The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-03-31

An them that hasn't had EN-
! VIII have 'em by an by.
college Song.
! | once heard a man tell this story who
was part it. And be was ashamed of
it. So am 1. The Jones College Love
Letter Club is a matter of history-pro-
fame history. say Jones" OF course
this is not the right name, but it will not
do to be more exact.
Lutkins told me about it one night, in
| the moonlightcd shade of the two chapel
gate pines, with his legs dangling over
the fence. He took his pipe from his
mouth when he became excited at inter
walls during the narration, and the stray
| beams that glanced from the slate roof of
| Murray struck the silver chasing on the
chocolate bowl, and sent out little dag
gers of sparkle when he waved it about
"Now, if it hadn't been examination
time and too hot to go out to play ten
mis-, it would in all probability never have
happened. 1t was both, however," he
said. And here is Lutkin's story as near
ly as can recall it.
There were four of them up in West,
where the halls are wide-wide enough
to play fairly decent singles if you aren't
fastidious about the edges of your rae
quet-and if there is any breeze you get it
there. The four were scattered around
the room trying to keep COOL
| Bowler has been writing to GIRL"
said Lowney, who was lying on the bed,
languidly fishing for pillow that had
slipped to the floor. Lowney roomed
with Bowler, freshman, because he had
come in late that year and couldn't help
it. 81 used to wonder why he spent his
Sunday afternoons writing home. We
get our mails in the same box, and
cream-colored missive comes for him
every Tuesday and Saturday"
The other three laughed. So did a ju.
Nor who had come into the room, and
was sitting on the shoe box. Bowler
was dig, and wore trousers that were
an inch or two too short for him. Then
he ran to abbreviated cutaway coats
that had practically no tail, and were
shiny. He was generally otherwise unin-
teresting. He was good-natured, how
ever, and not entirely ugly.
"What guy he is" remarked Pop"
Baker from the big study chair. "And
say, men, it he'd only dress decently he
wouldn't be half bad looking. l had a
girl in the Gym gallery the other day
when the freshies were doing their little
Indian club drill, and she picked out
Bowler at once, and wanted to know
who he was. Said he was the handsom-
est fellow on the floor. And, by George,
he did look good and big. l changed the
subject, but III bet anything that when
she comes up to the Prom she'll ask me
to introduce him. Think of Bowler at
the Prom in that cutaway he wears to
chapel
And imagine Bowler in love-" said
some one else. I'D like like blazes to
read one of his girls letters"
Lowney sat up right on the bed.
That's not bad idea," he said. I'VE
can have some fun with the old fellow.
But half the sport would be in hearing
him read letter himself and then tell US
all about it, while we sympathized. He
takes everything in such dead earnest"
You're talking like a fool, Dick, y
drawled the junior. 81 knew freshman
once who used to read all his mother 8
letters to his chum, who was tough and
got drunk. He thought they would do
him good, sort of missionary work, you
know. And what's more, they did. One
night the tough man broke down and
cried like baby all over his pillow. Then
he got up and fired his whiskey flask
through the window. l saw the flask in
another fellows room afterward, and
recognized it by the initials cut on the
neck. But you can't get even Bowler
to try missionaryizing with his best girls
letters"
Wrong, again, my dear smiled Low,
,ney. Now, this is my scheme. I'm go
ing to organize the Jones College Love
Letter Club. | shall ask Bowler to Join,
and tell him that few of the most con-
genial of US have regular meetings, at
which each fellow reads the last letter
from his fiancee to the rest. Then they
talk it over with him, and suggest the
best way of conducting the engagement
in the future. Well meet here next week
some time, and We'll each have letter
to read. Well put Bowler last to keer
him from getting suspicious. But, fol
heavens sake, don't overdo the thing"
So the Jones College Love Letter Club
was organized. Lowney saw Bowler the
next day. Now, Bowler was no fool. Or
the contrary, the professors of the faculty
would have told you he was one of the
brainiest men in college. But he wa:
: honest and engaged, When a man i:
honest and engaged all at the same tim,
he is mellow for deception. Then tn,
: night of the first stated meeting of tt,
Zones College Love Letter Club arrived
and with it Bowler, who was first upol
the ground. When Lowney and the res
came in they saw him start up from ;
steamer chair, and cram anenvelope int
his pocket. There was an edor of scent