Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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Dreaming — of course a musician, Always greeted with great approbation ; To fame she lays another claim : With the best ranks her composition. Eyes as blue as the heavens, And the voice of a bird has she, And her name it is surely well given. For some dav a star she will be. A maiden stately, tall, and fair, With eyes of brown and browner hair. None with this reader can compare. Ruth is our elocutionist: .She moves us to laughter or tears ; And her talent in composition Is far beyond her years. ■|fe(M Small and witty we see her. When twice each week she calls To sing in a deep contralto, With ardor that never palls. Of stature tall. With mind not small, A charming face, A winning grace ; Gertrude we her call. 19

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(3vabuate6. Musician sweet, with eyes of blue, Thou art a maiden, sage and true. A pensive face, soft, dreamy eyes, Vlierein a world of romance lies. •Sweet Margarett, our studious friend. May every joy thy path attend. A truly winsome maiden, Whose hair is golden brown : Vou ' d ne ' er find a better student, Though you searched throughout the town. Musician lair, We can but love her A poet rare Who ' 11 not discover. i8

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Class Ipropbcc , ROOM in the Supreme Court of Justice. Nine witnesses before the bar. The judge on his bench. Judge: Margarett Kable, what have )-ou made of your life? Has it been a success or failure ? ' ' First witness : Your Honor, I chose a literary life for my career years ago. To-day, I finished my latest book, and my name is connected with the largest publishing house in the country. Judge : It has been a success, then. And the judge remembers the old M. B. S. days when Margarett of the soul- ful eyes wrote so diligently for the Blue Stocking, and he hardly suppresses a smile to think that her Editor-in-Chiefship should have proved so important an experience. ' ■ Helen Barnes, how fares the world with you? Second witness: I am one of the faculty at Vassar, being teacher of Greek and mathematics in that College. Ah ! j ' es ; this tall, slender woman, with the Titian hair has succeeded indeed. A vision comes to the judge of Helen always going to class with her calculus and trigonometry problems solved. To-day she stands among the best mathematicians, and her name will in all probability go down to pos erity with that of Archimedes. Judge : Celia Mason, what sort of life have you lived since 1902? Third witness : Quite a versatile one, sir. First, I was a society butter- fly until the life wearied me, then I feasted upon the world ' s natural beauties, and visited the places famed in history. After that I was a concert player ; in fact, I ranked with Paderewski, and was quite as popular — then, and then — I met — well, I ' m married now. That ' s all. And the judge laughed aloud, for he is a good-natured judge. He remem- bers this third witness way back in 1902, the most vivid picture being a small figure in a brown coat, her bright, animated face peeping out from under her blue hat, going the rounds after ads. Judge to fourth witness : ]v -elyn Chase, give an account of yomself, since I last heard of you. ' ' Your Honor, as superintendent of an orphan asylum, I stand here to-day. I was always interested in little street Arabs, and liave gathered them around me