North View High School - Southside Echoes Yearbook (North View, VA)

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Cfjemtstrp We’ve learned about ‘‘acid,” “base,” and salt”; Much also of tin, lead, and cobalt. But we hold this to be grandly true, — Beware of acids, whate’er you do : Oh ! the “fuss” they make and stench beside When on various metals they’re tried ! To say nothing of the burn and sting, And that ugly old color they bring. Never will we safe and happy be Unless we avoid H N O . Midst the worries and difficulties that have arisen in our school work, Chemistry stands out as a bright spot. We have taken much pleasure in this study and have found it both inter- esting and instructive. With only an improvised laboratory, we have tried to delve somewhat into the nature of things and to learn just a little of the origin and development of various kinds of matter and their compounds. Much we have gained by experiment. Mistakes we’ve made, but we usually tried again. The odors of gases and other compounds we won’t forget. How delightful the odor of H 2 S (?) But better still that of C 2 H 4 ! The principles of Chemistry may be applied in any walk of life. For instance, we have seen the following experiment tried with disastrous results. Experiment. — Take one girl (G) and of as good quality one boy (B). Both of these being harmless ingredients may be brought together with impunity. Add another girl to the mixture and it bursts with explosive violence and resolves it- self again into its elements.

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theatricals Among the school events of this session none afforded more pleasure to the pupils of the principal’s room than the entertainment given on Valentine’s Day in the North View Debating Hall. The caste was home talent, girls of the prin- cipal’s room, and young men of the neighborhood. Though a stormy evening, there was a large audience present. The following programme was rendered : Recitation by Lucye M. Andrews. Tableaux : Hiawatha’s Childhood — Hiawatha’s Wooing. Four Centuries of the American Girl. Play — A Rural Comedy: “The Old Dairy Homestead.” Tableau: Leap Year Valentine. Instrumental music was furnished between acts : I. R. Boswell, first violin. S. B. Johnson, second violin. Robt. Andrews, autoharp. S. L. Keeton, guitar. Wm. Andrews, banjo. W. L. Tucker, violin. Caste of “Old Dairy Homestead.” Mike Donnavin, traveling tinker .... Wm. Russell Malcolm Gray, ex-convict .... Wm. P. Andrews Willie Work, gentleman born tired . . . Robt. Ogburn Jason Wilkins, a farmer Jas. Gordon Josh Arrowroot, town constable .... Ernest Cole Ruby, a little waif Susie Petty Mrs. Glimmer, dashing widow . . . Virginia Ogburn Maude, the farmer’s niece Sue P. Gordon Becky Wilkins, old maid Lizzie W. Petty

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54 SOUTHSIDE ECHOES The reactions are as follows : B + G = BG + (a good time) BG + G = BG 2 + (a fuss). Or we may try the following with better results : Experiment. — Take in equal parts, one woman (W) and one man ( M ) . When the mixture becomes thoroughly fixed, add ten drams of mother-in-law acid (Mil C0 3 ) and the mix- ture becomes more fixed and united, the acid being resolved into a gas and driven off rapidly, the more rapidly as it attacks more viciously the mixture and opposes it. The reaction is as follows : M + W + (Mil C0 3 ) = MW (an inseparable compound).