Columbus School for Girls - Topknot Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Top-Knot Zin the Tllfitluuhs Little fairies gracefully dancing, Whex'e the Indians have once been prancing, Red birds, bluebi1'ds, all together ' And the dove with its lovely tail feather. Witli the robin on its nest, And the locust above the rest, And the gold hnch and his mate With the elm tree, tall and great. And the little pine With its odor so sweet and fine, And the steep hills on one side, And the brook, with its baby-tide, And the pebbles scattered through the water, And the king of the fairies and his daughter, Sitting on the leaf of a lily With the little imps so silly Making them laugh till their sides acheL The cook is making a lovely cake 17 or them to eat as they look at the sight Of the stars and moon on a summer night. ANNE ELIZABETH G1LB15RT, Sixth Form Grand Hotel, Castello a lVlare Taormina. March l9, l922. Dear Sixth Form: I will begin at the beginning and end at the end. All ready? Pay attention, Dorothy Nelson. At the Azores it was beautiful. Wait a minute before I begin. I want to tell you that there are no stretchers, some things sound a lot like it but they aren't. It was all rough, the water I mean. It was so rough they would not let us go ashore the first day. - When we did go we had to go in little row boats and yougot thrown all around in the boat. Before we went ashore all the natives came down in little boats to sell their goods. I'll give the list of the colors the houses were: blue, light and dark, azure, royal, sky, every shadeg green, the same as blue, purple and lavender, the same as greeng red and pink, the same as pur- pleg yellow and orange, the same as red. In shorter words they were more beautiful colors than you know of. These are just some things I noticed or found out: l. This pen is bad, I noticed that before I began writing. 2. Everybody from A to Z at the Azores went barefooted, rich or poor. 3. A house wasn't called good unless it had a balcony. This is all about the Azores, remem- ber. 4. I saw a store keeper in his store with a monacle. We Wanted to see the American Counsil, so we asked a man the way. He told a Portugese boy to take usg of course none of us could speak Portugese, and we said, Would11,t it be nice if he could speak English. I can he said proudly. Then he said the marines taught him and he could not have spoken better English. Then he told us his whole history pretty nearly. He said his name was Luis Morris, that is the way he spelled it, both s's are as hissy as you can make them. He said he was eighteen, and he was not any taller than I am, not one bit. All the kids are just as short. 25 f .

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Top Ano! Uribe lute uf a ittntnn A robm rs one of the most useful brrds He scatters the seeds of trees and shrubs and helps to make thmgs beautrful By destroyrnvf rnsects Inj urrous to the farmer s crops he becomes a frrend of most people The busrest trme of a robrn rs rn the sprrng when he and hrs mate are gettrng ready to vo to house keeprng Frrst they look about for a place to burld then nest It must be rn a safe place rn the crotch of a low tree or sometrmes on the top of a por ch prllar Last sprrng one of these home makers chose the top of one of our porch prllars Every trme we would look out of the wrndow we would see one or both of them carryrnfr rasses and strrngs and straw Then later they brought mud and clay Frnally the mother brrd sat down among the grasses and mud and began to go around rn a crrcle In a very short trme she had her nest Hnrshed I' or days she sat on her nest and the father brrd stayed close by Pretty soon we notrced three greenrsh blue eggs Wherr we looked agam we saw three wrde open mouths The father brrd had just brought a worm In a short trme we were surprrsed to see the lrttle brrds learnrng to fly There are many tragedres rn a robrn s lrfe If the nests are not rn a sheltered place the sprrnv rarns wrll wash away the mud walls Or sometimes a bad boy wrll steal the nest or then agarn the mother brrd mrght have an accrdent Thrs evrdently happened to one of our robrns that stopped com rnvf to her nest so the eggs were left wrth no one to care for them BETTY MILES Srxllr Form Qutumn The trees are turnrnv here and there That Un es the blrds a lrttle scare The flowers are stopprnv therr constant play And gettrnv ready to tuck away Wlren wrnter comes wrth heavy snows The flowers are warm as rf rn clothes ANNE ELIZABETH GILBERT Srxth Form jlitlp 'Wanatrun I went to Lake Erre Put rn Bay and Ixelley s Island On Kelly s Island there was a rock where the Indrans wrote At Put rn Bay I went up rn tne monument and I could see all over I ake Erre I could see Canada lqhe monument looked as If rt was a mrle hrgh One of the caves was a crystal cave It was found when makrnvf a well rn the year l9ll The floor was crystal and wet Perry s cave was a bra cave and a well was rn the cave It was lake water and rt was cold LEILA CRAM Fourllr form Il ,v, I I I . . , ' za 1 1 rx u ' . ' ' . , , . ' or 9 'co ' o h - Q ' , . . 4- . . . , . . , - . ' -o .- , D o ' ' 0 . . 1 . . D , .I . . .- 3 , . . O ' D . . 5 1 , 1 , . . f , n Q 1 ' , . ., . I. I -- , -, I . D . ., . . . ,D , .. ., l . ,. , ,

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Top-Knot . 'I-hey all smoke cigarettes, 'too. Luis said his sister was seven years old and she smoked, and little kids five years old going up to each other and asking for a light. He said he had been to Balti- more. He was working on a ship when he went there. Luis said most of the people made their living by growing pineapples. ' Luis could speak Spanish and French too. He would not go away, he acted as our guide all day. He even told us he had a girl, and was going to marry her, and bring her to America to live. In the park they had music every Sunday. Out in the ocean not far from land was an old wrecked boat and its name was the Yellow- stone, and it came from San Francisco. The Azores were all in bloom when we got there. It was all green and lots of ripe pineapples. We bought five of them. ' We had artichokes on the boat about every dayf After the Azores we had nice weather, but before we had rotten Weather. They had dances every other night and it rocked so much they all fell on top of each other. I was seasick two days in two weeks. THE NEXT STORY IS ALGIERS It seemed funny to be in Africa. At Algiers we went across to land in a motor boat, but that was not much steadier than a row boat. Wheii we got on land we saw the Arabs sleeping on the sidewalk. They all wore turbans and the Turkish women all wore veils. There was about 400 kegs of wine and beer piled up in the street. The Arabs all wanted to sell their goods of course, and if you didn't want a thing at first they just kept on telling you how wonderful it was until you bought it, or if you didn't want it, then you had to use force to push them away. It was awfully hot when we got there and the pepper trees, fig trees, palm, orange, lemon, and the magnolias were out. I am buying some things every place I go, and in Algiers I bought a little book this big, that unfolded and had eight pictures of Algiers inside. I got a spoon that the Arabs made toog my brother got a silver dagger. In Algiers the houses and buildings were one uniform color. It was a whitish cream color. At the Azores and Algiers both they had beautiful gardens. The governor's guard was very grand, he was the blackest person you ever saw. He had on a red hat, and brown shirt, and blue trousers, with a gun. He hardly moved a peg all day. In the afternoon we went to the Arab quarters, the old part of town. All of their streets were not as big as our side walks, they were about 3 feet wide without one little speck of sunlight and with the awfullest smells and odors you ever heard, saw, or felt of. Their doors were a little less than half of our regular doors. There were lots of scribes by the street if you want :to call it a street. Some of the doorways were beautiful but everything else was ugly. The Vegetables were put out to sell. It was the dirtiest foodl ever saw. Next Palermo and the country around it. Even at Palermo we'couldn't just step off of the boat and be on landg we had to be rowed over. Some men came over and rowed along beside us. They thought we would like to hear Suwanee River so they started to play it, we told them to play something Italian so we were sere- naded all the way over. , ' We stayed at the Hotel Panormus. I didn't think much of Palermo itself, but I like the country around it. ' We went up to Monreale to see the church. I will send you some postals of it. It had pictures of when God first made the world and the Ark and all the Bible pretty near. It is supposed to be the most wonderful of all of the churches of Europe and I can easily see how it might. It was so beautiful you cannot describe itg you will see when you get the postals. I will send them to Mrs. Lovell to keep for her picture talks next year, because you can't get them in Italy or any other part of Sicily. I will send this off and write about the rest some other time or this will never get there. I have kept it ever since Poarmina and we are in Napoli now. Love ANNE ELIZABETH 26