Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-23
In Woman's World.

Perhaps the best Illustration of the
spontaneous growth ana the deep-root-
ed appeal Of merry college customs is
furnished by the classic story OF Sa-
brina. says Walter Prichard Eaton In
the Delineator for July. Sabrina was
half-clad COR less) bronze statue,
which used 70 stand on the campus
at Amherst. 1t grew to be a custom
IN college TO put a shawl on SaDrina
when the weather was particularly
cold. one Sunday morning the good
townsflok found her encased in corsets.
at another time she wore nat and
pink carriers.
The faculty, growing weary Of this
form Of humor. which they-or their
Wives--cousidered a trlhe primitive, re-
moved Sabrna to "A cellar. When the
class Of 80 were sophomorcs. II oc-
CURED TO them to rescue her from OBJ
security and take her as guest 10
ther class dinner in Boston. on the
way from Boston the class OF 81 stole
Sabrina from the sophOmores. and ar
ter their dinner, passed her on TO the
next odd class '93. member OF the
class of "a. learning that she had been
shipped back by express from s3's
class dinner in Boston. billed TO Spring
field. walked into the express office
there and put up such a good BLUM OF
authority that, at his orders. the COM
pauy stopped her at Worchester and
set her back To Boston. or course, a
% man was waiting for her In Boston,
and from that day TO this she has been
In the possession of the even classes in
spite Of every EFFORT OF the odds TO
recapture her.
The class Of "a slipped secretly out
of town one night and held their class
dinner In Brattleboro, Vt. Sabrna Sit
ting at the head Of the board. After
the dinner she was buried at two am,
under the floor OF a deserted barn out
IN the country near Brattleboro. The
secret was conhdcd to three men OF
the class OF &c Two years later they
dug her up for their class dinner, and
then concealed her again IL is SAID
ut the bottom Of the Connecticut river,
moored with steel cable. Every even
year she presides over the sophomore
dinner, which is never held in Amherst,
lest fight ensue and she be captured.
She makes her appearance mysterious
Is. and mysteriously disappears again.
II is said that Sabrina has travelled
TO Europe in the hold OF a ship, and re-
posed in the depths Of the White
mountain wilderness once she was
brought TO the waldorf in New York
In a load Of hay. Last winter she
came 90 the Hotel Aston in taNicab.
At their fifteenth reunion at Amherst
secretly back to the college, where
she remained 10 seconds at the reunion
dinner-long enough to be photo
grarhed-and was then driven con-
spicuously around the running track
I'm an automobile heavily guarded
and hustled out Of town in nagrant
violation OF the Massachusetts speed
laws. a scout car going ahead ana
another following behind To make
10 no hz
enemy the sparkling plug Of every 9th
or automobile In town was pulled be-
fore Sabrina was brought into view.
The care. labor and expense that have
been expended on the task ~ conceal
ing Sabrina are incalculahle. But the
loving enthusiasm with which her bare
and battered form is greeted at every
sophomore dinner Of an even class Is
part. now, ~ the heritage OF Am
hcrst college.
FLUFFY little bows. almost rosettes, OF
fine tulle are again in vogue Nothing
lends a more becoming touch 20 neck
wear for the right occasion. They
are not suitable for morning wear. Or
with shirt-waist suits or with rough
and ready street gowns Bow knots OF
beads strung on wire are worn with
tho tulle especially in the evening.
though ono sees them az lunchcons
and receptions The jewellers make up
these little bow knots In sced-pearls.
but for what 10 probably only "a fancy
~ the moment. a clever girl might
better spend her money for something
else. and make for herself knot Of
tiny waN-b strung on gold wire.
Small sapph ire -colorcd heads strunC on
silver wire mako n charming comhin-
alton with the white tulle especially N
worn with a handsome blue gown II
Is needless 10 say that the tulle should