Bishopthorpe Manor School - Manorisms Yearbook (South Bethelehem, PA)

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just ten years after 1910 Thinking of old B. M. again I was startled by a sudden rapping And at my window there came a tapping Through the shutters I quickly spied Eddie Poorman and Hugh outside. They were out for a ride in their airship And kindly asked me to go for a dip. Wedropped Hugh at his office door Then talked of dear B M once more We thought of each and every one Wondered what this one or that one had done Some of them were not far awav So down we dropped to say good day We first called on Jo in her studio And you never heard three people talk so We were all so happy because Jo lt seems very famous was Alvira just at that moment entered With a dozen youths about her centered She talked with us for a short while Then departed wlth a bright smile We told Io good by and next made a call On Ann and Harold who were married last fall 'Dele had gone south the week before Finding social duties a bore: Annvsaid she was married right happily And her husband was rich as rich could be. We hastened then to call on Sue To seeywhat she would say and do, She was just the same girl we used to see But now she presided most graciously As hostess of a mansion fine An old man s darling she didn t pine Helen she said was quite a man hater None it seems had been able to bait her She trampled on life s Dusty Roads Declined offers of marr1age to many abodes Now with her parrot her dog and her cat She l1V6S alone in a seven room Hat Virglma still loves holidays Lincoln s day she enjoys always She worsh1ps her hero as girls will do She worships him and she loves him true She took us to a concert near Henrietta to see and hear L A x., -A dh-5 ,Q Aiea., L F, . . . , ' y - - , . .' J J ' ' I u C ' - 9 cc an . ' 1 . 5 J s I o a s n a 1 s . . . , . . 0 ' I I l . . . . ' . . l 4. W - - ,. g , ,, , , ,- v V V W l , K , , Y A . , ,-. -. .?-- -U41 Ng. 4' .- . nnl.u:.L..r s-- '.,.ng.:' xii..- 4.21, t. ll-M 4, 1- 5 L , .

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Her husband was there tall, handsome, smiling And Mildred with pink roses beguiling, Mildred as Foxy as ever Said she saw Cap seldom or never Q?j Mildred said she'd had a letter from Dot Who QI'm telling the truth believe it or notj Had long since consented to be An officer's wife-ship Tennessee, We went down town from society's whirl And called on Cork, our Bachelor Girl She was a lawyer, spic and span Could bluff her way with any man. Cork told us of Pottsie and Eleanor The two who could never find life a bore. Pottsie was teaching gymnastics VVith bloomers held down by elastics. Ellie had grown famous through dressing hair Her life was free from all trouble and care. Cork asked if we the play had seen WVhere Switz starred as the Fairy Queen. And Olga on the stage in that city Vfas also said to be clever and witty. A paper was lying right near on a chair. Whose headlines compelled us to sit up and stare Marian Kingsley womanis 'suirage leader Imprisoned, cause, gross misdemeanor. Surprised and bewildered I turned over the page The society column next met my gaze ' Mrs. Jimmy of Smethport had given a tea In honor of Zela, a bride soon to be. The hour grew late so we hastened away Begging Cork's pardon for our seeming delay. We .Hew through the air 'till a building high ' Loomed up darkly against the sky. I asked my companion, VVho dwelleth there? She said, Helen Graham, an advertisement for h We stopped for awhile at a palm garden near 'Where soft strains of music delighted the ear. There 'neath the shade of a sheltering palm' Sat Peggy and Jappy, placid and calm. VVe stopped there with her for awhile The news that we heard made us smile For Helen Davis, the quietest of all Had married a garrulous preacher last fall, Elma, living upon a farm Keeps the chickens and pigs from harm x air. ia. ,. h -'ilk U40- WW m Qs M W-es M-A .W ,am W H Vx WM, ll, Q, at' W N 71. We M