Hathaway Brown School - Specularia Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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CD6 Eivetfihg lbistorv ot 30ht1 Gilpin. By WiZf1'd77Z Cowpeff, 1782. Q John,', said Mr. Gilpin's wife to him one day, we have been married a great many years and never have we had a holi- day. I have been thinking how nice it would be to take a little trip to Edmonton. I shall have a chaise and take my sisters and their children so there Will be no room for you, dear john, but you can borrow a horse, and follow behind the chaise. To this plan good natured john, Gilpin con- sented, and went to order the chaise, and a horse for himself. . After many preparations all was ready, and the chaise awaited them. three doors off, not any nearer, because people would deem them proud. john having put his wife, her sisters, and their children into the chaise, went back to mount his own horse, which caused him much trouble, because the horse's back was so slippery that he could not stay on. At last he was on, all ready to start, when twang! went the bell on his shop door. Looking around, he saw three men waiting to be served. He was so wellon his horse that he at Hrst decided to remain where he was, but as pennies were of much more importance than weary bones, he dis- mounted and went to his customers. They spent a great while in looking around, but after awhile they bought what they wanted and departed. John had just mounted, when the maid called out to him that the wine had been forgotten, and John had to dismount again. He fastened the two bottles of wine on his belt, one on each side so as to make his balance even, threw a cloak over his shoulders, mounted his 'horse again, and was off for good. After he had ridden a short distance, he came upon a very smooth road, and the horse started to trot. Poor john did not know the art of trotting, so he just seized the horse's mane and bounced with all his might. The horse had never had anybody on his back that rode in that way, so he went faster for fright 3 john's hat and wig blew off, and the bottles at his side broke, and his cloak fiuttered behind him in the wind, until the button came off, when the cloak also was le' t behind. V The horse did not stop until he came to the gate of an old friend of john's, in Ware. The man was in his yard and when he saw john, he asked him to come in. Dear friend, said John, I will stop here awhile, before I ride back to my wife in Edmonton. This friend gave John something to eat and lent him a wig and a hat that were very much too large for him. john bade his friend good-bye and as he mounted his horse, he resolved that the horse should be made to go where he wished him to. But at that moment an ass brayedg this fright- ened the horse and he started off with a sudden jerk, leaving the borrowed hat and wig at the owner's gate. As john passed the Bell at Edmonton, on his second ride, he spied his wife sitting on the balcony. John, she cried, do stop your riding. We are hungryf' John gasped: So am I, and was lost to view around a corner Mrs. Gilpin pulled out a coin and gave it to a small post boy, telling him to fetch her husband back. The post-boy rode up to john and tried to grasp the horse's bridle 5 this terrihed the horse so that it set out at a dreadful rate, with the post-boy inclose pursuit. A number of men standing on the street saw them coming and called out for somebody to stop them, and away one or two of the people lied after poor john and the post-boy. The city gates were opened for him by the guard,who thought it was a race. And a race it was, won' by john Gilpin. MABEL M. MITCHELL, 1902. I5

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'T que Helene, qui a des idees plus modernes et un tres bon coeur, reconnait que Stamply a fait beaucoup plus. Elle l'aima pour cela jusqu'a sa mort et conserva sa memoire, et rappelle cela au Marquis. Sur ces entrefaites les convives vien- nent et le dejeuner est servi. Apres le de- jeuner M. Destournelles arrive et le Marquis et Raoul partent pour la chasse, Helene aussi sort et la Baronne et Destournelles restent seuls. I1 lui fait un olTre de mariage mais elle le refuse categoriquement et quitte la chambre. L'avocat est tres en colere et dit qu'il se vengera. Alors Bernard entre et les deux font connaissance. Bernard dit qu'il vent rentrer en possession de sa propriete que son pere a donnee au Marquis. Destour- nelles promet de la lui procurer et pense ainsi se venger de la Baronne, parceque son Els Raoul est le fiance d'He1ene. ACTE DEUXIBME. Apres le depart de Destournelles et de Bernard, le Marquis et Raoul reviennent, et la Baronne dit en secret au Marquis que Bernard est arrive et qu'il lui prendra sa propriete si le Marquis n'est pas sur ses g211'dGS- Le Marquis est tres etonne et ne veut pas le croire. Bernard entre,le Mar- quis le recoit avec amitie, Helene aussi est tres heureuse de le revoir. M. Destour- nelles arrive et tous se mettent fi table, avant qu'ils aient fini le repas, on apporte une lettre pour Destournelles,1aquelle lui dit de venir in Paris immediatement. ACTE TROISIBME. Pendant les six semaines que M. Des- tournelles est 51. Paris, Bernard demeure chez le Marquis qui devient son ami, Ber- nard, de son c6te, tombe amoureux d'He- lene. Lorsque M. Destournelles revient de Paris, Bernard lui dit qu'il ne prendra pas possession de sa propriete, at cause de son amour pour Helene, mais qu'il s'en ira a la guerre. L'avocat trouve cela ridicule et appelle Helene pour lui dire que .Bernard veut aller at la guerre. Elle demande at Bernard pourquoi il veut partir et enfin celui-ci lui avoue qu'il l'aime. Au mo- ment ou il trouve que Helene l'aime aussi, la Baronne entre, suivie du Marquis. Bernard part et dit it Destournelles qu'il s'en va pour toujours parceque Helene l'aime, mais qu'e1le est la liancee de Raoul. Destour- nelles lui ordonne de rester et va trouver le Marquis. ACTH: QUATRIBME. Destournelles trouve le ,Marquis et lui explique tout au .sujet de Bernard. Le Marquis est tres supris et ne sait que faire. Alors l'avocat propose que la meilleure chose e faire serait de marier Helene e. Ber- nard. Le Marquis hesite mais entin il con- sent et il appelle Helene. Cependant elle refuse de revenir sur la parole qu' elle a donnee if Raoul, qui l'aime beaucoup La Baronne et son Els entrent, parce qu'i1s ont entendu par hasard une partie de la conver- satfon entre Helene et son pere. Raoul est tres genereux et cede Helene a Bernard malgre la colere de sa' mere. Ainsi fmit la scene, tout le monde est heureux excepte la Baronne, qui voit ses projets dejoues, mais qui malgre cela, accepte sa defaite de bon coeur. KATHERINE LYMAN, '99. I 4 1 . E ik

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Q CD6 WUEQYVHHCC of SUHUHQ. The Sunday labor law commends itself to every well balanced, sound, thoughtful mind. It is a law which, if enforced, would k. prove a blessing to many a hard wor ing man and woman in Cleveland. In this glorious, free country of ours there is no necessity for the everlasting rush and money-grabbing of men. Gne of the first things that a foreigner notices on coming to this country is the continual hurry and rush, into the vortex of which he is soon drawn. Physicians say that men need one day out of seven in which to rest their minds and bodies, but the rest to' which they refer is not absolute, enforced, Pharisaical idleness. When the all-wise Father created man, He created laws to govern man, and when He said, The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, He meant it for man's good. Although Christians changed the Sabbath from the last day to the first day of the week, the principle remains the same, while the rule is even more necessary in this civilized age than it was in the primal state. A But why must soda-water fountains, candy and grocery stores, butcher shops, and, worst of all, saloons and theaters run full blast on Sundays? They do a bigger busi- ness on that day, they say, than on any other. There is much to be saidon both sides about drug and grocery stores, and butcher shops, but butcher shops need keep open for a short time only, in the early morning, for the benefit of the poor. Drug stores could attend strictly to the drug business onthat day, and so necessi- tate the employment of fewer clerks. Street cars are necessary in this civilized age, and for the poor men and women who have to work six days out of the seven in some hot, dirty sweat-shop, and live in squalid tene- ments in some wretched back street, a ride with their families into the country to breathe some of God's pure air, and to rest tired eyes on Nature's beautiful handiwork, is acomfort and blessing. ' If the people of this country would give more of their time for rest and recuperation, useful men's lives would be prolonged, the world would be more as God meant that it should be, and the people in America would not be simply bundles of nerves. Now, if thoughtful, sane people would only ignore the low-down politicians and their horde of foolish, thoughtless men, strike out for the right and see that the Sunday labor law is enforced, it would prove, not only a blessing, but a godsend to many a weary man, woman, and child. , , LILLIAN FENNER, '99. fi!-1 flDOllL1lTl6l1t mountain.- In the western part of Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills, is one mountain famous for an Indian legend. if 'William Cullen Bryant wrote a beautiful poem about this Indian legend and he called his poem Mon- ument Mountain. Many years ago, when the Indians still roved over the state of Massachusetts, and over all the eastern part of the country, 'T-ev -.- .-r,-,EQ 1-,---. i , 'i ' 1 ' ' ' WN' ' i 1 .- fx. -., .. ' If ,Jr '- x,1 ' 1 . --.'----------fa-W,-e.--.,....,,4,., 1 an -.,,,...,A:5.,, ,L-,5,,'Q3EA.,. , - -- . , , ,. wr - - , R D , d M .N x Qs NRM, V H 1, . -, V .- ,....,,,.-,.- ,4m,,.f.--L...-at .. .. . , , ' -'---Y--M ' -1 HBS there lived an Indian maiden in the beauti- ful Berkshire. Hills. When the Indian chiefs went by the hut in which she lived, they heard her merry laughter and also her bright songs. But soon she grew silent and begin to look pale. The Indian chiefs wondered at her quietness because she had usually been so happy and merry, and they sadly missed her bright songs when they 16