when not patched, ragged. I please myself in my guesses at her
character with the conjecture that she is not satisfied with her
sister's engagement to a fellow-student in a co-educational college,
who is looking forward to a professorship.

In spite of her injustice in regard to his own companions, this
imaginable attitude of hers impresses the boy, if I understand boys. I
have no doubt he reasons that she must be right about something, and as
she is never right about boys, she must be right about brothers-in-law,
potential if not actual. This one may be, for all the boy knows, a
sissy; he inclines to believe, from what he understands of the matter,
that he is indeed a sissy, or he would never have gone to a college
where half the students are girls. He himself, as I have heard, intends
to go to a college, but whether Harvard, or Bryant's Business College,
he has not yet decided. One thing he does know, though, and that is
there are not going to be any girls in it. We have not allowed our
invention so great play in regard to the elder members of our
neighbor's family perhaps because we really know something more about
them. Mrs. Talbert duly called after We came to Eastridge, and when my
wife had self-respectfully waited a proper time, which she made a
little more than a week lest she should feel that she had been too
eager for the acquaintance, she returned the call. Then she met not
only Mrs. Talbert, but Mrs. Talbert's mother, who lives with them, in
an anxiety for their health which would impair her own if she were not
of a constitution such as you do not find in these days of unladylike
athletics. She was inclined to be rather strict with my wife about her
own health, and mine too, and told her she must be careful not to let
me work too hard, or overeat, or leave off my flannels before the
weather was settled in the spring. She said she had heard that I had
left a very good position on a Buffalo paper when I bought the