Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-12


 mand of any of them to be sure of the accuracy of quotation. From this point discussion drifted naturally to the study of tho languages, and the comparative usefulness of French and German was warmly debated.
 "But we can't study either without a teacher" said Alice, land teacher would be horrid."
 Doesn't MT. Russell know FrenchP" asked Miss Hih
 "I can read bill of fare, if the French steward does not try to write 1t in En- giish," said Russell, "but my knowledge of the language does not go much fur ther. Suppose we study English?"
 "Oh, it isn't the least use to anybody" said several girls in chorus. You can't possibly know enough about it to mako anybody see that you do."
 "We ought to have some committees" said one of the girls; "and we need a going to read, we'll have somebody ap- pointed to read it aloud, and the critic will tell what is the matter with it."
 eve 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 last critic on the list, in the hope that tho society would die natural death before his turn came. 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 vote which was generally 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.
 It was decided to give reception to the friends of the society, and commit 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 tho people who come to the re- ception find out how much we have I 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 graduat- | ing exercises. Russell thought that 1t would be a good idea to have each mem- Der of the society register VOW not to talk upon a frivolous subject with any | young man at the reception-in his case, the resolution would read "young woman," of course. Each member should keep Q record of the number of topics of conversation introduced by her and hitherto unheard of by the other party to tho 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 he wouldn't play the game fairly, any way.
 Then the question of a name came up again, followed by the appointment (and dissolutionl of half a dozen more committees. The search for a motto same next, and it gradually drifted into 8 general conversation on music, mill linery and the drama. Afterwards, some Russian tea was served; and then thepe was just time enough for a vote that Secretary Russell should como to she next meeting of the society pre- pared to give it a name, a motto and a subject for research.