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

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26 Dreams of a Radium Eater These are the times that try girls' souls, said I, as Elivabeth, Bess and I settled down one warm afternoon in May to the arduous task of prophecying. O. wad some power the gift to gie us To see ourselves as olllers will see ns Some ten years hence. chanted Bess. h It won't, said I impatiently, so we might as well take radiumf' I thereupon flashed before their startled eyes three tiny bits of the precious metal that I had purchased with my hard-earned H substitute money. XVe shall try testing it, I decreed, perhaps the human molars may have a crushing effect upon the substance and force it to yield up its mystic powers. The radium's more likely to have a crushing effect upon the human niolars, said Elizabeth, whose young mind seemed unable to realize the solemnity of the occasion. VVhen I count three, I continued, frowning at her levity, we will all hold hands and taste. Ready-one I li Ours not to reason why,-ours but to chew and die, murmured the irrepressible l'11i1.abeth.j Two ! E XVhen shall we three meet again ? groaned Bess who fully appreciated the awful risks we were runningj ' , Three ! VVe nibbled. Three shrieks rent the balmy breeze as the fiery substance burned three throats, then oblivion ' 4' ii . We woke, feeling strangely calm, to find ourselves in front of a gigantic structure labelled, U Radioship Line to the Moon. Patented 1909. Round trip ticket 5 cents. Bless the radium, cried Bess, we're ahead of time! XVith thankful hearts we purchased tickets and were about to board the boat when we ran against Ada Ivleehan. She was almost obscured by large bundles and small fry. Following her, of course, were Anna McConnell, Nelle Nagle and lVlary MacNamee with their inevitable dress-suit cases. You haven't much time to compose poetry now, have you Ada? said I sympathetically. No, she responded wearily as she whisked Jemima from the path of a radimobile, I haven't even time to compose my nerves Z Our conversation was abruptly ternlinated by a terrific lurch of the boat as it came to a sudden standstill. The power had given out and here we were stranded 'twixt Moon and Earth. Instantly a wild confusion of voices arose, but lo! Jennie Dunbar's and Abbey Devinney's led all the rest as they argued excitedly with Doris Durr about the best thing to be done.