Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-28
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Practically 1t Sometimes Does Not
Rise to Its Name.
"Would you like me for sister this
year, Bessie2" The sensitive-lo looking
girl who asked the question slipped her
arm round Bessie Milburn's waist al
they walked down the boarding school
ball together.
'To be sure / would" Bessie an
swered promptly, but with a trace Oh
embarrassment which was instantly re-
Elected in the manner Of the other girl
as she hurried to add:
Because father will let me join the
sorority now, If you girls still want
me- Ever since he came here and saw
how was left out Of all the good times
by not belonging, and found out that
was crying nights about 1t, and all
that, he's been weakening. thought
I'd tell you to-day, because knew that
this was the afternoon for sorority
meeting, and"
eyes, of course, Jean. I'll tell thu
girls" and Bessie turned into her class
room.
A few hours later, when the Beta
Tau Rho sorority meeting broke up
Bessie Milburn was the center of a
knot of girls.
"It's a mess !" she was declaring.
''Blackballed, after the way we rushed
her last year, and after telling her
right out that we'd bid her again II
her father ever gave in. / think some.
body ought to explain to her that the
one vote against her was by new
member, who just did it to show her
power, and not because she had any
thing against Dan herself"
''That wouldn't be true" said Isabel
Gardner, in the tone Of leadership
"Madge has a real objection to Jean.
She thinks her manner and her accent
are affected. But anyway, we couldn't
tell an outsider about the action we
took at sorority meeting, Bess. What
are you thinking of? There's nothing
to say to Jean. She'll simply have to
realize, as time goes on, that she didn't
get another bid"
Gall the same, It's a mess" Bessie
repeated, warmly. "She's dandy GIRL
think, but she's fearfully sensitive
and don't know how to look her In
the face"
For two days after that Bessie NIL
burn lodged into doorways and flew
down halls to avoid Jean Hi. Then
something happened. A new and de
sirable girl, straight from Paris, witt
trunks full Of smart gowns, and a de
!. cidedly foreign manner, had entered
school, and all the sororities wanted
her.
For the first time Bessie had forgot
ten Jeans disappointment as she cam
a down the hall, planning an immediate
!; grand spread to which the new CIR
D was to be asked, and suddenly met |
), group of pale, shocked girls.
l. "Tried to kill herselfw she heard
D "Father telegraphed for" "Said sh
!; couldn't bear it because we didn't Xix
d her any more" "Dean Trent says W
D sorority girls have been cruel. She say
!; 'twould have been our fault II Jean ha
p killed herself"
% "That's perfect nonsensel" pre-
o. nounced the inclsive voice OF Isabs
s. Gardner. "a girl that's morbid enoug
4 to slash her wrist with penknit
% would be queer, sorority or no sororit!
= and l say It's a very good thing "
= kept her out. hope her father wi
:. take her straight home"
= "What is itf' the new desirable gil
!, asked Bessie, in an undertone. II don
even know what the word sororii
~ means"
"a Isabel turned quickly. why, soro
nv ity means sisterhood," she explaine
" in her sweetest tones. Look--this
10 the pin we wear-right over OF
m Nearts. "-Youth's Companion.