Richmond Womans College - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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1 I Advice to Rats OI,l,OXY the old gills illustrious example! Make it a rule to always go out on liroacl Street days-on other days if you want to. Never go out to the blind doors unless some one is there you want to see. Never spend any more time upstairs than you want to. Never have the toothaehe on Saturday or when you want to pay an evening visit. Never leave your class to get a drink of water, except when the questions in circulation are sueh that would cause you to lose a brilliant reputation. Q a niff cexfs' 0' a :nm y Jromeiu o' vo r '1 s ' Cor o so e. Situm ll bhtl iinb l att. ll fi. u iitiut t lv Show your Skill and interest in reeitations by asking questions which no mortal can solve. XVhen you go home make your parents happy by telling them how well you stood on examinations, and that you would have gotten a hundred if your teacher had not asked a question which ought to have been oinitted. Urn finer.. 68

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The Chemistry o Girls Dcjfuitiozz.-Cii1'ls are a polymeric alotropic class of substances. with many physical properties. l'li.s'1nry,-'l'l1e first girl was discovered in the Garden of Eden. the same year apples were discovered. Like the man who first made arsenic the discoverer forfeited his life. Orrzlrrelzcc.-lfree and in partnership with men. l,fIfj'Sll'llf Prafu'1'tivs.-l,ike crystals. girls may be distinguished from one another by their color. density and form. They have the power of changing their forms and colors. Once or twice in a lifetime every man runs across one altogether different from all the rest. though observers do not always seem to he able to see the great difference seen so easily by him. C'flt'lIIfCUf l'rofvrrfir.r.- Sugar and spice. and everything nice, that's what little girls are made out of. The foregoing is not chemically true. neither is it a fact that all are made up, though many are, altogether of dust. On the contrary, water forms seventy- live per cent. of their composition. just think of it-seventy-five per cent. water plus dust equals girls! Can it be true that these lovely creatures. with the funny hats, are so many solidified puddles, so to speak, as it were? Perish the thought! Truly. there is more to girls than just water and dust! After years of study and experiment, the following elements are isolated, and are quite constantly in occurrence in their wonderful bodies-laughs, cries, smiles, frowns, loves, hates, dates. kisses, deceit and sweetness. The technic employed to reveal the foregoing elements cannot be given, as it is too compli- cated and varying. though remember kisses are constantly in occurrence as a part of girls. f.l1t'l!If.Tlll,-fill'lS have a great affinity for new bonnets, jabots. talcum, and rosaline, and will combine in any proportion with bonbons and soda water. lfvaciioiz.-llirls reacting to criticism causes a great deal of effervescing. fumiuff, s witeful ex Jlosions. -and a marked rise in tem Jerature, using a large zs l . 5 ei amount of chemical energy, wluch may change their composition. U.rr'.s'.-Usecl very largely in making trouble by holding suffragette meetings, trying to run their discoverer lXf'fa11 off the globe. l C'UHt'fIl.Yf0IIS.-lillt do we care a whit about the chemistry of girls? No, it is the girl that smiles and loves we care about. -l'l07C'llI'lI' P. I7rafn'r, in flu' llllllfllfl ffII.l'fIfl1l'lX'. 67

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