Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics - Nucleus Yearbook (Battle Creek, MI)

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GLC' f Q I A Home Economics Fairy Tale Once upon a time there was a KING'S daughter whose highest aspiration was to become a COOK. Her favorite game as a child was making mud pies down on the SANDY BEACH. On the day when she became of age she put on her most befrilled and LACY frock and appeared before the KING, saying, Father, though in your eyes it may seem of MINOR importance, my greatest ambition is to become a COOK. However, the KING, who was a CROSS MAN, frowned and answered, My daughter, if you persist in this, you must bid farewell to KIEIITH and kin. Though it SEARS my HARTT to do so, I shall make my brother ROBERTXSQSON my heir. So saying, he drew his royal robes about him and departed. The princess, with hertcheeks as WHITEIS her gown cast herself on the royal DAVENPORT and wept WELLS of tears. Then saying to herself, BUCK up, be STRONG, she rose and left her father's house, taking with her nothing but seventy-seven sacks of LILY WHITE flour, the gift of the KING'S MILLER. From then on in a little LOWE room in a side street she learned to COOK. At first she made only little cakes and cookies to attract the school boys with their pennies and NICHOLS, but after she had had a great DIEHL of experi- ence she thought, SHIRLEY I am now competent to COOK for my father, the KING. BOYD up by this hope she made a wondrous pie. Then wrapping it up carefully lest she MARCtheQTIN, she said to a CSJMAULE boy who stood nearby, Will you call me a CAR, SON P Soon she arrived at the KING'S palace. When her royal father had tasted the pie he took her by the hand and led her to the throne. He then proclaimed her first COOK of the KINGdom, and stated that by living up to the family motto, Never be DACUJNTEQDQQ' she now, more than ever, had proved herself to be truly a KING'S daughter. H. B. 67

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itfje a is The March of the juniors And there dwelt in different parts of the country, girls who had heard of the fame of the Battle Creek San, tales of which had gone forth to many lands. Who, when September, 1921, came, did pack their trunks and set forth on a journey to this institution there to enter the School of Home Economics. And here they were shown many things by their Big Sisters, the Seniors. who guided them on the Road to the places where schedules were made and Classes found. And of these classes there were various kinds and wonderful things did these juniors, as they now came to be called, have to learn about. Such as micrococcus catarrhalis, bacillus feccilis alkaligenes, polymorphonuclear-neutro- phile, the digestive tract, and normal solutions. And while shrieks of protest were frequently heard, they were useless, as these things were made to be learned. These same Juniors also learned about Diets 5 that no meat was to be eaten, and that bran and spinach were more to be desired than coffee and hot dogs: yea than chocolate covered Brazil nuts and Welsh rarebits. So tons of spinach and bran did they valiantly consume. . And there were other sore trials because of a many-headed monster known as Dormitory Regulations, who made it unpleasant for girls who were noisy after lights out, and who swept dirt under beds. But with Obedience as a guide this too was safely passed and the Juniors continued their march. One, Lillian White, was chosen from among their num.ber to lead the march -and direct them in their various undertakings and right well did she perform her duties. Margaret Ritchie, who also taught them to cook, advised them, as did Jack Bullock, who dwelt among microbes and learned many astounding secrets of their habits. And it was this man who, when the Juniors challenged to Basketball the Seniors, did offer a ram for a mascot, which was accepted with howls of glee. And when they reached Exams at the end of a Semester, there arose a mighty wail, but the Faculty did laugh in derision, hardening their hearts, so that the juniors were forced to submit and pass this Trial of Knowledge before they were allowed to proceed. And many many Happinesses did they find along the way. So thus accom- panied by the Spirit of Good times as well as the Spirit of Work they reached, in June, the time of Commencement, the Parting of the Ways until the next September, when they again will return to S. O. H. E. ' R. M. K. 68