St Rose Academy - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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q----154 GoLD AND WHITE Dorthy Prost Qin an argumentj :--Anygdumbell can see that! Georgia Alegretti:-Well, that's where you have the advantage over me. id Virginia Sullivan was sent to the drug store. She asked:-Druggist, can you fix up a dose of castor oil so that it will not taste? Druggist:--Certainly, if you will wait a few minutes I will HX it. Will you have a drink of soda while you are waiting? Druggist disappears behind the partition to reappear a few minutes later. Is that all you require? Virginia:-Yes, thank you. Is it ready? Druggist:-You've just drank it. Virginia:-Gracious, that was for mother. Sister:-So you don't know what a sonnet is, or an ode, or a ballad? Ellen Geide:-No. Sister. Sister:-Well, then, do you know what a madrigal is like? Ellen:-I don't know what a rigal is like, let alone a mad one. ll-J We know of some freshmen who hung around an oil station all day because they saw a sign, FREE AIR. if Roads When Caesar built his Roman roads, From ancient Gaul to Greece, I-Ie never dream't of traffic A'cops, In piping times of peace. But now we've roads that wind and climb. And roads by sea and river, But where, oh where! is the road that's free From the rattle of the Hivver ? In hill and glen and spreading vale And lonely mountain pass, The fragrant air of other days Has vanished in the gas . CATHERINE LAGAN. N There is nothing so unsatisfactory as to announce that you have a secret which no inducement can prevail upon you to reveal and then have no one coax you to break your resolution. il It takes a Scotchman to turn a corner on two wheels. Eighry-Iwo

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l ---f-,534 GOLD AND WHITE y3f-:---l-- Imagine the intense disillusionment the day Margaret Gibbons didn't know who was absent. Imagine Elizabeth I-Ienne not knowing the memory passage in German. Imagine Sister's delight the day all the girls in the Spanish room knew the page. Imagine how the college professor who was out after butterflies felt when little Mary O'Looney asked: Are you the dog catcher? 254 Graduate:-Will you pay me what I'm worth? Employer:-I'll do more than that, I'll give you a small salary to start with. is One day in Chemistry the lesson was on potash. Immediately a hand was raised which denoted that one bright child had information to impart. C?j asserted she knew all about potash. They used it in her own home. Yes, Mother even used it as a cake frosting!!! Sister was very much surprised as that was the first time she ever heard of potash being used for a cake frosting. The next day very much abashed, CU said meekly: Sister, please, I meant pistache. 34 First Freshman:- My sister graduated with a hundred and three degrees. Second Freshman:-'AIS that possible? First Freshman:- Yes. She worked herself up into a fever on commence- ment day, 154 Barber:-Is there any particular way you'd like your hair cut? Freshman:-Yeah. Off. if Agony Haunting, staring into my soul, As slowly sleep came to me, Moving, passing from this earth, Nothing but darkness could I see. What a feeling-to know one is dead! Things were black all around me. What would next happen then entered my head, All this my untold misery. Trying to move was all in vain, Firmly was I held down fast By some unseen power, All I knew- This could not last! n What's this? A vision do I see? Now the light is coming, no doubt, I shuddered as I opened my eyes, At last my tooth was out!!! Eighty-one

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GOLD AND WHITE y3+e---l-- At the beginning of this term Eleanor Collins went to O'Connor E5 lVIoifat's and said to the saleslady: I would like to see a uniform to fit me, please. Saleslady:-So would I. 14 It was the seventh birthday of little cousin Bevy, The birthday cake they brought her was indeed a cake most heavy. But the guests were all delighted and the cake was quite alright 'Cause of course it was the candles that were on it made it light. RUBY LAYNE. il There's the one about the Scotchman who died and left a million dollars to the mother of the Unknown Soldier. if Gertrude:-What are you going to do with your uniform? Annette:-I don't know. I-hadn't thought about it. Gertrude:-Why don't you give it to the Salvation Army? Annette:-Wouldn't fit 'em. if He was tall and straight as the tallest pine And big as men of old. And he carried himself with the high proud air Of a heart that's true as gold. With eyes of blue and hair like gold, A handsome lad was he. He'd a smile like the sun and a voice like a song. Tears fill my eyes now for he's gone-gone-gone. I still hear the echo of his happy goodbye, But remember his motto and rule, For he'll come back, oh I know he will, This plumber's gone home for his tools. WINIPRED MULLIN. ii A gentleman entered a drug store and asked with a questioning air: My dear kind sir may I ask you, have you anything for gray hair?' Whereupon the Druggist answered with a dignity select. No, my friend, nothing at all but the greatest of respect. RUBY LAYNE. 1 14 Macbeth:- Make haste, old women, make haste. The Three Witches:-i'All right, Mac, all right: we'll bewitch'a in a minute. Eighty-three