Agnes Irwin School - Last Strand Yearbook (Rosemont, PA)

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Heisler, Eugenia Ketterlinus, Sarah Morton, Harriet Leaf and Harriet Marshall are C. P.'s. As may be imagined they are very learned and studious. We began the year riht by choosing Anna Brinton for our president and Marjorie Taylor for vice-president. Kate Jayne is editor-inschief of the Irwinicm, and her assistants and the athletic association editors and managers are ladies of great talent and ability, so how could we do otherwise than have a most successful year? Kate Jayne has organized a dramatic club, which, thanks to the faithful work of its members and its excellent president, has turned out even better than our anticipations. The members gave Twelfth Night on March 30th, which was a great success. The cast had a tactful UQ and encouraging C? ?J coach in Mr. King. Miss MacIntosh's absence this winter has been a great disappointment to us, as we had hoped so much. to have her with us during our graduating year. I cannot do justice to our short and simple annals without mentioning our illustrious history class, the pride of the whole school. By the end of the year we will have finished funless they finish us firstj two large, dry tomes, whose contents have been crammed into us like stuffing into a roast chicken. But virtue is never unrewardedg we have mastered nearly all the Plantagenet kings in proper sequence, and three or four of the presidents. We have also learned the date of the Magna Charta. and few facts about Christopher Columbus. Is it not touching to observe such scholastic diligence in ones so young? And now my task is over. A veil is once more drawn over the past, and before me the curtains of destiny roll apart, disclosing a brilliant future for the class of 1914. But now I trespass on our Prophet's territoryg and so, bowing to my enamoured CPD audience, I modestly retire. MoL1.y Woob BAILY 29 I-. I gf.-

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Mains: Clumsy beast! Don't you kno-w how to pour tea? I should think that one of your profession could cer- tainly do that. Why goodness gracious! It's Helene Martin! Where did you come from? How are you? MARTIN: I'm doing this to help Molly, who had a quarrel with her waiter, and consequently discharged him. I'm sorry I spilled your tea. MEIRSI Oh, being it's you, that's all right. I Enter Bean with children. j MEIRS: Why, 'pon my soul, it's Elinor Bean and her little Limas. I saw you passing by, and wondered who you were. BEAN: How do you do? I'm very glad to see you. darlings. I want you to I To children j Come here meet my friend, Miss Meirs. Anne, this is String, and here's Kidney, and the twins, Boston and Baked, Butter, Black, Scarlet Runner, Pole, Sugar, and I-Iaricot Vert. and curtsy. Meanwhile I The ten Beans bow Martin, wide-eyed, watches proceedings, but being sharply reprimanded, gets more tea. Bean seats her- self, while the little Beans climb, creep, twine, and crawl about.j MEIRS: ffixing her false teeth more firmly j My, but I'm glad to see you. Tell me what you've been doing with yourself, and how you happen to be here. BEAN: I came to see Molly, and find out how her Do- mestic Science ideas are working out. She talked so much about keeping house in her youth, that it's no wonder she's taken to inn-keeping. fMelodious strains from without. M eirs looks up crabbedly, her lower teeth flanking to the floor! MEIRS! That's Marcella Cerboni, as I'm. alive. Cerbonil How are you my dear? Why are you playing an ac- cordion on the street? I thought you were starring in opera. CERBONI: I do this for exercise, and give the proceeds to the poor. In the evening I sing opera. BEAN: Won't you come have a cup of tea? We'll have a. nice, cozy chat. CERBONI: No, thank you, I must take my constitutional without interruption. Come call on me sometime at the Marcia Reale Albergo. Goodbye. ' f Little Beans quarrel over some seed cake. Their nurse enters. 2 BEAN: Don't you remember Tenney? She's become a linguist, and is caring for my darlings. She teaches them Sanscrit. TENNEY: Bon jour, ma chere Annie. Comment vous portez-vous?