Evening journal., 1907-08-31
BACHELOR GIRLS
END THEIR RUN
Dover Society Folk Have
Banquet Served in Five
Places

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Aug. 81.
If thou art blest.
Then let the sunshine Of thy goodness
rest
on the dark edges Of each cloud that
lies
Black in thy brothers skies.
If thou art sad.
sun be thou in thy brothers gladness
glad"
To be filled with the bloom and ex-
uberancy of youth. to be beautiful and
to be happy would seem to one to
make up a coup that funneth over"
but when the advantages and bless
ings of begging able to both eat ana
run are added. the simple life is beat
en- mile.
Dover's eighteen beautiful girls gave
their famous "eat-and-run banquet"
last night 1t was a banquet, spelled
with big B. and the girls both ate
and ran. Even an invalid would have
been compelled to eat at the beautiful
tables and of the delicious viands sat
before this unique organization to-
night I'm five of the most hospitable
homes in Dover.
Ordinarily one city girl would have
felt herself highly honored to have
sat at one of these beautiful tables
and partalSen Of a Delaware dinner.
prepared by Dover's famous cooks,
but when one considers that these
girls partook of FIVE dinners and were
..ff I.sN. Ie. haff
starved and the boarding-house guest
must feel blue with iealously.
Each fifth of the banquet had op-
portunity to approach the first stage
Of dissemination before the subsequent
course was added. And this process
of assimilation was powerfully aided
bv the run from one end of Dover to
another in the fine autumn air.
Fine and dandy young mon, sending
in thoir cards only go be rebuhed at
each place of refreshnont, followed
along on the Opposite side of the
street. some with flash cameras, but
there was strictly nothing doing for
them until the last course was reached
at the residence of Chancellor John r..
Nicholson. where. together with some
of Dover's leading young married wo-
men. the girls took pity on the un-
saddled Lochlnvars ANA beckoned
them to come IN. An oheyed.
When this social sunl tion was fist
devised and introduced, some of the
girls declared that IL was not for the
purpose OF getting five suppers in as
many hospitable Delaware homes in
one night. but as q hygienic expert
ment. showing that the fat of the land
could be partaken Of literally provided
there was a lively sprinting after each
course from one end Of town to am
other.
So the experiment was tried and
none of the girls had TO call in tho
family doctor. although the five sup
pers were an eaten--they call them
only five courses of a banquet bu.
they look tempting and complete in
somuch that each would make a poor
man a sumntuous breakfast
When it was first instituted. this
sprinting supper the Toung men who
were shghted became so over-anNious
20 see what was going on that they
ran about town. or tried to keep mp
with the giris-as rapidly as they could,
on empty stomachs. = The girls goJ
even bv stnl cutting them, and then
Withholding from them the places at
which the courses would be served.
This year. however, they have relent-
ed. and at Chancellor Nicholson's
beautiful home on the green, the
young men are to be received tonight,
together with some young married .wo-
men OF Dover. whose early yielding to