Chesterton High School - Singing Sands Yearbook (Chesterton, IN)

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THE GRADUATE. 31 A Tribute to the Old School Bell How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, e The scenes they were, mostly that greet us to-day, The little Primary how dearly we loved it, WllGl'B we learned to count six, and could tell B from A. c Then on to the Second Room. quickly we hastened, To be with Miss Murphy that teacher of power Here wonderful wisdom and knowledge was taught us, ' At the sound of the bell, we knew what was the hour. The old high school bell, the sweet toned high school bell, The dearly loved school bell. that hangs in the tower. Now on to the Third Room. how swiftly we glided, To the Fourth-To the Fifth-and the Sixth saw us next, We began here to feel, Life was not all a pleasure i Such difficultlessons, we were oft sorely vexed. But 'amid all the trials which then did sur- round us And cause us to wish for the good closing hour. VVe anxiously waited and counted the minutes. Till the old' high school bell, rang out. at each night and noon-hour. The old high school bell, the sweet toned high school bell, A The dearly loved school bell. which hangs in the tower. We paused at the Seventh. for one short year only, So anxious were we to reach the eight grade. This'we did in good time. and by long and hard study Succeeded in Exams, with a fair average made. How proudly did we, then. receive our diplomas The emblem of knowledge, and to us of great power, And still the one faithful and never unchanging Same bell. pealed forth, the glad news from the tower, The Old High School Bell, The Sweet Toned High School Bell, The llearly Loved School Bell, which hangs in the tower. Vfith fear and much trembling we entered the High School Our pride 11ow had vanished. we felt Oh. so small. lint teachers at length kindly came to our rescue. And helped us to master some subjects. not all. Many changes were made in four years that followed. lYhich have caused us many a sad anxious hour. But amid all the changes, there still remains stationed, The same noisy Bell with its wonderful power. The Uld High School Bell. the Sweet Toned High School Bell. The Dearly Loved School Bell. which hangs in the tower. And now as our school days are nearing com- pletion Having spent all our school years within these same walls. Vl'e cannot but feel a sensation of sadness And over our hearts a cloud of gloom falls. No more. dear old friend. will we need your calling As you send forth in deep tones. the news of S the hour. So we bid you Farewell. to your call we have hearkened. For years in, and years out. from your place in the tower. The old school bell, the sweet toned high school bell. The dearly loved school bell which hangs in the tower.

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30 THE GRADUATE. Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1912 l11 the name of his Majesty, the President ot' the United States, in the name of his Excel- lency, the Governor of Indiana : and in the name of his Honor. the Marshal of this town, Amen. NVe, the Senior Class of the City of Chester- ton, County of Porter. of the State of Indiana, being somewhere between seventeen and twenty years of age. and being of sound mind a11d memory, do make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all other last wills and testaments, by ns made heretofore. FIRST: Our will is that all our just debts and Funeral Expenses shall be paid out of our estate as soon after our decease as shall be found convenient. SECOND: ln consideration of the fact that the present Juniors will next year take our places, we think it wholly just and proper that we should bequeath to them the right to be re- garded as the wisest, most important, and most distinguished looking class of the school. THIRD: VVe must cheerfully bequeath to the Freshmen our fondness for study. VVe have noticed that this sentiment is generally lacking during the greater part ot' their tirst year of High School. Although they are strangers to us, we make this bequest eheer- fully, and hope they will accept the benefac- tion kindly. FOVRTH: VVe give to our sueeessors, es- pecially the Sophomores, copies of our tirst term 's geometry grades. l.Ve suppose that they intend taking up this subject in the second year, and no doubt, it would help them greatly. and be a wonderful incentive to have our grades always before them. FIFTH: To Mabel Hollar, Elsie Niekel. and Martha G., the right to sit together and whisper as long a time as desired. SIXTH: To Joseph S., fat reducing tablets. SEVENTH: To the C. H. S., our share in the mirrors. - EIGHTH: To Miss Long a clock that has no alarm. ' NINTH: To Scott and Raymond, some other place than a studio to propose. TENTH: To Mr. Dexter, the right to stay after school as long as desired, with those who do not obey requests. A ELEYENTH: To Martha, a front scat next term. TWELFTII: To the baseball players of all the elasses, we give the ball diamond which is situated on the west of the school. and which ia in sueh good condition. To the young lady athletes, especially, do we bequeath the ele- gantly equipped basket-ball gymnasium. This gymnasium was tirst thought of last year, and at the present time. it is about as fully de- veloped as it was then. LASTLY: We bequeath to the members of the school board, our photographs, together with a short biography of each member of the elass. and as a last request. we wish them to have them framed and hung in a suitable place so that anyone so desiring can read the bio- gi-aphies. and look upon the faces of the late elass of 'l2. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have set our hand and seal, to this, our last Will and Testanient. at Chesterton, this 23d day of May, in the year of Dui' Lord, One Thousand, nine hundred and twelve. Senior Class. Modern Geography. A class of boys averaging about 12 years of of age was recently given an examination in geography. Among the questions was the fol- lowing: ' Name the zones. On looking over the papers the teachers found the following: There are two zones, Masculine and Feminine. The Masculine is either temperate or intemperate and the Feminine is either torrid or frigid.

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7 THE GRADUATE. Unbinding the W'0men of China Flossie Pelham. Several years ago, there was a great insur- rection i11 Kansuh, tl1e 1101'tllXVt'St province of t'hina. The Mohammedan rebels slaughtering 011 the way, closed i11 011 tl1e capital, Lanchow. The terrified countrymen tied to its protecting walls, but the poor women, on account of their bound feet. fell behind a11d faili11g to arrive before the gates were closed were butchered at the very threshold. NVhile the shrieking won1e11 beat despairingly upon the iro11 bound doors, as their blood-thirsty pursuers drew 11GEl1', hu11- dreds of anguished husbands knelt down before the English missionary and begged llllll to urge the governor to ope11 the gates Ellltl let the late- tomers i11. The llllSSlOl12'll'j' explained how this would also let the cutthroats in too, Zllltl then added. You would have your wives s111all footed. wouldn't you? VVell, this is your pun- ishmentf' The Kakka women of southern China do not bind their feet and in Canton, Ollly the daugh- ters of the well-to-do follow the custom. In the extreme 11orth of China. the Manchu women leave the foot natural and this perhaps is the reason that they are so big.healthy and comely. Ill the rest of the empire foot-binding has not been the folly of the idle or the fad of the fashionable. but a custom that all classes, both rich and poor follow. Ill three districts of Kansuh, women are still crawling about their houses upon their knees, just to please the preverted taste of the Chinese men, ln both Shansi and Shensi the XVOHIGII work in the fields, not stooping, for that would hurt their poor feet too much. but sitting Eilltl hitching themselves along as they reap. They have to be carried to the fields in a wheelbarrow and they arc so helpless that the most of them never get a mile away from the house to which they were taken as brides. They hobble about their villages a little, steadying themselves by a hand on the house wall or leaning o11 a staff. The Vhinese have a saying. 'tFor each pair of bou11d feet there has beell shed a tubful of tears. This is very likely, as the bandaging begins between the fifth and seventh years and after three years of misery, tl1e front part of the foot. and the heel ougl1t to be forced together so that a dollar will stick in the cleft. Because of foreign influence, thoughtful men of China have been made to see the evils of foot-binding. A few years ago, the then em- press dowager issued an edict commanding the people to abandon it. The missionaries preach against it Eillfl sometimes even refuse to admit foot-bound girls into tl1e mission school. The Natural Foot Society circulates literature, edicts, proclamations, placards, poems and fold- ers, writte11 by officials, missionaries, by phys- icians and by native reformers. Poems have been written on The Sorrows of Foot-bind ing, which move people to tears. Speaking broadly, the reform has 11ot reach- ed farther than the cities and high classes. It is said that three-fourths of the women of China are still so bound and it is safe to say that at the pl'QSE11t time, there are in China, seventy million pairs of deformed, aching and unsightly feet. liut cotton bandages are 110t the only bonds of the wo1ne11 of China. The following story is told: One sultry n1orning in July, a coolie was carrying two little cloth covered boxes balanced on the bamboo across his shoulders. In each was a child of five years of age. The boy 's box had a tiny open window to enable him to receive air and to see what he was passing, but the XVl11dONV of the girl's box was tightly screened up. The little girl had to e11- dure the heat a11d darkness because sl1e was a female and propriety demanded it. No females lJ1:'tXVE't'11 the ages of ten and twenty-five are ever seen on the streets of China. Shut away from sight and knowledge-how symbolic of the women of China! Hut perhaps tl1e greatest affliction that the Chinese women have to bear is their early marriage and tl1e veritable slavery that results from it. The girl is generally betrothed at the age of two or three to a boy five or six years old and not until the Wedding does either know the other's name or look upon the other's face. The Chinese woman does not expect to receive ron1antic love, tenderness and chivalry from her