Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — PROBLEMS THAT OPPRESSED. [ARTICLE]

PROBLEMS THAT OPPRESSED.

Why the Vivacious Girl Is Seeking Another Roommate. “I led a very strenuous life last winter,” said the vivacious girl in the car. “I have thought as I never thoqght before. I even wore two deep line* between my brows in my efforts to solve enigmas, and not to appear at before my roommate. My roommate waa atudying kindergarten and' was deeply interested in psychology. “ ‘You know that “time is the life of the soul,” ’ she said to me suddenly one day. “‘Eh?’ said I. ‘Ol come, now, Edith, don’t let’* ask conundrums, I want to finish this book. Ifyoumust think about riddle* occupy yourself with “Why is a mouse when it spins?” or something deep of that sort, and let one alone.’ “But, do you know, she was in earnest and she talked to me about time being the life of the soul until my head swirled and I had to go thd lie down. This, however, was only the beginning of events. Now she would ask me if I realized that ‘thought waa superinduced by feeling’ and anon would declare that ‘the soul manifests itself through seeking itself.’ “Sometimes, just to show thatlwaa not quite an idiot, I would take issue with her on these important subjects and argue. in a series of dizzy circles until I felt that I was in a labyrinth from which I could never be extricated by my own efforts. But the student of psychology wouldn’t become either excited or confused, but would'argue composedly until I left the room in despair. “Next year, if I must have a roommate it is going to be some one who reads The Duchess novels and thinks ‘Janice Meredith’ sweet. I can’t have my young life wrecked on ‘time is the life of the soul’ problem now, can I?” —Baltimore News.