The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-21
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1 am on the OF Arrangements. /
do wish you were here to help me. instead OF
being out In that horrid Colorado Yours.
FANNY"
was my mental com emit as l read this appar-
emily harmless postscript to my dear girls let
ter. The tidal wave Of University Extension
Ind not reached Colorado
Shortly after this I received tho following:
You DEAR Boz: How funny It Ia that you
don't know anything about University Exten-
sweet FOR anything. 1t is a perfectly lovely
ibam to educate o., the Poor pspple and to lot
lectures must be at night. Won't it be per-
iectly splendid when nil these working people
II am sorry not to write q longer letter. but It
10 snow z O'Clock and l must. GO to u committee
Well. when a. man is 1000 miles from the
girl he is going to marry. and has not seen her
for nearly two years no naturally wishes to
net : lot Of wo StinE E PEOPLE @I receive NS' unive or
This T. the next letter:
Yov PERFECTLY .HoRRrD BoY:. What DO you
I %snn t tSo saving ssyx gath, that I YH% are beginning t9
Mrits IN that perfectly sIlly way, Everybody
be Centres everywhere thro dgh the city. and
eyerything Il to be taught exactly Ike IN q
t aH,s grown people y T,' we're Ss r S1is ! To ss sS%1 as I. 81,
good It vii Do, We are goibs TO have = per.
the lectures. Yours arectionateiy. FASSY.S"A
Certainly letters like these are not very sat
You are too horrid for anythtngl Why
eass " srs no, S TX. s tSS E Ss5Y vel on thr Eni A%s5i;
Extension movement is to be lust like, the
ngIi z one; and: Of course. We must have
IRE men on the COMMITTEES, Do you suppose
would not be Just as much interested as wom-
Ell snddv GSteT,y r. isat SO indinerentas is some-
Yes: our committee meetings are held In
the evenings, What a curious question: Do
Sonsnow, think yon ought to try and come
lively Gaeer. Yours afrectionately..
I felt savage. but I saw that It would not do
to betray my feelings to a hieh-spirited. girl
like Fanny: so 1 wrote her a letter full OF the
most abiect lies about the good that believed
str%eetsweepers having. university. degrees.
said | was firmly convinced that University
make better. plumbers and carpenters. That
before long It would lend to clean streets. good
"S Ms ie fsni4 rs ,ssRsli' t f"d fo lSnss' r lepiy9
What a queer letter. you have written to
me! Do you really believe all you say It
sympathy was Just the ono thing that was
necessary to make University Extension per-
because know that my dear boy is approving I'M
You must not be alarmed about the commit
teo meetings taking place Mt night. You don't
delphia oil alone. ], would be afraid. Dr..
nome h9ns'e asai H.~S yours s" afic sGt me fn' F ssSss ne
yEoh! ls this what University Extension
means belore had time to reply to this an
DEAR, HARRY; Mr.. Shawlton has come at
last! He is perfectly splendid, Oh. how | wish
carried away with him: SO is everybody. Uni
versity Extension is a grand success! Yours.
Wasthere to be still an other Richmond in the
Heidi sat down ant, answered Fanny's lot
ter tel n a. t . WLy us l could under the cir.
in Coloradop ANo ''''
Before very long l received the following:
@yersity Extension. d.: Grayheld has nothing
for fur,herlnG the cause. Just as /, am ono Of
committee; we work together IN the same
kSina'.' He can aS,G say D whole "f Books s @Hith out once nss
,toppinG; EYsrSbody Is going to hear him.
demand for them; 1 think lectures are the
read a great many "a t"S looks oUs'u but a. Of "e eours u.s. We 70
time. for. there is \ lecture every
another In the afternoon, and still
FANNY"
This letter was ncomprehensible to me. Was
might be still ATTENDED? / began to think
Fanny was right. ind that did not under:
fennS d aiinst sith f my eFsnmy;f 9uf T ie!t s Wns ' ths
meetinEs We're all %humtug. and
that he simply went to make love TO u very
nDon sobor second thoughts decided to mod
|E'sd Ii tho | t Tas f Fanny was a ai y iit1is h hx!sp ts%a
pered. and | did not know what might happen.
so l tore up the first letter and substituted u
Imagine my feelings at this reply:
,o,t Jour cruel. cruel letter has made me per.
ever since it came. and the worst Of it ali is
that don't know what You are angry
trying to make myself worthy Of you by I'M.
proving my mind. | am sure, have done
don't know how hard | have studied. There
were ten lectures on Shakespeare. five on tho
hI msrit ten On m Hebrew : NV, wye in In cRRe.mi,try FIVE ON ON
creek. ten on the Talmnd. Ave on Political
ten ON Architecture. five on Matll-
hem ,nll besides attending Mr.. Shawlton's
special course on literary. subjects. What has
'uetnres were given out Of town ~ or in the ,"s su.
burbs. and | always faithfully attended them,
And now You tell me that you thoroughly
lisapnrovo OF University Extension. and wish
to have nothing more to do, with it. and
hat you do not thiuk the people meet are ut
for me. l really do not know
you mean. unless you mean That You dis
approve or me. anil that You wish to have
lothing moro to do with me-. .
/ was stunned. | felt like n brute. but still J.
'ould not help reading between tho lines OF
his letter. That fellow had been dancing
attendance upon her nil winter. and was using
University Extension ms II preteXt to make
owe to my Fanny. could SEQ him with her TT
very lecture.
/ lost no time in wrltinGto Fanny; Ideplored
lnything that | said that could be construed
nto mn expression OF non approval OF l. L.
boldly declared that all my ohlcctions had
,ean meant as pleasantrics ana that ! had no
loubt thar L.. +. WAS doing an enormous
mount OF good. depressed my belief that a
Philadelphia COMPOSED entirely OF Uni:
'ersity Extension graduates Was to DO looked
or in the near future, and that the Ignorant
would be known no more. i even suggested
hat before long we could imagine ourselves
WAY back IN the classic ages. since We might
lear even the street cries in the tongue OF
Homer. In fact | put everything in this letter
hat / thought would please Fanny.
After sending it lost no time In making my
rrangem ents so that i could leave for u visit
o the East. ] did not propose TO sacrifice
to University Extension.
before loft Colorado i received this letter:
"DE,R HARRY: What do you mean by such
n absurd letter? 1t 10 perfectly incompre-
.,II 4 "a napacinllv fla mar ahtnV'a Nau Bku