Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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1f||W - r ' • ' for Now listen to me, children said the Black Cat, ■ P I have a very interesting tale to tell you. ■flK Once upon a time the oldest daughter of old King Meredith got married to Prince ' isdom, and that left all the responsibility of lieljiing King Meredith with managing ft his household on his next oldest daughter, Princess Fourteen. BI S V Now Princess Foiu ' teen was a very bright little girl, but her k Ki S K older sisters had always done everything for her; so now that K ' ' ' ' ■ ' ' ' married she felt very helpless and liegan to cry. k ' There, there, don ' t cry, ' comforted her old nurse, H Student Government, ' for I will hel]) you manage the chil- M drcn and jivmish them when they behave badly. ' H ' . iid wi will lu ' Ip you train them to be u.seful, ' said H B the kindhearted little maids, Astrotekton, Philaretian and J ' I ' ' ' 11 teach them what is right, .so that they will B never wish to be naughty, ' chimed in Y. W. C. A. B ' Yo u are so very kind, ' saiil the Princess gratefully, H| B brushing away her tears. ' But what shall I do with the P V Oak Tree? My sisters charged me to tend it carefully, for it is still young, and unless it proves fruitful my father will have it cut down. He does not know how much we love the Oak Leaves which it bears every spring. Is there no one to help me with the (jak Tree? I am sure it will die! ' tlie Princess again burst out weeping. ' Then I came forward. ' Princess, ' I said, ' ILsten to the wi.sdom of your Black Cat. I will be your Pu.ss in Boots. Only give me a stout pair of shoes, for I have much walking to do, and leave this matter to me. . U will be well. The Tree shall not die and in the spring the Oak Leaves will be more beautiful than ever. ' The Princess did not put much faith in the words of her Black Cat, but 1 had heli)ed her out of so many tlifticulties that she no longer despaired. I bravely buttoned up my boots, took my traveling bag and walking stick, and, having called to- gether all the King ' s children, spoke thus to them before setting out: ' Children of the King, while I am away finding the things which will make the tree grow, you must tend it carefully. The things you jtut into it are the things that will show on its magic memory leaves. So water it with your brightest and mo.st original thoughts and lavish your attentions and labors upon it, and it will flourish. ' I then bade the Princess farewell and started on my journey. Before I had gone very far along the road I met an enormously fat man, riding in a fine coach drawn by four horses. The coach was loaded down with bags of money, so I knew at once that it was Lord Merchants ' Association. I stojipcd his coach and said ; ' Great Lord, my Mistress, the Princess Fourteen, solicits a contribution from you to be uscfl for the great Oak Tree, so that the magic Oak Leaves will bud in the spring. ' ' Yes, ' he replied, ' I have heard of the Oak Tree and its Leaves. But I gave to it last year and I am poor. I will give no more. ' Then I said, ' Very well, but the King ' s Household will no longer buy from you. ' With that Lord Merchants became very much frightened, so he took from his pile of money bags a very small one which he threw into my hands and drove rapitlly away. I stowed the money carefully away in my sack an l went on into the village. Here there lived th ree wise men named Photographer, Engraver, and Printer. To them I went and said, ' Come with me to the Palace of the Prin -ess, for we have heard that your wisdom is great. Yoiu ' services are desired for the great Oak Tree. You shall receive much money. ' So they followed me, and together we returned to the Princess. And then for long weeks and months we worked over the tree. We watered it with print- ers ' ink, fertilized it with zinc etchings and copper half tones, while photographs rained down on it from the sky. And the tree flourished and in the spring it brought forth the most won- derful big green Leaves ! And now, my dears, what do you think of the O. k Lea ' :es ' ?

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f 4 r MRS. JESSIE EARNSHAW Sk ' ivardcss for East Biiiklinii MRS. J. W. BLACK Housekeeper MRS. OCTAVIA SCARBOROUGH NORWOOD Nurse SALLIE EMMA MARTIN Student Assistant in Physical Educnlion ANNE PATRICIA McK.AUGHAN Student Assistant Litjrarian

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C «4 i j x » Anne McKaughan, Editor-in-Chief Vann Eddings, Art Editor Laviece Chambliss Flossie Marshdanks J Cora Tyner, Associate Editor-iQ-Chief Margaret Gulley, Business Manager Ada Briggs 1 c- i tt-j- Roberta Pridgen P ' ' -- = Editors