Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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O id. 1 Ovid. Deucalion exclaims: “0 ' would that I could repair the people by my father’s skill.” Beware of that new scarf-])in ! One end is Blunt and harmless enough, but the other extends into the pocket, and when the hand is there—look out! At the last meeting of the class of ’80, a motion was made and passed that a vote of thanks be extended to Florence V. Clark for her interest and energy in pre{)aring the entertain¬ ments for the evening meetings held every three weeks. Napoleon Tongas was ap])ointed a committee of one to draw uj) and present the same. “Come and dance with me,” cried the sparkling damsel of the third class. “0 ! you will have to excuse me,” was the reply. ‘Squeeze you ? I won’t; you are too fat,” and thereupon she wiped two tears from her Blood-y eyes. Five young ladies ventured out the other day with their hair jmwdered and arranged a la INfadame Washing¬ ton. They were very indignant when they discovered that some thought they were advertising a new brand of flour sold by one of our local dealers. The singing class is learning “Inte¬ ger Vitae” and “Good-bye,” two songs which are sung at the annual reunions of the graduates of this school. The alumni at their next reunion in June may expect to hear some new voices join in the songs, which, though old, are not familiar to the graduates of recent years. There is a movement on foot to estab¬ lish an elocution class under a teacher from the Monroe School of Oratory in Boston. It would certainly be of great profit to the school if such a class could be formed. The teacher is vouched for by the principal of the school, C. W. Etnerson, M. D. Miss Nellie A. Brown, ’88, has shown considerable skill in the con¬ struction of a model of Caesar’s bridge. To make the effect more real- istic she has jflaced it in a pan of water and sand representing the bed of the river Khine. “Ou habitent les castors?” “Where are the j.lug hats?” One (lay it is the strong scent of turj ' cntine which fills the air; the next, the passing breeze brings us the j)un- gent odor of ammonia, but either of these is ])referabl(i to the choking gases which so often ascend in vol¬ umes from the laboratory. We acknowledge the receipt of 06 exchanges for the last month. From New England, 29 ; from the states west of the Mississipjd, and Canada, 14 ; from tlie remaining states 23. If our s])aee allowed all might be commended. i Eflie E. Adams (Worthen), ’77, is ;! 1 teaching in Bellingham, and Nellie A. i| . . Dale, ’80, at Wellesley Hills. i fellas W. Hale, our eleventh iinnci-i t,, rn • i pal. is receiving the congratulations of . “ 1 ’ ' V 1 his Milford friends hecanse of the hap- Wellesley College has had py arrival of “ximiter three? ' | sfo ' tnne to sprain her ankle. , fehe has our sympathy. |!j Frank A. Ilill, the tenth principal Jessie E. Giw, ’88, a very sncccss- ot this school and at present at the f,,, teacher of the Terpsichorean art, head of the high school 111 Chelsea, 1 ,,, „ eiass at Iloiiedalel has been appointed master of the ' ; English high school, Cambridge, at a Horace A. Brown, ’85, has left his salary of $2,800 per annum. position at the PIo])edale Machine i Co’s sho]), and is now employed at State Senator Scott, who strongly George W. Lane’s dry goods store, ojiposed the division bill in the Senate, at n i g • ' and whose siieech was so highly iirais- . 1 5 ’ fi‘ick, a former assistant, ed, was once a iniiiil of this school in 1 . ' ? , in the Loung Ladies | the fifties. His home is now in Lex- School, Cincinnati, Ohio. ington. Rev. Charles J. White of Woon- , tt at -11 foA 1 1 r. socket, our seventh lu-inciiial, recentlv i Clmrlcs H Morrill, 8J, who lef First Universnlist Harvard to ake the priiicipalshii, of entertain- ;i the Wilton N. H.,liigli school, has de- p lecture on the Ko- !i ehiicd another term s service, and wi 1 Catacombs. i ' enter Dartmouth to complete his col¬ lege course. Wallace I. Stimpson, ’81, is about to go West, even to the other shore, Kittie H. Donovan, once of ’88, is in search of spoil. May he charm the receiving instruction in instrumental natives with his voice and gather in : music at Framingham. the products of the earth, especially i Clara Fisher, ’75, is clerking at E. ’ ' I ' I’i hands. I McKay’s dry goods store. M illiani F. Sherborne, English, ’84, has left his position as assistant sta- 1 Martin J. Kelley,’80, has been re- tion agent at Hyde Park and is now | elected librarian of the public library, station agent at Dorchester. John F. Toomey, ’77, is now em- Ernest L. Cook,’82 English, is em¬ ployed by clothiers in Boston, Mass. ployed in the locomotive works at . • A 1 rn A, rj Providence, R. I. Annie G. Burke, I heresa A. McCar- ’ ten, Lizzie A. Madden, John McLaugh- Littlefield, a former lin and Hugh Bradley, all graduates is einployed in Jones B ow- of this school, took prominent parts provision store at Jacksonville, ! in the ])lay, entitled “Colleen Bawn,” , at the Music Hall, St. Patrick’s night. Bernard Kelley, ’76, is travelling in T • T ' -r • 1 • New Jersey and Pennsylvania for : Jennie L. 1 lifts, 82, is advertising p o i ja- i g -11 Chase feanborn, coffee and tea i for music scholars. , i merchants. Edmund Murjihv. once of ’81. died at his hoine in est street, Sunday problem which many students of j morning after an illness of three algebra at times attempt to solve is: Given the examjile and the answer, to P ' rank L. Young, ’70, and wife, hnd the work. It is said that many j Minnie E. Jones ( )ung), ’75, of Bos- students consider this a problem whose | ton, recently participated in the enter- solution is imjiossible.—[H.S. Review. j tainment at the LTniversalist fair. Is this the case with any of our dear | A’s and B’s? Oh, no indeed! | We are sorrv to hear that jMiss ,, | Anna M. W alker, 85, has bemi obliged Some of our teachers have received | to le.ave the Normal school at P ra- invitations to attend the conimence- mingham on account of ill health. ment exercises of the Woman’s Jled- The Lowell high school j)a])er is ical College of Pennsylvania, at Phila- proud of its battalion, and in the last delphia, to witness the graduation of issue says: “A great ])art of the good Miss Alice T. Hall, one of our recent discijiline displayed in the ranks is assistants. due to IMr. Shernnrne, who under- --- stands his business perfectly.” When The Greek Professor tells us that the the present senior class has graduated, Greeks called the jiarts of the eyes there will be no one in school who sat now known as “juipils,” “girls,” be- | under the instruction of our former cause those are the images most in ra sub-master. people’s eyes.—[Ex. | ii

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Z ATIT. T}IEv0;jK,vIim¥|IVY. MARCir, 1886. Published Monthly During the School Year, BY The Senior Class of the Milford High School, PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENEU.LT EDITORS. GRACE P. FIELD and V. J. CuOK. PERSOXAL EDITORS. A BIE I. MADDEN and I. II. FAIRBANKS. LOCAL EDITORS. LILLA F. HAYWARD and W. G. CLIFFORD. BUSINESS EDITORS. CORA L. SNELL and N. E. TOUGAS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Ten Numbers.) For the Year, . 40 cents ] Single Copies, . 6 cents This paper is for sale at the well-known drug store of J. Allen Bice, where subscriptions for the year will also be received, and back numbers can be obtained. Address all communications to THE OAK, LILY AND IVY, Lock Box 137. Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post-OtRce, as second class matter. Editorial. Our school numbers nearly 160 pupils; yet during the past two terms only one of the parents of these scholars has visited the school. Who has represented the guardians of the 159? Parents do not realize to what an extent they can influence the wel¬ fare of a pupil. A little interest shown by them in the school work is an incentive to greater zeal. The teacher is also stimulated to better results with the knowledge that his efforts will be appreciated and not in¬ differently passed over. The best way parents can show their interest is to visit the school, learn the method of conducting the recitations, and note the advancement of the classes in the different studies. They surely cannot show their interest by staying away and gaining their ideas of the school’s progress from the exaggerated reports of a fertile-minded school boy or girl. Come and see us; you will not be asked a single question. Our principal was summoned to Ashland this month to award the prizes in the speaking contest by the pupils of the high school. Ashland has followed the example set her by Ilolliston with jirofit to the scholars, both by increasing the interest in rhe¬ torical exercises, and also by enabling them to add to their library and to their })hysical ajiparatus. Can we not do something in this line another year? What word is equivalent to a sen¬ tence ? Guilty. Through the kindness of Principal W. II. Small we have received a copy of the Hudson Enterprise, containing an account of the Hiub School’s Indus- trial Exhibition. It was a great success, netted the school library fund $75, and, if we may judge by the report of the crowded condition of their exhibition rooms, was much appreciated by the public. There were needle, kitchen, jien and ]iencil, floral, confectionery and mechanical departments. There was also a siqiper room, where the ta¬ bles were supplied by the scholars. The Enterprise further adds: “Hud¬ son is the second town in Massachu¬ setts, so far as is known, to attempt anything of this nature—Milford be¬ ing the first.” The question has been raised by several recent deaths, especially by Hancock’s, whether or not there is any moral obligation resting on a man, who has received for years a large sal¬ ary, which should require him to make a provision for the future for himself, his wife, or for his children. We do not grudge his widow any sum, how¬ ever large, that may be raised for her by patriotic friends; we would not belittle in the least the glorious services of her husband nor the debt due him from the country ; yet we think it in¬ cumbent on every man to lay by for a rainy day, no matter what his position or his salary, and if fewer cases of this kind were recorded by the daily papers we think it would be a far better les¬ son for us of the rising generation, and teach us to practise due economy while strength and youth permit. The delightful treat which lovers of Shakespeare have recently enjoyed, has caused us to wonder whether there is a place in the world where anyone should keep his mouth more tightly closed than at a play of Shakespeare’s. A very innocent little question may be, to use a classical expression, a complete give-away. The average theatre-goer is not a competent critic, especially if also totally unacquainted with the history of the times jiortrayed. The tattoo which the prompters at the iVIiisic Hall play on the speaking tubes, to warn the man who has charge of the curtain, is becoming very no¬ ticeable and greatly adds to the inter¬ est (?) of a scene when the lovers are dying to slow music. We cry with Ylacbeth-like despair: Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this dirt Clean from—these piano keys? Are you a member of the duode¬ cimo edition ? We now say “sar-din” with accent on the penult. “Who lived in Acadia?” Scholar— “The Acadians.” Teacher—“Thanks.” The seniors are now taking a red-hot journey with Phaethon in his wild drive. Just at present, pickled limes com¬ prise the favorite lunch of the young ladies. “Say, which is it; an aesthetic or astatic needle in a galvanometer?” (Ec-static applause). Havinoj flnished one of the stories of Ovid, a girl with a cold inquired, “What do you think Ovid (of it)?” Mice have a midnight feast in some of the desks in the back of the room. Menu: po])-corn, crackers, jiaper bags, etc. “Last Sabbath the jireacherasked us to omit the third and fourth verses of the hymn.” How many mistakes here ? Pith-balls are hanging from the gas flxture for exjieriments in frictional electricity, when a young philoso¬ pher exclaims: “O, just see those lis- infectants!” Jerome Walker, M. D., in his physi¬ ology, says: “Desks covered with blue or green cloth serve to rest the eye.” There are several more young ladies whom our principal expects to hear from. Young scholar gazing at a picture of St. Cecilia and Peter—“Teacher, what have they got hoops on for?” Teacher—“Hoojis?” Y. S.—“Why yes—around their heads. The young men’s wardroom has been refurnished with blacking, brush, box and corn broom, and now we ex¬ pect the y. m. to shine like the sleek- coated horse when fed on oil meal. The Ovid class always smile when they reach Deucalion’s conversation with his wife Pyrrha after the flood :— “Nos duo turba sumus.” They have always thought that it was “ rc.s.” The subject of the recit.ation was “Coining Money.’ Interested pujiil: “Will you please tell me what the let¬ ter O, sometimes stainjied on silver pieces, stands for?” Teacher: “Oh!—er—er—” The Chemistrv class are flauntimr their colors around, not the national, but a dull orange red, which appe.ars both on the coats of the young gentle¬ men and the dresses of the youmr la¬ dies.

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XjI story of a Library Book. I had been living in the very atmos¬ phere of books for several months. So, as I sat in the fading twiliglit on the floor of tlie old deserted library, Avith the musty, dilapidated volumes })iled about me, I scarcel} ' started, or even felt surprised, when I heard a voice by my side say in a Aveak but exultant tone, “At last! At last! The time has come for the book to speak and break this long, long silence.” I soon ascertained Avhence the sound came, and stooping, lifted a heavy Amlume of Shakespeare, Avhich rested on another much smaller book. The latter gave a sigh of relief and said, “ 1 0 w are in sympathy with me, and so I can speak. It does not often happen.” “it Avas A dien I was new and my pages pure and unstained, that I en¬ joyed life most. Now that I am too old and Avorn for use, my only pleas¬ ure is in thinking of those hap])y days.” (Here the book gave vent to a heart-rending sob, Avhich all the others echoed; then, after a ])ause, it re¬ sumed:) “How much 1 enjoyed my travels! I Avent up among the clouds on Mt. Washington; I sailed doAvn the Connecticut on a pleasure excur¬ sion; and one gala day I Avent up in a balloon. Very soon my adventures came to bear more directly u))on my¬ self. I came into the possession of a young lady who ate sweetmeats OA ' er my open pages. Ton can easily find traces of them even noAV. That Avas not the Avorst, hoAAmver. She sessed that nuisance of nuisances—a little brother. He captured me, scratched his name in pencil over the margin, filled up the o’s in a chajiter, dreAv pictures in red ink on the blank pages, and finished by drojjping me into a bucket of Avater.” Suddenly the book burst into a laugh Avhich made its ])Oor Aveak bind¬ ing crack, and its leaves shake. “I was Avith a queer old lady once. She took snuff; (of course I had my share too) and just before I’etiring, she used to place me under her arm, and, candle in hand, Avalk through all the rooms of her house, looking under sofas, be¬ hind doors and in closets. For what do you suppose she could have been searching? Well, I don’t knoAAq be¬ cause she never found it. “I once kneAv a girl Avho disliked to practise.” (I really think the book meant to be ] ersonal then, it si)oke in such a sly Avay.) “She used to take me to the piano Avith her, ])lace mo on the rack, strike a note semi-occasionally, and read, Avhile her mother, at Avork in the kitchen, thought she Avas duti¬ fully ])ractising her music lesson. An¬ other read me in church during the sermon, Avhich she did not appreciate. “By this time, I had entirely lost my pride. Some of my leaves Avere gone, the others badly torn. My frontispiece (of Avhich I had been so ])roud) Avas spattered with ink. If there is any class of literature that is to be pitied more than all others, it is the poor, wandering library book. Yet I do not regret my existence, nor the ])art I have played in so many hu¬ man lives. I have been a source of tem])orary enjoyment, at least, to many a heart heavily laden with world¬ ly cares. What mortal is not some¬ times thankful for a little respite and oblivion? Very feAV are grateful to the library book, however. They do not treat it as they Avould their own property, but seem to delight in its mutilation and destruction. “Not long since, 1 came into the ))Ossession of an old bachelor. I knoAV he was a bacheloi-, because there was no sign or token to suggest that a Avoman had ever entered his sanctum. He cheAved that vilest of all Aule Aveeds, tobacco. He did not think hoAv loathsome and disgusting I should be to the next person I visited, and, Avorse still, I fear he did not even care. Is it any Avonder that I dreaded to be touched by clean hands again? “It hajipened that I came into the possession of a young lady, next. I never liked any one so Avell. I knew I Avas very disgusting to her, for after reading me a short time, she laid me carefully aAvay, and had she not been very much interested in my pages, I am positive that she Avould never have touched me again. I kncAv she must have A ' ery little reading matter, because I never saAV any other books or papers about. After I had been there a few days, I noticed that she never left her room, and guessed that she had in some Avay displeased her father (a very ig¬ norant, tyrannical man) and Avas shut up in it for a punishment. He often came to her door and spoke in angry, threatening tones, but she Avas ahvays calm and firm. I knoAV he Avould haAm been very angry if he had found me there, and if lie had, I might have been treated even Avorse than before. I don’t think he could read or Avrite. I tell you that it is an education that you human beings need,” declared the book emphatically. Then in its for¬ mer mournful tone it murmured, “I shall never see her again, for I am too old to go out into the Avorld any more.” Then Avith a final sob the hook ceased speaking, after sloAvly and sadly re¬ peating these Avords:— “ ‘IIoAV AA ' eak and poor is the romancer’s art! There is no tongue or pen that ean portray The story of tlie simplest human heart. Once 1 could read and wonder; noAv, in sooth, I know there’s naught so bitter strange as -FOR FINE- BOOTS, SHOES, -AXl truth,’ n. A. J., ’86. SLIPPERS In all the Le.adlng Styles, go to , F, HADEEr ' S 123 Main Street, Milford. Jg Satisfaction Guaranteed. STAMPING OF ALL KINDS Neatly Executed. MRS. C. B. BARNES, At the MAMMOTH 5 10 CENT STORE, 80 MAIN STREET, MILFORD. JOHN MADDEN, Dealer in TEAS, COFFEES and CHOICE PROVISIONS. 89 EXCHANGE STREET, LILHATANSU LADIES’ QUARTET. MRS. J. H. AVOOD, MRS. E. G. BELL. MRS. H. AV. LULL, MRS. J. I. WHITNEY. C. F. AATIGHT, TUNER AND REPAIRER OF •fPITINO? GRG N?, Warerooms in Washington Block, Milford. |lI “Church Organ Tuning a Specialty. L. E. FALES, COUNSilLOR at LAW, Alhambra Block, Milford. FOUNDRY DEPARTMENT, HOPEDALE MACHINE COMPANY, HOFEDALE, MASS, Manufacturers of Fine Iron, Brass, and Composi¬ tion Castings.