Adams Center High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Adams Center, NY)

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SEYIOR -XXXL AL 23 ened l1fe If she were domg ex en a l1ttle good she could hxe and be strong And then at thlrty four began her llterary work She stud1ed the best models of composxtlon and took as her model the wr1t1ngs of Wentworth Hlggln son Her first prose sketch appeared 1n The Independent September 13 1866 and from th1s tlme on she wrote for that 1ournal three hundred and sexentw one artxcles In 1869 she traveled abroad pr1nc1pall5. IH Germany and Italv wr1t1ng home several sketches In Rome she be came so 1ll that her llfe was de palred of Nl hen he had partlallx recoxered and went away to regfun her srength her fr1ends 1I1SlStCd that a professxonal nurse should go w1th her but she took a hard workmg young Ital1an g1rl of slxteen to whom the vacat1on would be a blessmg On her return 1n 1870 a l1ttle book of verses was pub llshed Llke most beglnners she was obl1ged to pav for stereotyped plates The book was well recexved Emer son hked especlally her sonnet Thought He ranked her can men Fame d1d not come at once to Helen Hunt It came after years of work after It had been fully earned The road to authorshlp IS a hard one and only those should attempt It who have courage and perseverance Aga1n her health falled her but not her cheerful sp1r1ts She t1 ax eled to Colorado and wrote a book ln pralse of It Everywhere she made lfvstmg frlends In 1876 eleven years after the death of Mawor Hunt she marr1ed lVIr VX 1ll1am Sharpless Jackson a Cuaker and a cultured banker Her home at Colorado Sprlngs became an 1de'1l one and It looked toward the Carden of the Cods The tlnae h ad now come for her to do her last and perhaps best work She could not w11te w1thout a definlte purpose and now the purpose that settled down upon her heart was to help the defrauded Indlans She behex ed they needed edu catlon and Chr1st1an1zat1on rather than exterm1nat1on She left her home and spent three months ln Astor L1brarw ln New York wr1t1ng her Century of Dlshonor showmg how we haxe despolled the Indmns and broken our treat1es w1th them 'Xt her own expense she sent a copy to each member of Congress Its plfun facts were not rellshed 1n some qual ters and she began to taste the cup that all reformers haxe to drmk but the blaxe woman nexer fl1IlCl'16Cl 1n her n 4 v . v . , . 7 v . . 1 o 3 ! v ' ' . I ' . ' ' , ' .' ' S S . ' S f vs 3 - a .Y . .V I , V Y N. . I 9 . 7 L k, v ,. ' . -n I Y Y ' - M ' ' ' Y 4K Y? , . poetry above that of all American women and most Amerl- ? . , . , K S. r Q r 'A' A I . In I 1 .v K ' s . 4 ' , ' L , . . . C , ' , ' It I , . , Z ' C . . , v T v a 1 KK L n ,y uv' A . s 3 I v v Y s l 'C ' S . . . c ' D I . '- . h ' ,, . v v C v ' '

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SENIOR -XNNU AL Thus studx mg the drama from the polnt ot constluc t1on we recogmze an example w ell nlght perfect of Shakes peauan alchltectomcs It touches the summxt of mtense cl amat1c plesentatlon Macbeth IS a masterplece D HELEN HUNT IACKSON Helen Hunt Jackson one of the most famous women 1n the Unlted States w as boln ln the cultured town of Am herst Mass Octobe1 18 1831 She mheuted from her mothe1 a sunnw buoxant nature and from her father a strong ugorous mmd When Helen was twelxe both her father and mother dled leavmg he1 to the care of a grandfather She was soon placed 1n the school of Rex J S C Abbott of New York and here some of her happ1est dass were passed She grew to womanhood frank me1ry lmpulsxve bI'1ll13.Ht 1n com ersatlon and fond of socletx At tw entx one she was marrled to a xoung alms officer Edward B Hunt Thex spent much of thelr tlme at West Po1nt and Newport and the young wxfe mox ed 1n a fash 1onable soclal clrcle and won hosts of adm1r1ng frxends Now and then when M1 Hunt lead a paper before some learned soclety he was proud to take hls gaw and attract we wlfe w1th hxm Llfe seemed so full of pleasure for her but suddenly llke a thunderbolt from a clear skw the hapm l1fe was shattered Mawor Hunt w as lxllled October 7 1863 wh1le experlmentmg w1th a submaune gun of hxs own mventlon For months she shut herself 1n her own loom refuslng to see her nealest frlends -Xny one who lox es me ought to prax that I may d1e too she sa1d Hel phxs1c1ans thought she would d1e of grief but when he1 strong earnest nature had wrestled w1th 1tS8lf and become con queror she left her secluslon cheerful as of old The plc ture of her husband w as ex er beslde he1 and thls doubt less spurred her on to the work she w as to accompllsh Three months later she wrote her first poem Llfted Oxer The poem was wldelx copled and na mx mother were comfolted bu It The kmd letters she 16C6lX9d m consequence w ere the first gleam of sunsh1ne ln her dark ,72 . Av . N v' ' ' v 4 - -, 1 L 1 A - C ' I' n A 5. l'c ' . c . 1 . Y H. I. ., 22. v A , . 1 -l , . c . ' ' v . ' y - . , c. . , .., , . . . . . . . . , t c , c . , . lc , v 7 , 1 , c ' ' c c . se l . 1 ' y v . . . . . . 1 . v V , t . . . Y 1 . . . . 7 7 Y . 7 . Y . .I . v v- - ' v 4 y w K n. 1, 7 Y u 1 ty L K V s . Y Y. v . - , r . T e .. T , , . . . , 1 . 1 K . ' . Y. . . . . . , L ' ,vw Y . V . v Y. 1 t e . cl c -, .... , . L . K v ' , X V . . ' H , , v , . . . A , . v v ' 77 - ' - v ' ' 1 U y . .c . L R . y D . v 1 5' Y 9 ' 7 I Y V. ' C - 1 1 . . , L ., , . ' V v I 1 .'1 I L A 9 x ' nn L. V x 'Km 5 n 1 v U ' . c . . , . 97 . ' v ' V ' V K v V 2 Lv S - A V l . I . v l D V . l L n 5 '

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SENIOR -XNNL AL dutx So much vyas the goxelnment 1I1ID1'8SS6d bx he1 eunestness and good tudgment that she xxas appomted 1 spec1al comm1ss1oner xx1th he1 fr1end Abbot Ixxnnex t ex Imllle and repoxt on the c0nd1t1o11 of the NIISSIOII In drtns 111 Cal1fo1n1a Could an accomphshed tGIld61lN 16'11Ll xx omftn x1s1t the I11d1an xlllages and hsten to the11 VK1OlIgS VK hat xx ould the xyorld say of 1ts poet Nhs Jack on cbd not ask She had a mlsslon to DBFIOITII and th 1 o 0 cul tu1 ed the more 1espons1b1l1ty She b1ought chee1 and hope to the red men and the11 VSIVGS The repo1t made bx 'xhs Jackson xxas cleal and conv1nc1ng Hovx dlffelent all th s fx om her earlx llfe Hrs Jackson had become mole than 1 poet and noxehst exen the leade1 of an opp1essed people In June 1884 she fell on the stancase oi her home ard C 1l1fo1n1a for the xx1nte1 Her first 1emark upon enteum, the house and looklng out on the bay xfxas What a plel ant place to d1e ln Ifour day s befole her death she VSIOIQ to P1 es1dent Clexe land From my deathbed I send you a message of heart felt thanks fO1 what you have already done for the Indlans I ask xou to read mx Centurx of D1shonor I am dx 1ng happ1er for the bellef I have that It 18 you1 hand that IS destmed to strlke the first steady bloxx tovxard l1ft1ng thlq bu1den of lnfamy from our country and r1ght1ng the xx rongs of the Indian race PRESEINTATION OF DIPLOMAS Class of 1922 For the last four xea1s you haxe been st11v1ng for the goal vxhlch IS novx befo1e you You1 xxork has been earnest and falthful whlle your conduct has been vxorthv O1 young vxomen and men You are novx to ente1 nexx fields to haxe other su11ound1ngs and to meet more complex problems the problems of real hfe Henceforth experlence vx1ll be XOU1 teachel Your ca1eer for good or ex 11 for ser Jlce 01 othervxlse depends upon the ldeals xou set out to folloxx May your star be forex er at the zemth You may not be a Llncoln or a B 11 ton but you can be men and women Ile l1xe IH an age of competltlon To attaln that xxh1ch xou seek xou must be exe1 vx xtchful of xour manx com pet1to1s Persex erance brax 915 ste ldfastness mexhaust 24 s .' . '. 4 u 1 1 1 I 1 v4 1 . Y C L n n I I C . . , A t., 0 4 C A n s ' l 1 . 4 . 1 -I I . 1 u v 4 n - c . 1 , . 1 x C I s q ' . I . . I . . ' ' r . ' ' e 111' ' - 1 0 v 1' ' . v n u 4 l ' 7' I .. ' c -' A ':. . ,. , . . ' ' , ' . . q. ' ' j ' . I . ' ' 2 , , S ' ' ' . 1 1 severely' fractured her leg. She was taken to Los Angeles, 5 l a D yi v 4 r u' v c , . . V v it 1 o 9 '- ' , ' - n P . , . , . ,. . , - . . U y v . 11. , .. - 1 . y y ' . s V' J ' .' ': .' - . . , , ' yr . . : v 1 7 v 1. I v ' ' y 1 v 1 v ' ' v V 4' , ' 7 u 1, ' 7 -lu ' , , , , v . 1 4 ,' Y ' , ' 9 7 1 y ' f , v - . L . Y V V . C N x ' n . I , ' 2 , I c . I - n K n K I n- 5. - -3. . 1 , ' , : z -: :., .' . -