Samuel D Hanson School - Crescent Yearbook (Buxton, ME)

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The Creszmt 19 JANE'S CREED I hope that Jane isn't at the party to- night, said Elizabeth. It makes me tired the way she gets all of the girls to follow her. If she comes to Mary's party tonight I am going to make it as unpleas- ant as I can for her. I wouldn't do that, said Dorothy. I like her, and besides I think that she de- serves to have the girls like her. Did you know that she helped two of the girls make their new dresses for tonight P Elizabeth and Dorothy were on their way to the birthday party of one of their classmates. The girl under discussion was a poor girl who was working her way through school. She had many friends because she was always ready to help any- one in need. Elizabeth envied her because of her friends. Mary, Jane's friend, had invited all the girls in her class at school to her home for a party. All of the thirty girls were coming. Mary lived in a comfortable apartment on the third floor. jane had stayed at Mary's house after school and helped decorate. When Elizabeth and Dorothy arrived at the party Elizabeth's hopes were crushed for the girl under discussion was there leading in the games. When jane saw Elizabeth and Dorothy standing apart and not interested in the games she went up to them and greeted them. Dor- othy was soon playing with the rest, but Elizabeth was searching for a way to humiliate Jane. If Jane had been an ordinary girl she would have had a very unpleasant time. But she was a girl who was always trying to make others happy and of course she had a good time herself. When they sat down to the table, Elizabeth took special pains to sit beside Jane. Then, accident- ally, on purpose, spilt her ice cream into Jane's lap. This was intended to embar- rass Jane. With the carefree words, It will all come out in the wash, .lane put on a white apron and sat down to finish her supper. Elizabeth could find no fault with -lane's manners, but turning to Dorothy, who sat beside her, she said -in a loud whisper, Aren't her manners awful ? Jane's face turned red, but she went on as if nothing had been said. After supper the girls were playing games when Mary called Jane to her and told her that the house was on fire. With just a warning to Mary not to tell the girls, Jane mounted a chair and laughing told them that they were now to play a new game, everyone was to race putting on their coats and hats, because they were going outdoors. All hastened to put on their wraps ex- cept Elizabeth, who didn't want to soil her new white coat. Jane told Mary to lead them down the back stairs: she knew the front stairs were now in flames. , She then rushed for her own wraps, but as she did so she saw Elizabeth. Without a moment's hesitation, jane told her to put on her coat and follow. She realized that if Elizabeth knew the house was on fire she might be hysterical. The girl still held back, but Jane seemed so

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-1-1-v-F 18 Qibe Erescent Short skirts shocked some persons at first, now they are generally regarded as objectionable only when they are unduly abbreviated. When any style is carried to an extreme it offends taste. That is hardly a reason for condemning it alto- gether. Nor is it easy to believe that pub- lic morals suffer greatly by any fashion in dress. Women have been freed from the bond- age of garments that trail. envelop and clog. If the Women of Turkey have aban- doned the veil, the women of India the purdah, the women of the west will be argued with in vain to retrace their steps. VV hen fashion speaks, economic forces, social forces, psychological forces, eman- cipation, progress and all the rest mean nothing. The dressmaker breathes upon them and they are not. ' Bishop Hughes, a Methodist minister, defends the modern youngster. He says of the modern girl, We criticize their hair, their skin, their stockings, their shoes, their cosmetics, their manners, but we never had a finer set of young people in the Methodist church than we have to- day. As between the old hoop skirt and the present styles give me the short skirts of today. Remember those balloon skirts when two women met on the sidewalk, one had to step aside to let the other pass P When you are inclined to criticize the modern youngster get out the old family album and take a look. It will drive away your fears and reassure you in the full. If every American girl could be given the advantages of school until twenty-one and then enter upon the duties of home- making, business or industry, trained and fitted to meet them, America would soon be a paradise. The trained mind has re- sources, the developed body has reserves. which give a spiritual poise and balance that mean power. Only a very small percentage of Amer- ican girlhood continues school beyond the grades, a still smaller proportion beyond the high school. As long -as this statement remains a fact there will be dangerous and regrettable clearages in society. How the school years of every American girl may be prolonged is a question worthy the study of the keenest and most far- seeing minds, as Well as of the most patriotic. The next generation will need more than any other for centuries has needed, strong, earnest, Christian womanhood. On a thousand hills, hidden in countless valleys, on the edges of great forests, and on wide prairies, that womanhood is now being marred or made. It is for the think- ing American man made and woman of today to decide which. The nineteenth amendment to the con- stitution of the United States gives to woman the right to vote. May the girl of today so live and conduct herself that when the time comes for her to have a part in the voice of the people'-' she can hold her head aloft and proudly acclaim that she was reared in the Home of the Free and the Land of the Brave. MABEL G. HARMON, '2'7.

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Z0 The Gllrzsnent earnest that after minutes that seemed hours to Jane, she followed. When they reached the back stairs a glance told Jane it was too late. She shut the door that led down the back stairs and opened the window near the fire escape. The timid one was encouraged by these words, Come on. the others are waiting for us. Jane climbed out first and then helped her companion. When Eliz-abeth saw the people rush- ing around the house and heard the men shouting she became afraid, but she started down with jane. They had gone only a few steps when smoke came pour- ing from the window below them. The girl would have fallen if ,lane had not caught her. Soon someone from below came and helped the girls to the ground. A few days l-ater a very submissive Elizabeth came to jane to ask her pardon. Among other things she said that she would give all she possessed to have ,lane's disposition. If it was to be exchanged. laughed jane, HI would give it to you, but I know that if you try, you can feel the same way toward people. But how ? said Elizabeth. Well, I don't have any fixed rules. f You just try to forget the things you don't like about people and remember only the good things. I be- lieve that is what you have always done, said Elizabeth, and if I can get as much fun out of life and have as many friends as you do, I will do as you say. Everyone wondered at the change in Elizabeth, but few knew the real reason. GIULA TURNER, '27, AN ADVENTURE Oh, dear, sighed Margy Morris to her sister Beth, who was reading a new book and plainly showed that she did not want to be disturbed, Everything has been so dull and dreary lately. I wish something exciting would happen. Well, calmly returned Beth. just what do you mean by excitement? Didn't we have a good time yesterday after- noon P Oh, yes, of course, but I mean ex- citement! What happened yesterday that you could really call excitement? I'll tell you l she exclaimed, let's go skiing. Maybe we can have a little fun. We can fall down, anyway. All right, agreed Beth, who was not altogether overjoyed at the thought of leaving her story, but was always ready to please her sister. The two girls, arm in arm, soon left to go to a hill where it was good skiing and which was about a mile and a half from where the girls lived. Their father and mother had gone to visit their mother's sister and so the two girls were staying at home alone, except for the two servants who had become almost like their own family. As the girls were having a Vaca- tion, they often found time on their hands that they didn't know what to do with. Margy and Beth soon reached the hill and had taken several slides when Margy, going over a small hill, lost her balance and fell down, bending her ankle under her. At first she thought it was only hurt a little, but when she tried to rise she knew it must be sprained. Beth, who 'had