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

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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

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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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igintnrg 'HH E, THE CLASS of 1909, have a record of which we may feel justly proud. Besides being the most brilliant class that has ever left the Charlotte High School, we have the honoi of being the Hrst class to graduate from the eleventh grade. All of us have graduated before and this is our second coming out. We have reached our goal at last after many years hard work. We passed the first, second and third grades with comparative ease. In the fourth grade we met a stumb- ling block in the shape of Stoddardls New Intellectual Arithmetic,'which you know has always been Mr. Gra- ham's especial delight In the seventh grade we met our old friend, Latin. For five long years it is the friend to which we have been most faithful. Soon afterwards we found Algebra, which has been our constant compan- ion since. These, with History, Geography, Spelling, and other studies, have kept us pretty busy. But I do not mean to convey the idea that our school life has been all work and no play. For many years it has been the custom to have class picnics. Vacation would not be vacation were it not for this annual picnic. Nearly every year we would go to the Catawba river. Leaving the City early in the morning, and reaching the river about two hours before dinner time, we would ex- plore every favorite nook and corner. After a bounte- ous dinner there was always the boat rides. The after- noon would pass away quickly, and after an early supper there was the ride home, which some think is the most enjoyable part of the day. After a ride of two hours we would reach home, tired but happy. We sincerely hope that our past teachers will ever 21