Che Warden's Corner
Geart-to-Heart Talka mith Girls

When I hear your merry, impatient voices begging to be next for an interview I cannot
help feeling that you do take an interest in your warden and advisor. I hope she may
be able to help you all with little hints out of her own college experience in the good old days.

You ask, one and all, for my advice on that subject so engrossing to the feminine
heart—clothes. By all means, dear girls, get a Peter Thompson as soon as you come to
college, they are so becoming to every figure. And really you know, to be quite chic and
up-to-date you must adopt the pretty style of wide ribbon belts, very loose, fastened in
front with a large silver buckle, allowing some twelve or fifteen inches of one end to droop
gracefully ‘down. ‘Two bows should be worn on the hair, but these should never exceed
fourteen inches in length. Many of you, I notice, have already adopted the slipper or
light pump for wear during morning lectures. The advantage of this is, as Jessie T. so
ably demonstrates, that a slipper is easily kicked off and never fails to create a pleasant
little diversion in the class-room, which the professor.is sure to enjoy.

I am delighted with the little confidences of my girls. Edith tells me all about mother
and father, little sister and the aunts and uncles who are not one whit more interested in
this dear girl than am I whose privilege it is to advise her during her first year in college
away from her friends’ loving care. Ruth McN., whose fun-loving disposition keeps her
up almost too late at night, I am sometimes afraid, asks for a cure for sleepwalking.
Space is so limited I shall ask Ruth to consult the reply in one of these numbers to Flora G.,
who was troubled with a similar problem, dear girl,—but, I feel sure, got bravely over it.
But do you think, my dear, that 2 P. M. is the time for practical jokes ?

Nan asks me about advanced standing, Don’t you think, ambitious girl, you would
do better to spend the time in the Gym where they teach really very advanced standing ?
I know you love the parallel bars and you have confided to me how you (once) vaulted the
horse!

Why devoted enthusiastic little girl, you may indeed write an‘‘Ode to Constance,’’ but
you must not expect her to appreciate its classic references if you leave it on the soap box
on her wash-stand when she is out!

Marion consults me about the best method of boiling eggs in the tea-kettle. She
assures me that she does not cook at home, so I suppose these little culinary ways originated
in a Pembroke pantry. But Marion always had a cool an’ airy way.

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