Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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severity of her manner. From the next room came dire sounds. On entering, I saw Emma McKinley standing before her class flourishing a baton and saying, H Ready, now, begin l 'S Ta-za-fa, ta-fa ta-fa-ta, twenty-three in-ches make one foot, rhythmi- cally droned the class. Another surprise awaited me in the next room, for there was Gertrude Connor with prim dress, prim smile, primly parted hair, a sober, staid school-teacher, who never mentions the other sex except to say, H Ah-men l I visited Miss Elkins' room but found that she was enjoying an excursion to WVashington, as the most popular teacher in the city. On her desk, however, I discovered a book entitled ff Systems of the Earth lVorm, a Systematic Account of the Researches of the Class of 1905, of the Salem Normal School? The author of this famous book was Mabel Tur- ner, teacher of biology at Loring Villa. So our labor was not for naught. It is well! So there are several of the girls still teaching. Yes, and beside those I have men- tioned, I saw Florence Atkins in a dear little country school, Ethel Flanders, a missionary teacher in that country where 4' every prospect pleases, and only man is vile, Miss Henderson, supervisor of drawing in Rio Janeiro, Mr. Sheehan, permanent substitute in Danvers, and May Arnold, coach for the S. N. S. basket ball teams. While not exactly a teacher, still closely connected with schools as a member of the state board of education, is Elizabeth Ferguson, now clothed in cap and gown, the stately president of VVellesley College. Among those to whom she has given degrees is Clara Clement. Elizabeth has established a new course of study in the college, and the students are required to devote at least five hours a week to acquiring the art of story-telling. Martha Taylor is at the head of this department, where she has made it the aim of her life-work to raise the negro folk-lore to its deserved place in literature. Another educational branch which we must not forget is graced by the p1'esence of Bes- sie Bailey, our greatest scholar, and Isabel Bailey, upon whom has fallen the discarded mantle of Demosthenes. I wished to remain longer in the classic halls of Wellesley, but Dame Patience hurried me otf. IVe Hew down to Manchester-by-the-Sea to view the beauties of the place described in Lena Jones's famous poems. Cn the way we stopped to hear a few strains of an opera composed by Miss Cutting and rendered at Essex by the orchestra which she conducts. Then a few blocks away I saw-what I could hardly credit if it had been told me-May McDonough as drummer in a Salvation Army corps. May was always so bashful and quiet! VVhat strange change of character could have brought her to this? The musicians were playing a popular two-step, to which the other members of the corps sang the words of a hymn, and I watched expectantly to see May's feet keep time, but there was not a break in the steady march, and I could not help asking Dame Patience, 4' Is May afraid she is going to die V' The only answer I received was a chuckle as we flew on down to Manchester and thence to Lynn where I saw Maud Kennerson working on an arithmetic. She has already published one which goes far ahead of N ichols's. She charged me to send her all the impractical examples I could find. On the way to New York, Dame Patience herself gave me some information. Mabel Ca1'le is a professional story-teller, always prompt and ready with a story of any kind. Edith Gott retails original jokes at Minstrel shows, her favorite being, 'G If, in deep thinking, I should run my hand through my hair, and then discover a splinter in my finger, what should I naturally infer? 95

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about the Lynn girls. Laura Bailey has succeeded Johnny West, and no customer is ever told that she is ff just out of Squirrel Brands, but will have some morenext month. Nell Galvin still believes in the all-potency of sociability in the class-room and practices what she preaches. Bertha Fellows delivers semi-annual lectures on lo- cal geography to long-suffering S. N. S. seniors, and Mildred Graham speaks on ff in- signitieant Hgures, their uses and abusesf, Mary Perkins has given up teaching school and is keeping house for her beloved brother. Irena teaches music and gymnastics in a nearby school and boards with Mary. Sue herself followed her profession until she was gathered into a home's happy Foulds. QUand s don't talk, childrenj. Grace said she had just returned from Europe where she has been travelling as an advertisement of the wonders performed on an American voice by Hiram Corson's ff Voice and Spiritual Education ll bitters. While she was in England she visited Lady Dorrice, lady in title now, as well as in bearing and being. Grace told me also about Abbie and Katherine Enlind. She often visits Abbie, who, by her sweet face and gra- cious manners, has won everybody and everything, even the elements, the wind, snow and Hale. Katherine's little boys know nothing about ft George, the H hatchet, and the cherry tree, because their mother believes in telling only true stories. Alona had a great deal to tell me. She is in this state for a month for the purpose of lectur- ing on the college which she founded in the mountain region of Kentucky in answer to the piteous cries of the monntaincers. The missionary spirit was evidently strong in our class, for everyone on her staff is one of our members. Sadie Reed teaches draw- ing, Mollie Norton, gymnastics, Mary Gainard, language, Edna Ramsdell, botauy, Mary Metirath, geography, that ff science of the earth in its relation to the life of man, Lena Seitlen, aritlunetic, Millieent Perkins, housekeeping, and Ethel Swett, P. M., mono-to-ny. listher, now known as the school-niarm with the arm that never tires, so assidu- ously does she wield the rod, is still talking of going west. She said that Elsie and Lulu are still unseparated, for they teach in adjoining rooms in her building in Groveland. lfroiu Devereux we went to llostou, where, in a large publishing house, we found lless l'arker presiding over a body of reporters. Chief among these reporters was Jo Minard, who proliting by her work on ff the book, has produced some new kids for the eoxnie sheet ol' the Sunday paper, which are better than the ff Katzenjammers or even ff Willie Westinghouse Edison Smith. Bess said that she often received accounts of Ida lianeroft, one of the typical new women, president of sixteen different clubs and soeieties, and independent in all things. She also showed me a clipping which de- scribed a large ehureh wedding in which Gertrude Wooluer was one of the contract- ing parties. liertrude now presides over a mansion in Maine and is noted for bel' delieious spreads, Next, door to Ili-ssie's, Elizabeth lVhiteonib has an oliice where she may be found at any tiine, fully tputlilied to answer all questions on love and senti- llllflli. The witeh tooli ine next lo a eity sehool which had not yet closed. In one room l saw Ili-na teneliing the lillle tots to niaho aprons, pillow-slips and other useful and ornainenlal things. Stiuuling outside the next door I eould not hear tl. sound from within the rooui. It nas Miss llodglaius' rooiu, tho best disciplined inthe State, and I It-aiued that the set-rot of her success lay in her power to overawe unruly pupils by the 24

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lVhen we reached New York we went to the ofiice of the inventress Anna Childs, and she allowed me to use her Atlantic Audio-Cable 'i for the purpose of hearing Gladys Davis' talking machine which was running at terrific speed at its trial conversa- tion before the King of England who had granted Gladys a patent on it. We looked over Miss Childs' ofiice and talked with her awhile. lVe learned that through her efforts, benighted Henniker had been provided with the best electric-light plant in the state. Her partner, Com Mulrey has succeeded in making a mirror which will not ff cast reflections. Anna told me that two of our girls have gone to Henniker to live. Carrie Pease has set up a canning establishment and sugar refinery there, and receives her supplies from the fruit orchards and market garden of her neighbor, Ida Bello Bailey. lVe flew on to Boston and Mistress Patience gave me some more information. I have already mentioned some who deprived the state of those three hundred dollars. Ada Moulton must be added to the list, as well as Grace Snow, for they both gave up making fifty iive'year-olders happy for the purpose of making one fifty-five-year-older happy. Contrary to custom, Helen of Old Plymouth Towne was un-Tighed by the matrimonial knot. Both Amy and Edith Wilson shine in homes of their own. Sally Titcomb is the wife of a wealthy oil magnate, and one of Newportls four hundred. Amy Morrill presides over a cosy little white country parsonage, just as we expected. Kitty Clark is happily married to her former instructor, the dancing master. Carrie Johnson conducts very select whist parties at her happy home in Dorchester. Arriving in Boston we visited Mollie Crane who keeps one of the largest restaurants in the city, next door to May Feeney's manicuring and hairdressing parlors. While I was talking to Mollie, in came Nell Quinn, collector for a. large installment house, and Edna Selman Tutt, a book agent, whose motto is, ft VVhat if he doesn't want it! By this time my guide was beginning to get impatient, for she said that we had far to gog so we again mounted the broomstick and rode over land and sea until we came to the South Sea Isles. There we found the Cambridge Quintette, Misses Carmichael, McCullough, llrcsnahan, Connelly and Glynn, who had been hired by the islanders to frighten away the monster which was endeavoring to swallow the moon. Their Har- vard, llarvard, rah f rah Y rah l has proved very effectual. if Now, said the witch, you have either seen or heard about every one of your classmates, so we must return home, for my time on earth for this year is up at twelve. Then we came flying through the air and I found myself here in my oflice chair just as the clock struck twelve. sw