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IO TI-IE TALISMAN TI-IE. RESULT OF A DINNER PARTY. Come on, Jack, let's go down to Bob's. Fred, I just can't go, this notebook has to go in tomorrow or get ten off. Oh, bother that notebook. I haven't even started mine yet. You just stick around home all the time, and never have a bit of the fun the other fellows do, and they don't very often get much more than a 'conf Come on, let's go have a game of chess with the fellows, and then I'll come home with you and study. HWell, Fred, I would like to go ever so much, but I can't possibly leave my work. And all I have to say for you is that you'd better stay yourself, or there will be con- siderable danger of your getting 'conned. ' Oh, well, if you won't go I suppose you Won't, then. There goes Billy now. Good- bye. Jack Sterns was the son of a rich financier and a very conscientious student. He denied himself many of the pleasures of school life, but he said he always felt repaid when he received his grades, for as all the fellows knew, he never made a grade below ninety. Fred Ferris was his roommate. He didn't make any striking grades, but was quite popular and always out for a good time. When Fred returned about ten, Jack's notebook was completed and he was in bed. Well, Jack, old boy, you don't know what you missed. No, I don't know, but I do know you had better get to work on that notebook or you will surely miss something, but then let's hear what I've missed. j'Well, we had a meeting and decided to give a spread and each fellow invite a senior from the Academy. We counted you in, and Billy promised to get you a girl if you would only go, just once, just try it once and see how it goes. Oh, bother. Don't talk stuff like that to me, you know I wouldn't know what to do or say with a girl. Yes, we all understand that perfectly, but we'1l give you a course in How to act with a Lady,' between now and then, its day after tomorrow night, next Saturday night. Come on, let your work go once. Well, I'n1 afraid I'd prove a bore to you all, and as for the poor young lady, she'd wish a thousand times she was at home. I won't know what to say to her. Oh, that's easy enough, just tell her all about that roommate of yours, that lazy, good-for-nothing, dooless, shiftless, sleepy, Cfor he rather had a tendency for sleeping? or anything else about me you want to. Then, you can tell her all about your thesis and your history papers and your bashfulness, explain that above everything else and don't forget to apologize for your manners in ladies' company, but she will surely excuse them, for this is the first time in years you will have been with a girl. Well, suppose we postpone my lesson until tomorrow, and you get to work on your notebook, good night, I'mi going to sleep? It was Saturday, and all the boys were hurrying around, each one trying to do something, but in reality none were doing anything, except Jack, who was finishing it history paper. But at last all preparations were completed, even to the bottomless chair prepared for Jack. The boys had all been in dozens of times that day to see that Jack was not slighting his paper, and to give him some instructions as to how he was to act. They all came in to inspect his dressing in the evening, too, and finally at 5:30 he was in th-e carriage riding toward the Academy, dreading worse every minute the event, as it drew near. ' But when the appointed hour arrived, as he said afterwards, it wasn't nearly so bad as he had expected. The girl was rather tall, with light hair and brown eyes and
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TI-IE TALISIVIAN ll very fair, just the type of a girl Jack had always admired. She was quite congenial and an awful talker. It would be quite safe to say that Jack never had to worry once about what they would talk about next. As the boys said, she never runs down. The evening proved quite an enjoyable one for him, as he committed none of those serious blunders he had so feared, he, more than any one else, enjoyed E'red's misfortune in getting the bottomless chair, he responded to his toast with unusual wit and humor, he also received many compliments on his dancing. A few days after, Fred began to notice .lack had taken to walking by himself a great dealg and several times had caught him day-dreaming and at last one night he found him gone. I-Ie felt sure he knew what the trouble was, but feared to say any- thing to him for fear of breaking the charm. Finally the other fellows began to notice this unusual state of affairs, but they, too, feared to mention it. One night Jack invited the fellows all in, a still more unheard of thing. They all felt something was surely going to happen, yet they dared not say a word. After the eats had all disappeared, Jack suggested each one give some advice, as a parting word. - XVhen Jack's turn came, they all sat in silent' expectation. But he, as usual, started by telling them how much more they should be getting out of school and how they could do this. They were all very much disappointed. They feared he was going to turn back into his old path, but suddenly he launched forth on Miss Evans and her wondrous traits, and startled them by announcing his marriage to her two days previous. He extended his most sincere thanks to them for making this possible and invited them all to see him when they should get settled in their new apartments. He concluded, Yes, books are fine, fellowsg but life isn't all in books. VVell, you certainly are an apt pupil, here you've won the girl in six weeks weve all been courting these four years, slowly remarked Fred. -Anna Coolley, 'l5. UL QUEER, ISN'T IT? If Billy wasn't as awkward as Jess it was because he didn't have 'so much to be awkward with, especially feet. Bill was short, fat and awkward: oh, so awkward. Now some people are fat and graceful, but when a fat person is awkward there is only one type of humanity that can be more awkward and of that type was Jess. Tall, large of frame and with feet larger and more ungainly than Ross Winkler. Roommates at college Billy and Jess were as unseparable as Mutt and Jeff. What Jess liked Billy seemed to have a fondness for. Jess, with his hundred and eighty pounds of bone and brawn, made a guard on the varsity. lt was difficult for Jess to move without throwing a teammate off side, but no opposing team ever gained ground through him. For his prowess and much to his embarassrnent, he was very much adored by all the girls. One evening at their room, Billy and Jess were discussing things in generalg that is, Billy was discussing and Jess listening, when Billy broached the subject of girls: and as Billy could talk more and say less than anybody else Comitting Hughes B. Smithj, it was fully five minutes before Jess could tell him that he didn't care for girls, didu't know any girls at school, and didn't want to know any. Peculiar, wasn't it? At the finality in Jess' remark, Billy opened his eyes and silently resolved to make Jess go with the girls a little at least. When Billy started to do a ithing it was hard to make him quit. When Jess said no it was hard to make him change it to yes. So here we have al chance for a struggle. Aside from this Billy liked girls and didn't know any so he thought that maybe if Jess started there would be a chance for him, at least to meet a few. After two hours' hard talking Billy convinced Jess that he owed it to the girls,
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