Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER LITERARY Marie’s Valeentine Gift............................. A Tragedy—Almost................................... 7 The Mystery of Mahmud..............................11 The Big Game...................................... ]4 SOCIETY TN MEMORIAM EDITORIALS ALUMNI NOTES ATHLETICS JOKES EXCHANGES ADVERTISEMENTS

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THE TATTLER FEBRUARY NUMBER : : 1920 PUBLISHED BY THE TATTLER BOARD CONNEAUT HIGH SCHOOL

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MARIE’S VALENTINE GIFT. The Sanctuary’s door barred an inquisitive world from the indignation meeting held by the Seniors of .Miss Blake’s School. Marie Desreau, a young French girl, had been given a room in tlie Sherridon Hall, which had been occupied previously by seniors only. Patricia French, her room mate, led the meeting which was composed of five girls, the senior class of nineteen twenty. “Friends, never before have we looked upon such an interesting audience, whose bright, sunny faces shine with repeated scrubbings with Pear’s soap,” began Patricia, assuming a Napoleonesque pose and gazing upon her chums. “Never before have I had the pleasure of addressing such a quiet and appreciative audience whose attention---’’ here her oratorical bight was checked by a pillow which had been well aimed by Miriam Lane. “Old thing,” said Miriam, “do you think that it’s going to kill you to be nice to Marie? Why, there isn't a girl here that she hasn t helped. Mary, you sponge her French every day and you know it, and I, for one, can’t see why she should be socially ostracized. “That, child, could not sink into the unfathomable depths of your brain. It is not Marie Desreau but that which put her in with me which we are endeavoring to crush and Marie must suffer because of it.” “Fiddlesticks and Geometry!” snapped Mary Kent. “Miriam, you know we are only trying to uphold the rights of the Seniors THE TATTLER Page Three