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I think it would be awfully nice if we presented the high school with a full set of Stoddard's travel-lectures!" Carol moaned, "Oh, but Vida dear, do forgive me but this farce Now what I'd like us to give is something distinguished. Say Shaw's 'Androcles. Have any of you read it?" "Yes. Good play," said Guy Pollock.
I am indebted for criticism, to President Pendleton who kindly read certain parts of the manuscript, to Professor Katharine Lee Bates, Professor Vida D. Scudder, and Mrs. Marian Pelton Guild; for historical material, to Miss Charlotte Howard Conant's "Address Delivered in Memory of Henry Fowle Durant in Wellesley College Chapel", February 18, 1906, to Mrs.
'She saves half of it! was all she said. Borrodaile, glancing shrewdly over the further augmented gathering, asked the invariable question 'How do you account for the fact that so few women are here to show their interest in a matter that's supposed to concern them so much? Vida craned her head. 'Beside you, only one! Borrodaile's mocking voice went on.
'And don't forget to any one else I'm not at home. 'No, miss. What name, miss? Vida hesitated. The servants nowadays read everything. 'Oh, you can't make a mistake. She It will be a stranger some one who has never been here before. Wait! I'll look out of the morning-room window. If it is the person I'm expecting, I'll ring the bell. You understand.
Well, well, she brushed the tears away, 'since men have tried, and failed to make a decent world for the little children to live in, it's as well some of us are childless. Yes, she said quietly, taking up the hat and cloak, 'we are the ones who have no excuse for standing aloof from the fight! Her hand was on the door. 'Vida! 'What? 'You forgot something. She looked back.
Vida smiled tactfully at each of the committee, and announced, "Well, I don't believe we'd better start anything more right now. But it's been a privilege to hear Carol's dear generous ideas, hasn't it! Oh! There is one thing we must decide on at once. We must get together and oppose any move on the part of the Minneapolis clubs to elect another State Federation president from the Twin Cities.
Vida come back with a glowing countenance, and the boarders having dropped off to their rooms when the life of the party went to his club we had a nice chat. All about Clyde. She hoped I did like him, and I frankly said he was about the most taking young brat I'd ever been close to.
"I bet Luke Dawson has got more money than most of the swells on Summit Avenue; and Miss Sherwin in the high school is a regular wonder reads Latin like I do English; and Sam Clark, the hardware man, he's a corker not a better man in the state to go hunting with; and if you want culture, besides Vida Sherwin there's Reverend Warren, the Congregational preacher, and Professor Mott, the superintendent of schools, and Guy Pollock, the lawyer they say he writes regular poetry and and Raymie Wutherspoon, he's not such an awful boob when you get to KNOW him, and he sings swell.
'But I suppose you've gone and listened to them haranguing the crowds. 'Now do I look like a person who 'Well, you see we're all so certain they're such abominations, said Vida, 'I thought maybe some of us knew something about them. Dick Farnborough was heard saying to Lord John in a tone of cheerful vigour 'Locking up is too good for 'em. I'd give 'em a good thrashin'.
Olzendam described the strenuous efforts of the women of the State for an extra session, acknowledging the assistance of Miss Ann Batchelder, Mrs. Vida M. Chase and others and thanking Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Raymond Brown, fourth vice-president, and Miss Shuler, of the National Association; Mrs.
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