Show A VASSAR SPREE How the College Girls Indulge in a Tear Dearer to the heart of college students than all public occasions of social life are the cosy private spreads Only a college girl knows the meaning of a college spread It is a proof of the depravity of human nature that no spread is perfect unless held after 10 oclock when in the midst of a prospective pros-pective summons from her corridor teacher to receive a sermon on the value of law and order Try to imagine yourself your-self an unseen spectator at a mysterious midnight spread You see a large room all ablaze with light with blinds shut and curtains drawn and a gossamer waterproof draped carefully over the I transom lest the rays should annoy some outsider Within is a medly Books are out of the way for once and the table is covered with a miscellaneous miscellane-ous Icollection of plates saucers glasses a cup or two a few I Spoons I rarely a knife and fork Amopg these are scattered a loat of bread a bag of crackers pots of deviled ham jelly a bottle of olives a pitcher of4mUk and another of oysters Half a dozen girls were in the room one of them anxiously anx-iously inspecting the water Tn the tin basin that she is carefully holding over the flame of a drop light FIhe rest are scattered about theroom inattitudes more or less graceful The bed the chairs and the rugs on the floor are equally patronized All the girls are making frantic endeavors to evolve a theory as to the making of oyster soup and as the theories gradually take definite defi-nite shape they arenurled at the martyr of the tin nasin You must heat the water first then the milk and put in the oysters just before be-fore it is done remarks one sage cook from the depths of an easy chair No you dont you dont want any waterjust milk and oysters boiled together to-gether says number two coiled like a kitten on a rug You must heat the oysters separately sepa-rately calls a grave oratical voice from among the pillows Girls said the martyr looking around with an heroic air you dont one of you know the first thing about it Im making this soup and if you dont like it when it is dune you can come and make some yourselves Just at present I have the floor She confirms her statement by a vigorous vig-orous gesture that threatens the equilibrium equil-ibrium of the tin basin and the others own themselves obliterated and apply their genius to other topics The soup done it is served in cups or glasses or saucers and is pronounced perfect The suffering martyr has become a smiling saint and sits triumphantly on the edge of the table while some one spreads a cracker with jam for her benefit The tide of fun rises Again andt again a laugh rings out to be smothered in the midst by the tragic gasp Girls somebodys coming I But no cine comes and after oysters have been eaten college news discussed and harrowing ghost stories told in the the darkened room the girls steal away with a reckless declaration that they have have had fjin enough to pay for a whole weeks Junks Lippincotts Mag arias |