Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-03-26
Flowers on His
Desk
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BY JANE OSBORN
(Copyrisht.)


Doo!oh HUFF was a TAN, angular
- spins'er VINO iiiieht' at hl'y' nave
oeeh reaiiy soou-looking woman nau
siie MOI Spent 80 many hours Oh her
uass IN tne aciu'iauel atmosphere Oh
lne chemistry laboratory. As neau
u her department IN "ins'oh College
lor women sne was mucil more inter
es'eu III tNe iease test-tuoe OF retort
:" "ei iauola'ors IMAM III tle iios'
promising Oh s'uuehts'
John Maxwell, IN. D., was likewise
emitted TO the eognonen OF Doctor
OF PROFESSOR but he assured you
that ne preferred Deihg called ME-
lie relgned over the botany labora-
tory which, with the chemistry lab
oratory occupied the top hoor of the
science building OF Wlngton college
Inc specimens IN his laboratory, the
tlhy SHOOTS and sproutlng seeds That
hourshed under his genial care, IN
terested MIN Immensely, but not SO
nuch as the young women VINO came
10 listen 10 MS lectures
Sometimes there was an especially
winsome girl among them. There was
especially one In each new class of
sophomores who took his course as
one Of their prescribed second-year
subjects. This year it was Miss
Allen-Betty Allen, and because her
name began with IN and the stu
dents sat In alphabetical order she sat
before him In the first row. Three
days week lie saw her there In class
and was wildly conscious of her
charming young personality for the
entire hour. He had talked to Betty
once-they had been part of group
Of which Doctor Hun was member
that had quite accidentally been drawn
together in one end of the college re-
ception room at a tea given by the
faculty to the student body. Doctor
Hun and John Maxwell had both at
tended only because II was part of
their duty us professors.
Casting about for something to talk
about, they spoke of roses-there
were some lovely pink roses on one
of the tea tables. 1t seemed to be II
subject of common interest. Betty
said that in the garden in her home
there were some lovely Diana roses.
variety with which her fathers gar
dener had had remarkable success.
Doctor Iluff remarked that II she ever
had rose garden Of her own-adding
TO herself that she prayed heaven that
time would never comet would be
filed with no other variety Of rose.
Size liked thea because in spite OF cul.
tiyntlon they had so many thorns.
Then came the winter with the
charming Betty TO distract him for
three days week Doctor Hun be
came more and more saturated with
the acid atmosphere OF her laboratory.
Betty Allen, who had taken course
in chemistry Ms sophomore elective,
sat In front seat In Doctor Huns
lecture room, but Doctor Hun seldom
saw her-0r anyone else since her
gaze as she lcciured was always mar
rowly directed to the test-tubes and
beakers on the desk before her
Then came the last weeks OF May,
days that brought queer restless
s'u,"'"s n.y. '"e 'ei'is VI 'oni MIX
wen ana tueh one dAy Wuen ne en-
tered his office be saw on his desk u
vase containing rlorlaug buncb ~
.osos r,f,na -. h., .,,.. -, saaa,,,
'' "' o"W va o,e""u
slHht Ihe fragrance OF them almost
unnerved h.m, II brought so wildly
befnre blr, fbs fb,f,,,bt ana tr,ogo ~
.,.....-,-. 49,. ~
'nh ullns h'l'y Nheh' rae Ceulu see
on close examination that these were
no ordinary spetlnens either-they
v.,r, tho ro,,,tt 80 ,.,-,,or, e,.to,,t,,,.,
WV '''"'t W 'Ais'' ""l ilu''"ie'
lens carbon
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