| Show Unwanted Books Create Denied Want-Ad By PEGGY PETERSEN This is a If I hadn't already spent my allowance for August I would put it in another but owing to my financial situation I will pretend it is a feature I hope the editor doesn't see for she would not print this without putting a price on my head none of you even understand unless you have had a course in journalism following which you could write like But before I tell you what I I should explain about my Time was when I could spend my pennies on exciting things like cashmere sweaters and similar necessities of I could enjoy such luxuries as student soles on my and bribing my sister to clean my Of course this was all Then I wandered up to the thinking I was a smooth little I cornered my parents with a line about what good experience was to be had from handling of money in large quantities so why didn't they give me a larger allowance out of which I would pay for and They happily agreed and proceeded to tell all their friends about their darling daughter who just might be growing up after Of course I was feeling superior the whole especially when the checks started rolling quarter looked I had decided that a lush new formal to eat up the surplus tuition really wasn't so bad and books why worry about unimportant I wandered up to the bookstore thinking of what the new dress would do for my The mile long lines of tired complaining students who wished that the tired complaining clerks would wait on them really didn't bother And when I finally was propelled to a position in front of someone who wanted to exchange money for I still believed that life could be Even when my visions of yards and yards of organdy disintegrated as I paid a not too small fortune for some not too small I though I would get most of the money back at the end of the quarter so who cared about it now But meanwhile someone decided that my texts were not as red hot as they had once The authors were just a little too conventional or too general or too the covers of the books were the wrong shade for a harmonious classroom And someone had heard that a man who had once said that he enjoyed listening to facts about the University of Utah had written a text book which would undoubtedly prove valuable for next No one wants my old books not even But I'm accumulating a terrific library if you like And I really don't mind going without food and clothes so that all the nice people who make fortunes on book turnovers won't have to worry about where their next diamond is coming But about the want ad one I was going to make into a feature story so I wouldn't have to pay for it doesn't really matter because whatever 1 want I can't have you There's a moral to tVs don't let your parents let you talk them into I must write a book on that |
