Show PERKINS VISITS VASSAR There Was a Gibson Girl Guide But Mrs P Was Present New York Times Would you like to see through some of the thc buildings asked the lit lt tle te woman in white at the desk Why if you ou please yes es replied Perkins We Ve came up from New York lork today purposely ly to see what Vas Vassar Vassar sar is like likes Please s be seated then and a guide guideT wi T be fe here e in n a few min minutes tes replied the little woman Mr Ir and ane Mrs Perkins sat down ac cordingly in the airy room at the en trance of the great gret rambling ry of Vassar college where they hoped shortly shorty to send their own on daughter Now Perkins had traveled far and wide and had his own Ideas about I guides in general generl But the brand that appeared to the waiting Perkins was not of the sort he knew Would you like me to show you ou through the buildings asked aked the guide guidea a girl in the whitest of white frocks who looked as if she might have dropped that Instant out of a Gibson picture As soon as s Perkins could get his breath he replied that that was the ob object jec of their visit and so that raging beauty of a guide with wih big brown browneyes browneyes eyes and the softest of wavy brown brownn n Ir led them across the grounds runds pointing out objects of interest to the i strangers and perhaps unconsciously revealing some of the colleges rarest traditions For more than han an hoUlt the Gibson girl guide gave Tier er time to the visitors She knew the history and traditions of the thc college like a book and told everything everything with wih charming directness Perkins ins was Interested He reconcile this guide with any of the species he had ever encountered His HI ancestors having come from Missouri he wanted to know Are re you one of the regular guides here he asked rather timidly Oh yes replied the Gibson person turning her smiling brown eyes on 01 the inquirer There are two of us here herl all al summer There are always a great gre t many visitors during vacation and so someone must be here to receive them and show them around arund Two of 01 them Perkins decided that such a thing was wa humanly impossible and let it go at that You are a senior I presume con continued Perkins adroitly trying to find out something something about the guide gide with without out ut making it too palpable Oh dear no n I only wish I were responded the guide I shall be bc a so sophomore sophomore next year er erAnd And then Perkins casually made the discovery discover that Vassar college has stolen a march on o all al of Its Is rivals by b having girl guides for all al visitors to the institution during the summer va vacation cation caton period The authorities wisely pick out two of the prettiest of the col college college lege girls and engage them to do the guiding In several classes It is considered no end em of an honor to be se selected selected for this commission You must find it rather a dull dul way to spend a vacation dont you asked aske Perkins after he had seen sen all al of the nooks and corners of 01 the place Oh no it always so dull dul re replied plied pled the demure guide gide We manage to find a little amusement from day to today today day Sometimes we find it I In the ques questions quest t ons we have to answer And Mr Ir and Mrs rs Perkins departed the former wondering if i the Gibson girl Irl remotely referred to him In her last sentence |