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

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At every turn it was evident that I was in an age of VVoman's Rights, and Philadelphia was universally known as the City of Sisterly Love. The Public Buildings were completed, but their familiar dirty white color was replaced by a beautiful chocolate brown. It had gained its color through the labor of councilmen. All those who had opposed Pure Water Supply Bills had been forced as a punisment to scrub the City Hall with Schuylkill water! This just and needed punishment had been indicted by none other than Her Honor, Marion L. Cohn, Chief justice of the Supreme Court. She had obtained her position of prominence by close attention to cause and effect and Macaulay's History of England. On the plaza of City Hall stood the statue of a woman, I recognized the pompadour of one of the girls, and below in raised letters I read, Sacred to the Memory of Florence Miller and Plato. Who having devoured all the knowledge on this planet, departed with the intention of doing the same in other worldsf' At the corner of Broad and Chestnut iwas the Bureau of Information. Stepping inside I found Frances Lillian Knapp in possession, here she was an authority on everything under the sun. Information, if not in stock, manu- factured while you wait! Picking up the T fmes which was on the table, I was confronted by the portrait of Laura Roedelheim 3 it appeared that she wrote an article each day for publication, but, girls, this was not at all startling when you remember how in her school days she used to spin oii' a rhyme every twenty-four hours! I also learned from my informer, the 7'z'mrs, that Edith Elliott was following a former teacher's advice and enlarging 11er environment by travel. It was refreshing to listen to Miss Knapp telling first one and then the other, I know it is so, because I saw it, or because I did it. But I must be on after new adventures. Walking down Broad Street I was attracted by a poster in front of a theatre. It was a girl with a huge pompadour. Recalling the weakness Mattie McClay had for theatres and carricature hair dressing, I knew it was she without looking for the name. Unfortunately I did not 29

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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

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see her as she was not to be in the city until , sv n. nn 1 lg i H next week. i Ll 'll IAM, A ,dwg M ll' J The attraction this week must be great, l ll 9 Sl I 1 judging by the crowd passing in. I joined II Ai 0 Il them and soon found myself in the dimly hi l ' i X lighted interior. ', ' yt ' t i The music was furnished by the Ladies' l lil Orchestra, under the leadership of Mar aret ll - ' g j . i, Gibson Dallas. This orchestra had played milk i before all the crowned heads of Europe and f I N wr HEICIS. V l lull lfllrlll llll , .9 0 M was now touring the States. w 32 'l'f l5 ... 4 ' i I . . , , When the curtain went up in the centre 'l ,A , , fy 1 of the stage stood a beautiful brunette, whom I thought I knew. Looking at the program I saw in large print, One Hundred and Sixth Performance of the Great Society Play, ' In Search of a Millionaire or the Social Scramble,'-Miss Madge Fagley whose costumes are the talk of two hemispheres will take the leading part! Behind 111C I heard some one humming the soft strains of the Night- ingale. H Turning I saw our Normal School Nightingale, Adelaide Baumgardner. 'With J. her was Bertha Simms, who was known in , the literary world by her new novel, The i.itg'5',,ff., H3 Romance of a Garrett and a Dress Suit 31354-,W,' 1 1 Q 246-' i ' ?5!i Case. gi.. J I 54 She told me that Mary Pharo had ff., tj, gone to the North Pole to establish an ideal jg I ' 'M f . . 1 e . 4. . . , commonwealth, the principal features of L-V, X? which were absence of money and absence 7fs-fxefYQ-F. mf XQXZZSX r r of people. At last, I sighed, the S Ja 5 K-NL-, , f. Queen has her wish and is alone! X 30