Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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BIXLER, ESTHER Little Essie was the picture of domestic comfort as she was Wheeled along, hugging with both arms a prettily dressed doll to Which she was talking affectionately. She makes all its clothes herself, though so young, and they always combine taste and neatness. She has been fed on con- densed milk, and it was as a consequence of this that she received a prize for her plumpness. BRIGGS, EDA W'hen a certain worthy body of men and women called tt The Faculty H came to view the parade they one and all smiled sweetly upon this promising infant. They nodded their heads and predicted that that child would amount to something in the world. In fact, although Eda is a rather unobtrusive infant, it takes no one Very long to discover that there is most decidedly tt something doing in her little brain. BROWN, ELIZABETH tAdOptedJ Have you ever sat and listened to the college babe Who talks? Oh, her tongue. it is hung, on its lubricated hinges; And it gallops, and it trots, and it canters, and it walks, Like a Texas bronco pony through a field of sorghum stalks.

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BAXTER, LIARTHA Such a toddler! Always stumbling along but always getting there just the same. She never could, like all the other babies, jump rope or hang by her toes from a point in mid-air, or turn somersaults backwards, or jump through the rings while riding horseback. However, she knew her alphabet better than the others, and often made bright little speeches that delighted her friends. BELT, ALICE Poor Alice! Our babies have had many tumbles in their lives, out of their high chairs or cribs, or down the back stairs, but a worse accident than any of these was Alice,s fate. It seems that one day while no one was looking, the poor, unoffending babe fell in love. It is feared that she will never recover from the shock, but will suffer from an affection of the heart all through her life. BENSONy MILLIE Little Millie was our baby, Grown up Millie is a mermaid, But shels grown so terrible fast, And we're sorry that ltis so, That we scarcely now can reconcile For a mermaidls not permitted The present with the past. Inhthis famous baby show. 24

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BUOY, HELEN Helen has been having h such a good time lately playinga little game. It is a very old game, in fact it goes all the way back to Adam and Eve, and is just for two. If you ask her perhaps she Will tell you its name. I CARIVHNE, FLORENCE Charity, charity, charity Chatterbox! By naturey ,tis true, ymfre a wonderful paradox; Lenned and foolish, grave and gay, Attired now in bright, now in sombre array, Dignitied 0r impudent, fresh as the May, Then a bit prudish, fun cast away, And a prize goes to you, were all glad to say. for the versatile whims of your infantile play. CASPARI. NINA One hesitates before saying h oo-ittle tootsie wootsie w to the child who is wheeled along by a German nurse, and in a Carriage decorated with the flag of her Fatherland. The little miss already. at the age of four, speaks in three languages, and if the spectator thought of it he might exclaim with her wondering friends: H' Du hist ein XVuudersehnW