Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-06
THEY TALKED 1T OVER.
Two Sweet Girl Graduates Have a Nice
Confab.

Miss j. Ho,tense-Oh, slow enough.
It's worse than pulling teeth. l never
could write az essay.
Miss Mae. Nor l. But really, you
know, we have 80 little to put in. Pro
fessor Wise was so kind to outline the
whole thing for us, wasn't he?
''Oh, yes, indeed. But wish now I'd
chosen an easier topic than Drifting
WhereT I've only got as far as 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 it? got it out of
on with your Onward and Upward
topic?"
20 Caesar! Don't mention it! I hate
the sight of it. While think of it, tell
| me if Caesar lived before or after the
time of Christ? | want to refer to him in
my essay, and don't know to save my
soul when he lived"
Il 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"
20 Mae, for heavens sake who or what
he was, haven't the remotest idea"
''Then l suppose Ill have to spend halt
day looking him and a lot of other old
fossils up in the library How horrid
this graduating essay business is, any
howl"
'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 is! And a diamond cres-
cent?
"Oh, my"
And She is going to get up in that
kind of a rig and read an essay on Sim
plicity of the Ancients""
oh, well, she isn't an ancient"
Il don't care 1 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 1t 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 its going to fit me to perfec-
ton"
did you decide about the SASH"
"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 l couldn't decide about
that SASH!
Which did you get? Do tell me-"
The blue. | finally settled it by get
ting up out of be aud writing blue on
one side Of piece oil blank paper and
cream on the other and then tossing up
the paper"
And the blue side came up"
| Yes"
Il often decide important matters that
way. But I'm av-fully glad you got the
blue. liked it best"
Did you?'
Il liked it best"
Really"
Yes, honest. but | didn't want to in
| fuence you, and"-
''Oh, I'm so GLAD You like it better than
the cream. 1t is lovely"
Perfectly beautiful! And blue is be-
coming to you"
do you think so?"
Yes, do"
you're real sweet to say so. and how
about your dress
We'll, l stood three mortal hours YES
terday having the thing fitted for the
fifth time. | was twisted and jerked and
! pulled and stuck full of pins until was
ready to faint, but the dress is going to
be perfectly beautiful
DO tell NE about it,"
Its one Of those soft, clinging China
silks, made to just touch the floor, and
it's to have yards and yards Of soft,
creamy lace on it, and I'm going to wear
perfect mass Of exquisite Marechal Mel
roses and
How lovely!"
And a great bunch of them at my
belt, and
How beautiful they'll look?"
And mamma will send me up a great
| DdohCi VI tIictA v IlCll LII WIFI
my essay and-do you expect many
flowers,
''Oh, carload of theml'
80 do l, and I've been a week prac-
ticing on the bowling and scraping |
must do over them, and the graceful
way in which shall pick them up!"
oh, you funny thing!"
well, l have. But | must 90 and
find out about Caesar and Plato, and get
a book of quotations want to pad out
my essay with"
And must get out my Composition
and Rhetoric and see if have the CAPT
tails and punctuation points all in right
in what I've written. Horrid work, isn't
it,"
Don't mention it,"
But I'm SO pleased with my dressr'
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