Betty Lee, Senior

By long custom it was celebrated at the beginning of the year and constituted a sort of initiation or adoption of the freshman class into Lyon High. There was nothing d

less infantile fashion and so appear, at a party and even in some fashion t

, attractive little freshman girl came up to her. "Pleas

a book on the shelf of her locker and taking another out. "What ca

ittle sister.' I've felt better ever since to have a girl lik

ngs about what the freshman girls have to do, dressing up like babies

n't be dressed that way at classes. Bring whatever you are going to dress up in to school and put it in your lo

"Why, I used to have curls! I'll jus

. "Excuse me, I'll have to run. See me aga

l she joined on leaving the vicinity of Betty's locker. "

ry prominent senior and wins s

n tribute, but as it was she was likely to be spoiled enough

ew whom she had asked to stay, "there absolutely isn't time to get up a real play or anything we have to l

be the 'cast?'" aske

u a

eak for a

eneral giggle from the seni

" severely asked Betty, rapping for ord

just think of

of the Lighthouse Keeper

been giv

at I kn

does

nce we were freshmen ourselves. It's always written up in the Lyon Roar,

d as that?"

f they've heard it before-I mean, seen it. It's all in the funny costum

Betty, "I'm a

tely offended and Kathryn said she was sure

tion? I'm just swamped with work and with Mary Jane and Mary Emma saying that they will see to ordering the refreshments and getting somebody to bring the ice

'd rather be the villain. I have a l

l villain, then. Be sure your

e?" laugh

our freshman children oug

ighthouse keeper only slightly injured and t

er do that than act

he gym set. Betty knew that she could count on these girls and went off to the

They blossomed forth in childish arrangement of hair as far as possible, if it were nothing more than wearing a hair ribbon, and that whether the children of the peri

ore than one freshman. And to the relief of the freshmen, they remained in the home room until cal

t of a program, a sort of welcome to the freshmen. Then there will be a silly little play; and then we'll dance, and have refreshme

, caught back at the proper places by ribbons, and the other, known as Ann, wore her hair in two tight br

ng off themselves and their funny costumes. There was also a ridiculous pledge read by one of the senior girls with great sobriety, hard to maintain amid the giggles and occasional shrieks of laughter from the freshmen who listened. All the ridiculous things that Dot

heartily as could be desired. First appeared Selma as the lighthouse keeper, wearing a long coat and an ancient vest over her own dress. True,

o the light. And now, what was that figure that stealthily entered the outer circles, crept round and round and within the narrower circles gradually approaching the lighthouse keeper? Dotty, in full pirate

ighthouse keeper lay stretched in the middle of the inner circles. Round and round, down the imaginary stairs, ran the pirate, with comical and shifty glances here and

stume. They danced and cavorted before the audience and finally started upon the circles. Naturally, after climbing, with the usual change of gait as they rose higher and highe

phone, the doctor with his case, the ascent. Gwen Penrose made a good doctor and had great difficulty, puffing and panting, in making the "ascent." Between them the wife and the doctor had to carry down the lighthouse keeper, the most difficult feat of all,

hot, overheard and laughingly replied, "It doesn't turn out a

a rustle among those near the door and Betty Lee almost dropped the plate she was passing when she looked to see

f the girls and in a mom

ll of the freshmen and clapped her hands for order. "I want you all to know one of our finest senior girls, Lucia Coletti, from Milan, Italy. Don't forget how to pronounce her name, Loo-shee-a! And that you may appreciate you

this, as in feminine treble seniors, and freshme

flushed; but she smiled at everybody

her face full of misc

whole entertainment. I almost wish I were a freshman, too, to have all the good times over again. Yes, I do want a Lyon High diploma, and besides that I have made friends here that I ca

old Betty presently. Lucia's bit of Italian accent was a little more pronounced since having talked in her own tongue all summer, and it made quite an impression. She was new for most of the freshmen, but Eile

her terribly well, or she wouldn

er her with which her father's title had nothing to do.

otty. "Mary Emma, hurry a plate of it around. Luci

firmly said Mary Emma and Lucia adde

are always loyal. How do

er, too, deciding at the last minute and they are going to take an 'all-American' tour this fall, be here for Christma

the last to be delivered and Lucia had whispered to her, in the retirement of the back seat, "It's just like one continuous

y. "You would have se

ot so