Camden High School - Megunticook Yearbook (Camden, ME)

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WEALTH VS. HAPPINESS The streets are crowded, people pushing and jolting one another about in their impatient effort to gain a better view of the huge parade. Many have been standing in the same spot for hours,4tather than give up their place. The sun beats down unbearably hot on the pavement, and all are irritated and cross from weariness. Ah! now the parade looms in view, and the people all along the boulevard shout their relief. Just at this moment, a magnificent limousine glides smoothly up to the curb. The eyes of the crowd turn instinctively toward its gbaming coat of paint and beautiful nickel work dazzlingly bright in the rays of the sun. In it sits a chauffeur immaculately dressed in uniform, and on the back seat sits a beautiful rirl The girl gets out, nonohelantly dismesses the chauffeur, and with a disdainful toss of her head, joins a group of fashionably dressed young people who are standing apart from the rest of the crowd. They evidently have been expecting her, for to meet her. they all hasten The parade swings around the corner to the stirring strains of a military band, and the crowd's attention is momentarily diverted. One, however, in the crowd had eyes only for the fashionable group apart from the rest. She seemed to have suddenly lost inter- est in the parade. Mary was a very attractive girl with brown curly locks and very blue eyes. Just now her blue eyes were watching wistfully the new arrival and her companions. Yes, she admitted to herself, she actually hated that other girl. Hated her because she was so poised, so sure of herself, so obviously wealthy and free from cares. Her very clothes and appearance distinguished her as a person of high social rank. Mary was not usually a discontented girl. On the contrary, she was a very gay, optimistic young person. Ordinarily, she wouldn't have given the other girl's arrival a thought. But tired and irritated. The long hours in the sun had today, she was entirely dispelkd her accustomed gaiety. To Mary, who had lived her whole life in poverty, wealth and social position meant everything. Well, to be truthful, it couldn't be actually be called poverty, for she had never been cold or hungry, and she had never had to from lack of money. But she had never been free to sho liked without first considering the expense and suitable clothes to wear. At this particular time, disappointed because of unfortunate circumstances. was to be the most important activity of the entire really suffer come and go as whether she had she was terribly On Friday evening school year, the annual Junior WProm0. All the girls were buying beautiful dresses for the occasion, and she couldn't. She had had the money all saved up with which to buy the precious gown, but her brother had been l sick, and she had unselfishly contributed all her savings towards the 7.