The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06

OF deeoration-from the college girl stand
point which puts quantity above quality
and arrangement though the latter are not
despised. The returned visitor had an ex
preston of scorn upon her face.
well, isn't it just the prettiest room?"
demanded her roommate, who was one of
the enthusiasts ''And hasn't she the lovli-
est lot of banners and photographs and
things?"
The other girl shifted. why, my good
ness, / don't think it's anything so Won
derful," she returned. why. saw whole
square foot of wall paper in one place
AS a rule, the college girls room does
not exhibit many square feet of wall
paper. at least not in the same spot. The
college room is part of the college atmos-
phere, which is like none other on earth;
and while the ordinary woman sees no
particular reason for turning her boudoir
into a photograph gallery, the college girl
whose walls do not hold a vast and mis-
cellaneous array of pictures is traitor to
the college code. The photographs are of
all sorts and varieties from the finished
products of artists in photography to the
unacceptable snapshots of the amateur,
and their subjects are anything and every
body The subject is always secondary
consideration, as it is the photograph and
its possession which are the important
things.
Pillows are another of the additionally
imperative furnishings or the college girls
room, and would you win her heart, bestow
upon her pillow of particularly gay and
attractive pattern which will add an eff
fective touch to her couch and make her
the envy of her mates. The more pillows
she has with which to pile up her divan,
to stack up her corners, to fill up her
chairs, the happier the girl is she. The
college man has the same taste, as every
one knows, but he isn't so well off as his
sister, who, if donations in the pillow line
fail, can turn in and make up any desired
number for herself. Banners and pen
nants, streamers of her class colors, fra
| ternity cOlors and college colors finish the
| list of typical college decorations and the
| other furnishings of her room are of sec
| ondary Importance if these things be pres
ent in the desired proportion.
The girls of Butler College are like all
other college girls in their devotion TO typic-
al college decoration and the accompanying
| pictures show two of the pretty rooms
arranged in the Butler dormitory after the
| about twenty girls in the Butler Dormitory
] and the prettily appointed rooms show what
a college girl can do with the aid of her
pictures and pennants added to the neces-
sary furniture. The rooms show individu-
| atty of ideas in decoration and arrange
ment and the ingenuity OF womankind is
| shown in the clever way in which the rooms
| are arranged in contrasting effects.
Just as the room of the college girl holds
| others. which extends
| merely to her mates, but to outsiders, so
| the life of the college girl is full of charm
| for girls of all ages and kinds-the old
| college girl who has lived it, the prepara-
| tory girl who is going to live it and the
| rank outsider who never has lived it. The
| atmosphere of the college life differs utterly
| from anything that has come before or will
come after, and il is in its entire individu-
ality that its charm lies.
Butler College lacks some of the accom-
paniments of the college life that other col
! leges Of the State have. The girls chapter
| houses where number of the girls of the
| same fraternity have their rooms are as
| yet an unestablished quantity in the Butler
| College life, and in their lack an impor-
tant element of the customary college exist
| ence is missing. The fraternities of course,
| bind the girls closer together than the
| classes, so in the chapter houses where
] only members OF the same frat" live there
| is closeness of companionship, a har-
mony OF aSSociatiOn-and oneness in mis-
chief-that cannot be found to the same de-
| gree anywhere else.
| The dormitory al Butler is, however, the
| next best thing in establishing the blest
ties that bind between the college girls. All
/ of the girls except those who live, or
| those who have relatives in Irvington, or
in town, are obliged to take up their abode
| in the dormitory, and though the order has
| been productive of much pouting and pro-
| testing it is doubtful whether the Butler
| College maids really find anything so OBJ
| 1ectionable in dormitory life. There is not
| only safety, but inspiration, in numbers,
| and one or two girls alone in boarding
| house would miss the inspired FRANKS in
| which the dormitory company INDUCES
| every now and then
| MISCHIEVOUS GIRLS.
Two of the favorite amusements of the
dormtory girls. who are about twenty
strong, are ''tying-in" and stacking" The
girls are impartial in their attentions and
these are bestowed upon some one of their
own number. on any of the other occupants
| of the house, upon visitors, with the
same undiscriminating gusto. The tying-in
| process does not mean personal violence
that it suggests; it is the door of the VIC
TINS room that is subjected to the tying
| and the tied-in one finds il impossible to
| leave her room until her tormentors have
| concluded to release the knob from its i'm
| prisoning rope. The stacking IS an even
more exhilarating exercise than the tying
| in TO the performers but 1t depends for its
| success upon the absence instead of the
| presence of the victim. When the hapless
| maid selected has left the house to keep an
| engagement, the other girls steal into her
| room and proceed TO put everything where
| Ii doesn't belong, so that when the occupant
| of the apartment returns she is apt to find
| her dressing-table on her bed her chairs
| and tables piled into a topping heap and
| her mattress and pillows In the attic. II
| is more than likely that she doesn't find
| the latter articles at all, so she removes
| herself and what she find of her i'm
| mediately necessary belongings to the room
| of some comrade and waits till daylight To
| unstack. Usually the stacked one or the
| tied-in one accepts her fate good-naturedly
| If trifie vociferously, for she knows that
| her turn has to come now and then, and
| that ii is not in the nature of events that
| she should always be the stacker the
| tier-in.
There are only two of the women's fra
| ternities that have chapters established at
| Butler, so that the rivalry between these
| two has compressed in IL all the Vigor that
| would be otherwise spread among five OF
| six. The Kappa Kappa Gamma and the
| Phi Beta Phi sororities have both active
| well-organzied chapters in the university
| with about equal numbers and all the year
| round, but especially in the "spiking' sea-
| son. there is friction-more or less good
| natured- The verb to spike is not in all vo-
| cabularies, but those acquainted with col
| lege slang know that il means a mad rush
| for the popular newcomers in college. The
| rush is none the less mad in Butler he
| cause there are but two sororities to do the
| spiking, and the girl who seems a desira BILE
| addition TO the frat forces is kept i'm a
whirl by invitations TO spreads, teas and
| Junketings of various kinds. The dormitory
! girls number members of both fraternities
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