Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-13
NAUGHTY MAIDENS.
A Game of Euchre with Mo-
mentous Issue.
SHOCKING DoINes IN A COLLEGE.

A Late-Reti ding President Makes Ter
ankind Is Mighty Cunning Sometimes
An Odd Trick That Was Never Won,
and n Reference to the Board of Trus-
tees-Four Little Maids In Woe.
NEWCASTLE, Pa, March l3.-The Athens
of western Pennsylvania is New Whining
ton, and in Westminster college students are
not only trained in book lore, but also in
piety. The rules are as strict as the rules in
colleges and seminaries in New England,
and never a word has been said that reflect
ed upon the actions of its inmates. Co-edu-
cation is a feature of Westminster college
In class-rooms the girls and boys are to-
gether, but so strict are the faculty that
nowhere else are the sexes allowed to COM
mingle.
De-vilish Sly, Those Maidens.
The girls are in the minority and they
have always walked as they were taught.
The boys were the ones who were closely
watched and occasionally one was expelled
for trying to take a Whit at CT garette in a
fence corner or neglecting to return from a
stroll before shutdown. But it remained for
the girls to shock the staid professors and
Tuesday night four pretty Pennsylvania
maidens anxiously awaited the return of
President Ferguson from Pittsburg, where
he had gone TO consult the trustees
Leap Frog for Girls; d, My.
The upper floor of the large dormitory
building is occupied by the girl students of
the college, and after the hall doors are
locked at night tits said that the fun denied
them during the day is freely INDUCED in.
One pretty miss confdentially informed a
friend that after the lights were out they
had many a game of leap frog in the long
hallway. In the room nearest the door that
opens on the stairway are two beds, and in
these Maude Harvey, Mamie Wright, Jen-
ME Dixon and Pearl Mckee tuck themselves
away every night
Too Perfectly AwfulIy jolly.
Monday night, when all was still. voice
from one of the beds exclaimed: "Glrls, let's
have a game of euchre."
30, wouldn't that be jolly" came from the
other bed. "But where are the cards"
"rve got them" was the reply.
"Well, wei play, then, "chorused the other
three.
Quietly rising, they donned loose wrappers,
| and, lighting the lamp, they sat down to the
little table in the center of the room. The
cards were produced, and soon the game was
| in progress.
| The Presidents FrigEtful Discovery.
President Ferguson was up late that night.
While on his way from his study he was
| Mortified to hear in a sweet, girlsh voice,
am order you up"
| He listened and learned that "hearts" were
| "trumps' and that IT was Maude's turn to
play.
| President Ferguson is a very careful per-
sonage, SO he summoned the matron To-
| gether they stole carefully up the stairs
The girls had forgotten % lock the door and
| "Prexy" stood on the threshold Just as Maude
exclaimed: "Ill bet you pound of caramels
we will win the odd trick"
| Startling Apparition.
And then one of the girls looked up and
saw the stern faces of the president and
| matronl There was nothing said. The
silence was enough. President Ferguson
picked up the cards-the first deck that had
ever been introduced into Westminster col
lege He walked down stairs The four
girls got into bed and all was again still.
In the morning the girls were notified that
their offense was so grievousSthat the board
| of trustees would have to deal with it. The
trustees are all clergymen.