The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-09-24
THEY TALKED 1T OVER.
Two Sweet Girl Graduates Have = Nice
Confab.

MISS D, H0rtenSe-On, SLOW enough.
It's worse than pulling teeth. never
could write an essay,
Miss Mae-Nor l. But really, you
know, we have SO little TO put in, Pro
fessor Wise was so kind tc outline the
whole thing for us, wasn't he?
"Oh, yes, indeed, But wish now I'd
chosen an easier topic than Drifting
Wherey I've only got as far rs we are
standing tonight ON the threshold Of life,
looking out over its tempestuous sea and
drifting we know not where"
"Oh, that is perfectly lovely, Hor-
tense"
at is pretty, isn't it2 | got it out Of
an old scrapbook, How are you getting
on with your Onward and Upward
topic"
go Cesarl Don't mention it! hate
the sight of it. While think oft, tell
me if Caesar lived before or after the
time of Christi want to refer to him in
my essay, and don't know to save my
soul when he lived"
II don't either 1t seems to me it was
somewhere about the time Of Peter the
Great that Caesar held forth, but I'm
not sure"
"I'll 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, l haven't the remotest idea"
"Then suppose Ill have to spend half
a day looking him and lot of other old
fossils mp in the library, How horrid
this graduating essay business is, any
howT
"Oh, hate it. But suppose-oh, did
you know that Sallie Rich was going to
wear white silk with train two yards
long?"
"She isn't?"
Indeed she isl And diamond cres-
cent?"
"Oh, myr
"And she is going to get up in that
kind of a rig and read an essay on Sim
plicity of the Ancientsp
".Oh, well, she isn't an ancient"
~ don't care wouldn't have the
cheek to say the word simplicity before
thousand people if was dressed like
that"
"And Sallie hardly knows enough to
come in when it rains. If 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-
tion."
"Did you decide about the sash2"
"Oh, Hortense! | lay awake all OF last
night trying to decide between the cream
India silk and the pale blue China crepe
with knotted fringe and embroidered
ends. One reason I'm behind with my
essay is because couldn't decide about
that sashv
(Which did you get? Do tell mel"
"The blue. finally settled it by get
ting up out of bed and writing blue on
one side of piece of blank paper and
cream on the other and then tossing up
the paper"
"And the blue side came upT
"Yes."
81 often decide important matters that
, way. But I'm awfully glad you got the
blue l liked it best"
"Did your"
81 liked it best"
"Really2"
eyes, honest; but didn't want to in
fuence you, and
"Oh, I'm so glad you like it better thar
the cream. 1t is lovely"
Perfectly beautiful! And blue is be
coming to you"
, "Do you think SOP
r eyes, I do"
you're real sweet to say so, and how
+ about your dress%
"Well, l stood three mortal hours yes
terday having the thing fitted for tn
fifth time. was twisted and jerked ant
!, pulled and stuck full of pins until wa
ready to faint, but the dress is going t.
be perfectly beautiful"
"Do tell me about it'll"
! Its one of those soft, clinging Chin
] silks, made to just touch the floor, an
it's to have yards and yards of soft
i creamy lace on it, and I'm going to wea
Q perfect mass of exquisite Marechal Me
! roses and"-
j "How lovelyF
r "And a great bunch of them at m
4 belt, and"-
n "How beautiful they'll look?"
= "And mamma will send me up grea
:. basket of them when I'm through wit
: my essay and-do you expect man
9 fowers?"
L "Oh, CARLOAD of them!"
a $50 do !, and I've been a week prac
ticing on the bowling and scraping
must do over them, and the graceful
way in which I shall pick them up!"
+ "Oh, you funny thing!"
/, "Well, have. But | must go an
+" find out about Caesar and Plato, and &C
# a book of quotations I want to pad on
n my essay with"
"And must get out my Composite
d and Rhetoric and see if have the cap
tails and punctuation points all in rigf
II in what I've written. Horrid work, ism
- it?'
= "Dont mention itw
=" "But I'm so pleased with my dressl"
"And with mine
~ "Tm sure it's lovely
Is Thanks. know yours is"
Or "Oh, thanksP
"By, by"