Harcum College - Purple Patches Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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Turple Taiches qJO6772.S' by BETTY DAVIS I wonder why we rnaldens plead Wlth Love to come and llfl us rest And deck our empty hearts w1th wreaths For hun who 1S no gentle guest We cannot smlle wlthout thls Love And 5 et when we belleve us blest VVe keep the nlght awake w1th slghs For LOX e IS not a gentle guest Dearest whX do I loX e X ou I llke brown eves and X ours are grey Are rnlsts of grev and speak love words That l1ps l1ke yours could never say I hke curled ha1r and yours IS stra1ght Is Stl a1ght and straggles down vour brow That IS so pale Oh Whv does fate I alwaX s felt that Is would loX e A man whose hand were b1 own and strong Were strong enough to grasp the earth But yours are th1n and whlte and long There IS no strength 1n them I know They do not want to hold the world Dearest I do love X ou so But Whv? QA Torzfrazt A broad straw hat Wlth velvet band A plnafore of blue A wee pug nose Wlth freckles crossed Llke leay es all specked YV1tl'l dew Two neat brown bra1ds stra1ght down the back The would be curls alas' A broad proud grrn as rf to say I III ten gears old and past BECKY TARWATER we l- 4 5 , . I 7 . 7 , . p , 7 ' . y , J 1 by P U I J S Uv , . , m Torce me to love you so? 7 7 1 9 f I , X , f ' , 'Q 7 . 7 r X , L , 3 I I 7 5 . , . 3 9 3 CC 7 Y 99 , .

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Turple Tcztches The Loneliness of Tuck f C ITANIAU and Oberon,'-the very words suggest moonlight nights, silver wings, soft music and toad-stools. But Puck makes us think of a delightful mingling of a dew-drenche bank of cowslips and a blue bowl, full of cream, on a warm hearth, in other words, all the fascinating beauty of fairy-land, . with just a touch of common mortality, so slight a touch, and yet so charming! This, to me, is the loveliness of Puck. What a figure this Puck must have been in the court of King Oberon, as he stood in the center of a fairy ring telling of his mischievous experi- ences during the day, making the little king laugh until the courtiers feared he would split his royal vest! Yes, Puck must have had a delight- ful sense of humor, which is quite unusual for fairies, for although they are always gay, they really have nothing to laugh about. But it would be very unfairy-like not to be happy and so like us mortals, they just are. But Puckis gaiety is a really true appeal to the sense of humor, more human than fairy-like. ' We shall never forget his merriment over his mistake in putting the juice of a certain herb, given him by Oberon, on the eyes of the wrong lover, thus causing a most serious entanglement of heart-strings. This however, was a very convenient mistake, for without it, there would have been no plot and a play without a plot has not yet been invented! But Puck could never allow this sad situation to be overdone, and so with his comforting words: Jack shall have Jill, Naught shall go ill, The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well, the sad lovers are placed again in their right channels, and all ends well, thanks to Puck! As a household fairy, he must have been a gem! Think of plac- ing a bowl of cream by the hearth, and going to bed with the satisfaction of knowing that by morning one's corn would be threshed and in the barn, or one's house swept clean-all for the price of a mere bowl of cream. j Yes Puck, we love you best, because you so delightfully mingle the beauty of far-off fairy-land with a taste of mortality. You fas- cinate us with the curious quaint combination of fairy loveliness and house-wife carelessness, when you say: I am sent with broom before, , To sweep the dust behind the doorf' - ' BECKY TARWATER. 11

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Turple Tatchesi The Gomniutersf' a' HE Main Line paraphrase of the hackneyed proverb The Early Bird Catches the WOPH1,,, from the observations of a casual observer, might well be 'iThe Quick-Stepper Catches the Train. i' From seven--fifteen until nine every morning, commuters need not refer to their Walthams for the correct time. They need only glance through the window and, by the momentum of the people going toward the sta- tion, accurately judge the time. One or two ambling along the street indicate that it is a quarter after or a quarter before the hour, for they are the early birds. If the strollers are in closer formation, it is five minutes later. At twenty- Hve after or five minutes of, acceleration has set in and although no one is trampled on in the onslaught of black derbies and brown Stetsons, the kisses left at the cracks of the door are hasty-or entirely forgotten. Three minutes of ever increasing momentum pass while a friendly game of leap-frog is played along every curb, each commuter sincere in his desire not to be the one after the last to hop on the approaching Paoli Local. The ranks and files are thinning now and the ex-Olympians hold full sway. The train at the station is their goal. Not until the Peep- Peepi' of the starter,s whistle, do they display any indications of early training as short-stops in the Inter-Backlots Baseball Leaguef' The one after the last to board the 7:29 train finds himself it,' and the game begins again. Train chasers have no confidence in timepieces. Mr. Trotter may swallow his coffee with his eye on Big Ben but if he sees '6Miss Always- there pass by, he relaxes his vigil confident that he need not drain his coffee cup as one would who is the owner of an asbestos-lined throat. Should Mrs. Trotter, who is on sentry duty, announce that Jack Mara- thon has cleared the railing of his porch, Mr. Trotter overturns his chair in his mad rush, kisses his wife as he would a dead relative, and enters the mad race. In the evening the scene shifts to the city and everything is much the same except the amount of danger involved! There is not as much room in the city as in the suburbs, for racing, and, for some unexplain- able reason, the traffic cop is generally against one. If Mr. Trotter has paid the last premium due on his insurance policy, he blithely leaps over a few 'cyellowsi' and with his free hand holds back a persistent Ford. Otherwise he stands at City Hall until a sufficient crowd of similarly disposed people have collected, and together they charge across to the 5:13 express. - KATHERINE KEELER. 13