Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-11-07
"SWEET SIXTEEN"
HOW SHE BEHAVES IN THE BOARD
ING SCHOOL
A Friday Night" Boardes rstls All About
It-coushing Down a Suspect
Guying the Professor of
Chemtst---Candy.


Guying the Professor of
Chemist---Candy
New York Times.1
Ere many days upper New York. in the
residence district, will abound in small pla-
toons of we'll dressed young women, march
ing in couples, a more or less lynx-eyed
teacher bringing up the rear, all Of which
means a boarding school out for a constitu-
tional. For it is chiefly the female sex that
supports the paid schools in New York.
Many families can be found that relegate
the sons to the grammar school, but for the
daughter OF the house. q private school is OBJ
tanned. And just here a wide field FOR argu-
ment opens, into which, however, it is not
intended to enter. but rather, excepting
both, discover a little OF the inner life of
that sacred and dinicultof-access temple
a young ladies' boarding school.
Girl nature is the same under all guises,
and no matter what restraint in behavior or
department girls are subjected to, they will
still manage to work off a little of their
surplus animal spirits in sportive pranks.
But these are not serious. The brother at
school or college laughs at the sisters tale
of thrilling escapades. Her diversions COM
pared to his are
"As moonlight unto sunlight,
Or as water unto wine"
ALL ABOUT n.
II Suspect you young ladies are very jolly
at school among yo~urselves?" said a reporter
insinuatingly to a sweet Ii" in pink, whom
it is his good fortune to know.
"Oh, that we are, was her ready reply,
"t would be too dreadful to plod all day
without a bit of fun 70 enliven u.s." and thu
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was vastly amusing.
"Tell me about it" went on the reporter
with an encouraging smile; "the playful
part of your school life l mean"
I begin with, " she said, seating herself
comfortably on her left foot, II am what is
called a Friday night boarder; that is, /
come home every Friday afternoon after
study hours, returning Monday morning.
This position has its advantages, as it places
me on a privileged footing with both fac
tions Of the school, for you must know that
a veritable town and gown feeling exists
between the boarding and day pupils.
each set seems to consider the other legiti-
mate subjects for amusement. Sometimes
a couple of us-I mean the boarders-slip
into the wardrobe-r room of the day scholars
and create utter and complete chaos among
the garments there. Hats and cloaks are
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left apparently untouched, the wrists are
pinned stoutly together. 1t is a wise girl
who knows her W things even when she
sees them, and when the confusion is at its
height the perpetrators suddenly appear
among the victims proffering assistance,
which they continue to render as awkwardly
as possible, all the time tanning the indigna.
ton expressed on every side by frequent
denouncings of the trick"
"Bless mel" exclaimed the reporter. aHew
very outrageousl But retaliation comes, !
supposeP
COUGHING DOWN..
Not always" replied his fair informer.
"The sdailies' we call the outside girls
sdailies'-can't always trace the scheme to
its source. They sometimes attempt to
cough down one or two suspects at random.
but they seld ON strike the right ones.n
"'Cough down and Suspects what mys.
tifying language" interrupted the reporter
"Oh. if a girl is suspected of bling con
cerned in some such prank, she is SUBJ .ct
a very embarrassing experience. In som,
class where she is particularly proficient
and con sequently likes to recite. one gener-
oily conducted by a nonresident teacher,
Che moment she stands to recite a neighbor
will be seized with a violent fit of coughing,
for it has to be judicially graded, you know,
to encourage the scholar to frequent at
.empts at recital, only to nave her voice
drowned every time by an apparently un-
controllable paroxysm.
"Some mora good fun is to guy these same
visiting professors, who are usually special.
lists, and spend the day going from ono
school to another, a recitation CT two at
zach. They don't know the names of the
girls half the time, and the life we lead
them is too dreadful
GUYING Fl PROFESSOR.
Professor L., our professor of chem
istry." continued the fair informsr, "s a
delicious subject He is a funny little fat
bald man with a fringe of black hair just
above his collar. He is an enthusiast in his
profession, but he knows as little about girls
as we do about chemicals, and / suppose his
hours with US are a sort of day nightmare.
1t sometimes happens that the class assem-
bles not very well prepared in its lessons;
the two or three who know it all will take
head places, and the opening questions will
be glibly answered. About the fourth girl
discovers in her question a statement which
she does not understand, a girl from the
other side also announces complete mystif-
cation in regard to the same subject; the
head girl intended herself to ask the pro-
lessor about it; in fact, the entire class,
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to the teacher to elucidate the matter. The
professor is delighted. Putting aside his
text book he descants at length upon
the rules and principles involved.
II the girls sea that the matter is becoming
exaau stsd, a further question or two leads
him on, and the bell taps the close Of tho hour
with the days lesson unrecited. The pro-
fessor is surprised, some what disconnected
perhaps, but assigns the same lesson again
and one of the girls will remove any con-
science pricks he may have by stopping an
instant on her way out to say demurely:
az am so glad, professor, to understand
about this-you have made it all so clear"
what Machiavelian plots" gaspei the
reporter.
"Blt," he went on. after he had regained
his composure somewhat, @what do you do
for can ty during the laborious toll of the
dayg'
Goa, candy, of course, is forbidden in
school, and the boarders are rarely granted
permission to buy it, but it is had just the
same. You soc We all lave Satellites
that is, some pet among the little girls in
the intermediate whoi is only too delighted to
execute our candy commissions outside.
The risk is slight, and if the young one is
caught the upper class girl comes to her res
cua-we have to have candy she finished
determine dly. and the reporter cordially as
sented to the justice of the proposition.
Causes of Blindness.
[Arkansaw Traveler.1
The author Of a prize essay on blindness
and its prevention, states that short-sighted-