Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-30
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Hdllus ana are inviting their loving
friends to go away and bite themselves
whenever said friends try to thumI
them mp into cheerfulness.
Of course. seniors have this disease
hardest. bur even freshmen are not inn
'9ulae. ! came down with Il heavy at
tack Of 1t along IN the middle of March.
mad been sitting happily around the
mousse With the fellows one evening. dis
'ussins the baseball prospects and the
supeflatiNe beauty of the freshman
slris, and the moral o~btuseness of old
Horace, when suddenly | began to feel
oppressed. | didn't do 1T Intentionally
IN TACT. ! Was indignant over it. / had
nothing To gloom owe and | didn want
TO be sad. And Yet | was. l grew
worse and worse until at last got up
ana Went away to my room. where |
So. uo"h' "lth a spring crouch with
ing around in my healthy young vitals,
as miserable as 4 yellow dog in a snow
drift. '
could see everything plainly then.
MY Foolish ewes We're opened. College
GAYS were SO precious that after lift
would be moreuelike compared with
mem. Md there were ONLY a pitifllly
few college days. / had used up nearly
a quarter of mine already, Used them
up III frivolous wavS-suuandered them
IKE a drunken sailor; spent whole
hours loating in my room and over
instead of getting u and
Soaking In the glorious friendships so
soon 10 De severed forever. Why, even
now pre- parations for commencement
Were beginning! In d few weeks the
boys would be gone. Some of them
would V come back. Bangs might
3,ah az nome the next Year. Allen was
a"up.iui ABOUT returning-at least the
iacuItS Was doubtful for him. Even /
might never see Siwash again. had
NdSICO the only yrnap 7 ~,i~l. - -
college. "0No ~
l WIl'hed for several days as |
,loush OF all this. Then my mood
Sna'sed. L became savage, implacable.
o1lser-at myself. began to kick my
s nsd mentally. o the campus. 1
a. ~" mercy. You are a loafer-
s"al. You nave wasted Your fathers
hard earned money-swat. Just last
week you got a new suit of clothes and
iuiled IL IN a chapter house scuffle-
?Ma..swat. You go through your stud
res without troubling yourself to UNI
rsistahd them-swat. You are too
You Will waste your
some insignificant job between you and
''e poorhouse-swat. Serves YOU right
-SWat-swat-swat.'
~ was a fine exercise. but hard ON
,'ie leellnss. For over y week + w,c
uillathomably detected. My kind room
maze. bingo Bailey. fused around me
Inv ,lisd 10 get me to soak my head
! merely threw things at him and do.
cined his suggestions. ~
nut Iadually my mental turmoil
se,lieu down into one fixed accusa-
.loh. Bad as my other crimes We're
,..tat vas one which surpassed them I'm
aI.uih.,y. l was featherheaded on the.
sIfl question. l was a fearful and do
grading truth. I. Petey simmons a
ioMh-up man Of Is and president Of
MS csass' TO say nothing of being mold
81 vi ueStlntes-hadn't | helped mold
,tosss destiny wa a plaything in
.ne hands of designing females, A bret
81 sm. .oulo smile at him and bid him
10 va d sny voice. and thereupon
ne neSiected friends and studies and
mace himself that girls slave. wrip-
sLeu hnd perspired with shame when 7
.npusht OF 1t. Hadn't I spent three val
"aole weeks trying to steal a collection
a. street car signs for Miss Severance
d d.u Why! She had given me two
Hadn' anu walked TO chapel with me.
BASKET and risked expulsion by CHM
,ns up the IRE escape and leaving said
basket where Miss Ayleswing and Miss
Duhinore could find 1t? And whyo Re-
cause they had confided to me that !
% o'sh GieVer. Hadn't I toted Miss Will
aters w, 10 parties concerts and the
months. only to find that she was worLe
tns naIo IN glove with the Fly Cams
w peal our man for the editorship NJ
lne college annual? On my very first
way IN college hadn't 1 been CAPTURED
noa'iy ny two designing young women
anu hauled over to the Shi Delft house
COMPLIMENTS dainty Young thinn ~
green? o"" ."ihs IN
II was awful. 1 had no stan;na
Mhalever. Swiftly l reviewed INV sir
u seven master passions of the wear
MneIy one or them was a pretty face.
NO. : ha 'ne race concealed a brain or
liol mad never thought t. wonder. A
complexion a mani
smile a light foot in he dance
mat was my conception OF lovely wom-
an. Bah! WIFI
When ! thought about this for sew
eral days 1t began to have its effect.
I became quiet and powerful within
and stern lines developed about nv
mouth. could see them in the glass
quite plainly. l was no longer a trust
child to be sent toddling hither and
yon by a woman's voice. 1 was a grown
with great purposes in life and /
a precious little room in it for
broke a date with Miss Wiiloughby
with brutal directness and declined my
to the annual party Of the
Kappa Kap Pajamas. / would ignore
the sex entirely during the rest Of my
course. Men had too much to
do In college to be bothered by the
woman question.
It was quite pleasant picturing my
self = strong. Indifferent character
about whom all Browning Hall raved
Intellectually. 1 thought OF the plans
which would be laid each fall by new
and unsophisticated girls to surround
and capture me. and Of the scorn Of
the older girls as they informed them
that ! was unapprOachable and inn
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