ELOPING GIRL GRADUATES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3520, 6 July 1920, Page 7

ELOPING GIRL GRADUATES.

k§pl'illg fever a,1,1_(l its’ ally Cupid have immlell V_;_ls§;uf College, the Girton of .America, and velopements of the fair s:"u(lents are ocemring thick and fast,‘ to the consternation of the Facultyl and ‘tho elderly lady wardens respon-9 s blo for tlié’ morals and general social 1 and ;_>‘oo«,l behaviour of the girls. Since] the bl'oul<ing up of winter there have loon three elopemenfs, the first by 3.; §oun;_: lady who was supposed to have I leached the “age of cliscretion,” and moon whom consequently vigilance was sou;e\\'h:lf- grelaxed, The room-mate of _l.’ais purticul:u' bride, acting as bridesmuid in ‘tho <:oremony, “met her f’ate"‘ in the person of the gro(ml"s b<-st man, and all nYl':lxlg'omc.'llf:~7 were nmtl-;~ f’«~r 2’. second elopemont. ’ 1 The guardians Lad be-on aroused,‘ hOW(‘\'€l', -and when the fair student!

Estult‘ away she was observed, tr:'lce6'.

to the railway sftzxtion, and pounced. upon at the moment, when the impa; tient young Romeo reaeliecl down from the eui-riage steps to swing his fiancee abom-<l. A great protest has now arisen tlii-oughont the college against what they term “prison 'methods,’’ and their cmnpluint is that “sonietliing ought to be (lone -about it when :1 girl cannot «lope when she feels like it.” The neighbouring town of Ploughkeepsie is laolvling its sides with laughing and the cumipus is eonvulsed over the plan the girls conceived to obtain revenge kv staging a fake elopement with 9. s"udent dl'9:‘-Seil as :1 min. The couple \—:'err- “caught,” -as they desired, after :7 stern chase, and the chagrin of the [ursuers on the discovery of the hoax More than eonipeiisateq the girls for , their t'l'i:lls. " ' w _; -