The Globe-republican., 1891-01-21

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THEN THEY ALL TURNED UPON RUSSELL.
mand of any Of them to be sure Of the
accuracy of a quotation. From this point
discussion drifted naturally to the study
Of the languages. and the comparative
usefulness of French and German was
warmly debated.
"But we can't study either without q
teacher" said Alice, land teacher
would be horrid."
doesn't Mr.. Russell know French?"
asked Miss Hill.
II can read bill of fare. if the French
steward does not try to write it in En-
glish," said Russell, "but my knowledge
of the language does not go much fur
Their. Suppose we study English?"
"Oh, it isn't the leastuse to ANYBODY"
said several girls in chorus. "You can't
possibly know enough about it to make
anybody see that you do"
1--WE ought to have some committees"
said one of the girls: land we need a
critic, too. When we decide what we're
going to read, we'll have somebody ap-
pointed to read it aloud. and the critic
will tell what is the matter with it
1--WE must change the critic every
week." said Miss Hill.
Russell was strongly of the opinion
that such an arrangement would be
necessary to the happiness and safety
of the critic, but he did not venture to
say SO. He was planning to be the lass
critic on the list. in the hope that the
society would die a natural death before
his turn camc. But the subject of
critics was dropped for the moment,
while the society went into executive
session and wrestled with the question
of names, and uses for the committees.
Russell was chairman, and the girls
either talked to him all at once or didn't
talk to him at all. When he detected
any thing like motion, he requested a
vote which was generally a unanimous
affirmative because, by the time he
could call for the nays. the girls had be-
gun to talk about something else and
didn't hear what he said
1t was decided to give reception to
the friends Of the society. and Vcommit-
tee to decide what sort of a reception it
should be was appointed by the chair.
assisted by all the members simultane-
ously. In fact that was so much assist
ance that after the committee had been
appointed nobody could remember who
was on it. But by this time the course
Of debate had changed, and this very
difficult question had arisen: "How shall
we let the people who come to the re-
ception find out how much We have
learned that they don't know?' Various
solutions of this problem were offered
but they were all open to the objection
Of suggesting school days and gradual
ing exercises. Russell thought that it
would be good idea to have each men,
Der Of the society register a VOW not to
talk upon frivolous subject with any
young man at the reception-in his case,
the resolution would read young
woman of course. Each member should
keep a record of the number of topics of
conversation introduced by her and
hitherto unheard of by the other party
to the conversation. Every such topic
should count one, and the member hav-
ing the highest score at the end Of the
evening should be entitled to . prize
which should be awarded in the presence
of the society's guests.
This plan met with much favor at
first, but finally it was voted down, on
the ground that Russell would certainly
win, and that that was why he suggested
it, which was very mean of him, because,
Of course, he could find any quantity Of
girls who didn't know much, and prob
ably be wouldn't play the game fairly,
any way.
Then the question of a name came up
again, followed by the appointment
land dissolution of half dozen more
The search for a motto
came next, and it gradually drifted into
. general conversation on muse, mill
linery and the drama. Afterwards,
some Russian tea was served; and then
there was just time enough for > vote
that Secretary Russell should come to
the next meeting of the society pre-
pared to. give it q name, motto and .
subject for research.
CHAPTER TX.
IN MANHATTAN ELECTRO MOTOR coRANY.
''Go ahead and organize your com
pany," said Gilbert Ray, II haven't
time to attend to it just now"