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Show ftriM FLIRTING AT VASSAE. PIRLS OFTEN GROW WEARY OF BOOKS AND TEACHERS. West Point Military Academy Is Near by and the Students Manage to Take Ocoanlonal Strolls Thitherward The Brother a Boon. Vassar Letter. HE happy leap year which privileges 1896 brings may be great novelties to some girls, but it is leap year all the year round and every year with the Vassar girl: The "strict" rules of the college on the hill back of Pough- keepsie prevent many visits from young men; and the still stricter rules of the nearest man's college, at West Point, keep the men from attempts at breaking Vassar's laws. So Mahomet goes to the mountain. Like the Arabs, the Vassar maiden folds her tent and silently steals away. To thoughtful observers at the Point it is often a matter for wonder how the girls spend so many delightful stolen hours away from their Alma Mater without being discovered and incurring the penalty for disobedience. The rules are there, the men are there, and the girls must get there somehow, so perforce the clever damsels from the halls of learning must bend their superior brains to the work of circumventing these laws. And they succeed. How they do it history says not, but the fact remains that they do. "Many a time and oft,"' in the words of the immortal bard of Avon, are they seen on the "Rialto" of West Point, to the amazement of the aforementioned thoughtful observer. Two Sentry oxea serve in w Inter for a slight shelter from cold and observation. The gymnasium does duty when "flirtation' is too bleak and exposed for comfort. Sometimes, though, it Is not safe to risk staying over Sunday, and the college girls must hie them back to Alma Mater after the hop. There is a contrain to Poughkeep-si- e venient at 10:30, and so one eye is kept on the clock, while the other tries to gaze youth who is soulfully at the gray-cla- d sweet nothings. And then murmuring the train, and catch to scramble the to get there! one fails if excuses the was lost and must be "A valuable ring searched for" dress was torn and had to be mended watch was too slow so sorry. And one girl actually went to the length of falling down hill with the idea of straining her ankle. She did more than that, and had to be taken back to the hospital; but there were compensations. She still breathed the same air with the "beloved object." It would puzzle the average man to Invent the stories which used to do duty to account for colds caught "coolgowns when the ing off" in low-chops were held in Grant Hall. Now they are in Academic and conditions are improved, plenty of unlighted, well heated rooms being available for the "cooling-off- " process . all this is to the a boon And what "under-grad!- " these raw youths who must learn, as well as "tactics and sich" the ways of the great world, the proper manner of paying daintily veiled compliments and managing a partner in the dance! Society manners are a very important part of the equipment of Uncle Sam's soldier boys when they leave after the four years' course, and how are they to learn them unless they have practice? The summer months when more liberty is allowed, are all too short for the exercise of their required knowledge and the development of their social talents. So these visits "under the rose" are indeed a real boon to the west pointer. up-sho- re ut which .brings the observer nearer lie sees the same gray-coatsentimental- lower lighthouse agalret the cky. Tho lights had gone out. '"Can't you turn your head around?' " 'No; the night is too wild for that. INSTRUCxivc'r.iADING FOR OUR She won't answer to her helm.' BOYS AND GIRLS. "The storm was so fearful that they could do nothing. They tried again to The Youthful Loreri Trouble for tbe make for the harbor, bC they went Stutterer FamUy of crash against the rocks, and sank to "Let Tour .Light Shine" effects of the bottom. Very few escaped; the Tobacco An, Unoccupied Field. great majority found a watery grave." CHILDEEFS ed ist standing sedately apart. A little poem in the "Howitzer" some months ago showed how a maiden made the "retort discourteous" to the ad. vances of the overbold young soldier: She was a merry Vassar girl, A West Point spoonoid he; They sat and watched the waters swirlP About the Point of Gee. - , i "Young soldier, you cannot, I'm sure, Protect 'gainst war's alarms So careless of your arms!" Was she really and truly a Vassar. maiden? Echo answers not. When the ''Hundred Nights" play comes off many are the devices of the Poughkeepsie students to get an invitation, and sad and devious are the ways to which some of them have to resort. "The play is going to be fine this year; you ought to see me in girl's clothes," wrote an unwary "yearling," and his inamorata wrote back by next mail, "Thanks awfully, old boy. I'll be there for the play. I hoped you were going to ask me." Whereat the trapped one tore his hair and thought longingly of the "fern" for whom he had really meant to use that invitation. "If you will promise to refuse, I'll ask you to the Hundredth Night play," wiser man, who had been "bitten," wrote frankly to his second best girl. "Then you'll have the fun of saying you were invited, and I can. ask some Your nation and its flag if you're The ice is cold and yet it reflects The ardent blue above you, My heart's the sky your heart's the ice " - And my heart says "I love you." When next upon your wintry words I all forlornly brood, 111 think beskle "tho Ice is hard It has a melting mood." Trouble for the Stutterer. "In ordinary conversation no one would detect that I naturally stutter," said A. Li. Benedict at the Normandie, "but such is the fact. When I was a small boy I stuttered badly, but over- one else." came the linguistic defect sufficiently to talk smoothly as a rule. When I converse with a man who stutters, however, I cannot control myself and I always stutter as badly as he does. This fact- - came very nearly getting me in serious trouble a few days ago, in the mountains of West Virginia. I was In a hotel, talking smoothly as I am now, when a stutterer joined the crowd. He listened for awhile, then entered the conversation with me. At once I began to stutter. His face turned red, then white, and finally he could stand it no TREATMENT OF ORCHIDS. Oar Grandfathers Slowly Discovered Their Disposition. The essential cultural requirements of orchids were not known till long af- - longer. "Arising from his chair, he begata taking off his coat, saying, to I I but yo cats. "X was so excited that! the tmpedimtnt irvfKiy speech became so prominent that I could not explain, and he would not have believed me if I had, so there was nothing to do but prepare for a In which I would have been placed t a ry decided disadvantage. At tiiat moment the town marshal entered the room and arrested us both. I explained matters to the mayor and he released us both, letting me have an hour's start to get out of town before the stutterer was turned loose." Ex. t-t-- tlk s--s- uit ! kin w-w-w- ild fit visits a term is supposed to be the rule. Perhaps it holds good with some of the Vassar girls. But there are many more from whose minds the ways of the free and independent West have not yet faded, who scorn the trammels of eastern rules and "effete conventionality," and take the law in their own hands. When fancy dictates and there is a hop or concert on at the Point, "then's the time for disappearing," and they "bob up serenely" at the government dock with gripsack or brown paper parcel containing festive raiment; also a box of candy for the loved, cadet. When accommodations are a dozen or so of girls sometimes scanty club together and take one room, and also one trunk, much to the detriment of their voluminous skirts. At any rate, or any how, and on any train they come, and the stage which runs up from the landing on such occasions is temporarily their own. They take entire possession of the 'bus and quite fill it up with themselves and their impediments. Vassar songs and class calls, stock jokes and personal remarks about the "sweet creatures" they are going to see enliven the progress up the hill, and woe to the creeps Into this truant com- and he takes "the goods the gods pro- ter they had attracted the attention of vide" and is thankful. He considers the horticulturists; says Garden and ForVassar girl fair sport and a splendid est. It is interesting to note tha strugfield for "practice spins" in flirtation gles of our to disand the two-steHe has small regard cover the conditions most suitable for for her feelings, physical or mental; he them. We who know all about it are tramples on her toes and her feelings surprised that any intelligent cultivaindiscriminately, for is she not there for tor should have tried to grow epiphythe purpose, and he knows that his ele- - tic plants "in common soil in pots piunged to the rim in a tan bed." Teak baskets, sphagnum moss, peat fiber and charcoal appear to us to be exactly what any intelligent schoolboy would have recommended as supplying the right . msr- - mm material for an epiphyte. But, like all great-grandfathe- p. am ; out-slderjw- pany! : ho : No false ideas of conventions and priety damp their ardent spirits if they have to come without a chaperon. They, come just the same, and matron-iz- e one another by numbers. Ten of these fair undergraduates Iwere claimed by one elderly; man as his daughters, his good nature not being proof against their appeals for protection. Not having a chaperon does not trouble them, much at the hotel, for they are not there except to sleep and eat.- It is no place for fun that quiet and respectable parlor. There are much better chances at other places. The hop or concert which alternate on Saturday nights, with ispectlon Saturday after- , so-call- ed - ANOTHER T YPE. vating society is a sufficient "quid pro butquo."j He lends her his cast-o- ff tons, waist plate, chevrons and class ring-fi- n fact, all the decorations on which he can lay hands. And the moth of a f'plebe" who scents coming joys afar decorates her hop card with sketches "in kind" hits on the older men and general "post jokes.". . So the Vassar girl who has a brother or a "brother" at West Point is a popuis a lar maiden, and her sitting-rooand her the for clans, gathering, place "teas" are ruuch frequented. Her scrap book would furnish interesting chapters of history, with imagination to fill in the spaces. "Affaires de coeur" move rapidly at the "post." Introductions are easy, and "facile decensus Averni." One evening on the stairs of in an unlighted anteroom a 1 walk on "Flirtation;" a note asking her to come again next week; an answer; an answer to that, with an added, touch of sentiment and aspiration after "the love of a true woman," with verses and so forth "ad infinitum" and "ad nauseam;" graduation, oblivion, and two sets, of wedding cards which perhaps cross in the mails and recall an "affaire" of two years ago. n Sometimes the cadets, a stray one here and there, in furlough time, get off to Vassar and are feted and made much of. But opportunities are more numerous :down the river, and the leap year methods hold. Beautiful and enlivare seen on "Flirtation." sights ening! In the twists and winds of that historic "Academy of Social Science" the callow youth! learns the use of his arms, and also the use of his feet and jumping muscles for emergencies 'when the sound! of an advancing step is heard. At one turn of the walk, when the leaves are few, and the wanderers, after a blessed "solitude-adeux,- " forget the fact, one may see wondrous vistas of a kneeling sentimental youth and a "maiden fair to see," while in th& turn J m , TYPE OF VASSAR GIRL, noon and chapel Sunday morning, keep them on. the go. After chapel there is an hour, a chance for a parade, informal, of course, when each cadet has his "fem," if there are enough ' to go around. .'''. The damsels are also in demand Sunday afternoons. No matter what the season, no matter what the weather,, cut ihcv so to daunts of flirtation. ;: rs useful discoveries and Inventions, simple as they appear to us they were not worked out without much thought, experiment and the sacrifice of many plants. One of the shrewdest of botanists working in the van of the horticultural art of his time, Dr. Lindley, utated in a paper read to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1830, that "high temperature, deep shade and excessive humidity are the conditions essential to the well being of orchids." Thirteen years later another orchid authority, Mr. Bateman, recommended the same treatment, adding that a resting season was necessary. This treatment became the only orthodox one and was persisted in for upward of thirty years. We now 'recognize that fresh air. at all times is essential, that many orchids enjoy bright sunshine, that while jome require plenty of moisture all the year round, others require it only for a portion of the year, and that some even thrive only when treated as if they were cacti. The temperature for exotic orchids varies from a purely tropical to that of a few degrees above freezing point, and while some species during growth are kept in a hot, steamy atmosphere and after growth is completed are removed to comparatively cool and dry conditions to afford them a rest, others suffer, if the conditions are not fairly uniform all the year round. , , May Abbott In Japan Annie May Abbott, the Georgia "electric magnet," whose feats of strength created a sensation in this country some years ago, is amusing herself now with the strong men of China and Japan. The Japanese wrestlers, whose physical strength is celebrated the world over, were unable to raise Miss Abbott from the floor, while with the tips of her fingers she neutralized their most strenuous efforts to lift even light objects, such as a cane from a table. The Japanese papers say this is hypnotism, while the Chinese journals accuse her of being in league with the powers - of evil. Exchange. ren-de- es A i WHERE VASSAR GIRLS RESORT. Needs assistance It mcy fce best to r It promptly, but one should renumber to use even tbe most perfect rem dies onjy when needed, Tbs best an most simple and gentle remedy Syrup of Tigrs, manufactured by California FJc Syrup Company. Nature's chief blunder Btems to hare her failure to make the earth's surfacei.ft.tr two layers end devote the elevated sfTti-- t' to the use of bicyclers. Shaker. Family OUR heart is Ice, A short distance above Owentown and you ay, alr New Harmony, Ind., on the Wabash maid, which little town their resident, Like that upon river, Robert Dale Owen, has made famous, the river, is village of Payson, 111. It consists we stroll of the which By but a few houses, but it is noted as in wintry day the home of Not ordinary chills The chill thought and fever, butague. the shaking kind of ague, makes me shiv- where the chattering teeth play a waltz er. and every bone in the body keeps time to the music. "Like Ice both hard One of the houses is occupied by a and cold," you add, . man of an Inventive turn of mind, who And yet your profile gentle is blessed with a family consisting of a And tender, liquid eyes of gray wife and ten children. He has gone Induce a process mental. He to his heart would press the maid, Alas! she held aloof; ' And when his arm around her strayed, Thus harshly gave reproof: TVow VThea Kattire CORNER. IIurdy-Gurdylt- . '. l They Make a Family Party. The recent fine spring weather has of rr V The iron gjasp of scrofula has nc mercy upon its victims. This deraoi) of the blood is often not satisfied witl causing dreadful sores, but racks the body with the pains of rheumatisa until Hood's Sarsaparilla cures. "Nearly four years ago.. I became af- flicted with scrofula and rheumatism nr7n Are not women more religious than men? Even at the time of Christ women displayed more religious fervor than men; they were the last in attendance at the crucifixion. Rev. D M Kirkpatrick. n VUgSLKU into the dairy business and in his spring house is a large churn, operated by a spring board. Every day butter Is made and the way It Is churned is unique. The proprietor of the little dairy explained Its operation to his neighbor. "You see," he said, "none of us do any extra work, so I call it clean profit. Monday I always shake in the morning and my wife in the afternoon. Tuesday Jim and Sallle shake; Wednesday, Bob and George; Thursday, Ella and Minnie; Friday, Tom and Bill, and Saturday, Charley and Eliza. When the shakes come on, we all just go and and they alstand on the spring-hoarto ways last long enough bring butter in the churn. So It ain't any extra trouble." Washington Star. Running sores broke out on my thighs. Pieces of bone came out and an operation was contemplated. I had rheumaticm in my legs, drawn up out of shape. I lost appetite, could not fcleep. I was a perfect wreck. I continued to grow worse and finally gave up the doctor's treatment to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Boon appetiu came back; the sores commenced to heaL My limbs straightened out and I threw away my crutches. I am now stout and hearty and am farming, whereas foui years ago I was a cripple. I gladly d, reo-omme- nd Hood's Sarsaparilla.1' Uebam Haxmond, Table Grove, Illinois. Just Fun for Hojjs, "Did you ever see hogs kill rattlesnakes?" Inquired the old mountaineer, according to the San Francisco Post Evidently none of his hearers had. ever beheld such an exciting spectacle. "Well, it's a picnic for the hogs," he 7M tf TL r? Sarsaparilla continued, "and a great surprise and disappointment to the snakes. "As soon as a hog sights a rattlesnake he grunts as though some one , had chucked him an ear of corn and trots right after It. The snake sees a big, f&t hog coming his way, and you can almost see it grin as It coils up and says to itself : 'That's my pork. "The hog trots right up as if he wanted to be friendly and the snake, fired with am ambition to kill some pork, and hooks on-t- n ltsthefly like a steel spring pork. Then comes the surprise. Instead of running and squealing, as the snake expected, the hog calmly turns around, plants his forefeet on the snake and commences feeding off his tail. It is a painful surprise to an ambitious rattler. He keeps thrashing around and striking until there isn't a bite of him left. Then Mr. Hog looks for a new rattler. He doesn't feel any more inconvenience from the snake bites than he would from a yellow jacket's sting." ; Is the One True Blood Purifier. A U druggists, fi, Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass! cur 1!ver His, easy to take, easy to operate. 26c, HOOd'S PlIIS v ml; 4 . xsm The Columbia Cataloguers not a Tale of the Day. A small boy stole out early when why all who love pleasure and bicycling should select brought the south side a treat in the milkmen's wagons were the only vepiano-orgahicles on the streets and shops were shape of a brand-nehe small boy carried a drawn about on four substantial wheels yet closed, well-fe- d of The horse. chalk and a wicked grin. a piece by comfortable, a his is in with back to the east, he gay bright Stooping, huge Instrument are the latest made several marks which shone vividgreen cover, and its tunes additions to the popular street songs. ly Against the walk. He surveyed Ivin The chief charm of this elaborate ouV wok, chuckled and melted away, says fiV however, is the family which the Chicago News. a woman A little while later when the rush to it a man, a ani fine Uig baby. While the city had begun no one got over these the father holds his cap under the win- marks without stopping. Men Vith dows of aristocratic nurseries, the watches in their hands and speed in mother bravely grinds out the stirring their feet paused in their mad career, tunes, and the baby, perched high on swung around, read the inscription, the front seat, laughs and crows In hap- missed their train and swore. Girls py content. During the rides from ont stopped, read and looked contemptuous stopping place to another, the whol at their folly. Every one who read trio ranges itself on the wide cushioned hurried away without looking back to seat, chatting as gayly as though all this see who saw him. When the rush abated wealth were not the fruit of pennies the bad boy sauntered out, and" hugged himself as" he looked at his chalk marks: picked up one at a time. Ex. "April 1." mere reasons comfort in It gives convincing price-lis- t. n, w STANDARD OF THE WORLD ac-c-pan- ies Effect of Tobacco. 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Colo-- JiMLd WHIM CO., 12 (Jurtia THAT ARE SICK cj f 03 PEOPLE Don't Fael Well," Jut SpWesdLIVER pius re the One Thing: to nee, Only One for a Doe Bold by Proggtete at gSC Barnplea mailed free. Addr - ; . (Wife. LEY' The clock in the cburch tower struck that in a class of 147 students, the 77 who never used tobacco surpassed the the hour of 3. Three In the morning. A haggard and wearied man softly 70 who did use it 10.4 per cent in gain in weight, 24 per cent in increase in laid a bundle of linen, surmounted with a small red face, bearing traces of tears, height, 26.7 per cent in growth of chest witMn the cradle. girth, and 77.5 per cent in gain in lung An object on the mantel caught his capacity. Figures even more striking were obtained at Amherst, and the con. glaring eye. He picked it up and read solationists areduly elated at the show- the inscription: "To the quietest and ing. Show, 1895." But this exhibit relates only to the baby, Shajwox's Baby he crushed tho Laughing bitterly, physical side of the boys' nature. Prof. fragile silver mug with his slippered Fish, of the Northwestern University, is heel, kicked off the slippers and wearily toauthority for the statement that i j nt.t-- n m bacco injures the intellectual faculties as well. He says that when a college An Unoccupied Field. class at Yale had been divided into four Dr. W. It. Harper, president of Chi-casections, according to scholarship, it University, says in the Biblical was found that the highest section was World: composed almost entirely of "The successful teacher of thes Bible and the lowest section almost enis a rarity. The country has hundreds tirely of smokers. and thousands of men and women who have, by long- - effort, prepared them"Let Your XJght So Shine." selves to teach the English language, As an illustration of the need of keep- mathematics, or modern languages; but ing the lower lights burning, D. L. where are the men and women who Moody often relates the following: have undertaken special to "A few years ago, at the mouth of enable them to teach thepreparation Bible?" Cleveland harbor, there were two lights, one at each side of the bay, called the Conception of Eternity. upper and lower lights; and to enter Let us imagine ourselves a . huge the harbor safely by night, vessels must mountain, the largest on the face of sight both of these lights. the earth, says William George a great "These western lakes are sometimes solid, mass of granite rock. And suppose more dangerous than the great ocean. that once every 100 years a little bird One wild, stormy night, a steamer was came flying to the top of the mountain trying to make her way Into the. har- and rested there and merely dusted its bor. The captain and pilot were anx- beak upon the summit. The ' time it iously watching for the lights. By and would take before the bird's beak, with by the pilot was heard to say, 'Do you its little tap every 100 years, had comsee the lower light?' worn away and leveled the " 'No,' was the reply; I fear we have pletely whole mountaini3 only a moment of passed them.' " 'Ah, there are the lights,' aid the eternity. "It things don't get better," said the ilot, 'and they must be, from the bluff on which they stand, the upper lights. shoe clerk to his fellow slaves, "I am' We have passed the lower lights, and going to change my boarding house. have lost our chance of getting intc the Why, they had. mutton so old for din' ner that tho landlady didn't have the harbor.' nerve to call it lamb." Ind'anapUs "What was to he done? Tboy 'if Journal. back, and saw the dim out) stamps. -- . Religious Women. ' Or. osstnko LHIDSEY u 0L1AHA RSed. Co. Ftdia. RUBBfRSl WLen writing to advertisers, please say that saw ih aartlsemcut In thl paper. . ' |