Girls High School - Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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IN MEMo1uAM MISS ELLEN SIMPSON, for twenty-two years a teacher in the High School for Girls. A cultured gentlewoman, she gave years of faith- ful and loving service to the inspiring of a love of the beautiful. As an individual and as an instructor. she was ever ready to proiier the hand of aid and the voice of sympathy io all who needed it. A 9

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Miss Alma S. Dumn Ari Miss Evelyn M. Ancona Domestic Science ,.-'ft ' ' . 'x 'Z-,,'11i.a'11.ii5fg' ' .. - :.,1,,. Miss Cora M. Deck English L ,- Miss Laura J. Doyle Commercial Branches The New Teachers for 1914-1915 8

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The' :White Rose Mary E. Potts DEEP in the valley, closely guarded by higli IS' gg mountains, lay the little village ot B-, the prettiest and quaintest in the country for miles around.. At least, so declared the tourists who, on their way to the fashionable watering towne farther north, deserted the beaten track traced by wealth and luxury, and stopped tor a cort- kqg ff'-5? f'x X tortahle night at its untreqtzentcd doors. They loved its tiny white cottages with thc green .roots and shutters carrying out to perfection the cool color scheme of the neat front lawns Jji2iTii -' with their immaculate white fences, they loved - A -'tw the sparkle of the clear waters of the wayward stream, which, fed by a cold, blue mountain glacier, swished and foamed not a hundred yards tronr the very gardens in which grew the greatest attraction of all-the multitude ot roses. Not a cottage, but was surrounded by them, not a garden but fairly burst with its burden of velvet petals. From the trailest bud to the most pertect full-blown rose, they ranged--in color from the pink of it delicate coral to the glory of a royal crimson. The tourists marveled at the beauty of it all and listened attentively to the tale told of the eccentric old mayor, who oticred yearly a prize for the rose most perfect in every detail. They heard vague rumors of the old manis young nephew, a lad of some ten or twelve summers, who had lately come to live in the great gray house on the mountain side, and who was this year to choose the winning rose and pre- sent the prize. The old men ot the village shook their heads dubiously when they repeated the tale. lt did not seem right that so much responsibility should be placed on such young shoulders, and they wondered that the mayor should have it thus. But it was not for them to murmur, and if the mayor considered the boy equal to the task, well and good. ln the garden ot the grim silent house on the hill, on the evening before that day ot days for the simple peasants of B-, the mayor and his nephew were talking. The sky was dark and ominous, with heavy clouds gathering closely around the rugged peaks of the mountains, covering their jagged tops lege-53' ,rears aE',r . is ,AJ -ff'-' gi' ., . , .,' -2.15, H., , , 4. .:l -wt.. v ,-,, , . , if ri' 1 's ---'1.l4'. -'-111. .6- fx- s L .'.7' 5' 'r . -'- in .. '- ,LP , . .. - .':u.a?r 'N,f- ..'.-'1'-- ,-if A .-1-'1.'x ' ', 3 ' --' '4 - iw, ,.. , ', fre 1 .. . ,. ,-, 'f '--gff... ,-f '-'f -' if 'f. : , ttgw.. gg:-,,,j.,a, 15-,.', ,,z,4,-31,125 gl, 4. ,-A .5 f --- '1T.-- .. .1 ,da - -'fu'-.fgff-f,-3 1 mia... . J , ,.'..44 ly. -1' :-:-- 1 1'.- D 7-..-..- ' r ' ' : ' AJ'-L -v '-' 'G r N.. :!ii ' . 5,-fn gif , -' f .faq-' -- ,-.fr -4 125.5 Qgj:fi:f'.vi:a':-, ' T ,- - f ,y'v'5 . '4 ,Iff-'T' 7...f - 115.-11-rff! .l79'I-' . f ..9'i: fi- Qwfff. ,, 72.-vigil'-Q1-L-5 az -5 1 -- V5-.'f fjtiifl F-5 ' 'f X '7'x ?i'- ar-1:-,'-'-Aff-:':2!'4f, ii ' - fi f--1. l'1'1: - - . N-SQL -1 Ht SEP.. ':3'f.L-L--- ses- gi .. . fe-rs-11 swiss? : ':':4'? 'f:.f-, s .1 4: iatklriif ,f ,. 'fQQ?:'f1s--. ..X bif- ' '1-' '- A . Q- Simi'-J.r: ffl- 4 -fa -1-H-ts:-wr. 371. TF A' ' 'f'.I'2L3:s:.rL'241v1jifi',': - tl ' 1' -'few-- Z 5.-- --' F' N 'vga '-.La V--1 ru. T as with an invisible mantle. The man spoke tirst: We will be having a storm soon, my boy, he said, and his voice, deep and low, yet with a certain harshness, was like the thunder which even then rumbled threateningly overhead. The boy nodded. l-le was a frail little chap with great brown eyes in -vhose sott depths there now lingered an expression of timidity that was almost fear. . 10 .