The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

girls there were at that house party!
saw them all a the game the other day
and it certainly was an enhancing
bunch. Which one did you like. Billy?
When I saw them 1 wondered which one
Billy was rushing because L knew you
were sure to have a case with one of
them"
why, the same one" answered the
Sophomore with some hauteur.
1.-The same one?" The Oracle used the
rising infection.
yes" he said, "the same one as al
ways" With the air of one who speaks
of something that has been since the
beginning of time.
Why. they We're only here week
weren't they?" asked the Oracle stupidity
Yes, this time" assented the SoDho-
more. But she's been here before
Dyes, I remember finally compre-
hending the situation. shes the pretty
little one with the smooth brown hair
and the brown eyes and the chic little
gray suit. Yes, she was here before, to
be sure. So that's it, is it? Well, she's
a dear. And haven't you been having a
gay time? I've heard of nothing but
your dinners and dances and things
l should think you'd be tired to death
with your studies and everything"
I haven't been doing much studying, "
confessed the Sophomore. How could
with everything else? Something do
ing every night" He began to enthuse
little. "Up till 3 .o'clock night before
last, and until last night I tell you,
I'm feeling awfully done up"
But it's such fun" cried the Oracle,
Just to go until you drop, if you're en-
joying every minute of it. But, o Billy"
she added. Il almost hate to see you
running around having such good
time now because I know how sout
you re going to become after Il while. >
'Why?" demanded the Sophomore
20 they all are she responded. 1T
seems to be inevitable. The price of a
continuous round of pleasure is even
tual boredom. There is kind of spirit
ual 'bust-head' for which neither Red
Raven Splits nor BromO Settler is
remedial. and after you've had just
about so much fun you get it, and
there's no escaping it. / hate to seem
to croak. but I tell you frankly that
you can't keep up this sort of thing
forever. I'll give you just four seasons
of such tremendous popularity to be
come a hopeless recluse and a confirmed
misOgynist. Yes at the pace you're go
/ ing you'll do well if you last four
rounds Fhe first glamour may usually
/ be counted on for two years. The third
year you won't be quite so keen about
/ the visiting girls, and can open an invI-
tation without palpitation of the heart
/ 1t Will have begun to be an old story
You will have discovered that every
party IS a repetition Of the last; that
all girls, even if they're from Atchisor
or LeavenwOrth or Wichita. are pretty
much alike, and that every new love
affair is a duplicate of former expert
ences. The fourth year you will still
be accepting your most attractive in
vitations and going about a good deal,
but you will be a good deal like the
deaths head at the feast, sneering and
jeering in a disagreeable. cynical way at
the hollow mockery of existence. the
artifciality and monotony of society,
and the deceit and hypocrisy of women.
l can Just hear you quoting a rag and
a bone and hank of hair when some
enthusiastic young undergraduate de-
scribes the charms Of a new girl, whom