The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-03

icism or even OF self analysis, as I said. But
mosphorc. / am perfectly conscious OF the crit.
lcisns Of me that you are making TO yourself now
ana that you will make TO each other when am
SAID when she came in with the spoon. know
pl e. IN SAYING this am ctcislng you IN my turn
air and De caashne W. cam EIp help Ss rs
Is, Why is II so with US and no. wit mc1?
Let me tell you something Of the lie these men
are are living Two Of them are keeping houscc a
cottage about twenty miles out from New York.
ohe Oh them owns the cottage and the other helps
10 ~ ,h H. running expense They have srtvan'
ihst hey are absolutely independent Of, each
Each must consult the other as 10 whether she
your heads You know how is II girls are only
room mates Tor year in college IL they are
friends at all, thcy must be inscpnrablc.
-, sIhrce 81 the men | met are living, with sig
itseil They, too, have. q housckceper One
e, q ,he three men has been living in community
original crowd lsft. They starred in a fiat and
they used ~ move every third month because
the landlords, would give them the drs, months
me prlce oi one month II was cheaper to move
, yaqy ,, 70 pay fr i0I another month They had
bought on the inStallmcnt plan. ! believe they
never made more than the first payment ON any
Of II. They had 10 take turn; doing the work,
] fancy they lived good deal on oatmeal and
canned things. but some. Of them We're good cooks
and OCCASIONALLY thy had icaslS lip, 1t was
whole house and decent furniture, and act
good table, they pay lcss than they would ut an
ordinary boarding house.
They have one financial scheme that inter.
ested me particularly. They pay in proportion
10 their salaries. ~ the younger men who are jug,
starting out can afford To take places u, low sal
aries with prospect II advancement Once. too,
when, young fellow Just starting lost his place,
they let him do the Homework instead Of paying
his share In the expenses | know man nj home
who had IL in him Ia make fortune ms an cleo.
,rcal engineer but he had To take n place az u
clerk IN store because he had no money To live
~ while hc was working up IN his profession.
This, 1nn I o, ptog"rii2,na'e paymen,
you imagine girls doing that, | can't They
would say, II she has the same privileges that !
she should have n smaller room aud a cheaper
dessert or something Of that surt
The s,rangcsl thing is that these men who
in comm S they nrS rag gra nT Il di t
colleges, and they are engaged IN different kinds
tics Of personal affection, II II is allowable to apply
that term To the feeling Of one man for another.
gcther ON basis Of good comradrship They
don't by any means approve of each other com
pletely. But one man may dsHpprovc d n great
well enough ON the whole, If,women were living
together in that way they would insist on having
n complete biography Of every inmate, and, II
any little thing happened that was diSagreenble.
there would be row and some one would have
70 GO. Those who remained would be bosom
friends They would never part, no. not even
TO marry. ~ course not But the men drift
back and forth. now IN and now out Of the part
ncrship. club. nr whatever II IL
u am not running down my own seS ! nm only
pointing out some differences We do not know
how 10 live az well a. men do | would like to
know whether there Is anything actually dh
fcrent in US or whether II u all the result Of en-
yironmrnt ] cannot decide The women who
have been working under the same conditions
az men don't scom 10 have become like them.
They sometimes get mnnniSh. but they seldom
get tolerant and without tolerance there cannot
be EUpd fellowship We are too serious Look
a. us here in tbis little college There are only
each one Of us, 70 have spcnkinE acquaintance
with every giH here. Yet Laura, who knows
more ,ltnn al The rsst 4 us ". toge,hser. docs
| one another. because they would not feel com.
promised by any acquaintance, no matter how
questionable ! envy man that privilege Of
Acquaintance I'm not sure but IL accounts for
everything else about HIM
IT is amusing To that men are studying
us Just ms We are them. One 81 the Friday even.
ing men said & :r. I was on the Fall River boat
Wednesday night and | saw four NaSsaI girls
never knew before that girls got broke The
cheap s'atcrooms were all taken; - they had to
re, more expensive ones they hadn't calcu-
lated on that and 1t took every cent they had
They could not get any dinncr but one girl. who
chocolate and divided Them With mathematical
accuracy. While they ate the chocolate they
mourned their bad luck and told what hard
girls had left her Laundry, with the wnshwoman,
I wouldn't give Il 10 her without ono u The other
| girls had sold ~,me hnks, and the third had
just scrmpcd the last fortnight Scrimpcd was
her word George md I Rugged ourselves II
was great But are girls often like that he APP
pealed to me
Il told him that had borrowed the money
for my fares THIS vacation and he subsidcd
on men. Aren't all queer"
Il should think. tlarSsa," said Laura when
the end was reached, that you had never seen
man before and had been rcckessly turned
loose this vacation in n menagerir Of men We
have had men here hut they haven't gone TO
our heads
THAT IL different" replied Clarissa You
have had them in your own environment and that
doesn't count What you want Is ~ hear what they
said when they went away But" she broke
OF. locking mcditatiycly At Mary. Thanks
giving men are always engaged 10 the girls they
come 10 sec 81 | suppose they haven't opinions,
even after they are gone what's he like, Mary"