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"But I didn't know people ever lived in studios," I objected

"Oh, you dear goose!" said Kathryn Reid--it's really her nah of course I call her Kitty--"Live in studios? Bless you, child, everybody does it And I know a beyewtiful studio that we can have cheap, because we're such superior young persons; also because it's ever so many stories up and no elevator Can you cook a little? Can you wash dishes, or not ot the blessed buood at don't care? Then live with me and be my love You've no idea the money you'll save"

That's just the way Kitty talks You can't induce her to be serious for three minutes at a time--I suppose it's the artistic temperament But she's shrewd; studio life is better than the kind of boarding house we escaped from And so jolly! Kitty has more chums than I, of course Her brother, Prosper K, and Caroline Bryant--"Cadge," for short--a queer girl who does newspaper work and sings like an angel, are the ones I see irls fro One will be studyingstories to the newspapers and living in hope of one day writing a great Airls--so brave and jolly

My new ho on Union Square And I like it--the place, the people, the gli city life under myI'm sure I don't want a quiet roo house, to be by ourselves and independent of all the world I think it's an intoxicating thing, just at first, for a girl to be really independent Boys think nothing of it; it's what they've been brought up to expect

Well, I tore et at my work I really mean to work hard and justify Father's sacrifices I tried to take singing lessons, because John is so fond of music, but there I o, neither ear nor voice The day before the fall see, fell in love with its gleaold, so different froy Then I began physical culture in a gymnasium

I couldn't have made a queerer or a better combination For it was in the Barnard laboratory that Ipractice of the West Point setting-up drill, my Delsarte, my "harmonic poise" and evident health that drew his attention to me