Hartland Academy - Ripple Yearbook (Hartland, ME)

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ll smiled happily when Alicia came in. Amy settled the question for Alicia. l'm going to get well, Miss Kent. Mother says l can go to Boston and that we can get the money somehow. Mother says that it will hurt awfully, but I don't care il' l can get well. The only reason she didnt tell me before was because she didn't want to hurt me any more. l am going just as soon as everything is arranged. Oh, Miss Kent, if it hadn't I 9 been for you l might be here in this bed the rcst of my lite. Thank y-ou, Miss Kent, and thanks for bringing the dollf, Alicia had forgotten the doll she had brought' and now formally presented it to Amy. ' All the thanks sweet sinifes ol' Everything was sure to turn out all Alicia needed was the Mrs, Luce and Amy. right. l.,yda Spaulding '-17 QQ2!Q??i'04.?'q'?222 ?i'QY?A?4??i?CQAXKXECCCQEJOQOQLYJQQCAPQEs??034ZQ'2!3!4?a 0s, 4XQ '1'l'lE C1-IIANCS OF CHINA By Elmer T. Clark Charles jones Soon was born in the village of Weichan, olf the south coast of Kwangton, a province in China, in 1886. He was born of humble parents, but Charles became great. VVhen he was only nine years old, he was sent with a brother to India. Three years later he became an apprentice in his uncle's tea and silk shop in China. Charles did not like this work. One day two Chinese students dropped in and Charles learned of the glories of Amer- ican education. I-Ie ran away and joined the Coast Cuard. One of his oilieers was very religious, and Charlie was in- fluenced by him to 'become a Christian. Charlie joined the Fifth Street Meth- odist Episeopal 'Chureh. Charlie's real name was Chiai-Chun, but in America he changed it to Charles jones Soon and made it famous. On june 9, 1881 he entered Trinity College and 'his Sunday School paid his board, the college the 1'est. He made a satisfactory record and was able to enter Vanderbilt University. I-Ie be- came a minister and preached in many s'?2?s'?'V ' VY,'s?2,'QC s?3i,'0s places in America. His outstanding characteristics were his ability to learn and to do his work Well. He had a wonderful personality, and eve1'yone liked him. His only in- terest was in becoming a Christian min- ister. A He returned to China and took up ministry -there. 'His Chinese friends did not understand him. They called him two foreign devils, a giant and a dwarf. Soon married Miss Ne Kevei- Tseng, who was also a Christian. They had three daughters, all of whom attended Wfellesley College and married famous men of China. There were also three more children, one of whom is well known as T. V. Soong, the other two daughters are not as well known in America today-Mayling mar- ried Chiang -Kai-shekg Chingling mar- ried Dr. Sun Yat-sen. T. V. :Soong at- tended I-Iarvard and graduated in 1915. Charlie was always in danger during the 'Chinese Revolution. He had estab- lished himself in Shanghai and became a good 'business man. He was a re- pected and successful business man, an educated man, and a teacher. Joanne Jamieson '50

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8 :I 4 . just as she had finally settled herself, a battered grandfather's clock went up on the Iblock. As 'the people kept bid- ding she couldn't help wondering how anyone could be so stupid as to pay such an outrageous price for the clock. A'bout the time the bidding 'began to slow down, she saw her mother come through the door. It was then that she made the unfortunate mistake of wav- ing .her hand to her mother. Soldl And, Miss -I-Ieppelwhite, I congratulate you! She had acquired a grandfather's clock for the paltry sum of a hundred and fifty dollars. Richard Randlett ,49 LITTLE AMY At the door of the old ramshackle house stood a blue uniformed girl talk- ing to a weatherbeaten -old woman. Good morning. My na-me is Alicia Kent, and I am the district nurse. I was making my regular calls in this neigh- borhood and Mrs. Lane, across the road, said that your little girl was ill. I won- dered if I could see her. Maybe I could be of some help. Oh, my little Amy is not ill. She is crippled and has to lie in bed all the time, explained Mrs. Luce, completely iiustered. But, won't you come in? She loves to have 'people call and see her. Who is it, mother?,' I heard this question from a childlike voice some- where linside the house. It's someone to see you, Amy, re- plied :her mother. I was shown into the house and into a little room with one window. but as I stepped through the door, cheeriness seemed to prevail in the room. On the bed was a little blond-haired girl with the sweetest smile that I had ever seen. Hello, Amy. I am Miss Kent and I have come to see you. ,Some of your friends said that you were ill, so I came to see for myself, T thought I might help youf' h Uh, Miss Kent, said the little girl in a voice that wrung my heart. 1 canit walk, that is all that is the matter. Doc- tors say I will never walk, but it doesn't matter. I have my friends and my petsf' l think 1 know of a little doll that would 'be just the thing for you. I am going now, 'but -tomorrow I will bring it to youf, said Miss Kent as she left thc room. Outside in the hall. Alicia asked the woman, lsn't there any hope at all? llave you had many doctors? There is only one place, -the doctors say, where my child might 'be cured, but it is out of the questionf, answered Mrs. l,.ucc in a trembling' voice. NVhcre is this place, Mrs. Luce? questioned Alicia swiftly. It is the Leahy Clinic in Boston, but it is impossible. It costs too much money and I would not have her be a charity patient. Besides, a cure isn't guaranteed. She will be in casts for months. She is used to lying in bed, because she was born a cripple. I've thought about it a lot, but I can't do itf' sobbed Mrs. Luce. 4 Mrs Luce, I know how you feel. I presume Amy doesn't know about this. Why don't you tell 'her and see what she says, Mrs. Luce? Charity is not what it used to be. She could go to the clinic and it wouldnit cost you very much, even if you paid all the bills, be- cause she could go as a trial patient for observation. Talk it over with Amy. I think you will regret it if you don't. Iill be back tomorrow and I hope you have the right answer for mc. Good-bye, Mrs. Luccf' That night Alicia prayed that Mrs. Luce would change her mind, because it tore her heart to sec little Amy lying there with that beautiful smile and not being able to get out and play like others. Bright and early the next morning Alicia was back with Amy and her mother. Both mother and daughter

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I WILL ROGERS By P. J. O'Brien WVill Rogers was born in Calemore, Oklahoma, in 1879, the son of Clement Van and Mary Rogers. I-Iis mother was Irish, with seine Indian, and his father was Indian and a mixture of Irish and French. During his childhood he learned to ride horses and learned to do stunts. In his youth he went to South America to rope cattle, and traveled around on his faIther's money until he was twenty- five. Then he settled down for a while. I-Iis education was of the high school variety and he could have had a degree from any college after he became famous. His outstanding characteristics were his smile and his unruly hair, which never would stay in place. He had a very fine personality and he had many friends. Nothing ever seemed to make him unhappy. His in- terests were polo, charities and ranching on his ranch in Santa Monica. His pet charities were the Red Cross, the Crip- pled Childreifs Home and the people that were victims of Hoods and earth- quakes. He was always happy to do anything he could for them. He started out in vaudeville, but worked himself up to being in the movies and achieved worldwide fame. After he married Betty Blake in 1908, he led a full, rich life. He loved airs planes and had many pilots as friends. It was by airplane that he was killed in 1985 while undertaking a flight around the world in the shortest time. They were fifteen miles south of Port Bar- row in the Arctic when something went wrong with the engine and they plunged to their death in the Arctic ice. Ile was noted for his good humor, his witty jokes, and for giving to the poor. The people who had hit parts in his movies were treated the same as the King of Belgium would have heen. lt was because of this that he had so 20 1- niany friends. N. Clement '50 IN A DARK GARDEN By Frank C. Slaughter The time of this story is during the Civil NVar in the United States. The chief character, a surgeon, is in Eng- land at the beginning of the war, but most of the story takes place in Aznier- ica. The surgeon is a southerner by birth but he has to make a decision he- lween helping the North or the South. 'llhc doctor 'feels it is his duty to ofller his services to the Confederacy and re- lnrns to America to do so. There he finds that the woman he married in England is an agent of the Unionisls. Before coming -to America the doctor studied in England and Europe and astonished Englandis great doctors by performing amputations without hav- ing gangrene set in, resulting in death to the patient. , The plot was mostly man against man. The surgeon and chief character, julian Chisholm, struggles with his own will in deciding which side to work for as a surgeon in the war. He marries a woman in England in hopes of forget- ting the woman he loves in America. Then he goes onto the battlefield, hop- ing to forget them both. The chief character was julian Chis- hohn, who thought more of his own dnty to his country and o'f the saving of lives than of his love affairs, which showed his nnselfishncss. He was pa- tient with other people, kind to his as- sistants and thoughtful of his lady friends. Other characters were his lady friends, one being his wife, jane An- derson. She won the doctor's love in a very indirect way. offering him money for his trip from England to America if he would marry her. The hook gave a very interesting ac- eonnt of the war and the miracles per- formed hy a surgeon. Richard Mower '47