Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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MtiXiXBtB FALL CLASS OF NLNETKKN -THIRTEEN OFFICERS I ' rosident Jfssie Goldman Vice-President Cyril Cooke Secretary Mary Poole Poet Stella Cage Historian I ' liclina DeCii ' affenreid Artist. Florence Hamilton Faculty Representative Tlulma DeGraffenreid Class Representative Jessie Goldman CLASS ROLL Lula Railey Cyril M. Cooke Hannah Klaus Annie C. Rains Thelma DeCiraffeni-eid Ha el R. Leonard Emma Rains Laura Fuller Relle Locke Sadie Rarlow Rose E. Sandoz Mabel Maricelli Mathilde Rroussai ' d tJessie (ioldiiian Riford ALxon W. H. Rurns Florence L. nanilitoii Maiv A. Poole Stelle Risland Cage Edna Keller .lulia Itogers Motto: To Make the Ideal Real. I ' Lowi:!! : ' rll() v Clii ' saii llu ' iiunn. Coi.oKs: Daik Blue and (ioid.

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A ItBtt to 3m 3apau One stormy niglit during hv fall term, the good ship Pleasure bore as her passengers the Idealists, who were journeying afar to the quaint little countr} ' of Japan where they were to be received and entertained by their sehoolniates, the Arcadians. After days of squally weather, Japan was reached, and the Idealists were met and usliered into a Japanese home of no mean ])roportions. Here Lady Wistaria and her sister, Lady Peachblossom, smiled winsomely, and Lady Blue Water-Lily looked archly from out ahnond-shaped eyes while she flirted from behind her fan with ] Ir. Burns, a distinguished American guest. The guests roamed at will through the a])artnients, and were conducted into a garden where vnider the shadows of a wistaria-laden pagoda, they sipped punch and listened to the weirdly beautiful strains of Eastern music, furnished by the band. There under the boughs of the cherry tree, the Japanese ladies served their guests as they sat on mats and cushions, with ices as cold as tlie snows that lie on Mt. Trigigama ' s breast, and with cakes as delicately tinted as the rose leaves of their garden. As the clock sti ' uck .lu (ten), tlu ' last Sayonaras wi ' ri ' said, and the guests bade farewell to Ja[)an. They who had bei ' ii guests became so interested in tlu ' pictures(|ueness of this island om ' i the sea, that shortly after this Ihev presented the .Iapan« ' se opera, Lady O ' San-u-San.