Do you care to know how I've furnished my room？It's a symphony in brown and yellow.The wall was tinted buff，and I've bought yellow denim curtains and cushions and a mahogany desk（secondhand for three dollars）and a rattan chair and a brown rug with an ink spot in the middle.I stand the chair over the spot.
The windows are up high；you can't look out from an ordinary seat.But I unscrewed the looking glass from the back of the bureau，upholstered the top，and moved it up against the window.It's just the right height for a window seat.You pull out the drawers like steps and walk up.Very comfortable！
Sallie McBride helped me choose the things at the senior auction.She has lived in a house all her life and knows about furnishing.You can't imagine what fun it is to shop and pay with a real five-dollar bill and get some change-when you've never had more than a nickel in your life.I assure you，Daddy dear，I do appreciate that allowance.
Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world-and Julia Rutledge Pendleton the least so.It's queer what a mixture the registrar can make in the matter of roommates.Sallie thinks everything is funny-even flunking-and Julia is bored at everything.She never makes the slightest effort to be amiable.She believes that if you are a Pendleton，that fact alone admits you to heaven without any further examination.Julia and I were born to be enemies.
And now I suppose you've been waiting very impatiently to hear what I am learning？
Ⅰ.Latin：Second Punic War.Hannibal and his forces pitched camp at Lake Trasimenus last night.They prepared an ambuscade for the Romans，and a battle took place at the fourth watch this morning.Romans in retreat.
Ⅱ.French：24pages of the Three Musketeers and third conjugation，irregular verbs.
Ⅲ.Geometry：Finished cylinders；now doing cones.
Ⅳ.English：Studying exposition.My style improves daily in clearness and brevity.
Ⅴ.Physiology：Reached the digestive system.Bile and the pancreas next time.Yours，on the way to being educated.
Jerusha Abbott