PAYMENT IN KIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 253, 25 October 1932, Page 6

PAYMENT IN KIND.

That heroine of opera an<l fiction, "The Ciirl of the Golden West," was the figment of Belasco's imagination, later eet to Puccini's tuneful music. But, when it conies to being spectacular, she was not one bit more so than seventeen-year-old. Elena Percy, who is quite modern —and alive (says the •''Christian Science Monitor"). Student, southerner and cowgirl, tills feminine young Lochinvar stays at no obstacle found in her path—the road -to collegiate education. Lack of the necessary funds to achieve her ambition means just next to nothing to this doughty daughter of the South hailing, most felicitously, from West Feliciana Parish, , in Louisiana. Booted and spurred, and on horseback, she rode up, the other day, to the gates of Louisiana State University, driving Her enrollment fees before her "on the hoof." Nine head of cattle the young woman offered, 1 Aid chivalrously accepted by the institution's registrar. Admiration is divided between this not-to-be-denied aspiration for a collegiate diploma and the breezy unconventionalism of the gesture.

The "Monitor" also reports that a student in Illinois, the son of a fanner, has entered the Illinois Wesleyan University by paying his fees in forty eacks of potatoes.