Richmond Womans College - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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groves in clistaut l lo1'iclzt, Agnes ,lhiette lezicliug 21 great CZllllCKll'lll choir, :tml l' Myrtle lhzulsliaw singing her way into Grand Opera. Matty .Ioncs will become fzmious in the sonatas she will compose. the 1'hytlim and tempo lacing Zll'l'ZlllgCll according to the 'Song without lllorcls Mctliocl' of Profcssoi' Unkclf' Stay! great Prophet, we implore 'Ere thou leavest one word more. Shall these be unwed all their lives? In many maids, how many wives? Wives indeed they all will beg Not one old maid here can I see. For she who here a degree can take Will any man a good wife make. So fare-you-well, most noble class, I now to other schools must pass. The Prophet goesg you all are pleased I see. Alas, that he should have forgotten me! CLASS PROPH ET. 46

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Truly orators there are, and the lirst to win fame in this way shall be Lavy Wallace on 'l low to drive a tour-in-hand, Cupid being in the harnessf Marguerite tiardner on 'The Sure Cure for Seasielmessf and Edwina Herring on 'The Correct Xtay to Spend XX eelc-ends.' l'.illian Savages voice will do mneh to inllnenee men to temperance. and the world will stop to listen to Ruth Oliver while she proves that ',-Xgricultnre is a Science and a lfine Art., her own llucking- ham farm being a living demonstration of her theory. XYho among ns. O l'rophet, shall venture into the medical world and wrest from llrother Klan diplomas marked M. ll? ln far away South America l.ovelene Neale and Grace Oakes will take their places as medical missionaries. and another. Gladys Moody, will very soon enter that noble profession as 'Doctors lirst assistant' Religion and humanity call for recruits. Gut of our ranks they ask for more wrestlers for the cause. l hear you say, O Prophet, l'linda Yancey and .Xnnie Robertson in foreign countries shall tell the story, and Gladys Smith l give as llresident of the .lapanese National Y. XY. C. .-X.. Olney Thornton as Dean ol the Richmond X'Yoman's College Home in China, and Helen lilrown to make beautiful speeches for Y. XY. C. .-X. in admiring imitation of Miss -lessie XX'ilson addressing undergradnates. To better conditions in the slums of l'hiladelphia Nlae llanpt shall devote her ellorts. while Kathleen Parrish and XX'innie Ray Allen shall vie with each other in being the -lane .-Xddams of liielnnondf' Who are they. O l'rophet, who shall help carry on the work of education and prove to the world that those who tool: Doctor Nelsoifs advice and substituted Pedagogy chose the better part? llehold! the new Woman's College a few years hence with Edna Aldhizer installed there as llean. Lucinda Sizemore as l'rincipal, and Linda Harrison as Professor of Mathematics. llanover County will then have a new public school superintendent-none other than Ada Long. lint I hear voices calling, Classics and humanity have taken all our sisters. I las the class of IO!-1 no devotees who will bow at the shrines of Art and Klusie 7' The class of IQI4 contributes valuable additions to art in Margaret XYalkup as a landscape painter of distinetion. Katherine l'larney's miniature paintings shall attain world-wide lame and even yet the 'Catherine Stiff man' shall vie with the liisher and XYenzell types for popularity. St. Cecelia will be satisfied when she hears the voice of lithel lrlughes charming the natives of the orange 4-5

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Last Will and Testament li the Class of Nineteen l lundred and Fourteen, of the lYoman's College, in the city of Riclunond, llenrico county, Commonwealth of Virginia, being of sound and disposing minds, do hereby make. publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all other wills at any time made. livin One.-To our dearly beloved President. Dr. james Nelson, we will and bequeath a catechism especially adapted for ignorant college girls so that they will know something about the l3ible thereby proving that there is a vast dillerence between something and nothing, and also a revised edition of Tennyson which shall contain Into each life some rain must fall and still not disturb the shades of Longfellow. Wfe will to Mrs. Nelson her own personal john so that Mrs. Grove may have undisputed possession of the long established and time-honored college john. H0111 'li'Zt'll.-XTC will and bequeath to Doctor Xkioodward, our much- esteemed English professor, the famous Ruth Ashmore column in T110 Ladies' Hmm' .f0lH'1lt!f so that he can have his side talks with girls and also that he may be assistant editor of the page on XVoman's fashions and why they change. ffl'lIl 7'l11'1'c.-'l'o Miss Anderson we will and bequeath a right roushedly trip to New York so that she may have an opportunity to spend the nine dollars left from the ten dollar bill she took to that city Christmas, also another junior Literary class whose brilliant papers shall literally flood the desk of the t'l1f,rvl liditor. Inasmuch as our fair matron, Mrs. Grove. is already pro- vided with a handsome gilt cage for her song-bird we will and bequeath a companion cage for her l.lird-song. also a chest of patent medicine war- ranted to contain a cure for that deadly disease known as 11101'b11s Stlbbcrtirzzs. lfflll 19111111-lV.e will and bequeath to the junior Class another junior Class which will be as good to them as they have been to us. firm 17i':'v.-To our faithful Mr. Summers we bequeath a private cafe where he can get meals at odd hours day or night and thereby not be handi- capped in his professional career by having to be on time for college meals. and for Mr. Royster we do devise a North Carolina smile which can be seen for miles and miles, lfv111 .S'i.r.-We will and bequeath to Miss Taylor an aeroplane so that she can take trips to Norfolk and back between phone calls. and also another Tom Hoy for T. llall. lfor the benefit of Miss lflarris' cousin we do will enough light and heat to last until 10:30 l'. M., and to Miss l-lume we will 47 4 A