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Advice to the Young
BY LAURA LEAN JIBBY.

   My dear Miss Jibby--As we have been a faithful reader of your column on "How to Make Straight Hair Curly" we have implicit confidence in your answer to such an important question as we are about to ask. After several years of earnest endeavor, we at last compelled the Student Publication Board to make us editor of the Daily Nebraskan. After obtaining the office we found that there was too much friction between us and the rest of the staff; so we resigned. Did we act correctly?
SpacerYours truly,
   (Hon.) ARCHIBALD H. DINSMORE.

   Dear Mr. Dinsmore--On receipt of your letter I wrote to the above-mentioned Board and found out that, if you had not resigned voluntarily, you were about to be requested to, so that you certainly acted wisely. Hoping that I may be of use in the future, I am, Yours very truly,
SpacerLAURA LEAN JIBBY.

   Dear Miss Jibby--I have been going now with a young man for two weeks. Although we are not engaged, Roland wishes to spoon, such as kissing me, etc. Should I permit this? Anxiously,
SpacerAGNES BARTLETT.

   Dear Miss Bartlett--How many times must I repeat that no girl, who wishes to keep the respect of a man, should allow such liberties, until she has known him at least three weeks? I am surprised at such a letter from you, as I know that you have not been in the habit of deviating from my rule of three weeks before this. Truly yours,
SpacerL. L. JIBBY.

Miss L. Lean Jibby:
   Dear Madam--Knowing that you are excellently informed upon questions of etiquette, inasmuch as you are accustomed to receive such interrogations daily for your consideration, I am venturing to propose some of my own peculiar perplexities for your kind solution.
   For some time preceding this date I have been perceiving that I was, to use a slang phrase, falling in love. The object of my affection is a young maiden, a student at the University of Nebraska. How may I gain her requital of my affection?
SpacerYour most obedient servant,
        DR. EDWIN A. MAXEY.

   Dear Dr. Maxey--From what I have been able to learn about you, if at last you are really seriously in love with any one, I should give you the following advice:
   1. Get a new suit of clothes.
   2. Discard that old black hat. It is not even fit for a professor.
   3. Stop using any or all words longer than two syllables.
SpacerTruly yours,
         L. L. JIBBY.



Rhetoric 1
My Impressions of the University
By a Freshman

   I arrove in Lincun on the tew-thirty p.m. from Podunk wun weak ago last Wensday. Thet same afternoon I rigistered as a Frishman in Newbraski University. I am taking rhetoric I under prof Burlock G. Cass and according to assinement shall tell you what I think of the schule.
   The uni is a grate plase to do nothing. The teachers and the schule board have set a lot of binches under the trees and it seems to hev made the dept. of campustry very popular. These binches as I sed are under the trees and the trees are wherever there are no building. The campus is tew blocks square and is almost a solid pile of straw and brick. Outside of the Irne fence the dust of the street rises in great clouds that mount hivenward everytime the firechief's auto goes whizzing by. The whole concern

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looks much like a manufacturin plant, so Exra Conkel says and he's been to Omaha and ought to know.
   Each building is for sum perticular dept and turns out its own brand of stewdents. The library is quite a nest for mating. The girls and their bows, someone called them fussers, are too thick there to let anyone study. In bad wether I think the campustry dept. moves into the library. Other bildings are You Hall, Engberg Office and the Armery. The Armery is where the boys meet each nite to smoke cigarettes outside the fence and to swear jest to be swearin. They say it is called the armery because we are to be given armer there after a while.
   Footeball is now being practiced. I used to play on the Mullins boys' team in Podunk and hope to make good. Other things of importance now going on are Y. M. C. A. sociables and fraternity rushing. The Y. M. doings is something like, the opin meeting of the Podunk ladies ade, but the frat rushing is more like the back room of Scotty's Pool and Cigar house back home. A fraternity is a gang of stewdents that hang together in a house like the Hevy Huskies at Podunk used to hang around the old cave.
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