Bradford Academy - Chimes Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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Miss Higgins, a girl whom the class is proud of, owing to her wide renown in the world of dramatic art, recited the poem containing the lines Let us then be up and doing. The party realized the marked de- velopment in Miss Aldrich when she reported herself a prima donna in Grand Opera. Miss Beal, having continued her art course, is now engaged in drawing cuts for Life. A Miss Virda Stewart has recently en- tered upon her career as a minister's wife, making friends throughout the entire parish by means of her economical ways and genial diplomacy. Miss French, now the editor of Good Housekeeping, and Miss Gladys Kings- ley, a writer for the girls' page of the L. H. j., appear to be the literary rep- resentatives of the class. Miss Whitely, having completed her college career with Hying colors, at present holds the awe-inspiring posi- tion of instructress of Psychology in Bradford Academy. In the course of the evening, tele- grams were received from Miss Wallace and Miss Hayes, who were unable to join the party. Miss Wallace is dis- tinguishing herself as a leader of female insurgents at Washington, D.C., while Miss Hayes, as a student of music in Berlin, is showing the result of good training and talent. Much charm was added to the occasion by the presence of Miss ANNALS Banister, one of the leading debutantes of the season in New York, elaborately gowned in a cranberry broadcloth suit, and peeping out from under a simple black hat, Miss Jeannette Ditto, whose etch- ings have brought her prominently before the public, expressed a deep feeling of gratitude for her art training at B. A., which has terminated in the founding of the Ditto Art School in Worcester. The cerned at the absence of color on the cheeks of Miss Harrington, the loss of she attributed to the responsi- thrust upon her as matron of company seemed greatly con- which bilities the Old Ladies' Home. J Miss Elsie Yorks is at the head of a Health and Beauty Club, in which she has effected practical reforms in the interest of sensible styles and simple living. Miss Hubbard, having completed her college course, told many interesting incidents relative to her work in the collegefsettlements. Miss Cooper has opened a picture gallery in her beautiful residence at Fenway Court, the nucleus of which was collected at Bradford. The delightful evening terminated in the singing of the old class songs, and as a final .touch they rose and sang that song so dear to all, -In the Quaint Old Town of Bradford, with as much C11- thusiasm as they had shown as school- girls. 79

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A AL 10 P.M. and After Upon ten strokes of the clock, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation That is known as retiring hour. I hear in the hall beyond me The patter of little feet, A knock, and the door must be opened. Comef' in a voice soft and sweet. From her room she had seen the lamplight, On return from the Faculty fete, As the twain sat writing their essays And knew not the hour was late. A whisper, - and then a silence, Yet she knew by the look in their eyes They were plotting and planning together She had taken them by surprise. A sudden rush from my papers, A sudden twist of the light, The red portiere left swinging 1, As I hastily made my flight. With a crash I leap o'er the bedside, My feet suspended in air. Is your friend asleep? was the question A' Her boots to bed does she wear? Poor me! Confused and bewildered, For answer, I had never a thought, With the gas flaring up after TIOUTS I knew in a net I'd been caught. Do you think, O foxy Belinda, Since this weariness you have displayed, And wisely excused your appearance, A demerit you'll thereby evade? B. I., S 11. 81 7