It is during this first
attack of homesickness also that many girls, in their loneliness,
recklessly accept the friendship of other strange girls, only to
find out later that their new acquaintance's mother was a Miss
Gundlefinger of Council Bluffs, or that she lives on the south
side of Chicago. We advise: Go slow at first.
BECOMING ACCLIMATIZED
In your first day at school you will be shown your room; in your
room you will find a sad-eyed fat girl. You will be told that
this will be your room mate for the year. You will find that you
have drawn a blank, that she comes from Topeka, Kan., that her
paw made his money in oil, and that she is religious. You will be
nice to her for the first week, because you aren't taking any
chances at the start; you will tolerate her for the rest of the
year, because she will do your lessons for you every night.
Across the hall from you there will be two older girls who are
back for their second year. One of them will remind you of the
angel painted on the ceiling of the Victory Theatre back home,
until she starts telling about her summer at Narragansett; from
the other you will learn how to inhale.
A VISITOR FROM PRINCETON
About the middle of the first term your cousin Charley Waldron,
that freshman at Princeton, will write and say that he would like
to come up and see you. You go to Miss French and ask her if you
can have your cousin visit you.
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