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

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20 The Torch Emma in her philanthropic scheme. Keeping these crowds in order were Celia Holtz, Anna O'Brien, Florence Goodman, Madeleine Hemmerle and Eleanor O'Brien, who had joined the police force and were all doing splendid work. However, our class had not forgotten the interest in the cultural side of life, instilled in us in our youth with so much difficulty. Anna Lingelbach, the most popular and beloved writer of the day, was also president of the Starville Seminary for Bright t ,Y gg D ' Girls. Clara Brodsky conducted a special class in C'PiMANSl0l?G Spirited Yells and Peppy Songs. Helen Kaplan manufactured megaphones for the use of Clara's ' . FE pupils. Elsie Durgin was endeavoring to teach a ?,gg5,, 'Wo' number of glum girls to smile as charmingly as she does. How to Grow Tall in One Month was a 7' - short course taught by Rose Brody and Martha E f Brooks. The three C's, Caldwell, Campbell, and - f fff' ,., Carrol, were the terrors of the school, heartless 'lgblllgfg e :gs 5'gTRe'grN physical education instructors, who actually required cms AND DOGS. the overworked students to do something. Barbara Sweeny guided the girls in the difficult art of How to Choose a Crush, charming the girls into romantic moods by performing very skillfully on a violin. Dorothy Hassan instructed the pupils how to treat their crushes after having chosen them. Ada Katz exhibited skull and cross-bones, for the edification of a bright Physiology class. Frankie King was daily tearing at her lovely curls in her frantic, but alas, vain efforts, to make the girls love Cicero and Virgil. Florence Dillan, Catharine Downey, Anna Patterson and Edith Richardson were also members of the illustrious faculty of the Starville Semi- nary. Mildred Wolfe and Helen Rodgers had compiled an Algebra book that had put Mr. Durrell permanently out of business. Dorothy Schoell had gone into the photographing business, and had a studio that catered especially to high school girls and babies. Mildred Ellis, Dorothy Umholtz and Marian Knight made faces and performed amazing antics, to make the babies look cheerful. What, pray, is a city without a circus? Starville certainly had the best circus that ever circused. Isabel jones kept the vast throngs in gales of laughter by her witty jokes and sayings. Eleanor Booser, Bernice Mathews, and Ethel C13 QWQJA Nelson made merry as clowns. Zoe Bal- S lagh and Margaret Huxley performed the flx fu daring feat of dancing on a wild, fero- cious looking beast. which, I was infonn- ed, was said to be a horse. Dorothy Van X Buskirk, Hannah Borofsky, Alice Kolb, and Eva Kinsey did credit to themselves and their Alma Mater as equestriennes. Equally perilous feats were dared by Mil- dred Bach, Ruth Faltermayer, Mildred Rhodes, Marian Hall, Sarah Hamilton, and Frances Oliver, who played leap frog R FRCE DM N N In G25 Civ? J 'X- se l uDl9ADANCC QNAWILD HORSQ-H

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Record Number I9 sweetly in the days of youstabe. The clouds were raised and lowered by systems of levers and pulleys and run by compressed air and water. - VV ith my desire for renewing old acquaintances becoming even more strong, 1 made my way to the roof where I kept my favorite cloudster, and set sail. Up, up, I soared, dodging other cloudsters and traffic policemen. I ventured farther than I had ever gone before, and lo, before me rose a vision the like of which I had never, never seen. A city in the heavens! Tall, white spires, fresh green lawns. and bubbling fountains lay white and lovely in the powerful light of huge lamps that swayed gracefully from the tops of the tall buildings, making the city as light as day. Fastening my cloudster, I stepped into the gay, busy streets of this city at Rainbow's End, its streets as busy and crowded as Market Street at noon. No parking here! curtly announced an authoritative voice which sounded vaguely familiar. I turned, and in spite of her uniform, her cap and shiny badge, I recognized Margaret McLaughlin. You here ? she marveled, as she pumped my arm. Needless to say I did park there and Margaret, who was the Chief of Police, offered to take me on a tour of the city and tell me of our classmates, all of whom now live in Starville, as the city was called. My hat blew off, I mourned, and Margaret led the way to the prettiest little milliner's establishment imaginable, where Iona Caton and her assistants, Ruth Berriman, Sarah Eckman, Carlyne Aamodt and Helen Moore turned out the most bewitching creations Elsie Brinton, Mildred VVheatly and Ruth Glas- gow showed off the models to perfection. - Near this delightful little shop, there was a pageant in progress. A great electric sign announced that here reigned the Queen of Beauty and her court. Mabel Edwards was indeed a charming and peerless queen. The pages, Mary and Elizabeth Hipple, announced that the famous harpist of the age. Leonore VVitzemann, would play for them. Leonore ' did look angelic as she called forth enchanting 1 melodies. Claire de Figaniere, the world's Fl Wsigihl X most graceful dancer, danced to Leonore's 'H V iqx music. General choruses then followed, sung I by the Starville Music Club. of which Mar- 1 4 X ffl J garet Lang, Blanche Fayer, Mary Schaeffer, ', Grace Eckman, Dorothy Kiefner and Mary X Lee were members. In the crowd I caught I- 5 X sight of Lillian Kramer cautioning her young- X ff ' YY est, Please, dear, be still. 6 ffl R, CCVSMXANX A few blocks away. a terrific howling, LCONORe PLAjING A HARP barking, sputtering noise. and the familiar strains known as the Cat's Night Off Sere- nade, which issued from an impressive red brick building. assailed our ears. A line of miserable-looking cats and dogs were waiting at the entrance. Emma Levengood had at last., attained her heart's desire, a home for stray, aged, indis- posed and veteran cats and dogs. Alice McConnell. Helen MacCoy, Rose Londy, and Anna and Agnes McMullen enthusiastically entered into the work of helping QF'

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Record Number 2l on a tight rope suspended an inch above the ground. Mary and Catharine White, alias Mme. Youtellempete and Mme. Geebutwelie, in a booth nearby, crossed with silver the palms of credulous lovers and fond mamas. Dorothea and Lillian Harris were exhibited as The Silent Twins, young women who never talked unless it was absolutely necessary- One of the Greatest Marvels of this Jawing Age, as they were proclaimed by Dorothy Van Loan, ringmaster and owner of the Starville circus. Sarah Kalodner, Dorothy Shelly and Winifred Spackman, all demonstrated the fashionable way to giggle. Mlle. Ida Ritzoff held the enviable and unique position of being the fastest woman talker in the world. A full package of assorted gold-eyed needles was offered as an award to the woman who could listen to Mlle. Ritzoff's conversation for one second and tell what she was talking about. Muriel Farr was the proud winner of the prize. Elizabeth Zimmerman, the Mayor of Starville, took occa- sion to deliver a speech to the audience on the educational value of circuses, espe- cially to growing boys. Mae Woodruff, who was compiling a book of Elizabeth's speeches and after-dinner stories, was hard at work taking notes. Anna Haas, Ruth Howard, Bertha Shmerelson and Helen Fleming were powerful politicians and councilmen. Through their influence, the official school day began at ten A. M. and ended at twelve-thirty P. M., so that the girls might have their morning and afternoon naps without crowding the infirmaries. Sadye Tevelson, Frieda Gallagher and Regina Freedman were council secretaries. My companion remarked that she was hungry and, since a lovely roof-garden, owned by Anna Boyd and Evelyn Moser, was on the other side of the city, we hailed a passing taxi. Derr 81 Donohue, Fleecemobile Taxicloud Company, was emblazoned in prunella red on the green water tank. Dorothy Davis was the driver. On the way, Dorothy hold us that Emily Ehmann was responsible for the upholstering and painting of the taxiclouds, and that Regina Gallagher, Ruth Moore and Mildred Darragh also pursued the lucrative profession of driving taxiclouds. At the roof garden, Marion Deacon and Marion Hasset proved to be both dainty and efficient waitresses. At a neighboring table, Dorothy Lamson, Mary Jones, Rebecah Fiske and Doris McCall were keenly interested in the new dance, the Hopstcpandjump, that Dorothy Crosby and Nellie Large, the originators, were illustrating. Bertha Rubin, sparkling with jewels, and Beatrice Cramer, who declared her seven darlings were her jewels, soon breezed in. Neither could say enough in praise of Ruth Beltz, who through her Rolling-Pin Matrimonial Agency, had delicately aided many of her dear friends, among whom were Margaret Conwell, Margaret Herzberg, Eleanor McDevitt and Rose Pilnick, in obtaining connubial bliss. Mary Snyder and Minerva Finkelstein owned a shop of player-pianos, victrolas, cornets and other instruments of torture. Mary Comegys, Nellie Hennessy and Claire Seidman were the proud proprie- tors of a store of laughing gold fish and dumb-non-swear parrots. A fire engine clanged by and Margaret was reminded to tell me that Claire Sherrer was fire chief and that among her force of pole-sliders and fire-eaters were Bernadine McCormick, Aurelia Walsh, Eleanor Schwab and Matilda Finkel- stem.