Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-18

Dear Mary G.:
My modesty about writing is COM
pletely gone, l think, for l am just
dying to tell you about Ted's latest
or rather her last episode at school
[ got to thinking about it after ]
went to bed last night, and
thought it might amuse you too. ]
don't believe Ted would eve tell il
about herself.
We had been having Paradise Lost
in English, and hated it like poison
in spite of Miss Coolidge's enthusiast
tic efforts to make us appreciate it
We were left simply cold, that was
all, except that we all felt in duty
bound to try to initiate Miss Coolidge
/ enthusing. That was quite pleasant
! Poor Miss Coolidgel
But Ted thought it would be fur
to give each one of our crowd a
name. Gloria was Beelzebub, l was
Moloch, Helly was Mammon, she was
Satan, of course, and so on. Wher
we met each other in the halls, We
would raise the left forefinger, say
"SH!" and then whisper, Mr.. Bun
yon says There's hope" Evenings
we gathered around in Ted's room
whenever we could, because we just
had the habit, 1 guess, and she al
ways vas glad to see US there. She
said we decorated the room with
"chaste ornamentation." She had
taken all her pictures down and put
them away in her trunk, because
they spotted up the walls so and she
got tired Of messy little spots on the
wall, where there ought to be wide
Cestful spaces. Ted got these spells
of wanting things as chaste and
plain as the cell of a nun, and we
all sighed because she did have a lot
of cute pictures and heaps of hei
brothers friends, and they certain
ly were a nice looking lot. Each one
of us was crazy about them all, an6
of course each of us had picked 8
special favorite. So 1t was quite sac
when we found them all absent and
knew they were packed away in the
trunk room. OF urs then, we
were the only ornamentation possible
and we were naturally pleased thai
Ted appreciated it!
Well, n evening just before din
ner, Gloria said to each n of us or
the q. t., Got a grand box from
home. Birthday. Ted's at nine
You "a just believe, Mary G., that
we were all keen for it.
Now at Miss Q's school there is
a rule that there are to be no boxes
of eats from home. Spells diges-
tions, and SO forth. So when a girl
did get a box, it had to be kept
dark.
We were Just getting under way
with angel cake and sailed almonds
and sand tarts and stuffed dates
when we heard Mrs. Mack the house
keeper, who had been sitting in Miss
Q's office for the evening miss Q
being out). Now Mrs. Mack is a
good soul and we all like her, but all
the same we didn't want Miss Q to
make a fuss and give us dement's to
work off just at the end of the year.
We'd rather have our time on the
tennis courts or or the little lake,
practicing for field day.
So when Mrs. Mack knocked, Ted
got up, opened the door, and said,
why, hello, you dear old Mack Sh!
and come on in, and I'll give you the
best piece of angel cake that eve
came out of of Gloria's boxes!"
And she pulled dear old surprised
Mack in and and shut the door be-
fore she could realize what had hap
pened. The cake was handed her at
once on Gloria's best plate. and it
certainly was some angel cake! OF
course, being a decent human. Mrs.
Mack couldn't give Us Hail Column
bia after having tasted our salt, as
it were, and neither would she report
us. Ted was ure of that. So while
she ate the cake we all went on
with the party as if she had been
another of Millions fallen angels.
Which 1 suppose she felt she was.
Good old Mack certainly has a con-
science, and she is the COOLEST
thing in the world. All the girls
love her. She often leads the SER
vice at vespers in u hall, and we
all go, even Ted, because she says
she likes to know there's one saint
living.
AS we ate, we talked. naturally,
and Mack joined in. We told her
we were the society of devils, and
explained it all to her, and she
thought it was funny. bless her! But
she asked us why we had % raise
so much deviltry just at bed time.
We ought to be Gained down in
stead of excited, before we went to
bed. Girls of u age, etc. 1t was a
nice motherly talk she gave us, and
Ted said. speaking for us all, that
we certainly appreciated the spirit
in which it a said, and that any
way we all loved her as she very
well knew; but the question was.
how to get Gained down? Now if
Mrs. Mack would only let us come
down to her room at nine. and would
read us a chapter out of the Bible
we would all enjoy it. and that would
probably do us a world of good. OF
curse good Mrs. Mack said why.
that would be fine. and she would
love to have us. So Ted said, 1--WE
can start right now, if you don't
mind, Mrs. Mack" and Mrs. Mack
vas pleased to death. So we all got
up and stole quietly down stairs af-
ter Mrs. Mack, and sat solemnly
down all around the office. Mrs.
Mack picked up the Bible, and turn
ing to Ted said. rs there anything in
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