The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16
THE PASSING or JUNO.

on a crisp afternoon in early autumn
Juno was walking across the campus;
The Greek professor when she entered
the class room greeted her as Miss Law
renee. and in the registry her CHRISTIAN
name was Eleanor. But if you had
watched her progress down the straignl
path. you would know why the glIis
called her Juno. They had given ner
the name in her freshman year
Now she was a senior and it fitted her
stin better She was tall There was
rhythm in her motion, and Yigor, as
If all her muscles had been developed
I'm harmony. Her head, turned the Ieasl
bit to enc side and slightly tilted pack
ward, the grace and poise Of the Whoie
body as she walked, all bentted sOu-
dess. Her hair was black. 1t was part
ed and coiled loosely just above the line
of her neck without breaking the nat
ural contour of the head. The eyes too
were dark and the cheeks rosy. It was
In coloring rather than in beauty OF 1ea-
ture that the charm of her face lay.
AS Juno opened her Had and knotted
her brOWs. Mary Triton, watching ner
I'm a corner. felt like protesting against
the infections of education. Theoretical
~. to be sure, there was prOprlety
enough in Juno's reading the Had;
nothing could have suited her style bet
ter. But Juno had displayed no affinity
for Greek nor for any other branch of
learning. 1t seemed to Mary preposter-
Gus that such a girl should be made to
NOPE over books. 1t would be quite as
sensible to capture a young deer ana
compel it to study logarithms. June
belonged out Of doors. She should be
free. 1t ought to be enough for anybody
to see her a beautiful strong, natural
being Juno would have endorsed
Mary's views if they had come up for
consideration She had not formulated
any like them in her own mind, but
she lived up to them She placed no
strain up her intellect willingly. She
HnfI 4f..Tf ra1a
garding her person. such aids to its
realization as the morning plunge, a fun
allowance of exercise in the open air
and nOurishing food. she employed gem
erously She took pains that her dress
maker should acquiesce in the designs
that seemed to have been conceived in
Paris with special reference to her
figure. The beauty of her hair was en-
HANGED 1t home by the activities of her
maid; at college it was Mary TiltOn who
delighted to brush it every night Juno
did not revel selfshly in her natural
attrac tiveness. She was perfectly Will
ing that others should enjoy it.
AS the class left the room Juno and
Mary walked away rm-in-arm. 1t was
the last recitation in the afternoon.
Come out for walk Mary suggest
ed. Let's have supper on the hill We
can wrap up warm"
You always know just what viii suit
me- Mary" said Juno. 4 want to get
or somewhere, and have a chance to
think"
Mary looked up in vague alarm. She
never before had known Juno to want
to think. But she said nothing.
When Juno reached her room she
threw her Had on the desk and herself
on couch. where she lay with eyes
closed her hands clasped over her head.
Mary Titon meantime ran up TWO
flights of stairs to her room She e9-
tracted from the larder, which is more
requisite part Of college girls room
than "A desk. four eggs These she put
ON the gas stove to boil Twenty min
utes." she said to herself Juno won't
eat them unless they are hygienic -
Then she ran down the two flights to n
small grocery store that thrived under
the college roof on the patronage of the
students, to mount once more with the
materials for sandwiches, fruit and a
jar of milk. The college supper bell
was ringing when, lunch basket in hand
she knocked ut Junos door sfiia
"Comei" sounded drowsy.
Did I wake you up2" asked Mary
contritely.
mo matter. I'm ready. I was dread
fully tired, and I don't want to look
played out tomorrow"
Anything special2"
Kent is coming"
Il thought YOU forbade him to come
again. rose to Marys lips What she
said was: You'll have a good time"
bores me q good deal"
The next day was Saturday. The
girls did not meet until evening. Mary
spent the holiday in the library work
ing up history topics There was no
evidence in Juno's Monday recitation
that her friends had confined her exer-
ton to her own subject. At an early
hour in the afternoon Kent Thorpe was
shown into the college drawing room.
The fortunate circumstance that his
great-gr grandfather had married Eleanor
Lawrence's great grandaunt establish
ed a blood relationship between student
and guest that made it within thu
bounds of college discipline for them
to leave the building together. AS they
did so, it was observed from several
windows that the tall stranger with fair
skin and hair and manly bearing did
not look out of place beside Juno. They
did not return until shutdown. During
the evening they cOnversed sedately in
a corner of the college drawing room,
Kent looking as if the whole institution
was weighing him down A spectator
GOULD have detected a mischievousness
in Eleanor's demeanor that she hardly
could have introduced for the purpose
of aIayng his discontinue.
At bedtime when Mary was brushing
the black glossy hair that took more of