Hathaway Brown School - Specularia Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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spect for Admiral Dewey that in a11OthGI year she will make it a holiday. Not only has he destroyed the Spanish fleet and brought Dewey day, but he has caused many very important changes, of which he is probably not conscious g for now our little boys wear Dewey suits, and boys and girls alike drink Dewey frappe. Many poeI11S also have been written about him, one of which is: . Dewy was the morning upon the first of May, Dewey was the admiral's name that sailed Manila bay, Dewy were the region's eyes, them orbs of royal blue, And do we think we are afraid? I do not think we do. Perhaps you would like to know of some other results of the war. Well, ever since the destruction of the Maine, men smoke Sigsbee cigars, and at every circus we see the six survivors of the Maine. Besides, we have Hobson kisses, and some people are fortunate enough to own a Sampson calendar. You are not in it unless you use regimental blue or military gray note paper. They are just the thing! There is another question which we all hope will be settled, Whether the beef was embalmed or not. The cattle out in the West are now holding indignation meetings to decide it. It is to be 'hoped that they will soon determine it, but if they do not, we shall leave it for you to determine yourself. 5' 9 9' - X, W rf r 1 .. WHAT one shall do after graduation is always the great question all through one's academic course. A girl starts out with a vague idea that she rnust go somewhere, to some college or finishing school, but where, she does not know. Catalogues and circu- lars are sent for, examined and compared, and she settles on some college. just then some friend or teacher comes along and tells of some fine school she has heard about, or of some good college that her daughter or friend attends, and the poor girl begins to feel that she does not care much about going at all. What use is it anyway? Four years of hard study just to make one feel' that one knows nothing! Then she hears of a party of friends who are going abroad, and in her despair over choosing a school, she determines to go with them, and so good bye to her college career and the finishing school. As a rule, however, I thin-k the majority of girls go to college, though it is a large minority which go to finishing schools. .If one settles on a college at the beginning of one's academic course and then sticks to the decision, one is not troubled by the idea of colleges which other people think arelfiner. Unless a girl really cares for study,she should never go to college 3 a finishing school, or travelling is much better. - Schools and colleges are-steadily increas4 ing, but wherever a girl goes, whatever col- lege or school she enters, she can always get some good out of it, for she cannot help having her views broadened and her sphere of iniiuence and usefulness widened., T A X 4 C . af Y 1 XE, gy ' . ..- Q -.- -' '--V --A V.. ,. ,, , U p -ii- ii' MHZ- 'rv 1 Y W

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could find no better reason or excuse for Sir Roger's hurry to leave them on his last visit, than that he hastened to bestow his gift and deck the lady he admired. Sir Roger reddened and stammered, and then said that he could stay longer with his friends on this visit and thus passed it off. He never again referred to the matter. Whether Sir Roger ever offered his gift, or whether, in offering it, he was taken with one of those attacks which he has mentioned, of silent amazement and admir- ation in the presence of this beautiful and perverse widow,-attacks in which she delighted, -these questions have always been unanswered among his friends. However, it is known that the old knight never parted with his intended gift, but treasured it as tenderly as a woman would, with several other mementoes of his early love. After the old knight had passed away, this brooch was found among his effects, the covering somewhat soiled and the brooch itself somewhat tarnished and dulled, but still packed carefully in the jeweler's box. Strange, some one remarked, that it was not sent with the other jewels as a last gift when the knight was preparing to die. FLORENCE W. SHEHAN, '99. ir No. 637. FRIDAY, DEC. 24, 1714. Having no spare time to write anything of my own, I have thought ht to publish the following letters:- UMR. SPECTATOR: As I have noticed in many numbers of your paper your articles on the petty follies of the times, I thought to advise you of one thus far overlooked. There is a habit which is almost universal among the beaux of the town of going to places of worship, churches generally, for nothing but to stare young ladies out of countenance, and by so doing, to annoy exceedingly those who are not of a coquettish turn of mind. As I am blessed with some little outward appearance of beauty, it has been my mis- fortune to be much annoyed by a Certain young fop who is so very ill-mannered as to- pay no attention to the services, he spends his entire time trying to make me appear as ill-bred as to gaze back at him. Co- quettes might feel highly pleased by this kind of uncalled-for attention, but this epis- tle is from V ' ONE wr-Io IS Nor A COQUETTE. P. SQ It would be a great kindness to many young ladies besides myself, Mr. Spec- tator, 'if you would tell the beauX that we go to church to worship, and not to be the object of their undesirable attentions. V I am, sir,?' etc. UMR. SPECTATOR: ' Iam a young gentlemen of a good fortune and sufficient good looks to be quite a beau among the ladies, but I may say with pride that, instead of being, 'forward and bold, I am, on the contrary, quite bashful. Indeed, I blush on all occasions. Now, certain young belles who desired my fortune, be- cause I would not offer it to them, with my heart and hand included, have taken occa- sion to avenge themselves by coming to the place of worship -which I quite regularly- attend g by their continuous and bold glances, they seek to attract the attention of others to my good looks. .Since I am bash- ful, as I have said before, their constant re- gard confuses me, and I blush painfully, in accordance with their aim, fornimmediately upon seeing me redden, they begin ia most unmannerly giggle, after the fashion of school girls, and not at all according to the usages of good society. Whether it be their object to call attention to my bashfulness or not, certain it is that that is what they accomplish, for other young ladies are fol- lowing their example, and soon the clergy- man will forbid me the church, which wguld be a great loss Therefore, Mr. Spectator, I call your attention to these unmannerly d0iUgS Of 3'OUUg women, with the hope that 6