Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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14 THE MAGNET acknowledged that she did not know it. The once delightfully happy Queen pined for her home and grew sad and gloomy. One balmy day while working near the entrance of the witches cave, the Queen saw a beautiful little humming bird which seemed to be coming nearer and nearer. The humming bird said, “I have come to release you from your bondage.” . “But Iam bound. I cannot get away,” replied the Queen. The hum- ming bird quickly severed with his bill the bonds that held her, and when she had jumped lightly upon his back, flew swiftly away to her own palace. All her nymphs and fairies bestowed upon her their ardent love and devo- tion, and wept with joy at her longed for return. They appealed to the god of the forest for vengeance upon the cruel hag; so he transformed her to an ugly, twisted tree trunk. and thereafter the fairies had nothing to fear in their revelries. HELEN BRIGHAM, ’I5. A Boy’s SHort Essay on EvisHa.—There was a man named Elisha. He had some bears and he lived in a cave. Soine boys tormented him. He said, ‘‘ If you keep on throwing stones at me, I’ll turn the bears on you and they'll eat you up.” And they did, and he did, and the bears did. -“ Here, son,” said the father to Willie, ‘‘What does this mean? Your report only gives fifty for arithmetic, and your teacher says you can’t count up to twenty-five. What are you going to do, when you get in business, with a record like that?”’ ‘Now, don’t worry, Father,” replied the son. ‘To count up to twenty- five isn’t necessary for success in business nowadays.” ‘Not necessary,’ gasped the father. ‘No, sir; I can start a ten-cent store.”’ FIGURES OF SpEECH.—An old man at a prayer-meeting was very much disturbed by the giggling and whispering of some boys and girls. At last he could endure it no longer, but rose and said: “It grieves me to see young people so heedless that they will sell their souls for a mess of pot- tage that becomes trampled under foot of man and fadeth out with the © using of it. : A SociaL DISTINCTION Pat: An’ phwat the devil is a chafing-dish?” Mike: “ Whist! Ut’s a frying-pan that’s got into society.”

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THE MAGNET 13 A Fairy Revel i... down in a little glen, hidden from human sight, dwelt the King and Queen of nymphs and fairies. Their palace was in an opening of a lovely moss-carpeted ledge, and all the precious stones and beautiful flowers were gathered there to adorn its walls. Little creatures flitted in and out doing His Majesty’s bidding. “ Bring me my messenger,” the King said to one of his attendants. Almost immediately the messenger stood before him, saying as he bowed very low, ‘“ Your Majesty, I long to serve you.” “You shall serve me by bidding all my subjects to a ball in honor of their Queen.” “When the moon shall shed her silvery light, Then the fairies revel through the night.”’ The messenger sped away tapping on each leaf and bud, each tree and flower, telling the fairies within of their King’s command, till at last, every one had learned his bidding. At the appointed time the lovely Queen rode before them in an acorn chariot drawn by tiny grasshoppers. She was clad in the filmiest of rain- bow robes and bore in her hand a magic wand. The moon shone benevo- lently down upon them and the air was soft and sweet with delicate fra- grance, while all around gleamed the dewdrops, wavering and trembling in the silver light. The Queen of the fairies poised herself daintily on a large blue violet and told her subjects of her love and regard for them, and then at her signal they began todance. Laughing gleefully, and singing gayly, they all joined hands and danced around their Queen, tripping and flitting over the soft green carpet spread for them by Nature herself. A wicked old witch, who was jealous of the Queen’s beauty, looked upon the scene unobserved. ‘Hah!’ she said, with a malicious gleam in her eye, and a frightful grin that revealed her toothless gums, ‘‘see them in their merriment. I will spoil their glee.” : The old hooked-nosed hag muttered a weird incantation, and through the forest trooped her dwarfs, willing to aid in any deed of darkness. Slowly, silently, she stole upon the merrymakers until, with one more step, she stretched out her bony hand and snatched the Queen and disappeared again, while all the dwarfs drove the fairies from the place. In their great grief and helplessness the fairies mingled their tears with the dewdrops and wended their way homeward. The cruel witch forced the Queen to be her servant, to wear coarse clothes, and to perform countless disagreeable tasks. If the Queen be- came weary and stopped to rest a moment, the witch would cry, ‘‘ Get thee to thy task, or I shall give thee worse to do!” Many times the old hag asked her the secret of her beauty and became more angry when the fairy

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THE MAGNET Ig We are glad to see many of our former teachers with us this year. We also extend a cordial welcome to the following new members of the faculty: Miss Evelyn Hearsey, as- sistant Science teacher; Miss Ethel Ham, German teacher; Miss Elsie Jeffers, French instructor; Miss Mary Hadley, drawing teacher; Mr. Alfred Kimball, instructor in English and Physical Training. ww The following officers have been elected by the Senior Class:— William Gaffney, president; Frank Bag- ley, vice president; Vera Holden, secretary; Rachel Hart,treasurer; Philip White, mar- shal. w On Sept. 24th the Seniors hada corn-roast. Mr. Roberts and Miss Hearsey chaperoned about thirty members of the class. There was the usual scarcity of boys, but every one who went voted the affair a suc- cess. w The cheering at the football games ‘up to date is a marked improve- ment over that of last year. There is still room for more improvement, however, and it is hoped that those who attend the games will co-oper- ate with Mr. Scanlon and his efficient assistants in every possible manner. Ata meeting of the Athletic As- sociation Philip White was elected president; Waldo Suhlke, vice-presi- dent; Ruth Burnap, secretary; Mr. Roberts, treasurer. 2 The Juniors have elected the fol- lowing class officers:— Roger Beedle, president; Morse Freeman, vice-president; Iola Guennette, secretary; Irma Holden, treasurer; Waldo Suhlke, marshal. wv The preferential ballot is being used in the class elections this year. It is the fairest way to choose officers because majority rules. It is under- stood, of course, that every member of each class will support the officers elected. w A mass meeting was held previous to the Columbus Day game. Songs and cheers were practiced and mem- bers of the faculty made short speeches. Ww Miss Marion Brabson was awarded the Remington gold medal for speed test. She received the Underwood medal last June. 2 Some one, presumably a Freshman, has evolved a new reason for going to the library. ‘ Reverence.”