Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-21

to kittie, that this was the reason why
other Girls shouldn't eat, and Klttie saw
II that way AZ last. though Mabel Muriel
said TO see Kittie stand around and look
at the food as II disappeared was enough
to ruin ones appetite. OF course, our
clubs were making life very gay. for
when we had a tea, the antis gave a re-
ception, and when they had musicale,
we had an authors reading. and read
story. 1t all took up so much time that
Sister lrmingarde got nervous and began
to make pointed remarks about study;
but Maudie told her we were merely
sirding on our armor for the vital strug-
gle on llfe's grim battlefield After that.
Sister Irminssrde didn't seem to be able
to say anything for a few minutes,
though We could see she was impressed.
Then, all OF a sudden, the way dra-
matte things happen in books the crisis
came. Kittie James challenged Maudie
to suffrage debate. She said we could
have It in the study hall and both clubs
could come. and some OF the other stu
dents and sisters. She said We could
have a jury to decide which side won,
and give a silver cup to the winner She
said the jury was George Morgan's idea,
she told us. Imagine Kittie James think
ing of a jury! She told me afterwards,
with her own lips, that she thought we
should have to borrow one from a court
house in Chicago. and she asked George
to manage it, because he was a lawyer.
George didn't. He said some of the sis
tiers would do. So we asked Sister Edna
and Sister Irmingarde and Sister Estelie.
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programs, and flowers. and lemons and
sandwiches and other important things,
and for days and days we were so busy
we didn't stop to decide who was going
to debate. When we asked Kittie she
said very coolly that she was going to do
It for her side. but IL Maudie didn't feel
up to doing 1t for herself, she could ask
some one else to represent our club.
Kittie said she thought the president
ought TO do 1t, so she was going to do
her duty; but she didn't want her de-
clsion TO influence Maudie in any way.
l wish you could have seen Maudies
face, and Mabers when Kittie said that.
! suppose mine looked funny, too. but, OF
course. couldn't see mine. When Maudie
could speak. she said she would represent
our club. and that, as Klttie was very
young and inexperienced, and ought to
have every advantage, she could begin
or finish--Maudie didn't care which.
Kittie said she would end the debate, and
she bowed to us all and went away, leav-
ing the loudest silence behind her that
/ ever heard.
The gentle reader cannot understand
how strange II was. because the gentle
reader doesn't know Kittle James. But
we girls did, and to think OF Kittie MAX
ing a speech and trying to express
thoughts! simply haven't got far enough
in my literary art to describe our emo
tons. / don't believe even Shakespeare
could do il, or Henry James. Why the
first days <ittie was at st. GATHERINGS
she came into my room one night and
woke me up to ask me why il was that
she always felt so much sleepier in the
morning than when so went to bed at
night She said sometimes she couldn't
sleep ut night. but she could always sleep
after the bell rung at s in the morning.
She said she had been wondering about
| il and couldn't understand. Another time
she interrupted Maudie when she was
writing ar essay one night, to ask her
why folks felt homesick when they were
/ away from home. She stayed and talked
about it for a long time. She said her
) stomach felt as II she we're dropping from
/ the top floor of a high building in a
! dreadfully fast elevator. and she wanted
/ TO know why that was. Finally Maudio
and / told Ilittie not 10 waste her time
trying to think. but to come right TO us
/ when anything puzzled her. And she
always did until now. Now she was
being a leader OF thought and pstroniZing
Maudie joyce,
| Maudie had ben working on some new
banners with Votes for Women" on
them, for we were planning to have an
open air demonstration on the campus
tile next day. But Maudie put down the
tanners the very minute Kittie left,
and went off to write her debate.
know by the look in her eyes that her
proud spirit was stirred TO its depths, and
/ felt sorry for Kittie. Kittie wasn't a
bit sorry for herself. though Mabel
Blossom was so much interested in the
challenge that she followed Maudie TO her
room. and told her she needn't eat
through the tube until the day after the
debate though we had already fixed the
tube day, before We knew about the de-
Pbate. You'd better believe Maudie was
glad to postpone II. The tube was going
10 be heroic, but not intellectual, OF
course:
Every day from then 10 the day we
had the debate. Kittie Jones went round
the halls looking important and muir
muring TO herself she'd get off on the
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