Barstow School - Weathercock Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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The Staff Of the Weather-Cock EDITOR-IN-CHI EF AMARETTE ROOT LITERARY EDITORS DORIS HOWES JULIA COBURN MANAGING EDITORS ESTHER CONNELLY MARGARET HANNA STELLA HOUSTON EDITORS FOR THE PRETENDERSH MARY LEE TOLL MARGARET TOMLINSON FRANCES YOUNG ATHLETIC EDITORS AN NETT MCGEE CLARA MCCORD KxT IARINE LESTER ART EDITORS MIGNON DOWNING DOROTHEA SIMPSON CONSTAINCE PRESCOTT MUSIC EDITORS MARY LOUISE HOEFER ELIZABETH HULL CLASS EDITORS Semor MARGARET PERRY jumor DOROTHY SCARRITT Sophomore GWFNDOLYN GREEN Freshman JEAN DOWNING BUSINESS EDITORS FLORENCE HAIGHT GUENEVERF PRAY MARJORIE LONGAN FRANCES KEI H MEDA ENGLISH FRANCES FENNELLY FRANCES MOSS LUCILLE FFTTY I BETTY SMITH ELIZABETI1 DFDCE 'L ELIZABETH BOWERSOCK ANNA MARGARET HASTINGS HOA? 'I , - A X in 'XGX' iffxfj fx 36' t7 ' 'QV fx WW'

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' 'A H Literary Department D C? 'J Tales of the Mermaid Tavern L BY ALFRED NOYES L- GREAT worship-love 7 for the Elizabethan age seems to have sprung YE up lately in the world QEYHAQDTRVEYH of letters. Parker, with his pageant plays, X T' is holding the world spell-bouncll but lj 19 mA,l, i Alfred Noyes in his Tales of the lg 'lss' Mermaid Tavern has given us the most graceful picture of those high and far-off times. l'-lis poems may not be so vigorous and swash-buckling as the virile Drake, but they far outweigh it in passing on to us the mellow romrnce, the overpowering wonder, the alluring charm of that llmrulz by Cazzxfzuzrr I'ru.vmff golden age of epoch-making men Vifalking with him along a street of London, of modern work-a-day London shrouded in fog. he points out to us the blue bus with its announce- ment This night, at eight. the Tempest, and. with his, our thoughts fly back to The Warwickshire Lad. NVith him we wander through the narrow streets and come upon that ancient inn of mullioned panes. And as we knock. the spell is completed. We are back three hundred years. We enter the hallowed tavern amid the clash of wine cups and see all our friends.-our gods,--from Will Shakespeare to Raleigh.-the graceful Raleigh dight in his stained cloak, tall, straight and splendid as a sunset- cloudf' And many more were there and all were young! l've found a tragedy for you. l-lave you heard the true tale of Sir Humphrey Gilbert? cries the Knight of thc muddy coatg and he swings into the roll of an ocean ballad. A strong. heroic picture he paints. of the last adventure of Sir Humphrey Gilbert Knight of the Ocean