Show LITERARY H lr r. r r. r J How Flow Hope Went to jf LOGAN is not a city of magnificent distances the entire distances You can see the town including the streets through which hicl the looked long-looked-for electric cars are re soon to pass in exactly three minutes minutes minutes min min- utes and two seco seconds ds And as for the world you are are as completely shut shu out from m it as Jonah was once upon a time Not Not t to say say that Logan Loga is very like like a whale ale but you feel swallowed up in it ita a and d want to get out Y You oU cou could d' d da a almost most die of homesickness If rf it were not for that sweet girl friend you are quite sure that the angels would be enlivened by your pr presence nce on remark remarkably sh short rt not no no- t tice ice I But Logan like great cities has its joys and it its sorrows its histories and love- love stories tories and romances its rich and its poor poor i its kind hearts and its gossips it its C 5 aristocracy cr cy and its common its ball rc room ball its opera house and its Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural College 1 S Some me of us University students might might've have ve something to say about that that Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural College for although we e do not object to the silver question we admire crimson more than I purple But after all the A. 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C is not a half bad place EC Except pt that one flat ugly wa wall where the t tower will be some day it looks fairly well ell there on the hill hill hilland and as as one of the he professors professor's wives said There are are e some some p pretty etty nice nic people up there Hope Gooc Goodall al evidently agreed with the professors professor's wife for fort 1 her eyes rested d approvingly on the bent heads head of the students then roved roved lovingly and longi longingly longingly long long- i to the books about the room Now y o and then other eyes would Uld meet her own and she would smile inva invariably in n a happy unconscious way that Ya was irresistible J F For r Hope had hada a fellow fellow- I I j felling l for for everybody dy and andt t i g. g eye everything x g connected fl ted with HR hr College 9 t e. e sf Jq wa fl f Lt going to come to to t school herself ers lf Oh Oh 1 t the e joy of it No 0 Yon wonder ler the the eyed cross eyed boy in the corner blushed to the roots roots I of his curly hair and hastily began egan to to create atoms with reckless extravagance for Hope fairly beamed upon him she e ewas was so delighted To 10 obtain an n education education education tion had always been the greatest desire of the he girls girl's life Now perhaps she would attain her object And J Joyce Joyce- oyce- oyce dear ridiculous Joyce Joyce had had made it po possible si ble Hope Hop Goodall had just one earthly treasure treasure her her mother and to that mo mother moth moth- 4 er was given the best and deepest love of her warm young heart Ever vex since her father died they had lived in the little two-room two cottage cottage all all he had left them thinking them thinking only of each other working and praying for each ach oth other r. r By her m needle dl Mrs Goodall earned enough as s she s said id to keep herself and h her r daughter either in or out of of plain bread and butter butter no no jam while Hope kept the little home clean and cos cosy Very often she wished that she could support her mother and frequently tried to find some kind of work But success never smiled upon her for Hope was still a perfect child in spite of her eighteen eighteen eighteen teen years and some one else was always always al al- ways taken aken After each failure th the old wish would come back stronger than ever ever Oh if she could only go to o school l If she knew a little more she might be beable beable able ahle to teach and then An And i so it happened that one evening when she was walking down the street with 4 Joyce Gilb Gilbert Gilbert ert Hope suddenly in int interrupted in- in t up ed a very animated discourse on the advantages of going to heaven on a bicycle with Oh Joyce I r do so o want to go to school A And d J Joyce like the frivolous girl she was staggered back ack aga against the f fence nce exclaiming ming Are my ey eyes s deaf i af Do D my ears rs see se correctly ly A A 4 girl in ip her hex right i ht Ise senses s sr ge Declares la s positively t that she a wants 1 to t rio to H school Hi g J. J fu riU i j I l' l or J Indeed I I do J Joyce oyce- oyce Joyce shook her head despairingly and said gr gravely vely When I I was young things were different Girls Girls' did not care for anything outside of their immediate immediate im im- mediate families famili s then We used to attend strictly to household duties and for pastime we made rick-rack rick lace My dear in fourteen weeks I made enough lace to 0 trim two aprons and a petticoat and twenty-three twenty cheeses be be- sides I dont don't mean that I put the lace lace on the cheeses Nowadays when a girl wants lace she goes down town and buys it at ten cents a yard Fearful extravagance extravagance ex extravagance ex- ex Then she gets her little sister to sew it t on for her while she finds out by the metric system m the exact length of time it would take an am amoeba ba bato to travel two degrees three minutes and six seconds if aided by nine line pulleys ten cogwheels three cogwheels three volts to each cog and and a hydraulic press Y Yes s there is isa isa isa a a great difference J Joyce oyce asked Hope laughingly Have you ever been inside a scho schoolroom schoolroom school school- l- l room in your life N No 0 answered Joyce quickly But Ive I've looked through the windows a good many times Then you know I study a great deal by myself At present 1 I Iam Iam am devoting my attention to the micro micro- scope The first time I looked through one one of them there there spy thin things things things-as gs t l las as s J Jot oD Wheeler says I saw a whole procession There were six great white horses drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing Queen Victoria in a wheel barrow Rameses Second riding a a tooth tooth brush brush Cinderella floating around on a para par parachute pars pars- chute five fairies two goblins d damned damned dam dam- m- m ned and the three wise men men of Gotham who went to sea in a bowl i The gentleman gentleman gentleman gen gen- who had so kindly let me peep through asked me if I 1 I saw clearly dearly Of course I promptly answered Oh yes sir Then he told told told-me me that I IVaS Was was VaS lo looking look looking k ing irig at It f v Ws as' as a a flys fly's s 's wing wing nor or r else it s' s a fleas flea's wing wings wing s- s d do r e- e wings i When I told him what I ba had se seen seen n li he laughed e lat gh d r. r l J and said Goodness child what eyes you have Ever h since then I have have- worn goggles But to go back four centuries centuries centuries cen cen- why are you so anxious to go to school Because I want to take care of or orm m mother moth moth- the th- th e er Joyce I dont don't like her to have to work so hard I If f I could go I might be able to teach Oh to go four years years years- and graduate l To be dressed in white and sit on the platform with the other girls and have flowers and a a. a diploma 1 Oh Joyce it wo would ld be b better than be being being being be be- ing the beautiful princess in t the e fairytales fairy biry- fairytales tales But of course I couldn't couldn t expect to go for so long log Even a year I is out of the question Here Hopes Hope's voice trembled suspiciously Cant you arrange it s some me way way asked Joyce The entrance fee isn't It much I I know answered Hope but the there are books and the paper and lots of things I thought perhaps ten ten teri do dollars dollars' s' s would be enough nough for them but the entrance en entrance en en- trance fee would make it fifteen I r could walk to the College and back again and do the work in the mornings mornings' and after I got home It would b be so easy if I had the fifteen dollars But I I. I haven't so there is no use in wishing and Hope bravely choked b back ack tack ack the rising rising ris ris- t j 4 ing tears dont borrow it t suggested suggest suggest- Why dont don't you you s suggest suggested g sf ed Joyce 1 I couldn't I wouldn't like to to And besides besides' I 1 I might never ever be able t to to pay it it- back No Joyce simply its its it's simply n nW no f use use I t I cant can't go I Im sorry de dear r and n I wish wish I could coul J 1 t I it help you The two g girls walked b on on n in sil silence n e until they reached Hopes Hope's home w wherewith wherewith where where- er with an affect affectionate on te squeeze hand th they y parted J Joyce oy e was so so pre-occupied pre duri during t the l lr r rest of the vJ walk lk that that tha she w went nt three blocks farther than she needed needed And at at t ts only d Ga s supper pp she spoke once Gazing zing ij LJ J i y vacantly at the butter she asked Will you kindly pass the examinations and Will J Jones nes the biggest dunce in the school answered laughingly and truthfully truthfully truthfully truth truth- fully Im Im afraid 1 cant The same evening Joyce opened a tiny drawer in the big old old fashioned fashioned bureau and took from it two five ve dollar bills These she unfolded and laid on a small table near From another drawer four bright silver dollars were taken and placed with the bills From her purse came a fifty and twenty-five twenty cent piece From a vase on the mantle two ten- ten cent pieces and a silver half dime These she piled on top of the dollars Seating herself with her elbows on the table and her face in her ha hands ds she gazed steadily at the money Then began as fierce a battle as the sun eer looked upon only it was was the moon that saw this one It had taken Joyce five months of close pinching to save that fifteen dol dol- lars It was a fortune to her Joyce wrapped for one of Logans Logan's mer mer- chants For this work she received the enormous salary of four dollars per week two fifty of which went for board and lodging The fifteen dollars had been intended to purchase e a good bes best t dress dress' wi with th bigger sleeves in it than Jennie Mathers Mather's and a stiff skirt and buttons In all the twenty years years of f her life Joyce had never had a really nobby Dobby gown though she had had always always longed for one for Joyce was naturally refined and liked pretty things as well as richer girls No wonder that she sat for thirty-five thirty minutes struggling and struggling and struggling Should she sheget sheget sheget get the new dress or should she wear the old one and give the money to Hope S She e would give Kive it it to Hope Rising hastily as asif if fearful of breaking her resolution she took the silver and went down stairs Mrs Cromar she said Can CaD you give give me me paper paper money paper money for this i Returning to her room she hurriedly wrote a note and placed it with the money in an envelope which she sealed and directed to Hope I I guess Ill I'll wear the old navy-blue navy a few more weeks weeks might might as well say years for that's what it will be she added dolefully After all it might not be enough to keep Hope at school a whole year Oh Joyce Joyce you coward wavering again Dear me this thi's will never do In Ie another minute you will be op opening ning the envelope In just five minutes more Joyce was dropping the letter into the post office It was better to do it she said to 1 herself If I had kept it until the 1 morning it might never have gone That is how Hope Goodall came to togo togo togo go to school and Joyce to miss the finest ball of t ithe the e season But she spent that evening with Hope and did not once wish she were at the ball not once J Joyce ce oce was the happiest girl on any globe this side of After all alla a fine dress cannot be compared to toa to-a a a friend who just II worships the ground a ayou you walk on au Jean lean J l |