Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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ORACLE A Ouest Hor 1915 I. Four years through rough trails winding, Both joys and troubles finding, Ever onward we have forged from day to day. And now four years are over, Our fates about us hover, And make our four years’ toiling seem as play. Il. Our Quest is still off yonder, But hope, where e’er we wander Will still through trackless forest show a way. That path, of pain or beauty, Is still our path of duty And through the woods we’ll follow it today. III. And when the path we’ve followed Through vales by trouble hollowed, And stumbled up the craggy steeps of night, When into daylight coming, Like joyful pigeons homing, What use shall we then make of our new light? IV. If through the world behind us Some old friends seek to find us, Shall we not run to help them with their load? If those who stumble, tarry Beneath the strain they carry, Shall we not gladly help them on the road? We And so through pain and pleasure, Though others joy may measure With gold or worldly power to crush the small, Let’s push on, and together Thru fair and foulest weather Our Quest shall be “True happiness for all.” A. B. McKAY, ’15.

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ORACLE 7 That evening as Amos-stood on the stoop of his little house hanging up his oil-skins, he heard his name called and turned slowly toward the road. ‘There he saw a small procession headed toward the cottage. In front came a stranger, long and lank, looking very uncomfortable in his ‘“‘store clothes.”” He carried a bundle and seem- ed on the whole to be very embarrassed and not at all at his ease. He wa s surrounded by a crowd of rag-a-muffins, one of whom carried a soap box and was strutting along a few yards ahead of his inferior companions. As they came up to the bewildered Amos, the ‘“‘store clothed”’ Banquo began: “Ere you, Amos? I-I came from over on Cape Cod, ah, ah, from your wife’s sister’s. She er- died goin’ on a week ago, and I er-brought you all her young un bein’ as there want no one else to ah keer fir it.” Hastily, he thrust the bundle into Amos’s arms and with a great deal of hemming and hawing beat a hasty retreat follow- ed by his former escorts. Amos stood looking down at the bundle and at the soap box at his feet. Icy, frying pan in hand, had come to the door and stood looking over his shoulder. “Bring him in,” she grunted and stolidly turned to the stove and the process of frying fish. Over the hot stove something inside of her seemed to melt. A warm stimulant flowed through her starving heart. The long days without company, save the scrany little chickens, were over. She would be busy enough now. It would cost an awful lot to clothe and feed him. At that she went over and looked through his possessions in the soap box until she found his bottle. Soon the baby was kicking his heels in the air as happy as a lord. Then Icy called Amos to their evening meal. As usual no one spoke but paid strict attention to eating. Several times they caught each other looking toward the little fellow in the bed. As Amos strolled toward the door for his evening pipe, he stopped with pipe half-filled and turning more abruptly than Icy had ever seen him do before, drawled. ‘‘Icy, I reckon that little feller,’ and he jerked his thumb in the direction of the baby, “will take a powerful sight of feedin’, so if you all will pay half with some of your egg money, I ’spects we kin buy a frying’ pan. This story is-founded on fact, Amos and Icy being real characters on Block Island.

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OKAGEE, 9 Amarth uf Prizes, 19145 MATHEMATICS— The Dr. C. H. Stillman Prize, given by Mr. Wm. M. Stillman: First Prize—Fifteen dollars in gold: Moses Glasser. Second Prize—Ten dollars in gold: Ralph Jacobs. Honorable Mention—Samuel Preger. ENGLISH COMPOSITION— 1. The George H. Babcock Prize, given by Mr. George L. Babcock, to the pupils of the three upper classes writing the best composition. First Prize—Fifteen dollars in books, chosen by the receiver of the prize: Ruth Stanley Ralston. Second Prize—Ten dollars in books, chosen by the receiver of the prize: Harold Seal. Honorable Mention—Lewis D. Cook, Richmond Ritter- busch, Dorothy Randolph Stelle. 2: The Craio-A Marsh Prize, given by Mrs, CraigeA, Marsh, to the pupils of the Freshman Class writing the best com- positions. First Prize—Fifteen dollars in gold: Margaret Harrison. Second Prize—Ten dollars in gold: Gladys Larable. Honorable Mention—Florence Ryder. 3. The Daily Press Prize, for the best essay on a topic relating to Municipal Affairs, written by a member of the Senior Class. Prize—Ten dollars in gold: Ida Sacher. Honorable Mention—Sadie Rothberg. fe vbhe VW .iCe Us Prize, totic best lessay.on.a civen: topic. Prize—Five dollars in gold: Henry Rosalsky. Honorable Mention—Dorothy Richards.