Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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he had graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh, and had taken a higher course in the cotton mill business. After a few years of hard work he had decided that they couldn't wait any longer, and did like all wise people-got married-and she looked as if she was going to live happy ever after. The daily papers have been saying a great deal about the new High School building. It has been a long wished for building in this city. The plans have just been drawn up and are said to be the best that are to be had. The man that drew up the plans is one of the city's best architects- Leland Craig. On the last sheet in the paper I noticed this ad : LELAND MIOT CRAIG ARCHITECT Rooms 84-85 Realty Building Phone 1211 Our most beloved Pearl tells me that she is still in the graded school, not as a pupil, but a teacher, and she spends her days trying in vain to make her class love Cicero like she did while studying it. And says she can't understand why they are so block-headed. While I talked with Pearl I asked her how she had retained her youth so wonderfully, for she looked even younger than when she left C. H. S. as a student. She then brought forth the secret of her charms. It was a large bottle labeled thus : Madam Pansina Montfort's Famous Beauty Cream - guaranteed to preserve youth indeinitely. Seeing that I was interested, she brought forth a pamphlet that ex- plained fully the magical powers of the Beauty Cream. This pamphlet was filled with testimonials, one of which was especially interesting to me. It certified as to the effect of the cream, and was accompanied by two pict- ures that were a still more striking recommendation. They represented before and after using the cream. One was a striking likeness to the Leola Hannon I had known at C. H. S., the other was a picture of a wonderfully 19

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standing in the midst of a great crowd of people, just in front of a bar-room. There was a man standing on an im- mense keg of beer. After listening a few seconds I found that he was delivering a lecture on Temperance. He was holding the very closest attention of his hearers, and had even moved some of the strong men to tears. I did not recognize the speaker, for he was dressed all out of style. His coat was of the Prince Albert style, a huge bow of ribbon fora neck tie, and a stove-pipe hat. I asked one of the by-standers who the gentleman was. He seemed sur- prised that I did not know him, and told me he was George Wallace Brice, one of the country's most famous temperance lecturers. When the speaker had finished his lecture and I was moving away with the crowd, I noticed a very striking looking young lady across the street who seemed to recog- nize me. She crossed the street and came up to me with a very happy smile. It was then that I recognized Rosa- mond of the by-gone days in the Charlotte High School. She told me that she had just finished writing a book which she felt was her life work, Advice to Young Lovers. Early in life she had been bitterly disappointed by a man, and she felt it was her duty to warn the young people of the coming generation. As we talked she told me that there was one member of the class of '09 that had been very fortunate. She told me that I would find Mrs. -- at 1027 Part Avenue. Then I started out to find the house, for I was very anxious to see the happy young couple. They had just returned from their honeymoon. When I found 1027 I was astonished and hardly knew whetherIshould go in or not, for the house was such a beautiful structure. When I finally got to the door I asked if I might see Mrs. Q. I was asked in and told that she would be down in a few minutes. I heard her softly des- cending the steps, and turned to look upon a face that was serenely happy. After a few moments we were busily en- gaged in talking over the past. Kate was the same as when we were together in school days. She told me that I8

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beautiful person whom I did not believe could be the same Leola-but Pearl assured me that it was very true to life, for she had recently seen Leola, who was a famous stage beauty. , While I was looking at the pictures which showed the transformed Leola, and wondering whether I could afford a bottle of the cream f for it was ten dollars a bottle J I found myself borne back from the land of visions in an instant. Then I heard the voice of the discoverer. Well, has your hour been long enough to see all that you wished ? I bowed my head. ANNIE MAE BILBIE, '09. Y 20