Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-05

said Rrlggs ' Al the winter terms.
We can't cure that in ono r,.,.
said Saunders, but we can ranis
beginning; twenty-five. Freebmaa
why don't YOU study?" ''iilan'
l got up stifly ana SWALLOWED 81,
forty times. 81 haven't arnI.1. ""out
more than most fellows" I said l., any
bruised and battered little voice -
Better make it thirty-five" cat,
bogboom. They did. / dug NV naiI u
into my hands and swora tbo+ 20
cried I'd feed myself to trolIe, -
that night car
You can go any time you want vor,
Know said Saunders after the trSat
ment. 'ie"t-
got up and grabbed twice at Hoo
Doom before | could get hold of hiT,
and hang on. lin not a GUTTER - =
said.
"Hurrah!" said every one so end
denly and heartily that 1 got gulniou
than ever. 'p'eh
But you're going TO quit soma
things, aren't you?" sa!d Saunders
"You can't spank them out of roon
flashed.
Were not trying to-" said Sam.
ders' We're just calling your atten.
tlon to them. You know, we've been
limiting long time on some of then, y
You were sassy to a professor to-
day." continued Saunders. after givtn,
me plenty of chance "Why?"
Because was a fool, I guess"
Give him ten" shouted some ono
Il object" growled Hogboom. "yor
can't spank man for telling The
truth"
''If you don't mind" said. "I,d like
to take few for that professor bust.
ness. 1t will make me feel better"
SO they gave them to me. They also
gave me five for criticizing the food
and ten for talking about my fathers
bank, and a dozen for being conda.
scending to outsiders, and a few mis-
cellaneous swats for small crimes
Then Saunders looked at me severely
and pointed to the blackboard, Thera
L was. mirrored to mySelf-"inconsid
crate" "a punster," "lazy," 'fmnu-
dent" "boastful," "condescending" and
complaining" There was Petey Sim.
mons as others saw him-the Petev
Simmons whom a day before I could
scarcely think of without a reverent
admiration for the works of nature
And as | saw the list l shrank and
shrank, and dissolved and shriveled.
and fell away, and became q little
trembling freshman with a sore and
shaken body and mind the size of n
pinhead, weighed down with the task
of becoming endurable and possibly
enjoyable to my fellow men.
was little Petey Simmons, a green
freshman who had wasted three
months learning all the things he
shouldn't; Petey Simmons. the college
joke, the campus nuisance, the loud
noise on the streets, the pest Of lie
chapter house. l had always been
Petey Simmons, an understood con-
sumner of perfectly good oxygen,
but some one had patted me on
the head few months ago and it
had swelled-hoavens, how it had
swelled. Suddenly all my grandiose
doings Of those insane months rose up
wildly before me. I gagged at the
thought of them. Oh, how sick / had
been But / was better now. The
swelling was going down. Explode a
dynamite bomb in almost any swelling
and it will be materially reduced.
"You wouldn't care to say a word,
would you, freshman" said Saunders
after long silence.
I got up, very stiff1y. ST guess not"
stammered. II don't know enough
to say anything except-except-
thank you"
"Hurrah - said every one. That
jolt was too much. l cried.
Then they let me go upstairs TO bed
and called down Wansworth, who was
freshman, too, and very far gone in
it. The next morning he ate very little
more than I did and acted like man
who had fallen 100000 miles out Of
blissful dream, landing very hard.
But we never confided in each other
When you take young man who is
contented with himself and reduce
him to the mangled remains of every
thing he had imagined himself to be,
you can't expect him to recover at
once. I was quite low and miserable
for week. Every little thing that
had stepped carefully over during my
Colossus days rose up and lowered
above me, and kept me stretching my
neck and lodging like an ant under
lodge parade. Suddenly Siwash was
mighty college again, as 1t
had been when I was in high
school, and it was full of bust
nesslike young giants who would
have to he encouraged to tolerate me-
But finally I did something that MADE
me feel better. 1t was lonely around