The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-20
The Eueniine Story

(By Donald Allen.)

Now and then a college student is
called by his name as his mother gave
it to him. but in the vast majority of
cases 1t is by a nickname. Sometimes
the appellation fits the individual, and
sometimes it is far from 1t: but once
bestowed it sticks.
Brian Ieffries had been in college a
month before his chum settled ON a
nickname and there was cmuch re-
joicing that 1t fitted him. ea:o
He was walking out one evening
from his boarding house when he was
set upon by three young men, They
were supposed to be students, and to
be mistaken in their man, and they
made it warm for young Jeffries for a.
he had landed three separate punches
on three individual chins the battle
was over. Brian had delivered 1.-The
punch" as sporting men say, and
from that time on he was Punch
Jefrries. He was neither proud of 1t
nor Disguised with it.
When the summer vacation came
the young man went to his home on
the sound. He might have gone camp
ing Or yachting or tramping, as so
many students do, but he was way
behind in his studies, and his father
had inquired of him:
''Do you think sent you to college
| to learn to row, swim. box and kick a
footban?''
| Hardly, father" was the reply.
! s"you stand very low in your stud
| ies my boy; and you must catch up.
! Spend your vacation at home and do
IT,
| 1t was a bit lonesome at The Oaks.
| Brian was an only child, and his moth
er was a semi-invalid and his father a
quiet man who seldom entered into
LconversatiOn. There were fisnlng ana
boating, and there was a trip to the
village now and then in the auto. and
| the remainder Of the time was put in
reading law and wondering why men
with sense enough to peel a potato
could not enact law that a half
baked Judge could not interpret twice
alike in the came year.
I On his homecoming he had noticed
two young ladies at Wave Crest--the
next manor house below. One OF them
the property. and the other was 3
stranger to him. When he sought in
| formation Of his mother she replied:
1T is a young lady from the city
visiting Miss Pryor. I do not even
know her name"
.Hang it, II 1 had ever been intro
duced to Miss Pryor here is chance
for a Irritation"
| I'm sorry for you, put perhaps
you'll survive the disappointment"
At about the Same hour Miss Callie
Floyd, the visitor from the city, was
asking of Miss Annette Pryor.
And who are the people at the other
placer
Their name is Jeffries.''
Aren't there any girls?'
/ mo, only a son.
| college student?''
II believe so. and home now on his
vacation"
He must be a bit lonely"
well, it won't be for US to cheer
him up. 1 nave heard that he was
livery wild and reckless at college,
why. he doesn't look it, said
Miss Callie.
"Oh. you are physiognomist. are
you? You can tell by young mans
face fifty rods away whether he Is
wild or mott"
IL thought he had a pleasant
face
Let me tell you what they call him
in college. 1t is Punch Jenries!''
But why? Does he drink more
punch than anybody else?"
TT must be that. A young man
| who knows him told me that he had
three brawls before he had been in
college a month. 1 hope he will make
no excuse tt get acquainted with us.
We must prepare ourselves to snub
him at the hrst advance
Yes we mustrs sighed Miss Callie
AZ she turned away.
Three days later Brian saw the
young ladies start for the village in
the runabout. and he got out his auto
and followed Why he did it he did
not stop to ask himoel1s Per3npsH e
IN1g because he had - hQPA that h