going to fit me to perfec
ton"
'sDid you decide about the sashf"
"Oh, Hortense lay awake all OF las
night irving to decide between the cream
India silk and the pale blue China crep
with knotted fringe and embroldere
ends, One reason I'm behind with IN
ESSAY is because couldn't decide abou
that sash!'
(which did you get? Do tell meG
"The blue. finally settled it by gel
ting up out of bed and writing blue o
q a one side of piece of blank paper an
r cream ON the other and then tossing u
: the paper"
a And the blue side came up
= Eyes"
l. 81 often decide important matters tn
IN way. But I'm awfully glad you got T.
81 blue. liked it best"
ly "Did your
as 81 liked it best"
OF Really
ne Eyes, honest; but didn't want to
to fuence you, and"-
ooh, I'm so glad you like it better tn
the cream. 1t is lovely"
Perfectly beautiful And blue is
nN coming to you"
as "Do you think so"
hu Eyes, do"
. you're real sweet to say so, and
re- re about your dresst"
Ihe "Well, | stood three mortal hours y
lon terday having the thing fitted for
gnn,, fifth time. was twisted and Jerked
rai pulled and stuck full of pins until
the ready to faint, but the dress is going
ate be perfectly beautiful
iau "Do tell me about It'll"
Of "Its one of those soft, clinging Oh
II silks, made to just touch the floor,
r it's to have yards and yards of S
,itY creamy lace on it, and I'm going to "
oil ali. a perfect mass of exquisite Marechal
,ble roses and"-
we'd "How lovelyl"
mo- "And a great bunch of them at
belt, and"-
"How beautiful they II lookf'
,ror and mamma will send me up 6
otor basket of them when I'm through '
do. my essay and-do you expect N
roo, flowers
aste ooh, CARLOAD of them!
# a 80 do |, and I've been week 7
at ticing on the bowling and scraplr
has must do over them, and the grac
S to way in which shall pick them up!'
ury, "Oh, you funny thingv"
u ne "Well, | have. But | must go
~ n in find out about Caesar and Plato, anc
at a book of quotations l want to pad
the my essay with"
rex, ea And must get out my 'Compos
ed a and Rhetoric and see if have the
oma, tails and punctuation points all IN i
ap.. in what I've written. Horrid work,
Z ,e ui itg"
amer Don't mention itV'
his "But I'm SO pleased with my dres
e OF "And with mine"
ne "Tm sure it's lovely"
mai Thanks. | know yours is"
only ooh, thanksT
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