Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-03-10

Where can ! buy a bedspread Tor
4 cents?" asked one young woman
Of another this morning On q group
waiting for their calsses.
II can save 20 cents on that shirt
waist box by making 1t myself out
OF a soap box was the comment Of
another.
These girls have not been mar
ried recently, nor are they planning
their homes-that is, not just yet,
says the University Missourian. Each
student in the group was perplexed b
a different problem. They are i'm the
department Of home economics and
are getting experience in the plan
ming of rooms. Miss velma John
son, Of Mexico, Is a member Of this
class. Girls accustomed to spend
ing the greater part of their allow
ances on n spread Of sweets will
plan gravely how they a save
rs cents on a mattress.
The students in this department
were allowed to spend $50 ON one
room and $3.50 ON the other. In
planning the $50 room some of the
girls drove sharp bargains. One re-
ceived 6 per cent off for cash pay
ments, and in this way furnished her
room more deliberately than the
others. There is intense rivalry
among the girls. Classic literature
has been forsaken for furniture cat
atlogues. Trips down town last week
were not made to buy good things
to eat, but to price sheets, curtain
rods, rugs, bedspreads- all the
things that go to make up a bed
| room.
The young women show their skill
in managing with pennies when fur
nishing the $50 room, but have an
opportunity to show their artistic
taste in planning the $3.50 room. In
to this go all the girls dreams Of an
ideal room. Dreams about an oper-
attic career have given a to
dreams about pale blue Scotch art
rugs, fumed oak princess dressers
and colonial bedsteads.
After all the furniture for their
rooms has been selected, the girls
must make diagrams showing where
each piece of furniture is to be
placed In the room.
Samuel @. Blythe, who writes
Who's Who" for the Saturday
Evening Post, as well as other in
t~eresting matter along political lines,
has been visiting the State of Kan
sas and Missouri getting material
for a series of articles on "The
Insurgents" Mr.. Blythe Is well
known here, having attended the
Zevely-C Clay wedding. He has seen
the newspaper work form every side
having been a reporter and some of
his stories regarding experiences
with well known national characters
are interesting.
He tells the story Of how a
beat" was put over on him in
Rochester, N. Y. 1t was Characters
tic of a newspaper man who has
passed the stage where he wants no
toriety, and Just wants to tell OF
past achievements for the enter
tainment of his kind.
81 was sent to watch Larry Dun
ham, who was going to leap over
the Falls of Genesee," said Mr.,
Blythe. ut was Just after Steve
Brodie jumped off the Brooklyn
bridge and bridge Jumpers were
springing up all about and spring
ing down to their death as a rule
II worked the assignment conscien'
tiously for a time-but no Larry
Durham. l got to loafing.
I'm those days every reporter had
to turn in, each day, five para
graphs for the About Town column
played pool all evening and went
over to write my About Town stuff
Ny first paragraph a
"Where is Larry Dunham?"
Next morning when ! read the
opposition paper l learned where
Larry Durham was. He was in Q
hospital. The night before he hac
leaped over the Falls Of Genesee and
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