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

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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

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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-Knot The Ulirees Every tree has its good, Some for shelter, some for food, The trees for food give to you Apples, pears, and cherries too The tree for shelter builds Houses, barns, work shops, and millsg Every tree has its goodg Some for shelter, some for food. CAROL lVloR'roN BARRICKLOW, Third F or-m. jliilp 'triatatiun This summer, I went to Michigan. My aunt has a cottage up there. I would go in swimming every afternoon. After I went swimming, I would take our canoe, and paddle over to Indian River. We had our meals over there. One day while we were eating, we all smelled smoke. All at once it got so strong we all had to go out, and when we got out, the hotel was starting to burn. They just had to let it burn to the ground because there wasn't any fire department. Our cottage caught on fire in the night once, but some of the men put it out with the hose. It started from our big lire in the front room. One morning I went fishing by myself, and I never dreamed I would catch a fish. All of a suddenfthere was a great jerk at my line. I just thought it was weeds. I pulled it up, and nearly drowned myself trying to get it in. It was a great big black bass. BETTY W1LL1ARD, Fifth F arm, I My Zllinur in QEurupr I left New York May l, l922, to buy for the john Wariamaker store. My journey on the boat was very interesting. After landing in Queenstown I went to a number of villages and bought hand-made linens and thread laces. From Ireland I sailed to Liverpool by way of Belfast. Then I went to Sheffield, wherel bought some cutlery. Of course I would not go to England without seeing London. I saw Westminster .Ab- bey, Tower of London, Parliament Buildings, and London Bridge. I bought books, jewelry, and other manufactured goods. Wishing to see the land of the midnight sun, I sailed for Norway, landing on the western coast. The wonderful Northern Lights were far beyond my expectations. A few dairy products are shipped from Norway, but the best products are found in I'-Ibllandg therefore I went there. I landed in Rotter- dam, where I went to the southeast till I came to the boundary between Holland and Belgium. I was on'the train part of the day before coming to Brussels. I had never seen such fine and deli- cate pieces of lace before. Of course I could not pass them without buying some. As I did not have much time I did not see many things, although I did see some statues. I slaved in Brussels all night. Then I took the train early in the morning for France. I found the French people very industrious. As I traveled along on the train, I saw many wheat fields. Finally I reached Paris. My, what a large yet beautiful city! There were people selling flowers and vegetables. While I was there I visited Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Tomb of Napoleon, Arc de Triomphe. Boulevards, Place de la Concorde, the Tuileries, Grand Museum, and the Art Gallery of the Louvre. 27