An independent daughter

PAGE The newly made graduate hurried down to meet her friends _Frontispiece._ She bent over it eagerly 136 Across the bed was thrown the figure of the girl 222 He had dropped on...

Persis Holmes was walking slowly down the street. The summer breeze swept her college gown around her in swirling lines, and ruffled her hair so that once or twice she put up he...

“I’ve brought some XXX sugar,” Persis announced, “and we can make some candy. Patty has nuts and two or three kinds of extracts, and—oh, yes, I have eggs, so we can proceed to m...

With the question of themes, examinations, and other college matters to fill her mind, Persis had little time for frivolities for the next ten days. Wilson Vane, Porter Phillips...

The sweet, perfume-laden air of June swept through Lisa’s room, where she and Persis were busily engaged in packing away various small articles. These were Lisa’s treasures, eac...

“Now, Melly, how can I help it?” Persis was saying a few mornings after the wedding. “You know perfectly well I didn’t fish for an invitation. I don’t do such things. And I supp...

The prospect of her much-coveted trip, and a little flattery from one of her admiring friends, had so far restored Mellicent’s good-humor that by the next day she was all smiles...

“Isn’t it fun to dash off this way!” Connie was wont to exclaim, as day after day driving trips were planned. “I believe, after all, we have lost something by the invention of s...

“August in Washington is not the most exhilarating season,” Basil remarked, after a return from an exhaustive and exhausting study of the city’s architecture. “Still, I am vastl...

Basil continued to improve, but only his mother and brother were allowed to see him for the next day or two. The Dixons took their departure the evening following the accident,...

A tap on the door aroused the sleeper, and she sprang up hastily to see the anxious face of old Prue. “Law, honey,” she exclaimed, “I sutt’nly was skeered. Huccome yuh ain’t sle...

Persis had acted impulsively. Had she been too prompt in her decision? she asked herself that night, as she lay in her big four-posted bed. The mountains had already begun to sh...

“Perhaps there is a note inside the envelope. Look and see, my dear.” And Mr. Holmes, deep in the perusal of a business letter, passed the envelope over to his wife, who shook f...

The children danced around outside her door until she opened it, and then she saw Columbus sitting on the top step with the baby, wrapped in a blanket, in his arms, while the ot...

It was after midnight when the guests departed, and, since Mrs. Rivers had matters to see to in the dining-room, and Pen had escorted home one of the beauless damsels, Persis wa...

The Christmas holidays were soon over, and Persis again took up the routine of her daily life. The early breakfast, the walk to school, the busy hours following, and the walk ho...

It went to the heart of the teacher to see how proudly, yet how kindly, these mountaineers offered their hospitality. Evidently the best the house afforded had been set before h...

Columbus was sitting out in the wood-shed one morning late in March. He was absorbed in picking over a pan of chicken feathers, from which he had selected such as he thought mig...

“On this beautiful day? Why, doctor, I must go to church. I wouldn’t miss it for anything, especially now. Poor—no, happy Columbus! Such an innocent, simple, loving soul! Oh, do...

There was a crowd of eager little faces to be seen in the old school-house one morning in the latter part of May. It had been nearly two months since Miss Anne had been obliged...

“And so, Miss Patty,” she was saying, “I was right, and you did like Wilson. I am heartily glad we are to have you for a neighbor; and when is the wedding to be?”