News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-26
THE GIRLS OF LONG AGO.
What One of the. Funny Men Says
About the Girl We Left Behind Us.


About the Girl We Left Behind Us.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
of Hamilton .tolIego formally opened
their new ChIp5er House. Among the
guests was A. Minor Griswold, 80, who
to the toast, "The Girl We
Left Behind U.s." in the following
strain:
Mr.. President and Brother Dekes:
The toast you have assigned me is one
that touches very tender chord in my
heart. ! have always felt sorry for the
girls we left behind Us. 1t seemed cruel
ut the time, but how could we help it2
Circumstances were such that we couldn't
possibly take them along-we had to
leave them behind US. l think L
promised three or four to come back for
them in the spring or early autumn, but
[ was too busy for several years to at
tend to it, and after that-well, [ was
afraid my wife would not like it. [ met
one of the girls We left behind us in the
street to-day. That is, l thought did.
The same soft, brown eyes, the same
sweet, sunny smile.
SIS it possible" said, ''that behold
Miss Sally Jones?"
THAT was my mothers name," she
replied, ''before she was married. am
married now, and have named my
baby after her.
Great heavensl The girl left behind
me was a grandmother!
told the young lady who l was, and
she said she had often heard her mother
speak of me as one she used to know
great many years ago. Then | asked
about the girls l used to know, and
what had become of them. 1 found that
some, alas, were dead. Others, who
were married, wished they were dead.
Some, who were widows, had lovers seek
ing for their hands. Others, not yet
widows, were seeking for divorces.
Oh, those seminary girls of long ago
how we did regret leaving them behind
us-except one poor fellow who eloped
with one of them. He has regretted all
his life that he didn't leave her behind
with the rest of them.
But we had to go and leave them.
Fate beckoned US on. And, i'll some
cases, the faculty urged US go. Were
we to blame, then, for temporarily for
getting the debts-I mean the girls we
/ left behind US? Why, some of US had
| to leave our trunks
A rare collection of girls they were,
| gentlemen, as [ recall them now. Tai,
willowy girls; short, plump girls; black
eyed girls that made us blue, and blue
eyed girls that we were ready to take a
black eye for any time; fair complexion
ed girls, brown girls, Smith girls, girls
with auburn hair, and girls who, not be-
ing able to match their own hair in Au-
burn, were compelled to match it in
Utica OF Syracuse. In fact, there was
about every kind of girl that there is
now, except the tailor-made girl, who
seems to be altogether u modern crea-
ton. Still, the latter has points in her
! favor While the girl [ so tenderly re-
call possessed virtue, beauty, intelligence
and many engaging ways, [ must admit
that she somehow lacked the get-up-in
fact, she hadn't the hustle of the girl OF
/ to-day.
No, brothers of the olden times, we
must confess that in comparison with
the tailor-m made girl of to-day, the girl
we left behind us had very little left be
! hind her.
Still we remember her with tenderness
and respect, and let us all join in s
bumper to the girls of long ago.