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airy, sprightly little kid of thirteen summers, "diked out to kill." She has been "diked" ever since, and would make a live blush creep up into the wooden faces of the French models dressed for the exhibition pages of Le Vogue or the Delineator. Being so remarkably gotten up, and having such a winsome man- ner, she soon had a human avalanche of ardent gallants delicately pressing forward-if you can imagine an avalanche doing anything in a delicate manner-pleading for one wee little grace from her. She came to be spoken of as the most talented girl in school. Her rela ti ves didn't want her health ruined by study, so she never undertook that, because she was afraid that she would do it. She received the medal in the Sophomore elocution contest, but music, both instrumental and vocal, is her specialty. She sings in the chapel choir and has always been able, at a moment's notice, to claw away worse'u "Rube" at the C011- cert. To hear her sing, ah-h ! one's soul, one's musical being, one's only being, is thrilled, touched to the quick by her bird-like notes; and I believethat if, like the wandering princess, she would go out into the lonely forest and sing, the sticks and stones and moss would all stand up and peer curiously forth. She draws and paints" like a major" and dances like a dream. She has had sent to her from all quarters of the globe notes containing assurances of the writers' undying affection for her, and accompanied by candy, flowers, original music dedicated to ber, etc., etc. She has broken many rules, thereby incurring the wrath of every member of ye august body; but though frothing at the mouth arc they, and as stern and inexorable as they could well be,they melt the moment she casts her orbs thereon. Shc has helped to win many games of basket-ball for the class team of 1903, play-ing games is her strong point. Health to her. . Chestertown, Md. MARY KATHLEEN GOODING, Philomathean Literary Society. Once, four years ago, at the beginning of the school term, when the writer was" footing it" up Col- lege Hill, with a raised umbrella and two bundles in one hand and a wet hat-box in the other hand, she noticed ahead of her another peculiar specimen which turned out to be a dark-haired girl with flashing eyes, who was gesticulating wildly and who seemed to be imploring her companion to remain with her; but this could not be, and so when Mary Kathleen Gooding was let loose inside of the arch at the - - 42 - -