Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

it up The eyes become the escape valves.
Those girls who have been at school for
adept at the manipulation of their optics.
It's really an art.
After some skirmishing, chance ia
vored me with an opportunity to call on
a young lady at one of the seminaries
Through mutual friends in her home town
l secured the permission of her parents
to call, and l called.
After presenting my card at the door
was ushered into the parlor, where sat at
q table in the center of the room an elder
" female built along Gothic lines AS
sat down she looked up from her reading
and eyed me keenly. Her penetrating
gaze was beginning to annoy me, when
the young lady in question appeared on
the scene. We moved to far corner OF
the room and took seats. There in low
tones we talked. and she told me of the
many FRANKS and .prowlings" that went
on at the school.
Occasionally, she said. it was the Gus
tom of certain girls on her floor to gather
in designated room after they were
certain every one else was in bed. and,
after plugging keyholes and covering
cracks. bring forth from dark corners
such delicacies as olives, boxes of candy.
crackers. pickles and cakes; attendant
with this came the mysterious rites
around the chatting dish, from which are
evolved the toothsome fudge and the
dream-provoking rarebit. These mid
night lunches are followed by hair-rais-
ing ghost stories. which. she informed me.
made them so creepy and nervous that
they would all get comforters and spend
the night in the one room. She told me
that there were several "frats'' in the
school and that she was a member of one.
but dared not divulge any of their secrets
for fear of having dreadful things done
to her.
just as We had reached the most inter-
esting point in our conversation. it
seemed. maid appeared with a note for
Miss v, which the latter read hur-
riedly. 1t appeared to agitate her con-
siderably.
IAN right. Marie" she said; and the
maid went out.
The note fiuttered to the floor. l reached
over picked it up and handed it to her.
The writing happened to be on the upper
most side, and l read:
Miss v, you are violating the rule
Tell the young man to CO."
/ glanced at my watch. 1t was 1880.
and 1t dawned upon me that male visit
ors were required to leave at 10. She
then I quickly made my departure.
Later I had the opportunity to attend a
play given by the members of one of the
classes at this school 1t was written by
two girls in the senior class and was a
creditable piece of work, considering. 1t
was a comedy and had to do with the
efforts of a young married couple to solve
the servant problem.
Directly in front of me sat row OF
sophomores, 1 judged. Their comments
were very interesting. Said one: Caro-
line is making q perfect fool of herself.
'Oh, / think she's dreadfulIy funny
said another.
Il think the whole things horrd."
sighed a tall girl in pink.
It's perfectly fine The plot and the
ideas-how ever did Helen and Mildred
think of Them chirped little girl in
blue
AS / listened to them chatter l noted
mentally that no two were alike, yet the
type was there. Each one expressed an
individuality all her own.
The seminary girl above all is a good
fellow. The collective life engenders
spirit of comraderie. She is refined. We
can call her pretty. Her outward bear
ing coupled with an undertone of vivaclty
and her expressive eyes are the disin-
gushing features which characterize the
seminary girl as a type of girhood in
Washington. II it be meet to mention II,
should say her average age is eighteen
or nineteen. She is inclined to be i'm
pulsive. She is full of girlish devilment,
which is indicative of a wholesome body
and normal development. In short, the
seminary girl is decided ornament to
the National capital. Welcome to our
city.