Rockport High School - Tatler Yearbook (Rockport, ME)

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12 Tllli 'l'.X'l'l,l'IR metalex, a very comfortable ruhher- metal alloy, which is also impervi- ous to the elements. Our guide in- forms us that nearly all mechanical communication is hy means of telo- radio phones: hy using them one may see another while conversing, even though separated hy thousands of miles. Highways of the year 2000 A. Il, are divided into four lanes, one for each of the standard speeds, 40, 75, 100, and 125 miles per hour. These highways are regulated hy electric 'tpolicemen , or control hoards: one car cannot cross ever into another lane in which a car is aapproaching in the opposite direc- 'tion. Pedestrians are restricted hy law to the side-carriers, and the lanes are one-way this practically all accidents are eliminated. Une doesnt have to manipulate the con- trols of his machine, for, hy opening a designated switch, complete con- trol of the hullet-shaped electro-ear may he turned over to the police- inen . One wonders where all the electricity, which is so important in the life of the city, is obtained. Our guide then tells us how man has harnessed the vast, unlimited power of the cosmic rays. Great plants throughout the world distrihute it to millions ot' cosmo-receivers, own- ed hy everyone. This eliminates any need for wires, cahles, and the like. Great progress has also heen made in the field of aviation, and trains and ships-of-the-sea have nearly disappeared. Shaped like rockets, with proportioimately small wings, gigantic strato-planes, powered hy electricity, roar ahove the terra fir- ma-nearly fifty miles ahove, in fact,---at speeds ranging from twelve to fifteen hundred miles per hour. .Xs we leave this not-too-distant fu- ture for the more familiar surround- ings of 1030, our parting impression is one of dynamic power and speed, the electrical spirit of 2000, A, D. Carroll Ilnse Richards, '11 THE TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT It was tlhristmas live again. A light snow was falling through the air. In the distance a small hoy was trudging along. As he came to the brightly lighted stores he pressed his little pug nose hard against the window to see hetter all the pretty toys which he wanted so much. The husy Christmas shoppers paid no heed to the little lad as they brushed passed him. He wasn't a pretty child hut he was what most folks would ca-ll 'tcnte with his red head, pug nose, and many freckles. 'Pears flowed down the side of his face as he shivered in the cold. I must sell these papers , he thought, so I may get something to eat. I am so hungry. Just think, I ain't eaten for a long, long ti-me. If only Mama was here I could go home hilt now with my new mother she licks me so hard when I dou't sell all my papers I am scared. Later one could see that same little child slowly walking along 'the resi- dential section of the city. Ile had just left another house filled with laughter and merriment which re- fused to huy his papers. Broken-

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'l'll IC 'I'.Vl'Llillt 11 elothes. 'I'he hrightest and richest and finest garments in the land he- longed to her. Un her head was a Iaey golden rap, and her tiny feet were encased in equally tiny green slippers, She wore a soft hlue gown and a dark yellow sash. Around her shoulders she fastened a flowing 1-ape ol' hrilliant red lined with vel- vety purple. Une day as she was walking a- mong her flowers in the farthest eorner ot' the palaee gardens, there name a great thunderstorm, She was tll'lfJ,'lltt'll4Pd heeause she didn't want her heautiful clothes ruined. She began to run. But she was too far away from the palaee to reach it before it rained. The rain eame flown i11 torrents drenlehing her as she raeed aeross the grass to the wide palaee doors. As suddenly as the storm eanie, it went away. The sun peeped through the hlaek elouds ulliieh rolled hack like eurtains. On a golden eord supported hy rods thrust in pots ot' gold, Amaryllis hung her wet elothes that the sun might dry the-ni. But alas! All the lovely eolors had run. Her elothes were ruined! VVhen .Xmaryllis saw this she began to weep. Finally she looked un, There she beheld the most. beautiful sight in the world. 'llhe colors had all run and hlended into eaeh other. First eame the red ol' her rape, then the yellow ot' her tiny 1-ap. Vlihere the eolors met and mixed was a deep shade of orange. The yellow of her sash and the blue nl' her gown blended into a soft glowing green. Even as she wateh- Pd, the sun shone down fully, and I the illusion vanished. They hung, just a dripping mass of onee heauti- t'ul garments. But in her mind the vision remained. She tried to dupli- cate tihe glowing colors ot' that short picture ot' loveliness, hut in all the land she eould find nothing that would equal it. .Xt last she decided to hang some clothes out inthe-next storm. .Xnd sure enough, just as the sun was struggling through the elouds after a sudden shower, she saw again that mirac-le. Ever sinee thal day she has hung out her clothes when she sees a shower com- ing. And the next time you see the rainhow arehed across the heavens you'll know that Amaryllis has hung out her heautiful garments so that you too might enjoy that glorious speelaele. Carolyn Andrews, Til. Modes of Travel and Communication In the Year 2000 Let us step into the future-a mere 61 years-to the 21st eentury. VVe are touring the eity of Boston. aided hy a guide, hut a far different Bos- ton from the present day metropolis. Round about we see huge buildings, some of which tower a mile into the ozone. 'I'hey are made of a shin- ing metal, exalumen, the strongest suhstanee known to man, being 100 times greater in strength than steel. As it is also lighter than aluminuin, one ean readily see its varied poten- tial uses. tlur guide leads to a near- hy side-carrier, whieh is an endless chain upon which chairs are mount- ed. lncidentally, these chairs are ot'

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'l'lllC 'PATLER 13 , . . hearted he started for his honie in the slunis. .Xs he deseended the stairs he stumbled and fell head long inlto a bank of snow, Soon llie snowing ceased and the :noon shone brightly making a sil- ver path along the snow. There in the middle ol' the silver colored snow lay a small frozen form, ln the early hours ot' the morn the gay couples departed from the party to return to their homes. All of a sudden one heard a wonian's st-reain through the laughter. All of the young pfople rushed to the snot to see there the little frail body of a lad whom they turned away froin the door penniless and whom if they had not been as selfish might. have saved. But they were only self- eenitered people who knew nothing the true spirit of Christmas. Pauline M. 'l'atha,m, '39. THE JOY OF LIVING The young Reverend Thomas Plalely stood by the shore of the lieinieibee River one Sunday morn- ing in early November. Ile seemed deep in thought as he looked at the river, that had frozen over in the eold ot' the last ithree days. Sudden- ly he left the shore but presently re- turned with a pair of skates thrown over his shoulder. As he put on his skates he looked aeross the river at the trees with th-eir bare arms stretehed up to the sky. Seemingly in worship of God for eretating sueh a glorious day. lt was early in the day since the Hey. Plately had a long way to go, 'Phe sun had jiist cleared all the elouds from the sky that usually make it difficult to t-ell the weather t'or the day. The Rey. Plately notic- ed this and also the woods on both sides of hiru. They were hushed as the birds had left to find winter quarters in a warmer place. Ile also thought of the many times he had gone to the church on Sun- day mornings. Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a neighbors buggy. He was suddenly awakened from his reyerie when he went around a eurye of the river and saw on the hill the little gray ehurch. Ile stopped, took off his skates and threw them over his shoulder. .Ks he went up he inet eaeh of his congregation with a glad Hllood Morning . That morning he preaehed a par- tieularly good sermon. lt seemed to him that the sight of so mueh of Gods handiwork as he had seen was an inspiration. After the serviee, he noticed that all the rather formidable deacons were gathered in one eorner of the eluireh, Presently he was called to them. One deacon said, You know, you have broken the Sabbath by skating to Church. But there is one ques- tion w-e would like to ask. Did you enjoy your skate down the riyer ? 'Phe minister looked around in surprise and then said, I must. say, l did . The older deacon Without consult- ing the rest eame towards him and speaking sternly said, You are dis- missed for breaking the Sabbath,