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2 wellesley College News MAGAZINE NUMBER JW PI* * CONTENTS * PAGE THE PARTY Harret B. Devan, TWILIGHT Dors Fenton, THE SPELL Agnes Rockwell, FAITH MERRIMAN Katharne Pardee, SLIP SHEETS 14 ALUMNA DEPARTMENT 18 STUDENT GOVERNMENT BEFORE, Mary C. Wggn, 1885 STUDENT GOVERNMENT AFTER, Florence F. Besse, 1907 NEWS OF THE WEEK 31 VOL. XX JANUARY No. 12

3 The Knght of Toggenberg I Ballad for Alto Solo and Chorus of Women's Voces From the German of Fredrch von Schller yvwfofc/r The musc by W. W. GILCHRIST Prce, Postpad, 50 cents A splendd work, of moderate dffculty, for any organzaton of women sngers. It requres about twenty mnutes to sng t. Dscount on Quanttes Olver Dtson Company, 150 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Also For Sale at College Book Store M- -K **««T Cjanbler & Co. 151 Tremont Street, Boston KKK THE MOST DESIRABLE Xmas Gft Suts Coats Dresses Wasts Mllnery I Neckwear Hosery Gloves Underwear Velngs Pettcoats Jewelry Sweaters Handkerchefs Onsurpa ed-{ c bh n b s c Tat es 146 TREMONT STREET 1 39 SUMMER STREET 414 BOYLSTON STREET I. f

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5 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS The Frst Month of the New Year Wll Be of Two=Fold Interest to Our Patrons Do not fal to keep n touch wth New England's Greatest Store durng January. Day by day advance dsplays of Sprng styles wll be made n varous apparel sectons day by day exceptonal economes wll be possble on many lnes of wnter merchandse. Many of the largest and most carefully planned specal sales of the entre year occur ths month and you should not mss them. JORDAN MARSH COMPANY THE Wellesley Natonal B ank»hxh Requests you to call for a statement of your account as soon as possble. Wtlltzk? nn. Afternoon Tea. CHAS. N. TAYLOR, Presdent, Sandwches and Sundaes. 8KHH BENJ. H. SANBORN, Vce-Pres dent, B. W. GUERNSEY, C asher.

6 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE XKV. DEVELOPING AND PRINTING, PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY, BIRTHDAY AND WEDDING GIFTS IN TECO POTTERY, BRASS. PICTURES, CIRCULATING LIBRARY. ax brothers Tlopsts 143 Tremont Street, Boston. Opposte Temple Place Subway Staton. RENTINd DEPARTMENT.-We arc contnung the rentng of pctures, and n addton are rentng Portable Electrcs, Jardneres, Tea Tables and Shrt-Wast Boxes. CHOICE ROSES, VIOLETS AND ORCHIDS Constantly on hand. Mal and Telephone Orders Promptly Flled. ABELL STUDIO AND GIFT SHOP WELLESLEY Telephones Oxford 574 and FREE DELIVERY TO WELLESLEY. JOHN A. MORGAN & CO. Establshed 1901 PHARMACISTS SHATTUCK BLDG. WELLESLEY. Prescrptons compounded accurately wth purest drugs and chemcals obtanable st Commence the New Year R?ht GET A WARD'S "A LINE A DAY" BOOK The Popular 5-Year Dary, and keep a record of the pleasant college happenngs for 5 years. Complete Lne of Hgh Grade Statonery and Sundres Waterman Ideal Fountan Pen CANDIES FROM Page & Shaw, Huyler, Qualty, Lowney, Samoset Eastman Kodaks and Camera Supples VISIT OUR SODA FOUNTAIN Pure Frut Syrups Fresh Frut n Season Ice-Cream from C. M. McKechne & Co. GET THEM AT THE COLLEGE BOOK STORE Samuel Ward Company, Frankln St., Boston.

7 IV THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS Luncheon 11-3 tengltslj 160 Tremont Street Over Moseley's Afternoon Tea Between West and Boylston Streets We Carry an mmense lne of NOVELTIES IN Jewery and Slver at Very Low Prces We especally call attenton to goods sutable for gfts for all occasons SUMMER ST. Next Hovey's Wholesale Retal In THEIR NEW STORE at 127 Tremont Street Ready-to-Wear Department. FLANNEL, CHEVIOT, LINEN, MADRAS AND LINGERIE WAISTS Made n our own Workroom GOWNS OF SERGE, SILK AND VELVET For Mornng and Afternoon ALSO SILK BREAKFAST GOWNS, COLLARS, TIES AND JABOTS GLOVES FOR STREET AND DRESS WEAR ^^ """ stf ^ 127 Tremont St. A< &AJ7*X Boston> u. s.

8 n, T II E W E L L ES L E Y ( I.I. EG E N I. DC ] DIC lo IMPORTERS A. L LaVERS COMPANY DESIGNERS Boyloton St. ^-. J Park Square Boston Specalty Shop FURS sele<. styles, and of specal mportaton, splendd valm, makes ou MILLINERY n manv stock, are smart, exclusve and n prced. GOWNS The latest fashons n street and evenng gowns n materals of t varety are especally arranged by our desgners. The French hand-made lngerembrodered lnen gowns and dresses are tractve. WAISTS P ur n? w models now on dsplay n chffon, slk marqusette, pongee, hand embrodered talored lnen, French hand-made and domestc lngere are especally attractve and excellent values. A vst to ths exclusve shop wll convnce the purchaser that the styles are unusual and unlke models shown elsewhere. Telephone I H 1=1 C r=] : = BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO ADVERTISERS. Please try to remember that the Advertsng Secton of our Magazne cannot be a success unless you patronze the frms represented theren. PAGE ATHLETIC SUPPLIES. Spaldng & Bros v Wrght & Dtson 34 BANK. Wellesley Natonal Bank CATERERS. C. M. McKechne & Co x CHOCOLATE COCOA. Walter Baker & Company, Ltd v CONFECTIONERY, COLLEGE ICES, ETC. Huyler's, Boston 2nd cover Lovvney, Boston 34 COSTUMER. George P. Raymond Co x DRUGGISTS. J. A. Morgan Co FLORISTS. Talby 35 Wax Bros FOUNTAIN PENS. Moore's Non-Leak Fountan Pen.. Craftsman Co FURNITURE. FURS. Edward F. Kakas & Sons. Boston x Lamson & Hubbard, Boston GROCERIES. FRUIT, ETC. Barkas, Wellesley Cowan, Wellesley x Genesee Pure Food Co., Le Roy. X. Y xv GYMNASIUM SUITS. Columba Gymnasum Sut Co HAIR DRESSING. Mss Ruth Hodgkns I nued on page x.) v x x

9 VI THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS k T. E. MOSELEY CO. ^ {college shoes I In all shapes and szes. f ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR EVERY k OCCASION Lades' Hatter 160 Tremont St., - Boston. Over Moseley's Shoe Store. NEWEST FOR FALL WEAR. *»SOS' -HH- ««HH" 4SK >SS SSSS- 160 Tremont and 33 Mason Sts., Boston. Eye=glasses, Spectacles, Opera Glasses, In fact, a full lne of OPTICAL AND PH0T0= GRAPHIC SUPPLIES.. I Developng, Prntng and Enlargng, j The fnest qualty work at our usual moderate prces. I SHREVE, CRUMP & LOW CO., 147 TREMONT STREET. JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS Damonds, Gems, fne Statonery, Card Engravng Programs and Invtatons Both Prnted and Engraved CLASS DAY PROGRAMS A SPECIALTY Pnkham & Smth Company, j Two Stores 288 Boylston Street, 13 1=2 Bromfeld Street BOSTON, MASS. Class Pns Desgned and Manufactured to Order Fne Jewelry Reparng Parasols and Umbrellas Made to Order, Recovered and Repared

10 he 1 rood-nght, Zhe TOellesle^ College Vew* Entered at the Post Offce n Wellesley, Mass., at *econd-cla*» m VOL. XX. WELLESLEY, JANUARY 4, u T HIS THE s one of those corners of the unverse," le wrote on, "n whch any man could fnd an outlel for h- heart'- desre. The regular farm lte, wth all tnsstent routne as well as ts pcturesqueness would le what you would sec n t, my lteral --- ter. I know that wthn one or two days' tme you would fnd your daly joy n sloshng back and forth n the wet garden all the 'forenoon,' pckng the peas and corn, or sharng n the weekly bakng, or cheerng the daly drudgery wth some such effectve help. "As for me I brazenly confess t, I am havng a heavenly tme beng a drone. I am feastng my cty-tred eyes on sunny hlls that seem to rm the world n all about us wth ther pasture lands or ther mysterous, lvng woods. The whole countrysde dps nto deep lttle valleys and rses quckly agan nto trumphant, rock-crowned hlls wherever the eye wanders, wth a vgor of outlne that s very refreshng. In the mdst of t all stands our sedate old homestead, and that you would love t s so whte and sunshny on the outsde and just as tdy and ary wthn. To be sure 'our Joe,' as they call the 'boss,' and the farm men use the ktchen as a constant thoroughfare, and everythng from torn straw hats to ox-whps may mark ther tral. But Mss Matte s just as unrelentng n her orderlness as you are, and the pes never seem to burn or run over, no matter how often she stops to 'set the men's thngs just out n the work-house!' "I wonder how my chef frend n the household, Mrs. Fenlej-, would mpress you? I thnk you would love her. You would apprecate, I know, her corner n the lvng-room, wth ts three sunny, snowy-curtaned wndows flled wth ferns and vy and flowers. And here, when she s not busy about the house, she sts n her flow-ered rockng-char wth the hgh back, and tats or wnds rags for rag rugs, or sklfully reseats chars wth heavy strng or strps of some stout stuff or other. "As she sts n ths old homestead lvng-room, flled now wth essentally modern furnture, and gazes quetly out past the swayng hollyhocks and larkspur, I sometmes wonder whether the sunlt hlls are not dearer to her than to others, through an ntmate sense of ther age. "Well, well, I must stop my dreamng. Supper was over some tme ago, and t occurs to me that even the muffled clatter of dsh-washng s no more. PARTY. No. 12 'I h- - the hour when I love besl to fnd myself one of famly < rele, and another good you. J >on'l worry about ether my health or my pantng; ths lfe - dong both an nfnte amourr IIp wrter closed the letter, blew out h- candle and stood for a few slent momenta lookng out at h- open wndow on the -oft. dmness of the world n the early starlght. It was the hour that he loved besl out-of-doors as well a- n. As he entered the lvng-room he -aw that t: yellow lght from the center-table lamp ncluded wthn t- hoverng crcle the other memb<r- of the famly. "Well." spoke up M-- Matte cheerfully, lookng up from the broom covers that she was n "t's a blessn' to ketch sght of a peaceful face lke yours, Mr. Norrs, I must say! Joe her crotchety as ever the whole day gone Not's I blame hm, truth to tell. One whole I hay fell how was t. Joe. t fell? Here. Mr. N ths char sets easest." But Mr. Xorrs dd not take the bg char that was wrggled toward hm crab-wse; he crossed the room and brought out a rather shabby gammon board from a low stand behnd Mrs. Fenley's char. Mrs. Fenley lad asde her tattng wth an assentng smle and smoothed out her lap to receve the board. The rubber of backgammon was the socal event of the day for Mrs. Fenley. and she always prepared for t by runnng her wrnkled hands tentatvely over her kerchef and the lttle scrap of lace, wth ts quant pendant sde-tabs, whch capped her slvery har. As Xorrs drew n hs char and set about sortng out the peces, "our Joe" was sayng. "An" then we were wth a storm n the sky an' two felds not even stacked yet an' the frst load dumped! 'F I c'd sense what fool man loaded thet wagon so's t would dump all oxer the road an' keep th' other two rght behnd t to get raned on out there! Ef I just could! An' f 't wan't hay 't 'ud be somethn' else." "Joe. a sght of contrary thngs happen to you. seems to me," remarked Mss Matte. wth one eye and her mouth screwed up n the process of threadng her needle. "Well, you'd thnk so. ef on top o' that the whole kt and boodle of them summer boys an' grls hed come askn' fer the bg team to take them to a par-

11 hey a THE WELLES LEY COLLEGE NEWS ty an' none of them c'n drve the bg team. Yon know can't, Mat." "There!" came Mrs. Fenley's eager voce. "That's.mother of your men gone, Mr. Norrs! - WJ.t party arc they gon' to, Joe?" "Sonc old-fashoned dress-up thng over the hll, ez I hear; ever'body's gon'. They's too many partes these days, anyhow," and, grumblng, he subsded behnd a newspaper. The lttle old lady cast hm a glance that was half scornful, half wstful. " Mclhc they ddn't hev lots of partes when you were young, nephew," she sad, "but n my day ah!" And that ndrawn breath and her brght eyes told Xorrs how she had loved them. " Dd you dance at them, Mrs. Fenley? " he asked, as he pcked up her dce for her. "Oh, yes," she told hm, "though I don't s'pose you'd call t real dancn' now. It's a long whle sence I went to a dancn' party." "Then we must have an old-fashoned a 'grlhood' party, and you and your frends show us how to really dance oh, Mrs. Fenley," he urged enthusastcally, "wouldn't you?" The wrnkled old hands gathered up the dce very slowly. "No, t wouldn't be the same, Mr. Norrs. There an't one of my grlhood frends ths sde of the grave." Her voce grew a lttle muffled, and dropped tll Norrs could hardly make out that she was talkng to herself. "No, not one sngle one left," she was sayng, "no matter how often you make b'leve they are. Not Judth, nor dear 'Lza nor " The low voce traled off nto slence. Norrs glanced at "our Joe;" he was sound asleep, and hs lmp hand seemed to be holdng hs ppe by nothng but magnetsm. Mss Matte was nspectng her last broom-cover crtcally. "That does put me n mnd though, Aunt Fenley," she sad, as she folded up her work for the nght, "that you an' Joe an' I're all wanted at the party. An' you, too, Mr. Norrs ever'body. Young Ms' Ansell's havn' t, an' she calls t an 'old-fashoned neghborhood' party. It's fer young an' old. It'll be a gre't fuss to ever fnd clothes enough old-styled ones, you know but t'll he rght nce to see ever'body else's. I mnd I used to love to dress up so years ago. You'd ought to get a st;ht o' pleasure out of t, aunt," she ended, wth a kndly thoughtfulness. "Oh, I love partes," answered Mrs. Fenley, wth recovered brghtness, "an' t's real nce of Ms' Ansell to want me. A neghborhood party ought to be real nce, too. But I don't know I don't know's I set gre't store by an old-tme party wthout oldtme people. You see how t s," she added a lttle anxously to Norr-, for she knew that he understood. Fnally t came, the mornng of the famous neghborhood party, and there certanly was "a gre't fuss" to sort out of all the trunkfuls of old clothes those that would go at all together. Mss Matte's patence was almost exhausted. She had been lendng thngs from her attc to nearly evenone n the communty, t seemed to her, but she had saved out enough for costumes for Mr. Norrs, Joe and herself. Mrs. Fenley, thank fortune! was "dong" her own. "Mss Matte!" Norrs called desparngly n the mdst of hs mornng smoke on the back porch. An oven door slammed; and then a busness-lke voce ssued tartly through the ktchen wndow. "Well?" t sad. "I can't be a deacon, I haven't any bell hat. And deacons always wore bell hats you know they dd, Mss Matte." "Oh, Mr. Norrs!" called a voce from the garden, at these words; and Norrs left the back porch and wandered down to jon Mrs. Fenley among the flowers. Her faded blue sun-bonnet bobbed here and there above and among the rose-bushes, and the bee laden hollyhocks, n ther langud swayng, cast fantly-scalloped shadows across her folded whte kerchef and her whte mornng apron, as her hands bused themselves wth prunng, straghtenng, tyng up, and all the other absorbng garden dutes. Norrs had stood there for some mnutes n slence before she turned and caught the affectonate smle n hs eyes. Her own smled back wth the frendlness of a kndred sprt, despte the wrnkles that surrounded them. "You shall be a deacon," she told hm rght away, "f'r I know I have a bell hat of my father's. You come up garret wth me tll I fnd t." "Oh, fne! I knew I was destned to be a deacon, Mrs. Fenley, and you are an nstrument of provdence! Let me take your waterng-pot to the tool house, and tell Mss Matte on the way that I have the hat. I'll meet you up garret." When he pushed open the attc door a few mnutes later he found Mrs. Fenley layng thngs out from her own lttle old trunks wth an absorbed cue. Norrs' eyes grew tender as he watched her smooth each dress so caressngly before she lad t down. Fnally she held up a par of whte, almost heelless slppers. "Those," she told hm a lttle wstfully, "are my weddng slppers; and I've danced n them, too. I b'leve I c\\ wear them now!" Wth hands that trembled a lttle, she thrust off the slppers that she was wearng and actually succeeded n drawng on the others. She rose quckly to her feet and put off her apron, and Norrs drew

12 apped I h In- ap he ht., the he obw heeka and THE WELLES LEY COLLEGE N 3 I,,< I nto hadow and eye hone ol tlj and he pnk wth da ng as h< began to dan< e. bs to wat h. were qute 'I he Bun slanted dmlj a< ro her slvery har and w l ng tab a< ro g n hough her f whteness of her ken hef. I wrnkled and tw ted, yel she held out her lull skrt n each sde wth grlsh grace; and grlsh, too, was the grace of her curl turn of her lac head and her demure prouette. A more enchantng sght Norrs had never seen. When, th< spell beng broken, she ran back to the trunk n confuson and tred to laugh at herself and her "nonsense," he led her hack nto a sober happm by sayng earnestly, "Don't please, dear 'Aunt' Fenley." And then there was slence untl she thrust the black bell hat nto hs hand w h a gay lttle smle and sent hm on down-stars wth t. Bu she dd nol go down for a long whle. That evenng, on one sde of the supper table sat an austere young deacon wth very large shoebuckles and an mposng bell hat. And on the other sde sat a sweet lttle old lady n her own weddngdress of watered slk, blacksh blue n color. The snow\-, transparent fchu had long lan n lavender, whose essence mngled delcately wth that of the mgnonette now held n her brooch. Joe and Matte were gong to have ther supper before they dressed, and would come to the party a lttle late; but Mrs. Fenley was eager to be off at once, and Norrs was very wllng. "Now, here's my mantle I wore t to rde over to my husband's home n," she sad gayly. "Blue velvet ddn't fall out the sky those days but my father sad I sh'd have t. There, now, we're ready!" "II you see me start to go home real early you musn't come too, Mr. Norrs. I I often get headaches at partes, lke's not." He gave an encouragng lttle pat to the hand on hs arm and smled clown at her. "At old-fashoned partes, you mean," he teased, am she confessed wth a tremulous lttle laugh. The next mnute they were n the house. There was a long, wde room wth a majestc freplace along one sde, and a hgh-hoy, a spnnngwheel and several carved chars, the envy of the country round. The mantel was hanked wth sumach and btter-sweet, the corners adorned wth pne boughs above and great terns below. A few people had gathered already one or two belles of Cvl War days; more than one demure maden who was wearng not her own weddng gown, as was Mrs. Fenley, but her grandmother's gowns whose sheer smplcty exchanged wth ther present wearers ther own half-veled vsons of sweet, longago roman< e, for th< jo nd z >uth. ' Gentlemen app flowered ape» ta<!< and among lttle mads, n -pre.,d ldrl a nd properly I ther fr-t party fro< where responded I horn - n frlls and floun I young h- wth new ardor when they found ther -' out n all the grandeur ol and lace ruffles. Everywhere the wtchng mnders of old da) - dspelled n and spe-, n the genalty of neghborhood remnscences. Here a quant lttle woman n a tmey flowered dress, a funny formal lttle bonnet wth tall flowers noddng wrh green spectacles, chatted wth a dscreet old p And then by the door a tall man wth an mmovably ferocous face, n scarlet regmentals, wth hs great sword clankng at h- heels, doffed hs cockaded hat. wth ts whte plumes, gallantly to those who : hm. The evenng flew along n gaety and long-forgotten memores. The older lades delghl descrbng to the younger gen xat»n just how and when ther mothers and grandmothers had worn the gowns they now saw, and what bonne - rbbons once went wth them. The g beng told how much they "favored" ther an> when they dressed ther har low and wore t; prnts and sprgged musln-. If a certan bell-crowned deacon hovered n roomy, hgh-backed char whch held a dear lttle old lady n a lace cap wth tabs, and was surrounded wth people, the lttle lady dd not know t. Her eyes were sparklng and her cheeks were flushed wth exctement and happness. She was wholeheartedly absorbed n renewng her ntmacy wth the clothes of the neghborhood of her day. She hardly looked at the people's faces, for the famlar clothes breathed out ther own personaltes to her, and she overlooked the denttes of the actual wearers wth happy SUCC( SS Fnally the evenng was over, and Norrs presented hmself before the brght-eyed lttle woman. Sn- sank hack for a moment nto the depths ot her great char and let her eyes feast themselves on the dear scene. Then she let hm help her on wth her "mantle;" they took ther leave, and found themselves walkng home n slence among the shadows of the moonlght. The lofty dark woods on ether sde of the road, and all the quet outlyng hlls that dpped now nto slvery, mst-flled valleys, accentuated the stllness and sustaned the charm so that nether spoke. Then Norrs. as he lfted hs bell

13 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. hat and held open the lttle gate for her, asked softly, "Well?" Mrs. Fenlcy held her hands tghtly together for a moment before she answered. "Well," she breathed earnestly, "I've spent all ths evenng wth my grl frends talkng clothes! I declare I don't b'leve I was ever meant to be so happy as ths!" Norrs watched her eyes shnng n the moonlght, and hs own dmmed a lttle as she turned and smled rapturously at hm. "I I could have burst out cryng any mnute," she told hm tremulously, and turned away and hurred nto the house. Harret Beecher Devan, TWILIGHT. Slow snks the sun behnd the Western hlls; Softly the swallow twtters to her mate; Wth slent haste the bee darts home, late From meadows where the lonely crcket thrlls. The droppng dew the flower-cup rchly flls Wth jewels to greet the Morn n festal state, When Dawn frst opens wde her golden gate; But now they le unseen. The laborer tlls The frutful feld no more. No nose s heard, Stlled even s the song of the latest brd. Twlght comes forth from out the deepenng gloom Of forests old, and weaves upon the loom Of daly lfe her thread of hush and peace, That for a moment bds man's turmol cease. Dors Fenton, 1913.

14 he- Mar-e Tl E WELLES LEY C O L I. ICG I, \ E ' ar of deserton ANI In- whte s;ki brooded over of I le yard, the usuall) place. clean and bare as a ballroom Moor where was vsble between the jasmne bushes am dumps of flowerng shrubs, was covered wth berres from the mock-orange trees and the llcd petals of the crape-myrtle, tha drfted down n rosy clouds wth every breath of ar strrng the branches. The green blnds and the bg double doors were closed and barred. The vy and le clmbng roses were sendng runners over porch, roof, wndows, everywhere they could gel foothold, and nature seemed to have clamed the place for her own. Yel on ths mornng n early May the house seemed strangely aloof from ts quet, gray world, and ts whte columns refused to surrender themselves to the mst that rose around them. You would have sad, f they had been alve, that they were watng for someone, somethng. The very ar was charged wth ther mute appeal, and Uncle Noah, drvng by on hs way to town, was more than usually dsturbed as he looked up at the house. "fore ole place, ht knows they'se all gone, an' pears eah ht's jest a-pnn' fer some of 'cm to come back. Marse Jame had orter come back. Ef he c'd see ht, he shorely would." He shook hs gray head, and drove on down the sandy road n hs ramshackle old buggy. But somehow he couldn't get the house out of hs mnd; so, after he had transacted all hs busness at the one "department" store the town boasted, he walked over to the "hotel," an unpanted frame buldng, wth a veranda runnng the wdth of the house. Here he found, as he had expected, Mr. Henry Tmmons, the old famly lawyer, readng the Charleston Courer. Mr. Tmmons greeted hm cordally, and after askng about Mrandy, the chldren, the crops, etc., sad, "Well, Noah, how does the old place look ths sprng?" "Ht shore do look bad, Marse Henry. You 'member how Ms' Em'ly peaked an' pned after Marse Jame went off to school? Well, de ole house looks jest lak she dd. Ht's enough ter mek you cry. Ef Marse Jame doan come back, I b'leve somethn' about dat placc'll de." "Oh pshaw! Noah, your supersttons are runnng away wth you. How can a place have any feelngs, or look peaked, as you say? You need some sprng tonc." "Ef you doan b'leve me, Marse Henry, you jest come out an' see fer you'self. Ms' Em'ly 'd know, an' I b'leve she do know. Ef Marse Jame knew, he'd jes' hatter come back." THE SPELL. "You know, Noah, that your old Marse Carrngtou dd not want te thoughl wanl dl In.'. t l/e-t for hm to and would you to be unfulflled? Vou k well as I do what sacrfces he mad n ollege, and how proud I We ought not to do anythng to run the work that he -pent hs lfe perfec tng." " I knows all dat. I bury, an' I know- al*;ut Mara ( a'n'ton's dsapp'ntmenf n htsself, wh<n he le" Washn'ton an' ome b I knowed all he plan- an' all he trouble-,. Warn't I wf hm ever sence we wuz bof boy-? But I tell you, Mar-e Henry, ht an't no use try n' agn' natur. They'se never bn a Montgomery yt 'at cud stay 'way fum Greenwood. I know an' Ms' Em'ly knowed t, but ^he ddn't say much, cause 'pears lak ht make Marse Ca'n'ton mad an' sad, too. Mar-e Jame done stayed 'way de tme any uv 'em dd. but he's bleeged ter cornsometme." "Well, you mght as well get the- foolsh notons out of your head, Noah, for Mr. James Montgomery - gong to break the spell, f there ever was any. I have a letter from hm here." fumblng n hs breast-pocket, "that -ays he has about sell the place to Mr. Glbert, who has been after t ever snce your old marse ded. 'Sou see yo s not as potent as you thought t." Ths la^t was sad a trfle sadly, for Mr. Tmmons hated I Greenwood pass out of the hands of the famly he had known and loved all hs lte. But as he notced the expresson on Uncle Noah's face, he hastened to defend the son of hs old frend. "After all, why shouldn't he sell Greenwood? It s sadly n need of someone to look after t. am he cannot afford to keep t up and lve elsewhere. Ths comng back here to lve s out of the queston. Why, what could he do here? A man of hs talents and ablty s needed to work for the country, and you know very well. Noah, what effect the very ar of Greenwood has upon one. and how useless t? t< attempt to do any great work and stay there." "Tends on what you call great. Marse Henry." sad the old negro, who seemed to have grown older and weaker snce the news that Green mght be sold. "They'se plenty uv work Marse Jame cud do about the ole place, an' dat's de kn' uv work he wuz meant ter ^\o. He's de only one 'at c'n gve Greenwood what t needs, an' et he trys to turn he work over to en\ buddy else dere won't be no blessn' on enythn' else he 'tempts ter do." Wth ths Uncle Noah turned away, unheedng what further Mr. Tmmons had to say to hm. and shambled off to the htchng-post, where hs lttle old gray mule awated hm. patently chewng a

15 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS wsp of hay and flappng her long cars drowsly. As he unhtched Jnny and stowed away hs purchases n the bottom of the buggy, Noah kept mutterng to hmself, "I wouldn't a' thort t uv Marse Jame," and "Won't no good come uv t." Stll repeatng these two sentences to hmself, he clmbed awkwardly nto the buggy, and t went creakng off down the hot, sandy road. Perhaps, n hs agtaton, Uncle Noah had neglected to make sure that the harness was all secure, or perhaps t had served ts purpose as long as t could; at any rate, before the queer old vehcle had gotten very far out of town the rusty bt of wre that held the oldfashoned yoke together around Jnny's neck snapped, the yoke slpped, but was held on by the rest of the harness, and so was left free to thump aganst poor Jnny's chest. Wth each thump the bt of wre dug nto her neck, untl the poor anmal was frantc wth pan, and snce her master dd not pay the least bt of attenton to her, she. took matters nto her own hands, and what had never before occurred n the whole course of her exstence Jnny bolted. Aunt Mrandy, over the tubs n her clean lttle back yard, began to wonder why her spouse tarred so late n town. " 'T'an't 'lectons, an' 't'an't no holday, nur dey an't no trans to be met dese days. What's got nto dat old Noah ter stay n town so late? Mus' be gwne back ter hs old habts. He's bn rght quet an' stddy sence de old place's bn shet up, but I reckon he's stood t jes 'bout es long es he cud. Orter hev more sense, an' hm so ole! V But as Uncle Noah ddn't appear for dnner, and the sun began to get low n the sky wthout any sgn of a lttle gray mule harnessed to a crazy old buggy, wth the old negro noddng over the rens, Aunt Mrandy got truly frghtened, untl fnally, not able to stand the stllness and nactvty of watng any longer, she started out down the road. She had walked over half the dstance to town before she saw a famlar fgure grazng by the road. Surely that was Jnny! but where was Noah? He couldn't have forgotten to fasten the mule up, and she had started home wthout hm? No, for there - was no buggy, and the harness why, the harness was all gone, too, except for the bt and a broken p :ce of ren than dangled from t! Aunt Mrandy's heart almost stopped beatng, and she sped down the road as fast as her sze would permt. For once she scarcely notced whether she was n the sand or on the hard clay road. A turn of the road brought her n sght of what she had dreaded, yet expscted to see. The buggy, gven to Noah by hs old master when he went to brng Mrandy to Greenwood to be hs wfe and Ms' Emly's mad, had made ts last trp. Beneath ts wreck, totally unconscous, lay Uncle Noah, hs black face streaked wth blood and dust, and hs left arm crumpled under hm. Mrandy lost no tme n freeng hm from the debrs of the buggy, but when she had done that, and the old man faled to respond to any of her calls or efforts to arouse hm, her wts left her entrely, and she sank down n the sand besde hm, moanng and wrngng her hands. There s no tellng how long she mght have stayed there carryng on n ths fashon, f a farmer had not passed that way on hs way home from one of hs felds. He recognzed Mrandy, and succeeded n arousng her suffcently to answer hs questons. By hs orders, and wth hs assstance, Mrandy carred Noah a lttle dstance from the road to a sprng, and bathed hs face. The cold water revved hm, and n the joy of seeng her husband alve agan, Mrandy almost forgot that he mght have serous njures. He had been stunned by strkng a rock wth hs head, but ths wound proved to be very slght. Hs left arm, however, was fractured, and he was so weak tr.jm the shock and the pan that he could not walk. Good old Ar. Johnson, the farmer, caught Jnny, her unwonted sprt havng dsappeared as suddenly as t had appeared, and helped Mrandy set Noah on the mule's back. "You'd better send for the doctor as quck as you get home," he advsed. "Take good care of Uncle Noah, and he'll be all rght n a jffy." Try as she would, Mrandy could not put new lfe nto her husband's aged bones, and the lttle that was there ebbed slowly but surely away. He sad very lttle, but the doctor sad to Mr. Tmmons, who was very good about comng out to see hm, and brngng hm thngs, "The old fellow s frettng hmself away for somethng. He hasn't much chance to lve at best, and he's gvng up the lttle chance he has. I don't see what t s he can want. He refuses to tell me what the matter s. If you can do anythng for hm I wsh you would. He and Aunt Mrandy are about the last of the old stock left, and I hate to see them go." Mr. Tmmons heard ths speech very thoughtfully, and at last sad, "I beleve I know what he wants, but I don't know whether I can get t for hm or not. I'll see what I can do, however." Accordngly, he dspatched a letter that afternoon to Mr. James Carrngton Montgomery, n New York, tellng hm that hs father's old servant, Noah, was dyng, and that t would gve hm a great deal of pleasure and make the gong easer f he could see hs young "Marse Jame" before he ded. He, Mr. Tmmons, was afrad t was askng too much of one so busy as Mr. Montgomery, that he should come such a dstance for a servant's sake, but the poor old fellow had set hs heart on hs mas-

16 mmons, THE WELLESLEY COLL EG E N ' return, and he and he wfe were the lasl tha were lefl al ' Ireenwood. Jame Montgomery fell strangely touched bj ths letter, formally and even coldly wrtten beng a woman,...!- well there, and thou Bu I v.. - ambt o; j know I was. Il- had notced a growng coldness n the f< letters he had receved from Mr. I part* u larly snce he had wrtten the lawyer tha he had decded t besl to par wth Greenwood. Whle ths greved hm, comng from su< l an old and dear frend of hs famly, he had nol fell anj ll-wll nwards Mr. Tmmons for t, attrbutng t to hs advanced age and lonely way of lvng. Besdes, he wa a lawyer hmself, and could, al tmes, be as stff and non-commttal as any. The tone of the letter, therefore, dd nol affecl hm a much as the matter, and he decded that le would run down to hs old home for a few days. Naturally mpulsve, and, by tranng, quck to carry out hs decsons, the day after he had receved Mr. Tmmons' letter found hm on the south-bound tran. He had told hs partner that he was called South, but would return n a lew days, and had put n hs bag some papers on an mportant case to look over on hs way down. I le dd not feel n the mood to do ths at once, so nstead he looked over the package of letters from hs mother and father that he always carred wth hm. He had been too busy of late to read them, but he knew ther contents almost by heart. Hs mother's were full of tenderness, but always reserved, and never very happy. Those of hs father were lull of references to James' career, and anxous questons about hs work. In none was any menton made of the possblty of the son's comng home and settlng there. In fact, James had been home only once snce he frst started to college, after the sudden death of hs mother. Hs father had showed so lttle wllngness for hm to stay there that the boy, n hs hurt prde, had resolved not to go back untl hs father showed more desre for hm. Thus t happened that he was too far away durng hs father's last llness to reach home n tme, and the explanaton contaned n hs father's last letter had gven hm courage to stay away snce. Ths letter was before hm now, and he felt the same pang n openng t that he always felt; sorrow that he had faled to understand hs father whle he was alve; admraton and reverental love for the brave sprt that had suffered so much for hs sake. It was a long letter, but the story that t told was a very smple one. "The tradton of Greenwood," t ran, "s that t exercses such an nfluence on the lves of those connected wth t that they fnd t mpossble to lve away from t. It s a fact that our grandfathers, before the war, and I do not know how many generatons farther back, have attempted to leave the place, but they have nvarably returned. It came to me from my mother, who, mpossble t s to l an) thng n the world, bd- t. "I mghl have made somethng! ::. know-.' Bu I was nol kep al home wth a tutor to mngle wth other b r wth a natural r< combatng the ndolence of my -urroundr \% marred young, and your mother loved the p much and made t so pleasanl tha for a turn contenl to -'; there and do noth bee nn- dssatsfed agan, and fnally I -hut up Greenwood, and took your mother and you wth me to Washngton. I had frend- there, my name was nol unknown, and I easly obtan -one mportance. I thought all my early am were gong to be realzed, but t nfluences stronger than any human wll. I went back to Greenwood, merely to -,-.- that thn;.- all rght, and the bare sght of the place brought back the spell. I knew then that my lot Greenwood; so I came back wth my famly. know the quet, purposeless save for the one purpose I always kept! lfe I have led snce then. I was determned that t should be dfferent wth \<>u, and to that end I encouraged your ambtons, and sent you to college, despte your mother's ws I know I seemed cruel and almost heartless t>> her at am afrad you have thought me harsh tmes, and I and unlovng, but you wll judge me more kndly now that you understand. I wanted you to have the lfe that was dened me. to know the j acton and achevement. I encouraged your - ng away from home, that you mght not feel the nfluence of the place. My deepest gref has been the thought that you could not understand my motves. "The doctor may tell you that he tred to persuade me to leave Greenwood, on the chance of savng my lfe. 1 have always had a tendency to weak lungs, whch ths clmate favors. Snce your mother's death they have been gettng - ;d I doubt f a change would have made much dfference. At any rate. I had a fancy that f I stayed here to the end, even, perhaps, shortenng my lfe thereby, that you mght be kept free from the spell. It was a foolsh fancy, and of late I have begun to feel that what o sacrfce there was s useless, but 1 have no regrets. You have been free so far. and I pray- you may- reman so. 1 fear your comng back. I hate to thnk o the place ever beng sold, but t may be best. I had rather you would do that than

17 8 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. return to the baffled exstence I have led for the past thrty years." The resl of the letter was of so sacred and tender a nature (hat James Montgomery, hardened as he had become to sorrow and sufferng, could never read t wthout tears n hs eyes. He put t away unread now, wth a fear of showng hs emoton that made hm feel half ashamed, and took from the package of letters the last thng he had receved n hs mother's handwrtng. It had been found among hs father's papers after he ded, and had been forwarded to hm. It was a lttle flat package, scaled and addressed n hs mothers quant, fne hand, "For my son, when he comes home," and James, thnkng t some lttle gft from her lovng hands, had put t by wth a fancy to obey the mpled wsh and not open t untl he went home. He had not known when that would be, but as he thought over the past now he realzed that he had never gven up the dea of an eventual home-comng. Stll, he dd not thnk of hs present trp as anythng more than a few days' vst. Hs father's letter seemed to forbd anythng more than that, and there was nothng more defnte n hs mnd than a vague noton that some day he would go home to de and be bured at the old place. As the tran kept gettng farther and farther South, and he found hmself n hs own state, passng through scenes that had once been so vtal a part of hs exstence, hs sad thoughts of the past gave way to others whose very melancholy was surprsngly sweet. He had not realzed how deep and subtle a hold the land of hs fathers had upon hm. He felt as f he had gone back ten years and more, and had pcked up the chan he had dropped then. So strongly dd ths feelng grow upon hm that when he got off the tran at the tny staton he surprsed Mr. Tmmons by the boysh gladness of hs greetng, and the staton-master, watchng them drve off toward Greenwood, remarked to the operator, "It beats all how lttle some folks change. Jame Montgomery don't look a mte older'n he dd the last tme he was home, and that must be all of ten years ago. But he looks happer some way, lke he had what he wanted." The subject of these remarks, n the meantme, was plyng Mr. Tmmons wth questons, solctous about Uncle Noah, eager to hear about everythng. The old lawyer hardly knew what to make of hm. He had not expected to fnd hm so nterested n the humble events whch flled hs own exstence. As much to sound James as for any other purpose, he turned the conversaton towards the proposed sale of Greenwood. The thng would doubtless have been carred through before, he sad, f t had not been for the very unfortunate accdent, that had kept them all busy. "And, by the way," turnng to James, "a funny thng, trval enough, has kept Mr. Glbert from a fnal decson. He wants to look over the house before he buys t, but I can't fnd the key, hgh nor low. What makes the thng queer s that when the house was closed after your father's death no key could be found, and I had one made purposely- And now I can't fnd that. Of course the door was never locked n your father's tme, so I can easly understand the orgnal key's gettng lost, but I can't for the lfe of me magne where the one I got can have gone. And I don't lke to break nto the house to let strangers n." "No, you must not do that," sad James. "But there's no great hurry about the sale. I'll have plenty of tme to thnk that over after I go back to New York, and I may decde not to let the old place go, after all. I am not supersttous, but there s too much of Greenwood n my blood, and too much of my blood n Greenwood for us to separate easly. Let's don't talk about t now." Whle he was talkng, Mr. Tmmons had turned nto a by-road that led them to Noah's cabn wthout passng by the bg house. He hardly knew why he dd t, but he felt that he dd not want to be present when hs companon should frst see hs old home. He talked to hm steadly untl they reached the cabn, so that James would not notce the way they were gong. Aunt Mrandy came to the door at the sound of wheels, and, thnkng Marse Henry had a stranger wth hm, put on her most dgnfed manner to receve them, or at least attempted to, though t was sadly marred by the unmstakable traces of tears on her cheeks. tall What was her astonshment when the stranger sezed both of her hands, gave each of her swollen cheeks a heart}' kss, and cred, wth a lttle break n hs voce, " Why, Aunt 'Randy, don't you know your 'lttle lambe?'" At that she knew hm, and claspng hm n her arms, cred over hm n sheer joy, untl a sound from wthn recalled her to the present. "Oh, honey," she sad, "yo'se jes' come n tme. Ef anythn' '11 cure Noah, the sght of yore blessed face'll do t," and, runnng to Uncle Noah's bed, she rased hs fever several degrees by her exctement and ncoherence. If James had not gone over to the bed and calmed her, she would soon have had the poor old man dead of bewlderment. As soon as he realzed that t really was hs young Marse Jame who was before hm, an expresson of perfect content settled on Noah's face. He lay there quetly, lstenng to hs young master talk, and only openng hs lps once n a whle to say. " I knowed you'd come back." But the exctement had been too much for hm, and Mr. Tmmons and James could tell that hs lfe was rapdly ebbng away. Mrandy, less acute, and feelng sure that her husband would recover now that Marse Jame

18 omes - hard. THE WELLESLKY ( : O L L K (j K \ I- 7. was hack, had gone " to ''! mum- dant her "lambe's" supper, and they could hear her strrng aboul n the ktchen, hummng "H lly ob de valley, de brght an' mornn' These sounds strred Uncle Noah to a momentarj gleam of lfe. " M 'randy an'1 Bung dal en< e sence Ms' Em'ly ded," he whspered. Jam< dmmed, and he fell hs throal grow tght. He pu1 ln's own frm hand over the dark, wrnkled old one on the COVerlel and sad huskly, "We'll hear her I n le Noah?" sj; l lots of lmes more, won't we, But Uncle Noah was losl agan, and dd not hear hm. There was a long slence, except for the cheerful sounds from the ktchen. Suddenly Noah opened hs eyes wde, looked at hs young m wth a smle, and sad, "Dal wuz de les' pece uv work ole Jn ever done." James and Mr. Tmmons leaned over hm, startled, then rased ther heads and looked at each other. Uncle Noah was dead. The house was a gray ghost n the twlght when James came slowly up the drve and leaned aganst the gate. He had not felt lke comng there drectly after he had left Aunt Mrandy and her dead to the mnstratons of the neghborng darkes, so he had been revstng the favorl Wthout realzng >. he had be lly slppng bat I. nto the old way of I hours all the old '. whch be had thought broken forever, had been reknl and trebl; And now that he 3tOod n the pn thnk of no fller term of hs old hornlad hold of hm jo trmly that he dd nolo res. I he word- of h- lather- lette to hm, Ian he -av. them n a dfferent l^ht. Hehad tasted lfe, I. ut had not yel found content. "What f mne were the lesser duty, the <, He lte.'" he asked hmself. H- fngers, -- - searchng h- pocket, touched drew t out; t was hs mother's <x my son, when he home." he read. H and found an old-fashoned \>x-. slp of paper. The wrtng wa 1 he could scarcely read t n the dusk. "Mj - >n, you have made your mother very happy." That was all. Scarcely conscous of h- actons, James cr ed the yard and mounted the steps. He moment, then frmly ftted the key n the lock and flung wde the heavy door. He had come home. Acnes Rockwell m-&"& ^-e;;^-e;^)

19 10 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS H.W &SS FAITH KVT you ml cm])1c who sad to you, "Oh, I saw such a pretty sght ths afternoon," and then, when you asked them wh.t was, hestated and looked puzzled, and perhaps managed to tell you t was a chld playng wth a ktten, or a vne growng on a fence, or a whte cloud n the sky, and ended by lamely sayng they really couldn't descrbe t? Nne tmes out of ten, f you'd been there wth them, you would have seen them gve one look, murmur "How lovely," and hurry on as f somethng were chasng them. They mght about as well not have looked. If a thng s worth lookng at at all, t s worth lookng at well, as I beleve, so w henever I see a pretty pcture I stop rght then and there, unless t's a matter of sckness or death, or very good news, untl I have t all stored away n my mnd and can get t out and look at t agan whenever I want to. That was what I was dong one late May afternoon, the sprng after the bg blzzard, stowng away n my mnd a pcture of the Merrmans' bg, old-fashoned house, all whte among the trees, and wth even- wndow afre from the settng sun. As I looked and looked, the bg front door opened and Fath Merrman came out. I knew she ddn't see me or she would have waved her hand, so I just stood stll and watched her, for I wanted to see what she would do when there was no one around. You see t was tme for her husband's shp to be comng back, and we knew she'd be watng eagerly for t, for t was the frst tme the boy had gone wth hm for such a long trp, way to Chna and back. But we hoped she hadn't begun to worry about them, for t's not good to lve n a bg house lke that wth nothng but a dog and a worry for company, and we had decded that as soon as Fath Merrman showed the least sgns of worry, someone would go and stay wth her, whether she lked t or not. That was all very well to decde, but t was another matter to fnd out f we were needed. There arc some people who are always just the same, on the outsde, always pleasant and calm, no matter what sort of a dsturbance s gong on nsde. In fact, the harder tme they are havng all by themselves the calmer and more self-contaned they are wth others, untl you almost want to pnch them to see f they can jump. That s, you do unless you understand, and then you want to take them rght nto your arms and make them cry. Well, Fath Merrman was just such a person. Only, I thnk, t was partly her mother's tranng that made her that way, and not all her own nature. Once, when she was just a slp of a grl, I went after her, when her mother had been lecturng her for MERRIMAN. some ffteen mnutes for callng across the street to a frend, and I found her, not cryng as I had expected, but standng n the garden throwng stones just as hard as she could at an old cup she had stuck upon the fence. There was somethng about her then that went better wth her unruly curls and the tnge of red n ther gold, than dd her company manners. So I was glad I had a chance to watch her for a mnute, though my conscence dd prck a bt, and soon I felt justfed, for the frst thng she dd was to shade her eyes wth her hand and look down the road, and then st down on the steps, watchng and watchng the turn at the top of the hll, where one got the frst glmpse of anyone comng from the cty. I wasn't near enough to see her face, but I'd seen others watchng for husbands and sons to come back from the sea, and I knew the look that there would be n her eyes. There was no queston about t. She had begun to worry. I ddn't know whether she'd want to see me or not, but I knew I wanted to talk to her, so I walked forward a few steps and then called. She turned around wth a start, and then came down the path to meet me. "Why, Aunt Mary!" she always called me aunt, havng grown up wth my oldest brother's chldren "why, Aunt Mary, how dd you ever get so far from home? I thought when people came to be grandmothers they sat at home and knt baby socks, and let ther frends come, to see them." She smled a lttle, and took my hand. "How s the baby?" "The baby s qute well, thank you," I sad, pretendng to be very dgnfed. "But as for my sttng at home knttng baby socks, well you'll be dong t yourself before many years, Fath Merrman, for f ever I saw two young people just made for each other, t's your boy and John Mason's grl, and they seemed to be of the same 'way of thnkng themselves, before he went away." I felt her hand tghten a lttle on mne. It wasn't a very tactful remark, but I wanted to gve her a chance to talk f she felt lke t. She ddn't, though, and for half an hour we sat on the steps talkng about the vllage chldren, and the school-teacher, and the last church supper, and every- thng under the sun except what we were both thnkng about. Fnally t got to be dark, and I decded to take matters n my own hands and speak rght out. "It's tme you had your supper," I sad, after a pause n the conversaton, "and I'm gong to ask myself to t. It's no use your pretendng any longcr. You're worryng and not eatng anythng,

20 1 [ h--. 1 mes, stopped. he Bad. ame 1 on nto 1 ould one. my T II E \V E I. I. ESLE V ( L I. EG I 1 and gettng thn and peaked. Whal do you»up pose your husband wll thnk ol us when h( com back and fnds you lookng lke.1 frght, and we all Bttng around and dong nothng aboul " Bu " she I" t?" " I'n nol hng," I "Il.ll 1 ome ol j our lvng here all alone and broodng over your own Why, chld alve, they'll be comng home all safe and Bound n ; week or bo. It's onlj four weeks snce 1 Wlson boj 1 hom. am know he sad your shp ftad 1 ju 1 porl to gel supples as they were leavng, and expected to ta there a week. Now three weeks s nol 3uch a very long tme for.1 shp to be b< hnd hand. Goodness me, the last tme your John w< nl on a trp lke ths le was three months, nol Mne week-, late gettng home, and we all thoughl he was lost. You sad tha tme you'd never doubl the Lord's - ness agan, bu1 I shouldn'1 say you were tn Hm very hard jus) now. le's broughl John Merrman safe home from off th ea good many and so far as I can judge He's no call to have any grudge aganst the boy." Then I I wanted to sl up close to her and mol her her as I would my own grl f she were unhappy, bu1 there she sat, boll uprght, her hands folded n her lap, never sayng a word after tha "but," nor movng a muscle, just, watchng down the road. Such people do make thngs so terrbly hard for themselves, and for others, too. I ddn'l say anythng mon there wasn't anythng more to say untl I could fnd out how she'd taken what I'd already sad, so I just sat quet, thnkng. And what I thought most about was that tme, some ffteen years before, when John had gone off on that other Ion -fool trp to Chna, and came home so late. And 1 hoped she was thnkng about t too. The boy was only fve then, and a loveler lttle chap you never saw. He was far lke hs mother, wth curly har and bg blue eyes, and a face lke an angel's; and such a brght lttle fellow. The mother had no thoughts for anyone or anythng besdes hm, except to wsh that the lather would hurry home to see what a splendd boy hs baby had grown nto. She taught the chld to recognze hs father's pcture and to call hm "daddy," and to want to grow up to be just such a man. "Only," she sad to me once, "I do so hope he won't want to go to sea. I don't know as I could stand t, to have them both gone.'' But the call of the sea was n hs blood, and when he'd grown to be sxteen or seventeen, she couldn't keep hm home any longer. A fne boy he was then, too, tall and broad-shouldered, wth a clear eye that looked straght nto yours. Not that he was too good to lve long, there was no danger of that, but hs mschef was never mean, and when he got punshment. \«And 10 h«r, n h- opnon. I' gel her, lor ca h Ol through fn one mat ter he had t h sea rang too loudly n and so he started ' ->' ' l short trp mate on tn- long one. And th n the I gone pasl. aft r another, and and once or tw comng -hp-, and now l. weren't, and we two women n the steps, n tn- dark, thnk many years before. And ng, w hen t he whole \ ll - John Merrman back from the sea, and I the lt te fgure w th tousled curls that met us at the door, cryng n an excted bal " M\ daddy ha- come h n I dadd home, and he'- broughl my muv> funny " dshes w f lt t le men all over 'em! I came back <. the presen v th a s rt, I had an dea. "Fath," I -ad. "ddn't John brng. hm that tme some queer chna wth so wth heathensh name? I haven't seen t for.1 1< ng tme. You go gel a couple of cup- and we'll drnk our tea out of them." Se we went nsde and lghted the lam; - a lttle tea party all by ourselves. Fath - warmed up wth the tea and somethng I I got her to tell me about the chna, and wl lnn John had had gettng t. and how he'd specal care of t all the way home, and fnally brought t to her the frst tme he came out. : somethng would happen to t. h dd h talk about the old memores, and when 1 left her she kssed me shyly and whspered she was afrad she had been foolsh. I left her alone that nght, but the next day I took over a few thngs and announced that I had come to pay her a vst. And I stayed, though she protested that the baby would probably have somethng dreadful f I were away. That evenng there was no watchng down the road, but once or twce 1 caught her lstenng. Fnally we went upstars, and after 1 heard her bed creak I went n and tucked her up and kssed her good-nght, grown woman as she was. She ddn't say a word, but I'd hardly expected t. What I hoped was that the pleasant unusualness of t would gve her somethng to thnk about so that she would sleep. I thnk she dd sleep better that nght, for t was a farly brght smle that greeted me the next morn-

21 " 12 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. ng when I came down-stars late, to fnd breakfast ready and watng. "I'm ashamed of myself," I sad, as I caught s.nlu of the breakfast table. "Why ddn't you call me? "O, I thought you needed one good nght's rest after takng care of that grandchld of yours for so long," Fath answered, "but I'll pay you back later and make you weed out my pansy bed for me. It hasn't been done for two weeks." And, true to her word, after breakfast was over, she took me out to the bg flower-bed by the house and set me to work on what seemed a hopeless tangle of panses and chckweed. As we worked there together, the bg stage that brought the mal from the cty rumbled past, and I notced that Fath's lps whtened a bt when she heard t, and that after t was gone, she was uneasy and kept lookng down the road towards the vllage. After a lttle whle she suggested that we go around to the front steps and rest there n the shade for awhle. I knew well enough what the trouble was, she was watng to see f the postmaster's boy would brng her out any mal. I almost hoped he wouldn't, for I was afrad just then of any word that the captan or the boy ddn't brng themselves. Then, just as I was begnnng to feel safe, I caught sght of the boy comng down the road, wavng an envelope over hs head. Fath saw hm as soon as I dd, but she ddn't str, except for a lttle catch n her breath, untl he had nearly reached the gate, and then she got up and walked slowly down the path to meet hm. He was all hot and excted, and full of curosty as to what was n the letter from the cty, but I sent hm off to get some cookes that were on the ktchen table, for 1 knew Fath couldn't read the letter whle he was there. Her lps grew whter and whter as she turned back to the steps and sat down, but her fngers never trembled as she slowly tore open the envelope and drew out the sngle sheet of paper. I turned away to let her read t alone. When I looked around agan, wonderng at her strange slence, I almost screamed. The letter had fallen to the steps and lay open there, but I ddn't mll to read t, her face told planly enough what was n t. I touched her on the shoulder, but she pad no attenton, so I wated a few mnutes. Then I spoke to her and shook her a lttle, but even that ddn't do any good. Fnally I grew desperate; the boy would be back agan n a lttle whle, and he must not see her lookng lke that. By sheer strength I got her to her feet and took her nto the house. After I'd made her st down n a bg char and had wrapped a shawl around her, for, warm as t was, her hands were cy cold, I went out to fnd the boy. He was deeply nterested n a bg plate of cookes, and looked around at me wth a broad smle whch suddenly dsappeared when I told hm to run back to the vllage as fast as he could and send out the doctor, for Mrs. Merrman had had bad news. He hurred away wth a frghtened face, and I went back to Fath. She stll sat wth that same unseeng look on her face, and nothng I could do roused her n the least. Then I dd what I'd never done n my lfe before, I delberately read another person's letter. Somebody would have to do t, f she couldn't tell us what was n t, and I seemed to be the one there. It wasn't very long, just about sx lnes, sayng that the shp had gone down n a bg storm some three weeks before, and not a soul had escaped. That was all, but t was enough. I ddn't wonder Fath sat there as f someone had struck her. I gave up tryng to rouse her, and wated. At last the doctor came, and several others wth hm, for news spreads lke wldfre n a small town. I sent them out to the ktchen whle the doctor and I got Fath up-stars to bed. Then I went down to tell them what I knew, whle he worked over Fath, tryng to rouse her. But she pad no more attenton to hm than she had to me, and fnally he sad she must sleep, t was the only hope. So he gave her a sleepng powder and told me to rest whle he stayed wth her. She la}' there n a half trance for several days, and then, slowly, she began to take notce of thngs, and pretty soon was up and around the house just as before. But she wouldn't talk to us, any more than to say just "yes" and "no," and a few lttle thngs lke that; and she ddn't seem to notce us when we were talkng, but to be lvng far away, n a world all her own, nether a glad world nor a sad one, but one entrely apart from that n whch we lve. Perhaps t was a mercful thng that she had those weeks of dazed unrealzaton n whch her body mght grow strong agan after the stran of anxety and the sudden shock of bad news, for when she dd begn to realze what had happened, as she dd after a whle, she suffered as I hope never to see a woman suffer agan. And she suffered so terrbly because she couldn't express t, because her prde would not let her admt t to anyone, even to herself. Her heart was wearng tself away, achng and achng for those she mght not sec agan, and there was nothng to ease t. Ther bodes lay at the bottom of the sea, near a shore she had never seen, and she must go on lvng among scenes she had always known, eatng and sleepng and pretendng to be content. Sometmes I thnk that what seems to us at the tme the hardest, the lookng on the faces of those we love, after the part that s really them has gone on nto eternty, s what reallv makes t easest n the

22 do n ds. T II E W I- LL ES L E V COL L EG E N EWS 13 alzt. and I h( I end, for we know, we ml ome afterward not mot I: u qute a mu h tha ' by beng so mu< h alke and yel»o dfferent from the daj tha wenl before. There has been a break to, count for the dfference. Bu to be longng for the sghl o.1 face and the Bound of a voce, to be wal ng da after day, hopng tha each day, ea< h hour, the one you love wll come to you, and then to go on longng, day after day, the only dfference beng tha you have looked al a few strange bla< k marks on a pece of whte paper, and have suddenly realzed tha the face you loved lay under the w and that the voce you longed for would never be heard agan, except n your memory, that s almosl unbearable, for you rebel aganst t; you eanno! make yourself beleve t. And Fath Merrman went on longng and longng for the husband and son who would never come agan, and though as tme went on she took more and more her old place n the vllage lfe, the old reserve grew, and grew stronger, tll one day, as I walked clown the road at sunset tme, I found her watchng the turn at the top of the hll, and ths tme she ddn't hear me when I called her. And yet she ddn't yeld passvely to ths feelng. I could see n her eyes at tmes a desperate, almost angry struggle to be her old self agan. The red n her curls was dong ts best to save her. And after others sad that there was no hope, that mnd or body must soon break, I pnned my fath on those curls, and wated. I got n the way of gong over almost every afternoon for a few mnutes, for though someone stayed wth her nghts she wouldn't have them around n the daytme, and I thought that she sometmes lked to have me wth her. But as the weather grew colder I went less and less often, and each tme t seemed to me that matters were gong soon to reach a clmax. And yet there wasn't anythng to do but let nature take her own best way, and stand by ready to gve a helpng hand when t was needed. "If only there may be someone by when the comes," I prayed each nght. tme Fnally there came a glorous day, early n November, one of those days, after wnter has apparently come to stay, when the brght sun and the wonderful clear ar, that makes you twenty nstead of ffty or sxty, or whatever t may be, flatly contradct those gloomy people who say that fall means only death, and mourn the gong of summer. Why, to my mnd, there s no tme of all the year that has t t than s brghl and there - a good bl of fro-t n tl IT- the knd of weather when do mracles, and thnk nothng about t. Well, t was j the Merrman house and found th<- front and nobody n the front part of th< qute a home there by that tme -t on through toward the ktchen and opened th I hen I jumped bat k. and f 1 hadn't had hold of the door I should < ertanly have fallen > started to step n somethng fl< I three nches from my nose, and lander! wth a crash n the opposte < orner. It certanly be greeted. And before I'd had tne r myself, somethng else flew past. But th^ trm what t was; t was one of those heath a The pantry door was partly open, and as I stood there, one after another, cups and saucers flew out and landed n a heap of broken chna n the corner. Had Fath Merrman suddenly gone mad? It seemed so. But I wouldn't beleve t yet; someone else mght be throwng the chna. Anyway, there was nothng I could do but wat untl the ran of cup- and >aucers ended..after what seemed a coupl' - and after enough chna had come flyng out of that pantry door to have flled several chna clo- - seemed, the door opened a lttle farther, and Fath Merrman herself walked out. My heart sank; the worst had come then, and her mnd had 1 r under the stran. Then I looked at her agan, stood there gazng at the run she had wrought, and wondered f the look on her face could possbly be that of a dsordered mnd, t was so much natural and more earthly than any I had seen there snce that dreadful nght. I stepped back quetly a few steps so she wouldn't see me. And then I saw her throw up her head wth a sudden lttle shake of her shoulders, as f she were throwng off an rksome burden, and say. wth newenergy n her voce, ".There, I had to do somethng, or I know 1 should have gone mad." The red-gold curls had had ther say. Then her shoulders began to tremble, and wth a low "Oh John, oh Davd, and you were so near home," she bured her face n her apron and turned sobbng nto the pantry. The storm had broken. I turned quetly and stole away, to wat untl the tears had eased the weary heart, and broug healng peace. KATHARINE PARDEE, ou.

23 14 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS SLIP HOW THE HONEY OF THE WILD BEE IS GATHERED. In the mdsl ol the 'lark forests of the Adrondacl -, where the sun only penetrates the nterlaced roof n spots, and makes ; yellowsh-green stencl n on the dead leaves and moss-covered logs, the honey-bee often makes hs home. In the lowest branches of a hollow tree a swarm of bees crcles 'rmncl and 'round. These tny nsects have to fly for mles to collect the honey they store away. For, wth the excepton of a few clearngs, all s dark woods, where no flowers grow. The clearngs are usually burnt grounds. Here the bees hum contentedly over the golden-rod, glowng n the warm sun, between charred logs, and fly back to ther tall tree to store away the honey. It s rather dffcult to fnd these trees, and sometmes takes several days. The bee-hunter catches an nsect n a lttle wooden box, contanng sugar on a honey-comb. He shuts the ld and wats for a few seconds untl the bee has gathered the sugar. Then he lberates t and watches ts flght. The nsect crcles upward, untl t reaches a heght above all the trees, and then fles n a drect lne to the hve. After catchng several bees, the box s moved nearer and ever nearer n the drecton n whch the bees fly, untl the forest s reached. Then the hunter calculates the dstance to the tree by the tme t takes the bees to return to the box for more sugar. He notes the drecton, and dsappears nto the black woods to search for the tree. When he reaches the spot where t ought to be, he examnes every lkely-lookng tree. Those that are tall and perhaps hollow, but not decayed, are the usual choce of the swarm. It does not take long before In sees the tny nsects swarmng out of a round hole, and the bees have been tracked to ther lar. \\ hen the hunter has found the tree, he returns home to collect hs materals for gettng at the honey. Soon the axe has btten a pece out of the trunk, and the men sway back and forth at the saw, whch eats deeper and deeper nto the trunk. There s rash, and the angry bees hum and blacken the ar, Hyng around the now empty spot, where ther home was but a mnute ago. Then the men put on heavy coats, tyng the sleeves tghtly to ther wrsts wth cord, and pull gauntlets up over ther hands. A broad-brmmed straw hat, draped wth whte cheese-cloth that falls over the shoulders, completes the odd fgures. They buld a fre under the hoe n the trunk, for the smoke drves the bees off. Agan the hatchet rngs, as the wood, lttle by lttle, s cut away untl the hollow s reached. Bees darken the er n a frantc attempt to stng ther SHEETS. enemy. The comb, stcky wth honey, s black wth ther half-stupefed bodes. Then the tn pals are placed besde the tree to carry the honey home n, and pece after p comb, wth bees clngng to the yellow, oozng honey, s dropped nto them. Often a great deal of empty comb s found, ts tny, snow-whte squares gapng open to be flled. But for ths, the hollow s left empty, the only remnant beng the shny coatng of honey, left on the nsde walls. Then the men shoulder the pals on long poles and steal away, -tll pursued by a few unsubdued bees. The swarm s left to starve and de n the cold wnter, unless the hunter has foresght enough to leave some honey or sugar to keep the bees alve, so that he may gather ther honey the followng year. Paulne Ehrtch, LUMBERING IN ALABAMA. Lumberng n Southern Alabama! The vcry woods are pregnant wth wtchery. A great expanse of gleamng whte sand; sere brown spots of parched vegetaton; tall, slm pnes rsng wthout branch or twg for twenty-fve or thrty feet, and then breakng forth nto feathery green: lttle clusters of weather-beaten shacks huddled together, all ther sorddness vsble n the ntense whte sunlght; the tall, unganly mll wth ts never-ceasng hum; the ralroad, gleamng n the sunshne; and always, beyond mll, shantes and pnes, the swamp dark, luxurant, mysterous. In the depths of that swamp tol gangs of sweatng men, shrts open at the throat, sleeves rolled up, hgh rubber boots glstenng wth mud and water as they leap from cypress knob to cypress knob, or splash from tree to ralroad 'and from ralroad back to tree. Here s a gang of choppers, always the advance guard of cvlzaton. Here and there a tree shows the whte shne of newly-cut wood; they are the ones whch have been marked for fellng. Always t s the tallest and fnest trees whch bear ths gash, for only trees of a certan dameter and larger are chosen. One mnute a huge water-oak stands stately and majestc, the next the foreman has ponted t out, and whte chps are flyng under the axes of the choppers. Then the whne of the saw as t btes nto the wood; a moment's adjustment of rope and chan; the tree sways creakng back and forth; there s a sudden crack, a soft, rushng sound, a thud, a splash, and the great tree, a moment before so proudly erect, les prostrate n the water of the swamp. Wthout a mnute's delay- the men are upon t; agan the chps fly as the rhythmc blows of the axe rng upon the ar. One by one the

24 loaded he never rack, I ran pled rat I he he t he 1 "I II E WELLESLEY COLL EG I 15 I h H< hes are Btrpped from, and soon the m trunk, Bcarred and mutlated, up wth others, watng to be loaded on the loggng tran. s a contnuous proces. haltng, never vared. At Bhorl nten als I empl. lng ba< k, or chugs ou1, w h h log I ralroad s lull upon ples drven deep nto the swamp, and Bways and quvers as the heavy tran rumbles along ; the one l. of modernsm n the mdsl of perpel ual mystery. Tall. on each sde of the track, draped n mournng weeds It tre< - rse ol long, grey moss. Here some gorgeou flower rears ts head from the treacherous surface, there a swamp brd calls, or a vvd moth hovers above ( l< black mud; otherwse all s gloom and quet. Suddenly, almo> wthout warnng, the swamp - ended, and the tran s once more n a world ol actvty. Stranng oxen, drven by jokng, swearng men, drag the loads from the cars to the nclne. Wth a rat te, the logs drop on the t the dogs bte deep nto the wood, and they are on ther way to the saw. In the mll all s hurry and nose. There s a thud as each log drops on the log-carrage; a jar as t sldes hack and forth aganst the bumpers; the whne of the band-saw as t slps through the wood, the whrr of the crcular saws, the monotonous call of the markers, and under t all the hum ol actve machnery. Back and forth the log-carrage sldes, one by one the slabs are cut off, some sawed straght, some quartered. Here comes a pece of cypress too small to be sawed nto boards. It s loaded on the carrer, taken to the crcular saw and cut up nto shngles whch are shot down through a chute, to be sorted and ted nto bundles. As each board passes along the carrer t s scaled by the marker, and further on s nspected. Beyond, where the carrer dvdes, a sorter s statoned. Each pece s sorted accordng to ts scale mark. Some are sent to the planng mll to be fnshed, some are merely sent along and dropped on the platform, where t s agan sorted nto lots, accordng to ts mark, and then s pled and covered to awat, ts frst seasonng process before t s shpped. Martha Else Shoup, MAPLE SUGARING ON A NEW ENGLAND FARM. When the New England farmer hears the wnter's accumulaton of.snow and ce slppng n sectons from ts restng place on the roof, sees the horses slump down nto the snow as he drves to the vllage, fnds the meadow brook swellng and breakng through ts cy barrer, he knows that the "sugarng" season s here, and loses no tme n gettng ready for the lr- " l./ Idered and > \> renovated, the outdoor f tap- and but kel - on earth, and to be through 1! hurry through tl taps, and hangng the bucket- on l ng fre, are kndled, and rj thmc "drp, drp" <> 1 through the whole (.mp n "good sap weather," for th t fll, and then the men and tulder larg yokes, balance a bucket on each end. and In-^n the 1 ollectng. busness of Whle 1 h- contnue- n., m round, let us be a bt nqustve and fnd out what th«worker- are dong. Tn r - bult of feld -tone, roughly held n place by a thn ng of cement. < )ver each of th se mpr s d fur broad galvanzed-ron tub I, nto whch the -ap - poured on tne days, but or when the run of sap - partcularly rushng, the sugar-house s resorted to. Ths - th sort of a shack, generally constructed by the farmhands wth farm mplement-. wth ptch and spruce gum, make the walls, am] the roof s generally protected wth several lay rs of tarpaper. Rough wooden benches stand aganst the walls. One or two three-legged - fr>>m beneath the one home-made table, at the tw dened stoves, whch balance each other from the two nearest corners. On these - tubs, smlar to those over the freplaces. of the room s taken up wth whch the fnal products are packed. And see. the sap has changed from a clear, colorless lqud nto a lght yellow, foamng, bubblng mxtun. whch breathe- forth an rresstble odor. Involuntarly we snff the ar as we catch the frst fant aroma, eager to nhale the elusve sweetness. Slowly, slowly, the yellow darkens, and we are assured by the overseers that, wth a trfle more bolng, t wll be read} to " sugar o\\." Th How the news gets about s a mystery. V rate t does, and towards evenng the gather at the sugar-house, each graspng.: pette n ether hand. Mlk pans are packed full of clean snow, forks are whttled from hard-' branches, and benches are cleared off ^: "sugar eat." The sugar, boled to a golden brown. and of a syrupy consstency, s poured over the pans of snow, hardenng on the cold surface just enough to be readly pcked up wth the prongs the man eager forks. Agan and agan the are replenshed: pckles, whch go hand n hand

25 10 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS wth "sugar on snow," are passed about, and dsappear wth ncredble rapdty; songs are sung; werd stores are repeated, and fnally the guests depart, leavng the camp wth the nght workers, for the fresh sap comng n cannot be neglected for sleep. The "taster" goes about, samplng the grade of syrup, determnng ts proper consstency, and prophesyng the hour of ts probably completon. When t s pronounced "done," the cans are flled, marked wth the farmer's name, and packed n shppng boxes, to he* sent to the wholesale dealer, or some known frm. What syrup s made nto sugar must be boled stll longer, and then cooled and hardened n forms stamped wth the farmer's ntal or seal. Then ths, too, s packed for shppng. Sometmes the sugar-makng s carred on for two or three weeks, agan the season lasts but a few days, but durng that tme the farmer, hred men, women and chldren devote every energy to the allengrossng busness of "sugarng," for a great per cent, of the farmer's yearly proft depends on hs sugar products. Then let us remember next sprng, when we are splashng along wet pavements, that, "Whatever way the wnd doth blow, Some heart s glad to have t so," and reconcle ourselves to sodden shoes, bedraggled skrts, and uneven tempers, knowng that such weather s qute essental f we would ndulge n "home-made" maple syrup on our Sunday-mornng pancakes. SHARK FISHING IN Ruth M. Perce. FLORIDA. Shark fshng! Somethng n the mere sound of the words thrlls the senses and sets the pulses boundng. What more fascnatng sport could one ask? The frst whff of salt ar brngs vsons. Dazzlngly whte, the shore stretches as far as the eye can reach; on the other sde the dull green mangrove trees dp ther branches n the dancng water, slm and graceful the palms tower, slhouetted aganst the vvd sky. Far out across the bay the creamy surf breaks on a low, whte sand-bar, and beyond shnes the gulf, tny whte-capped waves racng over ts surface. The fresh tang of salt ar, the fsh} odor of the docks, the pungent smell of gasolne from the launch, each 'adds zest to the day. A launch, small n sze, but wth a powerful motor, holds the equpment : ron hooks, a foot or so n length and as thck as a man's thumb, fastened wth fve or sx feel of heavy chan to the woven rope, whch serves as a fsh-lne; a sturdy hand-reel of ron, clamped to the framework of the boat; and n the bow, the bat, large mackerel and lady-fsh, ther slver bodes gleamng n the shadow. The fshermen, judged by the wde straw hats whch throw a deep shadow on ther faces, the soft, open-throated shrts, the water flasks slung from ther shoulders, the rfle whch one carres, are obvously past masters of the sport. settled, It takes but a mnute to get the engne coughs and thumps, the penetratng odor of gasolne floats out upon the ar, there s a great churnng of the water, and the launch s off. Wthout delay t chugs ts way toward the bar. There s a sudden dppng sensaton, a few mnutes of dzzy rsng and fallng, the sharp stng of spray on the cheeks, and the launch s rdng galy on the gulf wth the surf tumblng on the bar behnd t. Ths s the day's fshng-ground, and the lne s prepared. A large mackerel s the bat, the end of the rope s fastened to a rng n the bow, the bated hook splashes overboard, the surplus rope les coled n the end of the boat, and all s ready. Slowly the mornng slps away. The sun clmbs hgh n the sky; all the lttle waves have dsappeared, and except for the long, oly swell, the gulf les quet and glassy n the glare. The heat droops over land and water lke a vel, and even the fshermen seem to be nfected wth the prevalng lasstude. At long ntervals one of them tosses a fsh overboard. It floats lazly for awhle, and then there s a shne as of wet slk, a lttle spot of foam, and the fsh s gone. So far, however, although the floatng fsh have been snapped up, no adventurous shark has even nvestgated the bat. The sun creeps on to the zenth, and the yellow heat haze les closer to the sea. Suddenly the rope flashes out and jerks taut. The boat leaps lke a startled anmal, then s borne off, frst n one drecton, then veerng suddenly n another. Galvanzed nto acton, the fshermen are at ther places n an nstant. The engne pants and sputters, then settles down to work, and the battle between man and fsh s on. Back and forth rushes the shark, veerng and dvng n frenzy, and t demands careful management to keep the boat from upsettng. At each rush t strans and quvers lke a spurred horse, but now the powerful motors are matched aganst the strength of the shark. One mnute he seeks to dve nto the depths, and the launch dps ts bow n the water; the next there s a streak of glstenng black and a track of whte foam, as he darts madly across the surface. Even the management and skll of the fshers seem nadquate at tmes to prevent the boat from capszng. Twce one of them stands, knfe n hand, ready to cut the rope f necessary. At last, lttle by lttle, the dves grow less frantc, each succeedng lunge has less force. He s gettng tred out. Inch by nch the

26 the he T 1 1 E W KLLKSLKY COLL E <, E N E V. 17 lne s reeled n untl al la I bg f h struggles feebly bul a few yards from the boat. Now hs M. head and huge, gapng mouth can b< een a he vanly s rves to dsgorge the heavy hook whch s frmly mbedded n hs jaw bone bef ween I r< wcked-lookng teeth. Al length one man pcks up the rll-. a report, a om ulsv lung and the ' on hs In' k. N'othnf bul the haulng the < an a -. 'I he battle ended, th - complete. Martha El

27 1 lmbng! 18 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. ALUMNAE DEPARTMENT. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: BEFORE. Does the old adage stll hold "To rule well, one must learn to obey well?" It may be of nterest to hear from an old-tme foundaton brck of the mpressons made by the wse masons who moulded her n the good old da% r s of '85. All authorty was vested n four bodes the Presdent, the doctor, the corrdor teacher and the head of the Domestc Department. The Presdent was responsble for our gong out and our comng n. The "offce" mght gve permssons to leave town, but all tardness n returnng must be explaned to the Presdent. How tmdlj tour of us came to Mss Freeman n my Sophomore year to explan that the Freshman's mother had kept us for supper after our "permtted" drve on Monday afternoon! What an occason t gave her to cauton us as to Sophomore nfluence over Freshmen! Very nfrequent were our journeys to Boston n those days. Theaters were forbdden. Once durng my four years I saw Booth n "Macbeth," durng a Chrstmas vacaton, salvng my conscence wth a lberal nterpretaton of the phrase, "whle connected wth the college," tryng to forgel 1 he partng njuncton, "Remember, grls, that 01 an- Wellesley College." All weghty matters of college polcy were referred to the Presdent. "Mght we have lemonade and crackers at our Sophomore socal?" Emboldened l>v our success here, n the sprng we plead lor permsson to burn our "conc sectons," only t<> return crestfallen to the class wth (In- suggeston tha we lake our honorary member for a moonlght drve nstead The doctor! Ah, her's was a more ntmate despotsm! Our health and all whch concerned t lay n her hands. What share of sunshne, how lt- of stars dd your well-beng demand n nment of rooms? Who should have a Saturday-nght bath hour, and who one at 6.30, A.M.. on Tuesday? Were you really sck? and should your meals be sent up? toast or gruel? Or should you be frmly held to meals, exercse, class- work and chapel? Mght you eat the pears your mother sent wth your laundry, or should the college be declared n a state of sege and all such goods be held as contraband? The one box of candy whch I receved whle n college I was allowed to gve to my Bble teacher, who, wth equal self-represson, doled t out, one pece daly, untl t was gone. I well remember the despar wth whch we awated a tardy Thanksgvng box whch arrved at ten the last nght of vacaton. Frends and foes were gathered, and we fathfully dscharged our oblgatons and dsposed of the last crumb before we slept. Our daly walk, too, was under the doctor's supervson. How often have I paced back and forth for another ten mnutes to complete the requred hour! In our "home lfe" we were responsble to our corrdor teacher. How carefully she watched over you, never grantng the coveted half hour after ten to fnsh your essay, untl you were drven n your despar one nght to blanket your transom! How loud was the nose of runnng water n the bathroom at 10.15, P.M.! How your boots squeaked when you tred to creep quetly by fve mnutes late to slent tme because there had been egg cups to wash ths mornng! The rules requred each grl to be "slent and alone," and n rooms for three, provson was made for the thrd grl n a rectaton room. Also n study hours you were not supposed to communcate even wth your roommate, except between bells a very great ad to concentraton. The head of the domestc work had a dffcult task to tran so much green and reluctant materal. I am convnced that student government orgnated here, n the student leaders of "crcles," who were accountable for certan unts of work, and could wthdraw you from the most fascnatng socal crcle to peel potatoes. On Mondays and over short vacatons, strct dscplne was needed to make sure that the proper substtutes were provded.

28 .1 han the he " he ted Wellesl T III-. WELLESLEY COL LEG E N E V. 19 In the old days we were leated alphabetcal!} n church and chapel, where attendance wa kep n each "secton" bj one ol ts members. A growng laxty permtted you <> sl oul o place on Sundaj evenngs, provded tha you reported to your e lnn grl. Otherwse you would I"- called to the offce " explan you absen In the dnng room your table teat her was responsble for your attendance and punctualty. \ I remember t, there were no penaltes, bul you no more dared to go n late to a meal to cl w. Very slowl} dd the dea dawn upon me tha there Faculty back of.ll these verj plea an1 per sonal relatons. In my Junor year came a rude awakenng. At Hallowe'en there was a mld bul unversal outbursl of lawlessness. Remnded by my room male of the pangs of remorse always followng my msdeeds, I declned our wld boat-crew revel of ghost stores, enrched by apples saved from dessert. But, unfortunately, as I returned from placng the last alarm (dock desgned to mark the passage of tme for an '86 revel at the ffth-floor center, the last bell struck before I crossed the threshold wth my remonstratng roommate. The many revelers roused the Faculty, and a most nterestng game of hde-and-seek ensued. A week of ntervews, remonstrances and Faculty meetngs culmnated n a general nvtaton, gven at mornng prayers, to all who had n any way broken a college rule between the noons of October 31 and November 1 to be present at a Faculty meetng. Never shall I forget that mournful processon, that solemn assembly! The mpossblty of makng my very strct father receve my abject confesson serously at Chrstmastme restored my sense of proporton and of humor. Nevertheless, we had learned a valuable lesson. that t s a serous matter to accept any oblgaton, however small, wthout lvng up to t. 1 beleve that from that tme nnety per cent, of us lved n accordance wth the sprt of the rules. Hoes Student Government do better than that? I have pcked out salent ponts n my masonry. The story does not run very true wthout the rest of the curve, for whch 1 have no space allowed. Can you detect the strong ponts n the old foundaton? Nevertheless, long lve Student Government! Mary C. Wggn, '85. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: AFTER. Government of the Students, by the Students and for the College. There s, of course, no need of provng to readers of ths Magazne the superorty of Student Government. S ud nl ' <" rnm< do all who have had tn- prvlege of I frst hand 1 Wellesle). -1 uden - the S ud When, on L uly and StU It < ontrol ol all not relatng to publc health nent, use of < olleg prop 1 student -, there began the lfe government n the Well) at on, an a n whch has durng 1 subsequ The Assocaton was organz d wth 1 and a Vce-presdenl from th and a Treasurer from the Junor elected by t he whole undergrad t ve Board made up of tl rs w th.; 1 sentatve from each the house offcers for each coll by ht r I - sdent of a house presdent and her proctors. Hut the government - not at all.1 g wrnmcnt t s essentally democratc, and t- - ble only when t s government by each ndvdual student. Every grl, 1 ;.1 member of the Assocaton, and her loyaltj I necessarly nvolves her loyalty to the other. Rules are made and executed by the whole body of students, and to them, organzed n ther A>s tcaton, has been ntrusted the matter "l" regstraton I sence from college, the regulaton of travel, permssons for Sunday callers, the chaperone rules, the mantenance of quet, and the general condu students on the campus and n the vllage. To ths Assocaton, also, the college looks for the forn and preservaton of a hgh publc sentment towards all matters of publc nterest. Of all the specal departments of the Assocaton work, the one whch has been the greatest problem, and perhaps, therefore, the one n whch tn caton has best shown ts ablty, s the -'-called Vllage Problem. For several years the enrolment has ncreased so much more rapdly than < pn - could be made for housng students on the campus. tha the whole Freshman Class has had to lve n the vllage. Obvously the queston of colleg g emnent for some four hundred new students, the youngest n the college, scattered over a wd«and lvng n small groups outsde the college, has been a serous one. The Vce-presdent, who has charge of ths department of the work, has ov - tme been solvng the problem wth the help of her Senor assstants, who lve n the vllage wth her. and a well-organzed vllage commttee of upperclass students, who. whle lvng on the campresponsble for the rght Student Government sprt n the vllage houses, each member of the commttee concentratng her nterest on one house

29 20 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. and helpng to make contnuous that connecton wth lc college whch a Freshman tends to feel s broken when her classes are over, and whch t s so mport. ml tha she keep f she s to realze her membershp n the college. That connecton outsde of classes could not be made n the same degree by the Faculty, nor by grls workng as ndvduals. There must be also the organzed assocaton of students who have themselves been, or are now n the vllage, each one of whom feels the need of an ntmate, comprehendng and co-operatve sprt from all the other students of all the classes to complete the unty of the student body n ts "loyalty to the best nterests of the college." The need and the success of the Assocaton n the vllage are but typcal of ts poston n other phases of college lfe, and ts work for that good government whch means, to quote from the orgnal agreement authorzng the Assocaton, "the exercsng of the powers of government wth most, careful regard both for lberty and order, and for the mantenance of the best condtons for scholarly work." But to llustrate the effectveness of government by students for the college s to show only part of ts use and value. Inseparable from that, and qute as mportant, s ts value to the ndvdual student. Not only s Wellesley better governed because of the unfed, loyal sprt of the whole body of students, themselves responsble for the conduct of the college and devoted to her nterests n proporton as they feel her welfare n ther keepng, but each ndvdual student s thereby gven the opportunty for "growth n character and power." The tranng n that ndvdual responsblty, whch s the very foundaton of a successful assocaton, the chance to work sde by sde wth every other member of the college for a common cause whose results may be seen each day, the growth n dgnty, n ablty to "pull together," to look at thngs n the large, and not alone from an ndvdual vew-pont, all these are daly addng to the effcency and ablty of the ndvdual students n ther lfe at Wellesley, and to ther tranng for ctzenshp, both n the college and out. The Assocaton s gvng to the students that greatest prvlege of lfe n a democratc communty, the prvlege of self-government, n company wth other self-governng people, n accordance wth the adjudged hghest nterests of the communty. The success, the exstence, even, of the Assocaton would have been mpossble except for the actve co-operaton of the Faculty of the college, and especally of Mss Pendleton, frst as Dean and now as Presdent. To them the grattude of the Assocaton s due, and for the future success of Student Government we bespeak ther contnued confdence and support. It s the organ through whch undergraduates may express ther loyalty to the college to them t s the college, and for ts strength and ntegrty they devote ther frst loyalty, ther enthusasm, ther tme, themselves. In ther success graduates and students arc justly proud. But n ther task all are needed whose nterest n Wellesley s not dead from undergraduates ther self-controlled devoton from Trustees, Faculty and alumna; ther sympathy, and ther steadfast belef, to the end, that all may be unted n promotng that best government "of the students, by the students and for the college." Florence F. Besse, ON COMPULSORY CHAPEL. Last year, wth the closng of the college term of , Mss Hazard made her fnal report to the Trustees of Wellesley College, as Presdent of the nsttuton. Such a report s necessarly of nterest to two classes of readers, to those w r ho love Wellesley, and to those who are nterested n the cause of educaton, for t must contan specal facts relatve to the development of the college, and n addton, broader generalzatons that touch the underlyng phlosophy on whch women's specal tranng rests. In ths partcular report, at the close of ten frutful years, Mss Hazard was able to draw very defnte conclusons concernng vtal prncples n Wellesley's complex lfe. One alumna read the openng pages wth pecular nterest. As t happened, they touched upon a new phase that had been a source of regret to her durng the decade or more that had elapsed snce her graduaton. Ths was the abolshment of compulsory chapel that had taken place almost mmedately after her leavng. As Mss Hazard was herself the frst to suggest the change, the statement of her reason n her own words wll be of nterest. She says: "One of my frst proposals at Wellesley, n the autumn of 1899, was to abolsh compulsory attendance on mornng prayers. The plan was approved only by a small majorty of the Faculty, but the Trustees permtted me to make the experment. Wth the beautful new chapel buldng and every external ad to devoton, I could not bear to have the servce perfunctory, wth montors to mark attendance." At ths pont n her readng the alumna paused and remembered that she had been a montor once upon a tme. Somewhere n her college memorabla book there were pasted a few of the pages of her attendance record, wth the lst of twenty grls whose names began wth A or V or W, and whose assgned seats made up two rows n the rear of the old chapel. It was n her Freshman year, when the sense of responsblty and duty lay heavest upon

30 I < ompellcd l vend he - T II E WELLESLEY COLL EG E N EWS her, and sa n he t vas a very serous small grl ndeed tha end ea1 and marked pr< ent, tardy, or absent, after the names o her twentj classmat. gvng them all the leeway possble, as genero ty dc landed, In placng justce f n the ls I of vrtues. Perhaps, too, there was jus! a bh of selfrghteousness n her mental compar on between her exactness and the easy-gong methods of a junor cousn, also a chapel montor n a small md- Western unversty. It was scarcely a surprse to her 1 hat only a feu of the Faculty had found the proposton to abolsh compulsory chapel advsable. Ten years ago the majorty of Wcllesley nstructors wen- those who had been traned under the ancent regme of the 70's. Many had known the founder, Mr. Durant hmself, had caught from hm the sprt of devoton n whch the foundatons of the place were lad, remembered that ts buldng had been a testmony to hs Chrstan fath. They knew that to hm any change n the mornng devotonal gatherng would have been a deep regret, probably a great gref. Not forgetful that the. world moves, that "The old order changeth, gvng place to new, And God fulfls Hmself n many ways," they would fan have left untouched that cornerstone of Welleslcy nhertance, unversal mornng prayers. Yet they, too, must have felt wth Mss Hazard that much of what s best n relgous devoton s lost when compulson s necessary to ts mantenance. Further on, the retrng Presdent outlnes some of the results of her new plan: "Much of what I hoped for has been attaned. It s a very real moment of devoton when, wth the frst low note of the organ, a true call to prayer, every head s bowed, and the servce begns wth slent consecraton. The hymn, the psalm whch follows, the Scrpture lesson, the prayer, and the closng recessonal, make a bref servce to the value of whch have had many testmones." All that Mss Hazard says n ths summng up of the advantages of the new system s true. And yet the alumna, readng wth memory's keenest vson fxed upon the past, recalled that even under the old plan there had come the same nsprng nfluences of wholesome and real relgous fervor. Even on the mornngs when she herself had rushed to the fast-closng door, conscous of a room left n dsorder, a toohastly-made tolet, and an unprepared Latn translaton, and had tucked herself breathless nto her asle seat, the quet voce of the Presdent from the platform announcng the openng hymn was the open sesame to twenty mnutes of rest and grateful calm that had sent her back to the day's work stronger and surer of herself. Even those who openly rebelled aganst the exactons of compulsory 1 hapel. and 1 h to a< leno I rad: a te v.. re Troubled n hours not ll spent. A often tne :n the workng out of new ' fl< 01 out-,, n the abol chapel and M-- Hazard frankl;. them. To contnue the quotaton: "But the dffcult) - that the -ndent- who 3U h a sen < e an- not there. I eghl n t In- mornng." I sed to be e lt the alumna. y 'That - early n wnter, when one's room ha- to be I' ft n order for th At the fr-t servce of the year, and I tmes, 1 the whole body of students s p t-t other at n-ndann s usu ' -- than fve hundred. From a thrd to a half of the student come wth some regularty; the other half, the half whch most needs t, do not come excepl 1 r casons." Excellent advce t s vrtue when t s lackng, and by the assumpton to encourage ts growth and gve t a ch. elop. Voluntary chapel attendance reaches the rl who s natural!}, or by tranng, devotonal n feelng, the grl who would fnd a place and a tme for worshp f the college suppled none. Compulsory chapel brought to the center of sprtual nfluence the grl wth lttle or no normal and spontaneous desre for devoton. Perhaps she came unwllngly. What of t? At least she dd not go away qute empty-handed. As foolsh to contend that t was of no real value as to say that the weekly concerts of classc musc could be of no use to the grl untraned n the art. Pursung the subject further. Mss Hazard presents to the Trustees the tentatve suggesto college chaplan "who should be able I tenton to the personal needs o the students n tmes of stress, whch must come to every expandng mnd." A new dea truly, but not ll-ad 1 perhaps, when one consders the tremendous growth of Welleslcy and the fact that t was founded for the Chrstan educaton of young women. In the early days, when Mr. Durant knew ' joy n hs ntmate relatonshp wth the students, a voluntary chaplan n hs actvtes, and when three or four hundred grls were not too many to fnd n the Faculty close frends and advsers, then the suggeston would have been superfluous. As t s. the alumna saw one dstnct drawback. Many of her most delghtful recollectons centered about the Sundays when Wcllesley knew the nsprng mnstry o the most dstngushed preachers. To the servces of these weekly vstors Mss Hazard pays grateful trbute n her report. There were specally treasured days when Phllps Brooks, neghbor and - e

31 Here OO THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS frend, flled the college chapel and left beautful Lever to he forgotten. Just what those sermons meant to the many grls from small towns, otherwse dened the prvlege of hearng these great teachers, they themselves wll never know. But the end of Mss Hazard's conclusons has not yet come. She goes further. "After eleven - f experence, I am not so sure as I was that permttng voluntary attendance ~ wse. Is there not danger of gvng untred young people too much lberty, of expectng them to decde for themselves questons of lfelong mportance wthout the gudance of those who ought to gude? lberty of ' conscence s carred to an rrelgous extreme." one of the early dvnes wrote of Rhode Island. Is the same ndctment true, n part, of the modern college? The paternal theory of government has been wholly dscarded n many colleges. Now the tde s turnng the other way. Absolute freedom of electon s beng curtaled, and t may be that n moral and relgous tranng too much freedom has been gven. The honor system could be expanded, and by t attendance on chapel exercses controlled more than at present. The Sunday attendance s good, the chapel s usually full: but attendance at mornng prayers seems to me very mportant. When I was so often the leader, I could not make a frequent appeal to students to come. It mght well be that my mnstratons were not helpful; four tmes a week t was my regular duty to offer mornng prayer. The man object of such a servce s naturally the consecraton of the day, an nvocaton of Dvne help n all that t may contan. But there s no great good wthout lesser benefts, and the sense of soldarty, of communty lfe, of college loyalty whch s fostered by such a servce, s somethng whch no college can afford to lose." Paternalsm! A phrase often sounded n the modern forum. A phrase wth whch Amercan deals seem to be at varance. A phrase we have almost dscarded n home dscplne as a natonal government. What of the dsappearance of mornng prayers n the famly? They were seldom voluntary. There were often grumblngs at ths exacton on the part of devout fathers and mothers. And yet. pretty far back n the subconscousness of many, there stll lves the memory of those bref mnutes of a unted assembly, a reverent group, the bg famly Bble, the soundng chapter, the earnest prayer, and the hushed begnnng of the day. Where one small grumbler found n the requrement the begnnng of revolt, a score added the beauty of p to ther concept of lfe. Glad ndeed was the alumna that the outgong Presdent had added the sentence regardng the lesser benefts to the earnest plea for change. These had always seemed to her of vtal mportance. In addton to her dea that prayer, no matter n what form, was the normal begnnng of a day. she had always beleved n the mpresson of unty, of soldarty, engendered by the meetng of the entre body of students. How could Wellesley ever agan know that feelng of oneness, she wondered, now that no sngle hour of the day saw the college assembled as a whole? Agan she slpped nto her retred Freshman seat under the gallery. Upon the platform sat the chor and the Presdent. To the rght of the organ were the Faculty, to the left the specal students. In the front seats were the Senors, the objects of her honest awe and admraton. Behnd them the Junors, only slghtly less mpressve. Across the chapel were the Sophomores, creatures strange and not too frendly. All about her the grls she was to know for four happy years as companons and ssters n pleasure and pan. Ths was the college world. Ths was the Wellesley of whch she had dreamed when an ambtous father had decreed that she was to be one of the educated women of her day, so far as he could make t possble. There was a thrll of loyalty and a joy of beng a part of so marvelous a whole that came daly n the sngng of the hymns, the full-thrcated volume of sound hardly mssng the sustanng notes of bass or tenor. Even to-day. wth Wellesley's wonderful new organ and the splendd chor, the alumna fnds no more satsfyng sngng. There was the eager nterest n the daly announcements. Together the bg Wellesley famly heard of changes and of the events of the lttle cosmos n whch they lved. It needed no eager searchng of bulletn boards to spread the And daly news. Together they lstened to gentle admonton, to mld reproof, or to stern rebuke. then to the orthodox lttle Freshman came the supreme moment, the close, when, to the organ, the students fled out n the order of senorty of classes. Then she saw herself n magnaton a Senor, then she felt most keenly her responsblty to do her college credt, then she strred to the ambton to be worthy of those whose duty was "not to be mnstered unto, but to mnster." It was a very real, a very deep and earnest ambton. Y\ ho shall say how many caught fre at that same moment.-' And then Mss Hazard concludes wth a plea that the college shall keep alve the relgous sprt. " W e are constantly told," she wrtes, "that the relgous sprt of the country s dyng out; unless the colleges can foster and ncrease t, ther work s proftless. A traned mnd wthout a reverent sprt s a dangerous product. The whole queston of relgous teachng n schools s a pressng one. The colleges must lead n showng the soluton." An Alumna n the New York Evenng Post.

32 a T II E W E L I. ES \. EY CO L LEGE THE SOCIETY REFORMATION. As far bacl a nv own undergraduate days the so n y que ton was dscu sed and dscu ed. It was a favorte 3ubjecl for Junor forenscs b the pros and cons wen- uppermost n our mnds. As the years passed the opnon strengthened tha the socetes a1 Wellesley wen- not n harmony wth I le fun s sprt of the college. The < ollege had kep pace wth the world outsde, and the awakened socal conscence of the world was echoed n the college by a wdespread feelng of unrest wth the socety stuaton. In 1909 the socetes held a promnenl poston n the college lfe. Ther members were largely of two knds, the natural leaders and the grls who, I,;, ther socal tranng, and by ther larger opportuntes, were the nos obvously attractve at the outset of ther college career. The membershp was more homogeneous than n the older days, and the socety bond was consequently closer. The grls emphaszed the socetes, and ther estmate of the mportance of the socetes was accepted by the rest of the college, because n the socet :s were the leaders of opnon. But the very promnence of the socetes brought ther personnel under scrutny. The grls outsde, comparng themselves wth many of the members, felt that they were equally elj not only n ntellectual ablty, but n ther power for fellowshp. They resented the vantage ground gven by socety membershp to a grl who had receved t.for no obvous reason. There was lttle objecton to socetes n themselves. It was agreed that the socetes could add much to the grace and charm of the socal sde of the college. The pleasure and proft found n the study of an nterestng subject by a small unt, and n gettng together socally under attractve crcumstances, were generally admtted. The problem was to get such opportuntes for as many grls as possble, and to convnce the rest ether that due exerton would wn the opportuntes, or that t was reasonable that they should go wthout them. At the nstance of the socetes, n February, 1910, a congress of socety and non-socety undergraduates, graduates and Faculty, was called to consder a soluton. It was necessary for the congress to remember certan trusms. A group of persons, to be a socal success, must be small and comparatvely congenal. Socetes that are open to all are used by few. Department clubs do not floursh socal l\. Snce grls wll always form socal groups, t s better to organze and regulate rather than to destroy. After many meetngs, the congress advsed that the socetes be retaned, and that n the future they should each be composed of Junors and Senors, accordng to the followng plan: All grls should be clgbl n ex ellenl addto ld. 'I he standard eat h h 1 omm the Dean. the d preferem es n the or of the central 1 grl and ea desred. The hope for the plan laj n I sacrfced man mn 1 two essental ponts. To the ndv slred ton, or non-membershp wth.. tn- strong wth members whom t n return, and so enabled t : homogeneousness and ndv lualty. socetj gav equal numbers wth the larg ad although tl would not be among them, less well-k often buld up a socety qut ; well-known fact, whch accounts for th< popularty of the varous -. The plan of the c< tral lor three years. The frst year has further steps have been taken for socety s to hold ts open me I g other year. Some mstakes have been ma!< There are stll unhapp) grls. There are msfts n I cetes. There always wre. But there dscontent and much real satsfacton. credt s due to the grls for the sprt wth whch they have carred out the plan. M succeed am develop f. n ther tentatve tr> ;._ they should receve such hearty sup M \k\ \V. P v - SOCIETIKS I'NDER THE MW REGIME. A year has gone by snce the new sys cety organzaton n Wellesley began, and V leyans, past and present, are lookng for results radcal a change cannot be judged wth anj ness after so short a tral, but some g solvatons may be made, remember g the present condtons are those of a t perod. The new plan went nto effect n the autumn ol to to. After a sngle year the stuaton s too much n a process of evoluton to show defnte results.

33 24 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. It s hardly far to ask whether the plan has faled or succeeded, or to say what the fnal outcome wll be. Some very general observatons, however, can be made. It s obvous that, whereas, under the old system, socety membershp was too often a matter of chance, now every grl n the Senor and Junor classes has the opportunty to become a member, snce her elgblty depends upon her own efforts. As a result, grls from all the vared crcles of college lfe have been brought together; grls wth wdely dfferent nterests and ponts of vew meet on common ground. It would seem, then, that n these smaller groups a most favorable stuaton had been created for the growth of real democratc sprt of sympathy and understandng between people of opposte temperaments and nterests. Whether or not human nature, n the mass, wll respond, as theorsts hope, s stll a matter of conjecture. At present the results stll depend upon the ndvdual dsposton and tranng, and no general concluson can be arrved at. A less vtal result of the new system has been the ncrease n the mportance and the publcty of socetes. In the old days they were kept more or less n the background, and ther actvtes were of mnor mportance. So much dscusson of socety affars has somewhat strpped them of the glamor they once had. It s no longer a breach of etquette to menton them, and Tupelo has lost somethng of ts ar of mystery. Whle t s a welcome thng to see them assumng a natural and unaffected poston, t s exceedngly' undesrable that an undue mportance be thrust upon them. If they were less dscussed and were allowed to go about ther work more smply, they would soon fnd ther proper level n the college lfe. One of the partcular arguments aganst socetes on the old bass was that those who faled to be nvted were hurt and embttered. Hurt feelngs must have dmnshed somewhat n extent under the new system, but dsappontment and even btterness stll exst. The fact that elgblty depends, not upon any absolute, but upon a changng standard, adjusted to the number of vacances to be rlled, means that some grls, who have not been made elgble, feel that they deserve elgblty more than others who have. Occasonally, mstakes are made; very often the reasons are good, but not apparent; more often t s purely the fault of the system tself. Perhaps more feelng s aroused by the nterpretaton and applcaton of the "publcsprted servce" qualfcaton than by any other one pont. In the frst place, t s all too easy for the term, "publc-sprted," to be too loosely nterpreted. One fnds a tendency n the college-atlarge to consder any offce, however perfunctory, or membershp on any commttee, however trval, as publc-sprted servce. Too often, the mere ttle s consdered, rather than the actual work t requres. The evls resultng are nsdous and deplorable. It s dffcult for the lst of recommendatons to be properly lmted. In the matter of appontments, t s, and wll be dffcult not to gve a poston to the grl who needs t to become elgble, rather than to the grl who s already elgble, or who wll be on some other count. It s not mpled that any such laxness has occurred, t s merely a tendency of the college atttude, whch many have notced, and whch, f not checked by strong publc opnon, wll lead to such undesrable condtons. Most serous of all s the tendency of ths atttude to undermne college poltcs. Fortunately, the actual votng has not been affected, but there seems to be real danger of electoneerng for grls who need offces n order to become elgble. Undoubtedly, servce has been gven a commercal value, but that t should be allowed to become commercalzed or to fall from ts hgh and deal standards would be demoralzng, and would offset practcally every good whch the new system mght create. That the plan has worked as smoothly as t has, s due n no small measure to the unstnted nterest and effort of the commttees n charge. Ther task s enormous and most dffcult, a fact whch all recognze and apprecate. Ther devoted servce has, ndeed, prevented many dffcultes and has gven the system a far chance to prove ts worth. All who work for the plan, whether they beleve n ts effcacy, or work for t from a sense of duty and justce, know that they are tolng for somethng beyond an arbtrary system, beyond the college world. The socetes are tryng, n mnature, an experment along lnes upon whch the whole modern world s workng. It s ths wder sgnfcance, ths relaton to more unversal ssues, whch makes the task so vtal n nterest, so well worth thought and effort; whch makes us, as well, more patent n awatng results and more slow to judge. Chrstne Myrck, ALUMNA AND THE COLLEGE SETTLE- MENTS ASSOCIATION. Perhaps some of us hardly realze that the College Settlements Assocaton has an Alumnae as well as an Undergraduate Chapter! We exst, however, and we care so much for the work we are helpng to support that we are eager to draw every alumna wthn our ranks. We lke to thnk that the Wellesley sprt s the sprt of democracy, and certanly there s no more beautful way of provng ths than by throwng ourselves nto movements whch are makng toward the realzaton of ths great dream. Surely the Settlement s an expresson of the democratc sprt. Seekng, as t does, to draw to-

34 reate he " Tl E W E LLES I. E COLLEGE gether people ol wdel) dvergent wealth and opportunty, tha through knowledge ma; com pathy, and through sympathy a sharng ol lfe's prvleges, s a protest aganst the cruellj rgd stratfcaton o a socety n whch the sense of human oneness seem 3 so dormant. Seekng, as t does, to develop a more truly co-operatve sprt n t neghborhood, t s helpng to 1" tter < tzens ctzens who wll have a wder vson of ther n laton n the socal whole, and who wll therefon be more wllng to accept ndvdual responsblty for the publc weal. Seekng ultmately, as t does, through nvestgaton and through allance wth general movements, for socal reform, to help n changng the unjust condl ons behnd I prevalent dsease and gnorance, the Settlement s standng n lne wth forces workng toward.-- a juster eco nomc system. The methods of work dffer wth the dfferng needs of ndvduals and of neghborhoods. Sometmes the sprt of fellowshp and co-operaton may be best expressed through a basket-ball club» sometmes through a summer outng, sometmes through a medcal dspensary, sometmes through a class n lterature, and sometmes through a dancng socal. Nor should any of ths work be looked upon as "charty" bestowed on one group of people by another, but smply as an effort to acheve justce, snce there can be no sort of real socal advance unless the nobler fruts of cvlzaton become the hertage of the many and not of the few alone. The very name of the College Settlements Assocaton sgnfes ts pecular appeal to us as college women. Representng fourteen women's colleges, the Assocaton stands as a lnk between the college woman and the surgng ndustral lfe of our great ctes. In four of these ctes, New York, Boston, Phladelpha and very recently n Baltmore, the Assocaton has planted her chldren, the settlements, and splenddly they are growng, and eagerly callng for more resources wth whch to meet ther pressng opportuntes for usefulness. The tale of ther ndvdual dongs must be reserved for later artcles, but suffce t to say that they have proved ther value. Presdents and neghborhood dwellers alke testfy though n dfferent ways to a broader vson, an enrched lfe. Wth the modern demand for expert servce, our Settlements have grown from, perhaps, rather sentmental expressons of brotherhood nto more scentfcally-regulated channels for the outpourng of the socal sprt, but the sense of a sympathetc sharng n the common lfe has not been lost, and must be guarded as ther most precous nhertance from the poneer days. As Wellesley alumnae, and not only as college women, we have a specal nterest n ths work, snce our Alumnae Assocaton contrbutes annually to on«of the jont fellowsh -lnng d l<;. the ' oil p Mm- enablng < repr four thou- -and strong now, but onl thrt;.,\r< enrolled a- le ml.. - 'I' n- n- Assocaton, and nor over four bund - pad our de not dscouraged, for our g; \,m for the jake of \\. II. -I. ;. and for I Settlements, '.'> want our growth t we rased - I we ths sura bj $ durng ' I he fee for lfe membersh p s $1 not :. Sustanng membershp due-., r.- fron fcj $25.00 per year. Regular membershp d Partal membershp flues are fron; - per year. The chapter tax for prntng. j ear. If appealed to by class elector, kndly send through her; f not. to the chapter treasurer, M- Josephne Thayer, 11 Wesl 5t Mlford, \\ ll not each alumna who has never joned or who has dropped out, become a member ths year, and thus help Wellesley to plaj a -tll more vtal part n the "socal awakenng?" The most convncng proof of the value of any work s the knowledge whch comes through personal co-operaton. So, f possble, spend some tme a year, a month, or even two h<>urs a week at 95 Rvngton Street. New Y.>rk. or 93 Tyler Strct, Boston, or 433 Chrstan Street. Phladelpha, or 1504 East Fort Avenue, Baltmore. Terms for resdence may be obtaned by wrtng to the Settlements. Any servce rendered wll be most welcome. Eleanor P. MONROE, Alumna? Elector. DEXISON HOUSE. In every grl there s, probably, at some tme n her formatve years, a perod when she feels the altrustc prncple strrng wthn her. long before she has ever heard the term, and she longs nurse or a mssonary or a charty worker, or n some way to be of servce n mnsterng to others. Then her school lfe and college lfe becom absorbng that she may never yeld to the mpulse, and t may never agan be so strong. On the other hand, f she chances to come under the nspr ol a frend or a speaker who s alve wth enthusasm for humanty, the spark may be kndled and a tre lghted that wll never burn out. Such a kndlng of enthusasm t may be nterestng to trace n a specal case, and f 1 may be pardoned a fev sonaltes, I wll tell my own experence:

35 he 26 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS In my chldhood.1 wse Sunday-school teacher, who drected our energes outsde Sunday-school n some degree, through.1 mssonarj sewng-crcle, asssted us n rasng monej for the work of the Gulcks n Span, the letter whch we sent them wh our gfl arrvng whle Mrs. Gulck was entertanng Dr. S. F. Smth (Amerca Smth), and hs wfe, who wereona tour around the world. Mrs. Smth was.1 neghbor of ours n Newton Center, and was so pleased wth our nterest that she sought permsson to answer the letter for Mrs. Gulck. So.1 personal element entered nto our nterest, and we contnued, for several years, to send money for the msson n Span; and I myself fully expected then to be a mssonary. But about that tme a cousn of mne, who was nterested n the North Bennett-street Industral School, took me, wth my sster, one lovely sprng day, to vst some of her aged poor n the West End; and the grattude shown by them for the appleblossoms and other sprng flowers we carred them awakened a new lne of thought, and I began to wonder a lttle f there mght not be true mssonary work to do rght n our own Boston. And my wse, bg-hearted mother often sent me on errands of mercy n our own town, and thus agan the altrustc prncple was fostered. But my frst dea of gong to lve as a neghbor to those of less opportunty than ourselves came n our Freshman ethcs course under Mss Andrews, who told us of a famly of wealth who had gven up ther house up town (perhaps n New York), to lve among the poor and be ther very neghbors. That startled us and prepared us for the mass meetng, where Mss Scudder and Mss Frel, (Mrs. Shale;), and others told us of Arnold Toynbee and the workers lke hm n England, and of how they themselves proposed to do somethng lke t here. Then and there the Wellesley Chapter of the College Settlement was formed, and I became a most enthusastc member. After I left college, and other thngs dstracted my attenton, I allowed my membershp to lapse; Nut t energy of Carolne Wllamson (Mrs. Mont- I, got hold of me and drew me nto work as treasurer of the Wellesley Alumnae Chapter. Two summer vsts to the New York Settlement summer home cemented my connecton wth settlement work, and snce then my settlement nterests have always been uppermost. \nl the more ntmately one knows Denson House, the more one feels ts nspraton. It s ndeed worth whle to be a part of a growng organzaton that s expandng and deepenng at the same tme. Denson House started wth one house n 1889, and now has fve, besdes the gymnasum. And here are carred on clubs and classes for those of every age, ncludng two clubs for foregn-born women, one for Syrans and one for Italans. We have a summer camp for boys at Lake Wentworth, N. H., and one for grls at Wnthrop, under the care of Mrs. Mary O'Sullvan, and for sx weeks n summer we have a vacaton school for boys and grls on Tyler street. Resdents collect n the neghborhood for the stamp savngs, our nurse has classes n personal hygene and home nursng, and some of the students' clubs prepare and eat ther supper on club nghts n the cookng-school room. And n all these lnes there s ample room for the help of a resdent who has no specal bent, but s there to learn and to be helpful. Ths year every room was engaged n advance, so that those who expect to be at Denson House another wnter would do well to plan early. Every one of us, after college days, whether n her own home or n her father's, n town or n country, must meet the problems of socal betterment, and no place affords such wonderful tranng as a settlement, for t must touch every other problem of human relatonshp; and out of the needs of the neghbors wll grow many an nsttuton far more conspcuous than the settlement tself. And so a settlement s a foster-mother of ts neghbors and of nsttutons for true betterment n more specalzed lnes as well. For nstance, Denson House started a readngroom and lendng lbrary, and when the need was great enough the Boston Publc Lbrary opened a branch near-by, whch has for years been drected by one of our Wellesley grls, Cora Stuart, a most effcent settlement worker that s, workng n the settlement sprt. When Dr. Rchard Cabot ntated hs hosptal socal servce work at the Massachusetts General Hosptal, he borrowed our Denson House nurse, agan a Wellesley grl, Garnet Isabel Pelton, to begn that work wth hm. Snce then he has carred off another of our Settlement workers, Mss Edth Burlegh, to jon hs staff. Out of the w r ork wth the neghbors whch Mss Pelton began has grown up a dspensary for the neghborhood, and a staton for dspensng modfed mlk now a part of the work of the Mlk and Baby Hygene Assocaton wth ts clncs held at Denson House. The gymnasum, wth baths whch we started, s now run by the cty, whch pays rent to Denson House. And soon the cty wll erect a Muncpal Buldng whch wll house both the lbrary and the gymnasum. It s dffcult to test a settlement to see what t does. One may count the number of people whom

36 he hat or dong. ounl he ol re meets each week n lub and THE WELLES LEY la. one maj whch count he rj number ol e* ur on to t plans for the ummer, bul none o th< lsts can possbly ndcate the qualty of the quet, every-day work whch Denson House I touches the lves of ts neghbors, In h, Italans or Syrans, through all the members ol the famlj lttle chldren, half-grown boys and. grl young men and young women, fathers and mother nstructng, comfortng and presentng proftable entertanment for them, as a true frend can. And yc there s another sde to all ths. I t thng more than pallatve, ths tha we arc dong? Is here any permanent good comng oul of t all? We frmly beleve I n every chld made st r< every young person made more ntellgent and sympathetc, every mother made more capable, we are gettng nearer to the soluton of the problem of poverty whch underles all other socal problems. And so we beleve that a socal regeneraton may come wthout a revoluton, f we wll only patent 1\ tend the gran of mustard seed. Mabel Gar Curts, '90. LIST OF ALUMNA WHO HAVE BEEN RESI- DENTS AT DENISON HOUSE. Mss Carol Dresser, Mss Helen Drake, Mss Cora Stewart, Mss M. K. Conyngton, Mss Susan Huntngton, Mss Florence Converse, Mss Lavna Smth, Mss Ellen J. Wall, Mss Ella W. Bray, Mss Antonette Bgelow, Mss Margaret Waterman, Mss Harret H. Brown, Mss Martha R. Spaldng, Mss Katherne Morse, Mss Jula M. Burgess, Mss Louse E. Balard, Mss Grace Hllyer, Mss Mae Rce, Mss Elzabeth Manwarng, Mss L. C. Emerson, Mss Garnet I. Pelton, Mss A. Walmsley, Mss Mary A. Robnson, Mss Florence M. Panter, A'lss Maron D. Savage, Mss Geraldne Gordon. BOOK REVIEWS. "Amerca the Beautful, and Other Poems," by Katharne Lee Bates. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Prce, $1.25. COLLEGE ( 'ol. falure to produc c org brng us n holarshp commu nl j of 11- ful. pract al fo a< h vemen? Vou deal expr -- d n *h tp< - tn man, 1 reproa relatve values would emph pre< ousn *sol just ths whch does < ome to pa weaves for he -pr of he hghesl th 1 pun- beauty, and has, n the end, a I to offer to her Alma A turn whle other loyal da. Great Mother ther large and noble. I at last stepped softly forward and lad n th' maternal hand a pr quet, unpretentous book n whch all VY rejoces to-day. the Professor Bates has rendered many valuable servces to the college, and all so thoroughly n the sprt of not lettng the left hand know what the hand doeth, that probably the half of them wll never be told. Bu t s 1 -:on up the more evdent: the exceptonally able, orgnal and scholarly class-room work of man;. Han books of travel, lterary crtcsm, and translaton, whch have added dstncton to her performance of professonal duty; the unobtrusve vtal share n the development of academc and alumna' polces: the personal nspraton, th helpfulness lavshed upon ndvduals beyond computng, both young and old; the lvely sympathy wth the undergraduates.n(\ comprehens ther problems, and the multplcty <>f wa; - whch ths sympathy and comprehenson hav< shown. Ths very MAGAZINE tract - germ planted by her and sunned n In care throughout the earler stages of ts growth. Yet all these servces, great and small, reach ther culmnaton n the gft to Welleslej a ad I Amerca of ths modest book, begnnng wth a natonal am hem whch s already far on ts waj to mmortalty, and revealng, as no other work o the author's has done, her deepest convctons on I: art. For they are uttered here n that lang poetry whch s her most characterstc and onlj quate means of expresson. Her prose wrtngs have famlarzed us wth her lterary talent: but n ths book we are face to face wth genus. Much o Mss Bates' verse s already known and loved by those who wll read ths revew. Some o the best of t has been wrtten by our un laureate for college occasons. Pecularlj dear to Wellesley hearts are such poems as the memorable

37 28 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS hymn, "At the Layng of the Corner-stone" of the Lbrary, and the rosary of profound and tender eleges for Wellesley's dead. Several of the other poems, notable among the nature-lyrcs, ether tv.t of Wellesley subjects, or obvously found ther nspraton here. A careful hut lmted select on from Mss Bates' fnest verse appeared, together wth Mss Sherwood's beautful play,.mss Jewett's hauntng lyrcs', and other poems hghly credtable to the college, n "Persephone," the volume brought out by the Department of Englsh Lt rat ure for the beneft of the Lbrary Fund n But ths book was ssued sem-prvately, and ts crculaton was naturally lmted. A large number of Mss Bates' poems, however, have appeared n leadng perodcals, and have become famlar n that way to an ncreasngly wde crcle of readers. But the volume now before us s, to quote a recent revew, "her frst comprehensve collecton, and the frst to reveal to the publc the wealth and range of her poetc power." The openng poem, "Amerca the Beautful," from whch the book takes ts name, seems, n a specal sense, college property, as ts unque value was so early recognzed here, and t has been sung on so many noteworthy college occasons, culmnatng n the recent Inauguraton. Moreover, of the nearly ffty settngs composed for t snce ts appearance n substantally ts present form seven years ago, two of the best-known are those by our own Professor Hamlton, and by the Rev. W. W. Sleeper of the Wellesley Congregatonal Church. But ths great natonal hymn has now been wdely accepted n dfferent parts of the country, and Wellesley s only too thankful to merge her smaller clam n the general ownershp. Wth joyful prde we see our anthem takng more and more fully ts rghtful place, sung by great popular assembles, eagerly sought for the new hymn-books, reprnted n countless perodcals, the lure of composers and the joy of thnkng patrots, embodyng, as t does, a passonate yet clear-sghted love of country n a poetc form of concentrated and vrle power, yet so smply lyrcal that t farly sngs tself. We do not ask that t should dsplace any of the patrotc songs already consecrated by the people's affecton, though Thomas Baley Aldrch, whose artstc taste was so exquste and so dffcult to please, wrote of t that t "ought to supplant the commonp u e, lfeless lnes whch we have accepted as our natonal am hem." But we beleve that of all our natonal hymns t s far and away the best. (An accurate account of ts hstory may be found n the current number of the Chautauquan Magazne.) It would be a mstake, however, to rank "Amerca the Beautful" as ts author's hghest achevement n verse. Noble as that s, we fnd n her book a number of poems whch equal or surpass t n rarty of thought and dstncton of magnatve expresson, whle there are several whch share wth t that genune sngng qualty so hard to fnd n our so-called lyrc verse. The analyss of the book's contents whch appeared n the Boston Transcrpt of October 27, 191 1, so nearly expresses our vews on the subject that we reproduce t, wth some addtons and mnor changes, n what follows: The volume s dvded nto nne sectons. The subjects of the frst eght are ndcated respectvely by the ttles of ther ntal poems: "Amerca the Beautful," "Home," "The Ideal," "What s the Sprt?" "The Prase of Nature," "Love Planted a Rose," "Azrael," and "The Wander-Year." The nnth secton conssts of translatons from the Spansh, and renders wth masterly grace and pquancy a large number of coplas and other specmens of Pennsular folk-song. The prevalng tone of the book s a lofty earnestness, held n fne restrant by the large, underlyng humor whch s so characterstc of all Mss Bates' work. Occasonally ths gleams on the surface, as n the bewtchng lnes to "Brother Canary:" "Lttle Laughter of God, Twnklng from rod to rod, Star emboded n fluff." The more subtle and mystcal poems, lke "The Poet" and "Were Love but True" are balanced by charmng genre pctures of the smplest human appeal, such as we fnd n the Falmouth peces, n "Salng-Day at Clovelly" and n "The Golden Weddng." Most of the poems are short; though we fnd admrably sustaned work n the lyrcal ballad enttled "Indan Bearers," wth ts strong, prmtve magery and compellng pathos, n the strrng Norse ballad of "The Sea- Path," n the three stately odes, and n two or three other nstances. But the general brevty of the lyrcs, doubtless largely due to the exactons of academc lfe, stands for a strkng concentraton of power. "A sngle lne may lve as long, God please, As all of Homer or Eurpdes;" and the volume abounds n sngle lnes, n quatrans, and other examples of strct compresson, whch are memorable for vgor of thought and hauntng felcty of phrase. Such s the quatran on "The Appan Way:" "What s the past? Ddst fnd t where we went, Far out on that enmarbled Scrptured Way? We found the unappeasable lament, Bewldered cry of sprt over clay." The thrty-eght sonnets dstrbuted through the book are further llustratons of the same compactng tendency, combned wth elevaton of motve and dstncton of form.

38 I o ruth," I the TH E WKLLKSL E V COLL EG E N I The consderable group ol lyr nrhch, together -nr. th<r am ; wth "Amerca the Beautful," make up the fr secton "I the book, are charged wth a fervd yel dscrmnatng patrotsm. A wder world-feelng s shown n pognant utteranc on England's deal nga wl South Afrca and our own wth the Phlppnes. One notes especally the nobl< onneta enttled "Amerca to England," and tn- grand reverberanl musc o th ode on ' and ls a ra, wth ts "Splendd thrones unvsted of Tme," "Multtudnous thunders evermore." In ths secton, as elsewhere, we fnd 3u< h nequaltes of power as ar to b expected n a collecton coverng the work of so man- years. Thus the young exuberance of " Land of I lope" dffers w dely from the controlled and solemn passon of "To My Country." Yet there s thrll and vson n such early lnes as "Stll through error and shame and censure She urges onward wth stranng breast, For her face s set to the great adventure, Her feet are vowed to the utmost quest." The poems of home center about Cape Cod, and n partcular the town of Falmouth, the "Far sea-vllage, wrapt n ts pearly haze," whch was Mss Bates' brthplace. The frst of these, wrtten for the Old Home Festval at Falmouth, s a very fre-opal among the oftentmes dubous treasures of occasonal verse. It reveals the poet's profound sense of those prmtve values whch are also eternal, and has that large tenderness of magnaton whch a dscernng crtc has ponted out as her pecular characterstc. The Transcrpt sad of t at the tme of ts delvery: "If the Old Home Festval at Falmouth had accomplshed nothng more, and been celebrated by nothng more than the producton of the poem by Katharne le Bates, t would have been abundant ly worth whle." The charm of these lovely lnes follows us as we turn the pages to epsodes of Cape Cod hstory n the later poems of the group. "The Falmouth Church" hymns n noble phrase the soul of the new theology. It s proof of Mss Bates' versatlty tha each of her subjects n turn appears to be pecularly her own. But her thrd secton would seem to gve us her rarest and most ntmate verse. It opens wth that exalted lyrc, "The Ideal," whch has been a "Sursum corda" to many earnest souls snce ds publcaton n the Century Magazne some ffteen or twenty years ago. Ths s followed by the pcturesquely symbolc "Cape of Good Hope," by the subtle and trenchant "Opportunty," and by other poems of almost equal qualty. All of them express the aspraton for the deal; and several of them. of p. ndvdual pot Alled to d. a and phlosophy wht h m t. I he* r<\\ I. mul SOUl, a- n " V. on< ome n < heerful, pra humlty from I d hr-t r Lady 's 1 pervade thes< lyrcs, whose deeply human tor' forth a respou from the Anon- h.- mosl typ! of tl anzas I " I he K' n' and "Thanksgvng." Th- dvson ncludes three of Chrstmas verse, all of them n qualty and workman-hp. "On Chr show- In- possblt - o dgnty and dstncton n the graceful rondeau form. "Th f the East" - a seres of trolet-., whose captvatng llt Professor Hamlton ha- sel to approprate musc. But "The Star of Bethlehem," wth t- >tately chorambc measure, had- us through gr of space and thought, and must nted, wth "What I> the Sprt^' "The Ideal," - Flame," and the "Threnody," a- the acme "f the author's magnatve achevement. The descrptons of nature a trawl, n the ffth and eghth re clearly the result of traned observaton, as well as keen artstc percepton. Th< pecular vtalty and appeal from the fact that wth ther melodous rhythms s contnually nwoven th ansc of humanty." Some of M-- I cadences are found n her nature-; whch, lke her natonal hymn, farly sn.; themselves n the bran. Such are "A S ng I V.. "The Sweet o' the Year," and the exqus sy-heart," whch won the prze of L Madrgal Club two or three years snce, a haps, the most rresstbly tuneful ^ them all. The poems ^\ foregn trawl take us through Swtzerland and Italy to Egypt and the Holy Land, th England and the sea: a\u\ preserve for us the frag essence of many journeys. Begnnng wth.. - of rarely-conceved And executed quatrans enttled "The Wander-Year," they nclude lyrcs whch would challenge attenton anywhere, such as Glacer o\ Bossons" and "Tntern." and - tcularly tne sonnets, as those on "Abu Smbel," on "Furness Abbey." and "Matns "To the Nle." "Mother of Egypt, sster of old Tll must rank wth the strongest verse of ts knd. Throughout ts stately length one hears the ranf-

39 30 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS moral flow of the hstorc rver, and sees the changng panorama of the centures t has outlved. And n the power and ftness of ths ode's magnatve presentment, one realzes afresh the author's astonshng resources of dcton, the extraordnary varety and dstncton of the vocabulary she has made her own. In t the rpened scholarshp of many arduous years jons hands wth unque natural gft; whle an occasonal Elzabethan word or constructon reveals the Shakespearan enthusast. The last stanza of "Sea-Brds" s a strkng eptome of human lfe: "And shall the sea-brd quarrel wth the sea? To dp the wng n joy and then to be Where broken foam, lost sunrse, fallen star Hold court together, s t cause for -war?" The sxth secton deals wth love n ts larger sense. Here we fnd passon purfed and transfgured, clothed wth lght and musc, as n "Heart of Hearts" and "The Vctory." Here, too, s great-hearted frendshp, as n the serene and beautful "Mountan-Soul." Here s deep maternal tenderness, musng over "Baby," "The blossom a woman s Over the heart," fan to wear and surrounded by lttle adorng faces of wnged magnngs. Here s charty, the wde love of all, as n "The Qualty of Mercy" and "The Fellowshp." "Feast me no feasts that for the few are spread. Wth holy cup of brotherhood ungraced." And here are other treasures of feelng and form, as n the Arel dantness of "Pot-Pourr," whch was a specal favorte of the late Colonel Hggnson. The mystery of death seems to have haunted our poet's mnd from the days of her grlhood, when the loss of a student frend produced the touchng lnes on "Clara." The same large lovng-kndness whch appears n the precedng secton s revealed even more fully n the dvson ntroduced by "Azrael." But t s now a lovng-kndness "storm-wrthen," lke her own oak-boughs, content wth no conventonal vew of gref, and fndng ts consolatons only by unfalterng plgrmage through the darkest recesses of the Valley of the Shadow. Yet the stark, terrble candor of "The Gates of Death" s succeeded by the dvne joy of "Immortalty." And the seres of eleges whch follows s wrought wth a reverent and gref-transmutng art whch fulfls the snger's own prophecy that "Sorrow shall be beauty n the magc of the morn." One s reluctant to pass wth a mere menton the tender lovelness of the sonnets enttled "The Rest s Slence," the unque charm of the lyrc n memory of the Msses Eastmans' dog "Ladde," Sgurd's brother, and the most melodous rpple of "Yesterday's Gref," that radant jew r el-song whose concludng lne we quote above. The fnal poem of ths secton s the great "Threnody," n memory of Sophe Jewett, beloved and lamented of all her Wellesley, but especally to Professor Bates, a frend unutterably dear. The "Threnody," wrtten n heart's blood on the grave of a sacred sorrow, "seems," n the words of a poet of nternatonal fame, "to gather up all beautes under the sweep of a wde wng." Those who prze the classc lovelness of "Lycdas" and "Adonas," the comfort and uplft of "In Memoram," the celestal gleam of Mss Jewett's own renderng of "The Pearl," we nvte to the "rare surprsal" of ths most modern of eleges. "Any sex dscrmnaton n judgng Mss Bates' poems," says the Transcrpt, n concludng ts revew, "would be as nvdous as n the case of Mrs. Brownng. They reveal to us unmstakably a mnd of unusual power, expressng tself n a wealth of beautful magnatve forms, and n a rch and memorable musc." Wellesley must not forget, n ts prde n Professor Bates as college poet and woman poet, her smpler and greater desgnaton as Amercan poet. When the venerable Longfellow, welcomng her wth four college comrades to hs hstorc study n the autumn of 1879, took occason to prase her then recent poem on "Sleep," n the Atlantc Monthly, he was n realty passng on the torch of lyrc fre. We rejoce n the radance of that torch to-day. Maron Peltox Guld. '8o.

40 T II K \V KL LESLEY ( OLLEGE NEWS OF THE WEEK THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, LECTURE BY MISS CHAPIN ON ATTIC GRAVE RELIEFS. On Thursdaj evenng, December 7, Mss ( hapn, Actng Dean, gave a most nterestng lectun to the Art classes on " At 1 c ( Wa.\ e Rel :fs." Mss Chapn traced the monumental art of ( rreece as far as possble bj means of recenl d eres, from the pre-persan perod, whch lasted untl 480 B. C, through the ffth and fourth centures before Chrst, and then through the Hellenstc perod, whch, n a te< Im'.l sense, extends from 320 I>. C. through the Chrstan era. The nfluence of 1 he very great artsts > expressed n the work of the artsans of Greece, for tngrave monuments arc classed among the lesser works of Greece. Especally durng the ffth and fourth centures, when the archac eulogzng symbols no longer appear, and when noble deals of grace and symmetry were everywhere fndng expresson, does the exquste feelng for the round, the noble reserve n the expresson of feelng, whch s so characterstc of Greek art, make tself felt. In spte of the fact that the grave relefs depct wth wonderful fdelty and detal the daly domestc lfe and temper of the Greeks, and n spte of the 1 fact that ther love of lfe and dread of death s >\ er and over agan made manfest, there s nothng gruesome n ths art. The modesty and freedom of great women, the smplcty and purty of everyday lfe, the exquste feelng for beauty of lne, s shown n the fgures of these relefs, as Mss Chapn showed by numerous very nterestng llustratons. An especally valuable feature of the lecture was Mss Chapn's tracng the emergence of the true deal of Greek art through the earler cruder centures untl ts fnal flowerng a process whch can be seen n the grave relefs wth remarkable clearness. PHI SIGMA CHRISTMAS MASQUE. The Chrstmas Masque, presented by the Ph Sgma Socety on December nnth and eleventh, deserves the hghest prase, both on account of the admrable constructon of the play anl the excellent nterpretaton by the actors. In accordance wth the general trend of the work at present pursued by the socety, the scene of the play, "Sant Olaf," was lad n Scandnava, at the tme of the ntroducton of Chrstanty. Followng s the lst of characters: Kng Olaf. Helen \\ I larald, the I a hal Maja Ruth pherd. R 1 ; Gnomes, Norah lelen Whl I 'lap Chldren. Ida Ro In choosng for the them* ( hr-tanty of a devoul Washburn and Norah Foote h velop a play truly n harmony wth the ("hr van sprt, from begnnng to end. It - alke beautful n con ept >n and n expresson. To the actors belongs much credt for the - mpresson that the play made on the auc The Scandnavan customs and morals -eemed very real under the vvd, sympathetc handlng. Ruth Pepperday, as Maja, carred strong convcton by the quet earnestness wth whch - I her part. The actng of Myra Martn left lttle to be desred n the skll wth whch sh 1 the hero's varyng moods, whle the nterpr the other characters n the play were n accordance wth the unform hgh qualty of the masque. COLLEGE CALENDAR. Frday, January 5. at 1.30 to 3.15 P.M., n < Hall Chapel, Student Government nu Saturday, January 6, at the Barn, dance. Sunday, January 7. at A.M.. serv Houghton Memoral Chapel. Sermon by I a Rev. Wllam Lawrence. Bsho] sachusetts. At 7.00 P.M., n the chapel, vespers. Addr Mss Mram L. Woodberry on "Work Among the Indans." Monday, January ṣ. evenng, lecture b- Lester M. Ward of Brown Unversty, at the nvtaton of the Ph Beta Kappa - ject: "Educaton whch Educal - Lecture by Dr. Davd Snedden, Commssoner of Educaton n Massachusetts, on "Some Problems n Educaton." Places to be announced later. ADDITION TO THE SOCIAL STl PY GIRO 1 LENDING SHELF. (Alcove 5, College Hall Lbrary. Rauschenbusch's book of "Socal Prayers and the People."

41 32 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS Edtor-n-Chef, Murel Bacheler, 1912 Assocate Edtor, Cathrene H. Peebles, 1912 Lterary Edtors. Margaret Law, 1912 Marjore Sherman, 191 Helen Logan, 1913 Sarah Parker, 1913 Reporters. Carol Prentce, 1913 Kathlene Burnett, 1913 Busness Manager, Frances Gray, 1912 Assocate Busness Manager, Josephne Guon, 1913 Assstant Busness Manager, Ellen Howard, 1914 Subscrpton Edtor, Dorothy Blodgett, 1912 Alumn.e Edtor, Bertha March, 1895 Advertsng Busness Manager, Bertha M. Beckford, Wellesley College. The Wellesley College News s publshed weekly from October to July, by a board of edtors chosen from the student body. All lterary contrbutons may be sent to Mss Murel Bacheler, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. All tems of college nterest wll be receved by Mss Cathrene H. Peebles, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. All Alumna? News should be sent to Mss Bertha March, 394 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass. All busness communcatons should be sent to Mss Frances Gray, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Subscrptons should be sent to Mss Dorothy Blodgett, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Terms, $1.50 for resdents and non-resdents; sngle copes, IS cents. EDITORIAL. There are ffty thousand more women than men n the hgh schools, colleges and unverstes of Amerca, accordng to an edtoral n the Chcago Advance. Of course the greatest preponderance of grls s n the secondary schools, but the numbers seem to pont to the fact that the educatonal and cultural advancement of Amercan socety s to be more than ever the woman's part. A rather sober New Year thought, and one whch leads nto many dfferng regons, but there can be no fner, more stmulatng word than "responsblty" to people who are workng to serve, so the News passes t on " you. EVERY REQUIREMENT OF THE TRAVELER Ralroad Tckets, Steamshp Tckets, Pullman Reservatons, Hotel Reservatons. All lnes. Travel Informaton About Everywhere. Rates, Salngs and Dagrams maled upon request. Correspondence Respectfully Solcted. Indan Blankets Made of pure wool, generous n sze, warm, durable, beautful fast colors, authentc desgns, for the lvng room, boudor, couch covers, lap robes, auto, carrage and porch. J. STANLEY LIVINGSTONE 59 TEMPLE PLACE, ELEVATOR ALEX. LIVINGSTONE 632 Summer St. Ext., Room 115. Phone Ft. Hll 2220 THE LESLIE, Marblehead, Mass. Open year round. On harbor. Prvate baths. Weekend partes desred. Address, M. M. CHANDLER. 'LABEL SHOP" ESTABLISHED IN NEW YORK. At the tme of the dramatc and movng strke of the shrt-wast workers n New York, man}* of us n Wellesley were eager to help the grls to mantan what ther panful sacrfces had won, and the way to do ths was evdently to buy artcles bearng the unon label. At that tme ths proved dffcult to manage, but now there s establshed n New York a Label Shop, most convenently stuated at No. 4 West 28th street. Ths shop sells goods made under good condtons for the worker, and all bearng labels guaranteeng ths. Goods may be bought on the spot or ordered by mal. An llustrated catalogue, showng dresses, shrt-wasts and whte underwear, wll be sent on request, or ths can be seen on the Current Economc Events bulletn board, at the west end of the second-floor corrdor. NOTICE. On Sunday evenng, January 7, the address at vespers wll be gven by Mss Mram L. Woodberry, Secretary of the Woman's Department of the Congregatonal Home Mssonary Socety. Mss Woodberry wll speak of the work among the Indans. Dorothy M. Gostentedfer, 1914, Secretary of the Mssonary Commttee. TICKETS AIL THEATRES HERRICK IS (KEY NUMBER) 2328 CONNECTING OUR FIVE PHONES ON ONE NUMBER AININA. I. WHALtlN, GOWNS 9 EAST CENTRAL ST., NATICK. Tel Natlck. ISIDOR HERZ CO.,' 422 7lh Ave., between 33rd and 34th Sts., New York. S. F. Schlesner, Manager. Establshed 20 years. Recepton, Dnner, Evenng and Street Gowns. Exclusve desgns. College dresses featured. Separate wasts.

42 I consder moral " on THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE N FREE PRESS. I. Some mnster sad, a few weeks ago, "If mop preachers ponted oul the fool hness ol -n rather than the wckedne o n, there would I" snners. No man lkes ether to be, or << be thought a fool!" \<>\\ I mantan and I 3aj t not becaut men- pe ua reasonng, but because I deem t to be truth tha the procedure of certan socety grls, cted by an alumna n a recent number of the News that of pushn "rushng") ther personal frends nto offcal po- lons wthout regard to ther ndvdual ftness for those offces, and as a means to attanng membershp n some socety, s short-sghted foolshness. Must I prove my pont? I understand, perfectly, that the motve of the deed s most often that of loyalty and love to some personal frend. But that love, whch gnorantly or wlfully blnds tself to the good of the larger number n the desre to serve one person, s not love. A Wellesley secret socety s, I take t, a group of congenal frends, joned together n quest of an deal for themselves, for the college world, and for the world-at-large. Congenalty of two or more frends s characterzed by several or all of these elements: Common early tranng whch nfluences the opnons and moulds the character nto smlar shapes; common envronment, or socal poston; the magnetc attracton of one personalty for another; the delght of supplementng the mnd and talents of another of beng what the Hebrew text has t Eve was to Adam, the "completement of another human beng; and fnally, best of all, the joy of workng together for a common good. Those of us who lved under the old socety system remember a few mstakes n our own judgment n choosng members for the socety, and, of course, realzed at once many more n the choces made by other people. The errors arose largely because we emphaszed the less mportant elements of congenalty. The new system, on the other hand, possesses among other advantages, that of better judgment, for t substtutes for personal prejudce the decson of publc opnon, as shown by the choce of a grl for some publc offce where she has an opportunty to show her ablty. Furthermore, t places a hgher valuaton upon sncere and able academc work than has ever been set before. Why, then, should the undergraduates of to-day be foolsh enough to revert to the dsadvantages of the old system? The best socety grls of the days of yore were those who were drawn by the deals of ther socety, as shown ether n the lfe of an ndvdual or n the lfe of the socety. Why, then, not wat untl grls have shown by ther ambton and work n other It quest for the I. rd about " attendant e ths tme, but th< In the vestbul II almost a "Barn" crush. nd around, chattng n lttle groups, h would be n harmony wth our - out sde. for those who wsh I one would pass along and meet h«-jr frend" \\ talk n a hgh-soundng waj about ton of natonal res qute mportant and very much rel k our note-books under our arm- after two h-ur-' readng on the subject for the nomr lesson. In one rectaton we dsp - of the qu< and can safely let t slp out of our mnds (we have t n our note-, understand, Freshmen crammng materal saved up for md :n for mmgraton or some other weghty problem. fn the me antme, a not I < the I' floor, and house charmen are makng dutful lttle speeches, askng us to please turn off the lghts when we're through usng them. We're learn do t n the lbrary; the clck-clck of the lghts about us are some lttle ad t" memory. But Goldsmth's "Ctzen of the World," perhaps our dstngushed Japan* - ght wry well ask, n crossng the campus at the dnner hour: "Do Amercan lady students n<. n>>\v I see lghts n each wndow; surely the scholars are not already at work!" We're proud of our scholarly atmosphere; but we wouldn't ad any such lluson as to our worldfamed Wellesley. Instead, we must admt that the lghts are a sgn o carel "her than studousness, and that we need more lght on the queston of conservaton and our relaton n a small way to ths bg qucst >n, an I on vacant rooms and unused desks n the lbrary. PHILOSOPHY CLUB. On the evenng o December tenth. IV: - Arthur Perce, of Smth College, lectured before the Phlosophy Club on the subject of "Avers Study n Sub-normal Indvdual Psychol - Dr. Perce defnes aversons as experences more ntense than dslke, but not exactly n the r _ of fear. The experences are charactersed as unpleasant, and attended by emotonal factors bodly commoton, such as shudderng, fant and nausea, wth a strong mpulse to avod the object of the averson. They are nstnctve, and

43 . 34 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS WflfLfS Chocolate Bonbons ON SALE AT Morgan's Pharmacy, Clement's Pharmacy, WELLESLEY DR. L. D. H. FULLER, DENTIST Next to Wellesley Inn. Telephone 145=2. Hours: Daly, Tuesdays excepted. Wsdom Dctates the Selecton of GOOD SHOES PROPERLY FITTED No artcle of dress s qute so mportant, or subject to such severe tests as the footwear. Our stock contans so many vared styles and shapes that we can ft properly and comfortably any normal foot THAYER, McNEIL & HODQKINS, B O ST O IN, 47 Temple Place. 15 West Street. WRIGHT & DITSON, ATHLETIC SUPPLIES, BOSTON, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, San Francsco, Provdence, Cambrdge hence are nstructve as a dsplay of ndvdual and racal characterstcs. The ponts to be answered are: What s the orgn of aversons? Are they acqured or congental? Do they change? If so, under what crcumstances? What s the qualty and range of the physcal dsturbance? From a large amount of materal gathered from college students and others, Professor Perce classfes aversons under four heads: those of sense, anmal aversons, aversons to people, and mscellaneous. The aversons of sense nclude sght, hearng, smell and touch; manfested aganst certan colors, red har, bumpy surfaces, squeakng or crunchng noses, slk gloves, leather, satn, cotton, the odor of apples or roses. Anmal aversons apply most often to cats, mce, snakes and bugs. Aversons to people are usually connected wth some physcal characterstc, as bulgng forehead, poppng or heavy-ldded eyes, clammy hands. Under the mscellaneous class come many strange aversons to the sound of certan words and gestures. These phenomena are dstngushed from mere dslke by greater volence and bodly commoton. The physcal reactons are, rather, of the fear type, and the mental atttude s one of recol. But the experence s not fear, for there s no alarm, and Lake THE Waban Laundry Wll cleanse your SUITS, WRAPS and DRESSES, In the best possble manner. SWEATERS and GLOVES n one day f called for. COLLEGE GROUNDS often a recognton of the harmlessness of the object. Nether s anger a factor; any aggressveness or volence s due only to the mperatve need of gettng rd of the object. The orgn of most aversons s unknown. They are often the after effects of an early experence of fear, and may have, as further cause, the accdental ntensfcaton of a natural averson whch mght otherwse have been outgrown; they may be the result of contagon, ndvdual or socal, as n the femnne averson to mce. They are more frequent woman's among women than men, on account of greater senstveness, or the socal factor whch prevents men from gvng way to ther feelngs. The courses taken by aversons are varous; they may suddenly dsappear, dmnsh, ncrease, or be wholly overcome. That they may be overcome, s evdent. They should be recognzed as merely subnormal, not abnormal, and tred as oddtes rather than weaknesses. They should not be thrust out as excrescences, but organzed nto the mental lfe not by volence, but by a "gentle snubbng rallery." "Our mental balance," sad Professor Perce, "s not lke a heavy, stold steam-roller, but lke a bcycle whch keeps straght by swervng from sde to sde, and s complex and flexble." THE Wellesley Tea Hoo... ANu Food.. Shop ALICE G. COOMBS, Wellesley, '93 Taylor Block, Wellesley Square Telephone Connecton Over Post Offce

44 veer I E.A. W E I. L E LL = l. I. V ' Wgs. Beards, S«lch;s, Cnrl<, 1'tlv I (c, to 1 1 r<- far \majeur hcrcls nnd all Stage Producton! Qreaae, Pants, Powders, Burnt Cork, Rouges, Etc. B M. (. SLATTERY, V A mss 226 TRBM0N1 STREET, BOSTON, Elol nd LaGrang l, Opp I VN1( '^ (mpplml Make-up Artsts Fwskd. Sperdl Allml.on Gven lo Odtf Work Tel. Oxford 2382-J. BROWNINC; SOCIETY PRIZES. The Brownng Socety <>f Boston offers \w< przes, of thrty and twentj dollars respectvely, for the two best essays on the subjecl o "Brownng's Creatve Arl as Shown n the 'Rng and the Book.'" The offer s open tn undergraduates of Well * ollege. The wnners are expected, possble, to read ther essays before the socetj al an assgned meel ng. The essays are to be of aboul lour thousand words, submtted under the usual condtons o sealed names, to a Commttee of Judges apponted by the socety, and are to be sent before March frst, 1912, to the correspondng secretary, Mss Mare Ada Molneux, 2 Regent Crcle, Boulevard, Brooklne, Mass. ARTIST RECITAL. The frst Artst Rectal of the season of was gven n College Hall Chapel, December 4, 191 1, at 7.30 P.M. The Knesel Quartette, members of whch are Franz Knesel, Julus Roentgen, Lous Svecensk and Wllem Wlleke, rendered the followng programme: I. Quartette n C major Mozart 11 n. IV Adago Allegro Andante cantable Menuetto (Allegretto) Allegro molto Two movements from Quartette n E mnor, Debussy Andantno douccment espressf Assez vf et bcn rythme Le Desr Fantase for Voloncello, Francos Servas Quartette n G major, Op Kopylow Moderato Allegro Presto Andante Allegro COOK'S RESTAURANT, 88 Boylston Street Next to Colonal Theater :: :: Matnee Lunches :: :: EG E N E OLD \A I ICK I SoMfc tl N Sttek1 %VS SM*«Out mle from \\cllc»le> Collete Breakl at h to P Dnner, I to 2 - res-room Open from X N 1 lot \\ afflc en 1 I <ej MuMn* v» -h Jell>. fnt Tet Natld S2I2. IRIS, M^r. HOLDBN'S Studo 20 North Avenue, /Natck H^h TAILBY, Grade F^ortrctM Telephone Connecton THE WELLESLEY FLORIST Offce, 555 Washngton St Id Conservatores. 103 Lnden S Id. 11 I Ordtrs by >\ a I or Otherwse are <\cn Pnmpt \rtenton J. TAILBY & SONS, Props., Wellesley. Mass. WELLESLEY FRUIT STORE Carr.s a full lne of choce Trut, Confectonery and other goods, Fanc\ Crackers, Pstacho nuts and all knds or salted nuts, Olve Ol and Olves of all knds Tel. 138W. GEO. BARK AS Dry and Fancy Goods NOVELTIES MAGUIRE, The Norman. jfl.* Wellesley Sq. B. U. KARTT, Lades' Talor and Furrer, Clensn; and D>eng. Alterng Lades' Suts a Specalty. 543 Washngton St.. Wellesley Square, Oppote Post-Offce. Telephone Welleslej T17-R. F. H. PORTER, WELLESLEY SQUARE DEALER IN Pcture Cord. Coat Hangers. Rods. Msson Stans. All Knds Small Hardware. <& j& PLUMBING? & Sturtevant & Haley BEEF AND SUPPLY COMPANY * * * * 3S and 40 Faneul Hall Market, Boston Telephone 933 Rchmond Hotel Supples a Specalty

45 . > 36 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS It has been sad of the Knescl Quartette that they play "as a sngle nstrument;" ths was one of the most notable features of the performance, Monday nght, when each crescendo or dmnuendo and every rubato, especally of the mpassoned and hghly-dramatc Debussy selectons, were gven wth an absolute unson of feelng. The voloncello solo, perfect n technque and emotonally effectve, was partcularly apprecated by the large audence. NOTICE. The Wellesley College Record wshes greatly nformaton concernng the followng alumnae and former students of the college: Fockens, Anne C. (Mrs. Waterman.) Frankln, Lllan B. ' French, Elzabeth Hamlton. French, Maud M Frsbee, Mary E Fuller, Lucy E. (Mrs. Edwn R. Folsom.) Fuller, Maron Lovett. son Maynard.) Gale, Maty E. ' Gardner, Elzabeth Wckes. Gates, Georga , Gddngs, Madalne Gffn, Ruth E Glbert, Kathryn H Gles,' Ellen R Gll,- Ktte E. (Mrs. Professor Burlegh +- I + + * +! +! S. Anns.) JEWELER HAYDEN Chauncey H. '78. (Mrs. Lous Peter OPTICIAN Gfts n Sold Gold and Sterlng Slver Noveltes. Parsan Ivory Photograph Frames, College Seals and Fountan Pens A vst of nspecton wll nterest you Gooch, Paulne. kns.) Gordon, Helen M. rell.) Gould, Emma Eaton. Whpple.) Graham, Grace G (Mrs. W. S. Ad Grambo, Mary Abbott. ' Gray, Elose. ' Gray, Helen Mar. '79. (Mrs. Harlan W Gray, Mary Estelle. (Mrs. Walter Evans Andrews.) Green, Mary Somervlle. (Mrs. J. S_ Phllps.) ' Gregory, Lyda J Grffn, Edythe DeV Grffn, Etta Gunn, Edna C Hale, Edna. ' Hale, Olve Josephne. (Mrs. Everett Schwartz.) Hall, Ruth Grswold, (Mrs. C. Eustce Har- 325I '85-6. Hallett, Edth M Halsey, Bertha M Hamlton, Jenne Louse Hancock, Edth Stark Hardng, Jula A. '86-7. Hardman, Grace Mare Harrs, Sna Lee. (Mrs. W. Woods Whte Harrson, Theodora F Harvard, Harret Hasbrook, Ethelberta Haskell, Wlla Louse. (Mrs. Hggns.) Hatfeld, Lola. ' Hatfeld, Mnne. ' Haulenbeck, Ruth. B.A Heath, Evelna Belle. Halsted.) Henderson, Alce H. ' Henderson, Mary Brownng. 05. (Mrs. Henry J. Alfred T E. LEROY NICHOLS (Formerly wth G. L. Abell) Let Me Contnue to Make Your Photographs Call and see the new College Seals at $3.50. New College Vews. Pctures Framed to order. Students' Necesstes. Developng and Prntng. Room 7, Taylor Buldng, Wellesley, Mass. Studo at Newtonvlle.

46 THE WKLLKSLKY < OLLEGE N E \\ - v THRESHER BROS. ' IT IS DELICIOUS " The Specalty Slk Store to DIRECTS ATTENTION ther exclusve showng of new models, desgns and colors n slks, spool slk, slk rbbons, slk dresses, slk wasts, slk pettcoats, slk kmonos, and slk dress skrts; also double-faced auto coats, wool dress skrts, broadcloths and woolen dress goods- Thresher Buldng 46 TEMPLE PLACE BOSTON, MASS. (Take Elevator) Phladelpha Store Chestnut Street Cft I ReKlBtPred, u. s. Pat off. Baker's Caracas Sweet Chocolate Just the rght combnaton of hgh grade cocoa, sugar and vanlla to please the taste MADE ONLY BY Walter Baker & Co. Lmted U. Establshed 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS.,«J Chandler's Corset Stores f T The Craftsman Company 470 Boylston St. Mrs. GEO. CHANDLER Exclusve Models n CORSETS Fumed Oak Furnture especally artstc, and suted for college rooms. Harmonous Couch Covers, Curtans, Porteres and Rugs. Electrc Readng Lamps and Lanterns. Copper Chafng Dshes and Trays. GUSTAV STICKLEY THE CRAFTSMAN Wasts, Neglgees and Neckwear TWO STORES Wnter St. 422 Boylston St.! Tel. ot Oxford Tel Back Bay BOSTON. MASS :

47 Vlll THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. A. G. SPALDING & BROS. Headquarters for Offcal Athletc Supples FREE Spaldng's handsome Illustrated Catalogue. SORQSIS >: : :«::::«SHOES 141 A. G. SPALDING & BROS., federal St., Boston. In all the latest styles and Perfect Foot s possble n "Ground Grppers" The new Must!e Acton Shoe materals. jt Worn by grls n Pratt Insttute, N. Y., and Vassar. We make a specalty of Walkng Shoes and we can prevent and cure Fat-Foot wthout plates. BURT & CO., 32 West St., Boston SOROSIS SHOE CO,, 1 76 Boylston St*, cor. Park Square, BOSTON, MASS. MARCUS WARD'S DRoual dubf) Qnen. AND OTHER HIGH-CLASS WRITING PAPERS For Half a Century Marcos Ward's Papers have Rspresented the HIGHEST STAND- ARD of EXCELLENCE n Paper Makng. A Full Assortment of these Beautful Papers For Sale at the COLLEGE BOOK STORE Marcus Ward Company, Belfast, Ireland New York, U. S. A. RED LILY BRAND OF, CANNED GOODS Packed where grown, n santary cans. Absolutely pure and guaranteed frst Wllam qualty M. Flanders Co, Wholesale Grocers Inda St., Boston

48 T II E WK LL ES L E v. < OL L EG I. IX d h e=h D a a [= c: 1! a X. $. lollanber & Co. Boston flew Poh MANNISH WAISTS, SHIRTINGS, SILK NRCK-WE MACKINAW COATS, BLAZERS, POLO GOATS. = Specal Attenton s Called to Our New Weght Englsh Norfolk Blazers. 202 anb 216 poplston fttreet, Boston Heavv U I nfll [u][b n _=I!I=I D BUSINESS DIRECTORY Contnued. PAGE JEWELERS. A. Stowell & Co., Boston 2nd cover Baley, Banks & Bddle Co 3rd cover Shrcve, Crump & Low, Boston v Tffany & Co Long, Boston v Haydcn 36 LUNCHEON, TEAS, ETC. Cook 35 Englsh Tea Room v Old Natck Inn 35 Wellesley Inn Wellesley Tea Room 34 MILLINERY. Chrste, Boston MUSIC. Olver Dtson Company 2nd cover OPTICIANS AND OPTICAL SUPPLIES. A. E. Covelle & Co., Boston x Pnkham & Smth Co., Boston v ORIENTAL STORE. Vantne, Boston, New York PIANOS. Chckerng & Sons 3rd cover PHOTOGRAPHERS. Abell, Wellesley C. W. Holden, Natck 35 Nchols 36 v x Walnut Hll School SCHOOLS. SHOES. E. W. Burt >S; Co., Boston Moseley Co., Boston Soross Shoe Co., Boston Thayer, McNel *x Hodgkns, Boston STATIONERY. PAGE Damon, Boston \ Marcus Ward Co Samuel Ward Co TRAVEL. x v v Isdor Herz Co 32 WEARING APPAREL. Chandler & Co.. Boston 2nd cover Chandler's Corset Store. Boston v L. P. Hollander >.\ Co., Boston \ C. F. Hovey & Co., Boston 3rd cover Henry S. Lombard \: Jordan Marsh Co., Boston A. L. LaVers Co., Boston v Noyes Bros v A. Shuman >$: Co., Boston x E. T. Slattery Co., Boston 4th cover Thresher Bros.. Boston v

49 THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE XEWS. Read what a U. S. "Kndly send me the catalogue of Moore's Fountan Pens. Army Offcer says about Moore's Eose Bancfcs, Idaho. I have used one for the last three years and can assure you t has stood the test. I have carred t n mv pocket n cavalry drll every day for three years, a test I do not beleve anv other pen would stand. Todav ths pen s as good as on the day I bought t." Everywhere under all condto-s Moore's has stood the test. C It won't leak. C. It wrtes at the frst stroke. G. It_wrtes evenly and freely. CL It s ready to fll as soon as the cap s off. C It s made n the most careful manner of the best materals. CL Every Moore's s absolutely guaranteed. FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE AMERICAN FOUNTAIN PEN COMPANY ADAMS, GUSHING & FOSTER, Sellng Agents, 168 Devonshre Street, Boston Canadan Agents W. J. GAGE & CO., Toronto, Canada ws*? xv m mxv 3 xv* SB? sa xv* XV 5 as ESTABLISHEH 1858 *a -a -a 'O» a o= a a «o a o /..\ FURS.*. >a -a- o- o*.*. Edward F. Kakas & Sons, 364 Boylston Street, Near Arlngton Street. o o* o a> a a o Specal Dscount to Students HI m ~7v m m

50 \v LESLEY COLLEGE NEWS XI Real Orental Kmonos... W n the adrr. assmatewearng a Van t n e Kmono! They have tone, elegance and II dstngush you as a grl of taste and refnement. Prces from $3.50 to $35 Wrte «*Yuk >an" for Kmono Book 360 to 362 Boylston St. Boston, Mass. Also New York and Phladelpha THE LOMBARD Macknaw Coats Are Made Expressly for COLLEGE GIRLS Fnest Fttng Chocest Patterns Exclusve Desgns SEND FOR SAMPLES Henry S. Lombard, 22 to'26 Merchants' Row, Boston, ESTABLISHED 1S82 INCORPORATED I<>04 George P. Raymond Co, COSTUMERS 5 Boylston Place BOSTON, MASS. College Dramatc Work a Specalty TELEPHONE. OXFORD 145

51 Xll THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS I The College Grl * of To-Day Wll Fnd the Most Up-todate Exclusve Styles n Our Thrd Floor Annex the Greatest Department n New England Devoted to Msses' Apparel... ; : ::«>>»:: >::::: :.' A. Shuman & Co. XXXXUXXXXXXXXttXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX * Lades' Gymnasum k Suts and Apparel. X X XXX X XX X XXX Athletc X X X X Endorsed and Used by the Leadng Physcal Educators. Made Under Condtons Approved by Consumers' League. SEND FOR CATALOG X X X X Columba Gymnasum X XX Sut Co. X 301 Congress St., Boston, Mass. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx X Mss Ruth Hodgkns Wellesley Tolet Parlors.*. v.*. Shampoong, Facal Treatment, Scalp Treatment, Mancurng, Har Dressng, Chropody... COWAN'S 595 Washngton St., Wellesley, Mass. %* %*T % Taylor Block, Rooms OVER BANK, WELLESLEY Telephone 122-W Open from 8.30, A. M. to 6, P. M. Mondays untl 8, P. M. MEATS, FISH, OYSTERS, GROCERIES and FRUIT!

52 Tl I-: WKLLKSLEY COLLEG E N E V. -. xu s ^^ STUDENTS" SUPPLIES At Economcal 1'ruc-. RELIABLE GOODS PROMP1 SERVICE Sue II. M. Carter & _ Statoners Engravers Prnters 7 Pemberton Square,.,! A. E. Covelle & Co., Prescrpton Optcans,-«jA. V 11 ft 1 J kll r 1 ff^_^ Q Specal attenton to the fllng of QcaHsfs' ^ t-""^ Prescrptons 350 Boylston Street, Boston Cameras and Supples, Developng, Prntng and Enlargng... Ask to see OUR OLD COMFORT Eye-Glass. The most Comfortable Eye-GIass n the world. 3 EVERYTHING NEW FURS ^p HATS Lamson & Hubbard, 92 Bedford Street, BOSTON. C. M. McKechne & Co. CATERERS ICE-CREAM, SHERBET. FRAPPE LEMONADE, CAKES, ROLLS Furnshed n Any Quantty Qualty Guaranteed No. 10 Man St., Natck, Mass. :: :: THE :: :: Walnut Hll NATICK, MASS. School, A College Preparatory School for Grls.... MISS CONANT ). Prncpals. MISS BIGELOW \

53 XIV THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. Keepng Trouble Out of the Ktchen. s Her puddng s burnt. When hurred and overworked, the woman n the ktchen sure to have dsasters. Cakes wll "fall," pes wll bake unevenly, and puddngs wll burn. Everythng that keeps trouble out of the ktchen helps woman's work. does that. It never burns. It doesn't have to be cooked. It never goes wrong. It saves tme as well as trouble. A Jell-O dessert can be made n a mnute. A package of Jell-O and a pnt of bolng water are all that s needed. Jell-O desserts are pure and delcous, and beautful n the seven dfferent colors. Seven delghtful flavors : Strawberry, Raspberry, Lemon, Orange, Cherry, Peach, Chocolate. Ten cents a package at all grocers'. The beautful Recpe Book, "DESSERTS OF THE WORLD,*' llustrated n ten colors and gold, wll be sent free to all who wrte and ask us for t. A splendd book. THE GENESEE PURE FOOD CO., Le Roy, N. Y., and Brdgeburg, Can. The name Jell-0 s on every package n bg red letters. If t sn't there, t sn't Jell-O.

54 Baley, Banks & Bddle Co. Damond Merchant*, Jewelers, Slversmths, Statoners Makers of Class and Socety Emblems, Bar Pns and other Noveltes for WELLESLEY COLLEGE COLLEGE and SCHOOL EMBLEMS and NOVELTIES Illustratons and Prces of Class and Fraternty Emblems, Seals, Charms. Plaques, Medals. Souvenr Spoons, etc., maled upon request. All Emblems are executed In the workshops on the premses, and are of the hghest grade of fnsh and qualty. :: :: OUR Mdwnter unnn Is Now n Progress Marked Reductons n All Departments :: Sale CLASS RINGS Partcular attenton gven to the desgnng and manufacture of Class Rngs CHESTNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA. C. F. HOVEY & CO. HE Justly Admtted Ttle to Supremacy, -jo long held by the f Chckerng Pano, s n evdence 4 to-day more than ever before, /for the J present output of our house s superor to 4 any we have heretofore produced n our 2 Eghty-eght years of contnuous busness. 3 CHICKERING & SONS PIANOFORTE MAKERS [ 791 Tremont Street I Cor. Northampton St., oeafmass." Are. Establshed 1623 n 'Boston.' Mass. J 0^*^»^s>V*») «* *c»>>^v,.s>)^fe*>>*sv»^ r

55 E. XL. Slattern do. Opposlte^Boston Common 154 anb 155 acremout Street, Boston INVITE YOUR SPECIAL ATTENTION TO^THEIR ANNUAL JANUARY WHITE SALE THE Embracng Thousands of Peces of the FINEST UNDERMUSLINS Both French Hand-Made and Hgh-Class Amercan E. T. SLATTERY COMPANY announce ther January Whte Sale wth the convcton that they are presentng to the women of Boston and vcnty an opportunty superor to any they have ever attaned and one that s unrvaled n the hstory of Whte Sales held n New England. The followng s llustratve of the energy and effort expended by the E. T. Slattery Company to make ths the premer event of ther busness year. Frst. All Undermuslns offered durng ths Sale are new, fresh and of the most modern and fashonable order and were made specally for the E. T. Slattery Company n antcpaton of ths event. Second. All French Garments were selected by a member of ths frm n France and are cut from Amercan patterns, nsurng ample fullness, whch s notceably lackng n the usual run of French garments. Thrd. The collecton embraces a host of new deas n trmmngs, yokes, sleeves, etc., and the E. T. Slattery Company frmly beleve ths to be one of the most, f not the most beautful collecton of lngere ever brought nto Boston. Fourth. So postve are they that ther prces are substantally lower than lke Merchandse can be purchased for elsewhere that they wll permt artcles to be selected and sent home for comparson, and should customers fnd that ths s not a fact, merchandse may be returned and the E. T. Slattery Company wll assume the expense of delvery both ways. Ffth. All French Underwear, hand-made as well as hand-embrodered, every pece fully laundered. ALSO SALES IN SUITS, COATS, WAISTS AND DRESSES