Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-07-17

AuiS euecte0 sine Ole ad1OurDment
OF the conference since none OF the
strollers returned until that hour when
the young ladies' were expected to seek
the seclusion of their rooms for study
No business having been transacted.
II was thought best TO call another
meeting on the following Saturday
THIS oaaSiOn was marked by the at
tendance OF Professor Virginia UlcUtt.
aged nifty five and with little or no
sympathy. with the toib'es OF youth
All The Necessary business was trans
acted. but one OF the men proposed
that they mept the next Saturday aft
er'"On for further conference PRO
trS>or OlcOtt declared that further
meetings were not necessary. and the
faculty would not permit any more of
them
Professor Olcott made a mistake In
not attending the first meeting. pnr
ing that conference. which bad resolved
Itself into five separate consultations
one engagement had taken place. TWO
actual love affairs had been started
and one mild Irritation INDUCED III
The only couple between whom notn.
ing unusual took place were Mr.. Tucker
and Miss Smith. who had been engaged
before either of them had entered cot
iege There were no more meetings
between the debaters. but a great
many couple meetings of which neither
Professor Olcott nor any other mem
Der of the faculty was aware
A week before the proposed debate
Mr.. John Markley called on Miss En-
ma Spanker and announced that he
feared the feature which had been re
lied upon to give such eclat to the
commencement exercises would fall
through. He had received a note from
one Of his team announcing his en-
gagement to one of the White team
and his conversion to the votes for
women cause. Another member had
told him that he didn't give a tinker's
cuss If every woman in Europe. Asia,
Africa and America had a vote This
debater confidentially announced that
he had met the jolliest girl in Chris
tendon on the opposing team. and he
would not only give her his vote. but
his head, too. If she wanted it. Thus
far be had bestowed upon her ten
pounds of candy.
Miss Spanker was surprised at this
Information because she had met with
the same experience in her own team
One of her debaters. who had been
detected smuggling flowers to her
room, had resigned from the team,
stating that she hadn't the slightest
use for vote. If she had one she
wouldn't know what to do with it un
less she gave it to an awfully nice fel
low, who would do her voting for her
soon after she had been graduated
Another had admitted that she had
lost interest in the subject, while a
third renegade to her sex declared that
no woman could be driven to the polls
past department store in which Il
bargain sale was in progress.
A mutual disappointment brought
about mutual sympathy. Mr.. Mark
ley was one of Blacks most prominent
undergraduates, and Miss Spanker
was young lady Of great refinement,
to say nothing Of her comeliness They
held several protracted meetings and
ut the end of every meeting were far
nearer being In love with each other
than with the subject that brought
them together.
The arrangements for the debate
were now In such an unsatisfactory
state that the condition came to the
ears of Professor Of Elocutlon At
wood in Black college, to whose de
partment it belonged. He sought Pro
fessor Cummings Of the corresponding
department in White, and the two put
their heads together with view to
seeing what could be done to save the
debate from falling through.
But bad luck seemed to attend the
movement from the first. Everybody
knows that spring is the season for
love, and this spring seemed to be es
pecially adapted for the purpose In
that vicinity. Professor Atwood was
a bachelor and Professor Cummings q
maid. The result of their putting
their heads together was not condul
Give to solution of the problem.
Several students of White college
the day before the one appointed for
the debate got together to insure It's
coming off as announced. These young
ladies were of a very different type
from those who had thus far had the
matter in charge, taking real inter
est in the subject to be debated. They
solved the problem at once. so far as
White college was concerned, by ap
pointing real capable substitute for
each and every woman debater. These
substitutes were not endowed with
beauty of face or figure; they were
intellectuals. standing high in their
classes and in every way fitted to rep
resent 1t In any capacity.
When the day and hour for the de
bate arrived the nall In which it was
to take place was crowded, On the
platform sat the substitutes. bnt not
an original appointee appeared. The
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