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Nick, at least, does not surprise me. He was always thus. How I would like to attend one of his receptions. I know that the refreshments would be ele- gant, for he was always so generous, but I know that they will never compare with the cake with which he once so kindly treated the Juniors. "In future years Erva Ruth Foxwell will be the sole inhabitant of a little vine- .covered house by the sea. After graduating with honor at Western Maryland College and returning home, she shall become immensely popular, 1nJ shall have numerous suitors for her hand; but two of the most ardent and long per- . sistent of these-for even in her school-days they WE'rerepresented in her room by photos, etc.-shall almost fight a duel in the 'Japanese style' over her. She in order to prevent such calamity shall determine never to marry and will leave the world of society and carefully shut herself up from any intercourse with 'the male beings.' Here her life shall be on the principle of Kants: at stated times she shall do every act of her life, and in nothing ever be one-tenth of a second behind hand. Only one thing will mar her happiness-the house will be full of mice, and.vas the lady will not let a cat enter, their number will never decrease. To her friends begging her to get rid of her pests she always makes the same answer, 'Of two evils I always choose the less, and as I have lost the only Puss I ever cared about, I won't have another to remind me of him.' " Poor, dear Erva! How I do hope she will have plenty of chairs and tables, for these were her "mighty fortresses" at school. I am not surprised at her scrupulous punctuality, for I remember that at school she was first to bed, first to rise, and first of her classmates everywhere. 74