The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-11-05
OUT OF HIS CLASS
BY JANE OSBORN.

GIAHHOH
spoken Of by the other girls Oh tne
town az The Youths Companion.
Wbsther Il was because she resented
this or because of q deeper reason It
ia hard TO tell, but just az the eigntn
freshman class since her eighteenth
birthday was about to enter Clayton
Katherine Morley assumed another
pose.
College men failed to interest her.
any longer, she told people. Tney
had no true feeling. Her ideal man
was more Of q primitive"
This was all right as 9 drawing
room pose, but when Katherine put II
into practice and began to be seen.
walking on Sunday afternoons in the
country and attending local attractions
with a certain handsome young rae
tory foreman whose cheap green suit
and creaky shoes, wide spreading hat
ana Raudy neckties were suggestive or
Hungarian peasant origin, the college
community was filled with consterna-
ton. And when this Irritation lasted
through the winter, and Katherine
quite frankly mentioned this young
peasant Alec BrajaskA - to her
friends and received him at her home
when her father was away, things be-
gan to look serious.
Most to be pitied was Doctor Nor
lev. her father. One day his assistant
in the sociology department, Boards
ley Drew, suggested that he might be
| Of some assistance.
Something surely will have to be
DONE" replied the father. 1T is get
ting to be outrageous. ! have spoken
to Katherine myself about It. l dread
taking the step. but I see no other
way out Of It. I am afraid Katherine
| in serious. I can have at least the
satisfaction OF knowing something OF
the mans origin. must know
whether there is any reason why Kath-
crime ought not to marry him. l know
OF no one who can undertake the in.
vestigAtion so we'll as you, Mr.: Drew"
The result OF this conference was
that Prof Beardsley Drew undertook
the task OF looking into the record
and standing OF Alec BraJaska. AS q
professor of sociology, he had studied,
perhaps more interestedly than DR..
Morley knew, the life and the Gus
toms OF the factory elements Of the
men and women in town, who were
60 far removed from the college circle
and college interests. He knew their
various dialects, and the task was not
dificult.
Drew began his task in a sensible
way by discarding his regular clothes
which would have branded him as an
outsider, and with a shabby suit and
q pair of brilliant tan shoes and a
cheap broad brimmed felt hat he sal
lied forth.
He went to the house where Bra
iaska was known to live, It was al
the hour when the young man would
naturally be at work. A young for
eign woman answered his knocking
and proved to be the daughter of the
woman who kept the boarding house
at which Brajaska and several of his
associates took their meals. PROBES
sor Drew arranged to take board at
the same place. II was the easiest
way to evade suspicion, and as he wal
having q weeks vacation he coulC
carry out his plan without fear o
being suspected.
He occasionally talked with Bra
jaskA. but more frequently with thu
associates. He fingered after the 9th
or boarders one morning at breakfas
and started to speak of BrAjaska Il
Magda, the young daughter.
You seem to know Brajaska," h
said. How lie It? Did you know
him IN the old country"
Magda told him q few things abou
his bringing up. his boyhood ambi
tons. He was thirty and she wa
twenty. They had lived on adjoining
farms IN the old country and for year
her father had been saving to com
to this country and had influeneeC
Alec to come, They had all come tC
gether and then her father had died
Suddenly the girl stopped talking
and then Morley looked up In surpris
to see that she was crying. He pu
his hand impulsively on her shoulde
and she did not resent II. She wa
apparently too much preoccupied witt
her own grief.
DO you not know" she asked
: about me and BrajaskaG was prom
ised to him. and we were going to b
married in the spring. and then
beautiful, very beautiful lady with
great deal OF money took him away
She will marry him. Brajaska Ia
said So"
Z Drew's FIRST feeling was for the m
, fortunate Mazda This feeling wa
! followed By one OF anger At Brajasks
! who had the insOlenes to desert
{ woman OF his own class and becaus
, OF his good looks win the affection q
: another woman Of his class.
+ Drew remained at the boardiuI
> house week. each day growing NOR
r and more acquainted with the sorrow
l full little MAgdA. The last day Of hi
r vacation was to BE- the day Of the 81
: oursion and Drew had seen tina
4 MAEdA had refused the Invitation n