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...Sorosis wore a black velvet walking suit and pearl-colored gloves. (Just here I should very much like to know why it is that women with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other...
DEAR HERALD: Oh, goodness! I'm in awful trouble, and all on account of you, too. Do you know that my last letter to you has got me in an awful fix. I'll never, never write to a newspaper again. Oh, how the Miscellany did give it to me, and to you, too. Of course they don't know for sure that it was I who wrote the letter, but almost every one shows by their actions that they think I am the guilty one. I felt so bad after reading the article in this month's Miscellany that...
...what is worse than all, is that they accuse me of being a Prep. I know there are very few worse sins than being a Prep., but really I can't help it; you've got to be one some time, and I thought I might best begin young and get through with it. The Miscellany says, as if to just crush the guilty one: "To be sure, the reported writer is a Prep.; but that is a fact of which the editors of the HARVARD HERALD are, presumably, not aware, and so Vassar College gets the credit...
Just what the "banister" story is, I don't know...
...awfully glad that I am going away soon, because almost all the girls are mad at me, because they think I wrote it. I would so much like to know what Harvard men think about the letter. I don't believe they think it so fearfully vicious, because honestly and truly I did not mean a single bad thing. I showed the letter to a lady friend, and she said she wouldn't mind at all what the Miscellany said, and then she told me a story about the Duchess of Shrewsbury, but she said something in French, and after...