Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-14
Schoolgirl friendships.

Do girls ever 60 to school without
making violent friendshipp Did ever
any girl stay for four years at one school
without having. ct least. one intimate,
and half dozen other friends, who were
ready to play second fiddle ct all times.
and under oil circumstances
Oh, how attached they werei How
they vowed eternal fidelityl How they
swore in schoolgirl phraseology, that
nothing on earth should separate them
Nothing should make them prove falsel
The stars might fall, the heavens dis
solve, the earth melt, yet their love
would stand firm!
How they always stood with arms
around each other! How they always
kissed every morning! How they
dressed alikel And they roomed to.
gether, and buttoned each others
dresses, and done each others back
hair, and marked up their school. books
together, and drew pictures of the girls
they did not like, and worked book.
marks with hearts hitched together to
give each other, and deplored the time
when school should be over, and they
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But they would writei oh, yes!
Blessed be the mailsl and blessed be
cheap postagel Letters would keep
their hearts from breaking! The cor
respondence should be constant, and
often, and great deal of it! Six cents
worth Of postage on every letter
There would be so much to say that
three cents would never pay for trans
porting it.
And then they would visit each 9th.
or, three months in q year on each
side! And talk all the time! So many
things to talk overt And no new friend.
ship should come between them. In
deed notl Perish the ideal
And neither of them would have q
beau!
Certainly not. At least not until the
other wonld have one too, and they
must be twin brothersl And love must
prevail all aroundl And they must
live in q double house after they are
married! And each have q baby the
same day! And one baby must be q
girl and the other boy, and they shall
grow up to worship each other, and by
and by get married, and be happier
than the .angelsl
We have never heard any provision
made for the rest of the babies which
are likely to put in an appearance, so
we suppose they will be left to chance.
No doubt all this sentiment is coz
soling to young ladies; in fact, we
know it is, for when we left school we
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and all of them devoted and ready to
die for us, If we needed their services
in that line.
But after little the postage tax be-
came too heavy, and the seething pot
of friendship simmered down, and the
girls got beaus. and our love distress
cooled, and to-day we do not know
where half-dozen of those devoted
friends are shedding the light of their
and we do not know as we
care to know.
Now and then Q schoolgirl friendship
outlasts time itself, and reaches beyond
the grave, but as general thing it sci.
dom continues beyond the marriage of
either party.
But while it dees last, there is earn
nestness in it, and it is productive Of
adjectives, and pet names, and worsted
tides, and ugar-plums, and q source
of postal revenue, and q shining exam
pie of the transitory nature of all things
mundane.
But we wouldn't throw cold water
on schoolgirl friendships-certainly
not; let them f1ourish-they make Latin
verbs easier to learn, and French
idioms less distressing to commit to
memory.-M. Y. Weekly.