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

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Compliments of Compliments of Henry iA. Waters FRANK P. TRUSSELL Contractor Builder Main Street 1 HAMILTON, MASS. We cordially invite correspond- DALEY’S ence or a call Hamilton Market Established 1811 Orders Delivered THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK Best Quality of Goods 253-255 257 Essex St. Main Street The Oldest Banking Institution HAMILTON, MASS. in Salem

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Literary Department THE “BRADLEY GIRL” QITTING in her daintily furnished sit- ting room in her aunt’s large south- ern home, Doris Bradley was musing. She wondered vaguely where she would have been if she had remained at Greenvi lle, Vermont, and if her Aunt Ethel had not made that unexpected northern journey. To begin with, Doris had been just “a plain high school girl” in a small Vermont town. As she was in her last year of school, of course, like many others she was seeking employment for the following year. But in business as well as in social activities, Doris was unsuccessful. Her friends just natur- ally passed her by when planning some social activity, because she had heard it whispered, she was just “that plain Bradley girl.” So her attempts to get into business had turned out the same way. After glancing at her rather shabby figure, numerous managers had dis- missed her saying that she was “too young” for such a position. Doris knew that they were too polite to say “a bit shabby.” “Too young,” she would think angrily to herself, “to have a position of salesgirl. Why, I am nearly nineteen.” And so it had been, while graduation drew nearer and nearer. Then suddenly, as if a bomb had exploded in the Bradley fam- ily, came Aunt Ethel’s telegram that she was already on her way north to make them a temporary visit. “Just in time for graduation,” said Mrs. Bradley to Doris after reading the telegram, “she certainly ought to be proud of you.” Doris later remarked to her reflec- tion in the mirror, as she thought of her stunning, fashionable aunt, “Yes, she’ll be proud when she learns that I am the plainest and most unpopular girl in the whole high school.” She sighed as she thought how often her mother had boasted to the neigh- bors that “her” daughter was the only one in her class who wore her hair down her back, wore cotton stockings and plain old-fashioned shoes. She, at least, was not going to let her daughter grow up into one of those “modern flappers.” Hardly had the excitement of Aunt Ethel’s telegram subsided when Aunt Ethel herself arrived. Her arrival as always created a great deal of ex- citement. She had married a wealthy banker, and had settled in the South. Since his death she had lived in the luxury for which she had craved when young. Her only regret was that she did not have a daughter whom she might “fuss over” and educate. In spite of the fact that she pretended never to notice young girls. Aunt Ethel secretly watched and admired them. Her first glimpse of Doris proved to be somewhat of a shock. She had ex- pected to see a modern, bobbed-haired girl. “Why,” she thought, “should Madeline dress her daughter in such a fashion? She had had what she wished for in her younger days.” At once Ethel began secretly to make plans ; however, after graduation would be time enough to reveal them. At the graduation exercises Aunt Ethel was the subject of curiosity in