The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-15
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Lack Of Interest


HE isn't human!" declared the gin
in the plaid skirt.
Il should say not!" chimed in the
young woman in the striped suit. He
belongs to the genus iceberg, own
cousin to the glacier fanny. And
rudel Did you ever see fewer man
ners in your life? It's too bad because
he isn't so awfully Old
"Old7 He's old as the hills! Mathu-
saleh was his pet uncle!" stated the
girl with the dimple. why this col
lege should take pains to pick out
such a disagreeable person to teach
such an important course is beyond
me! You'd think they'd try to make
the course popularI Why, was just
as busy as could be yesterday and yet
| wasted time waiting after class to
ask him to make several points clear
to me and instead Of being pleased, as
he should have been if his heart was
in his work, what do you suppose ne
said? just drawled that if couldn't
comprehend perfectly clear descrip-
lions nobody on earth could assist me
to it and slapped his books together
and went away! And l know why he
was in such hurry!"
"Why?" begged the chorus.
"H'm!" said the girl with the dim
pie. Il looked out of the window and
he was just streakng it across the
campus after that new teacher of Eng
hsh-"
"O-o-oh!" shrieked the girl in the
plaid skirt, why, she's awful old!
And look at her hair! She must be all
of 2S or so. What can he see"
Il think they're very suitable
pair" chimed in the young woman in
the stripes, with a sniff. Fossils.
both of them! Why, that man
wouldn't notice if you threw a bomb
under his feet! Just as matter of
scientific investigation l wore to class
the other day that new waist Of mine
from New York. And I certainly had
a time getting out from under moth
er's eye with it on, let me tell you!
She's so fussy about what l wear to
school. l thought if he was in the
least like other men he'd notice that.
Well, he never even turned his eyes
in my direction! 1t might just as well
have been a potato sack. / believe
he'd like girl in an old piece Of bur
lap just as well as if she had on 3
paric oOun Not thai"
Never" chimed in the girl with the
dimple, shall forget that day last
winter when / had the chair in front
neaest him. l hated to think we
might have been misjudging him, and
l thought I'd give him chance te
show whether he did have any feeling
whatever in him"
ooh, is that why you hung around
him so all last Quarter?" tartly de
manded the girl in stripes. Every
| body was talking"
Il! Hang around!" gasped the CIR
with the dimple. I'D have you know
| I'm studying psychology and it is my
duty to investigate any-er-queer
ness that develops in those about me
| certainly have no personal interest
whatever in a man like that who
! wears ties that are painful. But, as
say. l gasped that was going to
faint. and, instead of jumping up ano
| grabbing me as / toppled, he sat per
/ fectly still and said in brittle sort OF
/ way to that awful freshman with the
| ears. DanYers. throw a glass of water
over her!'
{ Il never was so disappointed in my
life. I think it is dreadful to find that
a man with really good nose and
chin like his is perfectly cruel and
/ heartless. Not that / think him sc
especially good looking. l know loads
of men who beat him in every direc
/ ton"
He's impossible!" declared the girl
in stripes.
81 consider him actually homely."
'There isn't single fascinating
trait in him--"
"Girls!" cried the young person in
the Russian blouse, who just ther
burst into the room. Professor Blunt
says he has an hour to spare and
he'll go over an those points you
seem to be puzzled about Of late, Il
you care to come down to the library
And l heard him tell that New Eng
fish teacher he had some of the most
attractive students in his class and
my goodness! There must be fire!'
She ran to the window after the
drive had passed her and. looking out
saw girl in stripes, a girl in plaid
and girl with dimples headed fierce
ly for the library.
''Why, they actually seem in hur
ny to get there" she murmured. q