Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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MRS. ALICE KALLANDAR

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26 JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. it went hand in hand with pain. A sorrowiullness crept, as if unawares, into the thread of the song. A darkness, unbroken by one faint gleam of light, obscured all else. With icy clutch¬ es at their hearts, they listened spellbound. At last, mournful, inexpressably mournful, the sound died away in one long note, rising and falling, fading away like a tired soul sinking to rest and the house was hushed in a deathlike stillness, a silence literally felt. Soon the applause broke thunderously forth, flowers rained upon the little figure standing there so motionless. For a brief second she stood thus, until, with the blank look entirely gone from her face, she turned toward Robert and smiled a wan little smile. At last, with great roses and violets falling about her in clouds, she let her violin creep slowly down her side until it rested on the floor—then she slipped softly down beside it and lay there, a pitiful little heap of white—Anita, too, was at rest. BEFORE TAKING THE GERMAN EXAMINATION. (A tear-stained fragment found by the janitor.) The German is coming, this afternoon, The sun is setting for me, O! Farewell to yon all, I know I will fail, Good-bye to your old friend, Bert, O!

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. 29 ALICE GRAY KALLANDER. Alice Gray Kallander was born Sept. 25, 1868. She attended the Mo- mence Public School, finishing the course and beginning to teach when seven¬ teen. She taught with the aim of saving enough to go at least one year to college, and in 1888 she entered Northwestern University. She found that any one who is really in earnest about an education will find many ways of helping one’s self, and for two years she acted as assistant to Professor Clark of the English department at the Northwestern. This gave an income besides being a fine drill in correcting and revising essays. Upon her graduation, she was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the only Greek letter society of America, which is recognized abroad; an honor given for scholarship. She taught about ten years mostly in Cook County, part of the time in grade work, part in High School work at Blue Island and here in Momence. She is an enthusiastic teacher, one who regards teaching as her profession, and teaching in general as a work which, in importance, is second only to that of the mother. LADY MACBETH. ESS A Y BY DEN A MILLER. In the first act of the great drama, Shakespeare introduces Lady Macbeth. She is reading a letter from herworior husband who tells of his great success in the field of battle and also of a temptation that has come to him; for on account of his great popularity, he can easily become the ruler by doing away with the present king, Duncan. Lady MacBeth’s reception of this epistle brings out two of her chief char¬ acteristics: her great love for her husband, which makes his slightest wish her deepest desire; and her ambition for fame and honor for herself and Macbeth, which is so great that it makes her ignore the means of obtaining it. Lady Macbeth never had any vague, half-formed plans. With her to think was to act. She knows Macbeth’s nature perfectly. She knows how badly he wants to be king and how he would so like to keep his honor, too. She knows that he will never do anything if he is not urged, so she resolves to encourage and sustain him in his evil designs. When she is suddenly informed by a messenger that her husband is coming home, and that the king is about to honor them by a visit, she is quick to real¬ ize her opportunity. She summons all her self-control, deadens all her natural pity, and boldly encourages Macbeth to kill his king. I rged on by her lc : and by his own desire, he, finally, reasons himself into believing that this is the time for action, but he keeps deciding not to do it. and has to l e eonstantlv