The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-27
vAssAR AND MATRrmoNY.

| man whom she met during the Easter va
| walton. If you promise not TO try to stay
| later than 10 o'clock. Or better STILL
come in the afternoon. and I'll show you
| all the beauties OF the most beautiful
| campus that ever was"
| The man wrote back that he would be
glad TO come as soon as he could get
away from business, says the New York
: Tribune Then he tore her letter up.
| which was habit ne had and forgot all
about her for a girl who lived below
Ffty-ninth street. which certainly is
| nearer than Poughkeepsie.
| one day the very business from which
ne intimated he could not get away took
him to the city up the river, and il was
| then he remembered the Vassar girl. He
| found his way CUT to the college that
evening in veritable seagoing chariot
| and. remembering the 10 o'clock rule he
! arrived early
| Too early the messenger girl at the
| door told him, but you can wait here in
the parlor until the young women come
from chapel
So he sat down in a colonial parlor.
| which had its doric columns enameled
| white, walls slightly tinted and a grim
plaster bust of old Ben Franklin looking
down upon him from the corner. There
was no sound in the halls, nothing to in
| dicate that he was in the receiving room
or woman's college. except a book
| bound in red letter which rested on a
! center table.
The book held the photographs of the
| seniors of o2, the class which had gone
before He opened it, and on the very
first page beheld beauty. Her signature
| was under the photograph. She interested
him, and he tried to read things about
her in that carbon print and the ink
| scratches. Then he remembered that the
| more women he knew the less he knew
about women, and he felt the foolishness
of it, He permitted himself just one spec
| ulation.
rs she married. he asked the bust of
| Franklin. There was no other authority
about, not even the hall girl. and the bust
! seemed 10 answer with an affirmative
nod.
| He went on through the book to the
very last page, seeing pictures of girls
| OF every sort. None of them troubled
him but that beautiful dark creature of
| the frontispiece. He turned back to her.
IF she isn't she ought to be- he said
/ aloud 10 himself.
| IF she isn't what?" demanded q sharp
| little voice at his shoulder.
| He jumped with surprise. turned, and
| found-the hall girl. Married" he an
| swered, simply.
well, she isn't, and not likely to be-
| volunteered the girl
His eyes sought Ben's plaster ones, as
much as TO ask, What did you lie about
| it for, old fellow?' and then he asked
| the girl the reason for her prediction.
why do you suppose the young ladies
| come to these stately halls of learning? 4"
| the hall girl began. rs it to learn all
| manner of wonderful things out of books
\ that they may waste them on some fool
| ish man? Are they to hide their light I'M
| der a-under a (she was remarkable
| girl, but the smile failed her)-well, I'M
| der a dishpan. when
But she did not finish. There was a
sound of many feet and burst of chat
| ter, which announced that the evening
| chapel was at an end The hall girl fed,
and he waited, wondering.
They came down two stairways in an
| endless stream. Some of them passed
| him, never looking. Others smiled. for he
/ was terribly alone, the only man in all
| that army of women. a mob of them
| gathered in the hall near the door. but
he could make nothing out of their chat
| ter. Womanlike, every one seemed to talk
| at once.
A new idea came to i1im-he would try
| to pick the Vassar type from the passing
throng in the hall. He didn't find it. for
| the Vassar type really does not exist. The
young women do not even walk alike.
Then his senior came. and he was
| happy; but she had another senior with
| her which was not so happy. They
! talked on many things before he asked,
| Can you tell me why il is that more
college women don't marry?"
Don't many of them marry they
asked in surprised chorus We thought
| they did, and surely we have hopes"
| And then they laughed.
"A woman came to Vassar the other
day" said rs senior. speaking more seri-
ousy. land asked the senior class that
question. 1t seems she is doing an article
for some woman's magazine or other,
and the college authorities told her she
| could use anything she could get from
the girls. SO we were called together,
and she began to ask questions.
- Now, my dear, / wish you would be
quite frank with me, in perfect conf
| dence. you know. Do you expect to
marry?" she asked the prettiest girl in
the class.
Alas. no., the girl answered promptly.
All, poor child. is it because of some
experience in your life?" was the next
question, and every word was full of
| sympathy.
50 That is it; a terrible disappointment
said the girl. quite brazenly. cannot
tell you of it; the memory is too sad
And. actually. she began to cry.
Now. that girl never had a serious
thought about man. and her life is as
free from sorrowful experiences as a fife
&
fun of the woman. but the girls caught
the spirit of the thing, and the inforrns-
ton she secured should never go into
textbook.
What brutes men are,' the question
ing woman exclaimed, as Beauty went
back 10 her chair.
THE next girl expected 10 get married
il she found the right man. what quail
hcations would you expect In the man
Of your choice? the woman asked.
Kindness. a loving nature. sobriety,
truthfulness. A disposition To stay in at
night not too much education. physical
strength, but not too much. and about
dozen other qualifications negative and
affirmative.
And you expect to find all that in
mere mani exclaimed the writer woman.
e I want a man who can smoke a cigar
and wave the American flag. declared an
other victim Of this marital cross-eXarn-
iEation.
All. that is interesting; by the flag
suppose you mean a patriotic man and
she made a cOpiOus note
She got many more startling answers.
invented on the spur OF the moment and
none Of them true; for really the class
Of '08 has not yet made Up its mind on
matrimony.
And youv' asked the man. What
did you answer
You viii have 70 ask me- another way,
she declared smiling mischieyousiy.
He did not have time. for ~ that mo-
ment the psychological one. the gong
rang and the electric lights fickered the
signal for men TO 20. He caught a mid
night train 20 this city. and ali Ire way
down the river he wondered II she meant
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