The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-24
VOL. Xv---NO. 2.
Bill Arp on Female Colleges.

| Our sex is thoroughly subdncd in tho
progressive city. Every rooster that
gets on fence flaps his wings and
crows, Women rules here-ere-ri-e.' It's
these female colleges that doin it. I
came over here to see sixteen blooming
damsels graduate ut the Shorter college
for you see one of them was mine and
Mrs. Arp's, and as you hadent heard
anything about female college I had
q MIND 20 send yo'fa hasty scrap. have
thought for some time you ought to pvt
an occasional paragraph in your colums
ABOUT female college commencements.
There are several female colleges IN the
state and its about the time of the year
when they dress up and come forth for
an airing. The girls always buzz around
with the juno bugs. ard the big boys
run aftor the ono just like the little
boys run after the other-Just to hear
EN- June.
:. The female sex are monopolizing pub.
lie attention now. They have got five
colleges to our one. There's hardly
town in the State where they aint edtica-
ting two girls to one boy. IF this thing
goes on whats to become of us? Won't
they be putting us in the back =, round
under the shadows, and after while lust
keep us Mt home for their amusement?
Why I know Of several farmers who
have got their boys plowing and hoeing
to make cotton to raise money to send
their daughters off to college. They saw
thatthe'girls cantmake any money to send
the boys of, and 60 if the girls don't 10
nobody goes. Hows that? What are
we going to do about it? The cart has
gone before the horse again.
Well, reckon its all right, for they
say smart mother makes q smart con.
The human race will breed after the (
dam but It's mighty hard on the country
boys. Most ell the nice girls and the
rich girls are sent to the towns and cit
los TO schools, and when they get there
the young lawyers nnd doctors and store
clerksg go for EN- on still hunt. They
watch em like chicken hawk watches
for chickens In the spring of the. year,
and by the time they quit school they
pounce down upon em and carry en- off
with an impudence that is amazing.
The poor country boy don't get nary
chicken at ell. Sad, amt it? He made
love to that gal before she left home and
her low, sweet promise made him plan
deaner and hog ha:ddee.. and he WHIPPED
up old Dobbins with o lively lick. But
there's nary Mary Jane .or him. There's
Q pale faced gent from the town at her
fathers. He drives fine horse and
has gloves on and standing collar, and
his hair is colonyfed, and his hat stuck
on the aide of his head and Arary jams
has surrendered.
An impertinent Rome ooy told me
that was what female colleges was for
q sort Of guertermaster department. the
town boys draw their supplies from. 1t
wasn't exactly this way when I was a
youth. Athens was wealthy, aristo-
cratic city, the college boys there kept
the place drained of its rich beautiful
girls. They married them just az fast as
they grew up, and they carried them OF.
An Athens hoy couldent touched elm
With q ten.foot pole. If he wanted
wife he had to emigrate to git one. So
!ts bad al around for the boy who cant
90 to college. In fact its swindle--a
must be rcctified in someway.
Why, / couldent hire buggy yester-
day nowhere, for these town BOYS had
every one of EN- and was riding around
with che ooi'ego girls like tornado Was
after them. / Complained of it to an
friend and he said you need.
ant be alarmed these are the smartest
girls you ever saw in your life, and their
parents were smart before EN-. They
ire not going to marry these fashy~-,
young bucks. Why, ! heard graduate
making fun of q feller she rode out with
because he said ~ taken" and sthey
had went" and spelt three words wrong !;
IN his note. She said che was going to
open school exclusively for young men
20 study grammar. The fact Is, the boys
are neglected and Rome must have
male college to keep the sexes on bal
lnce.