The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-01
AnUnintelligible
Epiistle
By EMMA THORNE

Miss JacQueline Armstrong, sopho-
more in K. college. after having had
q cheese, pickles and candy party In
her room and having parted with her
visitors, threw on dressing gown and
settled herself to writing letter to her
mother:
Dear Mammal have just come in from
q meeting of our University Society Of
Foreign Missions and sit down to write
you my usual weekly letter l am sorry
! can't write oftener. but you know that
my studies take up all my time ] like
eollege this year better than last because
the studies are more interesting. Besides
l am getting used to university life OF
course we girls are not given the privi-
leges the students in mems colleges have.
but we don't miss them. We are permit
ted to receive calls of formal kind from
young men, but 1t isn't as it is at home.
where the boys come in and we may romp
as much as we please. However you
know l prefer girls society to boys any
way. and nobody need watch me-
We have study hours in the evening:
consequently we are always in our rooms
at that time and just now we are prepar-
ing for our examinations at the end of
the term. The graduating class this year
10 unusually intellectual, and the faculty
IL looking forward to brilliant exercises
on commencement day. I hope that l may
meet your wishes by taking an honor
when l graduate. / am doing my best to
stand well in my class, but you must re-
member that / have to compete with a
great many very clever girls.
Ii you come to see me be sure you let
me know day or two before your ar
rival. When we have our friends and
families visit us our attention is distract
ed, and we need to study hard day or
two ahead to keep up an average You
needn't send me the clothes you speak Of
don't need any handsome dresses here
In this atmosphere Of study They would
be out of place Your affectionate
DAUGHTER
Having finished the above epistle.
Miss Armstrong wrote another to Mr.
Ellison Keane. student in a ueighbor
ing mems college, in which she avoided
names and wrote in a disguised hand:
My Dear-I was sorry not to meet you
as appointed. | received visit from an
aunt. whom | was obliged to escort about
and through the college buildings This
coming Of relatives at unexpected times
Is dangerous. and in a letter just written
my mother / have told her not to fail to
give me notice. I'll be at the trysting
place next Saturday at the same time
and hour. and if you're passing you can
take me up. A rest Of a couple Of hours
will do me good The truth Is I'm SO
bored with the msera BILE studies and try
Ing to make the profs believe that | know
something about them that | need a Sat-
urday spree. So don't fail on the next
appointment But be very guarded, and
II any one to be dreaded is in sight don't
stop. but return and take me in when the
coast il clear. Ta-ta! SPOONIE.
Miss Armstrong addressed her two
letters and put them in their envelopes,
intending to look them over the next
day before mailing the one to her moth
er In the college box. The other she
proposed to take TO private letter box
in the corner of stone wall hidden by
bushes. The bell for chapel was ring