Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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Page 14 THE DOME come. Youire going to get well, dear. Don't you remember Gail? Bill, I love you so. Go to sleep now, honey. Iill stay right heref' Bill looked at her through his glazed, unsee- ing eyes, and apparently was content. Presently he went to sleep, and the doctor became more hopeful. Downstairs Dr. Henstore looked at Ann spec- ulatively. They were in a tiny house in Char- ney, the little village in New York where Bill had been brought. The Clays-Ann and her mother-had volunteered to take care of him. He looked at her speculatively because he was wondering just why she was content to go through life without any effort to make herself distinctive,- satisfied with being a plain little mouse. He looked at her hair drawn tightly back over her ears, at her pretty but colorless face, at the little gray dress she wore, and then he said a brutal thing to her. 4' Ann Clay, do you want very much to be an old maid? Well, then, if you don't, you neednit be one. I want you to take this money,- sev- enty-five dollars,- and I want you to spend it as I tell you. It's an investment on my part. I want Bill Eaton to worship you as he wor- ships this false dream of Gail Petersen. You are to go first to a beauty shop, and have your hair waved and fixed becomingly. I want you to have your face massaged and made up skill- fully. You will buy a new dress, bright-colored and youthful, and new shoes and stockings to match. If you need something else, get it and send rne the bill. Itfs now twelve o'clock. By four this afternoon you should be finished. Run along now, and be goodf' The doctor had just finished dressing Bill's broken leg, when the door opened to admit an insouciant person with red-gold hair, her little body dressed in a green frock which glorified her hair fa fluffy little skirt that impudently revealed the classic kneesi, her long slim legs in sheer stockings, her tiny feet in spike-heeled slippers. The doctor scratched his ear, and looked again. There could be no mistake. It was a new Ann Clay, a lovely little thing with a shyly iinpertinent red mouth and wide eyes! K Wlieivl what a difference, Ann. I knew you could be pretty, but who'd have thought you were a beauty! Forgive me if I've been rude, but you took my breath away. Bill, too, now fully conscious, gazed at her in wonderment. U You're Miss Clay? For a minute I thought you were a girl I used to know. You've been mighty fine to take me in this way, and when I'm on my feet again I'll try to repay you as much as I canfi at You may call me Annf' said the green nymph, 4' and I'll call you Bill, because you're going to see me around here whether you want to or not. You know the rest. They marry, and live happily ever after in a cottage in Charney, with two children, a canary bird, and a collie dog. Weill give you one more look at them. Bill and Ann are sitting in the living-room. It is night, and the children are in bed. The collie is asleep under the piano. Ann is writing a letter, and Bill is reading the paper, when sud- denly something he reads makes him give a startled gasp. Ann leans over his shoulder, and sees on the front page of the paper: 4' At about three o'clock this morning a green Rolls Royce sedan, driven by Miss Gail Peter- sen, New York society woman, crashed through a fence on the road down Bear Mountain and hurtled down the precipice. Miss Petersen was killed instantly, as were Clive Stanley and James Strange of Chicago. The other occupant of the car, DeWitt Harding, is still alive in St. Mary's Hospital, Tarrytown. I-Ie said that all of them had been drinking heavily, and Miss Petersen had been in a grim and quarrelsome mood, when- Bill slammed down the paper with a mut- tered K The wages of sin is-7' But Ann in- terrupted him. Darlingest, don't be melodramatic! We donit really care what happens Lo her if we have each other, do we?

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THE DOME Page 13 DRAMATIC GROUP - SPANISH CLUB In the hall outside she argued with herself. H I7m not selfish. I Want him to get well for his own sake, not mine. But, dear God, good- looking men come here so seldom! If someone has to die, make it a fat man with a bald spot, and let this boy get well. God, please-'i The little girl, who looked Fifteen and was actually twenty, stood tearfully in silence until a whispered command from the sick-room called her inside. ulVIiss Clay,', said the doctor, HI want you to do something for me. You see the boy's de- lirious, and he keeps calling for a woman named Gail. I-Ieis in a frenzy, and unless we can quiet him he hasnit a chance. I canit use a sedative for the purpose, because his heart has had too much of a shock to stand it. I want you to pretend you are this Gail. I know the Woman he means,- her last name is Petersen. You may have seen her name in the papers. She isn't worth the paper it was printed on,-- mixed up in all kinds of scandals, divorce suits, and breaches of promise. At present sheis traveling abroad with a man she didnit bother to marry. Her pet hobby is breaking conventions and tear- ing down ideals. Young Eaton knew her when he was in Annapolis. She was a cute little flap- per then, but she.has changed drastically. If he thinks you are Gail as he remembers her, he may quiet down. You've got to try it, anyway. Ann Clay, with many misgivings, knelt by the side of the bed and said softly, G Bill, I've

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THE DOME Page 15 Blacklooards and Boredom Ep G73 EDIZEVAL, Chinese, or lndian tor- But the best way of erasing fa board is with tures are havens of bliss compared a white chalk-laden eraser, to give you 'C fillers T to a thoroughly boring lecture- inf, These erasures make faces and profiles, period. You must do something. You simply cannot sit there and listen to the lecture. And yet you must appear to be paying attention to it. You canlt look at the ceiling, at the pic- tures, at the fioor, or start scribbling. He is sure to notice it, and say, in the icy tones he uses so well, and with the polar stare that all teachers can give you, glam not speaking for my own benefit, Miss? So you really must look at something on his own level, something behind him, something that will change every period. ln a classroom, this something is inevitably the blackboard. This is my port in the storm, my oasis in the desert. For to me an erased blackboard is the greatest field for imagination that l know. Three horizontal strokes of an eraser over 20 percent Spanish board-work re- minds you of the cross-section of Niagara Falls as shown in our physiography book. A sweep- ing, swinging curve, which you sometimes use when erasing boards, makesia perfect waterfall. Hard up-and-down strokes give the most Won- derful trees in winter-just the trunk and a few main limbs. even if they do lack a chin or the top of the head. Yesterday, too, l saw the most perfect little dog-house on the board,- minus the dog, of course. l think it was on top of a H present '7 list, so frequently seen on blackboards. For some reason or other, algebra and inter- mediate algebra blackboards have the best pic- tures or near-pictures. On these, more than on any other, you can discern canoes, babies, and even cats. The most wonderful picture l ever saw was over an algebra example. The board presented one of the most perfect colonial porches, with three trees in front. It had no windows, of course, but only one pillar was out of place. There wasnat even a roof to it, but it helped the boredom. You can seldom see the same picture twice, but trying to find one a second time lessens the boredom and helps to make blackboards more interesting. y l hope, some day, if I should die and go to heaven, that there will be blackboards up there, erased with the whitest of erasers, on algebra blackboards. Alma Polske. 5 , ff-it ' X 5' .. 2-, -i ,ff 5 gina- 1 elif- at 1 . Qs iiifzgfg gig , .fit , :i.51'-Hr le- 4 iilili- - cl'-, -,Z hifi L -,i fi ff. :, - - I- ,ja -ni ..,, ,f -Ly . fi ' - 717 1, - 4, 1, ,Z ,. . - , .Y - -M-,..?i,,,, S -T , -V rv, .-2 'z fkingl' an-- 1 Wi il cf' xi? 11 ' 125 W M ,s WA.-5 W- .- fa' f w . -- ,. 1- N... 1 A -4' vi- , X fy sexe. li- 5 --- .:- . , -ti 5, . 1 , 1 c'lt ,u. A ki.. L -' -V ' 1 . . -- ' 1 s' f L, .Lin-1.4- . ' 1 l V -as-,, J, f B -ff , .I W -M , . f . .s ff -- Y 1 fill ff' fi -at Q uf ' W i - A V, ff -- aww-.-f 42- M, egg,-Q .i M W B i tt I bf i J 'J'f'if Q. ' '-?fff: .2 V .J 'ZATIA ' 'Q-gig Q5 - l'3'?J.i Lv T A 'l ' T , bfiili- X f-fi ... -A - L. -V - , l mg yum 1- eff. , Lil., -f L f - r o fr .LU Fri. - --1'-,2,.:.,, -Y-, Y Y Y I