Curtis High School - Curtis Annual Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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the news, for Dr. Franklin always said in his letters, that if ever I went to college I must make my home with them during the college period. It was a long time before Virginia told her parents of the spirit of determination she had gained from the well-known passage of Shakes- peare, and how she had made up her mind to take for her life motto, Screw your courage to the sticking point, and we'll not fail. 3 15 e sfiigigga ie, 9, d D Seventy- two

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aloud the Bible chapter for that evening, Virginia said, that was the happiest afternoon she had had for a long time. Then she bade the family good night and retired to her room. About three months later Mr. and Mrs. Summerdale were dis- cussing Virginia's education, a subject about which they had often spoken. They had intended to send her to college, but during the year before she was to enter, her father had lost considerable money through an unscrupulous partner. Virginia is so very fond of school, said Mr. Summerdale, that I feel greatly troubled because we can't give her a college education. Yes, indeed, I am also, replied Mrs. Summerdale, the way may still be opened. Virginia was always a good child, but lately she is developing a stronger and nobler character, even the children are more attached to her. I really believe that the disappointment about her college career has taught her lessons which will always be a source of help.', Several months had passed when one morning Charles came in bringing a letter for Virginia. It proved to be from her friend Ethel Monroe, asking her to come and spend the summer with her in New York. Although Virginia thought it necessary for her to stay at home and assist her mother, her parents urged her to accept the invitation. Even her brothers persuaded her to go in order to tell them something about that great city. They promised to set the table, wash dishes, sweep the floors, or anything she wished them to do. Upon her return in August she had many interesting stories of New York to tell the family. She did not regret the trip as it brought much pleasure to the whole family as well as herself. Virginia, said Mr. Summerdale one day after she had been talking in her animated way of her usual theme-New York, What do you say of going to college next term P Oh, papal really, what do you mean? I-I-almost gave up hopes of ever -,H and she cried for joy. You remember, my daughter, that two years ago my partner was the cause of my failure in business. Well, my success this year has been so great that it more than doubles the amount of mv loss last year. Owing to this, we can now afford to send you to collegef, Virginia's face flushed with excitement. She could not find enough words with which to thank her parents for this opportunity. I'm delighted to go, she said, and really I am glad now I could not go last year. The Franklins will be especially interested in Seventy-one

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IN 1930 T WAS half-past twelve when Elsie johnson hurried into her home, one of a new row of the latest model of the Edison Con- crete Houses just erected in Roseland. Her uncle had promised to take her out in his aeroplane that afternoon, and she ex- pected' to hear from him any minute. Her mother and father had just returned from the polls where they had been voting, so they had dinner, which consisted of one tablet of the Elixir of Life each. This meal no longer occupied a half hour or so, but was over in a few moments, whereupon Elsie got ready to go, when she heard the wireless telephone. It was her uncle, he would be there in a few minutes. She entered the automatic elevator and ascended to the aeroplane platform on the roof, and while waiting, looked down on the surrounding town. Down on Michigan avenue, that crowded thoroughfare, storage cell street cars were frequently passing. Over toward the southeast she could see the electric engines of both the Illinois Central and Eastern Illinois whizzing by with incredible speed on the elevated tracks. Farther north the new monorail was almost finished, and faintly in the east one could see huge lake vessels steaming in and out Calumet Harbor. What are you looking at, that is so interesting? queried a voice back of her. Oh! Uncle Jack, how you startled me! Are you ready P Yes. jump in,'l and Elsie jumped into the handsome '31 model and oft they flew. Where do you want to go, Elsie? To the.Field Museum in Jackson Park? They have many new things there. It told all about them in yesterday's evening paper. May be you would like to see preserved specimens of those now extinct species of insects, flies and mosquitoes which used to torment us twenty years ago. I should like to see them very much, having often read and studied about them in school. I don't see how such small insects as they were said to be, could cause so much sickness and death. I wonder if mosquito bites hurt very much. But let's not go to the museum today. Some other day. Today is too beautiful and sunny to spend indoors. Oh! arenlt those horses down there graceful and beautiful! How could any man ever have had the heart to use such creatures as beasts of burden P Seventy- lh ree