The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-20


even got kind 81 religious streak.
used to 50 round 10 FRIENDS
Meeting 4 had been down q lot
81 haek-alleys in my time bat It's
good 10 come hack 10 Orthodox
street" he said lie Wss great %
he subject u the sesqui. which
vas a terrible flop That pleased
him because he liked 10 remember
the Centennial
I used To trim up the back yard.
Pop vas too riekety 10 do u
There was = hot little corner down
hack ~ the hollyhocks, guess ]
was Kind 81 dreamy. used 10
like 70 stand in there and get what
/ called the bc-alone feeling In
the house WAS all the time right
up against Pop or Myrtle or some
body or something You need
that be.aione feeling When had
IT didn't feel quite night about
going back 20 Manitou maybe !
ought to stay home and look after
the old man. But he had set his
heart on my getting a chance At
college
Mac said he didn't think |
ought 10 miss u Mac VAS In
great shape that year Come 10
think Of u. he was just the same
age am now. and 1928 must have
been good year 10 be that age.
lie married = goodlooker. who also
had sense. Even Pop liked Mar
tina He said him and Martha
would come over regularly 10 see
Pop was o X. and Of course
Myrtle WAS there didn't like
the idea Of Pop being alone at
night but Mac said he could afford
10 get phone put IN Mae fig.
urcd that all business problems
were solved. Radio was red hot,
and their machine he said was the
Tin Lizzie OF music.
Then got that form letter
from the Dean Of Women at
Prairie saying ,rsshmen would
report such and nIch a date for
the week OF registration and
orientAtion.
Wyn always loved 10 have me
tell about my oolleg. education.
Because that week ~ registration
and orientstion. and purple felt
banner. vas about all ! got
Molly met m. at ii. station in
Manitou We had the feeling she
and I often have. that even II you
could talk a. fast a. the French
you couldn't get out all the ideas
In your head. Molly had fixed
things 30 we could room together
In selfridge. the old jigsaw dorm
schedule Of everything We had 10
do. We rushed round from registrar
TO dean and physical examination
and course enrolment and some
goofy quiz In 10 The idea Of that
was To show how little scholarly
sptitud. you have before college
takes hold Of you. The big on
trance hail AT selfndge st the bot
tom Of the stsirwsy was a regular
scrimmase. girls all unpscking
their trunks and carrying stuff up
10 the rooms. Freshmen always
take the dsmnedest lot Of rubbish
with them when they so 10 college
first time, things they think they
can't do without. We wer. all
toting UP piles Of fayorits books
and oyerstuffed sewpie dolls and
window drspss and cushions and
photograph albums, just a. Helgs
the muscular house matron was
going through the hall somebody's
srmful toppled over and she was
besned BY copy Of A Girl Of the
Limberlost that fell from the third
floor. she only shook that beauti-
ful blonde head and said she vas
glad IT wasn't Webster Una
bHdged
We svssted all our Junk up
three flights Molly said the org
inal name Of the place vas pralrs
Manual Labor college and We were
living Up TO H. We had AL our
stuff arranged and Uncle and
Aunt. down To look II over while
most Of the other siris we're stlii
waiting for Heiga 10 tell them
what 10 do Molly was a born
decorator. she made our room look
swell with our special mascois on
each bed Hsrs vas a Winnie
Pooh that Vas definitely super.
shed picked II up IN Chicago and
nobody else a. Asnitou had sesn
one yet
had stuffed ths catalogue -
carefully that Nhsn Dean Bsse0Hn
gave us her opening blast on Ethics
for College Women g seemed Ike
Old stuff There Wa = h.t ~ = rot
about u sftsrNsrd. because two u
the sophomore boys RID got IN on
bet, dressed Up 80 girls
Il vas good TAX car hear
Bsscom telling "a What all We
we're going 70 learn IN our sca-
dsmlc career There Vas Aflf-con-
trol and democratic social rsls-
too much l.pst.ck and what 70 DO
about soronti.s she had ali "a.
answers in the back q ths BOOK
What sounded most educational
Vas something called Extracerri-
cllsr Lad Molly whispered That
means carrying your stuff upstairs.