Burr and Burton Academy - Burtonian Yearbook (Manchester, VT)

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THE BURTONIAN A WVOMAN S FEAR By Louise Rabner 35 Some time ago I mentioned a womans fear to my friend W at is it she laughed the fear of not getting married7 Thats 1ust where Im going to surprise you it s as far from that as the north pole is from the south pole I once heard a minister say that only two fears are actually born in us the fear of falling and the fear of the unknown How many had exer thought of that before7 It s true too Still it seems to me that there is one more fear instilled in most of the fair sex Its so simple you will laugh when you hear it Mite' One would think that men would keep shy of them just as much as the women but it doent seem to be that way Instead of making it easier and paying no attention exery one seems to enjoy frxghtenxng girls Small boys and some larger ones Gnd delight in suddenly appearing beside a girl holdlng a mouse dead or ahve by the tail She is apt to do most anything faint scream run or a combination of the last two while the offender walks off with a grin on his face from ear to ear Nine times out of ten he 11 chase her if she runs Wouldn t he be surprised if she had tal-ren pity on the poor mouse 1nstead7 A writer of comedies wants to make his play seem amusing to an audience so he around the room Sometimes one wonders lf this fear is real or feigned The majority of times I think it is the real thing One time I saw a cat fast asleep with a dead mouse beside him I said something about it because it is an unusual sight-cats usually eat mice It seems that this particular one didn t like them Not thinking much about it I picked it up and carried it into the room where sexeral girls were sitting One of them gave a faint shriek and ran to the other side of the room I thought she thought the creature was ahve so I walked toward her to show her that it was quite dead The instant I started she bolted out of the room upstairs and locked her bedroom door Of course I followed her and stood quietly outside the door Soon I heard her unlock the door and very cautiously she began to open it Vv'hen it was open far enough I swung it in still keeping hold by the tail The door shut with a bang and it was some time before she could be induced to come down again Now all of you who lose to tease a girl like this try to imagine that the sight of a mou e nearly fri htens you out of your wits If you can do this successfully and then tale pity on the vittims they would soon forget that they were ever scared by a mouse WHEN SPRING CAME By Ilsa Schuster 36 The earth was cold The little seed sank low Above its wintry bed The winds passed to and fro The earth grew warm The little seedling heard XX ithin its heart The resurrection word Spring came the seed burst forth In fragrant scarlet bloom Unto the world it gave Its color and perfume 1 . , , L - - .. . .. . .. h . . .. - , .. . . ,, , . . . . , . 3 K ' . I . , . . , , r . K V. . ' . . V , v .... K , K. . .... , . 3 . I - 1 ' , , , ' , . . . . . . . . v . K 5 K. Y . , has one act end with several women standing on chairs because a cat is chasing a mouse - , , c c ' . . , - - , . , S ig . l . ' - L ' ' , ' y . Z , f 1 ' 1 Q T s S

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THE PUPTONIAN absurd The present 'IIIIIILS md mun1t1ons are not being raised slmply for a speeul Fourth of uly eelehrltlon Vsxth the fmt m mmd that wxthout Hnanees there can be no war t I5 but a l0y,,le1l thought thxt mf rn some manner or other the prohts wh1eh result from thls em he done rw my wlth we will h we t,llII11l'l ated one of the hasxc causes This alone would he of hut lnttle vrlue there xs stlll 1 grerter 1nd more dxlheult problem to be met Qome form of 1ntern11t1on1l rel 1110118 must be est rhhshed whleh Wlll insure Co Operatlon and rt the sun tlme do mu wrth the eharieterlstxes of min vnhleh eause hlm to lstru t hrs fellow men rr to treats, hztred Somethlng must be arranged to iron out Lhesx lH1SU1lLlLY'SIlI'ILIll1j,S Prooress 111 tlns IS rn mv other mammoth undertakxng ls seemingly very slow Ptrhrps the desrred results cannot he rehxexed by thls or even the rlslng generation hut lx the strrtmf' of this xmmense drne tow1rd remoxlng the menwce of war we will luxe trl1en 1 long step tovmrd genurne C1Vlll7ltlOI'l and he recorded ln hlstory as the ones who founded tlns movement It ls lndeed worth strxvmg for whatever results are ohtalntd mll le an lmproxement over our present eondltlons WHAT AM I Bx florence NVade 33 Sometmxe Im brown sometxmes Im ue Sometxme I hive a gI'6EI11bl'1 hue Sometxme I shme wxthout the sun I often txunlele sometlmes run Somet1 nes I make one very glad But I can also make them sad Im xerv elnngexble you see lm ju t what you do make of me Sometr we Im short so netlmes Im ong I m ry look welk I m1y look strong, neture I turn up at the en qonrttrmes I SLLII1 to be 1ll hend I mly he red or spotted quite And then to m udens I m 1 sight I m useful to you nexertheltss ust how mueh you may nexer guess' SOlI1Ct1IUew la not the word for me The mme old color I have to be Im 'rlxmxs found ln the same old spot But wh rt I do lx worth a lot Im spht from end to end lf you please And can open and shut wlth Greatest of ease You u e me more at day than mght, I tan brxne you joy, so use me nght' Answers to aboxe nddles I, Eyes, II, Nose, III, 'viouth 4 J y, 115 1 . ' ze 1 1 1 , 1 ' Nl j 1 , 1' 1' 1 ' , ' 1 ' 1 '1 ' 1 '1 , r ' 1 ' 1 ' ' 1' '. ' , H 1 , ' ' 1' 1' 1 1 ' 1 , 1 1 ' ' ' 1 '1 1' 1' 51 1' ' 1 f , 1 1 1'1 e 1 '1 ' ' ' .N 1' '1 1 ' ' d. s 1' ' ' 1 rd ' r' ' 1 . 1 'N 3 ' I1 '51 fr 5, li 1 I ' 1 1 1 1' 1 ' 1 1' 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 , Nr' I1 3, 1' . ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1' '1 .1 , ' 1 1 . 1 , w if I 1 1- ew A 1 y- I - . , . - , 1 - . - .. ' ' bl . 1 : . 1 s 1 ' . 3 3 1 , 1 ', 1 , , L A . 1 1 1 , 1 , s ' ' . 1 ' xr s 1 3 1 1 1 . 1 ' 5 1 3 1 ' '. SOI ' rw 1 ' dg 1 ' 1 . I 1 ' 3 1 4 1 1 I I 1 1 , . 1. - K 7 n 51 5 . 1 '1 '1 1 1 , ' 1 1' . 1 , 1 , 1 , K . N V. 1 I

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THE BURTONIAN RECENT AMERICAN WRITERS By Iamcs Fiske 35 There rs no drvrdrng line between the centuries As we look back some of the writers were lrvrng when our century began and some of them are strll alrve and form a link between our trmes and the past But as we go on many famous authors rn our tunes were born rn the twentreth century Some well known writers before 1900 have done their best work since the twentieth century began Owen Wrster born rn 1860 rs best known for The Vrrgrnra-n the story of a chrvalrous cowboy rn the Wyoming country It rs a most interesting book rn vrew of the fact that rt shows the picturesque life of the frontier before rt moved so far west that rt was lost in the Pacrfic Mr Wrster also wrote a story about the World War called The Pentecost of Calamity Phrlosophy Four a college story and Lady Baltrmore Richard Harding Davis rs another writer who rs connected rn our minds with the World War He was a war correspondent and also wrote some very good short storres The Boy Scout Real Soldrers of Fortune With Both Armres rn South Afrrca He was one of the first correspondents to reach the front rn the World War He had been a correspondent rn both the South African War and the Spanish American War He dred rn 1915 A man who knew the Western trails was Emerson Hough who was born rn Iowa rn 1857 and dred rn 1923 He was graduated from the University of Iowa and became a lawyer In a few years he turned to newspaper wrrtrng In order to get material for his articles he traveled all over North America and learned about the old trails often made by Indians or buffaloes over whrch the proneers made their long and perilous journeys he knew the cattle trails and the way taken by the early adventurous explorers Out of all this knowledge he wove such storres as The Magnrficent Adventure Wagon Most boys like the storres of Stewart Edward White set rn the great forests of the Northwest or at the lonely tradrng posts of the fur companies Some of them are Conjurers House Damel Boone The Forty Nrners and The Westerners The back ground rs beautifully done and they are chock full of interest When Booth Tarkrngton wrote Penrod Pervrod and Sam and Seventeen he wrote with the understanding of a boy and the sympathy of a man who had not forgotten the pranks of hrs boyhood Out of the twenty or more books he has written Alice Adams Monsreur Beaucarre The Magnrficent Ambersons The Turmoil and The Flrrt are generally chosen as his best works by grown people Dorothy Canfield Fisher rs a significant figure rn American literature She was born and educated rn the Middle West but now lives rn Arlington Vermont She recerved her Ph D degree from Columbia rn 1904 She rs unusually proficrent rn languages and made a notable translation of Paprnes L1 e o Chrrst from the Italian The Bent Twrg The Bnmmmg Cup and Hzllsboro People are some of her other works Henry James who was born rn Albany rn 1843 began to wrrte short storres rn 1866 but hrs most rmportant novels were written after 1900 Although he was well known for his short storres years before our century began he seems to belong to rt When he was quite young hrs parents took him to Europe and he acqurred hrs early educatron rn Switzerland France and England After a whrle hrs people settled rn Boston but he never liked America and soon returned to England where he became very famous Hrs storres and novels are very brrllrant quite often full of rrony The Golden Bowl and The Wrngs of a Dove are hrs best novels He dred rn 1916 17 which tells the story of Lewis and Clark's expedition north of 36, and The Covered