Highland Park College - Piper Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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l --rg I - ' 5' I F if-4' ' , 4 J ' ua A don't know what to think of it. Can't say anything definite, but one thing sure, her bereave- ments have not succeeded in turning her gold hair to silver grayf, The girls are going to add u children's show room to their establishment in the near future and Jeanette Mitchell will go over soon to advise on that. You know she demonstrated the baby layette and child dressing so nicely back at old Highland that she will be great at this. Besides, the practical experience she has had with her own four children will make her a valuable asset to this new department. I suppose you know that Gertrude Norman's husband finally withered away. Poor girl. she grieved so, but it comes by her being overly patriotic. Her friends say that the world war made such an impression on her that she could never get over observing wheatless, meat- less and even eatless days, and the older she grew the more fanatical she became on the sub- ject. She tried to make up for it as best she could with extra tabledecorations, pimento hearts, nut cups, etc., but he just quietly faded away, though he was loyal to the end. Gertrude has lately opened l1er beautiful home on the Hudson for the use of Mabel Hal- verson in founding her Institute of Thought Transmission. The subject is quite wonderful, but only lately did I hear how Hallie came to arrive at her conclusions. It seems that she married that soldier friend of hers and he was promoted hy the government to the post of military diplomat to Mars. In that capacity he was ordered to accompany Dean Weaver in her dietetical investigation on that planet. Hallie could never get over her aversion to the condensed gasses used to temper and reinforce the atmosphere on those long trips and hence did not go. She says that during his absence she would unconsciously spend long afternoons in concentrated thought of him and was amazed one afternoon to perceive a return message to one of her projected queries and further astounded to sense a real and tangent line of mental telepathy established between personal magnetism and electricity, the practical appli- cation of which has made thought transmission much more direct and desirable than telephone or telegraph. ' But I must tell you of some of the Highland girls I found up here around the Pole, and by the way, Ivan, you must plan to spend a vacation with them and get some new ideas for your winter garden. I see them often, for this is my third trip to Mars and we always em- bark from the North Pole because it is so much easier to break through pressure lines. Nellie Belnn has charge of the D. S. Experiment Station here and, with the able assistance of Helen Reid and Nettie Heidman, runs a very extraordinary cafeteria in connection with it. Pearl Matthews also makes her home here. You know it was her husband who made the first practical use of refracted light and heat. By means of the mannnoth plant he installed here, thousands of acres have been thawed out around the polar regions and we have fresh fruits and vegetables the year around as surely as we have the regulation twelve hours day and t.welve hours night. Pearl says her husband could never have done so much with refrac- tion had it not been for the use of the fourth dimension which Prof. Galloway literally scared him into discovering one morning in class. lt seems that the Prof. had a new Des Moines student on the firing line, rather timid at reciting, and at whom he wished to measure out his opinions in such sizes and qualities that he found no adequate means at hand, consequently he turned upon her quaking friend, who immediately produced the fourth dimension that the tirade might be continued against the the other fellow. Of course, it was rather n yellow thing to do, for the student is now totally paralyzed, but I suppose he ought to he happy in the thought that he was a martyr to the great cause of progress. Well, Ivan, I must think of closing, for I have told you of most of the girls as I have come upon them in my various travels. As for myself, I suppose I shall always be a wanderer, since my quest for information and my desire to make known my own takes me everywhere. l know u1y theory of one race amal- gamated from all, one religion and one body politic will one day come to be. The fusion of humanity is already on its way and whether we believe it evoluted from some one neces- sary substance or generated from a connnon parentage, we do know that matter is indestruct- ible and what once was can again resolve itself into its own or by the help of God's agents become what we will it. And now, Ivan, I really must close with the wish that your glorious work for D. S. goes on, and on, and on. And listen, when you fear for my safety in my long rambles, as you phrase it, imagine me repeating that little poem, To a Water Fowl, especially the stanza: There is power, whose care Teaches thy way along the pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. Yours in friendship, Grace Borland.

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