The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-07-29

- z = regarded the sign hung
NJ " there, a business-like
EXxAeExM square of cardboard, on
on which was neatly printed, Busy"
But as Sallie was carrying food, she
was not deferred by the sign; she
knocked and pushed the door open.
Her friend Rachel looked up from
her book apprehensively. "What have
you been, doing?" she demanded. "Or
Is it something you want me to dol?
.sTake this nice fat chocolate with
the nut on the top" urged Sallie. 81
been doing?' want you to do? It's
nothing to get excited about. asked
q freshman to come to your room to
= rabbit this evening. Let me tell you
how it happened" she urged hastily.
u fell in with her coming up from the
village, and knew she was fresh
man because she wore kid gloves. So
I asked Aer if that was her first year..
and she said yes, and asked her If
she had met many of the students yet.
and she said cry few; and l asked her
what she was going to specialize in,
snd she said German.
"Then there didn't seem to be much
of anything else to say, SO I remarked
that had been to the village for
cheese to make rabbit, and she said
she had never eaten one. After that
there was nothing to do but ask her to
help eat this one. Fancy having never
eaten ribbit! And you know, Rach-
ell, I can't make it in my own room,
because that tiresome roommate they
put in with me when Blanche didn't
come back says it gives her head
ache just to smell one."
Rachel shrugged her shoulders re-
signedly. every WELL" she said. "I'll
ask her If it's her first year and if she
knows many people and what courses
she takes, but after that you will have
to entertain her."
Rachel said Sallie, earnestly, "this
morning 50 chapel the dean talked
about the upper classmen helping the
freshmen She was very impressive.
I have decided to help this freshman.
If she can have the benefit of my three
years experience when she has been
here only three weeks. think what a
start it will give her!
II shall begin," she meditated, "by
arranging her hair differently. That
is the keynote to the appearance. Per-
haps you have noticed that when the
story book heroine wishes to disguise
herself as waiting maid, she does her
hair in an unbecoming manner; while
on the other hand, when the work.
house drudge receives the fortune Of
which she has been unjustly deprived,
she at once has her hair coiffured, by
4 competent hair dresser. To do the
hair, to dress the hair, to couture the
hair-what ditference!'
The guest arrived that evening Just
Is the rabbit had reached that crit
zeal point when one adds the egg and
waits to see If the mixture is going to
turn out smooth or strlngy. tSallie.
bent over the chatting dish, greeted her
abstractedly and left hospitality to
Rachel.
Rachel introduced herself. since Sal
lie forgot to do so. And the guests
name was? Caroline Conrad. This
was her first year, Rachel understood.
Had she made many acquaintance
yet? And what courses was she TAX
Ing? German, chiefly? All, Sallie was
"shark" in German; took the Helne
course, and XIV. and XVI. She, Rach-
ell, elected French.
There was perceptible pause. A
girl who had been longer in college
would have relieved the silence by
wandering ABOUT the room, inspecting
and commenting on The posters and
photographs; but this girl was either
ignorant Of the custom or too shy to
follow 1t. Y I'M Y IN