Judge — June 23, 1923 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“But your other name?” she asked, blushing. “Oh, that is a secret for the present.” SUSANNE ON HER OWN Inthe SUSAN Siri asa child envied the Rosamonds, the Gwendolyns she ht was girl and the Vivians with whom played, for their names. She tho her own commonplace. Yet she the prettiest. and) most charming ¥ company. Su: its passed when she very young. ‘They were old-fashioned, with a qualification as to her father. He was modern enough to become many times a millionaire, and yet all his do- mestic reactions were homely. He had two spinster sisters—of — course Smiths—for whom he had pro generously, and whose thrift) promised « although they lived in fashion- able circumstances. Susan was left to the care of these spinsters, Jane and Mary. Simple names, like simple habits, ran in the family. At the right woman's college | whose appealed to her aunts; and a finishing was inet » Susan was sent to a conservatism J. A. Waldron by Illustration by Robert Patterson to the superficial niceties and flexions of social life—followed. Full of the spirit that no conservatism can wholly conquer, St forced new ideas of youthful. independence in the college and justified individual initi- ative of a reasonable sort with a logic, backed by charm that. almost disarmed To one with less witchery ‘no an ogre, genu- criticism, an would have b boys do, girls pick chums instine- Susan’s chum in college was. +, whose lesser attractions tendency to obey contrasted with differing attributes. Adelaide was straining influence. Susan and Adelaide came together almost at once, Adelaide quickly gave her some i the restrictions in vogue. “We are rigidly ct ed in all circumstance >. “My papa came to sce me and I wanted to show him through the science labs. We had to 13 have a matronly escort. Wasn’t it funn, Absurd!” was Susan’s comment. “And one can go away or spend a night even at home but once a month, and then only upon urgenc “Why, it’s like a prison! “Are you very religious, dear? “Why, I go to church, as well-meaning persons do.” “Well, you will have a lot of that. to go to chapel every night, long Sunday servic makes it hardly necessary to ow I lay me down to sleep’ ‘And you can’t cut a class unless you are seriously ill. And no motors or other conveyances are permitted on the campus on Sunday. And if a boy friend wants to see you he is hopelessly entangled in red tape. And there are no man dances until junior year, and only one then, and one senior year. And the boys have to begin at three o'clock P.M. in comicbooks.com