The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19

on it. And yet many have passed and
rerassed the table.
y few days ago the ship had a full
passenger list. There were all kinds of
pecrle and most of them inspected the
ping-pong board. An elderly couple
were among the first to pause before 1t.
MY dear" said the old man, this
is that new-fangled game you have
been reading about. 1t is ike the ten
mis- that the children play at home.
After dinner II would be good idea for
us to come I'D and try it. so that we
may tell them that we have played
ping-pong."
She smiled brightly and thought it
would be a fine thing to do, although
she doubted her skill.
They passed and two youths, some
what callow, stopped and aired their
superior knowledge of ping-pong, and
agreed that they would have a try at
il after the dinner hour.
y group of children found the board
and clapped their hands in delight and
rushed off to ask their parents if they
might play the new game after dinner.
The reply was favorable, provided the
stewardess said that II would be all
right. Then they sought the steward
ess and got her permission.
A bridal couple came on and the
bridegroom found the ping-pong la
BILE.
"Oh. Jennie" he called to his wife in
the state room. what do YOU think
rye found? It's awfurly jolly"
What IL ISL"
"Oh, it's too good to be true. We'll
have an awfully good time after din
ner. Give a guess"
II can't"
"Oh. yes. you can, just one little
you know I'm not good at guess
ing You might tell me-"
"Ping-pong.
There was a cry of delight from the
stateToom. They would certainly have
game after dinner.
Thus it went on. The whole ship
load seemed to be going to play ping
pong after dinner.
The ship made her way down through
the Narrows and then on until she
rounded Sandy Hook and got into tae
swell of the ocean. Those who have
taken the coastwise trip know what
this means.
The ships are strong and ine. hut
that roll which begins before Sandy
Hook is out of sight and keeps up for
ever and forever gives them a motion
that makes the inexperienced stomach
wish for solid ground and solitude.
1t was an hour of ocean rolling be-
fore dinner was served and when the
call came few responded. OF those
who did get to the table a large rro-
portion soon sought the seclusion that
the cabin grants.
Not a soul said ping-pong, not a
hand touched the ping-pong table.
The next morning the enthusiastic
players filed by 1t without a word.
They were solemn and pale. A few
cast fitful glances at 1t. and one man
used it as a resting place for his
satchel, but the many went by 4. with
out sign, and with no memory tx-
capt that southeasterly swell which
i began at Sandy Hook and continued all
! the way to the capes of the Chesa-
! peake.
An officer of the ship looked at the
/ table with a grim smile.
''They say 1t Is a fine game he re-
marked. II wonder why somebody
! don't try it,"
! Simmons College, Boston, the new in
stitution for women, will begin its first
term Oct 9.-It has an endowment OF
between 81. $780, 600 and $3,O00,000, and is
therefore, sure of support, whether
or not 1t attracts the women for whom
it was designed. The indications, says
the Chicago Chronicle. are that il
will prove popular. Already, accord
ing to President Henry Lefavour, il
s has received about seventy-five appli'
cations. and the prospect Is that i
! will begin the term with a member
ship of 100. AS yet the college hal
no permanent home. The administra
tive Offices are in the Huntington
chambers, within a stones throw o.
the public library. It's dormitory is or
. ST Botolph street, near by, and the
instruction in household economics
will be in the recitation rooms in the
building on the same street formerly
used by the School of Housekeeping
! instruction in the other branches tc
be taught during the first year-phy-
| sizes, chemistry biology, history
! French, German and Spanish--will be
in the different buildings of the Insti-
! tute of Technology
The purpose of the incorporators
/ and managers of the college has been
| to carry out the broad intention OF
John Simmons of Boston. who died
| some thirty years ago and left the
| property used to establish the college
Vassar College was the only woman IS
| college then in existence Under the
| will and according to the charter the
word female" now so generally dis
carded. but then the natural word, is
| part of the official title, but IL has al
ready been dropped from the literature
! of the institution. Simmons College
might have been put on the plane OF
! an industrial school. in a narrow inter-
! probation of the will, but ii was felt
that the purpose of the founder was
higher
| 1t was not designed to turn out
| merely cooks and seamstresses, but
well-educated women who would cover
! a much higher field of activity. Tho
| conditions of entrance have according
| ly been put as high as those for the
| average mans college. No one who is
hot UP to the standard of "a we'll
| equipped high school, can expect to
| pass the entrance examinations. Fur
| ther than this graduates from other
womens colleges are expected to come
to Simmons college in order to sup
plement their literary education by the
special courses offered here.
The average age of the applicants Is
about that of applicants for admission
to other women's colleges. but older
women who wish to finish a course be-
gun in other colleges will raise the