Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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IDYODIUCCQ . TRUGGLING with a Mother Goose rhyme for next dayls Kinder- garten lesson was simply out of tl1e question with the Prophecy of ,QQ claiming all my attention. With a bang I shut the book and before I had time to exclaim, Mother Goose bounced down before ' me just as if she had stepped from the story hook with her peaked cap and broom stick, saying, Stupid, if you want to know the future of your class why don't you go to Father Time ? With this she bounced away again. My inward connnent was to the effect that there was some sense in Mother Goose after all and the ultimate result was that I set off in search of Father Time. My search was not i11 vain as I soon found him asleep on his hour glass. Yes, Time was asleep in Philadelphia! Being a good natured fellow he did not mind being wakened, and when I told him that I wished to know what my classmates would be doing twenty years from now, he rubbed his eyes and smiled, saying, Philadelphia Normal School, Class of '99-yes, I know them, they waste my hours by the sad sea waves in summer, and in winter they spend most of them over Psychology and Dr. Brooks' Normal Methods. Here he gave me a knowing wink and continued, I like those girls and they have been unfortunate, following such a brilliant class as l98-but they have a golden future, and Time's hand shallirest lightly upon them. Whereupou he set to Work with his scythe and I saw the years fall at my feet, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 27

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IDYODDZT. EDITH HARMON WEBB. Elssoctate llbropbets. MARIAN STEWART BATES. Lucv A. DORIS. IDA M. HART. ALICE F. MCCI.URE FLORENCE DESSALET. IRENE REESE. GERTRUDE STEELE. 26

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until IQIQ lay there and Time had gone, and I was standing on the corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets, under a creaking sign which bore in bold red letters, Helen A. Winstanley- Hair Dresser, Wigs Bought and Sold. Thinking I had found the right one for news, I went in and saw Helen twisting up her hair as usual and saying in a voice that creaked like the sign outside, Wait a minute until I find my hairping it's the only one I have. I waited to hear no more, fearing she would want to borrow some of mine, but made a brave dash for liberty and the door. In my hurry I nearly upset a very fashionable woniang I saw that she was tall and graceful, and though half hidden by a large and conspicuous badge I recognized Ida Hill. She told me she was just on her way to conduct a meeting of - the association that had in charge the education of politicians. On 17' seeing Ida instinctively I looked A I 1, 'KVM for Ethel james a11d there she was X-,g,'ll!i loaded down with grips, shawl fi, straps, luncheon boxes and um- I, .. ' MF Q WQ3 brellas, a travelling companion of J, I K . the illustrious Ida. From Ethel 'I V H james I learned that Iininia Maugle I ' ' with Psalm book, rattan and a Course of Study for Primary Grades, was developing the threefold nature of little Hottentots and clothing the111 in a garment of play.', She also told ine that my old school friend, Helen Phyllis Ray, who had studied in this country and abroad under the best masters, was about to appear in Philadelphia after a successful debut in New York. I went to the Academy to see her and wondered whether she would fulfill the promise of her girlhood days, and felt proud indeed to remember that she was a girl of ,QQ when I saw her as Rosalind, with a breathless audience before l1er.- 28