Catholic High School For Girls - Silver Sands Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A dog gasped Elljah Oh that they even dared to th1nk any other dog could make up for Spot Why thxs one dxdn t even look l1ke h1m except for the same k1nd of black daub near h1s nose The new pup was l1ttler and wh1ter only one ear stood up the other flopped tlredly over h1s left eye h1S front legs weren t stralght and h1s ta1l was almost a negatwe excuse Its all for yo honey pet h1m Aunt D1lcey urged And wh1le the sm1les faded from h1s parents eyes Elljah mumbled a polxte thanks and went quxetly over to the Ere to s1t there 1n IIIISCIY After a wh1le he felt ashamed of hrs behavlor and looked pleadrngly at the hurt faces before h1m for sympathy He alnt Spot he deplored he just a1nt He doan know how Ah feels 1ns1de when de blg boys mek fun of mah cloes an and here he pushed away a mo1st frlendly nose and how t1s to work when you d l1ke to play he doan know what txs to lose a frlend l1ke Spot Oh yes he do reproved Aunt Dxlcey dat dawg am sorner dan yo be Ahs seed h1m wxf cans t1ed to h1s tall because the 111 crlppled boy what owned h1m couldnt stop the blg fellows from dom It Ahs seed h1m fight b1g dogs fo h1s l1l b1t o suppah Ahs seed h1m cry real watah tears when h1s masa got tooken to God An today Ah seed h1m all alone wet an col an hungry Ah knowed he couldn be anotha Spot but Ah thought you d love h1m a l1l El11ah looked unhapp1ly at the httle mougrel vtho was nuzzlmg h1s knee All at once he wasnt just a mutt any more he was a real pal Of course Elijah would keep h1m' The dog pound nught take th1s one too but now that Ehjah knew they were around he could watch and h1de the pup Now the dog yapped and w1th a llttle cry Elljah swooped h1m lnto his arms and held h1m t1ght Then as mf to make up for hls harsh treatment of the l1ttle anlmal he pressed h1s mouth close to the pups floppy ear and wluspered the blggest comphment he knew Ise gwme call yo Spot MARY RITA HBYDEN 38 SOMETHING HINTBD so.-mea'H1sNg gaufwsfn Welch s Grape wce eeps you thm Palrnolwe Soap grrls cleans the skm L1 ehuoy tends to charm your rzends Lzsterme Mouth Wash never o ends Lux 'Tmlet Soap use at too lklany a beaux you ll gam anew Camels tend to soothe ones nerves Whrle Mobzle Gas helps take the curves Lest coffee keep you wzde aw e Be sure that you some Postum ta e Ovaltme wlll 'nounsh you It wnll gwe the strength of two Baseball players for Wheatres call They say It helps to h1t the ball After you have read thrs through, Come on, gwls, you try them, too, They wzll please you one and all, If for our sales talk you wzll fall 26 MARGARET ROTH, '38 SILVER SANDS as u -- sn 11 ' H 1 ' 9 9 1 1 9 , . , , . . . . , . , . ., . . . . . , . . . . Q . - 1 ' - 1 . s , . . . , . .., . 1, . a s 9 ' . . . . f, . - 9 1 . . . . , . . . , 5 1 1 s 1 u 1 1 - 11 - , ' 9 9 1 - ' 11 . . . , , , .. . . A y 9 . . 1 - . . . , , 1 ' s - 1 1 ss ' 1 11 ss - - 1 9 9 ' . . . . . . . v . , 11 1 1 - 1 ' ss 1 - . . as 1 - 1 1 - , . Y ' 1 9 11 11 , ' , . 9 ' I ' k ' ' 1 1 1 p f f , if . .1 .v 1 x . 1 1 ak , 1 r

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LITTLE B0 for he was shiny and black and sweet. SILVER SANDS This explained the permeating piny scent in the house. Although it was over a month since Christ' mas, people were still discarding mistletoe and ever' green and Pappy Brown was always around to proit by their riddance. Aunt Dilcey heaved herself out of the chair and went over to a pot steaming above the fire. While she was pouring the soup Elijah ventured, Did yo' all make it, Aunt Dilcey? He knew if she had, the soup would be somehow sweeter and spicier, for Aunt Dilcey worked uptown as cook for the Dwights. She lived there, too, but Wednesday was her free night and then she came to the Browns'. Sho' nuff, honey, she chuckled, Han' you'd bettah eat it all up, if'n yo' do, I've got a s'prise fo' yo'. Get long theah now. Only a few minutes ago Elijah had felt as if he never wanted to eat again, but as he was only a very ordif nary little boy with a little boy's appetite, the soup slid down easily. While sopping the last ounce of liquid with a piece of bread, Elijah meditated on the nature of the surprise. Maybe it was cake. There was a bakery at the corner that sold stale delicacies for a few pennies-and it was pay night. Sometimes the Dwight children gave Aunt Dilcey clothes and, al- though they were a few sizes too large for Elijah, they did keep him warm and dry. In the meantime, Elijah's pappy had come in, his arms laden with dry wood, and was grinning happily at his little ebony replica. There was something sheep' ish in that grin. Elijah catalogued it with the one Pappy used on Mammy when he had a new job to tell her about. When his mammy came padding out of the bath' room, her arms soapy to the elbows, Elijah knew defif nitely that something untoward was afoot, for Mammy never let her wash soak in the big tin tub once she had worked the suds up. There they stood all three in a row looking as if they deserved a spanking. Elijah wondered idly how Grandmammy had ever surrounded Aunt Dilcey's breadth to administer much-needed thrashings. By now, Aunt Dilcey had walked to the bedroom door at the end of the kitchen and opened it slowly. After she had made several clucking noises with her tongue to no avail, she squeezed her poundage through the doorway and went into the room. In a few seconds she reappeared carrying a fuzzy object under her arm. When she had successfully rnaneuvered her girth into the kitchen again, she put her burden down on the floor with a flourish. 25

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I AM A DAWDLER OLLOWING 1ts monotonous habxt of arnvmg xmmedlately after Fnday Saturday dawns The sun has evxdently developed a stern sense of duty this mormng He sparkles wxth such deterrruned radlance that even I hardened sun resrster that I am cant w1thstand hrs lmperatrve summons I dress slowly a luxury not to be enjoyed on school days and tr1p hghtly down to breakfast unaware that this t1me honored and necessary 1nst1tut1on has been a thmg of the past for at least an hour After survxvxng a sxege of sarcasm from several younger prompter members of the famrly and emerg mg unscathed from the battle of gettmg my own breakfast I begm to suspect that thxs Saturday rs not to be one of dellcrous xdleness My susprclons raprdly become a certamty A POSICIVC a1r of mdus try pervades the house I cannot hope to escape Tremblxng mwardly wlth apprehensron I awalt the pronouncement of my sentence So great 15 my rehef on learnxng that my sole task rs the smgle one of cleamng my bedroom that I de termlne to be a perfect model of eHic1ency That bedroom shall be shaken to the roots by a. cleanmg such as lt has never known fAt least not rn my re1gnJ Thrs remarkable feat shall be performed w1th such dlspatch that by noon at the very latest I ll be free of the rrksome burden of housework Accordlngly armed wlth broom mop dust cloth and dust pan I march forth to meet and conquer my enemy d1rt When I reach my room however good resolutlons evaporate a1arm1ngly 1n the face of temptatxon The open wmdow mvrtes 1tS xnvitatxon IS speedrly accepted Wlmat Joy can compare wrth the forbxdden fruxt of leanxng on one s elbows at an open w1ndow7 My attentron rs arrested almost unmedxately by an rmpromptu football game rn progress below My th1r teen year old brother IS quarterback of hrs team and seems to be havmg some dlfliculty an penetratmg to enemy terrxtory In the role of helpful splnt I con sxder the advrsabxlrty of suggestxng that he try a new trrck play xnvented by myself I declde against thls course of actxon on the grounds that he doesn t often apprecrate my suggesnons In add1t1on I have an xdea that I do not appear partlcularly graceful rn my SILVER SANDS By MARGARET SWEENEY 39 present posltxon and I have no deslre to call attention to rt by shoutrng down to lnm Reluctantly I wlthdraw from the W1Dd0W The trme has come to turn my attentron to the busmess at hand I pnck up the duster and begm to fhck It half heartedly here and there wondering fleetmgly what IS the motrve behmd th1s madness of dustmg I rarely note any xmprovement 111 a room I have dusted A glance mto the mxrror assures me that my haxr 18 doing 1ts very best to look 1ts very worst th1s morrung I declde to try the effect of a new coxffure that I have seen recently 1n the movnes The duster IS dlscarded 1n 1ts place the comb and ha1rbrush take the hmehght After a quarter of an hour of experrmentmg my attl tude 15 one of dlscouragement and I abandon the attempt at beautrficatlon The art of bed makrng now comes 1nto play I per form the first stages of th1s rltual wlth beautrful pre c1s1on and prarseworthy mdustry only to fall a v1ct1m to rmagmatxon before the task 15 completed The bed spread 15 my undorng Its sxlken smoothness and rosy hue remmnd me mstantly of royal robes from royal robes to queens IS only a step and queens have always 1n the slummenng folds of the bedspread Wxth a ruler for my scepter and a crown whlch only my eyes can see I receive the humble obexsance of my loyal subjects m a truly regal manner The pnvxleges of royalty are not for me I finally declde M1ne must be a lxfe of sacrrfice The sheets are qu1ckly transformed 1nto the hablt of a mxsslonary nun much to the detnment of my nlcely made bed and once agam I float on the enchanted sea of make beheve Soothmg fevered brows and murmunng words of comfort and hope xnto the ears of the dymg are my new dutles T1me and housework are matters of httle lf any importance rn this sphere Somewhere rn the drstance a church bell begms to rmg Two dmg dongs serve to bnng me back to the world of realrty after four I am fa1ntly alarmed at the elghth posmvely petnied wrth amazement Surely rt xsn t noon already' But the relentless strokes contmue to twelve endmg wrth a firm final peal whxch seals my doom I heave a sxgh of desparr Wall I never leam7 Twelve oclock and the gxgantxc task of cleamng a bedroom is strll before mel 27 I I I , . , , . . . . , 9 Y ' ' 9 1 l . - I I 1 I 9 3 1 - n 1 1 1 .. . .. , 3 - . . . f 2 a. - 1 on ' 9 , . . . . n Q ' I , , intrigued me. In a moment I am in my glory, robed . , . . . . D 1 ' ' - I I , I , , I -. 3 , u . . . .. 5 9 I 7 I I , Q .... . . . , u n , ' 1 ' . . a a. ' ii' I 11 ' . . . . .5 , , 3 . . ., f , . . I , . . . , . i