Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters - Sivad Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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g affllsxf. whistling k ' HISTLING is an ar-t. It is akin to laughter. Try it sometime 5 E gs when you'd rath-er cry g pucker your lips and try: There's a 52:2 rainbow 'round my shoulder. If you get beyond a few trembly notes you're -one step toward .a WD. Maybe you'll .acc-omplish the entire song, an-d, even though you do fall flat on love , which is the last note Chere, then, and alwaysj yo-uill find yo-ur- i' ' 'E E. E: EEE ! I E 5 .... i self smiling through- the misty rose, blue, and yellow that hovers 'round your sho-ulders. I ' Whistling, with me, is la habit, almost a hobby, and at time-s, an unfor- tunate one. When my attention .should be centered on anything but a s-ong, I feel a strong de-sire to send -a few notes tootling across the air. Classes, for instance inspire me with that desire In the midst of fa serious discus- sion or lecture something within me will often revolt suddenly against the funerealistic atmosphere and I long to break the weight of it with a snatch of Irving Berlin or Beethoven' Walking 1S another hobby of mine and because I choose to ramble in places that are protected from anything more alarming than squirrels I whistle as I walk As a result I often realize much to my embarrassment that I have been doing the same thing on Boylston Street Well probably I get the same response from the Bostonians as I do from the squirrels Just another nut' If so I am undoubtedly safer wh1stl1ng on Boylston Street than 1n the woods' I don t know who dlscovered whisrtling but he must have had the same feeling that F W Harvey believes that God had when He fashioned the duck And He s probably laughlng still At the sound that came out of 1ts bill' DOROTHY BLEVINS I fl,...iUl fc X 2 F' - K

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.34 T-lr!: 5 .V 'M s F Y l 'lily All l X w l it , X U - '11 l 1. M 4 l Wg, ll :tis .Ll ,, ! 1 igor-r gmoi:gi'?m'l'f 1f i 1 ,ak fgllg jig Uhr Smurf ilu . Q G HEN I Was young, I used to fling Al? The scarf of youth .about my neokg lla 5 are f' I u.sed to flaunt it at the eyes ' Of those Whom age had gathered in, fl ' And always scoffed at those Who s-aid Q - ffh That .someday soon ,tvvould fade away. Nui Not mine. I'd ery and toss its en-ds Out to the Waiting line of years Who laid their lips against its soft , And unclipped silky threads of fringe. l Not mine. And how' I'd laugh in scorn lil! l For youth was near to me, so near, And dear to me, so de-ar, that I fl 5 Could never see how it would fade And suddenly be gone from me. I Wanted it and it Was mine. Drawn close It Was a soarf So gay and bright It kept me Warm. And 1n my heart the only Word Was youth so dear to me and near. But now my scarf of youth is torn, With bits of gray Where gold has been. And yesterday I took it off And folded It With gentle hands Into the chest of Memory. And now I seek for youth in vain, For It IS gone the scarf i.s gone. And youth so near to me, so dear, I cannot find and I am cold, For age percelves I have no scarf, And fears no more to come to me. Yet even now perhaps Who knows?- A bit of youth Will yet slip back To be so dear to me and nearg A t1ny b1t a small lost bit To be my own PEARL NANSCAWEN F ' l v . , nwl - at . , V 9 I - yg cc, as l- I ' . A . W fl .- , 1 l Q lf ' 2- ' . 1 .. 1 ' . . Q 1 1 l A . l 9 .l 'y I ' I 7 7 , . O I Two h.unzlrccl Lhirly- Q .. VU two ' 'V

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7 . a , . T I umlrccl tlairty-four Mnztzxgwa In ilinrtnnv i----------i NN FREELAND sighed wearily.as she added some more hot E 3 water from the kettle on the kitchen stove to the d1shpan in E 'Ig which she was washing the breakfast dishes. It was only ten ??-- E o'clock, and already she was tired. But then, she had been up ! ! since half-past six, gvhen tihat lilztluel tyrant, Danny, taged two, had awakened her. Ann thoug t moo- iy o e many, -many fimes that she had gone through the morning routine of housework, and of how she seemed to hate it more each year that passed since she had married Dan Freeland, three years ago. Every day, the same old thing 1n the same old way. She ducked her head and pushed away a straggling hair from her forehead with a b-ent, w-et wrist. How ,she loathed it all! And she had been such a pre-tty, happy girl when she first met Danny! No-t that she regretted for a moment her marriage. No, of course not. But, it did seem so hard to be only twenty-two, full -of the joy of living, and already an old married woman with worries about a husbandan-d a baby, and a house to be cleaned, meals to be prepar-ed, floors and clothes to be washed, socks Land sockletsl to be darned, and a thou-sand and one other things to be done. Times were so hard, that she hadn't been to a show, even to a movie, for ab-out .six months. Yes, just about .six months ago, was the last 'time that they had gone to the movies with some girlhood friends of hers. Sihe rinsed out the dish cloth and hung it up to dry. Then she too-k out a clean dish towel and started to wipe the dishes. From the bedroom there cam-e Danny's querulous voice. He was cross to-day, and she was going to have a hard time keeping him quiet. Ann carried him into the kitch-en and set him in his high-chair, where he interested himself for th-e moment in drumming upon the table w'ith a fork. Ann resumed her work of wiping the dishes. Su-ddenly, the telephone bell rang. She ans-wered listlessly. Then her face- lighted up with joy. OI Dan! Isn't that marvelous! Of course, I'm just dying to go. Why, I haven't been to a show for ages. O! I'd love it. But Dan, dear, her voice sank here, how about Baby? How can we leave him? O! Shall I get that O'Connell girl to coime and stay with him tonight? All right, Dan, darling. I'm so happy, I could weep. Ye-s, Dan, Iill be ready. 'Bye dear. Ann rushed to the baby and hugged him ecstaztically. In a moment her face was transformed. Just think! She was go-ing out tonight, and she would give that nice O'Connell girl from downstairs a half-dollar for staying with Baby. They were going to sit in orchestra seats too becaus the head of Da.n's department at the insurance company for which Dan worked, had given him p-assesi' for two of the best s-eats and afterwards they were going to a restaurant From this time on, th-e work just flew un-der Ann's hands so that by two -o clock the house was all spick and- span the dfinn-er dishes washed and dr1ed baby fed and clean and ready for his walk in the park. Ann was IBWUX V . 3