isa-normaladvance-1903-00170

Description:	170THE NOEMAL ADVANCE.clashed with the Faculty when I tried to reach forward in the course and fumed when I had to acceptthe required work. I went in for athletics was inat all the class scraps going wrote for the paper performed various stunts in society and did as little actual school work as possible. I made twelvestraight P minuses went home in June and organized a base ball team made myself captain andgeneral manager, and had a lot of fun during thesummer. I kept a country school during the nextwinter and came back in. ninety-eight, a Junior.That year the Girl came in and I surrendered.She took charge of my program cut out athletics lectured me back into the narrow way and Ibuckled down to business with the Girl and a breakfast table looming up on the horizon. The nextyear found me a Senior with all the troubles connected with that distinction. I served out a three-months sentence in the training school carrieda pike in the class play received by certificate ofgraduation accepted a forty-dollar job and wentto work. Next year I fell into a pretty good place,this year a better one, and the sailing promises tobe fairly smooth. I am learning that there areplaces for men who possess scholarship and amworking on that principle. A tall tree never suffers from want of light neither do educatedteachers lack positions at good salaries. The profession is not crowded except at the bottom, andthat is true of all lines of active life. The Girl ? Oh yes! I must introduce you.She has just been elected my Principal for life.E. G. D.Hard Lines.In the grove I saw her for the first time. Thetrain had stopped and we had climbed off andgone there. The less portly men had carried theHER MONEY WAS NOT HER ONLY CHARM.baskets, while I had all I could conscientiously attend to to convey my anatomy to the place in question. When I was presented to the vision, I passedinto a comatose state in which I remained for ahalf hour, or such a matter. It was plain hermoney was not her only charm, even to your UncleFuller, who keeps his friends broke.When I regained my normal frame of mind, Ifound myself staring hard at the Johnny-jump-ups, who were painfully embarasscd. In them Icould imagine her eyes—such eyes! I resolved togo into win. This time my love story should bedifferent from my numerous others—it shouldhave a wedding finale! Before, I never reallycared for a girl until some lobster got his big feetin, then Id see what I had missed. So I decided(while the Johnny-jump-ups tried to hide theirembarassment) to hoist my colors in the name ofJehovah and the Continental Congress, to saynothing of the fair ladys dot.I waded in. It was dead easy, for the other fellows feljgfiway in bunches. Finally, when the sunwas low—as was quite proper—we two sat on thesame stump fighting the same mosquitoes and ifthat does not bespeak soul affinity, pray tell mewhat does ? It was rapturous to sit apart with the
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