Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-24
THE UNWR|TTEN LAW
Ii Not Why Not More Weddings
Tween AnnapOli 5 Maids
And Navy Mids =? An
napOlis Girls Strong
Cards Until The
German
THEN LOST IN DISCARD
Ensign Period Responsible For Broken
Hearts "A True Story From Real
Life-0ne Gold Brick Tells
Why Our Annual Crop OF
Old Maids DO" Grow

yin Vtdius DO INV
Exit the Cit. the Mid must
have his Maidr'
This is the annual slogan of Crab
town, particularly of the male inhabi-
tant, who, after a cherries eXis-
tence of about eight months every
year, wakes a few mornings after
the Navy german and farewell ball
to find that THE girl is actually
smiling a CHEEKY good morning at
him. A few months of this, and,
skidoo-the Mid is back.
For, be it known, when Mr.. MILDLY
is in town, he overshadows every
other living male creature in Gamma
crabolis. And why shouldn't it be
so? Petted and pampered by the
queens of the city, dined and crooned
to at every turn, the shrewd MILDLY
awakens to the fact that he is an
"isser, ;" and all the other fellows are
"wassers, or "also-rans. And
from all appearances fond mamas
wish it so, because the yearly crop of
queens are eagerly picked up and for
four full years are "hopped" nigh
unto death, and they in turn try to
seek the middy's heart through his
appetite, only to find as the years
grow on apace, and the incidents
connected with graduation so excites
the future admirals, that very few
Annapolis girls are invited to that
which they live their life to gain
the invitation to the german.
To be strictly in it with the MILDLY,
one must be a queen. And because
all girls are not queens leads to the
inditing of this sketch. For, be-
lieve me, Annapolis girls are worry
ing, and the word with them is built
up of capital letters. This is not a
guess. 1t is a prosaic, unvarnished,
anvil-hammered fact, and facts are
stubborn things. In fact, the base
of this sketch comes direct from a
queen who, for years has been affected
with thopitis," disease innoculated
into the head, heart and feet of
maidens by the hops at the Naval
Academy.
1t so grips the maiden that it is
worse than dope" But with all the
attention showered upon the queens
for four full years, Cupid does not
seem to be able to grasp the situa-
ton rightly, or else with so much
learning of cold, scientific facts, love
finds but little resting place under
the blouse of the MILDLY, and as a
result the little god of love has
sent but six Annapolis born, Annapolis
bred and Annapolis loved maidens
to the altar in fifteen years. Would
you believe lit? 1t clearly shows
that the "times are out of joint
And so like Mary MacLane. of
Butte, the femme is worryingI
And while the girls worry, the
"cits" smile.
1t has become a common saying
that "cits" won't have anything
to do with a girl that entert aims a
MILDLY. They have seen Mr.. MILDLY
come and have watched him in
the embryo, as he stepped off the
W., B. & A. or Short Line, with his
swinging stride, head elevated few
inches because of his appointment;
witnessed the sight of the ga hat
on the Z Is head. fresh from the
high school with everything at his
finger tips, but his ability to enter
the Academy without months of
weary grind at the prep. school.
Then they have witnessed the TAX
ing away of the girl-the future
MILDLY as a candidate, less enlarged"
because of the fact that he found out
that he had to learn everything all
over again; as the dear little girl he
used to love in pinafores dragged
to a hop a willing victim to the
germ "hopitis, and stood on the
sea wall and watched the little
canoe that was taking his sweet
hearts love away from him.
And then the long cold nights, could
he peep if he dared to, through the
curtains and see Mr.. MILDLY the center
of interest in the best chair in the
parlor, or in the sweet, balmy even
ings of spring and summer looked
into the hammock in the rear of the
house, and listened to the sweet
nothings that Mr.. MILDLY found so
fluent and the maiden drank in so
charmingly.
But all good things must come to
an end.
The cycle of time records the
coming of June week. Mr.. MILDLY
with victory-fushed brow begins
wearing the ga tile again on the
Is head, and then he goes away
for his "broiler" period. He is I'M
der contract with his Uncle Samuel
not to marry for two years.
The girl by that time is four years
older; trifie more polished, socially
and artfuley, and heartbroken because
her lamp of life has gone out.
Generally at the end of the ensign
period, whether he was red mike OF
fusser, the girl away back in Anna
crabolis' picks up the Capital and
reads some thing like this:
tSnowb all Goodgyrl-At New York
City, Ensign Alphonsus Winterliftel
SNOWFALL, to Miss Ina Goodgyrl, OF
Philadelphia.
Sour Grapes!