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

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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

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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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.f ll'? -a I PAL I very l21I'G'd but so elated and happy that she sang at her work and could scarcely refraln from sk1pp1ng downthe sta1rs when she took baby out 1n h1s .str-oller The weather though cold was clear, and bracm-g and Ann felt greatly refresh-ed 1n the open a1r At half-past three she turned the stroller homewards stoppmg on the way to get some eggs frult and preparlng supper w1th 'her mund already at the theatre Four hours more and she would be there' Dan usually 'never got home be-fore half-past 's1x but today he was comlng at s1x 1f posslble' Just as the cl-ock struck s1x Dan came 1n 1n h1s happlest mood He too was dellghted at the prosp ct before them Poor fell-ow he d1dnt get much change 1n h1s dally Ofrlnd e1ther' she thought Qulckly they got through supper and wh1l-e Dan washed the d1shes very clumslly 1ndeed and very carelessly Ann ran to dress Just then the g1rl who was to .stay w'1th baby arrlved My but eve-rythlng was gomg nne Ann thought as she merrlly dr-ess d for the evenlng Suddenly Just as she was puttlng 1n the last ha1rp1n and cons1der1ng the relatlve merlts of pearls and crystals sh heard Dan s VOICE calllng h-er from the kltchen She rushed 1n wlth an omlnous ch1ll at her h-eart There sat Dan w1th baby 1n h1s arms Baby lay very st1ll except for a sllght lnvoluntary shu-dder that passed th1 ough h1s l1ttle body ev ry moment The O Connell g1rl who Was to stay w1th hlm stood nea1 Dan and looked at balby w1th scared w1de open eyes Ann was no-t fr1g1htened at all She knew what thls was Baby had had convulsl-ons qulte often several months ago due to h1s teeth whlch were very hard ln comlng They had hoped that hr was all over' w1th these flts but they were evldently mlstaken Ann sent the ,glrl home say1ng that she would not need her after all Then she prepared a warm bath for baby All the Joy and exuberance of youth that had characterlzed h r 1, moment a -o had somehow d1sappeared from her face l818,.V1Ilg' 1t l1stl ss and dreary as she mechamcally took off her s1lk dress and put on the apron that she had thrown off so exultantly a few momentsbefore It was a quarter of nlne when baby wa-s finally r-elleved and put to bed ' I m awfully .sorry Ann old glrl Its hard hnes on u-s I know Dan flnally managed to say h1s eyes anx1ously followlng her as she moved al ound the kltchen She went over to h1m and la1d her he-ad on h1s shoulder Its all rlght Dan darl1ng 1t do sn t matter much It s Just-L1fe NANCY TUBIASH ' - ' 7 7 4 . . D , '. Kr Q , . . N A . .i 7 7 . ' 1 , , 1 ' 7 7 O O . Q ' 7 ' ' 7 7 ' ' ' ' J ' - ' e 2 1 0' I ' , S D 7 7 C . 3 I H , ,- 7 ' 77 7 , ' 7 7 I. , 7 Q . 1 ' ' ' . ca ' ' ' - ' .cl ' ' ' ' V . . 3 7 - ' , Wh., fra., Y 7777 .4 -an-A 'w' :Q f ' 'T' l ' Y Y if to 1111 ...o Ng. 3iigg,g1iL2g 1 in , Q A I 'W-'-ff---Q21-1 ,z--rip.-,flrr-m.x:i , .-..,.---f--p-rl ,,A , , ,, . 5 1 . --f-4' A --ff'- ' f ' ' vt f f ---- -'- ' A L M' mf-22 f ' .Fwo hundred Lh I ' I 7 I . 1 O . ' 7 D ' y I . , . . : , V 7 ' 7 7 vegetables for the next day. At f-our o'cl'ock, she rea-ched home and starte-d I . , . I ' O O O 9 A . , 7 I ' I 7 7 ' 7 7 e 0 9 Q Q Q Q . , C, 7 ' A , , . 7 , ,V C 7 . 7 7 ' - 7 , . I . . , . 1 . h 7 7 N . Q . . ' 7 . ' ' 1 7 no , I. . i . 7 KJ 0