North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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WITH MANY APOLOGIES TO MR. BURGESS Why Jane S. always seemed so sweet, was that she kept so clean and neat. She never smootched her face with coal, her picture books were fresh and whole. Just fancy Katherine for a name! Yet she was clever all the same; she knew arithmetic, at four, as well as girls of nine or more. Oh! Think of Helen when you ' re bad; think what a happy way she had of saying Thank you! — If you please — Excuse me, sir and words like these. (Yet she was human like us all. Her muddy footprints tracked the hall.) The gentle Lois tried her best to please her friends with merry jest; she tried to help them when she could, for Lois she was very good. If Louise ' s mother told her No she made but little of her woe; she always answered Yes, I ' ll try! for Louise F. thought it wrong to cry. Was Betty happy? I should say! She laughed and sang the livelong day. She made her mother smile with bliss to see her sunny-tempered miss. To see young Polly at her work, you ' d know she ' d never try to shirk. The most unpleasant things she ' d do, if but her mother asked her to. Miss Thomas took peculiar pride in making others satisfied. One time I asked her for her head, Why, certainly! Alicia said. Miss Elsie she was meek and mild, she softly spoke, she sweetly smiled. She never called her playmates names, and she was good in running games. Nancy was noted for the way with which she helped her comrades play, she ' d lend her cart, she ' d lend her ball, her marbles and her dolls and all. The jealous Ouie Conway was such, as casual callers flatter much. Her maiden aunts would say with glee How good, how pure, how dear is she. What shall I say of Philip Moore, save that he always shut the door? He always put his toys away when he had finished with his play. Larney B. would take off his hat and bow and smile and things like that. His face and hair were always neat, and when he played he did not cheat. How interesting Jimmy seemed! He never fibbed, he seldom screamed. His company was quite a treat to all the children on the street. Don ' t think that Mister Booth is ill because he sometimes keeps so still. He knows his mother does not care to hear him talking everywhere. When Heath B. cared to be polite, they called him gentlemanly, quite; his man- ners were correct and nice; he never asked for jelly twice. Billy and Tommy were a pair who acted kindly everywhere; they studied hard, as good as gold, they always did as they were told; they never put on silly airs, but they took things that were not theirs. When Pierre ' s brother Pierre hit, was Pierre angry? Not a bit! He called the blow a little joke and then no more about it spoke. Page 18

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VINGT ANS APRES K. Booth went to Egypt at the end of school to beat the Sphinx at its own game. After twenty long years, the Sphinx burst into hysterics. Thomas U. Boal, because of his training in journalism at the North Shore Coun- try Day School, is publishing a newspaper with a circulation that runs into many zero ' s. Mr. Boal is not quite sure that any number precedes them. Philip Wyatt Moore, Jr., produces lighting and scenic effects for all the best theaters in Chicago and prints the programs himself. He says he does so enjoy his vocation. Larned W. Blatchford sings and talks away real estate for almost nothing. He is most popular. If people do not buy his houses, he knocks them out. If they do buy they get stuck. Oh how they get stucco. F. Heath Bowman has just completed his novel entitled Don ' t Shoot Mister. His delightful pen and ink sketches run all the way through the novel. Pierre Bouscaren — Alas, poor boy, he didn ' t know it was loaded! James Philip Young has at last printed a pamphlet Would You Marry a Woman Who Matched Pennies and it is full of the prolific writings. He has sold many copies of his work but forgot to get the money. He hopes that his gold mine will support the deficit. William K. McEwen went crazy after trying to keep the world from going to the dogs. He continually perches on the foot of his bed chirping merrily away. He thinks he is a dodo. He does so enjoy his little jokes. Miss Nan Wilder, a nurse, just saved several infants from getting cramps by giving them arsenic. She said it helped. Louise Fentress gave up interpretive dancing and is now a social service worker. Marianna Ruffner is an artistic advertiser of history books, all done by herself. She has made this pay by the policies — A fool born every minute and Every- thing is all right if you can get away with it. K. Leslie, the captain of the Pan-American Hockey Team, won the last game of the season. She was the only one standing at the end. Alice Thomas lends the humor to light opera; everybody just roars when she comes on the stage. J. Sutherland sings in French and sometimes in opera houses. Her diction is perfect, provided you don ' t know French. Elsie Watkins defeated her opponent by a score of 72 — 51. Although the score was close, everybody had a good time. Louise Conway became a cateress of note, making the neatest little cup-cakes into animal forms. Helen G. Bell gave up many secretarial jobs and is now starring in the master- piece Within the Spacious Firmament at Night written by the author of Don ' t Shoot Mister and other comedies. Lois Truesdale has been raising cats, and in return for her services to mankind she got a Maltese cross. B. Parker, the crystal gazer, amid raucous geehaws and geehaughs, told me most of the above. Page 17

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