San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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20 WHITE AND GOLD Q The Lure of the Desert Q 011, sun of the desert, How blinding thou art! XVith deep scorching splendor Thou triest my heart! The sands in thy brightness Arc bathed in pure golde Vast shifting wastes hiding Secrets untold 0h, moon of the desert, How kindly thy light! lishers forth the chill breezes iWhieh tell of the night! They breathe forth to man the old Vigor of life, Infusing new strength for the Morrowk hard strife. The Desert is hot, The Desert is cold,m The heart of the desert is merciless. ohl ; But the lure of her vastness.e The promise of gold, Are leading men on to glories untold! And who then can doubt, When the fight is half won- The Desert will atone For the wrong she has done! Marguerite Erzinger. ffjt TA F 001 There Was. A fur avrgunwuls mllm'tml to prom pm'ardoxically Mal fools arc philosoplliral and lhal folly ix salutary. Being one of those who hold the belief that tta smile is worth more than a crownti. that. The is great who makes a man laugh when he,d naturally rather frown? I am suspicions of people who say folly has no place in their lives. and it matters not whether the remark comes from a feeling of superiority, from excessive narrow-mindedness, or from inactive brains. To quote Meredith, I believe. T Jomedy is the saving grace. and that an excellent test of the civilization of a country is to he found in the fiourishing there of the Comic Idea. just as the test. of larger na- tures is found in the breadth of their power of laughterf7 So much for Folly in general. and now for ShakespeareTs comedies and his fools in particular. The elevation of these and

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WHITE AND GOLD 19 ? monyy . Leading from the log house was a narrow beaten path marked by crosses about thirty feet apart. The last cross. which was at some distance from the Morada. was about. ten feet high and very heavy. When the Penitentes tiled out of the house and started down the path. we eould see that one man r'as scantily clothed. He was bending nearly to the ground and we could hear him lashing himself at each step. It was so dark by this time that we could not tell what kind of scourge he carried. though often a. many-hladed spiny eaetus is used. With this it does not take many of the heavy blows to draw the blood. To shrink from the blow, to lessen its force. or to utter a ery of pain would mean cruel penanee. indeed. top one of the rules of the order has always been that any show of weakness must he expiated by long and painful ceremonies. sometimes resulting: in death. The men who accompanied this Penitente were white robes. They chanted mournfully. pausing at each eross to pray. When this slow procession reached the end of the path. the heavy cross was lowered and tied upon the Penitentels back. It was so heavy that it bore him down almost to the ground. Still he continued to wield the lash. To add to the awful weirdness ot' the. scene. the moon rose and east its ghostly light upon the sufferer and his cross and the sound of distant chanting came from near and far. mingling with the doleful songs of these frenzied ttllernianosll. At each cross the man knelt, p'ayed. and then struggling to his feet with his heavy burden. resumed his stumbling way. The stones cut his bare feet. The wind ehilled him. The scourge did its work without merey. Each time he knelt. it seemed that he would not be able to rise again, But, he never faltered. After the men had returned to the Morada, we crept eloser. horrified, yet fascinated. We eould hear strange soumlsethe dragging of chains and blows of heavy seourges within. Other processions arrived as they had during the afternoon. Now all were clad in white and carried torches. From distant Moradas. mournful wails and dirges floated to our ears. The chanting grew fainter. then louder. but never ceased. At nine oleloek, students and teachers assembled and left the terrible scene, horror-striekeu and wondering: that sueh things could be tolerated in a Christian nation, and only twelve miles From a civilized modern city. E1 SENIOR MUSINGS BY MARY GOOCH Yon Senior hath a stern and learned look. She. thinks too muehesueh girls are dangerous. This. above all--hand in thy lesson plan And it must follow. as Leovy does Miss Lamb, Thou eanst not then he failed by any man. Fear not. that when the faculty, closing your account and mineeshall know the like no more. The grand old Normal from her halls has poured Hundred of students like us. and will pour.

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WHITE AND GOLD 21 0f the clowns and the multiplication of their uses were a part of his reformation in the drama. with which he obtains some of his finest effects and whenever a situation becomes too tense and ter- rible, lightens it by an apparently aimless word-juggling ex- hibition by the fool and some, chance confederate. In ttAntony and CleopatraiL-it Will he remembered, the clown enters in all the last aetseand. afte- answering the queens queries concern- ing.r the asp, or ttworlu of Nilus.H which he, brings hidden in a basketeof figs. disappears with the words. HI wish you joy ol the worm.H In ttOthelloll, the clown acts as a ser'ant to the svarthy Moor, and taxes your patience with his verbal quibbling's. And now, by means of the Flying Carpet of Imagination. we, come through Mllhe, 'llempestll. to that enehanted-and enchanting island Where dwell. Prospero, the wisest of Magicians. Miranda. H0 thou wonder of the world,H and Ferdinand. the ideal lover, and with them as fools. the monster Caliban. the drunken butler. Stephano and the court jester, Trinenlo. In the ttMerehant of Venieell, I find that Shylockls servant. young Launeelot Gohho. he who fooled with his conseienee. fooled his blind father and assisted Jessica to fool her father. ainuses most people as well as any of the varied troop of Shalwspearels clowns, for- he is a shrewd little seamp, tiniinble 07 foot and tonguelh Good, too. is Antoniols pun. relative to the debt of the pound of flesh: HFor if the Jew do cut but deep enoughellll pay it presentlyewith all my heart One would not expect to find the slightest trace of humor in HlVIaeheth ebut even here is given a hit of broad farce in the speech of the jolly porter. Ile is used entirely for tone, relief. to sepaiate the nights murder from the agony of the struggle of eoncealnlenteand is said to he, the only my of light which penetrates the gloom of this great tragedy. In NRomeo and JulietH I wish you to recall especially the, gallant young Mereutio, tithe very pink of eourtesyll. who notionly died for his friend, but did it with a brave jest on his lips. ttCourage, man,H says Romeo, che hurt cannot he mueh.H HNo,H says Mereutio, ti itis not. as deep as a well nor so wide as a ehureh door, but ytis enough : ltwill serve. Ask for me tomorrow. and you shall find me a grave man. Two figures likewise claim attention from us in that romance. HA Winter's Tale? one being the clown and the otherAutolyeus. The former was most generous for he not only allowed his pockets to be picked by the light-fingered Autolyeus. Hthat snapper up of uneonsidered tritlesfl but when he meets him later at the sheep- shearing' festival, with his pedtllerls pack and his merry songs. he buys for the maids until he ean do so no longer, I like Autoly- cus-he is one of the most attractive of what has been called uThe Army of Disreputablesli and he is really of use in exchang- ing garments with Florizel at the latterls need. It is in ttTroilus and Cressidall, little read and seldom acted. that the arrant young fool there. gives 11s the much quoted line. hOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin? and that it