The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-03-09

IVI1yI Have Never Married
fc3onyriellt. 1918, By the Mcclure
gssWspaper syndicate3

bDsl.iEEERESA CLYDE arranged the
shads az kee electric light az just
- lint aneie over her desk
SsonSad cut 3 little bundle OF manu-
800 notes conveniently at the te1t
q - sfypsWrfter, placed Z dish OF
csSkfes af her right, pinned up the
49, AZ her knono. settled down
GortsbIY IA her chair and prepared
S1Css9 NIGHT Of IL
StSs seven O'clock and Il she
W6rsed TIM t@o In the mornings sne
Siolsnne6-Ehere would be seven
i,1S5;IFjSi Shead Of her IN which to write
40 fpo papers. Theresa had puF'
oossdy planned to leave this important
~ TN the last minute, knowing that
- SfSYS worked under pressure
iSs1gts Besides IN her solitary lie
fhere waSan unusual JOY to be gained
&C., tie feeling that she really had to
npIiSh something important IN
shS f7st began her paper for her
"a e'household architecture.
f4s1fnS found herself at thirty:ffTe the
30 ssoF OF q small patrinouy, alone
q rs void aud without any special
ainE Theresa had, SIX months be-
fore, sold ont her small holdings In
th0 country. put hee money In city
hS6 ana settled herself in a tiny
aeEntent near the university OF her
eh6fc0 where she devoted her time to
thu study Of houseplanntng. Perhaps
th6 VaSon she chose this course was
80 Ise, next TO having a little home
81 = own, Theresa thought the incest
tdfnf IN life would be to plan homes
6r5oEher people. She had worked
hard IA an her courses, but In none
did she gain more satisfaction, and
into none did she put more devotion
than IN Professor 1forgan's course IN
ha1seho3d architecture In part this
EiaSS due to the fact that the course
was known to be extremely "sti6" and
Professor Morgan took it for granted
that Students In his class were as en-
tireEY devoted to the practice OF hard
ana sustained mental work as he was
hfIiSelk In part It was due to the un-
deutable fact that Professor Morgan's
personality stood out more wildly IN
Theeeea's consciousness than did that
o. 9ny Of the other professors. It Is
not only SHY little school girls VINO
TN under the fascination OF fayorite
teacher. Sometimes demure little
spf1ster graduate students like Their
ga conceive what in younger girls
WoQB0 DC C9EWeQ q CEuSn 4O4 I0S
tayorfte instructor.
Theresa mad always worked hard
and many hours on this paper. Her
notes were thorough and complete.
She had merely left til the last the
final assembling and putting into type
writing OF this paper on which her
term grading was to be based. For 4
half hour the clicks of the typewriter
keys was spasmodfc, slow and cautious
then the keys began to hum out a
steady succession OF clicks. and before
she had worked full hour she had
forgotten her little sugar cookies, had
forgotten her lonely existence in her
wee apartment and thought only OF the
subject upon which she was writing
The subject that had been assigned
swas this: planning the five thousand
dollar cottage" In order to write the
paper: Theresa had drawn many plans
soSthorough and worlnanIy that they
would have done credit to any profes-
stonSI architect and she had spent so
many hours Of day dreams thinking
about this modest little cottage that