Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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cteariy her hidden modesty and delicacy. Some may say that Rdsalihd Was riot capable of so great a love as that which Celia had for her, but shehad no such chance to show her love as her cousin had. However, we have demonstration of how truly and faithfully she loved Orlando. Thus, Rosalind honored her sex; for she was truly a woman in the fullest sense of the word; she forgot her own sorrows or tattler hid her troubles while She tried to make others happy; she was capable of giving her true love; and she possessed a wholesome quality of humor which was always used at the right time. THE BANISHED DUKE By Emma Fahrnkopf The banished Duke led a rath • er happy, careless life. When fortune turned against him he made the best of it and adapted himself to the new conditions. The fact that he was banished by his brother did not seem to IbWer his spirits at all, for he still indulged in all the pleasures of the forest. Charles in hi§ conversation to Oliver said that many mferry men were with him in the forest and there they lived like old Robin Hood of England, and that numbers of young gentlemen flocked to him every day, and fleeted the time carelessly as they did in the golden world. The Duke not only enjoyed things himself but made everything pleasant for those around him. We see the result of this in the speech of C larles, mentioned before. And also in the fact that several of the lords of | his duchy gave up their court life to follow him when he was banished. Judging from his disposition and banishment, he had not ruled strictly enough, had allowed his brother to gain influence and when his downfall came had made no resistance. The Duke showed his hospitality when Orlando demanded food by allowing Orlando and his old servant to sit down at the table and eat. He was considerate of his attendants, and when he was told l.e could return to court said, “those who have endured shrewd days and nights with i s shall share the good of our returned fortune, according to the measure of their states.” DESCRIPTION OF A PICTURE By Casper Smith 1 think this picture represents i scene in England for Farqu-hafson the man who painted it, is one of the most celebrated English landscape painter of the day. The first thing one notes is the sky in which the moon is hining brightly, and the white s clouds which are made many times whiter by the moon’s rays falling upon them. In the distance however, they are much darker and some are almost black. Then come the trees, which are large old oaks with, huge twisted branches. Ib the foreground they are some dis-

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green, and another in the blue. A fortli band is sometimes visible in the violet. The green band, which is the most brilliant of the three, in sotne cases is crossed by a number ot fine, bright lines and there are traces of s'milar lines in the yellow and blue bands. This spectrum is exactly the same as that given bv the blue base of an ordinary gas or candle flame. This indicates the presence of sonr gaseous carbon compound in the comet. Although it is very difficult to catch the spectrum of a shooting star, it has been done occasionally It shows that sodium and probably magnesium exist in meteors. One of the earliest achievements of the spectroscope was its demonstration of the pretence ot hydrogen and helium in the nebulae. The spectra of Character Sketches ROSALIND, By Lora Bijfgs To me Rosalind is the most interesting character in Shake-sphere’s, “As You Like It. “She represents an ideal of true womanhood. In reading this comedy Rosalind is a figure that is easily fixed upon one’s mind and afterwards in thinking of the play he at once recalls a picture of her. I imagine her to be a young lady who possessed a certain dignity, which everyone recognized, and which was even noticeable though she disguised herself by wearing man’s apparel. A look at Rosalind’s face would convince a person of her good dis-posi.ion. The other characters the stars vary, but Secchi and Vogel classified them under four and three divisions, respectively. They both agreed that some were almost identical with the solar spectrum. The spectroscope may also be put to a more practical use as tracing adulterations in food or poison in the blood. The power to detect extremely small amounts of such things it a valuable one: Professor Swan stated that lie discovered one-two million, five hundred thousandth part of a grain of sodium with the spectroscope. Stokes traced, by the change of absorption bands produced by the coloring matter ot blood,the oxidation and reduction which constantly takes place in this substance, and its connection with the distinction between venous and arterial blood. From “As You Like It.” in the play liked Rosalind, for she had a power toconfer happiness, hence she made friends with everyone. She had sor row's and troubles, but they were hidden behind a mask of cheerful 1 ness. Rosalind was not so clever in making plans as her cousin, Celia, but by her gay humor and ready wit she cairied outmost daring plans. This is shown bv the way in which she so successfully acted tl e man after Celia proposed the plan of disguising themselves and traveling to the forest of Arden Ft;,l she commands our respect; for her male attire, mannish talk, and actions bring outeven more

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tance apart and in rows, but farther back they form a dense wood. Running' through this field is an old rail fence, which is to keep the sheep off the neighbors’ field. Then we see the ground which is covered with a light fall of snow, but we can tell there is very little for the roots of trees and small stones are left bare. There is a flock of sheep in the pasture and they act as if they had just come from their master’s barns where they had been fed. Part of them are ahead of the others and seem to have found some grass which was not covered by the snow. The rest of them are walking very slowly as if they were in no hurry. The trees in the foreground form shadows on the ground which resemble small streams running from a larger one. ANIMAL COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL LIFE By Naomi Romine Man is generally called the social animal, but he is not the onlv one for honey-bees, bumble bees and ants also lead a social life. The bees at first made their homes in hollow trees, but-after being domesticated they live in hives made for them by their Owuers. In a colony there are three kind of bees each performing a certain work. The queen, who is the mother of the whole community, lives from five to ten years and lays about a million eggs each year. There are also about one hundred drones or male bees and many hundred workers. The workers live for only a short time but they do a great amount of work in that time. They care for the young, procure food and make the honey. The workers make the comb from wax, a fluid secreted from glands on the under surface of their abdomens. They gather pollen from the flowers and store it in pollen baskets on their hind legs. Nector is also gathered and taken into the honey stomach. There is a great deal of water in the honey and to evaporate this the bees stand in front of the hive and fan it with their wings this produces a current of air which evaporates the water. There are many cells in a hive each one being the home ot a bee. The queen lays an egg in each empty cell and they hatch in about three days. They first appear as larvae and are fed on honey and bee-jelly until they go into the pupa stage which lasts about thirteen days during which time the pupa lives without food. When it again transforms it is an adult bee. The larvae which are expected to.be-come queens are fed a special prepared food making them develope better than the others. For by previous experiments it has been found tint the larvae which are fed on the prepared bee-jelly develope into queen bees, while those fed on common food develope into workers or drones. When a new queen is hatched the old queen tries to kill her and they fight until