The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-11

SELF 81 wish we dared to ask him
to a dance" Maybe he's engaged
good looking professors always are"
Yes, or else married. But then 1
"Oh, wouldn't you? 1 think it
would be heavenly-such long vaca-
TONS
And later: We'll, anyway, Kilbyis
a dear" Did you ever see such
eyes?
AS the class of girls filed out at the
dismissal of the class Kilby sat medi-
tatively for few seconds, after which
he withdrew to the sanctum of his
own private office. There at the mirror
over the mantle-piece he looked in
quisitively at himself. 81 wonder
what's the matter with my eyes? '' he
asked himself I'D have them
changed if L thought they had that eff
feet
Going down the corridor later in
the day he CHANGED to meet the dean.
Good morning. Mr.. Filby," she
said, always with the same serenity
! How are the blue stockings?"
/ Blue stockings muttered Kilby
If there are any they haven't elected
economics
( One of the so-caIled quiet studies
was located next to Prof KiIby's pri-
vate sanctum, and for that reason and
in spite of its name Kilby had never
! been able to work there during study
hours. For Kilby liked and was accus-
toned to a certain degree of quiet, and
the partitions were not thick enough
to drown the crescendo of twenty I'M
/ dergraduate trebles. One late after
noon when there were only few
voices to be heard he remained
/ NO, 1 don't think one girl in twenty
goes to college for an education" one
voice said "Of course not said an
other. It's for the friends she
! makes" "And nowadays college girls
/ have a much better chance of meeting
nice men than girls who stay at
home" Still I sometimes wish 1 had
gone to a co-educational college,
They always get married there"
: Yes, sometimes, but the dean went to
a co-educational college and she's not
married" ooh, she's a blue stock
ing; no man ever wants to marry a
blue stocking But, I'll bet we'd have
a wonderful time at a co-educat1onal
college Still men like girls that have
been to a girls college. They are
always anxious enough to get invita-.
! tions to the dances. Il wonder II
any one has asked Alan to the Junior!
step divinely.''
/ KiIby put his hands to his ears, and
/ fled from the room, out of the build
/ ing to his own study in his boarding
/ house There as he puffed at his com
: forting pipe he took leather picture
case from his pocket and opened IL.
1t contained a picture of the dean that
he had clipped from recent maya
zine article on 1.-The Youngest College
Dean The picture showed her in
cap and gown, with none OF the gra-
! ciousness and almost motherly large
heartedness that Kilby had come to
! appreciate within the few weeks he
had been at Jones' Still he found sat
/ isfaction in looking at the picture
| inst as a reminder, he said, OF the al
| Iegiance he owed to his chief. This
! day he looked at the picture longer
than usual.
4 eJ,ve got to get a better picture" he
| told himself as he rose from his chair
and hurried thru the campus to the
Deans office But when he reached
there he forgot the picture and
thought only of the original.
I How are the blue stockings? ~ ask
ed the dean, as she closed the papers
she was working over at her desk and
/ prepared to take an easier chair by
4 the open fireplace, where she might
chat in comfort with Alan.
blue stockings aren't any,"
groaned Alan. You're a blue stock
ing, and they're-they're just girls.
Listen, Justine, I've decided that the
only type of woman l truly admire is
! q blue stocking. I used to think that
that was the trait in you that kept us
l apart back in the college days when
/ 1 was half in love with you all the
time. But now 1 know that's what is
drawing me to you"
| So it was eli because of Alan Kilby
that the youngest dean terminated her
/ deanship so soon, and gave up that
| career to be a professors wife.
| who would ever have dreamed, -
said one of the girls in the quiet study,
that day the announcement was made,
| that a man with eyes like that would
care for a blue stocking 2''-(Copy-
right, 1917, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)