Every Girl Had One

The mania for collecting1 beer-mugs, an ez-Vassar girl Bays, aceording to the New Vork World, is an old Vassar cnstom rediviva. "Nearly every iri-l in Vassar, in my time." she explained, "h&damong her collepe propertles an immense glass beer-mug-, the lar,"er the better. IIow the custom originated I cannot say, trat the glass beer-mug was then conBidered an indispensable adjunct to every stylish young woman's education - because it looked 'weird,' I presume. Yon remember at one time the Vassar craze for pronouncing everything 'weird" - f rom a cornic opera to a midnight lunch on pretzels and lemonade. " 'What uw did the beer glass serve'.'' Oh, dozens of uses; we used them to drink from in our rooms, to keep flowers in, to cor.coct the hot lemonade potions for bad colds, to carry to picnics, to smufTfrle ice-eream in and for lots of other interesting aflairs. Of course most of the girls bovtgbt theïr beer-. but tiic t,rirl wlio was so fortúnate as to have one given lier by a masculir.e admirer - one %vho was a trifle wild preierred - was a peraon of great consequence among her mates. One fortúnate girl. I remember, had a 'Black Jack' from Heidelberg, with heavy old silver niouiitings. öhe was the most envied girl in college. "I confess to attacbing some sentimentality to my beer-mug," concluded the ex-Vassar pirl witli a deprecatory laugh. "It is still among my eabinet treasures at home and is reallj' a highly cultured miijr. haring gone through four college eoursea at Vassar - with myself, two younger sisters and a girl friend. I have often wondered if the beer-mug fashion still reigns in Vassar's classic halls."