The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-28


Olives. Pickles.
Sandwiches. Biscuits
Cakes. Grapes.
Ice Cream.
Coffee.
This last was a permitted" feast, elsa
the pungent smell of the coffee would prob
ably have betrayed It, Occasionally there
was fun at the permitted feasts also.
remember one when some Of the faculty
were invited. We had fried oysters, which
were cooked downstairs and brought up.
The bedrooms, as you know, open upon the
students sitting rooms. The party we're in
the sitting room and we were using one OF
the bedrooms a. serving pantry, when all
the oysters were spilled on the floor. We
slammed the door shut and held whispered
consultation, finally deciding that the floor
was pretty clean and that it was too bad 20
disappoint our guests; so we picked up the
oysters and carried them in, rather cool but
still very palatable.
There is one girl in my class whose mother
made the most exquisite ketchup. When
ever she got bottle from home we used to
stir around for sweet crackers and things to
60 with it. At one Of these feasts che
ketchup girls chum ate not wisely but too
well. Next day the doctor called, saw what
was the matter at once and prescribed.
Just as she turned TO 20, the doctor looked
up and saw the cloak over the transom,
where 1t had been put to hide the light. She
turned from the tell-:ale sight to cast an
awful look back ward at the student; but
she never told.
All these feasts ought to attest the do
mestic instinct Of the educated woman. Did
you know that the students have kitchen
nowi They have; entirely owing to Miss
Goodsell, the late principal, who has fitted
up at her own expense big kitchen with
gas stoves and sinks and all sorts OF con-
veniences which the students are free to use
to play housekeeper in. The reosnt aboli-
ton Of the corridor police system, together
with the kitchen and the liberty
of purchasing at the college
store--a liberty that was only ex-
tended first to the professors, then to the
seniors and finally to all classes--have taken
much OF the romance out of the evening
spreads, but have enabled them TO be much
more elaborate and appetizing. Olives
speared out OF jar with a hat pin and eaten
with one eye on the door, and oyster stew
caoked over a gas jet are not luxurious pro-
vender after ALL
One of the early menus was "apple la
robe de chambre, home-spun taffy aud
cider" Later ones are much more elaborate
and sometimes include soups entrees aud
don't laugh, please--two kinds Of Ice cream.
A taste for ice cream is much less ob1ec-
tionable than taste for such hard drinks
as were found IN the boys club rooms at
Harvard.
Here is a newer bill Of fare:
Oysters on the half she'll.
Boned turkey.
Chicken croquettes.
French bread.
Olives; jelly.
Pistachio cream. s s,l
Banana cream.
Orange ice.
Cake.
Coffee,
Aud now that have been virtuously and
obedientlY frivolous SO long, am sure
shall be allowed to be disobediently serious
for paragraph.
Life at Vassar isn't all high jinks. The
good times may be best INBRED. but
they are but comparatively small feature
Of girls life in college. A few hours q
week would cover the play time of the most
giddy. We did not at college, like some Of
the young men, drink whisky, or steal gates,
or shoot pistols at policemen. or club base
ball umpires. We did not dress fashily or
frown on those of us who were poor and
struggling. We did not haze the freshmen
in any way that could prove offensive The
breath of scandal never touched the school.
Many Of the students attended prayer meet
tngs under no oompulsion but their own
wish, and all were decorous in their behav-
ior In public and private. We tried to help
each other. to be honorable and studious.
Without harming our health-indeed, with
actual benefit to tive probably main
tanned a better average in all our studies
than any mems college in the country could
show. This has been conspicuously proved
by one famous comparison with Harvard.
Please remember all these things when you
read this, and believe that our innocent
jollity was only the piquant sauce Of a seri-
Gus life and worthy purpose.
MARY X. Y.