Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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THE PHILLIPIAN 25 about it? Or if she must talk it over why didn't she give us some solution that would help us absorb all the knowledge 'we were supposed to. I opened my mouth to tell her so when she plunked a pillow over it and continued: HI have found a waythat makes study- ing a snapf, I lay still and 'pricked up my ears. The other girls begged her to tell them about it. UWell, said she, very importantly, w!hen I find that I am at the end of my rope, tired out, and unable to study an- other instant, I go to bed and put my book under 1ny pillow. In the morning I find that the contents of the book have made their way into my head. It is very simple. I-T-79 Bosh! Who ever heard tell of such nonsense! Mabel Prescott, I did give you credit for a little sense. I was thor- oughly angry. And the rest of you girls sitting around swallowing all her foolish- ness! It would serve you better to go back to your rooms and go to bed. I in- tend to right now. I paused significantly and they took the hint. Out they ltrooped and I was left alone. I oughit to finish reading that third act but what an effort it was! I would not do it! I climbed into bed and 'with a shrug I placed the book under my pillow. 5 X Suddenly I seemed to be on a heath walking and talking disitractedly. From behind a rock appeared a withered old h-ag with white hair and a long hooked nose. Shaking a pointed linger at me, she said, Are you Macbeth? I knew I wasn't but I blurted out, Y-yes ! U Follow me. Vl'hat cou-ld I do but follow? She led me into a cave which was as dark as mid- night. In the further corner I saw a tire. Around it were more hags. A huge kettle hung over the flames and every once in a while the witches threw in something. One of them darted quickly behind a rock and dre-xv forth a trembling form. There was something vaguely familiar about it. I drew nearer and peered into the kettle. Could it be! It was! Oh joy! There sat my English teacher in the steaming kerttle! No English tomorrow! No Eng- lish tomorrow! I chanted and danced. Hurray! The English teacher will never trouble us any more! Mean old thing! Helen! Helen Thompson! Wake up! VVake up or I certainly will trouble you! I sat up. Holding-on to my shoulder was our English teacher who was also matron of the dormitory. She was safe after all. She would be! W. B., '3I. 1 Ls

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24 THE PHILLIPIAN I have only a picture of them. Would you like to see it? This is a part of their home. I remember there were many flowers, Nick sa-id eagerly. He took a small locket from his pocket. He opened it and passed it to Betty. She look-ed at it and then at him. Where did you get my parents' pic- ture? Betty asked, ther face very white. Your parents' picture? he asked in a puzzled voice. Why that is my parents' picture. And this is their home. The picture was of her father and motfher and a piece of her back porch. She had a picture like it which her mother had given her. It had been taken many years before in front of the rose bushes. Suddenly the truth dawned on her. He was her baby brother, Nickie, whom the gypsies had stolen. She remembered 'how her father and mother had wept and searched for him. Nickie, she said, laughing and crying at the same time, you are my long lost brother. With her arm about Nick, she told -him about their mother, their home, and her long lost brother. They decided that as Betty's term wias nearing its end they would wait until after school closed and then go east. Nick was very anxious to see his mother :and could hardly wait for the time to come. They decided that the next fall Nick s'hould enter the University. The days sped along until finally the day of departure came. They had made their farewelsls to Mrs. Jones and vwere started home. Betty's heart was singing. Nick thought the train went all too slowly because he was so anxious to see his mother whom he could scarcely remember. When they arrived at Brownville they found Betty's mother waiting at the sta- tion. She was very much surprised to Hnd Bettyls companion a young man in- stead of a girl. Betty had written her that she was bringing somebody home with her. Both Nick and Betty had agreed that it would be better to wait until they got ihome before they told who Nick was. The house soon appeared and Nick cried, 'K It is just as I had imagined it. When they -were inside Betty said eagerly, H Mother, see the present I have brought you. Why, don't you know him? He 's my baby brother, Nickief' Nick tenderlly took his mother in his arms and said, You are just as I had dreamed you would be, Mother. Mrs. Wilkins wept and said, U Could it be my baby boy? Let me see the back of your neck. Nick had a scar there. They looked and there was the scar. A little later Betty was telling her mother how she had discovered Nick and of the locket. .The mother told them how she had clasped it around Nick's neck the day on which he was stolen, just for fun. A' This is the best present I have ever had, she said happily. M. E. B.. 232. HOW TO STUDY T was one of those hot days in Indian summer. The dormitory fairly siz- zled with heat. I threw my Macbeth book on the desk witih as much vehemenc-e as I could muster and lay down on the window seat. Study was useless and term exams wer-e tomorrow! Oh, well, ,perhaps I could rest a while and get cool before be- ginning to study in earnest. I must have gone to sleep, for the next thing I knew it was getting dark and there were several girls in the room. One was sitting on my feet, another had a book propped against the back of my head. I was angry. Informality is all right but I didn't see any need of carrying it so far. Mabel Prescott was speaking in that know-it-all voice of hers: 'fDoesn't it seem sometimes that you just couldn't remember all the things you are supposed to? Did she think she was the only one who had difficulty along those lines? Why talk

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26 THE PHILLIPIAN +44 4+ .ae SCHOOL NOTES tal +++ CAST FOR 'I THE ARRIVAL OF KITTYU THE DRAMA H HE Arrival of Kitty U, a three act comedy drama, was successfully presented at Lambert Hall, March 6, 1931. Bobbie Baxter fRobert Lawrencej pur- sues his little love affair with Jane QMade- lyn Austinj against the opposition of her uncle, William Winkler QNornian Fieldj. Bobbie Baxter has occasion to disguise ihimself as a woman in which part Mr. Lawrence was a star player. In this dis- 'guise Bobbie is mistaken for Kitty Uen- nie Lawrencej, an actress and close friend of Winkler's, to the confusion of everybody, which is made even greater by the arrival of Kitty herself. Much credit is due Miss Helen Smart and Hon. N. P. Noble for their kind help and coaching. CAST OF CHARACTERS Kitty Benders William Winkler Jennie Lawrence Norman Field Ting Wendell Whitney Sain Erland Fraser Benjamin More Russell Stinchiield Jane Madelyn Austin Maude Sedgeley Robert Lawrence Suzette Dorothy H0541 Winnifred Bunnell Aunt Jane Bobbie Baxter THE public speaking was held at Wilbur Hall on the dates: March 27, April 1, April 3, and April 6. 'Dhe judges were Mrs. H. P. Taylor, Mrs. Arthur Robinson, and Hon. Blaine Morrison. Those who made the preliminary speaking were chosen by the judges as follows: Betty Butler, Montress Wing, Madelyn Austin,