The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

l lege girl will instantly recognize as being very true to life. Many of the | old girls are there that figured in Bet | ty Wales. Freshman but there are
 many new ones One of them calls on i Betty the firstNeyening and informs her | that she lives in Bohemia, New York. '.Bohemia, '' she adds. the artistic New
 York We have q studio and some oth- l CT rooms up at the top of one of those queer old houses on Washington Square. Father has afternoons, and mother and I feed the horse and the lesser animals with tea and strawberry , jam. It's very good fun, living in l Bohemia" Though she is to find later on that 1t is likewise very, good fun. being at boarding-school with three lively companions like Betteys Eleanor and Rachel, to say nothing of Rather
 inc, while the new girl, herself, is dubbed the most interesting girl in her class and terribly popular"
 There is delightful bit of word painting by means of which the char
 acters are introduced to us and the
 means by which they adjust them- selves. and find their place in the coll l lege world.
 There is the usual case of girl-wor-
 ship. A little freshman being quite dog-1ike in her devotion to Eleanor. because she happens to have been kind to her when she entered school. The | other girls make fun of Eleanor be-
 cause of her interest in the quaint lit- l tie freshman, but Eleanor takes their banter with perfect good nature, and
 seems pleased at Miss Carlson's devo- ! ton.
 Then there follows an interesting ac- count of how tue girl from Bohemia fitted into her life at Harding. She had
 never before been governed by rules and regulations, nor lived three months ! hn
 travelled more than any of this others.
 and found they were delighted with | her Account of French pensions Ital-
 ian, or Spanish buil-fights. She was | elected to the post of class secretary. They did it because passed up four
 languages" she explained to Betty. Nice of them, wasn't it. But fancy 1 shan't have large international cor
 respondense. It would have been more
 to the point if they'd found out wheth-
 CT can write plainy." And I can t.
 she adds. for Miss Felton made me
 spell off every word of my Spanish ex- l animation paper, because she couldn't
 read 1t, and can't read my last theme
 myself"
 There are amusing accounts, too of Saturday night festivities, and birthday
 spreads One in particular was that of
 Nita Reese, whose Dlrlndoy had always | been in August until she came to Hard
 ing At the beginning of her sopho-
 more year she announced that she had
 changed 1t to February ninth. Every
 college graduate can conjure up just
 such spreads" with it's shouts and
 laughter, or if 1t be done sub rosa, the smothered exclamations and stifleA fun.
 1 There are the girls who cribbed stories for the college paper and bore her honors boldly. not having the grace to even blush. Oh it Is all there! That happy, care-free life that all will recognize. and wish that time might turn backward for a minute. They have such good times, these sopho- mores. that one Is afraid there will be nothing left for next year, Junior year which one girl declares to be the incest one in college. Tt can't be- objects another, because each year has
 been as nice as it possibly could" Though the girl from Bohemia adds: If you had lived my scrappy kind of life. you'd find out that one thing has to end before another can begin, ls So ends this delightful book. though let us hope that not many moons WI pass ere the author gives us another ofs her altogether delightful books.