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

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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

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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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Glibe Crescent 21 seen her sister fall, did not think about her being hurt, as they had often fallen before. She started down the hill toward her, wondering why Margy didn't get up. Beth soon reached the place where her sister was lying and seeing the pained look on her face, tried to stop. She jerked her skis in doing this and broke the strap on one. As the winter had been an extremely hard one, the snow was so deep that it made it almost impossible for anyone to walk unless he was on skis or snowshoes. Well, we are in fora lovely time, I must say, dryly remarked Margy, who always looked on the bright side of things, even though her ankle was paining her dreadfully, here we are! one can't walk and the other hasn't anything to walk on. But what shall we do? said Beth, who looked ahead farther than her sister. We can't stay here all night. Why all the gloomy talk? said a voice behind them and the girls, looking back. saw one of the high school boys who had always been a friend to them. but who had never seemed to' be quite such a good friend until they saw him coming toward them. Together they ex- plained to him what had happened and he managed to fix Beth's ski well enough for her to walk home on, and after a little struggle, he and Beth managed to get Margy home. After the doctor had fixed Margy's ankle and she and Beth were sitting be- fore the fire, Beth remarked, Well! I guess we have had enough excitement to- day, to which Margy, for once, silently agreed. LENORA BERRY, '29. -1- A THANKSGIVING IN THE COUNTRY When I was thirteen years old my great-aunt invited me to spend Thanks- giving with her at her home in the coun- try. I had never seen my great-aunt, but I thought of her as a feeble old lady liv- ing in the country where she did not know much about modern ways. I was put in the care of a lady who was going to the station where I had to get off and take the stage. She knew the stage-driver and said that she would see me started all right on the stage. The only other passenger on the stage was an elderly woman who said that she was going to another town to keep house for a man and his sister. She was very talkative. She said, I hope they like stuffed meats. I always did like stuffed meats. Does your mother raise sage ? No, she doesn't, I replied. I live in the city and we don't have a garden. Oh, indeed ! Drawing her shawl around her and eyeing me a little critically she said, I have a nice dolman like the panel in my skirt. Perhaps you noticed the velvet panel in my skirt, but my daughter thought I had better wear the shawl go- ing in the stage. Then smoothing out her gloves she said, I have some new kid gloves that I have never had on, but my daughter thought I had better wear these going in the stage. She was quiet