Hamilton High School - Hamiltonian Yearbook (South Hamilton, MA)

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THE HAMILTONIAN Vol. 1 HAMILTON, MASS. JANUARY, 1919 No. 3 Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief, MASON COOK, 19, Associate Editor-in-Chief, GERTRUDE SCULLY, 19. Business Manager, CHARLES PETERSON, 19. Assistant Business Manager, ROBERT TRUSSELL, 19 Current Topics : Spectator Military and Sporting Social Editor Exchange Fads and Fashions Domestic Science Manual Training Commercial James McGinley, 19 LITERARY EDITORS: Richard McGinley, ’20, Francis Moynihan, ’19 Eleanor Scully, ’21 Robert Trussell, ’19 Ruth Perley, ’21 Gladys Mann, Fannie Foster, ’20 Maud Burrows, ’22 Einar Johnson, ’22 Franklin Holland, ’20 ’21 Nora Gorman, ’22 Ethel Poole, ’19, DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS: CLASS REPORTERS: Mabel Grant, ’20 Bradley Fuller, The Hamiltonian is published monthly by the Hamilton High School. Yearly subscription, $1.00 By mail $1.10 Single Copy 15c Single copies may be obtained at Knowles’ Drug Store. Address all communications to Business Manager of “The Hamiltonian”, So. Hamilton, Mass. THE CONTENTS POEM — JANUARY Henry W. Longfellow STORIES— MADEMOISELLE MYSTERIOUS Lyndall M. Miller, ’20 “YVONNE” By permission of a Senior THE RED CROSS DOG Maud Burrows, ’22 MY FRENCH ADVENTURE Eleanor Sculley,’21 THE LIFE OF 1918 Anonymous SHIELDING A CULPRIT Ethel Poole, ’19 COURAGEOUS JOE Anonymous THE FRESHMAN PARTY R. McGinley, ’20 BITS OF DESCRIPTION- SPORTING AND MILITARY CURRENT TOPICS AND ALUMNI NOTES F. Moynihan, ’19 DEPARTMENTS— SOPHOMORE CHARACTERISTICS “Doc” EDITORIALS GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB CLASS NOTES FADS AND FASHIONS Fannie Foster, ’20 EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT Ethel Poole, ’19

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JANUARY Janus am I; oldest of potentates! Forward I look and backward, and be- low. I count — as god of avenues and gates — The years that thru my portals come and go. I block the roads and drift the fields with snow, I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen ; My frosts congeal the rivers in their fiow, My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. MADEMOISELLE MYSTERIOUS Chapter 1— The Voice of the Battlefield. Marie Duplessis had disappeared. She, the famous French prima-donna, the idol of all Paris! Where had she gone? No- body knew, for she had left no clues. Detectives were put on the trail, but with- out success. No traces of her could be found. She had just slipped away from the stage and her devoted admirers. All Paris talked about it. Her brother Gene was told the terrible news by a fellow poilu as he lay convalescing in a rest camp. Her fiance, Rene Dupre, was heart broken, and, after waiting for two long weeks, which seemed like years to him, he enlisted, as an aviator. They called him “L’audacieux”, which means “the Dare- devil”, for his courage could not be equalled, and his happiness was never greater than when engaged on some dan- gerous mission. While all his comrades were “going West,” he was coming out of all his engagements without a scratch. In fact, he seemed immune from danger. People said he was queer, because he still believed that Marie Duplessis had gone away of her own accord. He thought that she was alive, and would, some day, come back to him. People told him that this theory w ' as absurd, but he stubbornly clung to his own opinion. Meanwhile, where was this idol of the stage? She had gone to her manager’s for a rehearsal, and had never returned. Her friends mourned her as dead, and her manager. Alee Dupont, had offered great sums of money for information as to her whereabouts. She was to have taken the title role in the “Maid of Bautreux” which was to have been staged only two weeks after the date of her disappearance. Posters were put out describing her appearance, but this seemed a futile pro- ceeding, for had she not been known to the whole population of Paris ? Her sweet, strong voice was heard no longer in the theatres, and others took her place in the theatrical world; but some people there were who could not forget the gracious Mademoiselle Duplessis. Her manager, not being satisfied with the efforts of the de- tectives, sent to England and employed men from Scotland Yard, at great ex- pense, but without avail, for the ease baffled them. So Marie Duplessis was soon forgotten, except by those faithful few of her friends who prayed for her safe return. He was just a wounded poilu, but, as he lay on the battlefield, he heard a voice singing, faintly at first. There was a lull in the fighting, and the voice then rang out loud and sweet and clear, “Peace on earth, goodwill to men.” Then it stopped. His heart was beating wildly. He had heard that voice before, 2