Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-04
TheEvening Story
A Graduate S
Story
BY OUNCE BLAKE

Jul just 40 RAGAANtGAt HtAAA
Edmond Chase, middle aged gentle
man with family of sons and daugh-
tiers growing up about him.
Ceases Of improperly are not Of fire.
quent occurrence" replied his friend
Hiscox. II don't. know that 1 ever
heard OF one"
mo. it's not that. Young persons
are naturally good-many of them
much better than when they grow old
or. It's the imp OF mischief that 10 in
them at that time Of their lives"
''How do you know 30 much about
it?"
How do / know it1 why, man,
rye been to college. didn't go to a
coed institution. My alma mater was
for men alone, but there was a girls
college not ten miles away. We were
thinking so much about how to worry
the faculty OF that institution that we
had little time for study. / went to
college at sixteen, and In all the Greek
dramas and such learned perform
ances 1 was invariably selected for a
PuIL- my CuuLus Dlhy HAlLBCEdlOt
was another fellow cast for feminine
parts, and, when dressed to go on. no
one could ever tell us for boys with a
magnifying glass and a searchlight.
What with rehearsing and playing our
parts before audiences we learned to
act the girl perfectly, even to disguts-
ing our voices.
AT Jones coIlege-ours was Green;
I'm a Green man, you know-they have
an astronomical observatory. One night
in the week the class in astronomy WIS.,
tied the observatory for look at the
heavenly bodies. 1t occurred to me
that 1t would be a good scheme to dress
as a girl and go in with the crowd.
had a cousin in Jones, and when she
came to the term in which she could
take astronomy as an elective 1 per-
suaded her to choose that study. So,
you see, what Madge knows about the
stars is due to my wish to play my
prank Good reason, wasn't It'll
II took Bully into the scheme with me,
and one day Madge told the professor
of astronomy that she was expecting
her sister for few days and would
like to have her look through the tele-
scope when the class visited the OBJ
servatory. The professor gave the de-
sired permission, and it happened-just
happened. you know-that another girl
Of the class, Lou Tlsdale, had a sister
and she, too, asked and was granted
permission for her sister to see the
stars.
when the night came round Tom
Rawlins got wind Of what we were
going to do and declared that II we
didn't take him in he would give the
whole thing away. Tom was halfback
on the football team and no more At
ted to personate a woman than a
gazelle. We tried to dissuade him, but
! IL was no use. He got himself up as
best ne could, and Billy and / put a
few feminine touches on him to help
him out. We three fellows went to the
observatory on the night in question
1t happened to be clear-and all walk
ed in with the crowd.
There was a little telescope screwed
on to the big one, called a finder. 1t
had big field of view 80 rs to ind the
object wanted. One OF the senior class
who was making speciality Of astron-
omy had charge OF the instrument, and
when it came my turn she looked
through the finder while put my eye
to the big tube. l was 90 interested ct
the proximity of her cheek that
didn't see any stars But controlled
myself, and when Billy went up to
have a look he did the same.
eff Tom had behaved himself and
kept his mouth shut we would have all
got out scot free and no harm done.
What did he do when his turn came to
look but blurt out in that COMPOUNDED
grufr voice of his:
|" I want to see Venus
There was q babel OF feminine voices
at the time, but Toms sOnorous re-
quest sounded like a blow on a bass
drum. There was no more doubt that
the speaker was a man than that the
earth was turning on its axis. Billy
and were, Of course. scared to death.
and II we had had Tom where we
could have punished him we would
have beaten the life ont OF him But
we got even with him. for when the
professor asked him who be was and
what he was doing there IN disguise |
set up a soprano shout: The villain!
How dare her which Billy followed up
with. Girls, let's put him out"
THE students didn't know that Tom
was elected by two men. They could
not have done it themselves, nor could
we If. when he showed fight. l hadn't
whispered in his ear. You get out of
here mighty quick or youth be cut
man tomorrow Ny voice called him
to his senses. and he suffered as to
hustle him out without resistance.
Then Billy and ! went up to the pro
fessor and said we were deeply grieved
that the incident had happened while
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