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The herald., 1895-10-13
This side of the waiting room
for men
md then at the peremptory remark
This side of the waiting room
for women.

and wondered vaguely if the railway
authorities wanted to make public pro-
est against co-edUcation. and what
they would do to me if | should cross
the dead line. But while | stood hesi-
tating two tall Western girls, one in u
blue blouse, one in pink one and both
decorated with knots of yellow and
blue ribbon descended upon me.
Are you new girl?" they asked in
a breath, and then l retired that their
ribbons said Welcome" in big gilt let
trs. and that while they addressed me
their eyes wandered expectantly over
every young woman who left the
cars.
| said / was not a new girl but
wished l We're, and they walked with
me up the winding road over the hill
to the tree-shaded campus of America S
great co-educational university now
just beginning its school year. My es-
corts We're delegates from a reception
committee to take care of new girls at
Ann Arbor, and l have wished for
nothing ever since but that they might
always take care of me.
have danced with the Vassar girls,
boated with the Wellesley girls, drank af-
ternoon tea in the cosy cottages of the
Smith college girls and gone to class
with the Radcliffe girls at Harvard,
but Ann Arbor is a new experience.
1t is Western, but that is not all.
Something of its atmosphere would re-
main If it were set down in the suburbs
of Boston. Put 600 or more girls to
school with 900 or more young men
and what is the result?
According to the Western idea some
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leaped so suddenly into popularity but
also the windy city'S ideas about after
noon gowns A. dark, lusterless red
crepon was the material of a frock TO
which l paid particular attention. 1t
was creped with wide black silk bands.
soft and puffy, and was made with the
godet skirt that promises to be even
more fashionable than last winter. 1t
had Il gored front and sides and three
plaits behind. 1t had a narrow point
ed girdle of skeleton jet. and the bod
ice had a round yoke of jet over red
SILK, and big dropping sleeves.
It's interesting, by the way. to see
now dressmakers are going to get rid
OF the pouch front bodice, for their Of
1ered substitutes as yet show little or
no originality.
10 return to our muttOns, second
interesting afternoon frock was of
dark green cloth with skirt trimmed
with three ruffies of dark rose-colored
taHeta. This was a quaint frock alto
gether after the modes affected by the
lll-starred queen, for it had a soft-silk
belt, and a silk tichu long enough to
cross the slender ends in front and tic
loosely behind. The neck was left
slightly open in tiny V. A prettier
frock or prettier girl haven't seen
in year.
There are splendid brocades in all
the big stores, and the idea seems to be
to make them up for reception dresses,
with slashed skirts filled in with con-
trasting panels or pleatings. One of
myrtle green and an odd shade of blue
have seen made with Il long redingote
over petticoat front of velvet.
In cozy boudoir this morning there
blazed an open fire and the feet on the
fender We're not big ones. They were
encased in black slippers and black
stockings and they hid presently under
tea gown of scarlet challie. strewn
with dull green flowers. The breadths
were set in full at the neck and flowed
gracefully to the feet. A broad dull
green ribbon tied the robe ut the waist.
and great bows were set on the shoul-
ders. The sleeves were long and flow
ing. coming half way to the ground
Under them were pleated sleeves of
green India silk, finished with creamy
lace ruff1es.
After you had looked at this picture
for while | think you would agree
with me in liking the Chicago girl
ELLEN OSBORN.
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always he had in
And how do you alnus2 yourselves!
"There a"e dances. and then we walk
and bike and go boating q little;
not much the Huron is not good for
that sort of thing
And do you get engaged?"
do they in Eastern schools?"
Not very often. though l have
known of two weddings in one class
of small co-educatlonal college"
I'VE don't hirt here" There was
a good deal of emphasis laid on the
'firt." But once in a while, of course,
students fail in love. There never has
bcen IL wedding until after graduation,
but here followed silence that
was more eloquent than words.
Cupid is ignored in theory at the uni
versity of Michigan, but in fact he
finds victim once in while. Col
lege marriages, the students say. are
always happy ones, the lovers know
each other so much more thoroughly
than they could under any other possi-
bic conditions.
Think of boarding four years in the
same house with young man-there
are lodging houses that take students
vi DOtH CCAtS dbhu lHc StuJllutuL VI lHc
place is such that they are not held
in disfavOr-and meeting him besides
in lecture and recitation halls all the
time.
The etiquette of Ann Arbor is pecu-
liar. Professors seat the young men
on one side of the room, the girls on
the other; or else the girls in front, the
young men behind; or sometimes in the
smaller classes they take places in
discriminatory. No acquaintance is
supposed to arise without formal in
PRODUCTION. That is to say, a girl may
sit beside young man every day for
years and not bow to him on the cam
pus if they have not been introduced.
THAT is not Western" / said to the
bright eyed junior curled up among
her cushions, sit is English"
maybe" she replied. but we are
community by ourselves"
The junior aforementioned had three
or four Greek letter pins thrust through
various portions of her apparel and Oh
inquiry it appeared that these
pins were insignia of the mems fra.
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, ternities. So ii seems that in some
cases there are introductions.
Students drive together and walk to-
gether without chaperones. I'VE have
too much self-respect to imagine we
need any," said the junior. At the small
dances gotten up in the town there are
naturally oder persons present, and
at the larger college receptions mem
bers of the faculty will usually look
in, but going and coming each man
takes his maid and does't care O. fig
for Mrs. Grundy. The college boys
have a song about the girls which
they use as a serenade when they
pass under the windows of the girls
fraternity houses. One stanza of it
runs something like this. / caught it
imperfectly as Il quartet were troll
ling ii, probably for the benefit of the
junior, that evening:
Here's to the coed with brain full of
books
And noli-me-tangerc, frangere air,
Who prattles of Plato and Cato and
looks
Into Persius and Curtius while doing
her hair.
Chorus.
Oh. cobwebby tresses of shining gold
Tor whatever color they may be-
oh glances so coy and winsome and
cold
OF the coed that vanquishes me.
This looks as if the introductions were
appreciated. at least in some instances.
The boys don't carry the girls books
on the campus, don't often walk with
them, though i heard of one very nice
bit of repartee. A. young woman was
demonstrating with q fellow student
for escorting her home every day:
Got to do it, lie answered. 1T would
make talk il l didn't!'
Here was a subtle bit of philosophy
from which it appears that the usual
cannot be defied,eyen If the usualbe
the simultaneous appearance of q
young man and young woman.
But Ann Arbor thinks more about
books than about beaux. Tuition is
very low as compared with Eastern
schools, room rent is almost nominal.
board ranges from $3.50 to S4.00 land
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THEY HAVE A LITERATURE
MukSmelons Have Formed the Them

Muksmelons Have Formed the Theme
of Lovers and Writers.
Muskmelons have played a part in
history. They caused the fall of Ar
ques and led Mack to the capitulation
of Ulm. One day the Able Bernis
came to dine with the Marquise de
POmpadOur who was furious because
serve melon. "Shall | get two musk
melons for you, madame?" He paid .
louis for them. Delightful" said the
marquise. "My compliments, Monsieur
fAbbe." Bernis was happy until the
moment when the clock struck his eye.
"What makes you sadY asked the
quise," he replied, "my friend Malvin
and l have only one pair of trousers
for both of us, and he is waiting for it
to go to dinner" The Pompadour gave
a pension of 5000 livres and an abbey
to him. His friend became, under the
same protection, archbishop of Lyons.
One evening a strategist was explain
ing to Bonaparte what he should have
done if Mantua had not surrendered.
Bonaparte asked "You have been in
the wars, Monsieur?" The strategist
replied, mo, but have read Polybius,
Marshal SAKE and Chevalier Folard."
Bonaparte said "Oh, you are learned!
Do you know how to make melons
grow?" The strategist exclaimed,
General" Indignantly. Bonaparte
continued, "You have read Quin-
tinie?" Yes, General" the strategist
answered. "You do not know how
to make melons grow, although you
have read La Quintinie, and yet you
talk to me about war because you
have read Polybius. Good day, sir"
Bonaparte said.-Le Temps.
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up at the foot of Lake Michigan. If
Chicago women hadn't let themselves
go in the make and hue of their dresses
they wouldn't be the piquant, pictur-
eSQue WesternerS they are.
For it is a mistake to suppose that to
be right one must always be subdued.
Good taste is suppression sometimes
but just as many times it is display.
New Workers go to London too often.
They come home too straight and Sc
we're. Chicago believes in itself and in
the great country west of it, and it
isn't afraid of red and yellow. Pretty
Mrs. Yerkes has a collection of yellow
diamonds. That is like Chicago and it
is becoming.
Chicago isn't good to look at in Oc-
tober. Perhaps that is why l like the
warm tones. When the wind blows
strong from the lake the city seems
weary and weather beaten. The trees
are q lifelesS green with thinning foil
age and 1t sets ones blood running to
see the velvets and furs, the pomegran-
lite reds and the rich damson shades
These things are distinctly comforting.
Whatever the cause, I am glad Chi
cago girls like plaids; they look well in
them. The contrasting colors suit well
their chic figures and splendid indie
pendence, and it's worth an hours
walk to be out on the boulevards and
see them pass and repass in blue and
green soft wool mixtures, dark blue
with lines Of scarlet, golden brown
checked with dark blue, crimson bar
red with black, and every other combi-
nation that on tall slender girl is
A~ivStv ou6 6auUQpOuS
If were to make a study Of a Chi
cago girl should choose as type one
/ saw this afternoon. She was nine
teen, maybe, tall, rather slight, and
with big, full brown eyes. She parted
her hair in the middle, as we all do
nowadays, and she brought one smart
little curl right down over her fore
head between her eyes. She wore a
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TIE MAIDEN UP TO DATE

clothes she can attend an alumnae
meeting without reading paper on
some movements that ought to be tax
en- up ut once by 'us college bred wo-
men,"
But the Ann Arbor girl does't seem
to have anything to get over. She is
living, just as she will live all her life,
in ordinary human relations
with men and women. She
isn't one of a class set apart. l had al
most said, upon Il pedestal. She works
hard, she plays hard, she is kept from
spelling woman with a big w by the
fact that ordinarily there are plenty
of men in the university who are more
clever than she is, and, take her all in
all, she is the most charming girl
have seen in many long day.
Once upon q time Ann Arbor must
have had magnificent grassy campus
on the hills that overlook the Huron
To-day the tall imposing buildings SC
crowd the forty acres that all sense OF
space is forgotten. With maple and elm
trees shadowing them, rise the huge
piles of stone and brick, massive with
out, plain almost to baroness within,
quiet, scholastic in their severity. II
is twenty-five years now since girls
were admitted but that quarter Of a
century has not introduced a touch of
prettiness or decoration.
Except the girls themselves. A col
ony of 600 picked young women is al
ways worth studying. Under the Grim
sou and gold of the falling leaves they
pass in groups of twos and threes to
the library. the chemical laboratory
or the gymnasium: seniors in the pic
turesque mortarboard and CLOAK. some
of the more athletic speeding this way
and that on bicycles.
On the avenues that enclose the cam.
pus are grouped the fraternity houses
-2S for the young men, eight for the
girls, making Il college city. have
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IN THE OPERATING ROOM OE,
THE DENTAL SCHOOL.

asters and said: Il never was so hap.
py as since I came here
Everybody has asked and nobody has
ever found out satisfactorily how tho
girls rank in their studies IN such big
co-educatlonal school. Dean D'Ooge,
of the college proper, who is also pro.
fessorof Greek, told me, when l put
the question to him, that in his classes
the girls not infrequently came out
ahead but that in mathematics and phil
osophy the students commonly were
men.
Taking it through the different de.
partments," he continued, 1.-THE rank
and file of the girls average better than
the men, because they are more con-
scientious and have fewer distractions.
but the very best students are apt to
be men,"
President ANGEL said substantially
the same thing but added that tho
medical schools had an exceptionally
fine class of women in attendance,
more mature than the college girls.
So the girls are not breaking rec
ords at Ann Arbor, and, until the epi-
demic of new womanhood is over, it's
just as well, probably.
There are about one hundred women
in the professional and technical
schools, as compared with more than
800 in the college. In the medical college
most of the lectures are given to men
and women together, though separate
instruction is provided in some branch
es. In the dental college the number Of
women students is increasing but moi
large In the law school there are not
over half a dozen women and not more
than one or two of these mean to prac-
tice. The rest are qualifying them
selves for Office work or take the course
as Il part of Il business education.
There are few women In the school Of
pharmacy, though a rush in this dircc-
ton has been predicted, and none in
the engineering school.
One of the pleasantest things about
Ann Arbor is the Women's League.
The girl students and the professors
wives form it, and they look after new
girls at the beginning and direct tho
social life throughout the term time.
1t was the league that met me when
l came and the bright helpful faces OF
the league girls l was sorricst to miss
when I went away.
But Ann Arbor can be described as
well in Il sentence as in two columns.
1t is strong, vigorous, American. 1t
is wholesome, not intense. 1t would
never read Sarah Grand.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.
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of cash to spend over $3.50. OF course
only a small proportion of the girls
live in the soiety houses, or sororities,
though these give the best example
of the free. unrestrained, self-respect-
ing life of the Western girl. Chaper-
ones to themselves, gathered in little
knots of Woodworking, yet fun-loving
members. these college chums study
and play without any notion how many
solicitous questions their club houses
would provoke in the more convention
al East.
"You receive callers here?'
"Oh. yes"
"And if the callers are men"
"There are commonly two or three of
us together, and if not, somebody can
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the result is that, while the rich mer.
chants of Detroit and other Western
cities are apt to send their girls East
for chances to spend money, yet up
in Ann Arbor the sons and daughters
of Westerners of moderate means, to-
the number this year of nearly 5000,
are living typically American life and
learning to be self-reliant American
citizens.
A round little blonde sophomore took
me to her lodging house, and here
the glimpse of the ewig weibliche was
charming. She and her chum rented
suite of rooms, parlor and bedroom,
for $500, eating at one of the larger
dining halls, and this learned ia so
common as to be the usual way OF liv-
Ing. AT $1.5O each for lodging and $3.50
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THE LAW. LIBRARY.

for board, $500 week pays living ex.
penses on scale of comfort that leaves
nothing to be desired by a good ro-
bust Michigan girl. If a girl hasn't
got the board money she can wait ON
table and earn it and everybody will
Ike her just as well. The sitting room
of the dainty suite had a piano. 1t had
books and pictures and cushions
(Cushions overflow into the mems fra.
ternity houses and make them pecu-
liarly comfortable looking) The sit
ting room had pretty china and appli.
ances for making o'clock tea. 1t had
an open fireplace and deep, luxurious
rocker, so that It was not all hard to
believe the sophomore when she look.
ed refectively at a jug Of dark blue
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not seen the like of It since l was in
Germany.
There is no dormitory system and so
the fraternity houses are club houses
in the broadcast sense of the word.
The students, so far as they can, room
and board in them. The boys have
built for themselves in some instances
quite imposing structures. but the girls
have less pin money, as commonly
happens with girls, and they have
rented little frame cottages with grassy
lawns and hammocks on the verandas
overhung by oak trees. The piazza
benches are cosy with cushions, and if
anybody asks you inside you find IL
club parlor strewn with books. hung
with pictures and decorated every
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SOON MANAGED TT.

A Liverpool merchant recently went
to his head clerk and said:
'Johu, owe about 100000, and all
possess is f4,000, which is locked W
in the safe. l have been thinking that
this is the right time to make an as
signment, but what plausible preteXt
| can give my creditors, | know not
You have plenty of brains: think the
matter over and let me have your de
cision in the morning.
The clerk promised to do so.
On entering the office the next morn
ing the merchant found the safe open
the money gone, and in its place let
ter which reads as follows:
81 have taken the $4,000 and have
gone to SO It'll America. 1t Is the best
excuse you can give your creditors. y
London Tid-Bits.
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THUS ENDETH THE LESSON.

Her Mother-"Besie, dear, am sor-
ry to see my little girl show such lack
of respect for her seniors. When a
neighbor comes to call on us you
should sit quietly aud not speak uness
you are spoken to. You do not NEAR
to be disrespectful. I am sure, but vol
should think of the impression yon
are making on our neighbors, and 20,
will try hereafter, l hope. to-"
Bessie--"You'd better look out. ma
ma. You'll talk yourself to death ;"
Chicago Tribune.
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thing broader, wholesomer, more nat
ural that if the two brigades
We're marched off different ways.
The East believes in separa-
ton, and it gets, along with plenty else
better, a stress, Il strain, an intensi-
ty of work, morbid insistance on the
duty-to-one-sex which breeds new wo-
men. A girl needs to be very level
headed to so through girls college
and not come out weighted with Il
strong sense of personal responsibility
in the matter of elevating the universe.
OF course she gets over 1t. 1t rubs off
along with her Latin and Greek, and
by the time her first baby is in short
The herald., 1895-10-13
A CRUSHING REVENGE.

A man with a painful expression of
countenance sat on 4 goods box.
'Are you ili?' some one asked.
mo"
"Have you lost anything?"
''Never had anything to lose"
'What's the matter, thenT'
'I'm sittin' on Il wasp"
"Why don't you get up|
"Well. that wuz my first impulse,
but l got to thinkin' that l was hurtin'
the wasp, as badly as he was hurtin'
me and concluded to sit here awhile" F."
Spare Moments.
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better, so far as | have seen,
A few evenings ago l went to see
Ada Rehan at Hooley's. Scattered
through the audience We're a number
of strikingly pretty theatre gowns. One
that was worn by rich Chicago wo-
man, past her heyday but still radiant
and beautiful, was golden brown cloth,
cut in the princesse style. The cor
sage was finished with two rows of ir-
ridescent buttons. A city knows good
dressmaking when it leans to the prin-
cesse. Such dress shows the hand of
the mistress. A successful princesse
is rare and great. When this woman
The herald., 1895-10-13
THE CAMPUS FROM THE GYMNASIUM.

I'VE live by ourselves" said the
rosiest and the darkest of my chatty
hostesses. 1--WE hire a cook and one of
us acts as steward and earns her
board by doing so. This brings the
cost of college education down pret-
ty low. Our board here is only $3.50
Il week. college fees are $25 II you
live in Michigan, $50 if you don't, and
so you see we can get an education on
what Vassar girl would laugh at for
pocket money.
1t is easily possible for girl to live
at Ann Arbor for $500 to $3.50 year
and l should suppose she would need
to be very industrious in getting rid
The herald., 1895-10-13
MERELY A MATTER OF BUSINESS

MERELY A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
"Glorious SPORT" cried the man By
the roadside as the scorchers went by.
81 can't see it," returned the man
who was watering his horse.
''That must be because you are pre-
JUDGED" said the man who had first
spoken. at has everything in its fa-
vor. l even find it an excellent thing
for business"
Il don't" replied the other. sullenly.
''FrOm that infer you are the pro-
prietor of livery stable"
II am. And yOu?"
ooh, I'm surgeon. Chicago Post.
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NO OCCASION FOR ANY.

"You don't need two whole seats,
said the man standing up in the aisle
''It SENS TO me you might have Il little
accommodation about you"
$50 chase yourself into the next carr
responded the sleepy passenger who
was lying down on the seat "This
isn't an accommodation train, sir u
Chicago Tribune.
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fell an accordion-plaited front of black
lace, in itself worth fortune. A
standing collar of black velvet and sa-
Bile and overwhelmingly full sleeves
with fur lining and lace ruffies COM
pleted quite the most magnificent cloak
it was ever my luck to see.
AT little luncheon given in honor of
Miss Beatrice Harraden 1 had chance
to study not only the authoress who
The herald., 1895-10-13
ABOUT GIRLS AT ANN ARBOR.
How 600 Of Them Study In Peace With
1900 Young Men.
GREAT COEDUOATIONAL SCHOOL.
Don't Flirt, But Sometimes Fall In
Love Life In the Glass
Rooms, Campus and
Boarding Houses.

Ann Arbor Mich. Oct have nev-
or wanted to be Il new woman, but of
late it has been borne in upon me that
at certain times and in certain places
it is fine to be a new girl; almost us
nice as to be an old one.
When the Mchican Central train pull
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where with the university colors, ycl-
low and blue.
1t was in one of these club parlors
that the showing of little Greek let
ter pin made me in moment the
guest OF Il group of Ann Arbor girls.
They We're rosy darked-haired West
erners. older, l should think, than the
average of college girls East. Nineteen
and half, they say. is the age at which
a girl usually enters, though in the
medical colleges there are two) and
the College of dentistry they are
much older
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I wonder if it is possible to put the
difference into q sentence. If it is,
should say, Chicago is more American
If it is not, that her women are not
tailor-made on the streets and alto
gether Partisan at afternoon teas:
they wear just the same clothes they
would wear in Gotham, but they wear
them with popularity. And it is in
putting ones finger on this popularity
that the discovery lies.
The popularity is color. Chicago let's
herself go. If Chicago business men
hadn't let themselves go in trade this
wonderful city wouldn't have grown
The herald., 1895-10-13
NO NEED IN HIS CASE.

Sunday School Teacher (solemnly)--
"Every one must be born again"
Tommy Traddles-"Elease. teacher,
l was born again, the first time"
Sunday School Teacher--"What do
you mean?"
Tommy Traddles-"I'm twins."--
Puck.
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left her box after the 1amlng of the
Shrew," she drew about her shoulders
a long pelisse of black brocade lined
throughout with sable. Revers of
black caracul fared open in 'front.' turn
ing right back over the shoulders and
continuing the fold quite to the ground
Filling the open front was a deep yoke
of caracul and jet from beneath which