Bab A Sub Deb Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HER DAIRY: Being The Daily Journal Of The Sub-deb JANUARY ist. I have today recieved this dairy from home, having come back a few days early t... more »o make up a French Condition. Weather, clear and cold. New Year's dinner. Roast chicken (Turkey being very expencive), mashed Turnips, sweet Potatos and minse Pie. It is my intention to record in this book the details of my Daily Life, my thoughts which are to sacred for utterence, and my ambitions. Because who is there to whom I can speak them? I am surounded by those who exist for the mere Pleasures of the day, or whose lives are bound up in Resitations. For instance, at dinner today, being mostly faculty and a few girls who live in the Far West, the conversation was entirely on buying a Phonograph for dancing because the music teacher has the meazles and is quarentined in the infirmery. And on Miss Everett's couzin, who has written a play. When one looks at Miss Everett, one recognises that no couzin of hers could write a play. New Year's resolution—to help some one every day. Today helped Mademoiselle to put on her rubers. January 2ND. Today I wrote my French theme, beginning, "Les hommes songent moins a leur Ante qu a leur corps. Mademoiselle sent for me and objected, saying that it was not a theme for a young girl, and that I must write a new one, on the subject of pears. How is one to develope in this atmosphere ? Some of the girls are coming back. They stragle in, and put the favers they got at Cotillions on the dresser, and their holaday gifts, and each one relates some amorus experience while at home. Dear dairy, is there somthing wrong with me, that Love has passed me by? I have had offers of Devotion but none that apealed to me, being mostly either to young or not atracting me by physicl...« less