The Wrangell sentinel., 1919-09-25

Prescott's domestic science laboratory and laboratory session was Tn prog
 ress. Afraid of being observed. he
 walked slowly away and, as he walked
 through the end of the corridor, his
 eyes caught sight of little card tackled
 up on bulletin board.
 "For sale for the benefit of the Red
 Cross" read the sign. Products of the cookery laboratory will be an sale In Miss Prescott's office from to 5: :15
 every afternoon"
 Professor Gray made an excuse to
 himself to remain in his office until late that afternoon and at just :59 he slipped down to Miss Prescott's office and, with a mumbled sort of remark about wanting to help the Red Cross, he spent dollar on dainties that had been made under Jeans careful direc- tion. It was then that he first really looked into the new instructors face and he admitted to himself that there was more good cheer and vivacity in 1t than in the faces of the other woman Instructors. Perhaps cookery has a better effect on women." he reflected, "than calculous or quadratics or the Iliad or the Odyssey"
 Then one day Jean and her first class in cookery gave a luncheon for certain chosen members of the faculty and. strangely enough, Jean had the temerity to invite as guest of honor the man who was the most confirmed old bachelor in the faculty. He did especial honor to the feast and went away wondering why 1t would not be feasible for some person of wealth to endow special domestic science school for clearinghouse keepers, with a scholarship for his own remiss landlady.
 That evening, instead of donning his dressing gown and reading in the aura of his student lamp, or sallying forth to play chess with some bachelor crony of his he took half hour adding fine points to his toilet and sallied forth in the direction of the girls dormitory. Could 1t be that he went to see Jean
 Prescott who made her home there?
 The next day Professor Gray went to
 his safe deposit to take out of their
 dark hiding place some fine old gems
 of his mothers and later he was seen in the inner offices of one of the lead Ing jewellers. On his way back to his
 boarding house he stopped before sev- eral furniture-store windows and ac- tually went into one fine furniture shop to price q replica of an old ma hogany dining room set he had seen
 displayed
 He stopped at florist shop when he
 neared home and ordered some orchids, though In his confusion at doing any thing so unusual for him, he forgot to leave his card to be<inclosed in them. But the one who received them guessed | the sender without card.
 A few weeks later there was an inl-
 portant meeting of the trustees of the
 college. called specially by the presi-
 dent to discuss pressing business. All
 were present save Professor Gray, who sent his proxy. The most important
 announcement to be made was that the absent trustee had withdrawn his ob-
 jection against building the domestic science extension on the old Gray prop erty. It was also casually remarked
 among those trustees who were most
 intimate with the details of the uni versity administration that the presi-
 dent was looking for new head of
 the domestic science department. Miss Prescott would not return tha neyt an.
 tumn. She was to be married. How
 ever." commented the trustee, "other
 good instructors can be found. The | important thing Is to have removed
 Gray's objection. I wonder who per
 suaded him to give in?"