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'O ' I nf. P'-1 f fi .'i'. FIRST PRIZE STORX' LIFE Suppose you were to sit down at dinner to- night and make your meal exclusively on potatoes. because they happened to be nearest your plate. You looked longingly at the breaded veal chops but just because they were further away than the length of your arm. you sighed and took another spoonful of potatoes. One look at the biscuits made your mouth water, but they were away on the other side of the table. As for the chocolate cake on the sideboard, you decide that is entirely out of the question. It is for people more fortun- ate than yourself, and you go back hopelessly to your potatoes. Silly, isn't it? Anybody ought to know better. How many young men and women are tied to the potatoes of life when they might just as well have the chocolate cake ? They go to the nearest school, scoff at the opportunities of music that are opened to them, take the nearest job, and marry the first boy or girl that comes along. Life spreads a bountiful table, furnished with an infinite variety of foods for our mental and physical sustenance. Potatoes are all right, of course. but ask life to pass the cake. -Harriet Calhoun. Page Forty-Six
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' 1 r 4 , st. .4 V , SECGNII 'PIQIZE S'1'ORX' THE OLD COATERS New coats, like measles and mumps, usually come in waves in a community. Like the diseases, they sometimes leave a bad effect-it remains to be worn again the following year. Great is one's embarrassment if she purchased her new coat in the off-season, for no matter how much pleasure she may have received from it that year, she will experience much the same feeling as did the Ugly Duckling the next season. There can be no organized fellowship, no society for Old Coaters among those who are passing through this low social status, for the law of be- havior in these off-seasons in one's wardrobe is to take no notice of the situation, except in the vicinity of one's family. In this circle one is allowed to give vent in whatever manner as seems best to help the situa- tion. However, when one steps over the family threshhold, she must put on a bold face and the old coat, and meet the world with a manner of total indifference as to the mere consequence of a winter wrap. Another point in the ritual for this season is to put off the recognizing the approach of winter as long as possible. Hadnlt you better put on your warmer coat, dear? Mother inquires with concern. Oh, no, Mother. I'm not a bit cold. It's nice out, yet. When you can no longer shun the coat, you put it on but immediately take it off when arriving anywhere, because I'm so hot. Why DO they heat this room so? I should think you'd be roasting in those coats. But they are not roasting, for they have new coats. This is the season when one cannot afford to be cold, nor can the new coaters afford to be hot. This is not a lazy winter. Next winter you can rely upon your clothes for distinction, but this year you must exert yourself and distinguish your- self in other Ways. One must combine a rapid, brilliant conversation and charming manners to keep people from noticing the deficiencies in one's apparel. As a rule it works, though there are some people who can make a careful inventory of your entire wardrobe before they look you in the eyes. They look at YOU as a sort of after-thought. When one meets such people, she tries to console herself by saying, I don't care what she thinks of my clothes. She never notices whether I'm in them or not, But she does care . . . That's the type of person who makes one care. As the winter advances, and coats get rained, snowed and sat upon, the aristocracy of the new coaters dwindles. One feels less conspicuous. Really, my coat looks as well as Marian's, one comforts herself. Next winter I'll wear this to school and have a new one. Somehow one doesn't mind wearing an old coat if she knows she has a better one. This off-season is one of the casualties until one reaches that heavenly estate Where all things will be new. One will be enrolled then with the saints and it will make no difference to you that you are the only one wearing a coat with a belt. On this earth, however, the occasion of having to wear one's last year's coat is an experience that has its calamitous aspects. -Eleanor Speaker. Page Forty-Seven
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