Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - Pans Pipers Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Though she shows a lack of compunction for her mentor, brain fatigue is the one thing she considers most dangerous, and Which she guards against most assiduously. She is a zealous advocate of learn- inge-by proxy. The careless girl who shares your room, who keeps the dresser, the table and the piano in wild confusion with a bewildering litter of objects out of place. Who never hangs up an article, or folds it away in the chiffonier drawer when it is so much more convenient to drape it gracefully over a handy chair, to throw it artistichlly across the bed or to Hing- it temperamentally on the hoof. Who re- sents with acrimony your attempts to straighten up the place, and considers order in a room a horrible sign and dread portent of old maidishness . The intensive letter-writer, who sits at the desk with the die- tionary under her nose and, while on are attempting to concentrate on some task, inquires with mad ening persistence. Mildred, how tic you spell icompiimenti-with 9. Ci or a iK'T' Two seconds later: Dear, I hate to interrupt, but are there two 1's in traveling? Five seconds later: Now this is stupid, but I've just forgotten whether itis 'eii or tie in tniece'. Each separate query breaks the thread of your thought, and the dimculty increases to regain close attention. You grit your teeth and answer with labored politeness, hoping in the meantime that death and disaster will speedily overtake all the individuals with whom she carries on a correspondence, as the only way in which your tottering reason can be saved. The intensely sociable partner, with oh, dear, such multitudes of friends, who is everlastingly bringing them to the room for long and noisy visitFwith the clack-clack of tongues in fatuous and super- ficial conversation, and ringing ha-hasi' of merry laughter. She has what amounts to a positive genius for selecting inopportune moments when you have a severe headache and need rest, for ushering in these droves of acquaintances. Or else she chooses the morning practice hours, when you are on edge trying to prepare a difficult lesson which looms before you, as the most appropriate time for staging her in- formal at homes . The highly temperamental girl, who has absolutely no tolerance for those repulsively bourgeoisie qualities of practical common sense, sanity and self-control, and who thinks such ordinary traits should be relegated to oblivion in the case of the artistically inclined. She cannot conceive how real talent can be divorced from a perpetual show of moodiness, whimsicality, unrestrained rages, iickleness and wild caprice. She considers irresponsibility of conduct, eccentricity of appearance and manner, and a rooted scorn for established pre- cedent the halI-mark of true genius. So she demonstrates conclu- sively her ability to stand with the company of the elect, and measure up to the standards of lofty excellence, by her supreme devotion and unfailing enthusiasm for the bizarre, the outre and the unbalanced. The martyred girl, who is keenly afflicted with ingrown sensi- bilities and inflated self-importance. She takes offense with exas- perating facility, and is fond of translating your most innocent and haphazard remark into a fancied slur. Her pathway in life fairly bristles with difficulties, and she has the most terrible time in gen- eral securing the proper recognition and courtesy from others. Her friends never pay her sufficient deference. It is only by dint of re- peated apologies and explanations that they are able to reinstate themselves in her good graces-for they are always guilty, however unintentionally, of snubbing, insulting, criticising, misunderstanding, and fatally wounding her feelings. As a result, she wavers between hopeless melancholy and righteous indignation, at the sheer indif- ference, not to say downright malignity, of a coldwhearted world. --MILDRED GAREE.

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SCHOOLMATES WHO GRATE ON MY NERVES HE girl in such hilarious spirits at the breakfast table, fresh T and bright as a morning-glory, and just sparkling with brilliant repartee-when you feel tired and drowsy and want only to be quiet. The mischief-maker who stirs up strife by telling one girl what another whispered to her as a confidential criticism, with extra em- broidery and unique shadings of her own added to the original story. The marvelous girl, who is always hearing such wonderful com- pliments about herself, and who relates them in extenso for your benefit. She can hold forth eloquently for hours on that one topic, without showing a sign of fatigueewhile you vainly try to edge away or fruitlessly attempt to change the subject. The critical soul, who eyes you coldly up and down each time you pass in an effort to fmd something wrong-and whose face lights up with positive pleasure if she can discern a lock of hair awry, a too liberal dash of powder, an unbecoming dress, or colors that fail subtly to blend. Judging from her expression, defects in your make- up or costume are the only bright spots in an otherwise dull day. But she becomes the personification of inattention, and absolutely ignores you with a truly regal air of disregard for your paltry exist- ence, if you happen to be looking exceptionally well in a new French gown. The fly-away girl of impulsive and emotional temperament. She labors always under intense excitement, speaks rapidly, in a loud, shrill tone of voice, and canverses solely in the superlative de- gree. Her enthusiasm is boundless, her laughter Homeric. She walks with a heavy tread, bursts into the room with all the calming eifect of a Western cyclone, and slams doors when she departs. The girl who objects to workewho finds serious effort weari- some and distasteful in the extreme, both for herself and for others. Who inquires with a pained expression, Ohe-are you STILL busy? If you can be a genius and, by practicing fifteen minutes daily, some- how contrive to play with the orchestra on that amount of exertion, well and good. Otherwise the spectacle of diligence is highly obnox- ious and truly unnerving to tender sensibilities. The chronic borrower, who attempts to solicit the loan of any- thing and everything from a postage stamp to your new fur coat. She is constantly needy and in want. If it rains, she never has an umbrella; if it snows, she never has overshoes. She is also habitually a. great suiferer from amnesia; has prolonged fits of absentminded- ness, and can never by any chance remember to return the borrowed article to its rightful owner. You are obliged to go in search, and almost have to use a crow-bar to pry it loose from her possession. The mental clinging-vinEethe girl who requires so much help with her lessons, who has never dared to puzzle out a problem inde- pendently, and who, under the restful spell of your kindly assistance, sits back like a dead weight and lets you do it all. It is not so much a clarifying explanation of occasional dimculties that she wants, as someone to do her Work for her. Without any effort on her part.

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f , 6 19 ' ' ' H- PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC MRS. FORREST G. CROWLEY, Mus. M. Public School Musici uAnd all her parts are peace . '. 9: . - . 2'3 ; 12H, Page 88