The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11

had slept a month More talk in the dim paIior, then the arrival Of the others. four gentlemen, and finally the three travellers are escorted to the gray house which has been apparently awakened from a sleep.
 This Is the house selected for our new school,n said General King, 1t can ac- commodate twenty or thirty boarders and as many day pupils; we shall scarcely need more room for many years" But where arc the rupils?" said MT. Jewett ''There they come now, and most of them from my house." said the general Why If it's to be girls school. some of your girls are boys laughed pr. Jew ett, as he counted the little ones strag- gling through the gate, "six girls, three boys" "But it will grow, general; no creature begins life full grown; we shall have a great school from these six girls end three boys :"
 The next day there were nineteen pupils and by the close of the term, the second day of August, there were about seventy The gray house had been enlarged to ac ! commodate fifty boarders; and the school had been christened "The Judson Female Institute" in honor of Ann Hasseltine Judson. the wife of the missionary.
 More than thls, the regulations" by which for sixty-three years girls have risen, studied, played, walked, talked, gone to bed and again gotten up to study, were adopted at the end Of the first year. Among the regulations early determined was that oi the uniform. Those wise old fathers said, We must wear dark green marino for winter both for the Sab bath and every other day" so each pupil wss provided with three green dresses two for everyday wear and one sor the Sabbath. White straw bonnets trimmed with green ribbon, adorned their little heads when they went to church. and we must believe that their soft eyes snake love to. eyes that spake again. beneath a demure poke bonnet, as well as now un- der q jaunty sailor felt hat. But. alas! for feminine vanity" no lace nor flowers of any kind are permitted to be worn on the dear poke bonnets.
 For summer the everyday uniform was pink calico. and the Sabbath was white muslin, Four pink calico dresses, small figure. printed in italics in the cata- logues1. and two white muslin dresses were the extent of Judson girls ward robe. and the same little white straw bonnet now trimmed with pink ribbon. became her new spring hat The old cat q logues do not say how many years the same little polk bonnet changed it's dress with the change of the seeson, but we
 
 tion as to the kinds of ribbon and shane consequently We infer that a good poke lasted five years. In those days bonne;s were bonnets-made of real leghorn Those were good days for the mothers, but what did the poor milliners do? The catalogues also say that each girls aprons must be of checked gingham or barred muslin; no silk ones will be al- lowed" It is interesting to note that in "a arf hi but in the laboratory economy is not so rigid
 For everyday they wore in winter a green cotton cape bonnet as it was called, and in summer a pink gingham one. Fancy long line of pink-frocked girls In pink sunbonnets walking de- murely before their governess down Main street, their arms safely pinned to their sides, their curly locks hidden in the big sunbonnet, with freedom allowed to the eyes alore. What. booted it that their friends waited, then as now. on the cor ners as Niey passed. by. or met the pro- cession by chance-+thc usual way? In those good olG days did such things hap pen? 1 judge human nature has not greatly changed, though dress and man. ners may have When I read in those wise regulations the following: "No hoarder shall send any letter or package to the postoffice or to any individual of either sex without permission of the president, nor shall any boartier receive fer herself, or for any other pupil, let tor, note, or token of regard. or verbal communication from any unmarried reu- tleman. on pain of instant oxpulsion''-T think the lads and lassies were much the same then as now, When hear the dear old ladies. who were blooring young girls then, tell of the Saturday morning letter-wrhing, when every pupil asseri- bled in the study hall and wrote five for maj letters to their Respected Parents. T. which the long suffering govcrness read Ind corrected and sent on their way wjtb her blessing when as l say they tell me or the uninspected letters written not to Respected Parents" but to Dear Joe, or Tom" and carefully placed beneath the approved msslves, then I know that times are not greatly, altered. Tor even we are unchanged.
 Additions were made to the regulations l suppose. as special sins called them forth. About 1sds. appears this Any young iady clipping snuff, or bringing snuif into the Institute is liable to jn- stant expulsion" l notice Lady Ex- pulsipn' Dipping Snuff, all begin with cap1tais-5urely not all were capital of lenses. But when 1 read further on l., the years that they rose at o'clock, had an hours study before brea s'ast in the study-hall with the supervision of the RoNerhess,-that poor goyerness i-that they studied Watts on the Mind" that they could spend fifty cents a month for pocket money; that school continued from october l until the last of July, with no recess at Christmas. do not wonder that they occasionally took 1t in snuff.
 But, to return to the close of the first year of The Judson's history-thcn the trustees began looking about for perma- nent home for this wondroiIs growing child of theirs. Mir. John Loclxhert offer ed them the lot at tho other end of f,d- son street, where was the grove of Wal nut trees and sappling oal,s and erns and the llttle cottage in the southwest cor ner The offer was accepted. plans were made, the young sapplIngs were cleared away and brick building, much after the fashion of the Seminary with It's thrCc-Story center and tWo-Stcrx wings