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VOLUME
II.— No.
7.
CONTENTS,
Emily
Editorials,
My
r. lifeader.'gi,
Gull,
An Autumn
Day,
-
And
M.
yennie
Week,
88
News
Colleo-e
'S4-'85,
92
Furber,
Minnie Crosby Emery, Sutdent,
Splender,
90
------
An Autumn
'92,
Clock,
Aboard the
87
of the
Each Young Lady,
-
The Old Home,
-
-
'%],
94
B. Baker,
^g2,
94
Blaitc/ie
-
Cornelia Green, '92,
and Bertha Brush,
Cha7-lotte
'93,
F. Roberts,
97
'80,
99
Frear,''<)2i'
i°o
-
Bessie B. Scribner,^g\,
A. D.,
'94,
92
Inter-Collegiate
93
Waban
November
Browk
Mabel R. Wing,
Notes
Auld Acquaintance,
a Kiss for
,
i,
Ripples,
News,
-
Caroline
Sarah S. Hickenlooper
1890.
Bbos., Publishers, 43 Ijinooln Street, Boston.
,
'94,
100
ADVERTISEMENTS.
MOV A L
R E
lyrics.
T-
J^.
.
^^OC3-C3-,
Has Ueinoveii her
DRESS REFORM PARLORS
Front 5
HA^rILTO^' PLACE
BOYLSTON
SO
(Next Door to Williams
Where
OCTOBER
she will opeu
to
STREET,
&
Eveiett)
13lh, with
:i
HORSFORD'S AGIO PiSPHATE,
t-omplete line of
Dress' Reforna tJndrrfjariuents for Ladies and Cliildr<>n,
— IXCLUniNti —
Jersey
Union Suits
Equipoise Waists, Jenness
Model Bodice. Divided Skirts, Combination
Fitting
Miller's
Garments,
Cotton
In fact
all
the most approveil underwear to order, or ready-made.
6-36
GEMS AND PRECIOUS STONES
"ART
—
AT
PARliORS,"
55
WIWrER
SY.
Manufactxirere of Jewelry in Special Designs.
A most excellent and agreeable tonic
and appetizer.
It nourishes and invigorates the tired brain and body,
imparts renewed energy and vitality,
and enlivens the functions.
Dr. Ephralm Bateman, Cedarville, N.
'•
have used
I
my own
practice, but in
CLASS BADGES, PINS and KIN&S,
FLORAL SOUVEHIK SPOONS,
HEIKLOOMS MODERNIZED,
Moonstone, Turquoise, Topaz, Chalcedony Hearts
"With Diamond or Plain Mountings.
We reco.^nize the fact that original designs are more appreciated than
sider
under
it
says
individual case,
my
and con-
circumstances one of the best
possess.
For mental exhaus-
all
nerve tonics, that
J.,
for several years, not only in
it
we
overwork it gives renewed
vigor to the entire system."
tion or
strength and
DESCRIPTIVE pamphlet FREE.
goods purchased from a stock without personal association.
— i^FiNE
A
Specialty in
Watch
Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R.
Repairing. "5»-
Eye Glasses extremely becoming
to "Wearer.
te:ste:jd.
GEORGE
A.
PERRY.
G.
NEW DRUG
To
FRIEND.
C.
Recently
fitted up,
SO,^
where may be found a
DRUQQISTS'
With
All
MAIN
full line
sure the word "Horsford's"
All others are spurious.
Never sold in bulk.
:m:iss
Prescriptions will be Carefully
&.
Accurately
2-36
MISS HATCH,
Dressmaking and Millinery,
STYLISH
AND SATISFACTORY WORK.
STEABN'S BUILDING,
10
Elevator,
i-iS
Artists'
&
i-iS
32
Etching Materials, Etc.
F. S. FEO.ST,
H. A.
LAWSEKCE.
3T
CORNHILI., BOSTON.
New, Popslar and Stmdard Books
C.
St.,
at
Boston.
Lowest Prices.
KEENAN &
WEST STREET,
Cor.
CO.
MASON.
Visiting or Invitation Cards Engraved or Written.
s-36
'
Send for Discount Tickets whic h we
ESTABLISHED
issue to Students.
1880.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
OF E^-EKT DESCKITION.
Mathematical Instruments,
CO.,
Washington
365
All tho
GEO.
iveatkrials
•••
-
lO.
Kennard.
.
ivi:.A.ss.
The Arcliivay Bookstore,
TEMPLE PLACE, BOSTON.
Temple Place.
&
PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS,
Compounded.
Agent, Registered Pharmacist.
4-tf
OVERWEAR
DeWOLFE, FISKE k
361
10
LADIES'
Over Eigelow
:nosTOiT,
SUPPLIES.
t^vemty-five years experience, and a careful attention to business, I
hope to merit a fair share of your patronage.
printed on the
MADB TO ORDER.
IS ^V^ESX STREET, Rooms 9 &
ST,,
of
is
nvniLLs,
"v. j^
Ap
COP^SETS
I.
Imitations.
CAUTION :— Be
label.
STORE.
ihe Citizens of Katick and Vicinity, the undersigned would most
respectfully call your attention to his store in
DOWNS' BLOCK,
Beware of Substitutes and
On
account of the intended destruction of this building,
31 East 17th Street, (between 4th Ave. and Broadway),
where I have been established for many years, my address
after May 1st, will be
E.
MIRIAM
COYRIERE,
150 Fifth Ave., Cor. 20th
Teachers' Agency,
St., Ne-w York. 29-18
ADVERTISEMENTS.
11
AND
PIANOS
The 3IAS0X
& HAMLIN
ORGANS,
im-
100 different Styles of
proved method of Siiinging. pro-
.S22
duces reniavkable rotineraent of
Hamlin
Organs
Highest
Awards
at all great world's
Exhibitions
which they have been exhibited
at
These Pianos are consequently
since 1867.
excellent for Renting.
for
&
have received
stand iu tune.
Organs
§1200.
Mason
tone and pheiioineiial capacity to
Sold
to
Cash or Easy Pay-
Organs Rented
ments.
till
Rent pays
for them.
CATALOGUES
MASON
FREE.
HAMLIN ORGAN
&
and
PIANO
CO.,
BOSTON, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.
Mason
3o.y
&
Hamlin
Hall, 154 end 155
SPRINGER BROTHERS,
TEEMONT STREET, BOSTON.
We
call
your
Stock of
Wholesale
and
Retail
Cloak
Manufacturers.
MISS
attention
to
GLOVES
Fine
that
KISK,
K.
IVr.
the
TEMPLE PLACE,
Kid, Dog Skin. Swede — in
44
Is
showing
in
fact any-
thing that a Lady can use in Gloves.
Miss Fisk has added to the attraction of her Store,
by opening a counter for Ice Cream Soda, Hot
Bouillon, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea and Milk, making
it
very convenient to refresh oneself when shopping.
B.
BRADBURY,
F.
443
WASHINGTON
Cor.
— DEALER
Fine
Drugs,
WINTER
ST.
IN —
Chemicals and
Family Medicines.
SELECT FANCY GOODS AND TOILET ARTICLES,
of every Description.
500 Washington Street, Cornor Bedford
Carriage Entrance.
30-y
10 and
12
BEbFORC STREET,
BOSTOiT.
Especial Attention given to Physician's Prescriptions.
Prompt Attention
to
Customers.
joy.
The Wellesley Prelude.
Vol.
BOSTON, MASS., NOVEMBER,
II.
The Wellesley
the article.
EDITORS:
Esther Bailey, '91.
Cornelia E. Green, '92.
Caroline Freak, 'gj.
Bertha DeF. Brush, '93.
Charlotte
F.
But, to one feature of the article, the pictures of
various groups of the students, decided objection
presents
Header, 'gi.
Katherine F. Gleasqn,
Blanche B. Baker, '92.
Sarah S. Hickenlooper,
.\my Augusta Whitney,
I.
Roberts,
'91.
'g4.
Sp.
'So.
communications from the students of the
literary
College should be sent to Literary Editor of the
Prelude, through the Prelude box in the general office.
Literary communications from outside the College should
be directed to the .-Mumnae Editor, .Afiss Charlotte F
Roberts, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Subscriptions should be sent, in ail casds, to Esther
Bailey, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
Advertisements and other bus'iness communications
should be addressed to Brown Bros., 43 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass.
ever attain publicity, should be scattered abroad
country, reprinted in papers of various
over the
of excellence, seems an event extremely
degrees
Not only do the young
I
^HE
Office,
Boston, Mass., as Second-Class Matter.
appearance of a long
article
on student
life
-'•
at Wellesley in any paper or magazine not
connected with the College naturally excites the
interest not only of all the students but of
who have
all
the welfare of Wellesley at heart.
those
It is
ladies
whose
faces are distinctly recognizable in the cuts object,
but
Wellesley students feel that the photographs
all
taken for private use and enjoyment should not in
any case be made public property.
inexpHcable that a Wellesley student herself
It is
should have furnished the photographs, as we must
the
believe
case
since
Wellesley Girl.
Entered at the Post
"
That the pictures of the students
itself.
taken without the vaguest suspicion that they might
undesirable.
-•Ml
7
described, are a decided addition to the value of
Prelude.
Edited by the Students of Wellesley College and published
weekly during the college year.
Price, $2.00 a
year, in advance.
Single copies, lo cents.
Emily
No.
1890.
i,
Even
the
if
article
is
signed,
A
she was willing to have
her own picture used in this way, she must have
known that the many others for whom she was
acting could not share her willingness.
accountable
that,
having
It
herself lived
is
un-
in
the
atmosphere of Wellesley, she should not have
that she
had not the
felt
property of
right to use the
a matter of considerable importance to the friends
of Wellesley that such an article should represent
essary publicity attending the circulation of these
not dwelling on some one phase of
pictures cannot prove of advantage to Wellesley,
the
life truly,
others in a
way
.
interest to the exclusion of others equally prominent,
and therefore the disapproval of
but giving an accurate and comprehensive picture
College
of the
life
From
as
The
it is.
this
point of view objection could
reasonably be
made
to
the article on " Student
Life at Wellesley College," in
a well
known magazine.
subject under discussion
of Wellesley
from the
not
very
.\
is
a recent
fair
number of
view of the
presented.
sides
.\11
is
The unnec-
distasteful to them.
all
friends of the
the inevitable result ot their publication.
editors of the
Prelude wish
to
state that
they were ignorant of the intended advertisement
in the issue of Oct. 18, of the
since the
outside the college.
the
article referred to,
business of advertisements
publishing
They did
of this
is
managed
not, therefore,
by
advertisement, give their
life
are treated with equal care, so that,
sanction to an article involving a principle meeting
article,
people entirely unacquainted with
with their decided disapproval.
Wellesley could form
sided activity.
ings, furnishing
The
the
a clear idea
of
its
man\'-
pictures of the various buildexternal
setting
to the
life
Ereeman has
set the rest of the
example by the foundation of
a
College a good
Pedestrian Club,
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
88
Thirty of the good walkers of this cottage have
themselves
resolved
shall
club whose purpose
a
into
be to take long walks once a week anj'way,
twice
The roads about Wellesley
are unusually favor-
There are
able for the practice of such a club.
many towns and
able
interest,
terference
frequently necessary, so that
is
villages, besides places of consider-
and otherwise,
artistic,
historical,
it is
m-
likely
to be dangerous for the welfare of a watch kept in
A
coincidence with College time.
possible.
if
the present clock up to standard time, outside
of the four
clock on each
one on the
or at least
floors,
would be of considerable advantage; but
third,
if this is
not possible, at least reliable time should be found
in the general office.
within comparatively easy walking distance of our
College walls, so that always the tramp
some
definite
end
in
MY
may have
view to give zest and
In the deepest of confidence,
the exercise.
Many of the shorter walks are not so long
they may serve as admirable substitutes for
but
the readers of the "
the
Were
boldly
Among the
halls,
easily accessible destinations are Welles-
ley Hills, South Natick, with
its
scenes of historical
and many connections with Harriet Beecher
will
I
" that I
Prelude
confess to
am
haunted.
not writing anonymously, I could not so
I
monotonous daily exercise on the plank walks-
interest
CLOCK.
spirit to
avow the
appear
for
fact,
wander through the
I
in the class-room
happy mortal,
like
any ordinarily
smile frequently, and even in the
I
presence of the intmding
have been known
spirit,
Yet melancholy has marked
me
Old-Town Folks," of which it is the
scene, Lake Crossing green-house, Morse's Pond,
generally indefinitely known as "the other lake,"
to laugh heartily.
and Natick, toward which shopping excursions may
be directed.
none may know whose troubles are here confessed,
Stowe's "
When
is
a longer walk of from ten to twenty miles
desirable,
Pegan
opportunities
more
are
section of Massachusetts to those
long incline.
Farm Pond
walking distance
little
numerous.
Hill offers a delightful view of quite a large
;
also
who climb
in Sherborn,
its
a good
is
any one of the group of
villages over to the south-eastward,
and Needham, Dover and Medfield.
Dedham
Echo Bridge
miles away
own, and the soul long over-burdened can
for its
only find relief in outward
the
mere
fact that
will
be a
relief to
If
Though
expression.
they here at
last
found utterance
me.
my room
you should come up to
my
would see upon
desk
a
little
tonight,
you
nickel clock, a
clock which would attract neither admiration nor
aversion
you would regard
;
indifference.
enough
harmless
has an open, honest-appearing face,
it
;
rather with supreme
it
innocent and
looks
It
hands and a well-modu-
long, slender, aristocratic
Yet
me
you what
it
" Tick-tock
— do you
says to
Newton Upper Falls, only five
from Lake Waban. In an opposite direction, to the
northwest are Weston and Wayland, and the Wayside Inn of poetic renown in Sudbury, nearer us
than Concord. With a good county map, showing
all the roads, many a profitable as well as enjoyable
lated voice.
hour might be spent in exploring the small section
clock-laugh which sounds like a dismal whirr of
of Massachusetts having Wellesley as
wheels.)
is
in
its
centre.
me
as I
sit
I
that
about
plan
The
office clock
old,
is
and by
its
recent
fits
suggested the thought that a more
time-piece would be a great convenience.
the only public clock in the building,
fore used exclusively
This
is
is
there-
by a large number of people.
Evidently a clock so
which furnishes
and
and
reliable
much used should be one
reliable
time.
In order to keep
tell
here alone with
it,
do not know what )'ou are writing ? Ticktick-tick-Don't you know I always watch your
every motion?
Tick-tock, tick-tock, good joke
think
my
honest
— (Here
a little
!
I'm the laughing stock of
Tick-tick-tick.
!
face!"
"Did you ever know me to tell the
I'm not built on that
my life? Not I
truth in
starts has
let
your friends.
isn't, it's
They
think
pure wickedness
it's
—
— " And you always
—and you can never get
my
stupidity, but
it
" here the harsh whirr
obliged to defend
again
feel
me
rid
of me, never, never,
all
is,
never, and
what
I
the best of
am, what
I
am
!
it
"
nous ticking which sounds
Then
you don't know
follows a
monoto-
like a constant repitition
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
"What am
of
until
What ami?"
folds its
hands piously over
tormentor under a
another
tick,
with
stern
What am I?
I?
my
smother
long to
I
pillow, but dare not.
No one would
be
like to
this
addressed by a
little
round-faced nickel clock, and especially when one
is
obliged to wince under the truth of the remarks.
It
that the
true
is
nickel time-piece keeps
little
one under a constant espionage.
.\m
a hurry, that fact
I in
my
recognized, and
aged wheels, lashes
late
am
in
Late
!
Getting late
!
weary, and would
I
machine
hasty jeers, " Late
Late
!
con-
on
all
to
a
his
Late
!
seek repose
I
watchful companion feels
!
Getting
In the evening
!
Then
?
weary too,
this
wheels
his
are scarcely able to revolve, his hands crawl slowly
over his
clock
No
No
!
!
one point and one only,
—
it
never
in
my
which
the truth.
tells
It
may be too fast, it may be too slow, but of this
one may be certain, it is never just right.
One evidence that it is not an ordinary clock
but a real haunting ghost may be found in the
following facts.
I
took
summer and thought
a desert island one
to
had seen the
I
but one of the
rested was this
mantel-piece.
first
objects
visit
same little clock,
Nothing daunted,
and returned
to
last
of
it.
my sister,
upon which my eye
departed to make a
I joyfully
to her,
it
to
on her
sitting
1
times
!
!
have ever so maliciously
I
—
this in
ings
confidence
little
many
is
time-piece was sent to
me for my wanton murder. At other
am inclined to recognize the ghost of some
one of ray ancestors
of
in
—
I
this
little
its
nickel case, for
my own
of
am
I
ing,
I
and may be recalled
have profited by
which
would
I
my
confess
I
his
have inherited from
for
when
try to set
I
its
and
short, sulks,
Now
I
when
I
just at
mahce,
go
refuses to
better,
it
manner.
my
it
seems
its
stops
well shaken.
until
a screw loose in
is
very probable that I
it
—
do
to
my
may be
There are times
ancestral time-piece
going wrong
to delight
my
over
my own
Now
discomforture.
sometimes fancied that there
in
like to
the most inopportune moments, and then
gloat
to
trying
think I discern in
traces of
do not
I
my ghostly clock ancestor,
my little time-piece right or
in a similar
afflicted
a task from
something which
failing is
sure that there
and think
clock,
show that
I
is
conduct, instead of sweetly owning
shortcomings and
am
This
withdraw.
This
them,
sent as a warn-
is
soon as
as
visit.
like to
faults.
to confess
determined
composition,
—Here
is
—
just
I
have
a trace of malice
enough
to
spirit.
strange
truth,"
life
advice
a warning
surely
to
make
has been a barefaced
beings,
me some
really gives
It
pain
or
when they have not
treated
I
consider proper appreciation, though of course
always endeavor to torture them in a perfectly
time before
it
comes around,
it
my fellowme with what
I
and
it
pleasure to
inconvenience upon
myself,
For example,
acknowledge
perhaps more than a trace of mahce
is
in nature.
inflict
am meekly
but I
my stern mentor, and will
obedient to
that there
lie,
from' the
tick
from one, whose
well-bred and ladylike manner, and
too lately had a freak of refusing to go on Sundays.
Just as soon as Saturday night
interesting.
fail-
shortcomings seem to indicate that
human
—
thinking that perhaps the ghost
my
soraetimes find in
points of resemblance
actuated by a
things
do not think that a mere machine,
a thing of springs and wheels, nickel and steel,
would act in that way, unless animated by a human
spirit.
But as to the way his shortcomings remind
for others, but I
clock seems to say, " Speak the truth, speak the
!
if I
made
disagreeable and inconvenient they
me
!
sometimes wonder
refuse to
it
killed time that this little
punish
do on Sunday the
and considered themselves very virtuous therefoie, however
who would
it
!
I
me
have seen
I
presented
I
on
sitting
" Back
Now
of virtue.
air
Wellesley, only to find
my desk, jeeringly ticking away,
Back Came back Back Back Came
back " I am sure, then, that I am haunted, but
the question off recurs to me — by what ? and why ?
still
refuses to utter
its face,
and simply stared down upon
things which they did not wish to do,
regulate
!
is
consistent,
is
"
out,
"
Early yet
There
and he drawls
face,
a
people,
me
mad
down upon me, and keeps
frenzy of haste, leers
repeating,
me
immediately
is
friend spins
little
his ticking
my
knows
It
every movement, jeers at me, and mocks
tinually.
89
I
any pleasure
There
is
influences in
it
was some-
I
was taking
understood myself that
in the process.
a peculiar
my
other time-piece.
sensitiveness to
clock, which I never
I
have
in
mind
personal
saw in any
a friend,
who
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
go
always seems to arouse an antagonism and hostility
the innermost recesses of the clock anatomy.
in
Does she enter the room, the wheels almost
variably cease to revolve, the cheerful
room
stopped, and the
cannot wonder,
for
tick-tick
with silence.
filled
is
Now
are people,
she does
outburst
me
affect
in
my
I
of melody
escapes from ray
come
I
to be foolish, weak,
most strongly
cannot think that I
lieve
in
the
am
to
law
as
believe,
I
and similar
—
relationship,
but
my
self-will,
a far-out
point of the ledge, as she slowly
with the sudden exclamation, "
first
threw
"
For almost a week Nature had shrouded herself
in a cloak of thick, white fog, but at
laid
it
aside, rather reluctantly, to
she had
last
be sure, and had
allowed the sun to peep once more into one of the
prettiest little harbors
on the Maine coast.
The sunbeams danced
down
cheerily
into
the
we go
can't
for you.
Fan
shame
It is a
!
to
spend
pleasant day so lazily," said Edna, as she
off
dreamy mood with a
her
shrug,
" Come, Tom, be energetic and take us out,"
urged Fanny hurrying over the rocks with more
haste than grace.
me
" Nothing would give
Tom
a
more
The
to
shawls,
and soon
together
gather
all
girls,
to
assume a
without waiting
had already
rejoinder,
enthusiastic
begun
greater pleasure," re-
contriving
gloomily,
parasols,
books,
on board the " Gull."
The sails filled prettily, and the little sloop
skimmed as gracefully over the water as any of her
namesakes. Far out beyond the little bay they
went, in and out
among
the
islands,
where the
waves, like hungry wolves, leapt up upon the
headlands Of steep, wooded
and scattered the foam high over the
a smile from the sullen sea
and
tried to
coax
but the great waves
;
stubbornly resisted their good-humored
efforts,
and
off in the distance, the
just visible
in
ledges.
the fog beyond,
and made
The
pointed Heavenward with a persistence
sweeping the
and forboding in the
clattering sound.
made
pebbles
down with
a
sharp,
At the end of the beach a ledge
out into the water so as to break the force
of the waves between
it
and the
the water rippled quietly up
cliff
beyond.
among
Here
the rocks, the
overhanging trees upon the cliff cast an inviting
shade at its foot, and a freshwater spring trickled
musically
down
a cleft in the cool rock.
In this delightful nook a lazy
little
with a misty, golden light.
Now
group of
Edna
Far
brilliant,
it
shine
old light-house
less
grim
flashing sunlight.
and then a vessel appeared, misty and faint
and the little group, no longer
in the distant fog,
lazy, discussed the fate of the
"Phantom Ship," and
chatted gayly while the time sped on even faster
than the " Gull."
" Tom, you look as surprised as
Marley's ghost.
three were assembled one .\ugust morning.
cliffs
sun touched a church-spire
curled in haughty scorn, leaving along the beach
a line of leathery, white foam, and relentlessly
little
and
three were comfortably settled
pleasant cove, shut in on either side by projecting
cliffs,
and
looked upon her friend with approval.
for
GULL,'
Why
!
Good
" bored " expression.
ABOARD THE
rest of the
"
sailing
turned
I.
her more energy than
in
stones with a splash, she turned upon her comrades
obstinacy, vanity, etc., etc.,
clock has stopped, and so will
of a
search
in
Fanny's graceful figure was poised
companions, and dropping the
in her
of heredity and
if,
on
lightly
pebbles
the
—
lounged beside her,
let
our
blame
over
" lucky stone."
"
traits from the spirit,
which turns the wheels of my clock in such a
cranky manner. There are a host of other shortcomings, which I might mention as tracing our
this
lazily turning
be-
I
Tom
picture of idle content.
sunbeams had aroused
acknowledge
I
wind
coast, letting the
that
and song, which generally
frozen by the knowledge
This
on the
into
the cheerful
and blame-worthy, but
softest
play undisturbed with the leaves of her book
drop into the water, one by one, a handful of
little pebbles. But the fresh breeze and the dancing
lips, is
of their adverse criticisms.
I inherit
chro-
same way
the
The moment
am struck dumb,
clock.
their presence,
I
have frequently found that there
I
who
my
is
from the moment she enters,
she does nothing but taunt and jeer at
nometer.
in-
leaned comfortably back against the rocks, which
were voted the
as
Tom
plan.
What
is
stopped suddenly
Tom
if
you had seen
the matter? " said Fan,
in the
midst of a brilliant
jxMnted to the treacherous bank of
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
fog, which,
unobserved, had been rolHng ripidly
91
drooped heavily over her
bravely, but Jier eyelids
toward them, and then to the same cruel enemy
aching eyes, and she was at length beyond care
creeping stealthily along the shore which they had
and worry.
left.
to
"
Do you
think that
"
We
race the fog," returned
will
we can
reversing
the course of the yacht.
The little "Gull" bounded homeward, but the
enemy swept down upon it from all sides, imprisoning it in its firm grasp. The sun, the rocky
coast,
and the picturesque
islands disappeared,
and everything was envelloped
The
penitrable, white mass.
house began
its
in a
cold, ini-
still,
fog horn at the light-
dismal solo, and wailed mournfully
How
cold
it is
!
the
silently into
the
light
wrap
Tom
mist.
and
pull,
gave
cap a de-
his
set his lips firmly as
he grasped
it
an impassable
Hark
wall.
What was
!
Only the sound of the waves
before, they had
that, a
that
?
while
little
thought so beautiful and grand,
hurling themselves with angry force
against the
Nearer and nearer came the sound,
they could hear each wave as
It
it
broke
until
in seething
was clear that they could not go on
might be quite as dangerous to turn back
;
;
it
was
it
sure destruction to drift about.
after
their short
hour passed
in tracing
" Will
course.
it
this
and
never
sound,"
retrp-cing
end," they
thought, as the roar of the waves and the dismal
foghorn grew unbearably monotonous.
" I'm ravenously hungry," said Fan
diving into the
lunch-basket
cake.
little
cabin,
encouragingly
at
last,
and returning with a
heavy.
But
alas,
it
two of bread, and several pieces of dry
Tom
threw .the bottle overboard
and was tempted
They
with
realized
The
thanksgiving
heard
;
he
could
He
vision faded.
and
that
relief
the
"Ship ahoy!" he cried
schooner was passing.
at
awoke with a
girls
to
do
likewise
in disgust
with the cake.
forgot their woes for a time in the
exertion
of making such a repast.
Darkness decended upon them, and with
uncontrollable desire for sleep.
start
conscience-stricken
having withdrawn companionship, the only aid^
offer, for Tom held in his hand not
only the course of the " Gull," but for a time the
they had to
gled their
shrill cries
Edna and Fanny min-
with Tom's more lusty ones,
but the wind scattered them as it did the spray,
and soon both the danger and the possible help
were past.
The morning brought no hope.
was
All
fog,
Hours of watching, waiting, hunger, and
silence
words which sometimes brought tears to
the eyes of the girls, and by which, again, they
tried to bring smiles to their lips, and then darkness
descended once more upon them. Forty-eight
hours of waiting
Would it never end ? It was
almost dawn.
Could that be the outline of cliffs
before them, becoming more and more distinct in
fog, fog
!
;
the light.
it
an
Fanny struggled
Yes, the fog had at last loosed
of imprisonment, and was rolling
and quickly
The
contained, besides an empty olive-bottle, only a
crust or
He
!
We must sail back and forth before
thought Tom with sudden decision.
"
Hour
Terror transfixed him
neither speak nor move.
course of their lives also.
seemed as if they could see miles
ahead, again they seemed to be running against
foam.
them down.
The
and gazed
closer,
tiller.
Sometimes
rocks.
the roar of the waves he heard a schooner
the creaking booni, and saw the huge bulk riding
" said shivering Edna.
Fanny drew her
termined
Above
ploughing the water close upon them.
again and again.
at regular intervals.
"
Edna
for
the dangers
get home."
Tom,
Cold, hunger and exhaustion proved
also, and Tom was left to face
and anxieties of the night alone. His
eyes were strained, he was so weary with listening
and watching, and he shivered involuntarily.
much
as
it
away
bonds
its
as silently
had come.
sun's kindly touch softened the stern aspect
cliffs, the waves seemed not so cruel
and the retreating fog lost its stealthy
of the
after
all,
look.
On, on flew the
little
" Gull " homeward.
The
shining harbor greeted them, the trees, glistening
with moisture, sparkled and flashed only joy, and
a sea-gull flew caressingly about the boat.
There
were the moorings, the beach, the pleasant nook,
everything as they had left it on that idle morning.
No, not quite everything, for there were gathered
there a group of friends as pale and worn with
watching and waiting as themselves.
Jennie
M.
Fiirbe}-,
'q2.
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
92
AN AUTUMN DAYAn autumn
A
day.
The melancholy
When
that
I
all still,
children play around
And
so
his
hungry perhaps, unless
where
to fly
There
might brings spring's
The tree, which put on hectic hues,
Or pallid in their first decay
soft
Till winter's
day
them
mother has no time even
for
earth in tune with sky above
birds, consulting
;
the missionary has just brought
over some of her
The
him
pay rent
livelihood, to
sheUerj them.
love,
and nature harmonize
life
The
day
roof which
the
for
means of
their very
itself,
;
is
it is
food, ragged,
attempt making
clothes for them.
something very sadly
because
story,
own poor
to
exactly true of
trite
about this
this,
and many
New York and
other families both in
many
in
;
But when one comes
other cities the world over.
When
leaves begin to strew the ground.
to know
name the
That footsteps of a wandering pair
May
not disturb the deep, profound
Repose, enwrapping earth and
especially about the Becks, or whatever
family bears,
it
always seems as
some-
if
thing must be done quickly to retrieve this bit of
air.
the great pain and hunger.
The
scent of fallen leaves give forth
To
Becomes a
A
To
restless spirits, tired of strife,
perfect anodyne,
from care, a lease of
rest
My
Were
Autumn
soul
I
is
and
!
wed
life.
to thee
I
Every week
'84-'85.
and
FOR EACH YOUNG LADY.
City, there
is
blocks of
a certain one, just like
all
New York
detail
all.
For no other block than
this
encloses
the particular
rear tenement-block, wherein,
up on the top
floor,
sky, there
of five
is
a tiny
call their
many
stories
home,
way
up toward the
room which a
certain family
as long as they
dollar sent each
months came the
can pay the
whole council, every
The room
is
At
two
though they were
far
least once,
little
girls
but
from rich
in this
not twice, in each
if
rounds for over
thirty.
And
Mrs. Beck would write, " This
letter,"
letter, the
young lady "
they must go the
sent a " kiss to each
nothing daunted by the fact that
almost every week,
is
for
Mr. Beck, His
and a quotation from the Scriptures would
always follow, more
When
neat and clean, but almost bare,
with none of the comforts of
life,
hardly with the
or
less
appropriate
for the
they learned from these letters that the
children were obliged to stay from Sunday-school,
Poor Mr. Beck lies here
do anything but suffer pain and
hunger, watching his two little girls, six and five
years old, try to amuse themselves and baby, while
for lack of clothes to wear, the council
some work. When he
was well and Could work, and Mrs. Beck had her
machine for the sewing she brought home, they
But now he has been
were [irosperous and happy
and Mrs. Beck has struggled on all
sick,
winter to buy the food and medicine required, and
at last has been compelled to pawn the machine
did those outsiders
necessities of existence.
day, unable to
mother
;
up their sympathy by some new
of suffering, and exciting them to some new
stirring
occasion.
rent.
all
letters,
world's goods themselves.
the others,
perhaps, in appearance, and yet not like any other
after
from Mrs. Beck her-
of the house, to break out in laughter
effort to aid,
many tenement
the
for three
spelling, often causing the
as often
Among
of this special story,
in
member
KISS
details
written with such care and labor, quaint in thought
seek.
Minnie Crosby Emery, Stitdent
AND A
the
in brief letters
:
a bird about the earth
Successive autumns would
came
little,
acknowledgement of the
week to help pay the rent.
must now speak
I
by
little
self,
Delicious
the King's Daughters of a certain house in
Wellesley
is
out trying to get
determined
send an Easter box to them, and contributions
to
of old clothes were called for from each member.
gave generously of such things as they had, as
All
box
in
time.
who knew anything about
That Wellesley
generous, this same band learned
people are
later,
the
ever
when they
were so kindly aided to take the machine out of
pawn, and so establish Mrs. Beck
at
Several of the household spent a
at
work again.
week together
the beach, that spring vacation, and
down
there
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
and almost made the dresses which they
tliey cut
sent for the Httle
these proved
girls,
and though only one of
be large enough
to
for Melissa, she
was well content as that was ]ierhaps the best and
them
prettiest of
Many
other things were brought
together for
the box, besides the dresses finished after the re-
and
turn to ^Vellesley,
Melissa, for
alas
for the
and
Sadie,
little
packing
baby,
for
for
Beck, but
for Mrs.
there was nothing found for Mr. Beck.
I
one rushed
neck
was ready
all
There were many things
soon.
gay with cheering red
tie,
So
and purchased a " beautiful "
oft"
In Wellesley College, midst the constant
urgent.
throng through the halls and
and heed a modest
which cried
for
little
and
;
Beck may wear
If
it
office,
could one hear
voice near the office-table
" seven-hundred
—
from seven hundred
all.
93
his necktie?
could, there
is
would not daunt the
cents
—
a cent
box that Mr.
in this little
"
no doubt that members
little
maidens
in
but quickly with eager thanks to
New
York,
the seven
all
hundred, would be sure to come " a kiss for each
young lady."
Bessie B. Scfi/mer, 'gi.
silk
that
all felt
the box was triumphantly complete.
The
which acknowledged
letter
brought ample
Even had not
its
reward for the labor extended.
found pleasure
all
the knowledge of the
in the
work
help and pleasure
must have more than repaid the
itself,
given,
The
givers.
thanks and kisses were so freely given round to
" each young lady," that each must have had a
store laid
up
was
for future need, as present desire
when every
quite surfeited,
THE OLD HOME.
receipt,
ledged with thanks and
was acknow-
gift
little
a kiss distributed
It
stands alone at the top of the
Nettles are springing and grass grows high
The
Chokes out tne larkspur and columbine,
And the lilac bushes, ragged and tall.
Have nearly hidden the cottage wall.
Open wide stands
And dead
But Mr. Beck's gratitude
wear
till
it
necktie was
for the
as he wrote he
he could get a
new
suit
would not
of clothes,
while he quoted the whole of the hundred and
thirteenth Psalm in praise
And now
is
coming
that the
again,
and thanksgiving.
summer
is
passed, and winter
and Mr. Beck
still
remains im-
" dropsy, and kidney and liver
prisoned by the
complaint," of which Mrs. Beck :yrote so pathetically, since
'
indeed there
is
traly
a sequel to
no hope of
simple
is
without which
would never have been written.
this
the plan to send a Christmas-box to
all
the
Becks, but have begun their work especially for
Mr. Beck, that he
and ever
little
feel the
room on
for
his fine necktie at last,
cheer of
its
brightness in that
the top floor of the rear tenement.
In Wellesley,
calls
may wear
cents
where there
in
this
are
never-ceasmg
and that direction, one
always dreads to add one's voice to the multitude
of other voices, which
Creeping things in crevices hide.
And spiders have curtained the fireplace wide.
Desolate all, and dark and drear;
But while
The
I
pause a
moment
to
hear
And
the frogs in the marsh beyond the
Memory's magic again recalls
The
life
hill,
that once brightened these mouldering
walls.
may be showing needs more
A
glowing
And
fire in
the chimney roars.
over the rafters
Till the
And
room
is
its
radiance pours,
alight with a
mellow glow,
ghostly shapes of the long ago
Steal from the shadows, one by one.
And
gather around the old hearthstone.
Eyes long closed in a dreamless night
Grow bright again
Hands grown cold
with a tender light
in Death's icy grasp.
Meet one another in loving clasp
Slow pulses quicken and pale cheeks
;
And
As
'"
distant cry of the whip-poor-will,
tale,
The house has once more gathered in the
Daughters of the King, who are thus early united
in
the sagging door,
leaves are drifted over the floor
Vines stray in through the broken panes,
Which give free access to winds and rains
his
recovery, there
it
;
morning-glory's tangled vine
round
to all.
most -touching, especially
hill,
And on it the years have worked their will.
Where the garden bloomed in days gone by,
flush.
gay tones banish the cheerless hush,
parents and children, lover and bride.
Gather once more round the old fireside.
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
94
Fairer than
A
commonly
shines one flower-like face,
all
slight form
moves with
the old-time grace
Once more
;
And
hear the gentle tone,
I
my own.
But a sudden cry
and the charm is fled.
The voices are hushed and the lights are dead.
lian
brightens the old hearth-
A. D.
was the most
brilliant,
;
stand alone
stone.
In .Switzerland other
others.
and also
'94.
fruitful,
Roumania.
in
Few
dialects were
AUTUMN SPENDOR.
land
from a literary point of view.
little
found,
of these last dialects were
The Roumanian
presents only a few fragments of verse.
IN
the
Ionian, the Castilian
—
I
The language of
and the Portuguese. The Castiand it has become the
modern Spanish. Italy has had many dialects thai
of Florence gradually gained supremacy over the
spring to meet her and claim
The vision is past and
Where the moonlight
Old French.
an entirely different language, with a different literature. Across the Pyrenees, in the territory lying south
and south-west, were three different dialects, the Cata-
the light of the timid e} es
Shines upon nie with glad surprise
Once more
called
south was the Langue d'oc, or the Proven9al dialect,
;
In Switzer-
attention was paid to literature, and nothing
jsermanent or useful to literature was created.
The
produced the most mediaeval literature
were England, France, Spain, and Italy. Although
there were many scholars at this time, with refined and
nations that
sigh for tne joys of the
I
summer departed,
smile for the jubilant harvesting days.
I
And
look on the red and the gold of the maples
That gleam in a veiling of silvery haze.
Mabel R. Wing, '87.
learned minds, they did not produce anything of im-
portance.
.
this
week postponed
until
New
Dr. Charles Robinson of
Friday even-
York, lead the
meeting.
Ox
gave
Cohn
Romance
Saturday, Oct. 25th, at four o'clock, Prof.
his first lecture
on the
literature of the
The whole country
nations, during the Middle Ages.
of Europe, he said, was inhabited by different races.
These have not
all
a literary history.
That
is
the priv-
two great families of nations, subdivisions of
race. When the unity of Rome broke under
its own weight, France leaped into national and politiThe French and the Germanic races together
cal life.
ilege of
the
Aryan
Romance nations. France
Rome. The Germanic races
constitute the
represents
the spirit of
differ eth-
nologically, although, through a
speech, an intellectual unity
.Spanish
still
is
common
preserved.
Prof.
Cohn
said
origin
Romance
that the idea of nation
rnodern idea, and he proceeded
of
nations.
was rather
a
to divide the territory
according to language, before noticing the .seeds of
and and the literary achievements.
All the
languages of the .Middle Ages were divided into dia-
literature
lects.
The
dialect of the north
did not pro-
Thus, much of the .Mediaeval literature lacked finish
and sincerity, owing to the tendency of the writers to
express themselves in Latin. The French language
possessed the greatest number of literary works. An
enormous mass of epic literature was produced centreing around the heroes Charlemagne and Arthur. A
goodly number of lyrics were also written about this
time, and were especially popular.
The south of
France produced a kind of lyrical poetry tnat was particularly beautiful and harmonious in character.
Love
was usually the inspiring theme. Spain produced no
great individual work, but
about the Cid.
was the Langue
d'oeil,
many romances,
Italy's first literature
centering
was an imitation
of the French romances in bad Italized French.
Later
became intensely individual. Dante was the great
Italian master, and others followed his lead, among
them Petrarch and Boccacio.
The second lecture in
this course will be given by Mile. Pellissier, on Nov. I.
The subject is ' Chansons degeste" and " Poems on
it
Antiquity."'
»
*
The French,
and Portuguese have not a common ancestry,
they are classified together as
it
duce any literary masterpieces. Those can be created
only in the language which the mass of the people use.
On Sunday, October 26, Dr. J B. Thomas, of the
Newton Theological Seminary, preached to the students, taking his te.xt from Mark 14:6, "Brought
good work." The prayer meeting usually held on
Thursday, was
linguistic separation existed
responded, conversed, and wrote, but
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ing.
An unfortunate
between the cultured class aud the mass of the people.
Latin, during the Middle Ages, was not a dead language. It was the medium in which the educated cor-
*
On Saturday evening, October 25th, the regular
meeting of the Shakespeare Society was held in Room
-X, at seven o'clock.
There was a full attendance at
the meeting, and it was acknowledged by all, that even
small, bare rooms have their attractions.
After the
roll-call had been answered by witty sayings from the
different plays, the following program was carried
out :—
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
Subject, shakesi'EARe's wits.
Miss Freeman.
Shakespeare News,
Wits. Their Place in Shakespeare's
.
.
^[iss Emerson.
Dramatic Art,
—
— King
Dr.^matic Rem^esentatiox
Henry IV.
pt-
Women are
never entirely and only wits
one side of
their character.
representative of
ACT.
Sc. 4.
II.
.
Falstaff,
refined,
-
Miss Palmer.
Miss C. E. Green.
Miss Newman.
Miss Wardwell.
-
-
Poins,
-
-
-
-
Shakespeare's Feminine Wits,
Impersonation,
-
-
ACT.
Miss Hodskins.
-
Much Ado About Nothing.
Dramatic Representation.
Shakespeare's lower
is
a good
women
wits.
As
a
gem
loses half
its
beauty,
if
not
the wit of these three Graces
setting, so
would lose half itsattractiveness without the background
and high womanhood.
Beatrice is
spirited and sparkling
apt and ready in repartee
inof noble character
;
;
defatigable in retort; without consideration of others.
In spite of her failings, she
She
has a soft heart.
is
is irresistible.
Rosalind
not so dependent on wit as
and unlike Beatrice, she never hints with her
She has wonderful felicity of expression.
Portia has more softness and womanliness than Beatrice
she is stronger and deeper than Rosalind.
Her
wit is brilliant and rich, but the thoughtful woman is
always felt behind it.
Rosalind's wit is animated by
spirit and softened by sensibility
that of Beatrice and
Portia is more forceful and sparkling.
The members
of the Society regretted that Miss Hodgkins was not
able to be with them on Saturday evening.
Those who
Beatrice,
Sc
I.
— wit represents
Quickly
while Beatrice, Rosalind and Portia are the
good
in a
Prince Hil,
Dame
Rosaline represents the order between the low and the
three Graces.
1.
95
I.
sayings.
ACT.
III.
Sc. 2.
Benedict.
;
Claudio.
Miss Reed.
Don
Miss Look.
Pedro,
Characters for study.
;
Falstaff,
Henry IV. pt. i and 2.
T^
Quickly, (
Dame /-,
^igr,.,\vives of Windsor,
Mistress Page, )^
Benedict,
•
Beatrice,
1
1
took part
Much Ado About Nothing.
As You Like
Rosalind.
it.
SSiako,S^'-'='-"'°''^'^"=^^Richard III.
King Richard 1 1 1
Antony and Cleopatra.
Cleopatra.
Romeo and
Mercutio.
Taming
Katharine.
The Questions
for
of the Shrew.
Consideration were
—
" Tests of Wit,'" and
" Development of Wits from the Earlier
in
to the
her paper, spoke of the individual
Fools and clowns
wit of the individual characters.
were not treated of at all, as their wit is best shown in
dramatic representation, while that of the other wits is
shown clearly in the thought. Gallant gentlemen and
fair ladies
indulge in wit for the most part, and the
subjects are generally the caprice of lovers
and the un-
Shakespeare used wit in the
In this way truths
tragedies to lighten or relieve them.
are presented which would be received in no other way.
certain chance of love.
The unconscious
art
and
skill
of Shakespeare himself
At Shakespeare's
seen continually between the lines
they cannot help it.
wit. even the stoical must laugh
is
.
—
—
There's nothing
Miss Emerson closed her paper with
I haven't any myself, but I do like
like wit, is there?
Miss Wardwell treated of Shakesit in Shakespeare.
:
peare's
Feminine Wits,
in Iter paper.
*
*
*
The
and
regular monthly meeting of the Microscopical
Scientific
.Society
was held
last
Saturday.
The
subject of the evening was Nature, and, after the Secre-
had been given, and the revised constitumembers present answered to the
roll-call by repeating an appropriate quotation from the
poets or naturalists.
Miss Briggs then gave a short
account of the Scientific news of the past month from
the world at large.
The real work of the evening was
commenced by Miss Louise Brown who selected and
read the most interesting portions of Emerson's " Essay
on Nature." Miss Chambers gave the poetical conception of Creation, illustrated by Wordsworth's sonnet,
" The World is too much with us," and by one of his
letters to his sister Dorothy.
She also read some
beautiful
passages from Burough's " Touches of
Nature."
Miss Stockbridge presented some of the
quaint but impressive views of our American poetnaturalist, Thoreau, by a reading from his " Walden,
tary's report
tion read, each of the
Later Plays."
Miss Emerson,
and fascination of Shakespeare's
and showed a keen appreciation of fun. A short
discussion of wit and the tests of wit ended the program.
The Society took great pleasure in welcoming four newmembers, to its Shakespeare work.
wits,
Juliet.
Love's Labour's Lost.
Biron and Rosaline.
the dramatic representations illustrated
in
well the attractiveness
Shakespeare's
or
Life
in
the
Woods."
A
thoroughly interesting
sketch of the pine cone was given by Miss Clark.
It
was shown that the cone is a miniature representation
of the whole vegetable kingdom, and the laws that
govern the arrangement of its scales in spirals are found
to apply to the worlds of Astronomy, as truly as to the
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
96
After the meeting
phenomena of this earth.
members were invited to examine some slides which
Miss Whiting had kindly brought down for our use.
various
the
This gave opportunity
for
becoming better acquainted
with the new members, about a dozen of
whom
have
promised Siegmund by his father is revealed thrust
into a tree.
This Siegmund joyfully draws, and he
and Sieglinde escape from the hut.
Weary and weak, Sieglinde sinks in exhaustion. It
is
then that Brynhild, Wotan's favorite daughter, ap-
pears to
recently joined the Society.
On Monday evening
a large audience gathered in the
hear Mr. Corey's illustrated lecture on the
story of " The Ring of the Niblung." After a short
sketch of Wagner's life and a comparison of the sun-
Chapel
to
shiny Greek mythology with the gloomy traditions of
the
North,
Mr.
Corey proceeded
the
to
story of
Beneath the gentle, rippling Rhine, we see the Rhine
maidens frolicing about the precious gold. In the
midst of their sport, and their song of praise comes
The god of darkAlberich, the King of the Niblung.
ness becomes at the same time enamoured of the
maidens and covetous of the gold, but he who possesses
the gold must renounce love that the treasure may
endow him with wealth and power. The maidens
Stung by their
scornfully taunt the lovesick King.
Out of
taunts he snatches the ring and disappears.
the mysterious gold he forges the ring, which brings
woe to gods and men.
The scene now changes to beautiful Walhall, the
home of the gods. But Wotan, the chief, has not yet
demanded by
the giants
who
built
it.
Instead of Friea, the goddess of truth, the giants will
accept as ransom the ring forged from the stolen gold.
With
the aid of Loge, the
fire
god,
Wotan
obtains
from Alberich by fraud, but the dwarf King
delivers with the treasure a curse upon gods and men.
There is a dispute
This curse at once begins to act.
this ring
as to its possession, Tafner kills his brother,
and
re-
and the magic helmet obtained
from Alberich, to guard his treasure in the depth of the
forest in the shape of a huge and horrible dragon.
treats with the ring
In order that the curse
may be removed Wotan
de-
scends to earth as Vclsung, that by his union with a
mortal, there
may come
god-like, dauntless
a
race
which shall furnish him with a hero to do his bidding.
As
Siegmund
Soon the mother is killed and
Siegmund lives with his father
a result of his mortal marriage the twins
and Sieglinde are born.
Sieglinde disappears.
till
he,
too,
disappears.
forest in search
that he
is
near the joys of Wal-
refuses to accept
any joys which Sieglinde
cannot share, and Brynhild,
in direct opposition to her
father's will,
overcome by human love and
suffering,
says that they shall both live.
Soon Siegmund meets Hunding in combat. Brynhild
appears to protect the hero, but Wotan descends in
wrath and shatters the magic sword just as Siegmund is
overcome the foe. Brynhild places the griefupon her horse, gathers up the pieces
of the broken sword and flees from her father's anger.
about
to
stricken Sieglinde
Wagner's opera.
paid the price
Siegmund
tell
He
hall.
of him,
He wanders
till
through the
he comes foot-sore and
weary to the hut of Hunding the forester.
Here he is refreshed by Seiglinde, now the forester's
Ignorant of their relation, a passionate bond
wife.
springs up between
Siegmund and Sieglinde.
Hundenemy and challenges the
ing recognizes in him an
defenceless wanderer to fight.
Then
the masric sword
Wotan
Brynhild has just time to shelter
pursues.
Sieglinde in the forest, give her the broken sword, and
bid her keep
it
for the little
one
to
come.
He
turns to meet her father's wrath.
become the
that she shall sleep by the wayside to
of the
first
Then she
angrily decrees
slave
passerby, but Brynhild entreats him to place
her within a circk of
fire
that at least he,
who came
to
her might be a dauntless hero.
Wotan
His anger soothed,
daughter's boon, and takes a tender,
grants his
sorrowful farewell of her.
Meanwhile Siegfried is brought up in the forest by
Mime, the brother of Alberick. At last he is obliged
to tell his charge the story of birth, and give him the
sword of his father. Siegmund forges anew the magic
weapon, and instigated by Mime, who hopes to obtain
the treasure, he starts out to slay the
He
dragon.
succeeds in killing the monster and obtaining the
treasure for himself.
dragon's blood, he
on
his
is
return slays
Having accidentally tasted of the
warned of his foster father and,
him in impetuous wrath. He is
besides enabled' to understand the language of the birds,
who urge him on
through the
He makes
to seek Brynhild.
fire,
his
way
awakes the maiden, and a mutual
passion draws them together.
In the rocky fastesses they live in ideal happiness,
At
until Siegfried thirsts for adventure.
length he sets
out for the court of Gunther. leaving his
evil ring,
whose power he does not know, with Brynhild. He
comes to the court of the powerful king. Hagen,
Alberich's son, plots against
He
gives
the
innocent Siegfried.
him a drugged potion which causes him
lorget Brynhild.
Siegfried
falls
to
passionately in love
with Gutrune, sister to the king, and
demands her
in
Gunther bids him bring Brynhild to the
court.
Siegfried has even forgotten her name.
He
goes to her in disguise, and wrests the ring from her.
She follows him to the court, recognizes him, and impelled by jealous rage conspires with Hagen to kill
marriage.
liini.
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
A
hunting party
back
turned,
is
planned, and while Siegfried's
treacherously stabs him, but not
is
Hagen
before Siefried has been brought to realize the witchcraft practiced upon him, for he dies with Brynhild's
name upon
Solemnly the hunters bear him
his lips.
Brynhild sees the ring and realizes the
She claims her right as his wife, orders a funeral
pyre to be built upon the bank of the Rhine, and when
his body has been placed upon it, and the pyre lighted,
she dashes into the flames upon her beautiful horse,
after having thrown the ring back to the Rhine maidens,
the court.
curse.
who
rise to receive
by several of the most
Wagner's opera, and these
served to heiehten still more the interest of the lecture
and to bring the story more vividly before us.
Mr. Corey varied
his lecture
COLLEGE NOTES.
Edward Abbott, of Cambridge,
November ninth.
will
preach in
the Chapel. Sundav,
Miss Whiting has been elected president of the
left vacant by
fill the place
the resignation of Miss Kno.x.
Christian Association, to
Last Saturday evening, Oct. 25, the Shakespeare
Society, Zeta Alpha, the Art Society, and the Microscopical Society,
held their regular meetings.
all
following notice has
to all those
who
the Harvard
be interesting
come from
University Cycling Association.
It will
watch good cycling.
like to
AMATEUR RACE MEET.
Open to Colleges, Schools, and the B. A. A. On
Holmes Field, Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, Nov.
8, 1890, at 2.30 P.M.
Events.
Half-mile Safety, scratch
1.
— Novice,
open
Har-
to
vard only.
— open.
2.
One Mile Ordinary, handicap
3.
Half-mile Safety, handicap— open.
it.
striking selections from
Re\-.
The
97
4. Quarter-mile
5.
One Mile
6.
Two
7.
One Mile
all
Ordinary, handicap
Safety,
— open.
scratch— Inter-scholastic, open to
preparatory schools.
Mile Ordinary, scratch— Intercollegiate.
Safety,
handicap—
Intercollegiate.
Two Medals, struck from dies owned by the Assoelation, will be given in each event.
In the Interscholastic race, a slver cup has been presented, to be competed for by the Interscholastic Cycling Association, under rules similar to those which
govern the Mott Haven games.
The
Senior class held a union piayer-meeting
last
Sunday evening, on the Chapel platform. Miss Coman
led the meeting, and gave a talk on "Working-girls'
Clubs.
Four new members were
received into the Shakes-
The
Juniors held their union meeting in the Stone
Miss Mabel Glover, Miss Helen Cook and Miss
Harriet Gage, '92, and Miss Drusilla Douglas, '93.
Hall parlor.
Miss Mar)- Howe,
7
peare.
Zeta Alpha
'88,
was present
programme.
carried out the following
Subject
:
Recent Essayists.
Dudley Warner
Charles
at the meeting.
was
presented
Miss
Burroughs
The
by
presented
Miss
Carter.
Robert Louis Stevenson was presented by Miss Alma
Beale.
to Strength."
LXXXl V
:
Miss Hawley led
the meeting.
Bible classes of Miss Scudder and Miss
are to divide into gioups for their
meetings, this
was
subject was from Psalms
" From Strength
The
by
McCaulley.
John
;
year,
Saints of
and each group
will
take, for
of the following subjects
study, one
special
Heathendom
;
Coman
Sunday evening
:
— The
Allen's " Continuity of Chris-
Thought," with readings from the Early Fathers;
Books of the Inward Life Sacred
Song; Christion Worship; Leaders of Modern Religious Thought; The Psalter; Alden's "God in His
World ;" History of the Different Branches of the
tian
Talk on George William Curtis,
Talk on Edith Thomas,
Talk on Agnes Repplier,
-
-
.
-
Miss Hand.
Miss Sibley.
Mjss Kyle.
Miss Martha Goddard and Miss Mcllareny, '92will be initiated into Phi Sigma, next Saturday, at its
Lives of the Saints
Church
;
;
;
The Prayer-meeting.
regular meeting.
Tuesday, Oct.
Political
Miss
Coman
addressed
her
Economy
interested,
All
21,
class, and all others who were
on the subject of " The McKinley Bill."
to hear that Fraiilein
Many
of the students have availed themselves of
the grand opportunity, offered them, of seeing "The
Angelus " and the Verestchagin collection, in Boston.
The Faculty have willingly given permission to all
who wished to be excused from recitation, for
One Art enthusiast sat for three hours
this purpose.
She certainly showed her
before "The Angelus."
Eggers has
been obliged to leave Wellesley, on account of illhealth.
She will go to Germany, to stay until her
those
entire recovery will enable her to return to College
appreciation of a privilege which she will never have
again.
again, in America, at least.
will regret
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
98
The
Freenianilesliave
deemed themselves
fortunate
having Miss Scudder spend Thursday nights with
them, for some weeks past.
The so-called " guestin
room is now occupied by Miss Cushman, '91, who
has moved there from Stone Hall, but they hope that
"'
Miss .Scudder's
flying visits will
There would
ley,
were
all
be
little
continue.
need of gymnastics
Miss Mclver,
"90,
Newcomb,
'91.
iMiss
at Welles-
the College girls as energetic as two Sen-
who walked eighteen
iors,
still
Miss Gertrude Chandler and Mrs. Carrie Newel]
'79, spent Sunday at Freeman, with their
former class-mate. Miss Montague. Miss Chandler
and Mrs. Ferguson are now missionaries in India.
Ferguson,
miles without stopping, the
other day. and
felt almost as fresh at the end of their
walk as at the beginning.
It is almost an old joke now to give any •' grinds"
on the Freshmen, but this is such a good one that it
will be pardoned.
Some of them started out for a row
on the lake in one of the huge College boats. They
seemed to find difficulty in getting on very fast, but it
was not until they had rowed quite far out from the
shore that they found the boat was going stern foremost
Miss Helen A. Clark, student
appear
in
week, pretty
last
Japanese fans began to
different parts of the College, bearing
them what appeared
But when the Japanese
the
little
at
first
be
to
(?) lettering
recipients learned that
"Simpson Tea, October
on
hieroglyphics.
was properly read,
they were
invited
twenty-fifth."
the reception, unfortunately, did not
make
to a
The day
of
the walk to
Simpson as alluring as could have been hoped, but
when one entered the door, all was changed. From
corner to corner of the hall lighted Japanese lanterns
were hung, and parasols and Oriental draperies filled
every possible nook.
In the parlor, which was a bow-
at Wellesley, '84-'S7,
stayed with Miss Foster, Sp., at Mrs. Lovewells, several
days
last
week.
Mr. Joseph Reed spent Sunday
Miss Sallie Reed, '91.
at Wellesley, with
his daughter.
Wellesley
habit of mistaking
not in the
is
its
gentlemen visitors for tramps, yet this very thing happened last Saturday evening. An innocent' young
man, who was standing, somewhat in the shadow,
outside one of the cottages, created no small alarm
among
the passers-by
was called out
discovered
The
E.^RLY
spent Sunday at Freeman, with
2oth,
to
and a member of the Faculty
it was
;
investigate matters, before
who he was.
following e.xtract from the "
Academy"
of Sept.
together with a portion of a letter from Mr.
Goodyear, may be interesting to those who enjoyed
his course of lectures on " Greek Art," last year.
Mr. Goodyear writes
in favor of
— "Professor
Reginald Stuart
public stand
an address
London, two days ago.
Smith of the British Museum
lotus discoveries, in bulk, in
University College,
before
B. V.
my
:
Museum, has taken
Powll, of the British
Head and Cecil
From the
—
Academy: "Mr. W. H.
now in London, preparing
Goodyear, of New York,
for the publication of his tiiagnum opus, "The Grammar
concur."
is
Hayes and Miss
Denio, with Mrs. P. B. Goodwin, in whose honor
the tea was given, received the many guests.
Tea
and chocolate were served in the dining-room, where
work which he has had in preparation
and which is of the first importance
as regards the history and development of decorative
This book has been purart in the Ancient East."
chased for the Art Library, and will doubtless be a
halfa dozen of the hostesses, with dainty fans stuck
high in their hair, presided.
Everything went oft'
valuable addition for
er of
autumn
leaves. Miss Clark, Miss
charmingly, but the crowning success of the afternoon
was the presence of Miss Sugiye, who appeared in full
Japanese costume, much to the delight of every-one.
Miss Harriet Constantine,
Norumbega, one day
last
'89,
spent a few hours at
week, on her way to Boston,
from Worcester, where she
is
teaching in the High
of the Lotus," a
for several years,
All
those
who
on the
fifth floor,
have, this last
week, been alarmed by the sound of masculine voices,
apparently coming from the outer air. But there is no
just cause for terror, for College Hall is being painted-
and the voices belong
good work.
It will delight
many
to those
to
who
know
are carrying on the
that the beautiful fairy
" The Golden Key," by George MacDonald, is
now published by Lothrop, and that it can be obtained
It is in a white
there, or at the College Book Store.
tale of
School.
Prok. Horsford spent the day
at
Norumbega,
last
week.
cover, similar to
stories of Tolstoi
The many
friends of
Miss Mary Howe,
'88,
were
glad to welcome her again to Wellesley last week. She
remained
those interested in this subject.
all
recite
at the
College until Monday.
;
" The White Lady," and the short
and is a dainty contrast to the only
other form published, an old-fashioned English edition,
entirely
inappropriate
spiritual story.
to
the
e.xquisiteness
ot
Price 25 cents; postage 3 cents.
this
THE VVELLESLEY PRELUDE.
AULD ACQUAINTANCE.
" Tis not the whole of
>
Nor
Memoriam — May
In
••
Thou
And
The
silence
!
'
will."
heart, always loyal
Master's voice, and
is at rest.
tember the 29th our friend,
aside the burdens and toils of
take her place with the
many
and
true,
On
May
the evening of Sep-
has heard the
Ellis
this earth,
saints
who
all
her,
She had been with us only twenty-seven years, and
more than sixteen happy years of that time, she had
found delight in loving and serving the best and tiuest
Friend of men. She seemed to us just fitted for a long
life of usefulness for the Master here, and we were not
prepared for the silence and the shadow which have
around us.
Xature bestowed upon her a keen intellect, a passionate love of music, and a high sense of honor.
fallen
These endowments, directed by loving and faithful
made of her a noble, educated and pureHer childhood learning was gained
hearted woman.
by the side of a motherwho believes that all knowledge
is of God, and the child grew to know that " God is
Love," and in Him is all fulness of wisdom.
She became a student at Wellesley College in the
fall of '8 1, and graduated from the musical scientific
On Thanksgiving day of the
course in June, '86.
same year she gave her hand to one who had long held
Without were wind and rain
the love of her heart.
and sleet, but these were all forgotten in the new hope
and happiness within.
On Saturday, October ist, 1887, was held the first
meeting of the New York State Wellesley Association,
in the formation of whicn .Mrs. Searing had been
much interested. She bore her part towards the enter-
be with us, but the call of a dearer Friend came to
and she left us to go to that happier and " Better
Land."
to
Tliey put upon her the wedding dress, and the
day
little boy was three years old, they
tenderly
that her
laid the mortal
remains of the mother in her last restBut the friend, the wife, the mother, is not
there.
For her the heavens have opened, and we
know that she is watching from the other side of the
cloud, the loved ones left behind.
ing place.
" What comfort, when with clouds of woe
The heart is burdened and must weep,
To feel that pain must end, to know,
—
parents,
to
be
Early in the morning of the second their
a
new
life.
From
that time
her greatest delight was to watch over the growth and
care for the
Searing.
welfare of her
The added home
little
son, Ellis Richard
duties
but opened her
heart the wider in behalf of God's people, and the in-
church and Sunday School found in her a
hearty support and a \villing worker. She received the
reward of a faithful laborer before she left this earthly
terests of
home,
in that
it
was her privilege
To-day she would have occupied the secShe desired much
present.
and went to
day and
.serve
tainment of the guests, although unable herself
to see all the
:
•
needs in that department of our educational system.
Last year she was given the place of toast mistress, and
with her keen wit she added much, to the pleasure of
retary's chair beside our president.
for
home was gladdened by
life to live
of death to die."
Searing, laid
night before the throne.
present.
all
At the second meeting of our Association Mrs. Searing read a paper on " Industrial Training Schools,"
which showed a thoughtful and earnest study of the
fluttering heart,
sayest Be still
and shadow are only a part
Of Thy sweet
Another
Searing.
Ellis
on the
layest tliy liand
99
mem-
'
"
He
giveth his beloved sleep.'
When
in the mid-day march we meet
The outstretched shadows of the nio-ht.
The promise, how divinely sweet,
At even-tide it shall be light.' "
—Prepared for the IVellesUy Association
'
of New York State, held in Rochester, Oct.
11.
Mrs. Caroline Soule Metcalf,
'80, will make her
Minn., this year, her husband having been appointed professor of chemistry at Carleton
home
in Northfield,
College.
Miss Clara Ames, '83, has recently returned to this
country, after a sojourn of four years in Germany, where
she has been studying music and languages.
Miss Ella Drury,
in
'79, is
conducting private classes
Micioscopy, in Boston.
Miss Minnie Young, '84, has removed from Kenand will spend the winter in Dover, N. H.
Mrs. Verna Sheldon Hicks, '84, whose marriao-e
was recorded in a recent number of the Prelude
will make her home in Portland, Me.
tucky,
Miss Katherine Lee Bates,
'80, and Miss Annie Scostudent at Wellesley '84-'86, have spent a delightful summer of travel in England and Scotland.
They intend to be in Oxford for the fall term of the
University.
ville,
The many
Wellesley friends of Mrs. Martha Foote
be sorry to hear of the great losses which
bers of her Sunday School class accept as their Friend
Crow
and Master, the Son
have come to her this summer and fall. During the
summer, her little daughter, Agatha, died at Colorado
Springs, and September 28th Prof Crow started for
Grinnell, la., aud died on the train soon after leavino-
01 the all-loving Father,
our Elder
Brother. Little did we think that thus early her life
work would end, and even now dare any of us say that
the end has come ?
will
Denver.
"
THE WELLESLEY PRELUDE.
too
WABAN
INTER-COLLEGIATE NEWS.
Amherst College has received a bequest of $40,000
towards the professorship of Greel< and Sculpture.
Union College has received a deed of $75,000 to ena professorship of Political Economy and Social
dow
Harvard under-graduates do not favor a three years'
There are registered at the University of Michigan
2,244 students, 250 more than were enrolled last year.
447 new students have applied for admission. There
are 25 Japanese students in attendance.
The alumni
Law School are discussing the
new building for tlie institution,
of Yale
plan of erecting a
which now
occupies the top story of the county court-
The
present rooms of the school will accomo-
At Colby University,
year marks the beginning
and the abolition af the co-
this
of the co-ordinate system
This is considered to be a wise
large annex for the ladies has been added to
education system.
move.
A
he stands so
valuable addition has been
made
to the
meteoro-
department at the Massachusetts Agricultural
College at Amherst, in the shape of an electrograph,
which is used to measure the amount of electricity in
logical
the atmosphere.
It
consists of a
Thomson
is
the only one in the
and one of the few
Instructor
Miss B
N. G.
—
if
.S".
Only
"Oh!
can't
I
like
What
it.
B—
Miss
:
,
your
this line?
is
;
It
is
Freshman was heard
bear to stay indoors.
to take
me
out to walk
to say,
wish some
I
!
it
not be delightful to have this dining-room
those in the universities abroad, with beautiful
windows representing ministering angels?
Minister (gallantly)
Ah why desire the representation when you have the reality ?
stained glass
:
!
The Cottage street Glee
Ring out
Hand
all
it
Song.
ye voices.
down
to
fame
;
Cottage street rejoices,
Baby has a name.
•
Two new
teeth are
coming;
Dresses have grown short
Baby tender 's humming
" Domestic work is sport."
Silent time forever
are forced to keep
He observes it never.
Though we wish to sleep.
We
be held in May of each year, at which two prizes
be awarded, one of $100, the other of $50.
The Churchill (Improved)
Boot,
MANUFACTURED AND SOLD ONLY BT
in.
;
Ex.
drawing from
call
Professor at Faculty Table (to Minister):
western University, Oberlin College and the WisconAn annual contest
Madison.
through the campus.
what you
Mathem.-vtics
in
come
teacher would
United States,
the broad driveway leading
for the life class
A. did not mean Semi- A-ccasionallv.
in the world.
Washburn house, upon
that
is
a few days ago a
sin Stale University, of
the
model
There was a whispered consultation outside the
door on which was posted an S. A. card, and then a
note was poked under in which her friends wished to
electrome-
Work has been begun upon the new Alumnae Gymsium of Smith College, and it is e.xpected that the
building will be well enclosed before cold weather.
The building will be constructed of brick, laid with red
the
mortar, and trimmed with stone and terra-cotta
On
interior is to be finish(;d in brick and hard wood.
the ground floor will be the gymnasium proper, 54 by
100 ft., at one end of which there is an ample stage
provided with ante-rooms. The running track extends
arouud the building upon a gallery supported from beThe basement contains two bowling alleys,
low.
dressing-rooms, toilets, lockers, and a swimming bath
of good size. The site of the gymnasium is west of
a fine
is
(regardiag figures disconsolately)
Northern Oratorical League has been organized
by the Michigan University of Ann Arbor, the North-
will
!
in
proof has a flaw
A
will
Oh
:
a registering apparatus, and a water-dripping apThis instrument was made in London, and
paratus.
It
He
:
still.
ter,
cost $600.
where two faces
it is
still life ?
Would
the college buildings.
A
Second Freshman: Because
know
date only 160 students.
diedral angle like a
a
is
meet.
Freshman
course.
Why
:
?
Art Student
Science.
house.
First Freshman
kiss
RIPPLES.
s.
OliXJI^GHIILrj,
Formerly 25 Winter Street,
129
TREMONT
Next Door
now
ST., Corner
to ;V. D.
Whitnev &
dt
WINTER,
Co.,
BOSXON^.
Boot
mnde in Button or
THIS
fi'oni a study of the anatomy of
Lace on correct principles,
the foot, and is unsurpassed
durability. It fits tlieniost difficult foot, prevents
or cures tender joints or corns by removing pressure, aud is
is
for comfort
and
comfortable tlie tirst tiuie worn.
Ladies who have difflculty
in procuring comfortable boots or shoes, are invited lo call and
leave measure.
i-.S
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Only the Announcements of firms
KNOWN TO BE RELIABLE
Are admitted
in these
Columns by the Publishers.
should always
Students
BEAR THIS
Young
ladies will find
it
to their
MONDAY, TUKSDAY AND WEDNESDAY
INIlTsTTD.
IlSr
advantage
WELLESLEY
STUDIO
IS jSrOW OPKN
5-36
of
w ch Week.
S pecial Disconnt to Sliitlents.
i
to call at
BOSTON DRESS~CUTTINGlOLLEGIEr
A. V.Doyles Millinery Parlors,
165 Tremont
St.,
KooinR
For the
Ifi
Hasting Bl
and
17,
WHITAKER &
CO.,
Shell
363
and Horn
WASHINGTON
ST.,
Goods^
—
To Patrons and those who would become Patrons
A.
L
Dressmaking department in connecwhere we shall be
pleased to demonstrate our work to the
PIERCE,
HARRIET
C.
S.
Milliner,
Liiscoinl)
WASHBURN
180
T,
WASHINGTON
LINE
BOOTS
Artist Banjos,
GUITARS, MANDOLINS,
OF MUSICAL
Discount
to all
Students
B OST ON.
St
3
Columbus Avenue and Eolyoke
Co,
Boston
be run as a
and transcicnt
first-
hotel.
I'he finest
TURKISH BATHS
every mornins; until noon and
all
in the country.
Ladies
day Thursdays.
"private dining koom^
This hotel is elegantly furnished throughout and ladies
visiting Boston will find every convenience.
GEO. W. cnorKEli.
28- iQ
^Tanagfr.
WOMEN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE
OF THE NEW YORK INFIRMARY.
Agents for the celebrated Gorham Plated Ware
Choicest Btuck of Brie a Brae, Uinbrellafi, Varasuls. Ktc.
FINE STATIONERY.
Crests, Cyphers and Addresses Engraved and
Calling Cards and Invitations of
Stamped.
Autographs,
the Correct Style.
will
Sti-est,
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN.
3fi
SILVERWARE.
IN
Wellesley College.
m HOTEL FLOWER,m
class family
DIHONDS.mtiESJEWELIiy,
THE LATEST IDEAS
of
Under the new management,
ST.,
& Low
LADIES.
3o-y
l^iERCHANDISE.
WASHINOTOM
432 Washington
BOSTON.
SHOES.
JLlsTID
YOUNG
and
Shreve, Crump
ST.,
CO..
A LARGE ASSORTMENT FOR
in
Best selected Banjo, Violin and Guitar Strings (by
mail), 50 cts. per set. Russian Gut Violin E
Strings, 25 cts. per .string.
57S
ST.
DEALERS IN
Zithers, Autoharps, Violins, etc.
GENERAL
Principal.
TREMONT
lOSELEY &
E.
469
THOMPSON,
Dealer
BROWN,
A,
4-36
of
Special attention paid to order work. Prices
reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed. 3-12
^
Wellesley
the
Colleee.
MUSIC MALL, BOSTON.
13
connected with
BOSTON.
Special attention given to making goods to order for custumers, including Lognettes, Combs, Hairpins, Fancy Hair Ornaments and
3 6\v
ever>' variety of Tortoise Shell Work.
MISS
TAUGHT
tion with the College
pupils
Manufacturers and Inporters of
Tortoise
IS
ON CUTTING.
latest Parisian Millenery.
Particular attention given to out of town orders.
3-36
N. C.
WHERE A PERFECT WORK
d'g.
3-25
A
New
3nrt
veil tie
1 '^8
Vorb.
Session 90-91 will open October I, 1890. Three years' Graded
Course. Instru<'tioii l>y Tji-otiires, cliniL-s, Reciintions. and practical work umier supervisinti in Laboratories and Dispensary of
Colle_a:e. and lu N. Y. liillrmary.
Clinics and operations in most of tlie City Hospitals and l>is.
pensuries open to women sladonts.
For catalogues, etc., address
35-3fit
KMILV BI.ACKWELI., M. I>., Dean,
128 3nd Avonnc New Tork.