The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-02-02
JUST A. CURTAIN FIRE.
Il Was In a Girls Boarding school
and Did Complicated Damage.

1t Was In a Girls Boarding school
and Did Complicated Damage.
A fire in a skyscraper may be thrill
ing, but for dramatic episodes and I'M
expected complications fire in girls
boarding school surpasses it. The board
ing school fire is usually what is known
among insurance men as a curtain fire,
but a curtain fire in girls school is
more exciting and causes more casual
ties than an ordinary blass anywhere
else.
One evening last week two girls, who
occupy a microscopic hall bedroom in a
swell up town school, taok the globes
off the gas. fixtures for hair curling pur-
poses and left them off, because il was
easier to do that than to Vat them on
again. Then the girls raised the window
"a trifie in order to cool the room and
dutifully sat down to write home let
tiers. The inevitable happened. and
when girl number one poised her pen
in the air and glanced around the room
in search of inspiration she saw the
curtains in blaze. She screamed Girl
number two looked around and echoed
the scream. Then, with promptitude
and discretion, both girls tainted. The
screams had attracted the attention of
the other girls, who rushed to the scene
and then did various and sundry stunts
according to their several dispositions
One tainted, several wept, few ran
out of the house, and the rest shouted
for the one man on the premises.
When he arrived, things looked rather
hopeless. Curtains and woodwork Were
blazing finely. The floor was Uttered
with PROSTATE forms, and when three
gills have tainted on the floor of hall
bedroom there isn't much space in the
room for promenading. The man picked
his way across the PROSTATE forms and
ordered all the girls who were not in a
dead faint to leave the room, but they
didn t go until he lost his temper and
spoke with force which isn't common
in boarding school circles. Then they
fed; but, unluckily, there was an enc
my in the rear. A vigorous and practi-
cal woman from Texas had been inspir-
ed to go after some water. Returning
in mad haste with a large pitcherful
of water borne triumphantly aloft, she
collided with the retreating forces at
the door. The pitcher struck the leader
of the retreat squarely in the face and
knocked out two of her front teeth,
whereupon the injured girl made the
fainting trio quartet and the water
carrier dropped her pitcher and went
into violent Mysteries.
Hysteria, as boarding school teachers
know to their sorrow, is contagious,
and The one case touched off the crowd.
By the time teachers arrived upon the
scene the fire was out, but the survivors
We're in a bad way. 1t was necessary to
put nine tenths Of the school to bed and
order wholesale doses of bromide. Even
now the girls insist that they haven
recovered from the shock sufficiently 20
do hard studying, and the victims Of
the water pitcher are both under the
care Of trained nurses. AS for the man,
he gave up his place the next day and
confded to the cook that he was going
to look for job in a lunatic asylum,
where his boarding school experience
would be of value to him. New York
Sun.