Connecticut Froebel Normal School - Yearbook (Bridgeport, CT)

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COTL'Il6Cf'iC'1lf Froebel Normal 21 Just as I finished reading this I saw fair Elizabeth standing in front of me. Quite a dignified school teacher. She was head of a fashionable school for girls and brought me out to see it. Going through the school I noticed signs posted in different places. None but f'. F. N. graduates can hold posit.ions here. I asked the reason for such signs, she said as long as she was a graduate, she should be loyal, she also knew the value of such training. While talking to her I happened to think I had not seen nor heard of Josephine Maher. Elizabeth said she had gone into the wholesale drug business. Her patent medicines were g'uaranteed to either kill or cure, but her real specialty was a. Healing Balm which she positively guaranteed to heal all cuts, except love euts. She had made quite a fortune in this enterprise. I suddenly realized that my spell was broken. Gladly I returned from a. visit to the Land of The Future, whose inhabitants were C. F. N. graduates of 1922. --Lillian 0'Leury.

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20 Year Book Glancing out State Street I noticed that something was happening, there was a. large crowd of people in the middle of the street. Not wishing to miss a trick, I followed the crowd. When the police had pushed the people back to the curb, I saw the cause of the excitement. Perched upon a soap box was Flavian Brennan, dressed in male attire, making all sorts of motions and shouting, HThis is the age for women, Down with the men. IVC women want our rights. Can you imagine our dainty Flavian in such a position? Near Broad Street I happened to see Olive Paige standing in a doorway. I received a cordial welcome from her, a sign attracted my attention. Paige 's Matrimonial Bureau. Olive brought me into her private office. I just had to stand still and look around, the walls were covered with drawings a11d pictures of her past beauxg she seemed to quite enjoy this workg to her it was much more interesting than teaching, she only tried this as an experiment and wanted to be sure that she had the right one before settling down for good and keeps to a partner for life. I asked her if she knew what became of Helen Smith. Whj', she has opened a loan office just around the corner on State Streetg she decided to try lending instead of borrowing. I-Ielen soon found out lending was a virtue, while borrow- ing was ai habit. You remember Marion VVeed, she has become a lady of leisure, has a different colored car for each and every day of the week, she made a great deal of her money dabbling in stocks and bonds and real estate in Stepncy. She linally retired to leave the teaching field open to future graduates. I left Olive because I was to meet Elizabeth Coughlin at the Stratticld Hotel at three o'clock. On my way to the hotel I purchased a newspaper. NVhile waiting for Elizabeth, I looked through the news of the day and found that Ruth Drew was the chief advertiser in the P2l.p01'. k IVanted, A Husband. ' was the beginning of her Had , followed by several columns of what he should and should not be. He should also wear knickers, jazz oxfords and a long raecoon coat, regardless of season or.how he got it: no objections to this dream man smoking cigarettes continually. In my estimation such an individual never existed. I was told that this adn had ,appeared continually for several years. It brought not a single reply or proposal. On the page opposite in big black letters I read- Mothers, Give Your Children A Chance Piano and Vocal Lessons by the Famous Mlle. Kathleen Ryan S56 Per Hour. Special attention given to small children. This conspicuous ad proved that Kathleen made good use of her talent.

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22 Year Book Most Popular ..... . Biggest Optimist .... Czitest ............ Cleverest .. Noixiest' . . . Qufietest ..... Best Dancer . . . Fastest Talker . . . Slowest Talker .. Most Digirijietl .. Biggest Flirt .... Biggest Talker Best Look-ing .... Wei t tiest ....... Biggest Fusser .. CHARACTERISTICS Most Basliful ........... Best Coiwersat-z'onal'ist ..... Best Dispositiovzed . . . Best Vocalist ....... fllost Lacly-like .... Most Ctl.flf7 l7lf'I PliQ .... Most Energetic .... IQ:1.zi'e.st Biggest Movie Fan .... Easiest J allied ...... Biggest Blujfer . . Best lllusieiaiz. . . . Best Sport ........ Biggest Ma-11-Hater . . Most' Artistic ...... Biggest Joker . . . Best Dressed .... Biggest Giggler .... Class Baby ...... . Best Story-Teller . . . . S71 gest .......... . . .Olive Page . . . . . .Elsie Clark ..........Olive Page Elizabeth Coughlin . . . . . . .Elsie Clark . . .Lillian O'Leary . .Flavian Brennan . . . . .Helen Smith . . .Lillian O'Lea.ry . . .Lillian Drew . . . . .Ruth Drew . . . . .Elsie Clark . . . . .Lillian Drew . .Josephine Maher . . . . .Marion King . . . . . . . . .Ruth Young Elizabeth Couglilin . . . . .Marion Weed . . . .Cathleen Ryan . .Flavian Brennan . .Josephine Maher Elizabeth Coughlin . . . . . . .Ruth Drew . . . . .Marion NVQ-eil . . . .Lillian Drew . .Helen Smith . . .Cathleen Ryan . . . . . . .Ruth Drew . . .Lillian 0 'Leary . . . . .Elsie Clark . . .Olive Page . . .Lillian Drew . . . . .Ruth Drew . . . . .Olive Page . . .Marion King . . .Cathleen Ryan