. The Sweet Briar Magazine. some of our sisters in other institutionshave been thrown into—hysterics, shall we say?—becauseshe has smiled upon them, or perhaps said sweetly, Goodmorning! Our sisters, however, do not dare to trustthemselves near this enchantress for fear that the nervoustension will be too great! Would that we, too, could fostersuch feelings of awe for one so awe-inspiring, so that in thefuture we may not allow ourselves to be forever under thespell of even so fascinating a creature, but rather suffermomentary paroxysms of joy and fear, only when shehappens to come our way—whic
. The Sweet Briar Magazine. some of our sisters in other institutionshave been thrown into—hysterics, shall we say?—becauseshe has smiled upon them, or perhaps said sweetly, Goodmorning! Our sisters, however, do not dare to trustthemselves near this enchantress for fear that the nervoustension will be too great! Would that we, too, could fostersuch feelings of awe for one so awe-inspiring, so that in thefuture we may not allow ourselves to be forever under thespell of even so fascinating a creature, but rather suffermomentary paroxysms of joy and fear, only when shehappens to come our way—which, let us implore all thepowers above, may not be when we are late to classes! 56 TEE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE But, readers, we have wandered most hopelessly from ourpurpose, and we dare say that the word crush is as mean-ingless to you now as when we first pronounced it for did we attempt to make clear to you something soindefinable, inexplicable, elusive—to flatter ourselves asmuch as we dare—we were idiots!. THE HWEET Hit/Ah M.\C\Z1 XE 57 C&e (Editors ©asp Cfcair (With due apologies to Harpers) There is a new chair in our office. They put it therefor the editor. We say they—indefinite—advisedly, for,in the first place, we dont know who the criminals are,and we hate to think of anyone as being so inimical to ourfuture peace and welfare. The new chair is a dream—ofrigidity not of comfort! It is a straight-backed, woodenaffair, with a ulop-sided rocker, of the pseudo-missionvariety, but it must have failed in its mission to judgefrom its present state of dilapidation. There is also a large,jagged hole in the bottom, which may have been made by acannon ball, or by one of the Domestic Science class teabiscuits, thrown in a fit of passion, or ,ome other equallydestructive projectile. They have also taken away the editors writing-table, sothat that much-abused personage is forced to occupy the chair,and may no longer perch blissfully, if inelegantly, uponthe ta
Size: 1509px × 1656px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidsweetbriarma, bookyear1910
