Chapter IX
On the Use and Abuse of Political Power
“The absurdity of some people!” said the president, pausing as she was about to call the meeting to order. “What excuse do you suppose Elizabeth gave for not asking me to look at her pretty things? She said she fancied I had grown too intellectual to care for gowns and hats!”
“How ridiculous! She had probably heard that you do not intend to send her a wedding present,” said the girl with the eyeglasses.
“I haven’t told a soul but the members of this club that I shouldn’t give her one,” said the president.
“Then she couldn’t possibly know it,” said the blue-eyed girl, hastily.
“What enrages me, is the insinuation that I have ceased to care for pretty things, just because I study politics, and—er—other things. I don’t see why intellectuality has anything to do with doing up one’s hair with three hairpins, or—”
“Wearing gowns which are frayed around the bottom,” said the girl with the dimple in her chin; “neither do I. And, yet they seem to be somehow connected in people’s minds.”
“Very true,” said the president. “Girls, the editor of a literary journal has asked for some of the papers which have been read before this club. He says—”