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Show THE MODERN MAIDEN'8 TRO- PHIE8. Spoils of Victory Carried by Society's Sweet Pets. We saw a damsel on tho train a damsel fair to sec; her bonnlo eyes were glad and bright, her smllo was ono of glee. Her bonnet was the proper shape, her dress the latest mode but, ah, the buttons, pins and things her natty costume showed! 8lx army buttons on her cuff lent It a semblance gay, (They were no Imitations, Imi-tations, for they shouted, "U. S. A.!") Adown the bodice was a row that glowed with polish great ten buttons but-tons from the soldier blouse that's fur nlihed by the state. Four yachting pins, a jeweled badgo somo hero's deed had won; a golden trophy given to some expert with a gun. A Harvard pin, a Princeton pin, Northwestern pins as well; U. C, U. I., U. M. She must havo been a college col-lege belle! Three golden links, a Mason's charm, an Alpha Beta stud wo wondered won-dered then how many youths had found their names were mud! Her finger bore a graven seal tho size that's made for men, and on her collar we discerned a collcgo pin, again. About her hat there stretched a band from somo grim man of war. Wo wondered at the ribbon there, and what sho woro It for. And as we gazed, a youth who sat besldo this damsel fair gavo her a badgo from off his vest; sho tucked It In her hair! Lo, tho poor Indian, savage, crude, ill tempered, hard to tame he ties his scalp locks to himself and gloats o'er them tho same! |