. Smith College Monthly . hree,—and now the long, return trip. He counted on leaving hrhorse at the Squires and riding in withthe milk. He must hurry—. Siddy stillstood by the half open door. If yonchange your mind, you know Siddy—he called. She seemed not to hear. THE smith MONTHLY All the way home. Bitting with the was already up and stirring around in {angling milk cans, he thought about her usual brisk, complaining, half-io ier. The thin little old figure at the jured way, hut the boy was still asleep loor, eying him with thai strange wist- by the stove, she regarded him coldly, ml look. P
. Smith College Monthly . hree,—and now the long, return trip. He counted on leaving hrhorse at the Squires and riding in withthe milk. He must hurry—. Siddy stillstood by the half open door. If yonchange your mind, you know Siddy—he called. She seemed not to hear. THE smith MONTHLY All the way home. Bitting with the was already up and stirring around in {angling milk cans, he thought about her usual brisk, complaining, half-io ier. The thin little old figure at the jured way, hut the boy was still asleep loor, eying him with thai strange wist- by the stove, she regarded him coldly, ml look. Poor little kid, he thought, The water pipes froze while you were At thirteen already an old woman— away, she said, the kitchen floors I»111 what could ho do? got water almost two inches high on it.* It was almost seven when he alighted He thought of Siddy again. Perhaps before his own house, stiff with cold and it was as well she didnt want to come. exhausted with the nights work. Maria he said, under his Editorially Speaking The necessity of editorials seems to bea great burden to the most of our under-graduate magazines. Somehow the con-vention lias arisen that one page or moremust be filled by the editor each month,that the editor must say what is ex-pected of him, on the chance that some-one may read what he says, and beshocked, and that if he has nothing tosay, or chooses not to say it, it makesno difference whatever. It is a verystupid matter to write, and more stupidto read, editorials produced under suchconditions. The range of editorial sub-jects has become limited to patheticpleas to hypothetical contributors, rah-rah s for dear alma mater and her in-comparable spirit, bromides on collegelife, (which wre have discovered to bereally a very serious affair after all),and an endless succession of policiesof the magazine, which are, of course, ofvital and original interest. The mostlamentable fact of which we are awareafter reading a number of varied edi-
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