Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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26 THE AUGUSTA SEMINARY ANNUAL. womanly woman, her school life promised, and Lucy Tabb blushes as sweetlj ' as ever. I opened a ver} pretty wed- ding present Sarah Walton sent Parks, which being the only fact I can present concerning her, simply proves she was then in existence and still had good taste. If I could only reach one of 3 ' ou several hundred girls, and make you swear you wouldn ' t tell, I could a tale unfold , and feel sure, of course, that m} ' secret would be safe. I know of about twent} of the escaped, each one of whom is en- gaged to the dearest fellow in the world. It will be a valuable piece of information to the public that there are now twenty wonders of the world instead of seven. These little affairs, however, are some times as variable as the tints of the chameleon, so it would not be well, even if the names of these wonders could be secured, to place them on record. Just here some more facts of national interest must find expression. It is only fair that I should interrupt myself long enough to relieve the minds of the old girls concerning such interesting subjects. Shall I whose lamp of knowl- edge is lighted neglect to cast its rays on those far off Southern and California girls, who have not been privileged to allay their fears in person ? Beauty and Midget are not dead. It is the parrot that has departed this life and no longer yells, Who ' s that ! Who ' s that ! to the abject ter- ror of the approaching V. M. I. cadet. Uncle Ches, still vigilantly guards the mail, and remains unshaken in his firm conviction that Miss Mary July runs the United States and has Europe for a foot-stool ! I feel, now that I have relieved mj mind, that I can continue a conscientious effort I have been making to hunt up a few lawyers or ph5 sicians among our number. I can find some hobbjasts, May Faulkner, Nat Venable and Lill Bridges have the house-keeping hobby ; the} have it badl5 I can personallj testify that it is a mania with the third member of this band of workers ; shei made some bis- cuit recently — the doctor says, with extreme care, the con- sumers thereof may recover. Since this article was written. Midget has died. — Eds.

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Tin-; AUGUSTA SKMINARY ANNUAL. LT) to a girl ' s tongue. Two summer ' s ago, Ella Lewis, Lucy Hughes and I were together way up in the Tennessee moun- tains. We sat one day before a big log fire and cleared the room of those unsympathizing beings, sometimes found, who could not see the point of a school joke. But for the valuable information gained then, my present task would be a hopeless one. I heard that Melinda Headley had married a young Doctor, after making her debut, robed in a gown that had a train three miles long, and carrying six dozen roses. (Ella Lewis is responsible for that.) Florida still had a rather sleepy effect upon Thrasher, and May Easton had spent the previous summer in Tennessee, resting after the labors of a society bud in New York. Rebie Metcalf was the wife of a wealthy young lawj ' er in Chicago. Ade- laine Adair, Camille Mercier, Anne Raine, Nett Rotan, and Ellie McClung had come out, and a half dozen of them were belles. Blanche Sebrill was married and did not use slang any more. Bess Hardesty was Mrs. Richardson, of Belair. We wondered a little whether Bess was any more grown-up, and if she said yes ' m-ah in her old fascinating style. We decided that it was easier to think of Mrs. James Garnet, of King aud Queen county, nee Laura Levering, as a settled matron, and that Angie Perry was just in the right place as somebody ' s sweet wife. I had just recovered my appetite for school news, after two month ' s fast, when in October I went to Parks ' wedding in Wheeling. Jen Baird, Lydia McMechen and Jess herself told me all over again what I knew before and volume more. What knowledge I had grasped before taking is so confused with what I knew after taking that I am afraid I shall confound one old girl with some other old girl, and marry her off a year before she left school, if such a calamity befall me, just go to Parks and Ella Lewis — they told me. I think, however, I am correct in stating as a real fact that Anne and Jen Baker are living in St. Paul, and are so delighted with their abode that they have not been induced to leave it by any pleader, charm he ever so wisely. ' ' Jule Hubbard spent last winter at Andover. The love of Jule and Mame is still a beacon light to all darlings. Bessie Eauntleroy has grown into the graceful,

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THE AUGUSTA SEMINARY ANNUAL. 27 Mary Pres, Nannie Graham and Nat Venable have a fine opportunity for shedding lustre upon our ranks by medical or law studies; but I have heard that, in these University towns, the young disciple of higher culture begins her labours by scientific research as to the characteristics of the individual law or medical student, and that this preparatory course, lasting from two to three years, has a fatal tendency to remove her from the classic haunts of learning. — I wish some old girl would let us know whether she is pursuing an object of any kind. It is not the style to be without one now-a-days. You must be scientific, literary, or aggressively rampart concerning some theory. — That girls as devotedly fond of enterprising labour as Daisy Holiday, Min Scovell, Lil Briggs, Garnette McKay, Rosalie White, Mallie Otey, Letitia Scott, I ou Goffigon, Kid Grant, Carrie Riecke, and Virginia Butter- more should be giving afternoon teas, instead of lectures on women ' s rights, deals a blow at the root of our school pride. — We had always cherished hopes of Amelia Daven- port, but they were built on sand. I was recently walking down the corridor of a Maryland hotel when I heard a school yell behind me, as musical to my ear as the war whoop to a Sioux chief. It was Amelia, in the glory of a Parisian gown and bonnet. She had recently come from abroad after a three months ' tour as Mrs. Woodruff, of Kentucky. She lives a mile from Sara Hanson, who is as clever as ever. I would like to add that Sara and Liz Bonn are taking the Chataqua course, but that commenda- ble fact can be recorded of Lucj Hughes alone, who spent last winter over Grecian history and could give all the dates without winking. — Tish Scott does deser ' e special men- tion. She has not gotten literary, she has gotten dig- nity. ' ' At times this is obscured from the public eye, but it is only a momentary eclipse. A former school-mate was re- cently driving down Massachusetts Avenue, when a sort of human skyrocket rushed from the sidewalk. Of course it was Tish. Before the wave of greetings had subsided. Since receiving this article we have heard that Virginia Butter- more is studying medicine. — Eds.