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

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Elegant Perfnmes. ' Drllatley’sCoilSymp ■All of the delicate odors from LuUn, Atkinson, Wright, Pal¬ mer, and the other leading makers of. Europe and this Country. RICE’S PHARMACY, Milford. Is the most effectual remedy yet introduced. Every year the endorsements of this fact be¬ come stronger. Those suffering ' should not miss an opportunity to try it. Made by J. ALLEN RICE, Milford. Dr. DeJongh’s Catarrh Mixture Fill6 StatiODCf?. Gives immediate relief to all eases of Catarrh, Astnma, In¬ fluenza, Hay Fever, Rose Cold, Cold in the Head, and diseases of like nature. This m.ixture . is purely vegetable, and can be used by old or young, with eqiial- ly beneficial results. Sent by mail on receipt of 25 cents. J. Allen Biae, Milford. Call at Rise’s ■ Pharmacy and see the finest display of Royal Irish Linen, Boston Linen, Bos¬ ton Bond, Boston Bank Linen, etc., in all the new designs; also, Electric overland mail for Foreign correspondence. —B XJ Y- NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS -AT-- MARKED DOWN! All Winter Overcoats and Suits ■ at Cost. Latest Styles in HATS AND NECKWEAR. ELEGANT LINE ' OF ' H ULL Dress Shirts! -A-lsTID TIES. Gfile SowkeL, LEADING CLOTHIERS, Hale’s Block, Milford, Mass. G. T. Fales Co.’s. HAMBURGS, Largest Variety, Newest Patterns. Torchon and Medicis Laces, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels, Crashes, Nainsooks, Ladies’ Cotton Underwear, Bargains in Every Department LOAVEST PRICES. - SPECIAL DRIVED FOR TWO MONTHS! . - Children’s, Misses Boys’ SCHOOL SHOES. Have the Largest Assortment ever offered any-, where. Bargains in Ladies’ Goat and Kid Button Boots. Also, in Woolen Goods of all kinds. A Great Drive in Men’s and Boys’ Calf Goods. Prices Way Down. Come All and See the Bargains at G, T, FALES C0„ |C. B, THOMPSON ' S, • I 154 MAIN ST.. MILFORD, MASS.i 114 MAIN ST., MILFORD.

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O -A. IC. TKbI:-0 IK,MimY| IVY. Published Monthly During the School Year, BY The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY KING BILLINGS. GEXEK.M. EDITORS. INEZ L. GAY and CLAKEXCE H. MORGAN. PERSONAL EDITORS. HARRIET A. SMITH and HORACE A. BROWTST. LOCAL EDITORS. THERESA A. .McCARTEN and ROBERT C. HUSSEY. BUSINESS EDITOR. HARRY P. CROSBY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Eight Numbers.) For the Year, . 35 cents | Single Copies, . 5 cents Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post-Office, as second cla.ss matter. N. B. It is our intention to furnish our patrons, however, with a better and hiqher than second class. Editorial. Ylany of our high schools at the present day issue papers of tlieir own, and, not to he outdone by them, we venture to offer to the public. The Oak, Lily anh Ivy. May we be no more moved by the storm of criticism M’hich the new dejiarture will jirobably arouse than is tlie oak by the wind ■wliose strength is vainly exerted in at¬ tempting to u]n’oot it; may our pat¬ rons resemble the ivy, clinging to us through fair ' weather and foul; and let us all take for our motto the lily’s sig¬ nification and cultivate purity of lan¬ guage, of action and of thought. This will not be a jiolitical paper. We have no jiolitical editor and shall enter upon no discussion uf vital in¬ terest to the country ; neither will it be a commercial jiaper, for our col¬ umns M ' ill not be filled M ' ith (piotations from the market, although from the advertisements it contains, our readers can ascertain where purchases may be most profitably made. Its aim is sim¬ ply to give some idea of M’hat we are doing, and to enable us to obtain expe¬ rience M ' hich may be of use to us in after life. We trust it will bring us into closer relation with those who feel an interest in the school, especially the alumni. It M ' ill be the earnest desire and en¬ deavor of the jiresent board of editors to make the jiaper a success, but to do this we must have sujiport. If each of our friends, who is able, would sub¬ scribe for our pajier, it would encour¬ age us and aid the paper. If we re¬ ceive more than enough to pay the costs, the surplus will be devoted to a class fund which will be used to make the school-room more attractive and to add to the collections in our cabinets. We invite communications from schol¬ ars, graduates, and all others interest¬ ed in the school. Industrial Exhibition. To obtain a prize fund for the com¬ ing Industrial Exhibition, to be held l)y the school in the spring, we sug¬ gest that each member of any former class can show his interest in the en- terprise, by contributing a small sum, ({lerhaps five or ten cents), which will help to make up the amount for the purchase of prizes. One member of each class will be reipiested to collect and take charge of its individual fund, which is to be delivered to the prihci- |)al, who will procure prizes, probably books, and inscribe upon each the name of the class jiresenting it. The money required for the prizes of last February was secured by the donations of forty-five ladies, many of whom had no jiarticular cause for be¬ ing interested; but the scholars will take pleasure in finding that gradu¬ ates still recognize the school and o wish for its welfare by remembering it in the manner mentioned above. The Floral Emblem of China. Among words that are constantly mispronounced, we think an especial one is the name of a lovely autumn flower, the Chrysanthemum, regarded as sacred by the Chinese. Our atten¬ tion has been called to this, by reason of the extensive displays recently made in the leading cities. These have included six hundred varieties of all shades and color. , systematically arranged, at which multitudes have looked with admiration. The name, golden flower, is very appropriate to the yellow variety. We are rejirescnted in six different colleges by: E. C. Thayer, A, C. Thayer, L. J. Johnson and II. J. Wood, at Il.arvard ; George C. Dean and George X. Goddard, at Amherst; John Eldridge at Y ale; Charles Hicks at Ib oAvn ; Frank Morrill and Otis Krum at Eastman’s Business col¬ lege ; iVlice X. Vant and Sara Y. Lowther at Wellesley. Under this head the editors are desirous of stating all facts that may he of interest to the alumni and friends of the school. We shall be especially thankful for items concerning the older members who have left Milford. Allie Howard, ’84, is at school in Andover. Delia G. Gleason, ’72, is teaching in Waltham. Eva W. Cook, ’69, is teaching in Brookline. Lizzie Madden, ’84, is now teaching school in Milford. Lilia B. Godfrey, ’72, is librarian at Wellesley college. Henry E. Xelson, ’72, is our ama¬ teur photographer. Mary J. Kelley, ’72, is principal of the Park Grammar. G. M. Billings, ’69, is one of the ed¬ itors of the Gazette. George H. Ball, ’64, is a successful lawyer of Worcester. Emma Parker Xash,’69, is our lead¬ ing teacher of the piano. A. S. Jones, ’72, has a studio on Columbus avenue, Boston. Annie C. Sumner, ’84, is pursuing her studies at Bradford academy. Delia Burke, ’84, is a sales-lady in J, F. Hickey’s new dry goods store. Grace G. Carpenter, ’84, is book¬ keeper for a firm in Allston, Mass. Mark D. Shea, ’62, is engaged in the boot and slioe business in Chicago. Laura M. Ball, ’72, is assistant in the high school in Arlington, iMass. Wm. Cochran, ’83, is studying at the Harvard Medical school, Boston. Ellen Patrick, a former pupil, is an assistant of the high school in Cincin¬ nati. Caroline Carr, ’84 (English), is at¬ tending the Xormal school at Framing¬ ham. Miss K. Freeman Parker, ’62, is Secretary of the Ass ociated Charities, Indianapolis. Ellen A. IMoriarty, ’74, a former teacher of Milford, is now engaged as a teacher in Omaha. Mrs. Whiting and Mrs. C. A. Sum¬ ner are well known teachers of paint¬ ing and were jmpils of the school. Mrs. Clement Waters, the author of “Painters, Sculptors, Architects, En¬ gravers” and a “Handbook of Legend¬ ary and Mythological Vrt,” was a pu¬ pil of this school and afterward one of the earliest teachers. N

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Vol. IV. MILFORD, MASS., JANUARY, 1888. No. 5 The Leaf. Triiiislated from the French of Arnault. Leaf, from thy stem now broken, Poor shriveled and withered token. Where think you that you ’re going? —Oil, of that there is no knowing. The storm has reft the tree, Which alone supported me. The boistrous, fickle wind. With its power quite unconfined— Since that unhapp day Has blown me its own way. From forests on the one hand ' fo the broad and fertile low land, From the summit of the mountains, To the valleys moist with fountains; All timid fright disdaining I drift w ' ithout complaining; To that certain goal I’m wending Toward which all life is tending. The laurel leaf will go there. And the rose leaf, bright and fair. Jt. u., ’88. Volcanoes. f OLCv NO was the name bestowed the ancientson ' a fire-mountain in the Mediterranean, but it is now given to all similar jihenomena. The word volcano generally conveys to most minds the idea of a huge, in¬ wardly-burning mountain, pouring forth masses of steam, molten rock, and ashes. This, however, is a false idea, as a volcano is not al¬ ways of mountainous origin, but indeed, more often a hole in the ground, formed by the fracturing of the earth’s crust, when the earth was passing from a molten to a solidified condition. These holes became visi¬ ble as fissures in the crust, at first pouring forth steam; then, as the holes grew deeper and the force from below more powerful, on ac¬ count of the nearness to the centre of the earth, rocks were sent forth. The deeper the fissures become the more violent the ejections, and these holes are now tlie craters about which the inountains have been formed. The ancients knew only the volcanoes of the Mediterranean, but now there are more than five times that number here in North America, of which St. Elias in Alas¬ ka and Popocatepetl in Mexico are the highest. Of those known to the ancients, Stromboli, on the island of Strorabolia, was called the light¬ house of the Mediterranean because of its flashing light at night, as it was in continual action. Who of us thinks of a volcanic eruption except as something terri¬ ble, bearing death and destruction to everything within its range? Yet what can be more grand when wit¬ nessed at a distance? As the masses of red or white hot stones are hurled into the air thousands of feet, and fall back, they are crumbled into ashes; then comes the shower of ashes and dust finer than snow, sift¬ ing into the smallest seams and nich¬ es. At the eru])tion of Vesuvius, which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii, some of the inhabitants went into the cellars, which were different in many respects from ours of today, as they were cemented so tightly that not even a ray of sun¬ light could enter, and many of them were very far under ground. Even here the ashes sifted and the gases entered, suffocating and burying the prisoners. Different volcanoes eject different materials, masses of silicon, slate, limestone, alumina, slate, or granite being often found among them. These comprise most of the solid materials, and go towards building mountains of huge dimensions, such as Vesuvius and Chimborazo ; those throwing forth molten masses are of a more gentle slope, as the material flows off like the water of our street gutters. It is to this molten mass that the term “lava” is properly ap¬ plied. When lava is cooled it re¬ sembles the slag and clinkers of our furnaces, and is used in making or¬ naments which are sold at Naples. By mixing these materials with wa¬ ter, it was found by the ancients that they were serviceable as a mor¬ tar, and the volcanic mud so settled as to form rocks, “tuffa,” from which the city of Naples is built. The most important gases emitted are carbonic acid gas, boracic acid and ammonia. These, acting upon the different rock materials, crystal¬ lize them and also effect some won¬ derful changes. Limestone is changed to statuary marble; sandstone, to quartzite, and clay to the hardness and lustre of porcelain. The action of the acid gases upon silicon crys¬ tallizes it and forms the amethyst and many other gems. By the same process the diamond, crystallized car¬ bon, the ruby and sapphire, crystal¬ lized alumina, are formed. Together with these are found agate and onyx. Iceland-spars and rock crystals are found in these underground labor¬ atories. To this country are annu¬ ally brought tons of pumice-stone and sulphur for our manufactories and our households. All the mountains and hills are fast traveling oceanward under the - errosive and carrying power of fall¬ ing and running water; and, if it were not for the up-building and lifting power of volcanic action, we might, possibly, go back to that long-ago time when there was one universal ocean. Even the life of man depends on volcanoes. This may seem ridicu¬ lous at first; but as they are the great source of carbonic acid gas, which is the food of the whole ves:- etable kingdom, the statement is easily ])roved. Therefore by the seemingly all-destructive volcano is added life, beauty, and wealth to the world. B. T. M., ’88.