Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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8 THE PENNELL WHIRIPOOL NAPOLEON AS A RULER. Napoleon’s prowess as a ruler is open to extensive comment. Many, because of his remarkable success, consider him a mar- velous ruler. On the other hand, a great many others, be- cause of his marked aggressiveness and domineering nature, consider him little less than a tyrant. Napoleon was resourceful. Probably the most able general the world has seen, his achievements on the battlefield have as yet been unequalled. This made the nations admire him, and served to make them faithful to him. But it seems to me that he was a more ideal general than ruler. He wished to dominate the world, and his word was law. Any opposition to him brought forth marked hatred. He would not flinch at anything to gain his ends, and his word was worthless. These qualities, it seems to me, should not be lacking in a good ruler. He was not a ruler to be served faithfully by his subjects, and this is a supreme point in suc- cessful government. JOSEPH J. LEONARD. Let us all be brave and true, Ignorance never stands any show, Little mistakes are soon forgotten In all we do and say.. A girl without this wisdom Never gets what she wishes. A. M. S., 723. THE DROPPED STITCH. “T ought to sit down this very minute and go to work on my tray cloth,” said Gertrude one bright Saturday morning. “Mamma wants to do it up this afternoon and send it in the three o’clock mail, so that Cousin Grace will get it Monday. There’s not very much more to do on it, I’m glad to say.” But just as Gertrude took up her embroidery materials, she happened to see Mabel Clarke passing by. “I must speak to her,” Gertrude said, and, hurriedly throwing a wrap about her, she rushed out. There was quite a conference at the gate, and then Gertrude went along with her friend, for Mabel had some things at home which she “really must see.” It was more than an hour before Gertrude came back to her embroidery. Then the moments seemed to fly, and she

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28 THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL 7 Shirley, having been smuggled in this trunk to the mainland, found herself in a room with a gang of rough fellows. Bob, the head of the gang, told her their plan, which was to use her to rob her own grandfather’s safe. In the meantime Mr. Grayson had gone to meet Shirley, and, not seeing her among the crowd that came from the boat, sent an officer to search the ship. The search was made, and, of course, she could not be found. Mr. Grayson sent a cable- gram to Mr. Richardson saying that Shirley had not arrived, and also asked if she were coming on the next boat. Midnight was the time set for the robbery. After a gang of men had surrounded the house, Bob and Shirley entered by a low window near the kitchen. As it happened, a servant Was Just coming im, and, as he heard this noise, he ran for his revolver, which happened to be ina drawer near him. Getting the revolver, he followed the robbers to the deor of the room, in which a sofa stood; the servant then stumbled over a chair. Bob, realizing that someone else was around, fired his revolver twice-—a sign for lis gang to enter. Mr. Grayson had been very restless, and when he heard the two shots, ran to the window and screamed to the policeman standing on the corner nearby. ‘The policeman rang the police alarm and then ran to the house. Mr. Grayson then got his revolver and went downstairs with the rest of his servants, who had also been awakened by the shots. On reachin g the room, he turned the electric switch on, just as the policeman entered, Shirley then saw her grandfather and ran to him and explained everything. As a result of the kidnapping of Shir- ley, the police found a gang which they had been trailing for some time in vain, and the scoundrels who were its members were severely punished. LILLIAN HANCOCK, °23. I’m the clock that times P. I. I stay out in the weather, Be it wet or dry. The days go by quickly in the school year. Many boys and girls leave here, But the new ones, Green as the sea, Always show respect for ME. E, EB. D., '23.

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“« %, % THE PENNELL WHIRLPOOL 9 began to grow nervous and cross. Faster and faster she worked, and did not notice that her work was not so smooth and even as it had been before. At last the tray cloth was fin- ished, and she gave it into her mother’s charge to be pressed and made ready to send away. “Part of this embroidery isn’t as nice as vou usually do, Gertrude,” her mother said, pointing to two or three flowers on which the work was rough and uneven. “And, Gertrude. see this,’ and she showed a place where the silk thread had not drawn in tightly enough, so that it had formed a loop. “Tm sorry, Mamma,” Gertrude said, impatiently, “but I had to hurry so to finish it. If I had had another hour, it would have been all right.” “There doesn’t seem to be any way of fixing it.” Mrs. Ben- nett said, regretfully, and Grandma added, “It’s almost as bad as finding a dropped stitch when vou've finished your knitting, It makes a bad place, the best you can do. Dropped stitches make so much trouble wherever vou find them.” “Why, you never find them anywhere except in knitting, crocheting or weaving, do you?” Gertrude asked wonderingly,. Grandma smiled. “You'll find them all through your life, my dear,” she said. “And if you don’t mind my saying so, I think this embroidery which you finished up so hastily that you did not do it well, shows a dropped stitch in your own life.” “Why, how, Grandma?” “When vou knew for vourself that you ought to sit right down and go to work at it, and then went over to Mabel'’s and spent an hour, vou dropped a stitch of duty. And you know, dear, that it has made a bad place, for the hurry that was necessary afterward made you nervous and cross, therefore making it impossible to do the work as well as you would have liked.” “T guess that’s true, Grandia,” Gertrude answered slowly. “A dropped stitch is more serious than I thought. Ill try not to drop any more.” “Yes,” her Grandma answered, ‘and, Gertrude, always re- member that the girl who is so anxious to be obliging that she is always promising to do more than she can possibly accom- plish, makes a big mistake. It is no kindness to promise to do a favor and then fail. Make no more promises than you can keep, but keep all the promises you make.” D. M. R.