Katherine Delmar Burke School - Works and Days Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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EDITORIALS t'Let us then be up and doing,- T snnius as if this should be our text. Add to it Do it 3 Now, and you have the two forces that lie back of the fl: real Burke girl. After all our tribulations and absentees K: .N and patient substitutes, we are sailing into safe haven. . ,EIL Graduation Day is coming perilously close-records are LAWS truing up to standard and down to the very wee ones we ygx , 4- rg, are holding up, holding on, and going on! In athletics we have taken our usual defeats i graciously, sweetening the record with some rare tri- umphs here and there, 'tmost hardly won. We are great believers in the triumph of 'fmind over matter, however, and it is in our scholar- ship standards that we aim to excel. Mindful of our many blessings and grateful for the happiness that is about us here, we send out to our friends and fellow-workers this, our edition of Wonxs AND DAYS. If in its pages there is even a passing pleasure for you, its mission of affectionate greeting is fulfilled. ACKNOWLED GME NT To the girls throughout the school who have given us the abundant material from which to select, to the staff, to the ollice force, and to the teachers-whose never failing efforts, enthusiasm, and earnest co- operation have made this book possible, the editor offers her sincerest thanks. EXCHANGES We desire to express with appreciation the receipt of the following: The Potter Shield .................................... Potter School The Lowell-December, 1919 ........................... Lowell High The Lincoln Green-December, 1919. .Lincoln School, Providence, R. I. The Girls' High Journal ................................ Girls' High l20l Works andDays

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KULEKIAN'S TALE X kian is extremely attentive to am a rich old bachelor with bachelor hasn't a hobby?-for finest texture and design, rugs .5 X r-N K' . is ' le- - 251 Qs s G54 3 Q A I HE other day I chanced to drop into old Kulekian's little Oriental rug shop, where I have been attracted so often of late. In the first place, Kulekian has an extraordinarily good collection of rugs, then, too, he makes Turkish coffee such as would rival the nectar of the gods. Kule- me, for he knows that I a hobby-what rich old rugs, rare rugs, rugs of whose exquisite blending of color has been attained only by the mellowing hand of time. The eager Kulekian, showing me rug after rug, confident that I would buy before departing, had become very garrulous. And I, posi- tive, with a man's assurance that I would not be persuaded to purchase any more rugs at present, was enjoying myself immensely. As the loquacious dealer saw that my interest was lagging he said, Ah, sir, always the best come last, ees ett not so? I haf kep' my prize rug, prize, you understand, to the last. Eet ees my joy, thees Kabistanf' Indeed the rug was the most beautiful in design and texture I had ever seen, its pattern so delicate and yet so bold, its color so mellow and yet so rich. Where did you ever pick up such a rug? I inquired. t'Sir, eet ees a sad story about thees rug, very sad. I poured out a fresh cup of Kuelkian's delicious coffee and settled back more com- fortably in my chair to listen to his tale. Eet ees more than feefty years since Aurora and her lover sat tying in the last knots of a great Kabistan. 'Aurora,' said thees boy, 'You will put in a strand of your hair for mef' Thee-s young girl she cut a piece of her wonderful black hair and weave in corner of the rug. As you know, sir, eet ees a sign of undying love and faith when a girl weave her hair in the rug she and her lover fineesh. But one sad day come when the boy ees ver' poor and mus' go find some way to make a living. VVeeth heem he takes the Kabistan, but promise not to part weeth eet onless he get more poor. H 'Leetle Aurora,' he say, 'eet may be a year, eet may be more, but you know I return to you and I pray I bring back rug, so wait for me, leetle one.' Maybe Aurora cry leetle bit for rug, too, for many years eet haf been in her family, thees gorgeous rug, and each genera- tion add to the beautiful design. At this point the ever solicitous Kulekian offered me a fresh cup of steaming coffee and continued: A few weeks ago a very old man bring me thees Kabistan, and tell me an old man give eet to heem and say, 'Send eet to Aurora, my leetle Aurora, tell her not to be hard on me. My life, eet es a failure! The old man he die then, but who know but what Aurora, all white hair now, still wait the return of her lover l22j Works andDays