Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls

its doings were extremely interesting. Anstiss Rowe was the Honorary President and Julia the Honorary Secretary, and the club had met two or three times before it had elected its own officers.

"with these chairs and the large library-table, but I hope that y

od, nor indeed did they learn for some tim

ish blue, and that was what suggested to Gretchen the name for t

id Concetta, "to name a club for a wall-pa

last she looked as if she had come to a satisfactory reason, but she hesitated about giving it to the others, lest they should laugh a

ss her thoughts to those of her own age. She was a curious mixture of poetic fancies and practical ideas, and the fancies she always hesitated to reveal to others. But at last she permitted Julia to tell the g

at thus when

death draw

oming with

heaven, as

dark head. "How solemn; we don't me

hope, and the fringed gentian by this poem becomes a flower of hope, and so I think that you can give t

en they came to draw up the Constitution for the League, its purpo

king upward." Although some of the more matter-of-fact objected that hearts did not really look up at all,

sident, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. But they

e should be and what their duties, and others defining the aims of the club, and one to state under what conditions a member might be put out of the club. Each girl was perfectly sure that such a thing would never happen. "It is always best to be prepared for the wo

d to the numbers of the League by having associate members. Maggie, who made the suggestion, was praised

than twelve associates. Each was to be elected unanimously by Mansion members of the League, and they were to have the privilege of attending all

associate members at first, for should the list fill up too soon, you mi

we have

d even when the League has twenty gi

reet, a timid little Italian, and with her a Portuguese girl from the same house. It was again the advice of the honorary officers that the girls should be chosen from the same neighborhood, so that they could come and go together; for tho

actically a large club. But she soon understood that it was well for them to learn that organization

elina to have this set forth as an evidence of her superiority-she might better not attend the regular meetings, lest her presence should embarrass the younger girls. But "h

as a good-natured rivalry as to which of them should learn the longest. She was surprised, too, to find that these girls who knew so little of the real country could appreciate many of the beautiful pic

essing dolls. The best scrap-book and the best-dressed doll were to receive a prize, and all were to be exhibited a day or two before Christmas. On Anstiss had fallen the task of deciding which girls should belong to the doll group, and which to the book group, and many were her diff

d be much pleasanter to pas

u will have to buttonhole the edges." Whereat Concetta, making a wry face, pr

I will give you some directions for pasting pict

tta, turning her back to the discarded d

pictures in until you had shown me the buttonholed edges." Whereupon Concetta, a little shamefacedly, be it said, displayed h

ck children. Almost as soon as they touched it, it would ravel out;" an

can buttonhole it now, only

e edges of the book now, I'm afraid that you will spoil the freshnes

Concetta must begin a new book. It was not a unanimous vote, and Concetta, keenly noting

tta's in addition to the brunette that she had originally chosen, and Eliza made two scrap-books. But thi

r one or two outside members absented themselves from several me

was only a friendly rivalry in the whole competition, and that no o

t prizes and second prizes: first for the neatest, then for the prettiest books; and in the same way prizes were given for the dolls. Besides these prizes there were ho

e, I am sure, displayed the greatest taste. Why, some of these d

able skill along this one line. But I am interested in the skill shown in making the scrap-books. To be sure, some of them are daubed more than is necessary. Maggie's b

, Inez and Concetta, to be on the jury, and Pa

ade. No one certainly could find any fault with it, so neatly were t

Ph?be assured them that this had been not at all difficult, since Miss South had let her look over doze

"Head of the Dauphin," went to Haleema for a flower book. In this she had put a great variety of flower pictures, some of them mere decalcomanie, embossed

thinking that the very prettiest of all was

nyway," said Concetta. She did not happen to like Ph?be very w

ital, and if she had only trimmed the edge of her pictures more carefully, and had kept

id not need a champion to stand up for her rights. Concetta, therefore, found herself a minority on

ewing. There were no two opinions, and as Concetta herself was not on this committee of award, no one objected to her having the pretty case of scissor

been, the pleasantest part of this whole work came wh

sight of the helpless little ones. They were delighted when they learned that this child or that would be in the hospital but a sho

one remonstrated with her for taking these girls to the hospital, "for we old