Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-27
THE VARSITY TOAST.
sheis so Delightful Pretty.

enough to know what. She Is DONG;
quite young enough to be audacious,
Indifferent to consequences, charm
iugly inCOnsiderate.
She does not pretend to be clever.
What can be duller that girl who
pretonds TO be clever?
She dresses TO perfection; she never
wears anything that is not becoming.
She has chestnut hair, not golden, and
she fortunes il into the latest fashion
the most distracting fashion
She lives i'm university town, and
she is the reigDing belle OF the varsity.
She has been wOoed by successive gen
eratioDS Of undergraduates, and she is
being wo0ed still. She makes a hum
bred conQuests every term.
She has been engaged a great many
times; she cannot remember how
many times. Not openly engaged-O!
no; that would not suit AmarylliS. \
nice little clandestine engagement that
does not compromise her, that is east
ly broken when q more eligible wOOer
turns up. Sometimes she has two or
three engagements going on at the
same time.
70 10 81 easy III q univ RI olll NOW u "
manage these things. If one is care
full, diplomatic, there is really no risk;
there is nothing to fear One has only
10 arrange ones designations with due
caution and fOrethought; to find out
the hours Of certain lectures. and the
time and locality of particular varsity
fixtures, and arrange accordingly
Boating men can always be relied
upon as being out of the way, quite
out Of the way during the afternoon,
and it is easy to ascertain the engage
ments of ones friends in the cricket
or football fields. With ordinary care
things need never clash.
The ingenious undergraduate-he is
generally in his first or second year
is confiding and trustful; he rather
likes the fun Of a secret engagement,
and he is the soul of honor.
She may do more. Her worship is
tributary worship: she is a divinity
who needs to be propitiated with gifts
not flowers and chocolates and such
ephemeral trumpery, but costly trifes,
trinkets to adOru her beautiful person.
Gold suits her complexion much better
than silver, and she has a fine taste in
gems.
1t is not her concern that a foolish
undergraduate runs into debt to graf
ify her vanity, and gets into a horrible
fix when the jeweler threatens pro-
ceedings for his bill.
She is not so unfeeling as TO return
his gifts when the engagement is
broken Oft seldom lasts longer than
two terms-though she may. under
pressure. send back his letters. She
has so many she can we'll spare his boy
iSh efiuSiOnsi
She is in evidence at all the varsity
events. and she has a suitable toilette
for each.
Wherever men are collected together
Amaryllis is TO be seen. She likes the
things that they like; nothing comes
amiSs to her. She attends the fash
iOnable church, and listens demurely,
with dOWncast eyes-she has long eye
lashes-tO the popular preacher; she is
very regular in her attendance. and
she Is always sure Of half a dozen men
waiting outside 20 walk home with her
Her likeness is in every photograph
er's window in the place; she has been
taken in every position. She has
passion for being photographed. Adj
miration is the breath Of her nOstrils,
and she comes out we'll in q photograph
/ and the men rave about her.
/ She sets Mrs. Grundy at defiance, and
/ goes TO luncheon and teas in college
| rooms without a chaperon. She does
not so alone, she has a plain sister
that she takes with her to save appear
tnces. and who is also useful in the
same way in occupying the back seat
OF dog cart when she is driving with
her admirers.
Or course she does not drive through
the trequented parts of the town:
there are beautiful. quiet. shady roads.
where one can 30 for miles at certain
hours Of the day without meeting any
body.
Sometimes i'm spite Of all her care.
she gets entangled. There was Keith
Munro, that there was such an ugly
story about.
Perhape he was more in earnest thar
the rest. He was dreadfully in ear
nest. He wanted TO have everybody
settled and STRAIGHTFORWARD. He cot
his mother to write and ask her to 20
down TO her place in Yorkshire to visit
her. He was her only son. and She
wanted to see the girl he had chosen.
Amaryllis got her mother to write q
pretty little answer TO the invitation.
The young people were so young ut
/ resent, she pleaded; it would be better
10 put Oft the question of an engage
ment until Mr.. Munro had taken his
| degree. There could be no objection
I q. hf 60 J..
piled himself to his work meanwhile.
The foolish fellow did not put his
heart into his work-hOw could he be
| expected to when it had passed out Of
his keeping? She was always usine
her wiles 70 prevent his working, send
ing him little scented notes. inventins
ways of meeting him at the times when
she knew quite Wen he ought to be at
| lectures or occupied with his books.
She kept him running after her for
couple Of terms, wasting his time
and opportunity until his chance was
gone. Just before the examinations
she found out that she had mistaken
her feelings for MIN chat she had
mistaken friendship FOR love she dis
missed him with delightful candCt and
| q disuactingly penitent face and she
was rowed down the river to the May
races the following day by Weather
/ WOCer
Munro went i'm for his examination.
and when the lists came out his name
did not appear. lie was not surprised,
he had begun to feel that his lie was q
terrible blunder; that there had been
| a mistake somewhere.
| He did not burn his books rs other