Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-04-06


Hoo Lun!"
who, who? Hoo Lun! Who loves
Linski? Who, who, who? Hoo Lun y
Linski was disguised, resigned from
the university, and disappeared.
"Well, here it isn't midyear Exams
yet, and the good ole class Of Nineteen
Eighteen's already lost a member"
said Fred Mitchell. Il guess we can
bear the break-up!"
II guess So" Ramsey assented
''That Linski might just as we'll stayed
here, though"
"Why?"'
"He couldn't do any harm here. He'll
prob'ly get more people to listen to
him in cities where there's so many
new immigrants and all such that
don't know anything, comm in all the
time"
ooh, WELL" said Fred "What dc
we care what happens to Chicago!
Come on, let's behave real wild, and
go on over to the TERRA and get us
couple of egg sandwiches and sass
prilly."
Ramsey was willing.
After the strain Of the "mid-year
Exams in February, the chums lived
a free-hearted life. They had settled
into the ways OF their world they had
grown used to it, and it had grown
used to them; there was no longer any
ignominy in being freshman. They
rOmped upon the campus and some
times rioted harmlessly about the
streets of the town. In the evenings
they visited their fellows and brethren
and were visited in turn; horseplay
prevailed, but collegiate gossip had it's
turn, and sometimes they looked so
far ahead as to talk vaguely of their
plans for professions or business
though to a freshman this concerned
an almost unthinkably distant pros
pect. Il guess I'll go in with my IA
Their, in the wholesale drug business"
said Fred. "My married brother al
ready is in the firm, and l suppose
they'll give me a shOw-send me out
on the road year or two first, maybe,
to try me. Then Pm going to marry
some little cutie and settle down.
What you goin' to do, Ramsey? Go to
law school, and then come back and
go in your fathers Officer
II don't know. Guess so.'
1t was always Fred who did most of
the talking; Ramsey was quiet. Fred
+nI/ ION
was developing whole lot these
days." and he told Ramsey himself
that he could see "big change in
him, adding that the improvement was
probably due to Ramsey's having
passed through terrible trials like
that debate"
Ramsey kept to their rooms more
than his comrade did, one reason for
this domesticity being that he "had
to study longer than Fred did, to keep
up" and another reason may have
been a greater shyness than Fred pos
sessed-if, indeed, Fred possessed any
shyness at all. For Fred was a CHEEKY
spirit difficult to abash, and by the
coming of spring knew all Of the best
looking girl students in the place
knew them well enough, it appeared,
to speak of them not merely by their
first names but by authorizations OF
these. He had become fashions sprig,
a "fusser' and butterfly, and he re-
preached his roommate for stunning
the ladies.
+1.11fh &c colt
sey one day, responding darkly-"well,
you see the truth is, Fred, I've had a
Awe had an experience"
So only, did he refer to Milla.
Fred said no more; and it was COM
pretended between them that the past
need never be definitely referred to
again, but that it stood between Ram
sey and any entertainment to be OBJ
tanned of the gentler but less trust
worthy sex. And when other brethren
of the frat would have pressed Ram
sey to join them in various frivolous
enterprises concerning "co-eds," or to
be shared by "co-eds," Fred thought it
better to explain to them privately
Gall being sacred among brethren) how
Ramsey's life, so far as Girls went,
had been toyed with by one now q
Married Woman.
This created a great deal of respect
for Ramsey. It became understood
everywhere that he was a woman
hater.
(To BE CONTINUED