Elizabeth Garver Jordan
Excerpt from ,May Iverson: Her Book,:,"Blossom says I'm considered one of the friendliest girls in school, but it was fully two weeks before even I called Maude Joyce by her first name, and I think it must have been a whole month before I got round to Maudie. She was a very proud, haughty girl, and kept us at a distance. She told me afterwards that this was because she was watching us and making up her mind which Of us she cared to have come into the individual Circle of her life. She used beautiful language sometimes. She said girls Often made mistakes when they went to a new school, and took up with the first student that came along, instead Of waiting to know them and make a wiser choice; and she said that intimacies once formed were Often hard to break. You see how clever she was to think Of all these things. I never do. I either like a girl or dislike her right Off, and when I do like her I just put myself out to Show it. Of course, I'm particular about some things - the way..."
May Iverson: Her Book