Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-03-30
hAZiNG IN COLLEGES.
IL II as Had In Female Colleges ~ One
Could Well lima gtne.

Could Well Imagine.
Human nature Is very much the same
In all institutions OF learning, and first
year students who venture to be too
presumptuous are usually disci plined |
by their upper classmates. 1t makes
no difference whether they are attend |
ing college for the development OF |
football players and crack oarsmen,
or are cultivating the graces OF dane
ing. music and needlework in an insti-
tuition where the sterner sex is not ad-
mitted. The fresh girl is treated very
much the same AS the freshman. When
a young miss enters II boarding-school
she generally thinks she owns the half
OF the world which does not belong TO
her strapping brother who Is just ma
circulating ut college. He sports
high hat and carries u bag and cane.
and the same spirit prompts her to
climb into high-heeled shoes and don
a sealskin sacque and wear u hustle.
In such u case the youth is put through
a course OF sprouts by the maturing
sophomore, and the same thing must
be done to her Of the hustle to mold
the giddy girl into something like
womanhood.
This is how it works. The young
lady of fifteen determines to wear a
sealskin coat. although such articles
are prohibited by the sophomore girls
OF the college. A sealskin fight fol.
lows just as naturally as a cane rush.
| x,,1 ,~% a - u.
promiscuously, SO when the young lad,
wants to appear defiant she dons al
imitation seal-skin, sometimes made o
cheese-cloth. and parades before he
irate elders. Then the fun commences
Half a hundred young Amazons pounc'
on her, screaming and shouting. ans
the way that imitation seal-skin i
ripped and torn would shame flocl
OF vultures. Within two minutes TIN
sacque has lost all resemblance. to
; neat fitting garment. and the victoriou
: sophomore girls go on parade. eac
decked with sort of imitation seal
skin bouquet-de-corsag
High -hecled shoes meet with muc
the same treatment. But the glory G
the female college shines brightest i
the hustle fight. It's bold, flrst-clas
girl that will wear hustle before sh
has aged year in college. But no.
: and then some warlike Boadicea d,
: termines to take to herself that articl
+ which has been likened to ''manufa'
y tured to-back-her." She purchase
IS one OF abnormal size, and once arraye
: in it, starts forth to onset. The ba
{ fight, the hat fight, the cane fight al
II nothing to the slaughter that follow
P She's torn by finger nails, crushe'
scratched and pinchcd until the bust
y yields and is made into a football.
9 the girl draws off for a breathing spell
NJ there goes floating off in the bree.
IL tresses of hair shaded all the way fro
:. Auburn to Schenectady. But the r
II suit OF this harsh treatment Is that th
~ fresh girl is no longer fresh. She Civ,
~ up her lien on large section of IL
'i globe, and is not thereafter head an
D. shoulders above her mates. Som
., times fresh girls receive differel
~ kind of treatment. One method is I,
IL the sophomores to summon them to
feast. the viands Of which are cooked |
sophomore hands. Imagine the misel
OF such dining. But the ciyilizatic
of the nineteenth century is drivii
no out those middle age horrors.-Phil
| 5alUhia Record