The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

was also a room of OIL tea There was
room of birds, living birds in cages filing
| the window and hung from wires outslde:
| Canaries and paroquets and tb;ushes aud
| larks were only "a part OF the avlary, ana
! white aproned chambernaid had hed
earned good perquisites all summer keeping
| them alive and i'll condition. There were
| two rooms of plants rooms whose owners
| affected intense rivalry, as to the extent
| and beauties of their respective conserva-
| tories The pride of one room was its ferns
the other rejoiced in mignonette and bright
! gerapiums. Each room was completely
wreathed in ivy, which Travelled round and
about the walls from pots on the window
lodges There was a crazy room whose
name bright-eyed brunette explained by
saving that she had no lobby and so rode
as many nags as possible, mounting every
curious one which came to hand. The
crazy room was chaotic, having in it no two
articles which matched or C Responded,
but there was harmony of color in its crazi-
nesS and it was as interesting as mania
cal quilt.
There we're several very simple rooms
furnished with mating, rattan chairs and
ribbons, whose plainneSS was set down on
one hand to quiet tastes and on another TO
laudable desire to keep in countenance
the poorer girls who could not afford to
surround themselves with luxurious belong
llRS. IN every TOOTH WtIb YEA DOLo Yea
tables and closets or cupooardS for storing
the delicacies of the afternoon spread.
All the Lady Margaret girls lodge in
the college and the dining room where the
PRINCIPAL meals of the day are taken IS
cheerful apartment. 7 ere is fine organ
in the chapel, and the gymnasium looked
as if it were in co lstant use, though IT Is
not 50 complete in its fittings as that at
Vassar.
Tho yun,bar Of S+udapts jS not 1aroe INIT
those whom | saw, both cricket players and
spectators, seem to be remarkably vigorous
specimens. They did not look as if they
had ever overworked, and they were GER
tainly enjoying themselves. One young
girl told me hat she meant to study medl-
cine, another said she meant to make specl-
atty of languages VITA a view to teaching,
but most of them were studying because
they liked it, without any uterior views as
to careers"
Life at the Oxford women'S colleges,
as they described it to me, differs from life
at American colleges just as the Oxford and
Cambridge Universities differ from all
other colleges. Direct teaching by profess
sors is made so little of that the girl stu
dents, like the young men, are thrown in
large measure on their own resources. They
work Independently, attending such lectures
as will be Of assistance in the courses
marked out for them, reading hard In the
neighborhood of examination time, but
making room for q good deal of tennis and
a good many spins in their boats on the Isis
and Cherwell-which, by the way, they
are not allowed to use until they can present
certificates that they are efficient swimmers
in the long summer afternoons, and for
many eveningsof social intercourse or elo-
quent disputa;lons in the college literary
societies during the winter terms. They
assured me they were not blueStockings,
and indeed, in spite of the prediction that in
the course of few years they will monopo-
lie the honors of Oxford, they did not look
it.
The Oxford girl students are assisted act
lively by the University Association for the
Higher Education of Women, which is sup
ported by ladies of promineA ce and which
maintains lectures in important branches of
the college course The students spend
some hours in its rooms every morning, be-
take themselves by twos and threes to the
lectures i'll the mems colleges, at which the
attendance of women is allowed, pore over
books in the libraries, eat lunch about I'D
O'clock and fresnen themselves up by walk
ing or rowing afterward. They are assidu-
Gus tennis players, practicing vigorously
for the annual August match against the
Clifton girls. Every student belongs to two
or three clubs choosing her place according
to her fondness for Shakespeare or Icelandic
literature or Iolstol or-some Say-whlSt
and equally intricate games
Lady Margaret Hall has two compeers at
Oxford Summerville hall and st. Hugh's
hall, the last named newly opened. The
expenses of student life at all three colleges
average somewhat higher than in Ameri-
can colleges for women, not because the
fixed charges are high, but because the
scale of living at Oxford is fixed by tradi-
ton IN that arlstocratic old university, and
women stu lents as well as men, to some ex-
tent, conform. The nominal expense at
Lady Margar hail il e75 a year. at Sum
merville and ST. Hughs SEQ. These figures
are lower tuan at Cambridge, where Cir
ten charges El05. Most of the students go
into more society than is common with
American college girls, and the little cap
talness seemed to think that the avera .e
expenditure of the girls she knew was not
under Gl50 annually, some getting rid of
goo, though Others, she said, did very
nicely on 9l00.
Tea properly disposed of-tea is cere-
mony in England-t lie cricketing girls
showed us that they were good oarswomen
in twilight pull on the Cherwell. If they
cultivate their brains half as well as they
do their bodies, they are developing into fine
examples If intelligent Enghsh women.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.