Show A naIl at a Female College There was a ball at the Pennsylvania Female ollege last weeka ball the like of which is not often seen Within the chapel the floor was cleared and every hfiich pushed back and on the lit lie stage at the east end an orchestra was sat < d < l Under the manylighted chan dcheiN a gay throng was moving and as the music of a waltz sounded swayed oT in the onetwothrec step of that favorite d i tnr < The costumes were brilliant and 10 > civ remarkable At a first glance a > i mid not help noticing the HI j Y didnt seem to be quite the usual tiling Smoothfaced youths they were all of them with bangs and most of them blessed with more back hair than the average young man can handle with any degree of grace Their garb was not exactly the regulation The black swallowtail coat the standing collar col-lar the t exposure of snowy linen and the t black waistcoat were according to standard But the breeches were something some-thing new They were made of some sort of striped stuff and stopped at the knee From thence down to the patent leathers the limbs were incased in black silk stockings The carriage of these gallants gal-lants was strange too and on a second glance you saw they were all girls It was the annual ball of the college students stud-ents and onehalf of them were masquerading mas-querading in male attire Not a real man was in sightexcept the musicians who dont count but there was plenty of imitations and right honestly did they fill their parts To be sure some of them needed coaching in the manner of handling hand-ling crushed hats and lolling in the doorways door-ways but the majority of them had seen qnough of Simon Pure to go through the motions without a break The ladies that is the ladies who were appearing in their own character were dressed in the height of style The assertion that women wont dress for women wouldnt have half a chance at the college last week Low neck and short sleeves were the rule trains longer than their wearers were common and jewels flashed in powdered hair It was full dress for a certainty The rules that are in force in ordinary social assemblages of this kind were strictly observed and there was a due solemnity about the affair |