Molly Brown's College Friends

id Molly when she had finally engineered

I mustn't go in the library but stick to the den, and now that I h

d discomfiture as he settled himself to

hat every stitch I put in is important. Mercy, what a mess my knitting is in! I do believe that little monkey of a

ould attempt a sweater," laughed E

e is a pa

ould knit and get proposed to and accept all at the same time. Under the circumstances I think she sh

el as though I were committing a sacrilege. This sweater is like a piece of tapestry where the lady has recorded her emotions, using the medium she kn

y don't you sew in one of your golden hairs so that the happy soldier who final

you want to hear w

ing

Nance's wedding. Katherine and Edith Williams are both in New York; Judy is there; Otoyo

re no hu

ome if the mothers can't leave them, but the husbands are not invited. Katherine

ed Edwin in amazement, never having quite accus

at Chatsworth we had that much company any time. This house is really almos

but please don't break yourself down over

to try to get them here this next month. Otoyo has already promised to come, you remember, and now she can just hurry up and get here for the wedd

e company. I was just afraid you wer

great adventure, so letters were forthwith written and sent to the six friends, who one and all joyfully accep

was gone on short journey and baby Cho-Cho-San must stay with humble mother for

rson was sure to have, and her house was in such good running order that her husband, the rising young congressman, would want for nothing in her absence. Jessie Lynch had declined two luncheons, a dinner dance, and a theatre party, besides breaking as

on. She blew in at nightfall with a huge suitcase, many parcels and her

I know you, Molly! You always act like triplets when there is any work on hand, and I know you, too, Nance! Your New England conscience will make you neglect Andy rather than seem to shirk work. I am here to sweep and dust and cook, take care of babies, or even to fl

cook and a

te of the

tight, and

of the capt

eternal knitting and were giving their attention to whipping on lace for the modest trousseau. But the whirlwind that came in swept aside all sane business. Needles were hastily thrust in cloth; thimbles were mislaid; paper dolls dropped for something livelier; and le

his fist and

eally fe

p thinking the man

I simpl

y man, it's

ies of men

my hand if

r you

cook and a c

te of the

tight, and

of the capt

ther cutting pigeon wings. She had yet to learn that dig

en the chorus, in which all of them joined, had be

suitcase up-stairs

sted Nance, who was happy indeed over

and the suitcase is full of all kinds of plunder. This big bundle is a tea basket from Kent and me. You and Andy can go to housekeepin

"Only look, plates, cups and saucers, tea pot, coffee pot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, spoons, knives, forks, cannisters f

y but Nance could ever get them packed again in the

ot it. I saw it at Vantine's and simply fell in love with it. I wanted it so bad myself

it and I am certainly not going to give up m

how warm and soft it is! This is a pocket set of Shake

't dream of getting any

now about Nance

verybody I knew and told them the news. There is no telling what the excess calls wil

at is in this great round box

at!" solemnly s

andmother! G

rman

a wedding cake sent by Madeline Petit and Ju

from its careful packing. "Fruit cake with whit

taken her medicine like a man. She and Madeline are doing a thriving business in a swell part of town with tea rooms and all kinds of fancy cakes. Judith was the one who suggested sending the cake, Madeline told me

" laughed Molly. "I was

ent! I am almost afraid to eat it. He wanted to co

him come? Dear old K

outside of one's own household, and it is doubly difficult when there

ar by the United States. There was no such thing as neutrality for them. Having been in France in that August of 1914, Judy considered herself already at war and Kent enthusiastically shar

f in the form of infinite play, but now that the serious side of life had presented itself to her, the girl was working quite as hard as she had ever played. There was never anything half-way about our Judy. In New York she was canvassing for suffrage, keeping up her painting, and with her own hands cutting and folding enough surgical dressings to fill the peace ship, besides rounding up many workers for the cause. With it all she managed to be a very satisfactor

he Greens and Nance Oldham did when she opened the door of the library at the Square Deal and, upsetting ever

ins and Page Allison are just about the nicest girls I know, and Mary Flannagan is a duck. I used to be an awful snob about college girls,-somehow, I thought girls who did

fell in love with them last spring in

irls call him Zebedee, which appeals t

a strange nam

ebedee's children?' It seems he is only about twenty years older than they are and is one of those persons who ne

must certainly do it before they go back to Richm

sisted Judy, who thought her brother-in-law looked a little alarmed, fearing that Molly migh

too long," teased Molly, seeing the worried look on Edwin's face. "I might mak