Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
BY Jane Mclean

Sixteen is always curious. 10
sixteen the world is an undiscovered
territory where the facts of life are
shrouded in mystery and everything
may be vested with romance.
In Luella's room that afternoon
the girls of the senior class had met
to discuss plans for the future. But
the future of the senior class finally
gave way to that more interestlnS
absorbing question, the future OF
the individual. Gradually the topic
of conversation wavered, until at
last the girls were talking ideals.
Luella, tall and willowy, was stand
ing over the chafing dish. Luella
seemed older than the others, In fact
it had been whispered among the
other girls that Luella had already
had a blasted romance. she was
! the kind of a girl who never SAID
ANYTHING that she had not deliber-
ated over and thought over first. Her
| brow was always unruffied; some
times she looked seriously thought
full. but never excitedly curious.
| The girls knew very little about
Iuella's family life, for she never
spoke of it herself and the others
hated to ask, but she was accepted
unauestionably just the same, for
she was the kind of a girl sure to
be abhored in q school girl world.
Il shall never marry any one but
my IDEAL" said Marjorie, Marjorie
| rN111 n
sentimental. She adored chocolates
and tried to look like the heroine OF
a story, although she never succeed
what is your ldeal?" asked Ruth.
f'Well," considered Marjorie, ne
must be brave, l think l should re-
ouire that first of all. he needn't be
handsome, although I'd like him to
be, of course, and he must ADORE tne
very ground l walk on :,
Men don't do that these days,
said practical Ruth. She wore glass
es and had q brother who was a
sophomore at college and told her
during vacations what the masculine
sex thought of the female species.
why, what do you mean!' cho-
rused the others. Don't you pe-
lieve in love?"
I do. But I'm not sentimental like
Marg. And Bill told me that fell
low likes a girl to go swimming with
him these days, instead of sitting at
her feet with amandolin."
But those days were wonderful,
weren't they? sighed Marjorie.
II think they were awtul' salo
Ruth. Girls were never allowed to
do anything, and the men had all
the good times"
"Wel interrupted Lillian, you
others can be satisfied with very lit
tie. For my part, an ideal man with
out money would be just impossible:
Lillian was the prettiest girl n
the school, and always had her picF
of any of the men she knew Wher
school dances were announced:
Couldn't you like a man without
j money!" asked Marjorie. "Suppost
YOU fell in love with him first anC
found out afterward that he wal
poor?"
"You ridiculous child" laughed
\ Lillian, with her woman of the worlc
attitude. mo woman has to fall II
love with a man unless she wants
\ to. I'd be pretty sure I knew al
about my man before l loved him
you'd better believe that"
The others looked at Lillian a lit
tie enviously. She was so prett!
that of course a wealthy man woult
be sure to marry her. Lillian with
! out money would be a queer kind o.
an arrangement. why 1t was known
all over school that Lill's allowance
was double that of the rest of thu
girls.
'Marg wants a lover, Ruth a com
panion, Lill must have wealth, ant
nv ideal must be handsome"
"Why Con-" said Ruth in amaze