Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-02-29
SISTERHOOD.


Practically 1t Sometimes Does Not
Rise to Its Name.
would you like me for a sister this
year, Bessier' The sensitive looking
girl who asked the question slipped her
arm round Bessie Milburn's waist as
they walked down the boarding school
ball together
ITO be sure / would" Bessie ar
swered promptly, but with a trace OF
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 it, and all
that, he's been weakening. I 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 tn,
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 q
knot of girls.
''Its 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 If
her father ever gave In. l think some
body ought to explain to her that the
one vote against her was by new
member, who just did 1t to show her
power, and not because she had any
thing against Jean 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'i
get another bid"
"All the same, it's a mess" Bessie
repeated, warmly. "She's a dandy girl
think, but she's fearfully sensitive
and l don't know how to look her in
the face"
For two days after that Bessie Mil
burn lodged into doorways and flew
down halls to avoid Jean Hill. Then
something happened. A new and de
sirable girl straight from Paris, with
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 came
down the hall, planning an immediate
grand spread to which the new girl
was to be asked, and suddenly met a
group of pale, shocked girls.
"Tried to kill herself" she heard.
Father telegraphed for" "Said she
couldn't bear 1t because we didn't like
her any more" "Dean Trent says we
sorority girls have been cruel. She says
'twould have been our fault if Jean had
killed herself"
"That's perfect nonsense!" pro
nounced the incisive voice Of Isabel
Gardner. "A girl that's morbid enough
to slash her wrist with a penknife
would be queer, sorority or no sorority.
and l say it's a very good thing we
kept her out. 1 hope her father will
take her straight home"
"What is it?' the new desirable girl
asked Bessie, in an undertone 81 don't
even know what the word sorority
means"
Isabel turned quickly. why, soror-
ity means sisterhood,' she explained
in her sweetest tones. ~4Ook-this is
the pin we wear-right over our
Nearts. Youths Companion.