The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06
About Butler College Girls
And Their Life at School
and the Norma Usual Tendency o Indulge
in Fischie Franks

FASTENED by ominous jfngllngs of keys in
corridors and ante-rooms Each girl is al
lowed in the kitchen just once a week, that
once being Monday morning. AT that time
she is at liberty TO press her frocks, do up
her ribbons and stocks and do all such lit
tie odd jobs; but If she concludes TO turn
laundress in the middle of the week she is
subjected to a fine. Each dormitory girl
deposits 81 on entering on her dormitory
sojourn to insure against breakages; IL she
doesn't break her dollars worth during
her stay the extra amount is returned TO
her at the end OF the year Another dor
mitory rule is in regard TO piano playing,
which is permitted only between the hours
of 1890 and 2 p. m. and and D. m, ex-
cept on Saturdays and Sundays, when
music cen display its charms at any hour.
One of the most tempting of the rules is
against the driving of tacks in new wall
paper. which is a crime punishable with
% cent fine for each tackhole. OF course
sire to perpetrate tackholes without be-
ing fined, and one clever dormitory girl
evolved the plan of driving tacks in the
walls on which to hang her pictures and
then adding an unnecessary picture wire
to extend from the molding TO the picture
to deceive the unwary.
O-EDUCATIONAL DIVERSIONS.
Being co-educational institution. Butler
offers it's diversions in the way of college
eases" the inevitable accompaniment of
co-educational college life. Josephine
Daskam, in 1.-The Memoirs of a Baby"
makes one of her characters say: "Co-edu-
cation is where the girls go out West to
school and get married. isn't it?" That
may not be the chief part of the co-educa-
tional plan, but no student in a co-educa-
tional school, or dweller in a college
town attended by both men and girls, will
deny that the definition has element of
truth. In springtime, when the young mans,
especially the very young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love, the college
case is more evident than at any other
time. The campus is dotted on spring even
ings by specimens of those who have en-
tered on that part of the college course,
dents is one of the joys of the outsiders. On
one spring evening which has become his
toric in Butler annals a company of such
of the finer feelings-decided that 1t
would be delightful plan to round up ali
the couples sprinkled over the campus and
escort them home, though there no
evidence that the recipients of the atten-
ton were wishing either for escort or home.
Each man in the accommodating party re-
solved himself into a Sherlock Holmes, and
shady spots and retired hooks were not
proof against their keen eyes. All the
eases" were Spied out, rounded up, and
in the center of the obsequious bodyguard
they were marched home to loud music
sung and whistled by the attendant guard.
The last couple TO be caught were found
on the far edge of the campus, where they
cure from detection, but were betrayed by
the barking of their faithful dog, who dis
trusted the noise and movement and tried
to protect his master The girl and man
were scurried across the campus and put
in the center OF the captured company. Then
the edict was announced that the girls had
to walk together, the men together. The
last captured maiden was a girl of spirit
She sat down on the grass. "All right, then,
1 don't go at ALL she announced.
Even the bold, bad college men hesitated
to take her home by main force. The re-
suit was that she walked home with the
man who had escorted her forth, and thus
asserted her independence even in the teeth
of defeat.
Even the girl who goes to college to dig
finds that there is a wealth of enjoyment
to be had in the hours outside her consci-
entious digging. The small escapades which
fuller of hilarity than of anything
worse, the pranks and practical jokes, the
midnight spreads which have a charm
that no banquet spread on a properly APP
pointed table ever possessed-all the out
side courses of the college work have the
delightful spice that forbidden fruit of
however mild flavor takes on; and the
delight stored up for future "reminiscences is
of value that almost If not quite equals
that of the knowledge she acquires in
classes