The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-04-20
HAzlNo IN COLLEGES.


It II ~ Bad In Female Colleges ~ Ono
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 disciplined
by their upper classmates. II makes
no difference whether they are attend
ing a 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 adj
mitted. The fresh girl is treated very
much the same as the freshman. When
a young miss enters a 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 at college. He sports a
high hat and carries bag and cane,
and the same spirit prompts her to
climb into high-heeled shoes and don
a sealskin sacque and wear a hustle.
In such case the youth is put through
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
scalskin coat, although such articles
are prohibited by the sophomore girls
OF the college. A sealskin fight fol-
lows just as naturally as cane-rush.
1t would not do to tear up sealskin
promiscuously, so when the young lady
wants to appear defiant she dons an
imitation seal-slsin, sometimes made Of
cheese-cloth, aud parades before her
irate elders. Then the fun commences.
Half hundred young Amazons pounce
on her, screaming and shouting. and
the way that imitation seal-skin is
ripped and torn would shame flock
of vultures. Within two minutes the
sacque has lost all resemblance to a
neat fitting garment, and the victorious
sophomore girls go on parade, each
decked with sort of imitation seal
skin bouquet-de-c0rsage.
High-heeled shoes meet with much
the same treatment But the glory Of
tho female college shines brightest in
the hustle fight. It's bold, first-class
girl that will wear hustle before she
has aged year in college. But now
and then some warlike Boadicea de-
termines to take to herself that article
which has been hkened to ''manufac-
tured to-back-her. She purchases
one OF abnormal size. and once arrayed
in it, starts forth to onset. The bag
fight, the hat fight, the cane fight are
nothing TO the slaughter that follows.
She's torn by finger nails, crushed.
scratched and pinched until the hustle
yields and is made into football. As
the girl draws off for breathing spell,
there goes floating off in the breeze
tresses of hair shaded all the way from
Auburn to Schenectady. But the re-
suit of this harsh treatment is that the
fresh girl is no longer fresh. She gives
up her lien on large section Of the
globe, and is not thereafter head and
shoulders above her mates Some.
times fresh girls receive a different
kind OF treatment. One method is for
the sophomores to summon them to a
feast. the viands of which are cooked by
sophomore hands. Imagine the misery
of such dining. But the civilization
of the nineteenth century is driving
out those middle age horrors.-Phila
delphia Record.