Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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98 QIEUIZIIS uf IKIJHHURB 1917 The Christmas holidays were approaching and Helen Mathews had written her brother that 'Ann McFarland was going to give a house party Christmas and was going to have several of her college friends. Won,t we have a good time?', wrote I-lelen. Ned did not spend much thought on the prospective house-party guestsg all that he thought of was, If only It could see that sweet little girl whose initials are 'D. Pf o On Ned's return home for the holidays, when he passed the station where the girl got off he looked to see if he could see anything of her, but she was not there. When he reached home Helen told himythat Ann was going to give a dance that night for her guests and they were invited. When Helen and Ned arrived Ann came forward to meet them and took them around to introduce them to her friends. She introduced them to five, but one girl was missing. Where is Dorothy ? she asked. ' Oh, there she stands talking to Mary Jones, spoke up one girl. Ann approached her and said, Come, Dorothy, I want you to meet Helen Mathews and her brother Ned. ' t Dorothy turned and shook hands with Helen, then she extended her hand to Ned. As she glanced up she saw the same big brown eyes looking at her that she had seen on the train. She also saw that he recognized her. The color rushed to her face and she turned away. But other guests were arriving and soon the dance began. Ned looked at his programg the third dance was with Dorothy Page. Ned danced his worst during the 'first two dances because all the time he was thinking of the third dance. At last it came and he hastened over to Dorothy's side. Shall we dance or sit this dance out? he asked. I prefer to sit it out, answered Dorothy. So Ned found a nice quiet place beneath some tall palms and then they began to talk. Ned told her that he had recognized her as the same girl he had taken the snapshot of, and that he still had the picture. She laughed and said that she had recognized him, when she met him, as being the same man she had seen on the train when she was on her way to college. ' as as as vs as as At last the Christmas holidays ended and the young people returned to

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1917 Qtciur11s,nfBua11uke 97 utes the porter entered carrying a little satchel and a brown sealskin coat and placed them beside the girl. The satchel was turned in such a way that Ned saw two initials on the end- D, P. I wonder what 'D. P.' stand for, he whispered to Billy. So do I, replied Billy, maybe it is Dean Preston, or Drucilla Powers, suggested Billy. Or it might be Dorothy, answered Ned, but I don't know what the last name could be. I surely would like to see her face, said Billy. So would I, responded his friend. I'll bet my last quarter she is a college girl, Ned. I would not be afraid to bet mine, either, on that, old chum. Ned, it seems that she is never going to turn her head this way, so I guess we had better look at the landscape as we are passing. At this both boys laughed and immediately became occupied in looking out of the window. . When the train was entering a small town where there was a girls' college, the boys' attentions were aroused by the porter's appearing and getting the young lady's coat and satchel and they saw that she was going to get off. I've an ideaf' whispered Ned to Billy. What is it? whispered back Billy. It's this, said Ned, when she gets off the train I am going to place the kodak in the window and when she is on the platform, snap her picture. See? That's a hne idea, I never had thought of that, Ned. The train slowed down and the girl left the car and when upon the plat- form, she turned to see if the two new men who were sitting opposite her on the train were still there. Ned snapped the kodak. just as he looked up his eyes met a pair of big blue eyes which belonged to,a girl with wavy golden hair, pink cheeks and a rosebud mouth. All that Ned could do was to stare. In an instant the girl's gaze dropped and she turned away with a picture before her of a tall dark man with shining brown eyes and thick black hair. Upon reaching college Ned had his film developed to see if the snapshot of the girl he had taken was any good, which, much to his delight, was the very image of her. I-le took the picture, put it in a little silver frame, and placed it upon his writing desk, where he could look at it when his mind was troubled over his studies. The first term passed rapidly away and Ned had many dreams of the little girl whose picture occupied an important place upon his study desk. so 66

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1917, Qtcurns uf1Rnanukz 99 their colleges. Ned the happiest of all, because Dorothy had promised that he might come down to the college to see her. In April, Ann wrote to Helen: My dearest I-lelen: Ned has been a frequent visitor to our school since Christmas and next fall you are going to have one of the sweetest little sisters- in-law in the world. Dorothy tells me that it all came about by his taking a snapshot of her as she stepped off of the train last fall on her way back here. You know, Helen, he told us he was carrying his kodak because there was such pretty scenery around Yale-well, it seems that Dorothy happened to be the scenery this time. A Your loving friend, Ann. CLAUDINE AVENT, 'I 7. One of the pupils in the lntermediate' asked: Miss Bierbower, are you going to change your name when Roanoke goes dry?H ' Jean Franklin is asked for ten cents toward getting a band for the L. S. game. I haven't got any moneyf, S. E.. S. fgiving her ten centsj : ul-lere's ten cents, give it to her. Quinn: What, is he paying alimony already? Beale: What was the dreaded African disease?', Pupil: lt is a disease caused by a protozoan in which you go to sleep and wake up deadf, Payne fas he came to the word damn in Shakespearej : Er-he-hum- hum-he-er.', Miss Critz: Who has chewing gum? Spalding: Do you want some, Miss Critz?,' Girl flooking at Mr. Kellylz O, U. Charlie'Chaplin! Miss Critz: 6'Clement, are you concentrating? Clement: Yes'm, l'm thinking about Santa Claus.