Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-15 | Page 48 | At Girls' College Commencement

I I AT GIRLS' GIRLS COLLEGE 1 11 l COMMENCEMENT I lb- lb I ONES has hns been subdued subdued sub sub- dued all summer Nobody ha has hAA been able t to find out what suppressed his usually bubbling bub hub bling spirits Ilo Is IB feeling better better botter bet bot- ter now floW Over a campfire In the Adirondacks h It e d I confessed ed to hl lilb chum what an ordeal ordeal or or- or- or deal he went through last June Now No that he ho ha has eased caRed his mind he feels better and Is more Wee like his old self It se seems ms that Jones Joncs went to commencement commencement com coin at a girls' girls college last Juno June so In that volunteered volun olun his chum churn There aint eh queried Jonos Sa Say did you OU wel go JO Into a 1 dining room In a n. girls girls' college and sit at a s along along long table with about a thousand girls gins Never had such a chance said his chum No chance about It Its It's an ordeal Of course COUlse I went In with ith a lot of ot bravado bravado bravado bra bra- vado to be cool aw as a cucumber cucumber cu en- cu- cu cumber I tripped over a rug upset a a a. I chair but final finally I got seat seated d without dan danger er to life lIfo and limb I Then Just as us I was sas beginning to tc breathe again ag the rhetoric teacher atthe at atthe atthe the h head ad of oC the table said sweetly Wont lont you say grace g Mr r. Jones Jone His chum churn whistled Did you OU do it he naked asked I 1 murmured something that th I hope I was wac appropriate answered Jones There Thero arc are compensations In being a a L clergyman's mans son after allI all 1111 I 1 made a few fow other breaks Spilled I m my soup all over a girls girl's now gown own and did ld a few other fool things like ikc that c I II I f of WONT WON'T YOU SAY GRACE MR JONES Then I went to a dance afterward Of course I had to go through ever every dance each ach time with a different girl selected by that same rhetoric teach teach- cr er That was easy said his chum churn Not for lor mo inc Trust me to make another another an an- other break brcak What did you vou do Do Why I used the rs same me line of conversation never realizing realizing- that those girls would got get together together afterward afterward and go 10 ov over r tho the whole business ss Once wart wan enough for mo me No more college commencements for little Willie Willie Wil Wil- lie