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as a reaction she has at last succumbed to a sleeping stupor, as dul Rip V an W mkleoE o d go had an acc0U nt of the world’s greatest jockey, Esther Hosch. This did not surprise us much, for Esther was always wild over the riding of horses, even of hobbies; but Esther’s breaking the world record on speed couldn’t compare with our own aerial flight on the tail of the comet 1 tell the truth, we knew not how fast we were going till we saw a strange look- ing sight coming toward us. We noticed it was of a red color, and prett soon perceived it to be a balloon with Cornelia Smith dangling below. She told us as she approached, that she had been so much admired and courted by meie man below, that to escape she had sought refuge in the upper air by means of the balloon, which she had tactfully taken from Nell Vnvv s animal lanch. She gave us the real fact concerning Octavia Bethea and Jessie Isaacs, ot hoiii the people of the world were gossiping. Rumor says that Octav la lias • t 1 e mind because she devoted her splendid fortune to the founding of a lunatic •isvlum • but reallv, she is a great philanthropist, for she has set up a reforma- tory for one-idea people. It is beautiful to see her faithful in the discharge of her duties as matron of this institution. Jessie Isaacs, in her effort to escape the swaggering tongues of mankind, has embarked to Tartary, and there reigns supreme as queen ot a tartar tribe. She is lovinglv spoken of bv her friends as “C ream of srtai . Something seemed to daze me— I find myself rubbing my eyes vigor- ously — w hat does it all 1116811? Had I dreamed?
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“One has been edited greatly superior to the Century or Murray’s; it contains fifteen thousand new words, and as many ways of pronunciation, and all this was done by none other than Lois Atkinson,” said Susie. “I am glad my school days are over,” 1 said, but the momentum of the comet swung us apart, and only an occasional word floated to me. Speaking of Lois, Nell Furr, you know, has become so wild about Zoology that she has an animal ranch out in Mississippi, and she has recently accepted a position as animal trainer in Barnum and Bailey’s circus. She has endowed Old Wesleyan with a museum that is to be known as the “Quillian Museum of Natural History.” A current of air swept a scrap of paper into my hand, and I read, “The Heavenly Sphere Fully Discovered and Explored,” by Mattie Mae Tumlin. I called out, “How fine it would be, girls, to have ‘Old Turn’ up here for a guide. She always had heavenly aspirations — maybe we’ll pass her airship, for she is so flighty on aerial subjects that she rarely moves among men.” Another hair of the comet’s tail swung toward me, and I saw clinging to the same hair two women, the one placarded, “A Lineal Descendant of Major Ozone, the World’s Greatest Fresh Air Fiend;” the other girl was tagged with a card which read, “The Most Representative of World’s Women.” “Hello, girls,” they cried, and I recognized Martha Wilkinson and Bessie Cooper. “My glass house with glass windows, walls and doors was having so many stones thrown at it,” complained Martha, “that to keep from getting hit, I had to shut it up; 1 can’t live in a closed house, so 1 took to cometing for a whiff of air. Bessie Cooper, here, is so occupied with social obligations that l brought her out from the stuffy old drawing rooms: Bessie needs this rest, for she exhausted herself at the wedding of Bess Warren, and in helping her estab- lish in the Adirondack Mountains a matrimonial bureau as a crusade against the bachelor girl. Bess Warren also has a scheme on hand to get Congress to tax the old bachelors. Besides all of this, Bessie Cooper has been exploiting the greatest emotional actress in the world,” continued Martha. “You know, I was always crazy about expression, so I went to see the great emotional actress do the Lady Macbeth stunt. She came on the stage in that sleep-walking scene, trailing her flowing gown, as she tried to rub out the damned spot, ‘Out, I say.’ When my eyes rested on Lady Macbeth’s face, 1 could not realize that the great actress could be old Susie Mae Greer. We met Susie later at Rena Pit- ta rd’s bridge party. Rena, you know, is the social queen in Paris, and at her home champagne and everything worldly is in evidence.” As I thought over what Martha had told us, I saw a lonely woman sitting on the side of a bleak volcano. Her strong, serious features seemed strangely familiar, and as the comet’s tail swept nearer the earth, I recognized Madge Rayle. Before her was an easel, and Madge was seeking new colors in the sulphurous smoke and flames. Just at this minute there passed by an airship in which sat Maude Phillips and Ruth Parrish. I could scarcely believe my eyes — those two girls who never let their imagination soar at Wesleyan, now doing the skylark stunt, soaring higher, ever higher as they call out, “How did you all get on the tail of a comet? We have just come from Mars, and if you pass near there you will see Lessie Trammell; she’s organized, not a Ku-Klux Klan, but a Captain Kvd Club, and is amassing a fortune as chief of a band of buccaneers in the canals of Mars.” Swiftly did the airship pass on, but Phillips and Parrish threw into my hands a page of the Bavaria) ' Banner, accounting the sad fate of the world’s greatest musician, Blanche Rucker, who had become so enthusiastic in lec- turing on the theory of theories and the harmony of harmonies in music, that
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