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 subdued in the
progressive city. Every rooster that
gets on fence flaps his wings and
crows, Women rules here-ere-ri-e.' Its
these female colleges that doin it. 1
came over here to see sixteen blooming
damsels graduate at 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
mind to send you "a hasty scrap. Ihave
thought for some time you ought to put
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 June bugs, and the big boys
run after the one just like the little
boys run after the orher-Just to hear
EN- June.
The female sex are monopolizing pub
lie attention now. They have got fve
colleges to our one. There's hardly a
town in the State where they amt educa-
ting two girls to one boy. If this thing
goes on whats to become of us? Won't
they be putting US in the background
under the shadows, and after while just
keep US at home for their amusement?
Why I know of several farmers who
have got their boys plowing and hoeing
to makeeotton to raise money to send
their daughters off to college. They say
that the,girls cantmake any money to send
the boys of, and so if the girls don't so
n Nody 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 smart son.
The human race will breed after the
dam but its mighty hard on the country
boys. Most all the nice girls and the
rich girls are sent to the towns and cit
les to schools, and when they get there
the young lawyers and doctors and store
clerks 90 for em on still hunt. They
watch EN- like chicken hawk watches
for chickens in the spring of the. year,
and by the time they quit school they
pounce down upon EN- and carry EN- off
with an impudence that is amazing.
The poor country boy don't get nary
chicken at all. Sad, amt it.? he made
love to that gal before she left home and
her low, sweet promise made him plan
deeper and hoe harder, and he whipped
up old Dobbins with lively lick. But
there's nary Mary Jane for him. There's
a pale faced gent from the town at her
fathers. He drives q fine horse and
has gloves on and standing collar, and
his hair is colonyfed, and his hat stuck
on the side of his head and Mary Jane
has surrendered.
An impertinent Rome boy told me
that was what female colleges was for
o sort of quartermaster department the
town boys draw their supplies from. 1t
wasn't exactly this way when 1 was
youth. Athens was wealthy, aristo-
cratic city, the college boys there kept
the place drained of its rich beautiful
girls. They married them just as fast as
they grew up, and they carried them off.
An Athens boy couldent touched. EN-
with a ten-foot pole. If he wanted
wife he had to emigrate to git one. So
its bad all around for the boy who cant
go to college. In TACT Its swlndle-a
fraud-and must be rectifed in some way.
Why, I couldent hire buggy yester.
day nowhere, for these town boys had
every one of EN- and was riding around
with the college girls like tornado was
after them. I complained of it to en-
observing friend and he said you need
ent be alarmed these are the smartest
girls you ever saw in your life, and their
parents were smart before EN-. They
are not going to marry these fashy
young bucks. Why, heard a graduate
making fun of feller she rode out with
because he said II taken" and "they
had went" and spelt three words wrong
in his note. She said she was going to
open school exclusively for young men
to study grammar. The fact is, the boys
are neglected and Rome must have
male college to keep the sexes on bal
ance.