The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-23
FEMININE 8oMEos.
College Clris Who Fall in Love with AID
Adore Each other.

College Girls Who Fan Ia Love Win a-o
Adore Each other.
"Perhaps love fever Is not a disease but
wa think il one 1t Is very prevalent u
an OF the colleges for girls. particularly
10 al Nassar, Smith and Wellesley, and
l. is claiming the very serious attention
Of the college faculties.
This rather startling revelation wa
made by q professor, and q feminine one,
who has taught m ell three colleges, am
fs at present connected with fashionable
boarding school IN this city.
Il remember well when was CIR
and first read Elsie Nenner, she con
tinucd. You remember Dr itOlIAe.
saws d girl must love something
LAUGHED the idea to scOrn. But IN ny
oxporfsncs OF teaching have found hi.
statement 10 be exactly true. Girls who
are kent from proper masculine society
fan in love with each other, and some
times 30 tothe most absurd extremities.
ooh! then YOU do not mean that col
lece Girls fall in love with men: SAID Q
Journal reporter who was an interested
listener 10 the conversation 800,
"Nothing 80 natural, my dear, SAID Tue
LITTLE professor, with fine look out Of
her bia grav ewes They fall III love with
e9ch other. One giIl IS always the loVel
ond Dursuas tho other with attentions
notes. flowers and similar tokens Of l9'e'
ana have known them 10 pe 50 jealous
that-wcll, really, Il made me trslnDie q
think Of the consequences.
"Thsro was q pretty, blue eyed gitl IN
nv Saxon Literature class who feil iran
dsallv in love with a. tall, serious, dark
oyed cirl who was taking the scientific
course. Tins little creature used 10 SIT
m the head Of the stairs for three hours
averv evening until Eleanor, the dart
eyed Girl. would come from her laDoia'
tory work. and then she would run down
Ia meet her. and insist On making hei
q emo OF chocolate over her gas stove, on
hraiding IlcanOrs long hair each nigns
and doing q hundred other services. II
Eleanor chowed the least unusual atten'
lion 10 any Other girl nay little blue eyes
would almost cry her pretty orDs out
She did not got over her lnfatuation IN
iii one Commencement day, when fhe
met a dark eyed young man whom she
afterward married. ,.
"But isn't that an exceptional case?
oekod one Of her listeners.
mot at all. Ii is only one Of many.
Only ls5t year | had two girls IN my
class IN natural philosophy, both hand
some and spirited. and they took VIC.
lent fancy each for the other. They had
10 sit side By side. they exchanged rings
and locks Of hair, used 10 write each
other every day, and send each other
flowers. One day the older OF the two
took a small cluster Of yioiets from
pretty girl in the senior class and wore
Them all day in her corsage. Then there
was serious trouble. The younger went
into mysteries, and for almost week
was very III. Those two girls left col
lege al the same lime and vowed always
10 live together. But | heard one OF
them had married within year."
1T Is extremely dangerous, l know,
said an old dowager who was present,
ito have only one man to hundred giils
Of q eurnrner resort. Almost every girl
EiIl fall In love with that man, but ]
thought young women cultiyating their
Intellccts were different"
mot al ALL" said the little professor.
'.Thcy have brains, Of course, but they
also have hearts. For my part, believe
. co-sducetion iwAnf 70 = un'ss'<a8v