Philadelphia Manual Training School - US Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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at present is very elementary indeed, and in thechemical labora- tory we are learning to cook test tubes without cooking the bot- tom awayg this seems to be quite difficult with a few of us- lVlcClellan, Mastbaum and Farrady. VVe hear that you are quite taken up with the art of spilling acid on your gowns, and like to remove the stopper from the bottle offNl-l,,l2S, alias Ammonium Sulphidef' 'This information comes directly from one of our sisters. I Those young ladies who come down Seventeenth Street in the P.lVI. and pass our noble structure Qto bel will please excuse the number of boys leaning against the fence, with their faces caught in the rails, as we have been in school since 9 o'clock, and you lucky mortals who depart from your institution fwith regret QPU do not know what it is to stay in half an hour longer. About 2 o'clock we need fresh air, and some of us feel the need so much that we have torhave some support, and this the fence fur- nishes, we always lean on the fence toward Seventeenth Street- this we 'will not try to explain, but will leave it to be formed into a theory by Herbert Spencer. The work at the lathes is demoralized as the whisper is heard, There goes the fairy in black. Our instructor in mechanical destruction wishes we had shutters on the windows, but we don't! as we always want to see Whether it is likely to rain or not. The professors notice an unusual number of headaches at that particular moment. Its intiuence on the looks of Our people, who seek young ladies' elevating society, is something extraordinary, and is not to be wondered at. -Scott 'appears with a brand new face and a cravat to match the sky of each particular day, while his gloves match his would-be mustache. Greenewald thinks he has quite a hold on the gentler sex, Red-rose Billie has had to charter a florist establishment to keep him in the everlasting carnations, which were thought for a long time to be imitation. Those who do the escorting act on the back of 'a car are Mandel, alias Davy, and Shorty Rice, while Hults, Mclntire and Kavanagh and an innumerable multitude of others carry off the honors on their soles. Swayze takes with the young ladies on account of his manly looking.vvhiskers, which he forgets to eradicate, only we advise 65

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OUR SISTER INSTITUTIONS. UR Principal had occasion to make a remark about Our Sister Institution, meaning the High School, but we beg leave to construe it differently, and it suits us to refer to one of the most attractive places in the city. lt is located on the corner of Seventeenth and Spring Garden Streets. Every morning can be seen birdies dressed in every color of the rainbow flocking to this center of gravity. There is no use in telling which are their principal thoroughfares, for they are known only too well by certain of Our People. But to return to the institution. The architecture, according to some of our students, is magnificent, and whenever a treatise on this subject is required the Normal School furnishes the desired information. The Romanesque char- acter of the windows has been commented upon, while ob- jects in the background of these windows, fanning their faces with their handkerchiefs, have received decidedly more attention. Those spheres in front of the building, directly at the foot of the steps, have served as subjects for Prof Rondinella several times. Our friends in that school have signified their intention to be sisters to us by writing to our paper, The Eternal ARGUs, but we have received no offers yet to mend clothing or sew on numerous buttons, which have been put in a state of disconnec- tion by our efforts to survey those vacant lots in the suburbs. Neither have we had any outcomes of the cooking, departmentg this we attribute to their desire to be merciful, which is another proof of their sisterly feeling. But never mind, girls 3 when we act on the suggestion of Coun- cilman Smith which he gave to you and Us at the commence- ment of '88, we will have our turn at the stove, while you are looking for the latest and correct in everything. Our cooking 64

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him, in a fit of envy, to sweep them into perdition and raise some on his eyebrows. Our Sisters turned out in full force on the day ofthe Sports, and many a,weary contestant, like Koch, has been urged on in the race for medals by an Ah there ! from the grand stand. They know how to hurrah, too, when we engage in an amiable hat mash with the boys of the High School. Of course, the hurrah means Us, but to see them laugh when Jennings picked up the remains of his hat Qwhich was about the size of a ten cent piecej would send a chill of delight down the inside of your epidermis. At our first commencement they were out for sure and added quite muchly to the occasion, though we are soriy to say instead of listening to that 1 hour and 20 minutes talk on Storage Bat- teries, they were more attracted to a certain box in which sat Hults, Chiles, Curtis, Ruoff and Lawrence. This might be a con- ceit, but from the direction in which the opera glasses pointed, we beg leave to judge as we do. Some of our honorable ushers seemed to be more taken with the first balcony for some reason or other, but though we say nothing, perhaps we think a great deal. Now, girls, we are going over our grievances 5 in the first place, you take up all the room in theqcars on rainy mornings, except that on the roof, and many an honorable student has taken a dose of H20 externally, which drops down his neck, while he takes a h'ont seat on the back platform. The first morning you come to school after vacation the sidewalks are blocked, and it would take a squad of Fitler's men to clear away, consequently our people either walk in the street or else take a short cut a longer way. These, of course, are very trifling and we should not think of them, but only the advantages of Q . There stands on Seventeenth Street A building so sublime, That all the girls must reach there, just as the clock strikes nine 66