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Show (0 the girl who 's thinking of -working HP her way through college, I bIiouM say, L think twice, and -when you have thought twice, think the situation over yet fl third tinic. You have probably W cottcn your ideas of the college girl K f the girl who wdrks her way through col- mf m books. These books are doubtless very fie reading, but that is, all that can be Kfcr tliem, for they do not represent the slt-RL slt-RL truthfully at all. BShsve prohably just finished reading one of KTbooks and 'ou ar0- fircd wittl nhle Kf working your way through college alone Bjnnglc-handcd. It will be so nice in after K, to be able to gather your grandchildren BLd your knee, and tell them of your early, Kintic, heroic struggles to work your way WeLa college, and of your final succces after rars' hard work. Koa imagine yourself putting the case in this Kf o your grandchildren, but as a matter of fact you are not really expecting any severe strug S.L 'C?hfy at hc vrfll look upon your efforts in exactly the panic way that you are expecting your grandchildren lo. You will hegttSeil 08 a h0r0ine' of courw nn every von Jn - anXiU8 t0 1,C,P 'n al0"S that you ill have a comparatively easy time of it. nrt,.8 " -W fr yS! mftk! your n,,flt and 8t cllL kBW ny,th5nB f the rcnl conditions Yo?8JmB T?nn COl!cso until y there, lou will not have to be there any length of Sv 5? rUb t,mt a Wmnn'8 colkg T a bo! for "h" '?r J5 i8,rUn by the Fou" Huntfrcd ewH aSmI008 !,appc" t0 riaulate, thn 11 a t.h?t ftUhougl1 8he ,n"y have passed !mb. 0 are cl08Cd doors on know t ""a tWO,y.carfl Poetically nobody will ture n0lB?fathr mend,BB W up their lee-- tea, you will bo permitted to go to ihnW If you ire !n. !' VV1, C C,ntircl' eliminated, it jou are engaged by iMis Kittenhouse to do the catering for her tea, to see to the geUing 2 of sandwiches and salads and ices, you w nit- io7LboCr1!,h,Ch ?rWn M!Mt?eShouVe for two or three days preceding the tea, but you will remain ai.ss Itittcnhouso nnd Miss Brown to each other all the time, and when your bus" ness is complelcd and you have received your cheek, your relations with Miss Eiltcnhousc will then cease. HOPES THAT ARE IDLE DREAMS. If j'ou sing, or have a talent for dramatics, they will be forced in spito of themselves lo know you at certain timca. The leading lady will be Buddcnly taken ill, and some aristocratic daughter of the Pour Hundred, who you were certain did not even know your name, will accost ac-cost you by your first name, nnd ask you to do her a favor by learning the entire three acts of the leading lady's port "by tomorrow night." ion will be quite flattered by her friendliness, and think that you arc at Inst getting into bo-oioty, bo-oioty, But, alas for your hopes and idle dreams. With the fulling of the curtain and the putting out of tho lights you will sink back into the obscurity ob-scurity from whence j-ou came. Onco more the I Elect" will have become serenely unconscious of your existence. Towards the end of your third year things will begin to improve a little. After having seen you around the grounds and in the class rooms for nearly three years they cannot very well keep up tho fiction of not knowing you any longer, They will speak to you when they meet you mid some will even incline lo Hie rules of class cti-quetto cti-quetto by cnlhng you by your Christian name but tho barrier will always be there, and yon will bo made all the more conscious of it now that some of the bars have been taken down. But this feeling of being on the outside is "not Hie worst that you will have to encounter. 11 you come from adistancc and arc therefore obliged to add to your other expenses that of room and board at the college, you will find that the question of clothes is a very serious one. In a college of the Four Hundred, andfor the Four llundrcd, and by the Four Hundred, lavish dressing is the most natural thing to expect. And nobody but a girl knowB what it is to be shabbily dressed when everybody else is wearing wear-ing clothes of the latest and most fashionable cut. In the morning, of course, you will not feel so much out of place. If you have a fresh, neat looking shirtwaist and a well-fitting, well-made skirt, you will be nil right. If you have a jacket to match your Hkirt, so much tho better, for you will need a cont in going to nnd from lectures. lec-tures. FULL DRESS FOR DINNER. It is in the evening at dinner that you will feel your lack of clothes most, for at dinner everybody, dresses dp in their lightest nnd most becoming frocks. Those who have dccollcic gowns wear them regardless of whether their necks and shoulders arc presentable or not. You certainly do not possess n decollete gown; the niofit elaborate thing you havo is a while muslin, made plainly and mnny times dono up. You put this on night after night until you arc sick of the sight of it, and make wild plans to buy all sorts of things you can't afford. It doesn't take' long to find out that the matter mat-ter of underclothes is a very serious question. In a big dormitory full of girls, the rules of convention are thrown to" the winds, nnd girls wander around the halls in various stages of dress and undress, and you are simply compelled to own a pretty negligee. READY FOR EMERGENCIES. Besides that, somebody is suro to knock at your door in the morning to have her waist fastened up the back, and you cannot keep her wailing outside while you completo your toilet. You have to let hcr in whether you arc dressed or not, nnd every girl knows how necessary it is upon such an occasion to po6sess a pretty corset cover and petticoat. It is equally necessary, if you aro the ono to do the knocking, that you should have a dainty corpet cover showing for the benefit of the girl who fastens your waist. Somebody is just as likely ob not to come to ycur room about ten P. M. to find out about sonic problem, nnd she must not find you in slovenly dinarrny. You may havo your hair down your back your visitors will probably bo in Iho same condition but you must not have anything showing under your elaborate kimono but some fine laco and a bow of ribbon. Plain lucks and insertion will not do nt all. The girl who setB out to work hcr way through college will in this way find hcr expenses much greater rttin Hhc expected. Class dues and fines sho was prepared for, and had put away a sum for that purpose. But sho will soon find herself hopelessly in debt for many little extravnganccs which her self-respect would not let her go without. with-out. It is not only the present expenoe which is bad for you. Tho worst result is the taste, which you will have acquired for cxpennivo clothes. You will not feel "just right" unless you are dressed underneath like a little chorus girl, nnd for a girl with a limited pocketbook this iB n very serious matter. When you como homo on your vacations you will look with contempt upon your pistcr's thirty-nine cent borgnjnB, and you will display your hand-made, useless creations crea-tions of lace and ribbon ns much as you can for her admiration and envy, Even when the four years are over, nnd you have gained your ambition, you will find that you have not mch bc&ides your "career" to look forward to. Your dream of gathering your grandchilden around your knee to tell them all about it is likely never to be anything more than a dream. Men are afraid nf tho "woman' with an education;" they are nfrnld of getting Darwin Dar-win for brenkfnst, Locke for luncheon and the conditions in the limo of the Pharaohs for dinner. din-ner. Besides, men hnve a theory that only nn ugly woman takes the trouble to educate her- self, npd eo they give thc college graduate a wide birth, 1 At a woman's college men callers are tho ex- jH ception rather than the rule. There aro too 1 many other females hanging around all the time H to make the courtship of ono a success, and be- H sides, men do not like the sensation of being tho H only man in an assembly of women. A man ia IH eo rare a sight that whenever one appears upon H the campus every female heart flutters, and very H nearly every pair of girlitih eyes in the college ia peeping around curtains and screening ivy H leaves. H Cupid's trade does not flourish to any extent H in halls of learning, and so, when the four long, H hard years nre over, what has a girl to look for- H ward to? Doch it pay in the end? So, if you H aro thinking of working your way through col- IH lege, I adviso you to go slowly, H |