Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1904 — Students Broke Them Up. [ARTICLE]

Students Broke Them Up.

There are very few things that escape the notice of college students when they appear en masse. This was demonstrated at an uptown theater tlie other evening when a stirring melodrama was being enacted, says the Philadelphia Record. A group of ten students occupied the front row of the balcony. Just below 7 them sat a party of young women. It was when the beautiful heroine was about to be thrust out on the mercy of a pitiless world that tragedy w 7 as turned into comedy. True to feminine emotional nature, the feelings of tlie group of women aforesaid were so wrought up that tears began to flow 7 . There was a hasty struggle for handkerchiefs, a deep dive into pockets and bags ant} then a pause. Only one of the six girls had had the foresight to provide herself with a handkerchief. With a sympathetic glance of comprehension _she wiped the tears from her own eyes'and then passed the bit of linen along. One by one tlie weeping maidens dabbed their eyes with tlie handkerchief and then it w 7 as smuggled back to tlie owner and the game of progressive handkerchief was begun again. The students saw 7 all this, and one of them took a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe away imaginary tears and passed it along the line. Loud “sobs” drew attention to them. In a moment the house w r as convulsed with laughter, and it was only after managerial interference that the by-play was stopped and the six maidens with the one handkerchief were spared further mortification.