Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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The Story of a Triplet. The Stone girls were, by all odds, the most interesting pupils in Sommerville High School, and the interest was due to the fact that the girls were triplets. In naming the children Mrs. Stone felt it to be her duty to give them the same name with variations. Consequently, one triplet became Adelaide Rogers Stone, another Adeline Rogers Stone and the third, unfortunate, became Adalette Rogers Stone. PRIZE SPEAKERS FOR '09. Top Row—Glen Higgins, A mi yew Young, Ward Davis, Karl Thompson. Bottom Row—Prances Usher, Ruth Allman, Julia O'Brien, Anna Casey. The mother was proud of the name of Adalette, but the bearer hated it from the bottom of her rebellious soul. As also she hated the idea of being a third of a gill, and was frankly disgusted with the triangular state of affairs. The girls were to graduate in June, and it occurred to Miss Warren, who was arranging the program for Commencement Exercises, that a trio called “The Three Lovely Maidens” by the triplets would be very pleasing. The idea was very distasteful to poor Adalette, but the other two girls were delighted.

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22 strip. After Freddie got out of the hospital he found that he really was cut out tor janitor-work and so the people of this poor unfortunate old world are still working with primitive methods while mama’s boy’s workshop displays a “To Rent” sign and our McCormick reaper and self adjustable binder No. 2 is daily dusting Brook’s and Snook’s office furniture. VV. S. W., ’12.

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M One night, just a few weeks before graduation Adalette was seized with an inspiration. She crept stealthily out of bed, found her pocketbook and counted the contents. She then made her way to the spare room across the hall, which was furnished in pink. She turned down the white counterpane that covered the bed, disclosing a pink and white striped quilt of exceedingly dainty pattern. Satisfied with her visit, she crept back to bed, and for many days after she visited the spare room during her free time, so that her sisters remarked that she must be studying very hard. Commencement night arrived. Three white dresses made just alike were laid upon the bed, and the girls were flying about in an excited manner. “It’s pretty warm inhere; if you don’t mind I'll take possession of the spare room, and as I have an errand to do I may start before you girls,” said Adelette. There were thirty-two graduates, of whom all but six were girls. Mrs. Stone, in the audience, tried to distinguish her white-robed triplets, but only two auburn heads could be seen. Adalette’s essay was the fourth number on the program, and as her name was called Mrs. Stone looked expectantly at her two visible daughters, wondering where the third one could be. Neither of the two girls stirred, but a strange girl at the end of the row stepped forth. She was dressed in a crown of pink and white and her hair and eyebrows were black as midnight. Mrs. Stone was startled, and she exclaimed half aloud, “What has become of Adalette?” But, hark! that was Adalette’s voice and surely her essay. “As I live, that’s Adalette in my spare room bedquilt, and she has colored her hair,” whispered Mrs. Stone, who was too amazed to be angry. Soon came the trio, and as the three girls arose to sing, for once the teachers and principals knew which of the triplets was Adalette. J. B., ’ii.