The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-01-20

more fun than agreein,
with the boss when he wants to rails,
my salary. When think of what ny
life might have been without havins
her with me to wade into me every
night and assault me with her entire
large and well-chosen vocabulary while
trying to persuade me to revise my
language and squeeze the hot air out
OF it or to stop holding Peter Ether
bridge Simmons, Jr., up by one leg OIL
to admit that I am entirely wrong In
my claims concerning the weight OF
Queen Anne, I hold up my hands and
bless Siwash college. which gave her
to me. A
Quarreling with Martha is more ex.
hilarating than shooting the chutes
And It's a perfectly harmless pastime.
I've Quarreled with her for about eight
years now-three of them In Siwash
and five more since then, and as far
ms remember we have never settled
d single quarrel or quarreled over a
subject that was worth settling. I am
very proud of our system. Sometimes
j think we ought to patent 1t. No mat
ter what really want to quarrel with
her about, or no matter what reason
she has for locking up The Hague tri-
bunal and calling out her reserves
against me, we always quarrel about
English history. It's a bully idea. You
can put all the enthusiasm and Ia
basco you please into the discussion,
but you never get anywhere-most
especially you don't get around to
what you would really like to quarrel
about. That's why all of our quarrels
together have never PANIED out drop
of brine. If ever made Martha cry,
4 think should 60 out to Lincoln Park
and feed myself to the lions.
l suppose we choose English history
to row about because it was English
history which first brought us together
when / was bowling young nuisance
mt Siwash and she was a compendium
OF useful information with a twinkle
in her talk. got acquainted because
of English history--don't tell me q
college education hasn't its advan-
tages. And most of our quarrels end |
mp with discussion as to when |
fell in love with her. She maintains |
that 1t took three years of steady eff
fort on her part to land me. / claim
that 1t was case of love at first |
sight: that she won me by declining
TO become acquainted with me, and I
that long after. was her slave she
tried to give me away to a fat girl
who wore No. shoes. She always
shudders at this, and so do l. 1t
wasn't pleasant experience for me.
Martha and ! went through college
practically hand In hand, and only
parted long enough afterward to en-
able me to sandbag Chicago bank
INTO paying me living salary. But
here was a time-in my freshman
7ear-when IT,
Oh, well, for that matter, the whole
flair is full of IFS. II had gotten
u mad as should have gotten at
her indifference-if hadn't taken up
tudy to amuse myself that spring; IL
hadn't seen that Martha's hair would ]
70 beautiful IL she fiuffed 1t up instead !
4 tying 1t In q hard knot that pulled ]
Ter eyebrows out of shape; and, most
articularly, IL hadn't gotten a ire
lendous crouch in the spring of my1 |
freshman year, never would have /
often Martha. It's fun to figure out {
II the IFS. Think of winning a wife |
y getting an acute case Of dark blue |
II that wasn't a top
eavy reward for foolishness, TIL give {
up. tf I
Now, I am not going to tell 1t all, /
ecause, while I'm perfectly willing to t
lscuss other peoples love affairs 6
IMPLY can't seem to care to take the d
OF and let the world peer into ours. c
ow ! persuaded Martha to look upon o
Q as pleasant diversion. and how o
persuaded her to come down about v
thousand miles and decorate exist a
Ice for me--fhose are secrets. But n
mt mind telling you how 1t all start O
/ After all. that's the important "
1T Of these college affairs. It's just
te rolling SNOWFALL down hiIl-start "
and you don't have to worry about 81
1t viii take care OF itself. That's al
really did about falling In love lie
tn Martha. / started the affair; but m
didn't mean a thing by It, either. "
.ither did she mean anything. In VI
Ct, she was a lot meaner than ! SC
out 1t. In
It was the calendar that really be- al
q 1t ali One Of the most mysteri- th
> things IN college life Is the way
year slips BY under you and goes be
ay before you are half through with ca
This never failed to surprse and | ne
eve me. A year Is such q confound- on
y long affair when you look it In go
. face--particularly q college year. m,
len you consider, along In Septem- In,
J, that before June ron have to no taI
chapel 200 times. read through sev- 10,
\ books written Ia decayed lam dit
I<es, and figure out chubby vol liz
"A Of trigonometry problems that
ol9Ike airplane wrecxs when they sit
g ii on the blac< hard, the year no
emf like quarter section of eter- ms
II But suddenly. Just after you've tie
kie lot Of friendships, have be- an
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