The morning news., 1888-07-22
THESUMMER MATTRESSES
THE COLLEGE GIRLS MISSION IN
THE SEASIDE HOTEL
She Serves Up Beefsteak and Coffee in
Good Professional Style-Sometimes
She Goes OF to a Dance on the Sly
How She Recuperates Her Finances
for the Fall Term.
Copyright, 1888 J

(Copui9ht 1851
NEW YORK, July 2l.-"O thea g'aukopis
Athena 1t was clear, musical call, begin
ming low, swelling in chorus OF half dozen
voices and dying slowly away, that used to
startIe the summer people in small hotel
in pretty White Mountain resort, about
the same hour in the evening every night
last August. 80, glancing-eyed goddess
Athena The call was repeated twice, and
that was the end for twenty-four hours. 1t
seemed TO rise from the thick shadow Of
group of hemlocks behind the house, and
people in the secret said that 1t was the cry
of a Greek letter society with branches in
half dozen girls colleges The watchword
was lifted by the mattresses, college girls
themselves, half in sport, half to notify any
other college girls. members of the frater-
nlty, who might chance u be among the
day's guests, of their presence.
"Wanted 750 girls for summer hotels.
This is the piecard in large black letters
that has confronted passengers on the Sixth
avenue elevated road from the second
story of an uptown employment agency
for several weeks past. Wanted 800 girls
70 wait in hotels, 50 reads large slgu OF
rival establishment not three blocks away.
at the Grand Central station one hot after
noon a week ago. Three OF tnetn cahle
from u New Eng. and college, and the fourth
was q public school teacher, whose wages
are devoted to helping her sister the youngest
OF the quartette and a curly-headed Sopho-
more through her course. They had enjoyed
n fortnight's vacation at home, and this
was their rendezvous before setting out for
. the Catskill village where they were to wait
at table together
This makes my fourth season." said the
tall Senior with straight black bangs.
And my third" said the Senior with
brown hair and no bangs at all
"And my sixth SAID the teacher who
earns 5000 year and has supported her
mother and seen her sister through the best
fitting schools.
And my first said the sister rather
timidly. "Will ii be hard, do you sup
poser
"Well, that depends, " said the Senior with
bangs "On the whole think the hardest
thing about it is getting used TO being called
out of your name You are not Miss
any longer, you know. You might suppose
you we're at least Marion, but you are as
likely as not for the next two months to be
Sarah Jane. | had an old lady at my table
last summer who asked me at supper the
first night for my name. told her Clarice.
She stared "a minute, then she said: Some
ice water, Susan and Susan | was to the
end Of the chapter with her."
That's not SO bad said the bangless
Senior judicially, 'if you only can remem-
ber to come when you're called. | couldn't
always at first. | remember one night
when had been at it only week / got to
thinking what | should do if Charlie NJ
came up with his sister the next week |
wa puckering my brows over it and didn't
notice that a big woman with bleached
hofr # ha hat Ia nAg
at breakfast, YOU know-was signaling for
knife / didn't pay any attention to
her, of course and she kept trying to catch
my eye till finally she broke out. Will
-me-that-knifen like that,
real loud. and everybody at the table looked
up and | turned as scarlet well as-as n
bandana. And Charlie didn't come after
all"
"What kind of place will we have to
sleep in!" persisted the Sophomore, not re
assured.
''Stuffy little hole, very likely" volun-
teered Clarioe, nonchalantly; mot big
enough to turn round in and packed full
It'll be hot and therell be mosquitoes
There'll be fun at the pillow fights though,
so never you mind. Was it last summeri
No, it was the summer before last; there
were a lot of us down Gloucester way in
Massachusetts, The house was full, and
how tired we got every day. 1t didn't stop
the pillow frolics at night, though, after
everybody else was gone to bed, and we
had things our own way all along our cOrri-
dor There was a girl who wanted to study
Calculus fancy Calculus in July,) so rs to
get a start for the next term. We dropped
her Calculus out of the window and gave
her all the mathematics she wanted with
pillows. Bombarded her until she promised
to read nothing heavier than Howellsn
"Never mind, Marion" said she of the
smooth brow. THE finest quarters | ever
had IN my life were at the - Springs in
Maine a year or two ago. The house was
packed from the cellar to the roof. and they
put the mattresses in tents in the orchard.
We camped out eight weeks, and glorious
camping it was. The men had a habit of
gong shooting and fishing Internationally
early, and we had to be up before 4 o'clock
for their breakfasts We saw the sun rise
every morning and lifted the flaps Of the
canvas 10 let IN the first rays while we were
dressing. We got more good out Of our
summer than any Of the fine lady boarders.
it was delightful at night with the sough
of the wind in the trees over our heads.
We had big dog for guard and were not
bit AFRAID
The Iveliest bit Of fun that summer
came off on the night that two of us went
to a dance. They mad a military band at
rival hotel down the street that played ii-
vinely. / go wild when hear waltz music,
you kEow, and listened that night till
couldn't endure it any longer. We had
white dresses, left from commencement,
and we stole off with our waterprOofs round
us so as not TO show the CLINT of our gowns
through the trees. was on pins and
needles for fear some Of our boarders may
be some OF the people at my own table,
should be there. but We didn't at first 500
anybody whom we knew. We sat on the
veranda while waiting for our courage TO
grow, and by and by we ventured inside
and took a turn together. II was heavenly
music, / can hear it now OF course we
had partners. The other girl was pretty,
and |, well | could dance There were
some young men from our hotel there after
all, and rs soon as they sped us they took
us on the floor. There was one woman
there, too, who recognized us. n thin woman
who sat still and wasn't asked out at all.
Now somebody told. We don't know who,
but | never believed it was any of the young
men. Anyhow it got out that two wait
Tesses he'd gone t. a hop and danced and
the mother of the man who owned the hotel
had us over the Goals next morning We
looked Just as innocent as we could, and she
wasn't quite so angry as II the two hotels
had been on better terms. The thin woman
gared az US at meal times for several days,
aud we heard her say, such impudence,
over and over again"
"But you haven't told me what the work
IS ike" protested the curly-haired Sopho-
more.
"You'n know soon enough laughed her