Gardiner Area High School - Quill Yearbook (Gardiner, ME)

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THE QUILL

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I4 THE Quitt driving. All the other drivers just stayed still until we passed. It seems my new owner has a ticklish left ear. Friday, April 7: The family is just wild over me. I chased their big black cat and he 'scratched me something wicked. Re- solved: In the future never to chase Tooky, fthe thing's namej again. I ate a shoe last night. It belonged 'to the man who bought me. I-Ie paid fifty cents for seven gallons of gas and me. It seems that I had worn out my welcome. Saturday, April 8. Last night I slept with the baby. Never again, never, never again will I do that. Sheyelled in my ear all night and when I tried to comfort her the ungratef ful little thing up and whanged me over the head with a bottle. I'll get it back on her one of these days. Sunday, April 9: Had a real good time today. I got even with that baby. The fam- ily was all dressed up going visiting and I jumped on baby and landed her in the juiciest mud puddle in the yard. Then I go-t in the car and shook a few fleas on the boy, Spike He hit me with a newspaper this morning. Monday, April IO: Today I'm at peace with the world. Spring fever has got me. The lady called Ma is lying at the top of the davenport and the cat's at the foot and I'm on the side. Oh-hum! Will you excuse me while Buzz z z z. -Betty Chase, '40 MONEYA TO SPEND OR NOT TO SPEND One should be thankful that a wide expanse of ocean separates our country from others, in more than one wayg for instance, the monetary system. On several occasions and in various man- ners, I have come into possession of Cana- dian money, but I generally regarded it with little suspicion. I was not aware that it is more or less considered as black sheep. A Usually, I'd try to drop it down on some merchant's counter, surrounded by some change, and assume what I hoped was an air of innocence. just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief at having successfully palmed away the Canadian money, the merchant would pause, regard his payment critically, and then turning to me with a de- cided frown of annoyance would say, I don't take Canadian money. I would blush, and hurriedly take the dis- pleasing money from his hand and replace it with good old United States, currency. For a long time a Canadian nickel amd two Canadian pennies have cluttered up my finances, because I'm always having to figure around them. Thus, if I had thirty cents, counting thefCanadian money, I did not have thirty cents in figuring how I was going to make both ends meet. - I answered a letter to a friend, and at the same time thought I had discovered- a way to get rid of this bothersome money, and yet not feel as if I had committed some terrific social error. . Waiting my turn at the stamp window pa- tiently with the Canadian nickel resting in my impatient lingers, I decided to play safe, and so fished around for another nickel. Taking the woman's privilege of making people wait, I inquired of the post office clerk, Don,t we have some sort of trade agreement with Canada? The clerk paused, and thought seriously for several seconds, then said, Why, yes, I guess we do. 1 My spirits quickened. Ah! I breathed. Then I can give you a Canadian nickel?

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I6 THE Quiti The eyebrow went up, and that look of suspicion came into his eye. We don't take Canadian money, he snapped with a shake of his head in a most decisive manner. I quickly passed himthe familiar Indian Head nickel I had been holding in reserve, and in return I received my stamp and change. Thoughtfully I fixed my stamp to the letter and dropped it into the right slot, and turned to count my change. I had re- ceived two pennies all right, and one of them was a Canadian cent! Maybe I don't unlierstand this trade treaty with Canada. We swap our money for theirs, but what do we swap their money for? -Pauline Fuller, '41 WHAT'S WHAT IN HATS The ever-changing trend in har fashions is interesting to note, but oh, so expensive to follow! It is indeed a problem to decide what variety of hat should be worn on vari- ous occasions. There is the saucer-shaped hat that is good on rainy days, doing the double duty of catching the rain and of keeping the hair dry. On bargain days one's antelope tam with the long, darting quill might bring more satisfactory results, as its decorative spear can be used as a warning reminder to others of the danger risked in coming too near. With a quick turn of the head, or a rotating movement of the neck, one is able to keep off competition at a bargain counter until one has picked over the lot. Those latest bonnets that frame the face are really very suitable for church wear, as they hide from view many distracting incidents. Have you ever no- ticed the close-fitting turbans that spinsters wear? Well, there is a well known belief that they are worn so that every eligible male can be quickly sighted! And what is more becoming to the cross-eyed girl than a hat that dips over one eye, completely con- cealing it from sight? Then who cares in what direction it is looking? Fashions vary and change so often that it would be wise for one to get a hat that could be put to good use after it is discarded. That tall black hat would make an excellent coal hocl for fatherg seeing things in this light, he might not object so strongly to one's hat bills. Now take, for instance, those towering nightmarish creations. It is uni- versally agreed that they serve as a better protection than any big, burly policeman when one finds oneself unescorted on a lonely road. Why, no self-respecting male would come within a yard's distance of one! When the hat that resembles a modern skyscraper was introduced, no doubt the designer had our town gossip in mind and provided for more space in order that all the juicy bits of scandal might be hidden under it. Hats serve many purposes now-a-daysl -Doris Colby, '41