Biddeford High School - Olympian Yearbook (Biddeford, ME)

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20 THE OLYMPIAN two classes: record photography and pictorial photography. Record photo- graphy is the most common. This con- cerns taking vacation pictures, news pictures and studio work. Pictorial photography concerns the taking of beautiful scenery no matter who the subjects are that are included. What pictures can we take? Where can we take them? There are so few subjects to photograph! is the cry of many amateurs. But these people are lacking in artistic observa- tion. The use of a camera will aid one in improving his judgment and ob- servation. Photography is more than simply taking pictures. It offers one an open- ing for the appreciation of nature and art. Students, workmen, business men, and artists have this for an avenue of pleasure and recreation. Make this your hobby and wonder why you have overlooked it. George Piper, '38. WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK. The human whistle is the most in- formal and delightful of all instru- ments. You don't have to nprimp' and dress immaculately to appear in public whistling. Why, you may even whistle to and from school in every- day clothes! It is a very convenient instrument- always at hand when you feel blue and miserable. You may save a trip to the music room, or wherever the in- strument happens to be: save taking the trouble of taking it out of its case, if it isn't a piano, and save the painful task of tuning it! The operation is very simple. All you have to do is pucker your lips- not too much-place your tongue so that the tip of it rests against your bottom set of teeth, if you have any, and then breathe out. Presto! You have produced a musical note. It may it is be sharp, fiat, or natural-truly natural as you did it naturally of your own accord. Take a trombone, for instance. You not only have to blow so hard that you lose your breath and strength from blowing, but you must hold the instrument up to play on it, a position which isn't very pleasing to the muscles. Then you usually have to watch a music sheet, unless the song is memorized-a rare case nowadays. Therefore, it's whistling for me! Of course, you must realize it doesn't take half as long to whistle as it does to explain about it. Therefore, why not whistle while you work? Janet Dancause, ' 38. FOR MEN ONLY. ls chivalry dead? This question has come up many times in our modern world, but as yet it has not been suc- cessfully answered. l shall not at- tempt to answer that question, but I shall sum up the situation as a whole and try to present equally both sides of the question. Gentlemen, we do not live in an age where we must dress in tin suits with a lady's handkerchief tied to our arms, and ride about on a horse trying to pick fights with other men. Neither do we live in an age where stone hammers, fur clothing and rocky caves make up civilization, where chivalry means to knock a woman on the head with a club and drag her to your cave by the hair. There must be a happy medium be- tween these two extremities. It is up to us to find it. Today women demand more and more to be treated equally with meng yet they are the first to object to the apparent lack of manners in our mod- ern masculine sex. Let us stop and consider. Even though women do like to appear in- dependent, they are still the weaker sex. They were meant to be respected and protected. Men, we must ignore their cries of equality. We must con- tinue to respect them. We must con- tinue to show them courtesy even

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