New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
YOUNG "SPUGS" MAKE
MATRIMONIAL TRIP
Eiuhty "AdamIess" Girls, How
ever, Get Lesson IN
Natural History.
MAN GUIDE LEADS PARTY
First Social Affair of Vacation
Fund Fails, as Bronx Bears
and Monkeys Look On
with Indifference.

The first social affair Of the matrimonial
bureau Of the Vacation Savings Fund--a
trip TO the Bronx Park Geological Gardens
yesterday afternOon-was great success
as natural history lesson for the eighty
girls who went. and they seemed to have
a good time. too. But as a promoter Of
marriages il fell fat Poor Miss Elisa
beth Marbury She ii was who, at re-
cent meeting Of the Spugs-the Spugs
being an outsrowth of the Vacation Saw
ings Fund-spoke in a heartfelt way 10
the girls about the hardships of an UNI
married woman. and then urged all who
contemplated taking this trip to the park
TO bring somebody's brother along. ~
And not one Of the eighty girls brought
anybody's brother except two or three,
who brought their own; and they-the
brothers-weren't more than four or FIVE
years old
An attempt was made by reporters 20
find out from the girls themselves why
the expedition was so Adamless, for some
of them were so pretty that il seemed as
if any number of other girls brothers
would have been glad to come. And
there was Miss Marbury's invitation,
backed by Miss Anne Morgan's emphatic
Endorsement of marriage as a good thing
for girls.
So at odd times as the party struggled
through the monkey house or Gazed upon
the happily mated birds in the birdhouse.
3 reporters tried TO find out how the girls
felt But il was no use. Miss Gertrude
Robinson Smith. who chaperoned the eN-
petition. wouldn't let them talk.
Well" one slim young thing began TO
tell reporter. there is a young fellow
, that is John wanted--but there We've
never been let bring our fellows to the
| fund dances. or the SpuS partes-Mlss
Smith scolded us if we dd-so'--
At this point the slim young thing
caught Miss Smiths eye upon her. and
she turned her blushing attention TO an
imperturbable old bachelor brown bear.
Well. anyhow. there were no brothers on
that trip. and the one man in the party
was the bashful. blushng and ingenious
young guide with whom Director lorna
day furnished Miss Smith.
That poor guide. Evidently he had never
had so many Of the fair sex hanging on
them young. clustering about him, chas-
Ing him eagerly from bear pit TO beaver
pond. from buffalo run TO monkey house
calling in frantic tones whenever they lost
sight of him:
Where is that man? Oh, dear. where
is that man."
Mostly he bore UP pretty we'll but there
were moments when he evidently had an
acute sense Of how much he resembled
Brigham Young out for an airing with
his family and then he nearly went
under The eighty girls with Miss Smith
started from the office of the Vacation
Savings Fund, at No. 105 West 10th street
at noon. and had luncheon in the boat
house AZ Bronx Park 1t was about ?
O'Clock when they annexed the guide and
started on their round of calls on the ami
mails. Most of these gentry received them
indinerently. The bears turned their
backs when Miss Smith tried 90 photo
graph them Maybe they knew that cam
cras are not allowed in Bronx Park. The
buffalo bumped themselves YEARLY as the
bashful young guide catalogued their hab-
its for the edification Of the eighty eager
young women. and. in fact, the only Great
uro out there who showed any emotion
was Badly. the highbrow OF the monkey
house Badly on beholding the approach
OF what looked Ike a delegation from a
female seminary, with the blushing guide
in their midst spread his arms out
through the bars Of his cage as far as
they would go and shook his head most
sadly. But whether he was sorry for the
guide or sorry TO see so much female love-
Illness unattended. Bsldys inscrutable
countensnce did not reveal.