Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-06-28

ton might be in the form OF a card with
a rude drawing On the one side and a
menu on the other, or little note like
this:
Miss - requests the pleasure Of your
company for - evening.
To which the invariable answer was:
Miss accepts with pleasure Miss
IS invitation for - evening, lSS-.
The goodies were usually concealed
behind books in the bookcases. or else
where about the room. Extra supplies
were brought up from the store in the
building surreptitiously, one at time,
a jar of olives to-day, a bag of sweet
crackers tomorrow, until all had oeen
secured.
When the evening came, endless vigi-
lance was exercised by the visitors in
reaching the room, and then cloakS
were hung over transoms and kcyhoies
to hide light and voices were subdued
to whispers.
Oysters were favorite dish. One OF
nv invitations were on card, at the
top of which was sketched an oyster
shell. The invitation said ''to eat
these" There were two favorite ways
of cooking oysters. One was to
straightan out hairpin and thrust 1t
through the mollusk and fry it by the
gas Jet, the other was to make stew.
This was much more difficult, as it in
volved a sauce pan, milk. spoons ana
plates One girl kept saucepan for
nlohS time by having it made with
handle to fold over inside. Then, after
using it, she would wrap it up in paper
and put it in the bonnet rack in her
trunk. IT was tiny one. about the
right size and shape. The plates could
be used well enough during the day to
put under the flower plant pots instead
of the usual brown saucers, which could
easily get broken. That gave them an
excuse for being.
The store in the building was estab-
liseed for the legitimate purchases OF
the faculty and stupents. The latter
bought usually candy, crackers, olives,
chowchow, pickles, oysters or fruit.
Here is another bill of fare which will
show the prevailing taste pretty well:
Menu.
Chicken Salad,
Picked Oysters,
Olives, Pickles
Sandwiches, Biscuits,
Cakes, Grapes,
Ice Cream,
Coffee.
This last was permitted" feast,
else the pungent smell OF the coffee
would probably have betrayed it. Oc-
casionally there was fun at the permit
ted feasts also. | remember one when
some of the faculty were invited. We
had fried oysters, which were cooked
down stairs and brought up. The bed
rooms, as you know, open upon the stu
dents sitting-rooms. The party were
in the sitting-room and we were using
one OF the bedrooms as a serving pan
Try. when all the oysters were spilled
on the floor. We slammed the door
shut and held whispered consultation,
finally deciding that the-floor was pref
ty clean and that it was too bad to dis
appoint 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 ketch-
up. Whenever she got bottle from
home we used to stir around for sweet
crackers and things to go with 1t. AT
ono OF these feasts, the 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 go, the doctor looked up
and saw the cloak over the trausom,
where it had been put to hide the
light. She turned from the tell-tale