Cony High School - Coniad Yearbook (Augusta, ME)

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8 THE CONY CUE GETTING ALONG WITH COUSIN JAMES I had heard a great deal about my IHOIIICIJS cousin blames and I must confess that I never heard very much good about him. He was very quarrelsome. He thought what he said would settle the question and he didnlt like it if any one else made known his opinion. Wlieil my spring vacation came, as my brother had the measles, it was arranged for me to go to Cousin James for a week. It certainly did not look very pleas- ant to me. Cousin James met me at the station and on the way he contradicted every thing I said and he even suubbed me when I expressed an opinion. I had never met his wife and when she same to the door, her face full of smiles, I wondered how she could seem so cheerful. That week was one of the most important parts of my going to school for I was all the time studying, trying to see her way of getting along with Cousin James. It really was wonderful the way she did it. WVhenever he said a kind thing or did something nice for some one, there would be a little look of pride come over her face. He would look surprised to find himself so much admired. It was only that she kept looking for and seeing the best things in Cousin James that she could over- look the disagreeable things. By the end of the week I never admired a person so much as his wife. The funny part of it was after I got back to school I began to try her way of getting along. I think that if you try to see anyone's good points and not so much of their weak ones you can get along with them, even Cousin James. Susie NVaugh, '19. THE LESSON THE POSTER TAUGHT It was a warm afternoon and Mary was sitting in her seat, angry because the teacher had reported her bacl-:. As she sat there she began to wish there was something else in life to do besides studying. just inside the door of the room was a large Salvation Army Poster with the words on it, A Man may be down but bets never out. This poster seemed to attract Mary's eye, she thought it funny she hadn't no- ticed it before. How lovely the woman looked holding the child. As May looked at this her thoughts drifted to the fields of France. She had had three brothers in the war and they all had returned home. All the stories they had told her of the Salvation Army came back to her now. I-Iow they gave the boys tea, coffee, doughnuts and tobacco, when they came from the trenches. I-Iow May wished she could do something for them besides giving money. Soon all the cares of school life had left her and she was far away in dreamland where she could hundreds of Salvation Army Lassies making doughnuts and coffee for the doughboys. As she was Cl1'CZl111lIlg thus, she seemed to hear a voice say, Mary, why were you so saucy to your teach- CContinued on page 123

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:Application as second-claus mall matter pending Vol. VI june 20, 1919 No. 4 HOW TO ENJOY SCHOOL At the beginning of the year, many students find school a little flat, and slow after the lively and varied employments of the vacation. If they settle down to faithful work, they soon become interested in their studies, and enjoy again the familiar experience of wondering where the morning has gone 3 so swiftly have the hours flown hy. The strife for excellence is the secret of enjoying labor. A plow- man who draws his furrows straight deep and clear, has a tranquil pleas- ure in doing every one of them, and when the field is finished he surveys the rippled surface with pride and satisfaction. To pass ten hours a day in plowing badly is a most un- happy lot. To pass ten hours a day in plowing as well as plowing can be done by man is a very cheery and pleasant thing. Students have a similar happiness in their occupation-so varied is it. and so full of natural interest. But it is dull and wearisome enough un- less it is pursued with intelligent zeal and worthy ambition to excel. A teacher in olden times could tell which of his pupils enjoyed doing their sums by just glancing at their slates. A very clean slate was a good sign. Then look at the great sum in long division. Observe how clear, even and regular in form it is, and what a pleasing contrast it pre- sents between the dark blue of the slate and the pretty white figures! Above all it is right! The young mathematician has executed the task so well that he must have been un- conscious of the flight of time. Excellent work is done under- standingly. Every student who has puzzled his brains over an author or a subject that was too hard for him, knows what is meant by this. How- ever, some may have made the mis- take of beginning a difficult subject a few years too soon, or they have tried, on entering a new school, to join a class that was a little in ad- vance of them. XVhat dull and dis- couraging work it is! The usual result of such an experi- ment is that the student gives up in despair, and never masters the study. The better way is to wait, and to take the subject in hand when one or two more years of work have brought the mental faculties to the requisite de- gree of power. Then the chances are that the same book will prove a delight. Therefore, if you would enjoy your school-work next year, strive hard for excellence, and learn noth- ing by rote. Put heart and mind into all you do. If any particular study is peculiarly distasteful, do not resolve to hate it but reflect that it may just now be a little beyond your faculties and should you take it up at exactly the right time. it may be here- after your favorite study. Louise Fifield, ,2O.

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T1-113 CONY CUE 9 Schoo 1 Directory Facility Fred J. Nash .... ..........,... Principal lflvelynu. ll. liutman ............. French 4' Emma S. Day .... .. .Latin and History Nancy B. Farris ............ Mathematics Bertha B. Hardy ........... Steuography Doris M. Haskell. .... .. .linglisln French Medora E. D. Kinne .......... . . English Marjorie I.. Lee ............. Typewriting Elinor Newman. . . .ll'lathematics, History E. Smith ........ ........ . . .. . . .English Grace O. Smothers ......... Bookkeeping Mabel A. Strom.: ........... Mathematics Clinton ll. Thompson. .Science, Athletics Alice M. Viekery ......... Latin, English XV. Pride .......... . .Meeh. T Paul Thoxnas ..... Drawing . .. .. .. ...History Marion M. 'lfhyng .... ....... D rawing Leila IC. 'l-lunton .......... .... S owing Blanche Vtfebster ............... Cooking Doris NVilder .......... Physical Training Gladys A. Whitmore .......... ...Music ' First semester. T Second semester. Baseball Vernon Soule .... . ....... ..... C aptain Stanley Colburn .... ............ ik 'lanager Track Team Frederick Kenny. ,....... . ...... Captain Carr Kennedy ................. Manager Girls' Track Team Alice Sterling' ................... Captain Mabel Strong' ..................... Coach XVireli-sea Association Franklin Patterson ............ President Senior Class Stanley VV. Colburn. .. ........ President Number of pupils enrolled ..... Junior Class: .......74 Norton Illummer ........ ...... P resident Number of pupils enrolled ............ 62 Sophomore Class Howard Owen ................ President Number of pupils enrolled .... ....... 1 04 Freshnmn Class Sylvester Poor ................ President Number of pupils enrolled .... ......123 Total number ot' pupils in school. .. .383 EDITORIAL This is the last number of the Cue for this year and we hope that it will continue its present success. If the students support it, as they should, by subscribing and by contributing material, it cannot fail. but if they do not its publication must inevitably cease. Our parting message is, Boost the Cue next year. The success this year is, in a large measure due to, first: XfVi1lard Strong, who has performed in an efficient and painstaking manner the duties of business managerg second, to Edward Handy, who as assistant editor, has been an invaluable aid, third, to Theodora Barentzen who has contributed exceptionally good articles and who has. by her care in editing her department made our work easierg fourth. to Miss Strong, our faculty adviser, who has cheer- fully and accurately corrected all work and given much attention to many details which go to make a magazine successfulg fifth, to Mr. Thompson, who has made the athletic department a real report of games, and sixth, to Miss Lee who has kind- ly taken the no small task of type- writing every article for the press. VVe extend our sincere thanks to eachg and also, to all others who have in any way helped. Editor.