Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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SHORT STORIES A. vide audimus, aures enim hominum novitate laetantur We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

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Mr. Currin The. life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise Which this world never satisfies, Some more, some less, but of the whole When dressed for the evening, girls, nowadays, Seal ce an atom of dress on them leave - Nor blame them— for what is an evening dress Tut a dress that is suited to Eve. They course the glass, and let it take no rest ; 1 hey pass and spy who gazeth on their face ; i Jiey darkly ask whose beauty seemeth best; . hey hawk and mark who marketh most their .1 hey stay their steps and stalk a stately pace ; .Hiey jealous are of every sight they see; 1 hey strive to seem but never to care to be VY ithout her hopeless and unblest ; And so are all, gainsay who can, For what would be the life of man If left in desert or in isle, Unlighted up by beauty’s smile? Even tho’ he boasted monarch’s name And o er his own sex reigned supreme, With thousands bending to his sway, If lovely woman were away, What were his life? What could it be? A vapor in a shoreless sea ; A troubled cloud in darkness toss’d, Among the waste of waters lost; A ship deserted in a gale, Without a steersman or a sail ; A thing without a human tie, Unloved to live — unwept to die. FINIS Not one quite happy, no, not one. Mr. O’Brian Mr. Williford nb, taken from the side of man; not out of his arm to be pro- hor me I’m woman’s slave confest

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A?i Unpleasant Nig hi indelKr 08 ? 0medme , n our J- ' are er have faced death. The incident leaves an Co2 Sr I 0 and We never tire of retelling it. In Hyde County North Carolina, during the summer of 1903 I had such an experience. sen 1 1 mr! il 1 WaS eng ? g T ed ln , dred ging oysters and hunting, and, as a con- - h P ™ g fP ened 1 had nothing to do. For the summer I moored salt water A, U ° f y m ° rder to P reserve it from the flatheads of the acres where t j. acen 0 le ' v larve s there was a shell hill covering about two mahw n T 1S l T d t0 east ancl en J°y the ir wild life. Here were the re- “esFn ' 0n , °f fl rS - , BetWeen the hiU Proper and the wharves there was Jreen mns T U co t ; nu °usly from an old rusty pipe into a pond of and other , Wat r bemg Sulpburous was used b y the people for rheumatism h slie m t S :- Fr0n ! the weI1 a l )lank walk led through a thick bunch of r .1 i . e 1 i° ?i mg ?’ 7 cai t P atb i ed out in the other direction to the main road about one-half mile away. sinn D T e din f e mon °tony and idleness of the long summer days, I desired diver- for sii d I d tC ] ren , ground for a s arden and a patch of watermelons ; rhe’npS T rt°° m ys 1 have been fond of the dee P r ed flesh. Going up in farmeTof th diLrirt 7 dCSired knd from Mn Mason ’ a re P utable house ' aS ° n WaS an acconirn °d a ting man and placed at my disposal a one-room may tele bad 15d °‘ b ° at Warm Weath “ » r ,hE m ° s ““ it0eS Mr. Mason’s farm was about three miles from the landing- Other than this L-TS ” 1 Wi,h , a , b0 ' ish Pride and manly melnor I timed rf dTlam b J r ' r f P °, ,KW ! cd - V to » n Mant’ shallow cultivation « biSVc„M,ato. ™ ' S ° ' 8 me ‘° n to runners, and will prematurely ’lbarne to toStetoe ' , ' ,a, bis me,0ns were dis appearing £er £ P ' ' N S taken from me in this informal w™ ““ the melons eagerly to try my 10-Gage Richardson. Y ght 1 wat more interested ' in ' my’ 3 wbtry y occupadon de Hr ( 7 the hecame niore aW ! trapping were more profitable than farming otn rem f d that dredging and the proceeds of a year. Although I re-arded the o ' 16 qUeS ? on me ab ° U b 1 e .s ar ded the farmer as an honest man I l 9 f Page 54 ]