The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-06-21

linen you pot Ieu anu pSSoh W NoN''
with your fingers and we all knew the
struggle that you were having trying
TO subtract dates. Finally"
II blurted out date that took me
just four years back in the past in
stead of forward in the future. and il
went down on the books in that way
said the Fluffy Girl, sharply.
4 ripple of amusement stirred the
meeting. Each girl understood how
funny this was when it happened to
some one besides herself.
But" said the Fluffy Girl, address
ing the president, 81 was unaware that
the rules of the club called for con-
fv~sions from second pcrsons-or-
"tar;ics of the second rart?' said
the president. "Iou are correct.
sustain your objection"
Il may not be so clcver at rapid cal
culations and larg" subtractions IA
some of my classmates" here she
loolied scathingly at the Typewriter
Girl, 'but never wroL quotations my
self and palmed the1i csf as being from
Shakespeare and other poets
The Fluffy Girl sat down sustained
by thrill of horror that evinced itself
| in distinct rustic of skirts.
The Typewriter Girl blushed and fin
gered her lorgnette chain ncrvously.
Il suppose" she began, smiling as
though at childish folly!
Suppose you tell us about that
lie
rs though it might be in line with the
.ubiect of our discussion this even
ing?"
The Typewriter Girl coughed slight
ly and said:
at was like this. We were supposed
TO get up in the class every Friday
afternoon and give a quotation from
memory. Each girl had to have one
and every Friday we used to get moth
ing but Life is real, life is earnest,
and The quality of mercy speech and
Break, Break. Break and all those
standbys. Finally the professor
barred n lot of these and said we'd
have to get something newer.
well, one FMday came along and
| didn't have anything ready but TO
he or not to be- which had been eX-
cluded. So when my turn came | got
IN boldly and said with great express
sion:
And Fate-the lmmutallc,
Rakes empty shells along the shores Of
time
Robert Browning.
81 could see that the girls all thought
this was fine and the professor said
that here was thought. lie said we
must study it over and get at its true
meaning and he had the girls copy
it down and he told us that this was
the interesting feature of Browning 5
poems that they were not mere jim
gles-thcy were profound thoughts.
THE next week felt more confident
and gave them this:
In NEE dMn glen of years
/ we gather Agweetest bloom,
The hearts Isrgvt.nr'.sots 1IhIlneH' up
Shelley.
"The professor asked me what poem
this was from. lie said that for beauty
of thought and imagery of express
sion it surpassed anything he had ever
read of Shellcy's.
II told him that ! couldn't recall the
poem bat had heard it read in my
childhood auG the lines had rung in my
memory ever since. ity this time was
getting famous for finding rare and
I D,au,iful quotations, Eut one Of the
| .ciris got on and passed. Inc slip Of
paper one day during recitation. She
| had written on it: Please push along
one of those good things. have moth.
ing to-day but Under a spreading
chestnut tree. So dashed off this in
n hurry:
Love and Youth and Hope
Are stars that shine the brightest In the
| sky OF years!
| Thomas Moore.
1.-The professor said he remembered
the lines distinctly, but he thought she
was mistaken; that they were from
Walter Scott. She stammered so over
it that | think he began to suspect, for
after that we had to mention the poem
and the verse and he kept record in
book"
Suppose we talk of some graver
crimes" said the Newspaper Girl.
Even now we are fraudulently gloss
ing over our real deceits and relating
to trivial incidents. Let us tell of some
Of the really mean things we've done"
The Proofreader Girl arose with n
look of determination. She was put
| ting on gayer half-mourning every
meeting and was beginning to take no.
tice, the president said.
During the first year of my welded
life" she said, 81 used to deceive my
husband frightfuliy."
"Were you found out?" anked the
Medical Student, who was engaged and
looking for points.
YES" she said; 'but he was so
generous about i'll" She raised a vio-
let-bordered handkerchief part way TO
her eyes and then took it down. ut
was about cooking" she said.
TON had the funniest way Of invit'
ing friends home to dinner and tele-