Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-13
FIVE FIFTEEN

Dear Five-Fifteeners:
1 have a sad confession to make
to you. l have mislaid a contribu-
ton from a new girl. 1t was a poem
about a flower. or flowers, possibly
June roses, and if I remember right
ly, the name of the girl or her pen
name vas Rose.
If the girl who wrote the letter
and the poem for the column last
week will forgive me and write to
me again, I promise to do better with
her contribution. You see, IL you
could have your contributions to the
Five-Fifteen column ready so they
would be delivered at the Evening
News office on Saturday morning,
that would insure their being in in
time for the following Wednesdays
paper. Quite often l get a contribu-
ton on Wednesday. That is all right
as far as 1 am concerned, (when it
doesn't get lost) but it may mean
disappointment to some of you girls
when you don't see your contribution
printed until the next week.
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Dear Mary G.:
1 ought not to take the time to
write just now, everything is in such
an uproar, but there is so much to
tell.
We are right in the midst of COM
meneement and packing up to go
home, and were all trying to take
last looks at everything for fear 1t
will be gone next year and If 1T
isn't gone, maybe WE willard the
packing part is perfectly vile. Some
of the girls just dump things into
trunks and jam down the lids, with
the kindly assistance of some heavy
weight friend. Ponderosa Pepper is
such a girl. She weighs over two
hundred. P~onderosa of ouGs isn't
her real name, but you couldn't pos
sibly call such a whale by her bap-
tismal name of Lillian So of course
she became Ponderosa right Oft, and
doesn't mind a bit.
Well, Ponderosa says she has
wearied of furnishing her perfectly
good ballast, which is her only stock
in trade, for charity, and hereafter
she is going to charge two bits"
That means a quarter in Yankee
talk, but Ponderosa has been up here
In the hardy Nawth for such a little
while that she hasn't yet cast off all
her horrid colloquialisms yet, al
though we are all harshly trying to
purify hen speech for the good of her
soul.
1t is quite a custom here at Miss
Q's for the girls to will various ar
ticles of apparel or room furnishings
or other cumbersome things that are
a nuisance to pack or to store for
another year, to some other girl. OF
course the girl who receives the
legacy has to make the best of the
gift, which she doesn't usually want
either, for the same reason. 50 it
ends usually by our getting rid of
the bother of storing or packing our
own stuff, only to find ourselves
"inheriting" heaps of the cast-off
stuff of the other girls. uelly is enc
of the girls who always wills away
waste baskets and book-ends and
desk blotters and bottles of ink and
even a lamp, laundry bags. shoe trees
and always her winter bathrobe. She
never CAN get that into her trunks.
She always has such wads of stuff
for her memory book, theatre pro-
grams and menus and lots of photo
graphs and funny little brasses that
she collects" 1t always hurts me
to see Helly spending SO much of a
perfectly wonderful allowance or
junk, although l will admit that
some of it is awfully interesting. But
she says she can't help it,-her
mother collects enamels, and her
father always collected the mos
wonderful pictures. Think OF it. in
Helly's New York home there are
real Turner's and a real Corot, and
we'll, l mustn't tell you what others
of the old masters, or you viii know
Just who Helly is; and she's such a
peach as just Helly that I want you
to know her as a regular girl instead
of an heir to millions.
1t was funny about her starting to
| collect brass, though. She had been
collecting earrings, gaudy ones
mostly the kind that you can get for
fifty cents. Helly thought it was sc
interesting to see just what a won
derful effect of the dazzling CLEAN
of Jewels you could really get for
only fifty cents. She kept them in
an old Page and Shaw candy box
and they got considerably shaken
around, so that whenever she wanted
one to match her soul at any partlc-
ular moment, 1t took quite n lot OF
| rummaging around to find two that
belonged together.
Well, last Christmas vacation she
took her Page and Shaw earrings
home TO show her mother, thinking
how thrilled her mother wohld be
when Helly wore them, a pair for
every mood. 1t seemed so thought
full some way and so very artistic.
And Helly knew how strong hel
mother was on everything artistic
and in perfect harmony" That's
the way Helly has always been dress
ed, and she certainly does look love-
ly too, I'll say that for her mother
even if she does make you feel like
a June bug in a motheaten bathing
suit! She is so terribly perfect, and
her clothes are simply exquisite
Faultless, you know. Awful, isn't it
Il don't wonder Helly loves schoo.
so. No faultlessness here, you car
just bet).
Well. 1 must get on. I do slor
over so, dear Mary G..
Helly was to go down to dinner the
first night she was at home. Some
charming and well-known English
man was going to be there, another
enamel fam like Mrs. Huntington