Rowland Hall Saint Mark's - Hallmark / Lantern Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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VLift otuance of jWaps! (A page from Marian’s College Board Examination!) Maps have always interested me because I have never been able, really, o under- stand them. I have often wondered how they came to take this particular form; that is, who decided that north should be on top, instead of east, south, or west; who divided up this world of ours into such a maze of latitudes and longitudes, and what right had they to do so. We are brought up to take these things for granted, but now and then a doubt creeps into my mind; may he throughout the ages mankind has l)een up side down. In what dark age maps were invented, 1 do not know. It may have been in the stone age, for there are indications of such markings on the walls of ancient dwell- ings; or, their use may not have come in to fashion until civilization was supposedly fairly well advanced. At any rate, it stands to reason that as soon as man began to do any extensive traveling he probably developed the habit of carrying a sheet of paper or a block of stone about with him, on which he had previously marked his course. But it was not until the invention of the compass and the proof that the world was round that man had the benefit of his present day knowledge of a world divided into innumerable sections by countless lines. The most confusing thing about maps as we have them today, is that the colors are forever changing. If New York would stay green, once somebody had decided that it was green, and Pennsylvania pink, or Germany yellow and France purple, 1 am very sure that never, never would 1 call any of them England, if England were orange. But I suppose this seems very foolish to one who is not so entangled in the web of a map’s eccentricities as I am. Undoubtedly the benefit of these diagrams of the earth, or any section of it, far out-weighs their evils. Nevertheless, if I should endeavor to prove this contention 1 should lose my first point, and be forced to con- fess, that, after all, the real reason why 1 don’t understand maps is because I didn’t make them, divide them, and paint them myself. Page Twenty-four

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HANNA RUTH COHEN Before: Very flirtatious. After: Not at all. MARGARET MORAN President Before: Nonchalant. After: Still more nonchalrnt. BETTY DALY Before: Good. After: Better. FRANCES NIXON Vice-President Before: Negative. After: Superlatively sweet. DIXIE DOOLITTLE Before: Goody, goody. After: Quite the contrary. HENRIETTA GOELTZ Secretary-T reasurer Before: Angelic After: Dependable. ELINOR FRYER Before: Attractive. After: Good company. Page Twenty-six