Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-10-20
"SWEET SIXTEEN"
HOW SHE BEHAVES IN TIKI: BOARD
ING SCHOOL.
A "Frlday Night" Boarder Tells All About
a. Coughing Dawn a "susI sct' -
Guying the Professor of
Chem.stry-Cand
New York Times.l

residence district will abound In small pla-
toons of well dressed young woInsn, march
ing In couples, mora or less lynx-eyed
teacher bringing up the rear. all OF which
means boar ling school out for constitu-
tional For il 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, hut for the
daughter II the hou's private school Is OBJ
tanned. AMI ju here 4 wide field for argu-
ment opens, int which, however, it Il not
intended 70 enter but rather, excepting
both, di cover little OF the inuer life Of
that sacrsi and diilicult-of-access temple
young ladies' boar ling school
Girl nature Is the sam, unlsr all guises,
and no matter " 4at restraint in bshav iOr or
department girls are ubjsctel to, they will
still manage to work of a little OF their
surplus animal spirit, in sportiye prankS
But these are not serious Toe hr tuer at
school or llsge laughs at the sistsrs tale
of thrilling escapads. Her diversions CON-
pared to his are
"As moonlight unto sunlight
Or as water unto wine.'
ALL ABOUT II.
Il suspect you young laie, are very jolly
at school among yourselve," All reporter
insinuatlngly t. "sweet l6' in pink, whom
il is his god fortune To know.
"Oh, that We are, was her ready reply,
ut woul be too dreadful to plpd all day
without bit Of fun to enliven Us, and the
oyerburdenel stu lent sighel in q way that
was vastly amusing.
Tell me about It," went ON the reporter
with an encouraging smile; "the playful
part OF your school life | msan.'
so begin with she SAID, seating herself
comfortably on her left foot, IL 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 privileged footing with both fac.
tions 4 the school, for you must know that
a veritable town aud gown feeling exists
between the boarding and day pupils
Each set seems ~ consider the other legiti-
mate subject for amusement Sometimes
a couple Of us-l mean the boarIers-slip
into the wardrobe room Of the day scholars
and create utter and complete chaos a..Iong
the garments there. Hats and cloak, are
mismate 1, wrap, turned inside out, or, IL
left apparently untouched, the wrists are
pinned stoutly together. 1t is a wise girl
who know, her own things even when she
sees them, and when the confusion is at its
height the perpetrators suddenly appear
among the victims prolfering assistance.
which they continue to render as awk warlly
as possible, all the time flaming the iniigna.
ton expressed on every SIDE by frequent
denouncinSs Of the trick"
"BleSs me!' exclaimed tue reporter How
suppo,eF
COUGHING DOWN.
"NOt Away - replied his fair inf1rmer
"The dallie,'-we call the out ,iIs girl,
'iailie can't always trace the scheme to
lbs source. TDey sometimes attempt to
cough down one or two suspects at random
but they seldom strike the right ones"
Cough down ami Suspects what mys-
tifyiug language" interrupted the reporter
"Oh, II girl is suspected Of bJing con
cernei in some such prank, she Is subj .ct "
a very embarrassing experience. In some
class where she Is particularly proficient
and con equsntly likes TO recite. one gener-
ally CONDUCTED by a nonresident teacher,
the moment she stands to recite a neighbOr
will he seize with violent fit Of coughing,
for it has to bs judicially graded, you know,
10 encourage the scholar TO frequent at
tempts at recital, only to have her voice
drowned every time by an apparently I'M
controllable paroxysm.
-SOme more good fun is T. guy these same
visiting professors, who are ,ually special
lists, and spend the day gong from one
school to another a recitation 0r two at
each. They don't know the names Of the
girls half the time, and the life we lead
them is too dreadful
GUYING THE PROFESSOR.
Professor L., our professor Of chem
deliciou, subjsct He is funny little fat
bald m with 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. an 4 supp Iss his
hours with US ara a sort Of day nightmare.
1t sometimes happens that the class as EN-
blss not very well prepared in its lesson;
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 que, tion a statement which
she does not understand, girl from the
other side also announces complete mystih-
cation in regard TO the same subject; the
head girl INTENDED herself 10 ask the pro-
lessor about IL; in fact the entire class,
bristling with ignorance and interest APPEAL
TO the teacher 10 elucilats the matter. The
professor is delighted. Putting aide hi,
text book be descant' at len 9TH upon
the rules AMI principle ,lv I've /.
II the girls sss that the matter J., eroming
exhausted, q further question "r twr leads
him on, and the bell taps the clio &c II tbs hour
with the days lesson unrsTtsL Tue pro-
fessor is ,u-pris'd, SOMEWHAT Ji,comfortel
perhap', lw A. go tus snms lesson again
and one iris will remove any con.
science may have 10y stopping an
instau fly out o. say demlrsly:
al r, professor. T., ,.t lsrstanl
hbIu nave made Il a.l prl,ar.i7
De, Iavelian pllts!' st,psi the
st on. after he had regainel
az v.,D,i,... lmswhat, Swhat do you do
for Cuu 4lrmg the laborious toll Of the
dayi'
'OI, candy, OF course, Is forbidden In
school, AMI the boarders are rarely granted
permission to buy il, but it is had just the
same You see We all have satellites,
that l., some pot among the little girls in
the intermediate who Is only too delighted IN
execute our candy commissions outside
| The risk Is slight aud il the young ono Il
caught the upper class girl comes 20 her res
cue-we have TO have candy she finished
detcrminsdly, aud the reporter cordially as.