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

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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

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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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Next door was the oliice of the wireless telephonefl and by way of sur- prise I called up Mary Pharo. Of course she was glad to hear from me, and said that the sports in the Frigid Zone could not be equaled, and she found it much easier to climb the North Pole than the poles at the gymnasium, Thirteenth and Spring Garden Streets. Once again in the open air a most unaccountable desire seized me to visit the Normal School, and being of a hygienic turn of mind, I walked up Broad Street. My meditations were interrupted at Cherry Street by discordant noises, buzz-z-z-bang, bang-zip-zip, and there to the left I saw a sign, Elsie Saam, Contractor and Builder 011 a 'Small Scale-Butterfly Nets and Ink Stands a Spe- cialty. As I wandered on I mused upon the faithfulness of some people to their first loves. .9 -1, 5' nl!! r ,,,f?lilli.iii .,.g , i'ly,r ,Q flli' l'V' in lllflllr l gkllillillll-H-if The Normal School was the same as ever, Minerva still smiled placidly down upon the in H and out going', classes, and the shades were all at regulation height. The girls that now go to the Normal School are self-controlled young women, who proceed along their way exercising all tl1e dignity of their position and always showing the proper spirit. On the first lioor was the gymnasium, a magnificent affair, where they had automatic opening and closing of order and apparatus that was not for ornamental purposes. Sara Higinbotliam was head of the department, with Lucy Doris and Gertrude Wilson as assistants. New methods had been introduced by Miss Higinbothamg one was the carrying of books on the head to correct an inherited condition of stoop shoulders. As I looked at the head of the department, I recalled anecdotes of years ago and murmured, Do you know anything of my brother's churn? 31