Norway High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Norway, ME)

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30 THE CADUCEUS gressed so rapidly as to already take its place as a greatly improved method of transportation-both within the United States and also far beyond the distant hor- izons. -Glendon Smith '40. VANITY FAIR Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley had finally finished their formal education at Miss Pinkerton 's school. Amelia and her friends wept sincerely at her departure, but Becky was overjoyed at leaving and scornful of the weaker ones about her. As Amelia and Becky left in the carriage sent. by Amelia 's prosperous family, Becky hurl- ed the dictionary, which had been present- ed to her, at the feet of Miss Jemima Pink- erton. The latter was most astonished at Miss Sharp 's ingratitude and spirit which was very unladylike. Becky visited her friend, Amelia, and did her best to induce Joseph Sedley, Amelia 's brother, to marry her. Becky's parents were dead, so it was necessary that she man- age her own affairs. After failing to snare Josh,'l Becky went as a governess to the children of Sir Pitt and Lady Crawley. The other most important members of the Crawley family were Bute, Pitt 's brother, Miss Crawley, an aunt to these men, and his sons by his first marriage, Pitt and Rawdon. Miss Crawley was very wealthy. On ac- eount of this all her relations were exceed- ingy attentive to her. Rawdon was her favorite, seeming to he in line for his rich aunt's fortune, so Becky married him. Later Lady Crawley died. Sir Pitt tell on his knees to Becky asking her to marry him. Poor Becky was sincerely sad. Had she known that Lady Crawley was going to die so soon, never would she have mar- ried Rawdon and given up the opportunity of becoming Lady Crawley herself. When Miss Crawleyi discovered Miss Sharp 's secret marriage to Rawdon, she dis- owned both of them, and when she died left her money and property to his brother, Pitt Crawley. Becky strove along with Rawdon, using her initiative for both of them. During the war, she and Amelia were thrown to- gether again. Since she had last seen Amelia, Mr. Sedley had been bankrupt. George Ashborne, who was persuaded by his friend, William Doblin, to marry Miss Sedley in spite of her financial condition, was disowned by his father. George Os- borne was killed while fighting. Amelia would have soon died too, had not her hus- band left her a son, Georgy. Her strength was renewed with his growth. Becky also had a son, Rawdon, but cared nothing for him. The boy's father loved Becky, but was grieved because she didn 't pay more attention to her son. Mrs. Crawley was interested only in her own rise in social events. She became the most popular woman in London, at least with the men. Lord Steyne cared for no other woman except Mrs. Crawley and re- ports of an indelicate nature were reported at the gentlemen 's clubs. The fatal night came when Rawdon Crawley was seized and put into a debtor's prison. He sent a note to his wife, asking her to obtain enough money to get him out. She sent a letter to him stating that she was very ill but would get up the very next morning and try to procure the money. However, Crawley appealed to his sister- in-law and was freed. When he came home that night he found his wife in an evening gown entertaining Lord Steyne. There were fighting and tears, which resulted in a broken home. Rawdon left his unfaithful wife and took a government job on another continent.

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TIIE CADUCE US battle in the W'est. They returned to Eng- land again and stayed there quite some time. During this stay in England, Lang- don saw Rogers. He had come without Elizabeth because of some trouble he had had with her father about rent. He was now writing a book on the capture of St. Francis and had started to write several articles. At last Langdon and Ann came back to America to live and built a home near that of Langdon 's father. Rogers is said to have come over here lighting the men of Wasliingtoii and Howe. Elizabeth married again, but wasn't much happie1'. This book is very popular because it Hts so many types of people, and also the mov- ie, 'tNorthwest Passage, has given the book a larger popularity. -Pauline Snow '40, NORTH TO THE ORIENTH As early as 1508, men like Cabot had at- tempted dangerous sea voyages in search of a north passage to that land of overpower- ing riches, far off Cathay They tried to make such trips by way of the Hland of the midnight sun. They braved the ice- bergs and the bitter cold of the Arctic sea- but all in vain. I Four and a quarter centuries later, in the year 1930, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, were making their final plans for a trip by a similar route, not by sea, but by airplane over the seas and across the bar- ren tundras of Alaska-not around ice- bergs-not through treacherous waters of the north-they were to go by a route as straight as a line could be drawn between two points on a map. They were to go on that roadway i11 the sky where man is un- disturbed by passing traiicic. They were to have the area enclosed by the Arctic Cir- cle spread out before them like a large re- 29 lief map-miniature in every respect. Wliat unexpected trouble, storms, fog banks, unchartered mountains, lay before them in their theorectically easy course? Only history could give that answer. To make such a trip required a greater previous duration of time spent in plan- ning than 0116 would oifhand imagine. The construction of the plane was supervised by Mr. Lindbergh from the blueprints to the finished plane. Emergency supplies had to be carefully chosen to cover every unforeseen need that might arise. Food was one of the important items they had to consider. They had to have a radio, both for sending and receiving. This made it necessary that Mrs. Lindbergh learn to be, at least, a licensed 'tClass C operator. When she started to get ready for her exams, she didn it know a coil from a knob o11 the front of the set. Then, there were weather, fuel, maps, navigation instru- ments, and thousands of other minor things that go in towards the making of a journey of that type even possible, that had to be considered and made ready. After years of research and a iinal year of preparation, the Lindberghs in their monoplane, the Sims, started their long journey north to the Orient. The events that happened and the trials of the trip that they went through are too numerous to mentio11. What this flight did for bettering international feeling and in forwarding the progress in aviation is much too important to overlook. By their Hight to the Orient, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, proved to the air-minded world that aviation had its place in the field of transoceanic travel. They proved that it was more than an idealistic dream that man could cross the barren wastes of the cold north, and by doing so, tie together the other side of the world with this side. Since that year, 1931, aviation has pro-

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THE CADUCE US 31 He later died of malaria, but his son was taken in by his brother Pitt and his kindly wife. Little George Osborne 's grandfather learned to love his little grandson, who was made heir to his fortune at his death. William Doblin, who had loved Amelia ever since they were youngsters, finally per- suaded her to marry him. This she would not have done if, Becky had not revealed to Amelia the proof that her husband had been untrue to her. Amelia and William had one daughter, Jane. Becky had been rejected from respectable company and kept moving from hotel to hotel all over the continent. It was said that she always lived in the same hotel with Jos Sedley, who admitted she was a bad woman, but he could not help himself. When he died he was penniless, having been taken in by Becky 's sly ways. As we last leave Becky, she is left alone, managing affairs for herself, for there is no one else to do it for her. -Vesta Shaw '41 MAINE Oh! how I did love that home up in Maine! The crisp sunny morns, the scent of ripened grain, The mountain is fresh air, There was rtom for me there: But, n-ow in this city, just look at it rain! The winters were fun in the old state of Maine. Listen! Hear the sncw on the window pane? Skiing we'1l go. In the deep fiuiffy snow, But, now in this city, just look at it rain! Camp life was grand in the state of Maine, A tent on an island, who- could complain? Life was sure great, In the old home state, But, now in this city, just look at it rain! -Merle Glines '4O. At night The stars come out In silver garb to play Alf-ng rugged moonbeam pathways 'Till dawn. -Florence Cox '40. BLUE ROOM Believe me, it hurt to sit there alone at a corner table looking through the torn decorations and the pale colored lanterns floating in a sea of blue smoke onto a stage where I should be standing--a stage where I should be raising my baton to the down beat of a song played by the sweetest band this side of Heaven-a stage where I should be speaking through the mike, wishing the best of luck and joy to the many happy couples as they swayed to the rhythm of Auld Lang Sync which was now ringing the new year in and the old year out. It was my band! I had started lt! I had worked for it all my life ever since I had started college. Then I had gone to the top after meeting Ann. But now all was lost, all my efforts had been in vain. 'tWhy? Why?,' I asked myself time after time. I reached for a drink, and gulped it down in one swallow. I lit a cigarette, blew the smoke in front of me, and watched it circle around my head. I did not hear the music that filled the room, neither did I feel the happiness that filled the hearts or the dancers. The music was not so good as I could have made, but people had forgot- ten that. They had forgotten me. I was no one. It was all my fault, I suppose. Anyway, it was a short story-sad, yet true. I had started my little band my second year at the university and had rounded up fourteen boys who were wonderful fellows to work with. For two years I preached to them that no girls were to interfere with the band. I'd found two boys for singers, who were the best, and I knew I couiu do without any girls in the band. My senior year we had contracted all the dances around town, including the univer- sity balls. It was the first dance of the