The daily Alaskan., 1914-06-23
A Graduate S
 Story
By EUNlCE BLAKE

< This coeducatlon of the sexes. is ! turning out just as predicted" said ! Edmond Chase, a middle aged gentle I man with a family of sons and daugh- ! tcrs growing up about him.
 ! Ceases of impropriety are not of ire ! queut occurrence" replied his friend l uiscox. "I don't know that I ever ] heard of one"
 ! No, it's not that. Young persons { are naturally good-many of them I much better than when they grow old ] rr. It's the imp of mischief that is in z them at that time of their lives" } "iIow do you know so much about , it%
 ! "Uow do | know it? Why, man, ] I've been to college. I didn't go to a ! coed institution. My alma mater was ] for men alone. but there was a girls E college not ten miles away. We were 5 thinking so much about how to worry } tGe faculty Of that institution that we 3 had G.rlc time for study. l went to 2 college at sixteen. and in all the Greek ! dramas and such learned perform ] anaes was invariably selected for a ! girls nlrt My chum, Billy Fitzgerald, 2 was another fellow cast for feminine ' parts. and. when dressed to go on, no E one could ever tell uS for boys with @ ! magnfryiug glass and a searchlight F What with rehearsing and playing our ] rar.$ before audiences We learned to ] .a-t llu girl perfectly. even to disguis- 3 ing our voices.
 B "AtrIouuS l0IIrgc-ours was Greeni , I'm Green man. you buow-they have : u-rrauamfra} observatory. One night 3 ia tIn week the class in astronomy wis., , nrI the observatory for look at the 5 heavenly nadirs 1t occurred to me E that it would be a good scheme to dress ! aS a gfH @ad go in with the crowd. 7 naI cousin in Jones. and when she ! came tr the term in which she could ] raRr astronomy as an elective I per E .ualrl n"r To choose that study. So, . ,uu srr. what Madge knows about tue : star, f~ due to my wish to play my { rrauE Go.d reason, wasn't IF , "Iuak EI!y into the scheme with me, B and rur day Madge told the professor 6 ot a.trouvmy thut she was expecting
 her sister for a few days and would
 like to have her look through the tele- 3 scope when the class visited the ob- g scr-atory The professor gave the de-
 simrE rarufssi0n. and 1t hlppened-just
 hgrp.u.d you kuow-that another girl
 of tna class. Lou TisdaIe had a sister
 come to visit her at the saIG- time,
 aaa she. too. asked and was granted
 r.rmtsSton for her sister to see the
 stars.
 "Wncn the night came round Tom
 Rawr.us got wind of what we were
 going to do and declared that it we
 didn't take him in he would give the
 whole fling away. Tom was haifback
 au the football team and no more ht-
 rud to Dersou0te q woman than
 gazeUu We tried to dlssuade him, but it was no use. He got himself up as
 best he could, and Billy and 1 put a 70 few feminine touches on him to help $ him out We three fellows went to the . observatory on the night in question z it uapnrnei to be Clear-and all walk ed in with the crowd.
 ! "There was a little telescope screwed , on Go the big one. called a finder. It tad big field of view so as to find the i object wanted. One of the senior class : who was making a speciality of astron- 2 omv had charge of the instrument, and when it came my turn she looked 1 through the finder while put my eye l to the big tube. was so interested at i the proximity of her cheek that l E didn't see auy stars. But I controlled . myself. and when Billy went up to have look he did the same.
 t If Tom had behaved himself and - ,.nrt his mouth shut we would have all
 got out scot free and no harm done. v What did he do when his turn came to J look but burt out in that coufounded
 gruT voice of his:
 "'T want to see Venus.
 'There was a babel of feminine voices
 at the time, but Toms sOuOrous re-
 quest sounded like a blow on a bass UTuU- mere was no more uOuDL LndI
 the speaker was a man than that the earth was turning on it's axis. Billy
 and I were, of course, scared to death,
 uud if We had had Tom where we
 could have punished him we would
 have beaten the life out of him. But
 we got even with him, for when the $ professor asked him who he was and . what he was doing there in disguise I
 se. up a soprano shout: The villain! - How dare her which Billy followed up
 with. Girls. lets put him out"
 'Tbc students didn't know that Tom . was ejccted by two men. They could
 not have done it themselves, nor could oa We if. when he showed fight, hadn't F whispered in his ear, You get out of
 here mighty quick or you'll be cut
 man t0u0rrowr My voice called him
 to his senses, and he suffered us Go 70 hustle him out without resistance. ! -rrr z Hr, h-