St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-06
The Girls of Long Ago.

At the banquet given by the Delta
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity of Hamilton
college, New York, says the Utica Oh.
server, A. Miner Griswold 1.-THE Fat
Contributor'O responded as follows to
the toast, "The Girl We Left Behind
U.s."
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 at the
time, but how could we help it?
Circumstances were such that we
could not possibly take them
along-we had to leave them
behind us. / 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 attend to it, and after
that-well, l was afraid my wife would
not like it. l met one of the girls we
left behind us in the street to-day.
That is, l thought l did. The same
soft, brown eyes, the same sweet, sun
ny smile.
SIS it possible" l said, "that behold
Miss Sally JOnes?"
"That was my mothers name," she
smiled, 'before she was married. am
married now, and l have named my
baby after ma"
Great heavens! The girl left be-
hind me was grandmother.
[ told the young lady who / was, and
she said she had often heard her mother
speak of me as one she used to know a
great many. years ago. Then L asked
about the girls / used to know, and what
hod hponmp of thpn I fnund hof coma
alas, were dead. Others, who were mar
ried, wished they were dead. Some,
who were widows, had lovers seeking
for their hands. Others. not yet widows,
were seeking for divorces.
''Oh, those seminary girls of long ago
how we did regret leaving them be-
hind us-eXcept one poor fellow who
eloped with one of them. He has re-
GREETED 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, in some
cases, the Faculty urged us to go. We're
we to blame, then, for temporarily for
getting the debtS-l 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 l recall them now. Tall,
willowy girls, short, plump girls,
black-eyed girls that made us blue and
blue-eyed girls that we were ready to
take black eye for any time, fair-cOm-
plexioned girls, brown girls, Smith
girls, girls with auburn hair and girls
who, not being able to match their own
hair in Auburn, were compelled to buy
it in Utica or Syracuse. In fact, there
was about every kind of girl then
that there is now, except the tailor
made girl, who seems to be
altogether modern creation. Still, the
latter has points in her favor. While
the girl so tenderly recall 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-made girl of to-day, the girl
we left behind us had very little left be-
hind her.
Still, we remember her with tender
ness and respect, and let us all join in a
bumper to the girls of long ago.
An Unsuccessful Object Lesson.
The young lady who determined to
shame her husband by taking to tip
ping began operations Oh Wednesday,
says Meals State Gazette, by setting
out an exceedingly vulgar, red-labeled
bottle ON the back parlor table in the
most unostentatious way. About the
hour her husband was expected home,
she took a good gulp of the liquor, and
when she heard what she supposed to be
his footsteps on the stOop, she drank
another finger of it, and. put
ting some more in her hand.
rubbed it over her lips. Then she
fed up to her room to wait for him. She
was intensely gratified by the conscious
ness that, as she expressed it, she
''Smelled like bar ROOM" To her Sur
prise the door bell rang, and she went
| to the head of the stairs and peered over
the rail to see who had come in place of
her husband. 1t was her mother, her
| father and a cousin or two from the
country. The old lady spied her, and
there was nothing to do but to come
straight down and kiss and be kissed
all round. She was mortified, for her
parents are very strait-laced pious
folks, and could not help but smell
the gin with which she had per-
fumed herself so literally. Worse still,
while she was assisting her father to
rid himself of his overcOat, the rest of
the party filed solemnly into the pres
ence of the red labeled bottle in the
back room. Nothing was said about the
odor of the bottle, and she was too
proud to try to explain what looked SO
badly for her. She told her husband,
however, and he was so impolite as to
throw himself OH the bed in convul-
sions of laughter. She was so angry
that she threatened to leave him. ''You
can't" said the monster; ''your folks
would not receive you. The most they
would do would be to put you in the
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