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

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may wg-7-A VP' V f M ,,,,, ,lf . 1 V - 3:1 . 1 5- gagging ll ., . l ,ly ,...! ,Ing f 1,4 . -. We I the harp Was gone-the charm was broken, and I came back to this material World realizing 1 that Anna had returned and Was ready to go on. When We reached the door, I discovered 2' that While I had been musing, a storm had risen and passed and now a beautiful rainbow lilled the sky as a fitting climax to my reveries. But girls-- Whate'er your fatesumay be- p And time alone can tell,+ ff Day by Day may love enfold thee, lg Sunlight iill thy Way, Hands of tender keeping hold thee, Q Day by day. l c c , RosE S. LANGSTADTER. A 1 if 9 D D H399 shi if l I -l ,s 28 l 1 l 4 4, . P Mfg

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, - -s while she was reading just now There's a charm in her delivery, a magical art, That thrills, like a kiss, from the lips to the heart ?j 'And so the world has noticed it, too, and Anna takes turns giving pleasure to the people in the various parts of the globe. Our orator, Mabel Purdy, was no doubt traveling with the rest, for she is constantly called to distant states to take her place in the famous cases. Mabel, our student of Latin, arise-we'1l sing forth thy glory as high as the skies. The flowers were gone, but the music still sounded. and my reverie now brought before me two more of my classmates, Mary Landell and Helen Remington. Imagination played such havoc that I could see two adjoining houses, I knew not if in Washington or Wilmington. just then, Helen's daughter, Alice, ran in to Aunt Mary for the never-failing Graham wafer, and little Will sought protection of Helen from Mother Mary, just as the old saying, spare the rod and spoil the child was to be negatively demonstrated. ' A As the harp continued its contented melody, Eva Leslie happier, brighter than ever, rose before me, and I knew Eva's genial nature had found its happiness in giving to those who were in need,-for she is the head of one of the greatest charitable institutions in the world. Q The song which all Germans love- Die Lorelei -now came from the harp, and Louise Miekley arose. Ah, professor of German-so you have turned your knowledge of that language, ever a wonder to A7, into higher channels, and now you in your turn explain the analogy of German to English, as for instance, hat er in your -tongue means hot air or heated atmosphere in ours. I ' As a gentle hand fell upon my shoulder, my last glorious vision appeared before me, and I beheld the smiling countenance of my dear friend, Helen Levering. I knew' Helen had not been idling her time as I had been. No, her life is spent in doing good for others- a friend in need is a friend, indeed. She lives and glorilies her name, not only by the good she does, but by the way in which she does it-silently and well, thoroughly and beautifully. Gradually the music had become fainter and fainter-now slowly faded away. It ceased, I I 27 G' -

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ai r ' --' - lm--'W .vx 1 . . .U l, ' L If-is 3 if ba A H ' l ? R . U T,-rj' -Ji u ix QV l fl., X' f Chemistry Our uniforms were blue, brown, and green denim aprons, exquisitely decorated with embroidered or painted initials and feather-stitching. Ina month, however, such beautiful fronts availed nothing, for even their imposing dignity could not hide the hollow mockery- of the backs and sides, which consisted merely of a series of holes--round, square and long- connected by shreds of denim. Not only aprons Qnot to speak of countless second-best skirtsj were sacrificed willingly or unwillingly to the glorious cause of science, but human Hesh gave itself up to test thevarying powers of sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids. Scars for life from such experiments were noble scars, a pride to the suffering victims. Relics of narrow escapes were the shoes that had stamped out flames upon the floor, when an overheated test tube exploded of a sudden, and scattered its fuming contents far and wide. How many five-cent pieces disappeared from purses in one year is an old problem pro- pounded year after year, and never solved. How many commotions were caused by in- teresting lectures upon phosphorus and moonlight boating in New England, and upon sulphur and match-making, is another problem equally hard to solve. But this I know, those two hours of chemistry were eagerly looked forward to by everyone. We shall never forget the good times we had in the laboratory, any more than we shall forget the funeral marches at recess when wehad a chemistry test in view, or the Ring-around-a-Rosey when we hadn't. 29 '