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diff --git a/25926.txt b/25926.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3e5b79 --- /dev/null +++ b/25926.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3271 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The 1926 Tatler, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The 1926 Tatler + +Author: Various + +Editor: Margaret Louise Newhall + +Release Date: June 28, 2008 [EBook #25926] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE 1926 TATLER *** + + + + +Produced by Alicia Williams, Sam W. and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +Transcribers Note + +Text enclosed in curly brackets {like this} has been added by the +transcriber. Bold text is indicated with = signs, =like this=. + + + + + THE TATLER + + 1926 + + + + +[Illustration: {Signatures and messages from students}] + + + + +_The 1926 Tatler_ + + + + +[Illustration: {A group of riders on horseback}] + + + + +FOREWORD + + +School days are joy days; days filled with the pleasures of +friendships and the gladness of intimacy, with the satisfaction of +work well done and the pride in having done it for one's school. And +we at Northrop School have been blessed with such days from the time +of four entering as kindergarteners, up through grammar school and our +subsequent joining of the League; on through these last days when, as +high school girls, we took a real part in the activities of school +life, and felt ourselves to have each one a share, however small, in +the great whole, our Alma Mater. And it is to recollection of these +joys and to the memory of our school days that we of the senior class +wish to dedicate the 1926 Tatler. + + + + + EVELYN MCCUE BAKER + President of the Senior Class + + _"She's as good as she is fair"_ + +[Illustration: {Evelyn McCue Baker}] + +[Illustration: {Evelyn McCue Baker as a young child}] + + + MARY BARBER EATON + President of the League + + _"She who feels nobly, acts nobly"_ + +[Illustration: {Mary Barber Eaton}] + +[Illustration: {Mary Barber Eaton as a young child}] + + + MARGARET LOUISE NEWHALL + Editor of 1926 Tatler + + _"Young and yet so wise"_ + +[Illustration: {Margaret Louise Newhall}] + +[Illustration: {Margaret Louise Newhall as a young child}] + + + VIRGINIA JOSEPHINE LEFFINGWELL + Vice-President of League + + _"The soft, bright curl of her hair and lash + And the glance of her sparkling eye + I saw, and knew she was out for a dash + As her steed went prancing by."_ + +[Illustration: {Virginia Josephine Leffingwell}] + +[Illustration: {Virginia Josephine Leffingwell as a young child}] + + + BERNICE ALYNE BECHTOL + + _"Her hair is not more sunny than her heart"_ + +[Illustration: {Bernice Alyne Bechtol}] + +[Illustration: {Bernice Alyne Bechtol as a young child}] + + + MARY ELIZABETH BRACKETT + + _"She has a natural wise sincerity and a merry happiness"_ + +[Illustration: {Mary Elizabeth Brackett}] + +[Illustration: {Mary Elizabeth Brackett as a young child}] + + + ESTHER MABEL DAVIS + + _"The glass of fashion and the mold of form"_ + +[Illustration: {Esther Mabel Davis}] + +[Illustration: {Esther Mabel Davis as a young child}] + + + LYDIA MORTIMER FOREST + + _"She giggles when she's happy, and one might even say + That when there is no reason, she giggles anyway"_ + +[Illustration: {Lydia Mortimer Forest}] + +[Illustration: {Lydia Mortimer Forest as a young child}] + + + MARION JOSEPHINE HUME + + _"For she's a jolly good fellow, + Her school mates all declare, + She's out for all athletics, + There's nothing she won't dare"_ + +[Illustration: {Marion Josephine Hume}] + +[Illustration: {Marion Josephine Hume as a young child}] + + + ANN WILDER JEWETT + + _"True worth cannot be concealed"_ + +[Illustration: {Ann Wilder Jewett}] + +[Illustration: {Ann Wilder Jewett as a young child}] + + + BEATRICE MYRTICE JOSLIN + + _"There is mischief in that woman"_ + +[Illustration: {Beatrice Myrtice Joslin}] + +[Illustration: {Beatrice Myrtice Joslin as a young child}] + + + MARION HARRIET MCDONALD + + _"Happy I am, from care I'm free; + Why aren't all the rest contented like me?"_ + +[Illustration: {Marion Harriet McDonald}] + +[Illustration: {Marion Harriet McDonald as a young child}] + + + JOSEPHINE REINHART + + _"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart"_ + +[Illustration: {Josephine Reinhart}] + +[Illustration: {Josephine Reinhart as a young child}] + + + MARION JEAN SAVAGE + + _"The will can do + If the soul but dares"_ + +[Illustration: {Marion Jean Savage}] + +[Illustration: {Marion Jean Savage as a young child}] + + + NANCY MORRIS STEVENSON + + _"A perfect woman, nobly planned, + To warn, to comfort, to command"_ + +[Illustration: {Nancy Morris Stevenson}] + +[Illustration: {Nancy Morris Stevenson as a young child}] + + +CLASS HISTORY + +A shiver ran down my back as the last chords of the Ivy Song were +played. It was actually a reality--our dream had come true for we were +at last garbed in those precious white robes for which we had been +striving for four years. Memories of these years rushed over me. How +burdened we were with our importance in being Freshmen; Seniors seemed +very old and distant. Suddenly we slipped from cock robins to +conscientious Sophomores. By this time rumors were heard of a +financial problem that we, as Juniors, must meet. Immediately we began +to save all our pennies in order to startle the Faculty and the +Seniors of 1925 with a luxurious Junior-Senior ball. So our Sophomore +year closed with many peeks into the class treasury. + +Dancing, fortune telling, freaks, and so on, came to our rescue in +preparation for the J. S. We Juniors, as financiers, staged a Junior +carnival--and it was successful. + +May the twenty-ninth, in the year of our Lord, one thousand-nine +hundred and twenty-five, was the red letter day of our Junior year. +Our hopes, not our fears, were realized. Gayly we danced to "Tea for +Two" in the green and white decked ballroom (alias the dining room) +and promenaded in a garden in Japan, otherwise the roof garden. +Sadly--ah, yes--the music hesitated and then ceased--as we unitedly +sighed, perhaps with relief, perhaps with weariness. Who knows? Our +Herculean task had passed, and our eyes were turned to the magnetic +red ties. Honored beyond recognition we were the first to abide in the +new Senior room, south-west parallel room 40, on the third floor. June +quickly slipped near and we fixed our hopes and ambitions on the now +approaching goal, graduation. + + + + +THE CLASS PROPHECY + + + In nineteen hundred and fifty-six + The year of our Lord, A. D., + I sat me down, and put my specs on, + An epistle of length to see. + And that you may understand this better, + I'll herewith disclose the news of the letter: + + "Dear Mike," the writer began, "you know + I'm feeling that life is far from slow. + As Mary B. Eaton, instructor in war, + My military academy's not such a bore; + Between drills, and luncheon, and chapel, it seems + That this life is not all that it was in my dreams. + + "And Nance, instead of teaching the boys how to ride, + Prefers to smuggle them food, and candy beside. + By the way, did you know that Virge Leffingwell + Has given up art and horses as well? + She's opened a school, the dear old scamp, + To teach all the young ladies the best ways to vamp. + + "The other day, as I drove in my hack, + I passed a familiar figure in black; + 'Twas irresponsible Lydia, our giggler so jolly, + Gone into seclusion to atone for past folly. + She lives all alone, without any noise, + Without any jazz, and without any boys! + She told me with horror and pain in her gaze + That Bee had turned actress, in movies (not plays) + And that very same week was playing down town + With R. Valentino in the 'Countess's Frown.' + + "I didn't tell Lydia, but I thought 'twould be great + To go to Bee's movie and see how she'd rate. + So I left Lyd and started, and the first thing I met, + Or rather bumped into, was a fair suffragette, + Covered with signs 'E. Baker for Mayor'. + So many there hardly was room + To see our progressive young democrat Hume! + Yes, 'twas none other than Marion, our businesslike girl; + She's adopted the slogan of 'Death to the curl!' + And she's canvassing the city, with a terrible row, + To get votes for Ely, who's in politics now. + + "And Bernice and Andy, have you heard of their fate? + The last thing I know they had each found a mate. + One of them's handsome and young, but no money, + The other one's rich, but crabby and funny. + But each one is happy in marriage, they say; + And that's what really counts, say what you may. + For Bernice is proud of her good-looking guy, + And Andy knows the old man will soon die! + + "Did you see in the paper Mary Brackett's new fad? + As Sunday School superintendent I'll bet she's not bad. + And, Mike, yesterday on some errands, + I encountered another of our old friends. + I'd hired a cab because I was tired. + I thought the driver was reckless and ought to be fired; + So I leaned over to express my opinion, you know, + And if it wasn't our Esther, the pedestrian's foe! + + "Did you know Marion MacDonald is engaged again? + That makes five times now, oh, woe to the men! + Jean's spoken to her now, a couple of times, + Of reforming herself, but do you think Marion minds? + Jean's slumming committees have had lots of work, + Directed by Joey, who won't let them shirk. + + "Well, Mike, how're your orphans, from Johnny to Bill? + Are there exactly nine hundred and nine of them still?" + And with this, Tony closed, and Ted + Henry, Oswald, etcetera, I sent up to bed. + + --M. L. N. + + + + +ELEVENTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Dorothy Sweet_, _Barbara Bailey_, _Shirley Woodward_, _Betty + Smith_, _Mary Louise Griffin_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Polly Sweet_, _Virginia Little_, _Louise Gorham_, _Betty + Fowler_, _Mabel Reeves_, _Grace Helen Stuart_ + +FRONT ROW--_Janet Marrison_, _Frances Baker_, _Betty Long_, _Anne + Healy_, _Charlotte Williams_ + + _Jane Thompson_ + + + + +FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH + + +We worked feverishly and hoped that there would be no more disputes +concerning the chairs. Some thought the ones from the dining room +ought to be used; others thought not. The chairs were brought down and +then taken back with much strife along the way. Would anyone want to +play bridge? We wondered. Would anyone bring cards to play bridge +with? We wondered again. The fact that wax was being applied to the +floor caused a good deal of worry, for we were afraid we would fall +and break our necks if too much was put on. However, even in that +predicament, we were determined to be gracious and smiling. Did +everyone know that all the autumn boughs in blue and silver were tied +on with red string? We fervently hoped they didn't, for we were in no +condition to do anything about it if they did. Thus our thoughts ran +as we slammed down tables, tied on table cloths, and practised our +Spanish dance in uniforms and low heeled shoes. At five-thirty we went +home, thankful that we didn't have to wash the windows and clean up +the furnace room. + +Much credit must be given to those few guests who realized that the +gym was supposed to represent a cabaret. We greatly appreciate their +penetration. They perhaps didn't know that fortune-telling and fishing +for tin automobiles in the telephone booth were a part of the +procedure at a cabaret dance. But if they didn't know these things, +they had much to learn, for that's what they did at our party and who +were we to spurn their filthy lucre? They also danced and ate heartily +of the ice cream and cake we served. Many thought the popcorn balls +were a holdup, but they refrained from throwing them at us when we +asked ten cents. + +An attempt was made at amusement when we gave two dances; one with +castanets and tambourines and much swirling and swooping; another with +Spanish shawls draped on us. This latter one was more or less of a +failure, for we couldn't seem to get into step when we did it a second +time. The audience, however, applauded, regardless of the fact, and +didn't see that the dance was any worse than it had been the first +time. About eleven-thirty it was gently hinted that the time had come +for the party to break up. We went on aching feet, hoping that since +the party had been a success financially, the guests were not making +too many derogatory remarks about it as a social function. + +Dawn broke, and blushed to see the sight at Northrop School: packs of +cards scattered in fifty-two different places, tables every which way, +covers off, cake and popcorn balls scattered liberally on the floor. A +few of us came to clean up, and cleaned with many yawns. After a few +hours the gym began to take on its natural air of bleakness, and we +left it to the tender mercies of Clyde and Mullen, hoping that the +Junior-Senior would be a good one. + + + + +TENTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Dorothy Stevens_, _Louise Jewett_, _Ethel Conary_, _Jean + Crocker_, _Elizabeth Dodge_, _Kate Velie_, _Elizabeth Jewett_, + _Jane Bartley_, _Anna Margaret Thresher_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Dorothy Owens_, _Nita Weinrebe_, _Helen Dietz_, _Jane + Davenport_, _Gloria Congdon_, _Martha Jean Maughan_, + _Priscilla Brown_, _Florence Roberts_, _Eylin Seeley_ + +FRONT ROW--_Jane Strong_, _Mayme Wynne Peppard_, _Eugenia Bovey_, _Mary + Louise Sudduth_, _Eleanor de Laittre_, _Emily Knoblaugh_, + _Elizabeth Pray_, _Maude Benjamin_ + + _Jane Woodward_ + + + + +SOPHOMORE GIRLS' GAZETTE + +Seven Shekels in St. Paul Published once in a while + + +GENERAL NEWS + +The other day several members of the Sophomore class visited the +studios of the famous Mesdames Dodginsky and DeBartley, where they +were told their secret ambitions; and by special permission we have +been allowed to print them. It appears that Annah Margaret Thresher +would like to swim the English Channel. Jean Crocker longs to be a +Professor of Music at Oxford, while Florence Roberts would receive all +possible degrees at Columbia. Others seem to desire athletic +professions. Helen Dietz would like to be the Football Coach at the +"U," Jane Woodward to be the World's Greatest Lightweight Forward, and +Kate Velie to be on the Olympic Sprinting Team. Mayme Wynne has a +morbid desire to be a designer of Curious Coiffures in Paris. + + +WEATHER REPORT + +By E. B. + +The Sophomores suggest a soaking spring if the snow smelts. If it +rains sufficiently to suit Miss Svenddahl, they forecast dancing in +the Gym. The spring days will be either cloudy, partly cloudy, or +clear. It will rain dogs and cats or hail taxicabs, although we may +have snow, a tornado, a cyclone, a blizzard, a squall, a typhoon, a +tidal wave, or a forest fire. + + * * * * * + +Last Friday evening the Sophomore Select Sewing Society met at the +home of Miss Jane Bartley. A pleasant time was had by all, making +rackets and nightcaps for the poor. Refreshments were served. + + +[Illustration: {flea}] BRAIN TICKLER [Illustration: {flea}] + +One of these fleas has been magnified 439 times, the other 4381/2 +times. Which was originally the larger? Take 39 seconds in which to do +this. + + +MISCELLANEOUS + +Dr. Ailment's Post Box + +Question: Dear Doc: What can be done to keep up one's hair when it is +not entirely grown out?--A. M. T. B. D. B. I. + +Answer: Cut it off, my dears. + + * * * * * + +Question: Dear Doc: What can be done for eye-strain caused by drawing +maps of the Aegean Sea?--Sophomore Class. + +Answer: Don't do 'em. You will flunk anyway. + + +ADVERTISEMENT + +Take my three minute course and learn to study successfully. Astound +your teachers in any way. See me about it.--J. Crocker. + +Learn the art of putting up your hair in two minutes between bells. +Don't be late for your classes. Follow my example. Easy lessons. Apply +to B. Dodge. + + + + +NINTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Jane Robinson_, _Martha Eurich_, _Mary Elizabeth Case_, + _Catherine Colwell_, _Caroline Doerr_, _Donna McCabe_, _Nancy + Adair Van Slyke_, _Catherine Moroney_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Edna Louise Smith_, _Margaret Maroney_, _Victoria Mercer_, + _Mary Morison_, _Jean Adair Willard_, _Virginia Lee + Bechtol_, _Elizabeth Heegaard_, _Mary Atkinson_ + +FRONT ROW--_Alice Tenney_, _Ann Beckwith_, _Carol Hoidale_, _Helen + Tuttle_, _Marion Wood_, _Beatrice Wells_, _Mildred O'Brien_ + + + + +GIANT TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SHIP DOWNED + +(Minneapolis Morning Tribune, June 21, 1932) + + +The giant airship _Coolidge_ was downed last night in a hurricane on +the Atlantic. A terrific wind arose, which broke one of the huge +wings. The ship dropped abruptly, and though the captain fired +distress signals, nothing could possibly have saved the passengers but +the timely arrival of the _Admiral Sims_, a destroyer, captained by +Helen Tuttle, and the ship, _The Roosevelt_, captained by Caroline +Doerr. The two crews worked feverishly, and in less than an hour +everyone was off the sinking ship. Miss Tuttle and Miss Doerr were the +heroines of the hour, keeping their heads and directing their crews +with a coolness equal to any man's. Several Minneapolis people were on +board. Among them were Miss Carol Hoidale, famous sportswoman, who was +going to England to be in the Leicestershire horse show; Miss Marion +Wood, accomplished pianist; and Miss Elizabeth Heegard, a well-known +actress. Miss Doerr, Miss Tuttle, and these three ladies were +classmates at Northrop Collegiate School and graduated in 1929. + + +FORMER NORTHROP STUDENTS CAPTURING TITLES IN EUROPE + +Miss Nancy Van Slyke and Miss Mary Morison are capturing all the +tennis titles. Recently at the tournament at Nice the two Americans +defeated Mlle. Isabelle Lenglen, daughter of the famous Suzanne, and +Mlle. Pavol, winning both sets, 6-3, 6-0. This gives them the world's +doubles championship. + + * * * * * + +Last night Miss Beatrice Wells was proclaimed world's amateur champion +fancy skater at the St. Moritz artificial rink. + + * * * * * + +Miss Jane Robinson and Miss Alice Tenny, the young American athletes, +are doing well in the Olympics. Miss Robinson has set a new mark for +high jumping. Miss Tenny has shattered all previous breaststroke +records. + + * * * * * + +"Dee," or Donna McCabe, won the Sanford cup yesterday with her Packard +straight eight. She lowered her previous record by several minutes. +The distinguished monogram on the hood was designed by Mary E. +Atkinson. + + +BACK FROM MARS + +Miss Martha Eurich and Miss Margaret Maroney, famous artists, returned +today from Mars, where they went to make sketches of an improved type +of building that has airplane parking space on the roof. They were +sent by Miss Mary E. Case, president of the Animal Rescue League, who +contemplates building a new sky-scraper for animals. + + * * * * * + +Miss Catherine R. Mount, the well-known New York designer, says trains +are coming back. She bases her claims on the present length of skirts. + + * * * * * + +"The Same Old Story," written by Miss Anne Beckwith, is a delightful +book. The plot is very new and the book is very original. It is +pleasantly illustrated by Miss Catherine Colwell, who is so famous for +her drawings, and is dedicated in verse by Virginia Lee Bechtol to +Miss Cordelia Lockwood. + + * * * * * + +Miss Edna Lou Smith will be the soloist for tomorrow's concert, that +is if she doesn't disappear in the meantime. + + +TO MAKE DEBUT + +Miss Mildred O'Brian will make her debut tomorrow at a tea given by +her mother. Miss O'Brian will wear a corsage bouquet given by her +mother, the first part of the afternoon. After that she will wear the +corsages given by her admirers, a minute each. + + * * * * * + +Judge Victoria Mercer sentences Hard Boiled Egg for life. + + + + +EIGHTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Muriel Miner_, _Frances Lee_, _Betty Stroud_, _Harriet + Kemp_, _Lorraine Stuart_, _Alice Wright_, _Betty Bean_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Betty Strout_, _Grayce Conary_, _Mary Elizabeth Ricker_, + _Esther Hazlett_, _Mary Elizabeth Thrall_, _Inez Colcord_, + _Edna Nagell_, _Ruth de Vienne_ + +FRONT ROW--_Marian Murray_, _Marjorie Osgood_, _Virginia Cook_, + _Eleanor Bellows_, _Anne Winton_, _Louise Partridge_, + _Miriam Powell_ + + _Mary Eleanor Best_, _Ruth Alberta Clark_, _Aileen + Stimson_ + + + + +THE EIGHTH FORM PRIMER + + + _Lest the history of our year + Through passing time grow dimmer, + We've gathered the choicest bits + And put them in a primer._ + + + =A= stands for Athletics, Ambition, and Art, + Since they're packed full of Action we're glad to take part. + + =B= is for Bumps, got when sliding at noon; + We often see stars and sometimes the moon. + + =C= for Captain ball games, two of which we have won, + And we all agree they are jolly good fun. + + =D= is le Duc whose French we found charming, + But a sky downstairs we think most alarming. + + =E= is for Eighths. What else could it be? + Energetic, ecstatic, emphatic are we. + + =F= is Friar Tuck. In our Robin Hood play + He was bluff, fat, and hearty in quite the right way. + + =G= for Graham crackers. They're indeed simple fare, + But they keep us from getting too much outside air. + + =H= is the Hill, so covered with sleet + That when we come down, we can't stay on our feet. + + =I= stands for Icelandic. Though amusing to hear, + We think we'll not speak it each day in the year. + + =J= is for Joking. That is our folly + For rather than sad we choose to be jolly. + + =K= for Kicker Sleds. They arrived last December + And furnished good sport for every class member. + + =L= is for Luther--Burbank we were told, + Who started the Protestant reformation of old. + + =M= is the Mascot that brings us our luck, + And we surely need him to combat Sevens' pluck. + + =N= for "Noblesse Oblige," our chosen class aim. + Though sometimes we slip, we strive on just the same. + + =O= is Old Girls' Party, to which we escorted + The whole seventh grade; a gay time was reported. + + =P= is for Pageant we held Columbus Day, + To tell how brave sailors to our land made way. + + =Q= for the Quest the whole class did make + When told to make rhymes for our Tatler's sake. + + =R= for Radiators to which we all swarm + To dry off our stockings and get our toes warm. + + =S= is for Silver, that coupled with blue + Is the symbol to which we shall ever be true. + + =T= is for Tourney 'twixt the White and the Gold. + But 'tis fought with balls instead of swords bold. + + =U= is uniform. When that badge we wear + We must look to upholding Northrop's standards so fair. + + =V= for Valentine party, which the seventh form had. + Favors, verses, and dancing made our hearts glad. + + =W= for Winter Sports. There's no fun more thrilling, + Whether skating or sliding or in the snow spilling. + + =X= is unknown, so why trouble with it. + We'll leave it alone and not wear out our wit. + + =Y= is for Yells. We give them with vim + When sports are on foot in our lower gym. + + =Z= for Zipper boots, our greatest delights. + Zip off the last minute and fly up two flights. + + + + +SEVENTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Katharine Simonton_, _Barbara Newman_, _Betty Goldsborough_, + _Marjorie Williams_, _Louisa Hineline_, _Betty Miller_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Laura Van Nest_, _Alice Benjamin_, _Pauline Brooks_, + _Catherine Wagner_, _Catherine Piper_, _Ann Lee_ + +FRONT ROW--_Betty Thomson_, _Elizabeth Junkin_, _Jane Helm_, _Virginia + Helm_, _Peggy Gillette_, _Emily Douglas_ + + + + +SEVENTH FORM EVENTS + + +SPORTS + +Early in the fall the sevenths and eighths had a number of baseball +games. Although the sevenths tried very hard, they were always +defeated. However, spring is coming, and they may have better luck. + +In midwinter when games are indoors, captain ball is the popular +sport. The two classes always play two games. In the first one the +sevenths were badly beaten, but in the second they came close to +victory with a score of 3 to 2. + +The winter outdoor fun is on a bumpy, crooked hill back of school used +for sliding. Down it goes a continuous stream of sleds, toboggans, and +skis. Sometimes an overloaded sled drops a passenger on the way, and +sometimes a load lands upside down in a drift, but it's all part of +the fun. + + +PARTIES + +At the beginning of school the seventh form were guests of the eighth +form at the opening League party. We danced a great deal, and we +laughed at the Wild West show and the autoride of by-gone days. Then +we climbed to the top floor for refreshments and more laughing. + +On the eleventh of February to return the courtesy, we invited the +eighths to a valentine party. After decorating our guests with gay +caps, we danced for a while. The event of the day, however, was the +valentine boxes. There were three fat ones stuffed with valentines for +us all. By the time we had exclaimed over them, we were ready to have +refreshments. Cheers of appreciation ended the party. + + +CHAPEL PROGRAMS + +This year we have been visited by both a princess and a duke. The +princess came from Damascus and gave us an ancient story of her +city--the story of Naaman the Leper. The duke, who was from France, +showed us pictures of beautiful old French buildings, which he is +trying to keep from being destroyed. + +Early in March our own class took part in a chapel program by +demonstrating some lessons in musical appreciation. + + * * * * * + +Piping merrily _William_ the _Piper_ floated down the meadow _Brooks_ +seated at the _Helm_ of his boat. Being a _New-man_ in this country he +stopped to ask his way of a _Miller_. The miller directed him across +the _Lee_ to a little town called _Goldsborough_. There he stopped at +the inn of the _Van Nest_. After a good sleep, a shave with his +_Gillette_, and a hearty meal of _Thomson's_ baked beans and +_Wagner's_ canned _Pease_, he was much refreshed. + +The next morning he continued his wanderings, but unwittingly he +trespassed on the land of a farmer named _Hineline_, who threatened to +take him to the village of _Simonton_ and throw him and his _Junk-in_ +jail. Finally he made his peace, but he had to leave his boat behind. + +"However, I'm not so unlucky," said he, "for I have stout _Douglas_ +shoes to tramp in, and my faithful dog, _Benjamin_, to bear me +company." + + JANE HELM AND CATHERINE PIPER. + + + + +SIXTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Mary Louise Parker_, _Miriam Lucker_, _Isabel McLaughlin_, + _Mary Rogers_, _Betty Short_, _Janet Bulkley_, _Jane Fansler_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Rosemarie Gregory_, _Carolyn Belcher_, _Sally Louise + Bell_, _Grace Ann Campbell_, _Barbara Bagley_, _Ella + Sturgis Pillsbury_, _Marie Jaffrey_, _Elizabeth Mapes_ + +FRONT ROW--_Betty Lou Burrows_, _Charlotte Driscoll_, _Gretchen + Hauschild_, _Helen Beckwith_, _Eleanor Smith_, _Peggy + Thomson_ + + _Phyllis Foulstone_ + + + + +FIFTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Mary Ann Kelly_, _Anne Dalrymple_, _Mary Dodge_, _Barbara + Healy_, _Harriet Hineline_, _Anne McGill_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Barbara Anson_, _Jane Arnold_, _Mary Thayer_, _Mary + Foster_, _Marian Carlson_, _Edith Rizer_, _Edith McKnight_ + +FRONT ROW--_Betty Jane Jewett_, _Geraldine Hudson_, _Ione Kuechle_, + _Virginia Baker_, _Deborah Anson_, _Louise Walker_, + _Catherine Gilman_ + + + + +FOURTH FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Martha Miller_, _Martha Bagley_, _Mary Malcolmson_, _Patty + Greenman_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Susan Wheelock_, _Patricia Dalrymple_, _Helen Louise + Hayden_, _Nanette Harrison_ + +FRONT ROW--_Mary Partridge_, _Olivia Carpenter_, _Katherine Boynton_, + _Anne Morrison_, _Dolly Conary_ + + _Margaret Partridge_, _Frances Ward_ + + + + +THIRD FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Elizabeth Lucker_, _Sally Ross Dinsmore_, _Joan Parker_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Rhoda Belcher_, _Penelope Paulson_, _Harriet Helm_, + _Ottilie Tusler_ + +FRONT ROW--_Elizabeth Williams_, _Susan Snyder_, _Mary Lou Pickett_, + _Anne PerLee_ + + _Charlotte Buckley_ + + + + +SECOND FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Mary Anna Nash_, _Nancy Rogers_, _Katherine Dain_, _Blanche + Rough_, _Betty Tuttle_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Betty Lee_, _Elizabeth Hedback_, _Elizabeth Ann + Eggleston_, _Ruth Rizer_, _Jane Loughland_, _Katharine + Rand_ + +FRONT ROW--_Janey Lou Harvey_, _Katherine Warner_, _Donna Jane + Weinrebe_, _Elizabeth Booraem_, _Margie Ireys_ + + _Barbara Brooks_, _Helen Jane Eggan_ + + + + +FIRST FORM + + +[Illustration: {Group photograph of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Melissa Lindsey_, _Dorothea Lindsey_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Mary Ann Fulton_, _Laura Booraem_, _Carolyn Cogdell_, + _Peggy Carpenter_ + +FRONT ROW--_Bobby Thompson_, _Martha Pattridge_, _Betty King_, _Jane + Pillsbury_, _Calder Bressler_ + + _Whitney Burton_, _Betty June Tupper_, _Jean Bell_ + + + + +KINDERGARTEN AND JUNIOR PRIMARY + + +[Illustration: {Group photographs of students}] + +TOP ROW--_Jean Clifford_, _Archie Walker_, _Jimmie Wyman_, _Mary Jane + Van Campen_, _Sally Jones_, _Vincent Carpenter_ + +MIDDLE ROW--_Morris Hallowell_, _Janet Sandy_, _Ogden Confer_, + _Beatrice Devaney_, _Ann Carpenter_, _Frederick Jahn_, + _Barbara Taylor_ + +FRONT ROW--_Phyllis Beckwith_, _Yale Sumley_, _David Warner_, _Jamie + Doerr_, _Elizabeth Hobbs_, _Gloria Hays_, _Lindley Burton_, + _Frances Mapes_, _Henry Doerr_ + + _Sheldon Brooks_, _Billy Johns_, _Betty Webster_, + _Barbara Hill_, _Patty Rogers_, _Emmy Lou Lucker_, + _George Pillsbury_, _Jane Pillsbury_ + + + + +COLLEGE NEWS + + + Smith College, + Northampton, + Massachusetts, + February 23, 1926. + +Dear Janet: + +When I received your letter asking me to tell Northrop what her +alumnae at Smith have been doing this year, I had a sudden sinking +sensation, since I felt that the achievements accomplished by some of +us have not been startling. However, upon digging for evidence, I have +discovered that Northrop need not feel ashamed of us after all. + +Dorothy Wilson sings in the Junior choir, is a member of the Smith +College glee club, and of the Oriental club--one which is connected +with the Bible department--and has been chosen business manager of the +Smith College Handbook--"Freshman Bible"--for the class of 1930. + +"Pete" McCarthy, also a Junior, who vehemently claimed that she had +nothing to tell me about herself, I discover is fire captain of her +house, a member of the French club, and chairman of the spring dance +committee. + +On Washington's Birthday, at the annual rally day performance, Mary +Truesdell and Lorraine Long, dressed as sailors, with the +accompaniment of the Mandolin Club, clogged for us in multifarious +rhythms, ways, and manners--or however one does clog--to the +astonishment of all of us, who never before dreamed that professional +talent actually existed in Northampton. + +Elizabeth Carpenter is president of her house. As for the rest of us, +Lucy Winton, Eleanor Cook, and me, all I can venture to say--and they +agree with me--is that, like the proverbial green freshman, we have +been plodding along at studies occasionally, and at all other times we +have been eating, sleeping, or amusing ourselves to the nth degree. + +I can't wait to see the new _Tatler_ to find out what you have been +doing this year. + +Please give my love to everyone. + + Very sincerely, + PEG WILLIAMS + + * * * * * + + South Hadley, + Massachusetts, + February 18, 1926. + +Dear Margaret Louise: + +If I should attempt to tell you everything we are doing here now, I'm +afraid that I should go far past the limits of my little column, for +our occupations are so multitudinous and varied that there is hardly +an end to them. + +Right now, notwithstanding the ever present pursuit of the academic, +the whole college is having the most glorious time hiking over the +countryside on snowshoes, risking its dignity and perhaps its neck in +attempting the ski jump on Pageant Field, and "hooking" rides with the +small village boys on their bob sleds down the long hill on College +Street. South Hadley is such a tiny town, anyway, that it is just like +living in the country with lovely mountains all around. + +By now Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke are quite like old friends, for +most of us had a personal interview with one or the other of them when +we hiked one of the ranges last fall on Mountain Day. Mountain Day, by +the way, was a red letter day, for the Freshmen particularly. It was +one of those gorgeous blue October days when we could hardly stand the +thought of having to be inside, and, almost like a gift from Heaven, +Miss Woolley unexpectedly announced in morning chapel that she would +leave it to the students to vote whether they would have their holiday +then, with its incomplete arrangements, or two days later when it was +scheduled, with beautifully laid plans but with possible showers. The +girls were simply bursting with excitement by that time, and the vote +was carried unanimously. Not one class in prospect for that day, but +just a chance to start out with a lunch on your back to "parts +unknown"--oh, it was wonderful! + +Another big part of our college social life here in the fall and +spring is college songs and class serenades. During September and +October we had one out by the "College Steps" once a week. I shall +never forget the first time we gathered under a full moon, about nine +o'clock, and our senior song leader started us off by having us sing +all the songs we knew about the moon, with the singing of parts much +encouraged! Even if the harmony was a little doubtful in spots, taken +as a whole the result was "perfectly heavenly"--to one enthusiastic +Freshman. Then a few weeks later the Freshmen were called to their +windows one evening to hear "Sisters, sisters, we sing to you," and +looking down, we saw the whole Junior class assembled underneath the +dormitory windows. Then in due time our turn came to "surprise them," +but it wasn't, evidently, kept a "deep and dark" secret as we had +hoped, for at the end of the first song we were literally showered +with candy kisses hurled down from above. + +These are just a few of the kinds of things we do outside our academic +work; not to mention the picnic breakfasts at "Paradise" in the warm +weather, sleigh rides or hikes to Old Hadley, a quaint old town near +here, Winter Carnival, or all the excitement that comes with Junior +Prom time. Then, you may be sure, the "little sisters" are pressed +into service! + +What I think, however, makes Mount Holyoke mean what it does to us is +something that is almost impossible to describe, but something that is +just as real as any phase of our life here--and that is the college +atmosphere. It is created, in part, by Miss Woolley's wonderful chapel +services, in part by the sheer beauty of the country in which we live, +and, lastly, by the fine spirit of the girls themselves, the college +community. + + Very sincerely, + DORIS DOUGLAS, '25. + + * * * * * + +To the Editor of the 1926 Tatler: + +We who once formed a goodly part of Northrop's illustrious student +body, but who now attend Vassar College, send our heartiest and most +affectionate greetings, to the pupils, the faculty, the trustees, and +Miss Carse! + +In the first part of the year, when those of us who are Freshmen were +busying ourselves with getting adjusted to our new environment, new +studies, and new acquaintances, we had no time to reflect on our past +activities. But now that we have become acclimated, we take great joy +in remembering our years spent at Northrop, and realize, more and +more, all that she did for us. We owe our present life and +opportunities to Northrop's splendid teaching and background. The +Northrop League gave us a moral background which we shall never lose. +Our companionship with each other gave us friendships which can never +be lost, even though we may be separated. + +Northrop Alumnae who are Sophomores and the five who are holding up +the honor of Vassar's class of '26, still feel Northrop's influence +very strongly, and are forever singing her praises. They feel that the +training in concentration and in well-divided time received at +Northrop has proved invaluable throughout their college course. + +The large number of us here at Vassar, set aside as "Northrop girls" +feel that we have a great responsibility resting on us. We have a +standard to live up to, a standard caused by the good name sent out +into the world by Northrop. May we live up to that name, may we carry +on the standard of Northrop School. + + JOSEPHINE CLIFFORD, + BETTY GOODELL. + + + + +MEMBERS OF LEAGUE COUNCIL FOR 1925-1926 + + +OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE + + MARY EATON _President_ + VIRGINIA LEFFINGWELL _Vice-President_ + BARBARA BAILEY _Treasurer_ + FLORENCE ISABEL ROBERTS _Secretary_ + +CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES + + MARION HUME _Athletics_ + MARGARET LOUISE NEWHALL _Publication_ + BEATRICE JOSLIN _Entertainment_ + +CLASS PRESIDENTS + + EVELYN BAKER _Form XII_ + BETTY LONG _Form XI_ + MARY LOUISE SUDDUTH _Form X_ + HELEN TUTTLE _Form IX_ + ELEANOR BELLOWS _Form VIII_ + JANE HELM _Form VII_ + +ATHLETIC COUNCIL + + MARION HUME _Chairman_ + JOSEPHINE REINHART _Form XII_ + CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS + JANET MORISON _Form XI_ + BETTY JEWETT + JANE WOODWARD _Form X_ + VICTORIA MERCER + NANCY VAN SLYKE _Form IX_ + RUTH DE VIENNE _Forms VIII and VII_ + +TATLER BOARD + + MARGARET LOUISE NEWHALL _Editor_ + JANET MORISON _Business Assistant_ + NANCY STEVENSON + MARION MCDONALD _Form XII_ + VIRGINIA LITTLE _Form XI_ + MARTHA JEAN MAUGHAN _Form X_ + NANCY VAN SLYKE _Form IX_ + ANNE WINTON _Form VIII_ + PAULINE BROOKS _Form VII_ + +FACULTY ADVISERS + + MISS CARSE + MISS BAGIER + MISS SADLEY + MISS FEREBEE + MISS MCHUGH + MISS BROWN + MISS SVENDDAL + MISS PEASE + MISS LOCKWOOD + MRS. ARMSTRONG + + +THE NORTHROP LEAGUE + +It hardly seems necessary in this, the sixth year of the League's +existence, to explain its purpose. I think it is sufficient to say +that the League is an organization which, under Miss Carse's +sympathetic guidance, has come to control the student activities of +the high school and the seventh and the eighth grades. It is true, of +course, that the League is governed by its officers, but the League +itself is what the large body of the girls make it. The pledge, an +expression of its standards, seeks to hold each girl to a high sense +of honor, loyalty, and self-improvement. This, briefly, is the +purpose. As nearer perfection is reached, in the struggle for this +goal, the League gains in power. Thus it is that the League is the +result of the effort of every member. + + MARY EATON. + + + + +Report of League Treasurer Given at the Parents' and Teachers' Dinner + + +Should any girl of Northrop wish to prepare herself for a position +that has to do with the handling of money, I should advise her to +begin campaigning by lobbying for the office of Treasurer of the +Northrop League. However, the reputation of the detailed work of this +office is such that there are few who are ever over-anxious to receive +it. This was my feeling at first, but now when I realize how much I +already know about making out checks, keeping accounts, and the +intricacies of banking, I feel it is all worth while. By Commencement +I shouldn't be surprised if I could fill the important position of +messenger in a bank. + +The first thing that comes up at the beginning of each year is the +collection of the annual League dues, which are two dollars and fifty +cents. A total amount of about three hundred dollars was handed in +this year. This is put under the "operating fund," and takes care of +all the League expenditures, except those of the Welfare Committee. + +There are four departments of student activities drawing from these +League dues, athletic, entertainment, and printing and stationery. +Also, this year the League voted to back the Tatler board up with one +hundred dollars. At the first council meeting of the year a budget is +made out for the different committees of the League. This budget is +based on the expenditures of that committee for the preceding year. +Until nineteen twenty-five, the Welfare work was taken care of by +collections running through the year as the various needs arose. This +year a new system was adopted, which took care of everything at one +time. We foresaw a need of money for the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and +Community Funds, for the Near East Relief, and the French Orphans; +therefore slips were given to each girl with these different needs +listed. She was expected to put an amount after each, which amount she +pledged to pay in cash or in deferred payments. So far eight hundred +and twelve dollars of the nine hundred and two dollars and thirteen +cents pledged has been handed in. This plan is much more systematic, +and saves the trouble of conducting so many drives. + +All money transactions of classes and committees whether receipts or +expenditures go through the hands of the League treasurer. A system of +books is maintained. Each class and committee keeps its own accounts. +Then the League treasurer has a large cash book in which she also +keeps all the receipts and disbursements of the classes and +committees. At the end of each month the balances are put in a +simplified ledger. It is from this that the monthly and annual reports +are made. When a bill is received, it is paid only by the League +treasurer after it has been OK'd by the chairman of the committee +responsible for it. When money is handed in, a receipt is given to the +bearer. At the end of each month the books are balanced and checked +with the bank statement. Also the check book is verified with the bank +balance. + +Although the League treasurer is custodian of the class funds, each +class has a treasurer who keeps her own accounts. The classes have +their own dues to pay for all their expenditures. At the end of each +month, after the class treasurer has balanced her book, it is checked +over with the accounts of the League treasurer for that class to see +if they agree. + +A checking account is kept at the Northwestern National Bank and the +savings' account at the Farmers and Mechanics Bank. We have had almost +three hundred dollars in the savings account, but two hundred dollars, +which is last year's League gift to the school, has just been +withdrawn and added to the Chapel Fund. + +The duties of a treasurer are not over until she has passed to her +successor what she has learned during her treasurership and has +changed the accounts to the new girl's name. After this has been done, +the retiring treasurer is released and must seek new fields in which +to carry on. In case a former Northrop League treasurer ever applies +to any of you for a position, just remember the "big" business in +which she began her training. + + BARBARA BAILEY. + + + + +NORTHROP LEAGUE WELFARE BUDGET + + NEAR EAST RELIEF + 1926 FRENCH ORPHAN + COMMUNITY FUND + THANKSGIVING FUND + CHRISTMAS FUND + EMERGENCY FUND + + +This year, when Community Fund interests brought to our attention the +need of school collections, of which the Community Fund is but one, we +thought to have a single large drive instead of several small drives. + +We called in the expert opinion of one who had long worked in social +agencies, and worked out a scheme and a budget for one drive covering +all our needs. This plan was presented to the League Council and met +with approval. + +Sheets containing lists of the various funds for which money was to be +collected, were given to the pupils to take home for conference with +their parents. If a girl wished to give to any one of the various +funds, she was to mark down that amount, also putting down the date of +payment (any time until February 1); or else the money might be sent +right back with the pledges. In this way we tried to make the idea of +voluntary subscription the whole basis of our plan. + +The total amount of the entire drive, both pledged and paid, is +$902.13, out of which $359.58 was paid in full to the Community Fund. +The total of the Thanksgiving Fund was $166.10, out of which $106.23 +was paid for Thanksgiving baskets which were filled with good, +substantial food, and were delivered by a number of the girls, each +group accompanied by an older person, to eighteen needy families. The +Christmas fund total reached the sum of $180.70. From this, we gave +$75.00 as gifts to the house-staff. The Emergency Fund amounted to +$151.25. From this, we gave $36.00 to help support a French orphan for +whose care we are responsible. + +There is also an unapportioned fund. A number of pledges were returned +with only the total amount marked down, none of which was divided +among the funds. These amounts were put down under the unapportioned +fund. From this sum, we drew $30.00 for the Near East Relief. In +addition to all this, we are having a continuous drive for old clothes +which we place where most needed. + +After the various distributions were made, we found that our book +balanced with that of the League treasurer. + +Handling a situation of this sort has been an interesting task, and I +think that we all have greatly profited by the experience, and believe +that it has been a preparation for future service to the Community. + + VIRGINIA LEFFINGWELL, + _Chairman_. + + + + +[Illustration: {A group of students in costume as shepherds}] + + + + +CALENDAR FOR 1925-1926 + + + _OCTOBER_ + 2--Old Girls' Party for the New. + 16--Riding Contest. + + _NOVEMBER_ + 10--Book Exhibit. + 13--Junior Carnival. + + _DECEMBER_ + 18--Christmas Luncheon. + 19--Christmas Play. + + _FEBRUARY_ + 5--Parents' and Teachers' Dinner. + 12--Valentine Party for Grades VII and VIII. Reading by the + Princess Rahme Haider. + + _MARCH_ + 8--Lecture by the Duc de Trevise. + 19--Northrop Entertains Summit. + 25--Athletic Banquet. + 26--Lecture by Dr. Cora Best. + + _MAY_ + 20 and 21--Junior Field Day. + 27 and 28--Senior Field Day. + + _JUNE_ + 4--The Junior-Senior Dance. + 7--Senior Chapel. Alumnae Luncheon. Class Day. + 8--Commencement. + +[Illustration: {A student wearing a costume of robes}] + + + + +[Illustration: {Seven photographs of students in 19th century costume}] + + + + +The Junior-Senior Dance, 1925 + + +On Friday morning, May 29, 1925, each Junior awoke with the entire +responsibility of the Junior-Senior dance on her shoulders. Ten +o'clock found some of the class in an effort to carry out the green +and white color scheme, robbing the neighbors' bridal wreath hedges of +all their glory. Returning to school they wound the blossoming sprays +in and out of a white lattice work, which a few of their industrious +class mates had made to cover the radiators in the dining room. They +then hung green and white balloons in clusters from the side lights. +While this was being done, others were converting nice-looking +automobiles into furniture vans. The furniture was arranged on the +roof garden, over which Japanese lanterns were hung. + +Having finished these tasks, we had by no means completed our work. +The supper tables next occupied our attention. These we arranged in +the side hall. Centering each was a miniature white May pole wound +with green and white streamers. The appearance was festive indeed. + +After the lapse of a few hours the weary Juniors returned to welcome +their guests, the Seniors.... As the clock struck twelve, the music +ceased, the building resumed its former tranquility, and the happy +guests filed home. + + EVELYN BAKER AND POLLY DAUNT. + + + + +We Entertain Summit School + + +Every year Northrop and Summit schools come together at one place or +the other for an informal party. This year, it being our pleasure to +entertain the Summit girls, we looked forward to the occasion as one +of our most enjoyable events. + +We departed from the usual form of entertainment in presenting the +French play "Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon." Although probably not +every one in the audience understood all the speeches, the play went +off well, for the plot is such that it is easily comprehended through +the acting; also to aid the audience a short synopsis was read in +English before the curtain rose, by Shirley Woodward, who looked the +part of a dashing French soldier. + +The roles of that amusing pair, Monsieur and Madam Perrichon, were +taken by Betty Long and Barbara Bailey. Henriette, their daughter, was +portrayed by Anne Healy, and the two charming lovers, Daniel and +Armand, by Dorothy Sweet and Janet Morrison. + +An additional feature of the program was provided by the faculty +sextet, in the form of several pleasing songs. After the play, the +faculties of both schools had refreshments upstairs, and dancing +followed in the gymnasium. + + + + +La Visite Du Duc De Trevise + + +[Illustration: {A large group of students outdoors with the visitor}] + +Le huit mars nous fumes tres heureuses d'avoir avec nous le Duc de +Trevise. Comme Mlle. Carse etait dans l'est, Mlle. Bagier le presenta. +Il fit une conference des plus interessantes sur la reconstruction de +l'ancienne architecture de la France, accompagnee de projections +charmantes de son sujet. Il expliqua de son ravissant accent francais, +les degats qu'on fait aux beaux edifices du moyen age. Il nous soumit +le projet de son organisation pour conserver divers anciens chateaux, +aux villages differents de la France pour chaque ville americaine qui +aura approprie de l'argent pour cette cause, donnant ainsi le moyen +aux citoyens de chaque ville d'avoir un logis quand ils visiteront le +village ou la ville dans lesquels leur chateau particulier se trouve. +L'argent qu'on a deja donne a fait beaucoup pour avancer le travail de +la reconstruction. Nous fumes charmees de decouvrir que, quand il +retombait dans sa langue natale, nous pumes avec peu de difficulte le +comprendre. Apres que la derniere projection eut ete montree, le Duc +voulut beaucoup une photographie des eleves de Northrop School. En +consequence nous nous assemblames au cote sud de l'ecole ou Mlle. +Bagier fit deux photographies des jeunes filles avec leur ami +nouveau-trouve. Comme cela fut une grande occasion pour les plus +jeunes filles, elles demanderent a grands cris des autographes que le +Duc leur donna avec bonte. Ensuite on nous rappela a nos lecons qui +nous semblerent plus tristes que d'ordinaire par contraste avec +l'heure tres interessante que nous venions de passer avec le Duc. + + + + +The Princess Rahme Haider + + +It would seem that the good angels were plotting in favor of Northrop +School, for this year we have had one delightful entertainment after +another. Foremost among these events was a visit from the Syrian +princess Rahme Haider and her charming companion Miss Burgess, who +gave us a fascinating dramatic reading from the Bible. The entire +school was held spellbound by the art of the princess, who made a very +artistic appearance in her Oriental garb and had a charming +personality. Princess Rahme Haider most assuredly gave us one of the +most interesting and profitable programs of the year. + + GRACE HELEN STUART. + +[Handwriting: Sincerely + Princess Rahme + Damascus + Syria] + + + + +[Illustration: {A group of students in 'peasant' costume}] + + + + +ATHLETIC CALENDAR + + + October 2--The Riding Contest. + +BASEBALL + + November 2--VII, 2; VIII, 22. + November 19--VII, 3; VIII, 25. + November 24--VII, 5; VIII, 26. + +HOCKEY + + November 9--Senior, 1; Sophomore, 1. + November 10--Junior, 5; Freshman, 0. + November 12--Senior, 0; Freshman, 0. + November 16--Senior, 0; Junior, 6. + November 18--Sophomore, 8; Freshman, 0. + November 19--Sophomore, 3; Junior, 0. + +CAPTAIN BALL + + March 3--VII, 2; VIII, 10. + March 9--VII, 2; VIII, 3. + March 11--Gold, 3; White, 10. + March 16--Gold, 7; White, 8. + +BASKETBALL--INTERCLASS + + February 23--Junior, 13; Sophomore, 6. + February 25--Freshman, 9; Sophomore, 20. + March 1--Senior, 8; Sophomore, 10. + March 2--Junior, 24; Freshman, 11. + March 4--Freshman 5; Senior 5. + March 8--Junior, 12; Senior, 19. + March 11--Tournament--Junior, 11; Sophomore, 8. + +BASKETBALL--GOLD AND WHITE + + March 10--Gold I, 7; White I, 8. + March 15--Gold II, 7; White II, 7. + March 22--Gold III, 22; White III, 6. + March 23--Gold IV, 11; White IV, 7. + March 24--Gold A, 12; White A, 7. + +FIELD DAY + + May 21 and 22--Junior Field Day. + May 27 and 28--Senior Field Day. + + + + +HOCKEY + + +This year a new regulation in regard to hockey practise was +introduced. The girls were required to report twice a week instead of +once, one of these days being given to stick practise. + +The first game of the season was played on November ninth between the +Seniors and the Sophomores. It was a very close one resulting in a one +to one tie. On the next day, November tenth, the Juniors beat the +Freshmen by a score of five to nothing. The game on November second +resulted in another tie; this time a scoreless one between the Seniors +and the Freshmen, which was most unsatisfactory to both teams. On +November sixteenth the Senior-Junior game was played which the Juniors +won six to nothing. On the eighteenth the Sophomores won from the +Freshmen eight to nothing, and on the next day the game between the +Juniors and the Sophomores was played. As no one had crossed the +Juniors' goal since the beginning of the '24 season there was a great +deal of interest in the game. It was an exceedingly hard contest, two +girls being more or less knocked out during the game, but the +Sophomores won by a score of three to nothing. + +We were fortunate this season in having the weather remain so that we +were able to play all the games on the schedule. + + + + +The Riding Contest + + +The annual riding contest was held on the Parade Grounds, Friday, +October 16, Mlle. Bagier and Betty Fowler acting as managers. Although +it was a cold and wintry day, a large crowd turned out. Dr. E. W. +Berg, Mr. L. McFall, and Mr. William Hindle were the judges, and the +Misses Anderson acted as ring mistresses. Everything went off very +smoothly, beginning with the Junior Cup Class, followed by the Senior +Cup Class, the Pony Class, and ending with Five Gaited Class. After +the contest, tea was served in the gymnasium, where the awards were +given out. The Junior Cup went to Ruth Clark; the Pony Cup, to +Virginia Leffingwell; the Five Gaited Cup to Betty Fowler; and the +much desired Senior Cup to Mary Louise Sudduth. + + + + +Base Ball and Captain Ball + + +On the fall the Sevenths and Eighths had several baseball games. They +were very exciting in spite of the fact that the Eighths always won by +a generous margin. However the Sevenths took the defeats so well that +no one could call them "poor losers." After the snow came, captain +ball began. The two match games were very interesting. The score of +the first was 10-2 in the Eighths' favor, and of the second was 8-7, +the same side being victorious. Then came the Gold and White games, +both of which the Whites won. It was hard, but it was fun, to play +against a girl that one had previously played with as a partner. These +games brought out such good sportsmanship that we all enjoyed them. + + + + +[Illustration: {Seven photographs of students participating in sports +events}] + + + + +BASKETBALL + + +The basketball season opened with much enthusiasm as soon as school +began after the Christmas vacation. The attendance at practices was +especially good this year, and the members of every class reported +regularly. In order to arouse some spirit, each class distributed its +colors among its rooters, and there was much competition between the +classes in finding original yells. As a result of these efforts the +crowds at the games were exceptionally good, much larger than in +previous years. The Sophomore-Junior game, the first of the season, +was won by the Juniors after a hard fight. The next two games were the +Sophomore-Freshman and the Senior-Sophomore, which were both won by +the Sophomores. The Juniors then played the Freshmen and were +victorious. The Senior-Freshman game, one of the most exciting of the +season, ended in a tie, much to the disappointment of both sides. The +Seniors in their last game at Northrop played the Juniors and won. As +a result of these games, the Juniors and Sophomores were competitors +in the tournament. + +The girls worked hard to make the gymnasium look suitable for the +occasion and were rewarded for their efforts, for cheering and +enthusiastic crowds filled the gym. The best yelling of the evening, +however, was done by the Sophomores, who nearly raised the roof with +their snappy and well-led cheers. Their serious and well performed +stunt of forming and singing, contrasted with the ridiculous showing +of the Juniors made on tricycles. After the stunts, the game began and +certainly proved to be a close one. Although the Juniors were behind +during a good part of the game, they finally won by a score of 11-8. +The tournament closed the inter-class games and those of the Gold and +White teams began. + +In order that more girls might take part in the games, the upper +school had been divided into two large teams called the Gold and +White. These teams were in turn subdivided into basketball teams, and +many games were played between these teams. Although the audiences +were not all that might be desired the plan can be called a success +since it interested more girls in the game. The White team won the +first two games and the Gold the next two; therefore the final game +between the two "A" teams would decide whether the Gold or the White +team would win the basketball series. The game was won by the Gold +team, 11-8. This game ended the basketball season, which has been an +unusually good one. + + + + + I strive to wring from my unwilling pen + A sonnet,--and all ordered thoughts pass by; + Light as a swirl of mist, too soon they fly + For my poor wits to capture them again. + O sonnet unattained! For other men + So easy to attain, but it is I + Who struggle, and for me all goes awry,-- + My efforts fond go unrequited then. + "Why, surely it is but a trifle, this," + They cry amazed, in sweet unknowing bliss. + A trifle, yes, for Shelley or for Blake, + They had not many extra marks at stake; + I toil in vain toward a retarding goal,-- + I fear the poet's part is not my role. + + SHIRLEY WOODWARD, '27. + + + + +Gardens I Have Read About + + +Books are the means by which one may travel without moving. It is +through the medium of a book that I was able to visit a garden in +Italy. It happened to be a garden that was typically Italian and a +very charming one. The entrance was through a vine-covered Tuscan arch +at the side of a villa, and down several steps to a wide terrace. The +sun was beating down outside, but inside this walled garden all was +cool and refreshing. At one's feet were clumps of darkest green ferns, +like miniature forests. At the bottom of the terrace there was a +terracotta pool, where water flowers were drifting on their flat green +pads. Around the edge of this pool and through an aisle of tiny +fragrant pink rose bushes was a space enclosed on three sides by +feathery greens. Here a laughing satyr was perched on the top of a +fountain, spouting water in a silvery arc. Through a shaded avenue +could be seen other secluded spots with marble benches in front of +other fountains. In another direction was a grotto where water +trickled down gray, moss-covered stones. Far in the distance were +cypress trees waving their spear-like tops and standing guard over the +coolness and beauty of the garden. + +Very different from this is the sunny English garden that next I +visited. It, too, was terraced and had fountains, but the water in +these fountains sparkled in the sun, and the cool dampness of the +Italian garden was lacking. On the terrace were occasional +closely-trimmed yew trees, or box trees clipped in odd shapes. A +curving walk, edged with laurel, led to the ivy-walled inner garden. +Here, in the full sun and warmth, grew, not the delicate rose bush of +my Italian garden, but sturdy, bold rose trees, and apple trees, above +snowdrops, daffodils, and crocuses in round, oblong, and square beds. +These had trimmed herbaceous borders, and gray flag walks lay between +them. Beyond towered great elms, but even these did not shut out any +of the sun, which reached the foxgloves and violets, transplanted from +the moor to the corner of the wall. + +Here in America, though I have never been East, I know I should feel +at home in a New England garden. My entire knowledge of them has been +gained from books, but I am sure, from what I have read that these +gardens are quite as charming as the more formal ones of other lands. +Separated from the street by either a white picket fence or a row of +lilac bushes, grow in their seasons nasturtiums, pinks, larkspur, +mignonette, sweet peas, and forget-me-nots, in neat rows. All these +are in such profusion that one sees only the glorious general effect +and fails to notice that the garden has been planted with total +disregard to the blending of colors. At the back, against the fence, +tall sun flowers flaunt themselves, while in front are clumps of +gorgeous peonies, and at the side beds of fragrant mint. + +All these gardens I think of when spring comes, and my yearly +gardening fever seizes me. But at the end of two months, when my +radishes go to seed before attaining edible size, and those of my +flowers that are not choked by weeds have been dug up by other members +of the family, I go back to the dream gardens in my books. + + MARY EATON, '26. + + + + +DIXIE + + +An old man, ragged, but with an air of dignity, quickly glanced at his +stop watch as a small figure, crouched over a shining black neck, shot +by. With a thunder of hoofs the black horse whirled past and fought +for her head down the stretch. She would win the following +Saturday--she must! If she didn't then she too would have to go and +leave the ruined old gentleman, who looked so feeble leaning over the +white rail which enclosed the mile track. After much coaxing the black +colt came mincing up to her old master. + +The small colored boy, as black as his mount, was bubbling over with +enthusiasm. "Dat dehby, Suh, is going to be won by ma Dixie," patting +the curved neck of the horse. + +The old gentleman looked up. "Mah boy, you must remembah that Dixie +will have otheah good hawses to beat. Vixen is the favohite and very +fast, although Ah know mah little black friend heah will do heh best +to honah the purple and white," glancing proudly at the headband of +the black marvel. "Next Satahday will decide it all." + +A shadow fell across the colt. Looking up, the gentleman, known as +Colonel Fairfax, saw a man dressed in a checkered suit and orange +socks. On a tie to match was a monstrous, well polished diamond, which +sparkled wickedly in the sun. The man stood staring at the stop-watch. +"Ah beg yoh pahdon, Suh, but theh anything Ah could do foah you?" + +The man, hearing the question, looked up, flushing. "Youh horse is a +Derby entry?" + +Colonel Fairfax eyed the horse reflectively and answered, "It all +depends on her condition, and only time can answeh that." The man +hurried away, leaving the old gentleman looking after him, a deep +frown on his face. + +"Washington, Ah am a bit doubtful about this new-uh-acquaintance," he +addressed the exercise boy. + +Each day, no matter how early Dixie was given her exercise, the +stranger was to be seen loitering in the distance or walking briskly +beside the track--seemingly deep in thought. His presence seemed to +trouble the Colonel, who watched his colt anxiously. + +At last, the final workout. Colonel Fairfax and the unwelcome stranger +leaned over the rail, intently watching the black horse, which +appeared to have wings. The stranger, who had been seen talking to the +owner of Vixen, the favorite, annoyed the old gentleman; he was +suspicious of this flashily dressed man and did not conceal his +feelings. + +Sundown, Friday, found the stable at Churchill Downs buzzing with +excitement. The favorite's stall was surrounded by interested old +racing men, who loved the thoroughbred and his sport, while a few +individuals in gaily checkered suits crowded about, listening to the +many "hunches" for business reasons only. An old man sat before Stall +No. 7. Glancing up, he noticed two men peering in at Dixie. One was +the man who had seemed so much interested in the mare's trial gallops. +Through the half-open door of the box stall could be seen a horse in +faded purple and white blankets. After a hurried conversation the two +men passed on to the favorite's stall, where they smiled at the +jockey, looked in, and walked on. + +Long after the one-thirty special night train had whistled at the +Downs crossing, a dark figure could be seen sliding along the stall +doors--"Ten--Nine--; Eight--" Then it came to halt before Stall No. 7, +and slipped through the door. It felt in the dark for the blanketed +horse's neck. The horse jumped as a dagger-like needle was thrust into +its neck. The colored boy, in a drugged sleep at the door of the +stall, stirred in his dreams, but was still again. The door opened +quietly, and the figure slipped out, leaving the horse in No. 7 +leaning drunkenly against the side wall. A shaft of moonlight fell +across the intruder's face, revealing the same man who had attended +all of Dixie's trial gallops. Little did this unscrupulous person +realize that the black mare was spending the night in an old deserted +barn near the race track, guarded by an old gentleman whose mouth was +twisted into a whimsical smile, while a "guaranteed-to-be-gentle" +livery horse was leading a life of luxury that evening in Stall No. 7, +Churchill Downs. + +Derby day at Churchill Downs! Kentucky was doing homage to the +thoroughbred. As the band played "Dixie," the Derby entries filed +through the paddock onto the field. Proudly leading the string of the +country's best two year olds, was the song's namesake, a true daughter +of the South. With arching neck and prancing feet, Dixie, the pride of +an old man's heart, took her place at the barrier. Her jockey looked +up as he passed an aristocratic old gentleman, dressed in a faded coat +which reminded one of "befoah de Wah" days and whose hat remained off +while the horses passed. + +The barrier was up, and the roar shook the grandstand. "They're off!!" +The favorite, Vixen, shot ahead and seemed to be making a runaway +race. Cheer after cheer rent the air. An old man clasped his program a +little tighter and breathed a prayer. Around the turn came Vixen, but +not alone. Crouched to the ground, a small black horse crept up to the +flying tail of the favorite. Down the stretch the two thundered, +fighting for supremacy. "Foah Kentucky, Dixie, and the honah of the +purple and white!" As if she heard this plea from her master, Dixie +bent lower. Then, her black nose thrust ahead, more than a length in +advance of Vixen, she flashed under the wire, bringing "honah" to the +purple and white. + + NANCY STEVENSON, '26. + + + + +MY BUREAU DRAWERS + + +My bureau drawers,--I wonder what their contents could tell! Whenever +I go through them with the firm resolve to clear out everything that I +do not actually use, I always end by saving some things just for the +sake of the memories connected with them. + +Take that pink satin hair ribbon, for instance. I wore it for the +first time with a new pink dress at a party in California. It brings +back all the thought of California as I first saw it in nineteen +twenty, memories of stately and haughty poinsettias, of date palms +from which one could pick and eat fresh dates, of a dancing ocean with +its myriads of lovely sea creatures, and its gaily-colored beach +equipment, of an amusement park with the roller coaster on which I +nearly had heart failure. + +Then, in another corner, lies a string of green beads. What could +better recall to my mind the night of my graduation from the grade +school? The recollection makes me want to be in grade school once +more. I well remember how one of my classmates forgot to bring the +music to the class song which was to have been one of the attractions +of the program. Disaster marked that evening farther when a tall +Danish boy, looking the picture of selfconsciousness and misery, arose +to give the farewell address. As nearly as I can remember, it ran +thus: + +"Ladies and gentlemen, on the evening of our graduation ve vish to +tank de teachers and also de principal for de vork"--a long awkward +pause--"ve vish to tank de teachers and also de principal for de +vork"--a still longer pause, interspersed with rising giggles from the +graduating class--"Ladies and gentlemen, ve vish to tank de teachers +and also de principal for de vork vich they have done in getting us +trough." + +Then, there at the back of the drawer, is a black satin sash. It +brings to my mind an entirely different kind of memory. It is one +thing that I have left from the dress I wore at my grandfather's +funeral. I remember all the tragedy of the occasion, lightened by one +spot of comedy, my grandmother's losing her petticoat. + +I dare say that some day I shall throw away these things that others +consider rubbish, but I shall never part with the memories for which +they stand. + + POLLY SWEET. + + + + +A SURPRISE + + +It was early in the morning when Nancy Nelson awoke. She got up and +put on her wrapper and one slipper, as she couldn't get the other one +on, though she tried hard. "Ah," she said, "there must be something in +my slipper." So Nancy felt in her slipper and then pulled out her +hand. Why, there was a little package! "Who put it in there, I +wonder," she said, quite surprised. Nancy asked everybody in the +house. Then her mother said, "Nancy, did you forget that it is your +birthday?" Then she opened the little package and found a small silver +thimble, with the name "Nancy Nelson" on it. + + ANNE MORRISON, Form IV. + + + + +THE DEPARTURE AND THE RETURN OF THE SHIP + + +It was a clear, warm day in late spring and a ship was leaving the +harbor, its departure accompanied by a merry clanking of chains as the +anchor was drawn up. The lusty cheers of the sailors floated back in +echoes. The shore was crowded with the wives and sweethearts of these +two hundred sailors, their brightly colored gowns and fluttering +handkerchiefs making a lovely picture against the background of the +green cliffs. On board the men were singing lustily as they performed +their tasks and the last echo of their happiness floated back clearly +to the little group on the shore as the ship dropped below the hill +and out of sight. The women had already settled down to their period +of watchful waiting and were trusting the safety of their loved ones +to God, who had always protected them and brought them home safely +before. + +It was a clear, crisp night in late October and the moon was sending +its silvery beams out over the quiet waters. Everything was pervaded +by an air of mystery. Slowly, from far out at sea, a great ship came +slinking into the harbor. As it drew nearer, it glowed with crimson +lights. Then, suddenly every light went out and again the great +mysterious hulk was swallowed up in the darkness. Not a sound was +heard. Could this be the same ship that had sailed away so gayly three +years ago? No one awaited its coming, for it had been long given up +for lost. It came nearer and nearer, and a breeze, which had suddenly +come up, whistled through its thin sails and moved the spars, making a +sound like the rattling of dry bones. Then, as if in response to the +command of a ghostly captain, the great, black hulk sank into the +darkness under the water, leaving only a whirlpool to mark its +existence. It sank as it had sailed in; slowly and mysteriously. + + MARTHA JEAN MAUGHAN, '28. + + + + +RAIN + + + I love to hear upon the walk + The rain that comes on nights in spring, + So warm and soft and pattering + It seems to fairly talk. + + It tells me of arbutus shy, + That hides in moss beside a tree, + Of crocus and anemone + That peek out at the sky. + + It fills with earthly scent the night, + And glistens on the new green leaves; + It drips and drips from shining eaves + And sparkles in the light. + + MARY BRACKETT, '26. + + + + +TROUBLES OF AN AMATEUR + + +Mary had been assured that "Dolly" was absolutely dependable, would +not shy, had a kind and gentle disposition, and was easy to manage; +but now she was actually gazing upon this amiable annihilator, the +courage oozed out of her suddenly pounding heart and her eyes widened +with fright and suspicion. She wished now she hadn't been so desirous +of tempting fate on such a seemingly ferocious and unnatural brute. + +"Dolly," on the other hand, happily unaware of his savageness and +unnatural spirit, drooped his homely, ungainly head in a dejected +manner. To him, Mary was only one more burden, one more wriggling, +gasping infliction, to be jogged slowly about for her first ride. He +snorted in disdain. Mary jumped. Why didn't she use her own feet? +"Dolly" didn't want to be bothered. Finally he rolled an eye back to +survey his passenger. + +The groom was gradually coaxing Mary on--onto something terrible. She +just knew it! "Dolly" seemed to assume supernatural proportions as +Mary reached out a hand to grasp the reins which were handed to her. +Someone boosted her on. Goodness! She was going right over on the +other side! But no! She found herself sitting up on the broad back of +"Dolly"; it was a very precarious position. How did one keep one's +balance? She just knew she couldn't stay on. There was nothing to hang +onto, and her.... + +"Help!" she shrieked, as her steed casually stamped a clumsy foot, in +the endeavor to rid himself of a persistent fly. + +The groom, now mounted, led her horse out into the ring. Mary hoped +he'd hang onto the reins. If he didn't.... Mary pictured herself a +mangled, shapeless mass. She shuddered. She'd seen those movie actors +dart gaily about and had thought it would be lovely to learn to dart. +But now--she wondered if they had been tied on! + +Oh! they were jogging. Mary didn't seem to understand the nature of +the jog. She was out of breath. Grasping the pommel, she looked +miserably at the long neck swaying in front of her. Two long ears +fascinated her. Up and down, up and down. Ah! why didn't he stop? She +attempted to shriek, but only succeeded in emitting faint gasps as +"Dolly" swerved to avoid a small hole. Inside she seemed to be jolted +to pieces. Her heart shook her chest, and a giddy feeling overpowered +her. Her vision blurred, and her breath came in short gasps. + +"Dolly" had now slowed down to a walk, but to Mary this was the +wildest of gaits. Every minute she fully expected to die on the spot. +She couldn't stand it another second. She couldn't--she couldn't! + +"Time is up, Miss," announced a cheery voice. "Do you wish to +dismount?" + +Mary came up from the depths of agony, and hope lit her face. + +"Oh-h-h!" she moaned. "Yes, I--Yes! Yes!" + +She was lifted, or rather dragged, off, she didn't know which, didn't +care as long as she was off. The ground seemed to come up to meet her. +Why didn't things stand still? Even the unsuspicious "Dolly" appeared +to be performing grotesque antics. Mary took a step, just one. It was +not necessary for her to take more to realize that she was very stiff. +"Heavens!" She slowly gathered up her coat and hat, and limped +painfully out of the Academy. Now she could realize that an amateur, +in riding anyway, had her troubles in walking! + + VIRGINIA LEFFINGWELL, '26. + + + + +TERESA + + + Teresa is my aunt's black cat; + She plays with this, she plays with that-- + A tassel green, a string to tug, + A fleck of light upon the rug + Give her imagination fire. + + And then she sleeps all in a ball + Beside the hearth out in the hall. + She loves to warm herself this way, + And dreams, this time, about her play-- + While cuddled up she purrs and purrs. + + When tea time comes, she's always there, + Beside my aunt's old walnut chair; + Her big green eyes are bright with glee, + Her chin sinks in a creamy sea, + And her ecstasy is complete. + + MARY BRACKETT, '26. + + + + +BOOKS I SHOULD LIKE TO WRITE + + +It is last period on a long, sleepy, particularly humdrum day at +school. Shirley sits trying to concentrate on a history text-book, but +her mind will wander, despite her really noble efforts to distinguish +the Valerian Laws from the Licinian Laws. + +"What an idiotic law to have to make!" she mutters resentfully. "But +I'm sure I shouldn't be so dumb in History if I had an interesting +text-book. It seems as though someone could write it, even if we +aren't all Van Loons and H. G. Wellses. I bet I could myself--at least +I'd make it a fascinating book if not a strictly exact one ('Yes you +would,' says her Subconscious, but she pays no attention)! When I +think of the generations of defenseless students to be subjected to +these text-books, my heart aches for them!... The Valerian Law +was...." + +The scene changes from this lethargic one to a fireside on a winter +evening. She drops the book in her lap, the yells of the savages are +fainter. She shakes the salt spray from her chair and tries to adjust +herself once more to the prosaic of a land-lubber. + +"To write a book like that is my only desire on earth," she murmurs, +as she reaches for a volume of Jane Austen. + +Now, completely involved in the career of _Emma_, she says, "Oh, for +that gift of the gods Jane Austen had! Her speech--a rippling stream +of perfect and delicious English, the King's English indeed! Each +phrase is as delicately constructed as a watch, and all her watches +tick together as one." + +Thus the incorrigible child goes on, unaware how many fascinating +books she has longed to have written. From _Nicholas Nickleby_ to +_Thunder on the Left_, from _Walter H. Page_ to the _Constant Nymph_, +and from _Chaucer_ to _Edna St. Vincent Millay_! A veritable +gourmande, she is. + +But forgive her. Who has not felt that he might improve a text-book? +Who has not longed, in reading a glorious book, for similar +brilliance? What lover of books is unmoved to an occasional effort at +emulation, even if he afterwards destroy it? You who do these things, +sympathize with Shirley, who, by her own hand we do confess, is +bitterly disillusioned every time she tries to write a theme. + + SHIRLEY WOODWARD, '27. + + + + +OUR STREET + + +Three Indians padded softly along through the tall dark pines. Their +errand seemed peaceful, since their number was so small and they came +so openly. Soon the path widened out, and finally led to a small glade +in which stood a rough cabin. The Indians stopped to observe +cautiously before making themselves known. What they saw filled them +with curiosity and awe, for standing before the cabin was a white man +praying, his deep voice echoing through the wild stillness of the +forest. Beside him stood a younger man, whose attention, while +respectful, was not undivided, for he had spied the Indians and waited +restlessly for the "father" to finish his devotions. These done, he +called his superior's attention to the savages lurking on the +outskirts of the glade and beckoned to them to come forward. Both +white men were eager to learn what the Indians might tell them, and +the elder, who spoke the Indian tongue, talked glibly with the +redskins. They, in turn, were curious about several things. First, the +strange contrivance that hung from Father Hennepin's belt. He +explained that it was to help him find his way through the uncharted +country. Save for the compass he would quickly be lost. + +"Hugh," grunted one of the braves, "that no good. I lead you," +surprising the Jesuit by his use of English. + +"Good," answered the priest. The two white men went into the cabin, +gathered their scanty baggage, and reappeared at the door. By this +time the other Indians had disappeared down the path by which they had +come. In the opposite direction, without a backward glance, the party +of three men, the Jesuit, his companion, and the Indian guide, set out +to find new thoroughfares. + +Now from morning to night traffic rolls along the same trail. The +narrow path that once found its way through the forest with many +turnings and twistings is now a wide, paved avenue. Over it go street +cars carrying busy people, trucks laden with gravel or coal, the +ever-present automobiles of people bent on pleasure. The street is +lined on either side with tall buildings: stores, offices, houses, +churches, museums. As we go down the avenue, we come to what was once +a clearing in the forest. Instead of the simple cabin, there are now a +variety of buildings: a small store whose owner, a French Canadian, +carries on a thriving business; opposite, a restaurant owned by two +yellow Chinese, who specialize in chow-mein; next door, the +establishment of a husky Yankee, who plies his trade by greasing +automobiles and supplying gasoline to motorists demanding that +necessity. + +A thriving community now, what will this one time forest clearing be +two hundred years hence? + + JANET MORISON, '27. + + + + +A CONVERSATION AT THE DINNER TABLE + + +At dinner Daddy told us he had seen a prince. I asked him what prince +it was. + +Then Mother said, "Didn't you read the paper, Ella Sturgis?" + +"No," I replied. + +"It was the Prince of Greece," said Daddy, "and he wore a monocle." + +Chucky said, "What is a monocle?" + +"It is a glass people wear in one eye and squint a little to keep it +in," said Mother. + +Then she asked Daddy where he had seen the prince. + +"At the club," he replied. "I was invited to have lunch with him, but +I could not accept the invitation because I had promised Ella Sturgis +to do something for her dog, and Ashes is more important than the +Prince." + + ELLA STURGIS PILLSBURY, Form VI. + + + + +LORING PARK IN GRANDFATHER'S DAY + + +In about 1855 Mr. W. H. Grimshaw came to live in Minneapolis where the +Plaza Hotel now stands. Then Loring Park and the vicinity was farm +land, and an Indian named Keg-o-ma-go-shieg had his wigwam at the +corner of Oak Grove and Fifteenth streets. Mr. Grimshaw learned from +him that Indians had lived on this spot for generations, but that +since the land had come under government control, most of the Indians +had gone. Keg-o-ma-go-shieg, because he loved so much the spot where +he was born, returned every summer to fish in the lakes and hunt in +the woods of his beloved birthplace. There is no tablet or monument to +this last Indian in Loring Park, but there is one to Ole Bull facing +Harmon Place. Would it not be more fitting to have a statue of Sitting +Bull? + +Also there used to be an old, well-traveled Indian trail through the +Park, of which there is no trace now, although some people have +searched carefully for it. According to Mr. Grimshaw there used to be +countless passenger pigeons, which in the migratory season roosted in +the trees of Loring Park. At noon the sky would be darkened by a cloud +of these birds, the air would be filled with the sound of their wings, +and they would alight on the branches of the trees, nearly breaking +them down by their great weight. + +Then there was the old brook that flowed out of Loring Park lake, +across Harmon Place, under the present automobile buildings, and +emptied into Basset's Creek. The old military road from Minnehaha +Falls to Fort Ridgley ran through this section, roughly along Hennepin +Avenue. + +West of Hennepin Avenue was Ruber's pasture, where cows and horses +used to graze, and where the Parade Grounds, the Armory, the +Cathedral, and Northrop School now are. Mr. J. S. Johnson was the +first white settler in this part of Minneapolis. In 1856 he bought one +hundred and sixty acres, of which a part is now Loring Park, for one +dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. + + EUGENIA BOVEY, '08. + + + + +THE STORY HOUR + + +"Now if you will be quiet I will tell you a story," said Miss Smith. + +"All right," said Tom, "but you must tell us a story about a pirate." + +"No!" cried Betty, "tell us a story about a fairy." + +"Be quiet or I will not tell you any story," exclaimed Miss Smith. + +"Please tell us a 'tory bout 'ittle baby," pleaded baby Ruth. + +"All right, the story will be about a little baby. You two older +children ought to know better than to shout," sighed Miss Smith. + +"Oh dear, we never get anything now that Ruthie is old enough to let +you know what she wants," groaned Tom. + +"Once upon a time," began Miss Smith, "there was a ..." + +"Pirate," interrupted Tom. + +"No, no," said Miss Smith as she went on with the story. "Once upon a +time there was a ..." + +"Fairy," interrupted Betty. + +"No, a little baby," cried Ruth. + + JANET BULKLEY, Form VI. + + + + +[Illustration: {Nine photographs of students enjoying leisure +activities}] + + + + +Spring and Summer + + + Spring is coming with the sun; + The birds are coming too. + Summer's coming with the grass, + The flowers with the dew. + + SUSAN WHEELOCK, Form IV. + + + + +"AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND" + + +If you would enjoy a glance at the home of one of the winds, read _At +the Back of the North Wind_, by George MacDonald. Young Diamond, a +little boy, the North Wind, Diamond's father and mother, and Old +Diamond, which is a great and good horse,--these are the characters +you will hear the most about in this story. The story narrates a +series of adventures, in dream form, of Young Diamond and an uncanny +creature who calls herself the North Wind. An unusual part of the +story is the trip to the sea where the North Wind will destroy a ship. +Diamond does not want to perceive this, so North Wind drops him in a +great cathedral, where he wakes to see the moon-lit windows showing +the saints in beautiful garments. If you like fairy tales, I would +suggest that you read this incredible book. + + GERALDINE HUDSON, Form V. + + + + +My dear friend: + +I do so hope you will like the book _Dandelion Cottage_. It is an +interesting story of four little girls named Betty Tucker, Jeanie +Mapes, Mabel Bennett, and Marjorie Vale, who pay rent for a cottage by +pulling dandelions. They have such interesting adventures and act so +business-like that you ought to love it. I did when I read it. Carroll +Watson Rankin certainly knows what girls like, for she has innumerable +objects in that cottage that I know you would love to have in your +room. It is very clean in the cottage, with not an atom of dirt +anywhere. The part I like best in the story is where Laura Milligan, a +disdainful little girl, moves into the neighborhood. She makes life +miserable for the cottagers. When you read the story, be sure you look +very carefully for the things Laura does, for they are very +interesting. I know you prefer to read the book yourselves, so I will +close now. + + Sincerely yours, + BARBARA ANSON, Form V. + + + + +KRAG AND JOHNNY BEAR + + +You would be very much interested in the story of _Krag and Johnny +Bear_, by Ernest Thomson Seton. The names are very cute. There are +Nubbins, his mother, White Nose, and his mother. This part of the +story tells about Krag, an extraordinary little sheep, who has many +fascinating adventures. Little White Nose is very lazy, obstinate, and +wary. Every morning Nubbins gets up and tries to wake up White Nose. +When Krag grows up, he has beautiful big horns, and the hunters try to +catch him so they can mount them. At the end of the story he is caught +and his horns are mounted and kept in the king's palace. I know you +would like to read this book if you are fond of animal stories. +Another interesting story is about Randy, an extraordinary sparrow who +is brought up with some canaries and learns to sing. One day the cage +Randy was in fell over with an astounding crash and he escaped. He +built a nest of sticks, which was the only kind he knew, and was very +disconsolate when his mate, who was an ordinary sparrow, threw them +away and brought hay and straw instead. Randy's mate is finally killed +and Randy is caught and put back in his cage. I think you will like +this book if you like animal stories. + + JANE ARNOLD AND LOUISE WALKER, Form V. + + + + +USES OF PUMPKINS + + +It was a cold and frosty morning at Mr. Brown's farm. The pumpkins +were huddled together, and their frosty coats glistened in the morning +sunshine. + +"I heard Mr. Brown talking about Thanksgiving," said a little pumpkin. +"I wonder what Thanksgiving is?" + +"Long ago," began a big pumpkin, "when the first white people came to +this country, it was in early winter, and these settlers could raise +no food. Many of them died of hunger and cold. But the next year the +settlers planted many crops, and they grew wonderfully. So they had a +day to thank God for the crops they had. The day they celebrated is +called Thanksgiving." + +"Oh, I see," said the little pumpkin. "I am sure Teddy was thankful he +had such a nice big pumpkin to make his Jack o' lantern out of on +Hallowe'en." + +"I think the cattle are thankful that they have us to eat in winter," +said a middle-sized pumpkin, trying very hard to look wise, but the +November air was so delightfully chilly and crisp he had to laugh. + +"I'm sure Farmer Brown and his family are thankful to have such a nice +pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving," said a big pumpkin. + +"I never knew pumpkins were so useful," sighed the little pumpkin +sleepily. Then he turned over and went to sleep. + + HARRIOT OLIVIA CARPENTER, Form IV. + + + + +[Illustration: THE SENIOR CLASS + +WE JUST SQUEEZED THROUGH] + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | CADILLAC | + | | + | | + | [Illustration] | + | | + | Millions of boys and girls of today are eager partisans of | + | the Cadillac--anxious to grow up and have a Cadillac of | + | their own, like Father and Mother. | + | | + | With thousands, the ownership of a Cadillac is a family | + | tradition dating back to the days when Grandfather bought | + | his first Cadillac, a quarter of a century ago. | + | | + | All through these 25 years Cadillac has consistently stood | + | in the forefront of all the world's motor cars. | + | | + | Eleven years ago Cadillac produced the first eight-cylinder | + | engine--the basic foundation of Cadillac success in | + | marketing more than 200,000 eight-cylinder Cadillac cars. | + | | + | Today the new 90-degree, eight-cylinder Cadillac is the | + | ultra modern version of the motor car. Its luxury, comfort, | + | performance and value reach heights of perfection beyond | + | anything ever attained. | + | | + | Thus once again Cadillac strikes out far in advance, | + | renewing its traditional right to this title, The Standard | + | of the World. | + | | + | NORTHWESTERN CADILLAC COMPANY | + | | + | LA SALLE TO HARMON ON TENTH MINNEAPOLIS | + | | + +---------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | THE STORE of SPECIALIZATIONS | + | | + | _Prescribes for Youth and Summer Holidays_ | + | | + | _The Girls' Store_--suggests to the fortunate years | + | between 6 and 14, that Wash Frocks have all the style | + | charm, this season, of silks or crepes; that handmade | + | Voiles are cool and always dainty; that white Middy | + | Blouses are jauntier with matching Skirt; that Cricket | + | Sweaters are "Sportsiest." | + | | + | _The Sub-Deb Shop_--understudies the "Deb" in outfitting | + | the "Sub!" Are your years between 13 and 16--here are | + | Sports Frocks; decorative Georgettes; bright cool Prints | + | for a summer morning; pastel Chiffons or buoyant | + | Taffetas for the evening party. And in Coats--there's | + | the slim "wrappy", the Cape-back. | + | | + | _When Youth Steps Out_--if it's young youth, it chooses | + | for smartness and comfort, a "Felice" Pump--in patent or | + | tan calf, with matching buckles. If it's more | + | sophisticated youth--there's the sophisticated Shoe; the | + | Shoe of high, "Spiked" heel and daringly contrasted | + | leathers--dainty, frivolous, charming! | + | | + | _The Hat Shop Says_--pretty much what you will this | + | Summer! From small Hats of crocheted straw or silk, to | + | pictorial Milans--for the Sub-Deb. From demure "Pokes" | + | or off-the-face Beret-Tams to wide-brimmed, streamer-gay | + | Straws--for the Junior. Here's latitude for choice--and | + | a Hat for every type! | + | | + | _The Dayton Company._ | + | MINNEAPOLIS | + | | + +-------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | Invest Direct | + | in Your Community's Growth | + | | + | | + | Preferred Shares | + | Northern States Power Co. | + | | + | _50,000 Shareholders--15 Years of Steady Dividends_ | + | | + | | + | Make inquiry at any of our offices | + | | + | MINNEAPOLIS FARIBAULT ST. PAUL MANKATO | + | | + +-------------------------------------------------------+ + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | _Gainsborough_ | + | POWDER PUFFS | + | | + | [Illustration] | + | | + | Lovely women appreciate the daintiness and perfection of | + | Gainsborough Powder Puffs. | + | | + | Each puff with its soft, fine texture has the rare quality | + | of retaining exactly the right amount of powder and | + | distributes it evenly. | + | | + | Gainsborough Powder Puffs retailing from 10c to 75c each, | + | are available in various sizes and delicate colors to match | + | your costume. | + | | + | WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS | + | MINNEAPOLIS DRUG COMPANY | + | DOERR-ANDREWS & DOERR | + | | + +---------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | [Illustration: VALVE-IN-HEAD _Buick_ MOTOR CARS] | + | | + | | + | PENCE AUTOMOBILE CO. | + | MINNEAPOLIS | + | | + | | + | WHEN BETTER CARS ARE BUILT | + | BUICK WILL BUILD THEM | + | | + +----------------------------------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------+ + | | + | _Compliments of_ | + | | + | | + | Miss Minneapolis | + | FLOUR | + | | + | | + | Minneapolis Milling Company | + | | + +-------------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------------------+ + | | + | _Compliments of_ | + | | + | | + | Winton Lumber | + | Company | + | | + | Manufacturers | + | of | + | | + | _Idaho White Pine_ | + | | + | | + | Security Building Minneapolis, Minn. | + | | + +-------------------------------------------+ + + + +-----------------------------+ + | | + | JOHN DEERE | + | v | + | | | + | | | + | | | + | -----> Farm Machinery | + | TRACTORS | + | | + | DEERE & WEBBER CO. | + | MINNEAPOLIS | + | | + +-----------------------------+ + + + +--------------------------------------------+ + | | + | JAMES C. HAZLETT WESLEY J. KELLEY | + | | + | | + | JAMES C. HAZLETT AGENCY | + | | + | Any Kind of Insurance Anywhere | + | | + | First National-So Line Building | + | | + | | + | FIDELITY AND SURETY BONDS MAIN 2603 | + | | + +--------------------------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------+ + | | + | ALLEN & KIDD | + | RIDING SCHOOL | + | | + | Toledo Ave. and Lake St. | + | ST. LOUIS PARK | + | | + +----------------------------+ + + + +-----------------------------------------------+ + | | + | EDWARD J. O'BRIEN | + | REALTOR | + | | + | _Real Estate--Investments_ | + | | + | | + | 232 McKnight Building Minneapolis, Minn. | + | | + +-----------------------------------------------+ + + + +------------------------------+ + | | + | Graham's | + | | + | _ICES_ | + | _ICE CREAMS_ | + | _MERINGUES_ | + | | + | Catering for All Occasions | + | | + | 2441 HENNEPIN | + | _Ken. 0297_ | + | | + +------------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | _NOT ONLY NOW, BUT--_ | + | | + | For centuries one of the best protections against | + | poverty has been a bank account, and you have every | + | assurance of protection when you make the | + | | + | 26th Street State Bank | + | | + | _Corner of Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street_, | + | your bank. | + | | + | _Sometimes the biggest is not the best, but we are | + | the best because we are not the biggest._ | + | | + +-------------------------------------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------+ + | | + | _Compliments of--_ | + | | + | | + | John F. McDonald | + | Lumber Company | + | | + | | + | _One piece or a carload_ | + | | + +----------------------------+ + + + +------------------------------------+ + | | + | MELONE-BOVEY | + | LUMBER CO. | + | | + | 4 Retail Yards | + | | + | ~~~ | + | | + | MAIN OFFICE AND YARDS | + | 13th Avenue South and 4th Street | + | | + +------------------------------------+ + + + +--------------------------+ + | | + | OCCIDENT FLOUR | + | | + | | + | _Costs more--worth it_ | + | | + +--------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------+ + | | + | Barrington Hall Coffee | + | | + | BAKER IMPORTING CO. | + | | + | 0_---_0 | + | | + | Minneapolis and New York | + | | + +----------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------------------+ + | | + | THORPE BROS. | + | REALTORS SINCE 1885 | + | | + | _Complete Real Estate Service_ | + | | + | | + | Owners and Developers of | + | _The Country Club District_ | + | | + | | + | THORPE BROS. | + | | + | _Thorpe Bros. Building_ | + | 519 MARQUETTE AVE. | + | | + | _In the Heart of Financial Minneapolis_ | + | | + +-------------------------------------------+ + + + +------------------------------------+ + | | + | _Compliments of_ | + | | + | | + | North Star Woolen | + | Mills Co. | + | | + | _Manufacturers of Fine Blankets_ | + | | + | MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. | + | | + +------------------------------------+ + + + +-------------------------------+ + | | + | [Illustration] | + | | + | WASHBURN'S GOLD MEDAL FOODS | + | | + | _The_ GOLD MEDAL LINE | + | OF FOODS | + | | + +-------------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | [Illustration] | + | _Of flannel and broadcloth in all the smart plain shades, | + | also novel checks and plaids. Made with either roll sport | + | or notched collar and hip bands of either knit wool or | + | self material._ | + | | + | _Nothing Like a_ | + | | + | POLAR OVERJAC | + | | + | _playing around outdoors_ | + | | + | There's nothing like it for looks or for utility either. The | + | jaunty lines, the natty materials, the exuberant | + | colors--that will all appeal to you, and besides you'll like | + | the easy feel of it on you--the comfortable fit--the way it | + | "gives" to your movements. | + | | + | Whatever your plans for this summer vacation you'll want a | + | Polar Overjac. It's the handiest thing imaginable to slip | + | into--and just the right weight to give the little extra | + | warmth needed cooler days and evenings. For driving, golf, | + | for "roughing it" and all the rest. Well made, expertly | + | tailored--that accounts for a lot of its good looks. | + | | + | _At Your Neighborhood Store_ | + | | + | Made exclusively by | + | | + | _Wyman, Partridge & Co._ | + | MINNEAPOLIS | + | | + +----------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------+ + | | + | [Illustration] | + | | + | FIRST NATIONAL BANK | + | | + | _Minneapolis, Minnesota_ | + | | + +----------------------------+ + + + +----------------------------------+ + | | + | _Compliments of_ | + | | + | DAVIS _and_ MICHEL | + | _ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW_ | + | | + | | + | 419 METROPOLITAN BANK BUILDING | + | | + +----------------------------------+ + + + +------------------------------------------+ + | | + | _Since 1870_ | + | | + | A SAFE PLACE FOR | + | SAVINGS ACCOUNTS | + | | + | HENNEPIN COUNTY | + | SAVINGS BANK | + | | + | 511 MARQUETTE | + | | + | _The Oldest Savings Bank in Minnesota_ | + | | + +------------------------------------------+ + + + +------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | _The following names represent purchasers of advertising | + | space in the Tatler, who have given the space back to us | + | for our own purposes. We are especially grateful to them | + | for this two-fold gift, and wish hereby to acknowledge | + | their contribution._ | + | | + | MR. C. R. WILLIAMS MR. B. H. WOODWORTH | + | MR. P. A. BROOKS MR. V. H. VAN SLYKE | + | MR. R. A. GAMBLE MR. W. A. REINHART | + | MR. C. M. CASE | + | | + +------------------------------------------------------------+ + + +From the Press of the Augsburg Publishing House + + + + +Transcriber's Note + +Obvious typographic errors (incorrect punctuation, omitted or transposed +letters) have been repaired. Otherwise, however, variable spelling +(including proper names, where there was no way to establish which +spelling was correct) and hyphenation has been left as printed, due to +the number of different contributors. + +Page 19 includes the phrase "if the snow smelts." 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