State College High School - Maroon and Gray Yearbook (State College, PA)

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MAROON AND GRAY 13 again themselves, they looked at each other in amazement. “Well, what will we do?” asked Babs; 1 won’t go home and tell the folks that we weren’t a success”. “Neither will 1”, responded Gerdy. “Something will happen to help us, so let us go to bed and perhaps uncle will feel differently about us tomorrow”. At six thirty the girls appeared at the breakfast table in their garden clothes. Nothing was said about the episode of the night before, so the girls went out with Uncle Joe to the garden plots. At ten thirty he told the girls to go for the mail and perhaps they had better send a card to their parents telling them that they in- tended to come home. “I guess Uncle Joe didn’t change his mind”, said Gerdy, as they walked toward the village post office. “No, and I suppose we may as well go home and face the rebukes of our friends. My, but I hate to do it!” exclaimed Babs. When the girls arrived at the post of- fice they heard excited voices within and also this exclamation, “Hush ! The ghosts are coming”. “Oh, Babs, they know about our fun”, whispered Gerdy. “I won’t go inside”. “I will”, said Babs, walking defiantly to the office window. In a moment she appeared with a letter. “Oh, Gerdy, I’ve got a letter from home”, and Babs hastily tore open the envelope and glanced at the written page, then read aloud as follow's: Dearest Daughter: Father has to make a business trip out west and will be gone for a month. He suggests that we accompany him and take the car. He says that you can get tan- ned driving the car and also get muscle fixing blowouts, so wouldn’t you like to come home? Babs stopped. You were right Gerdy, something did happen”. R. K„ ’19.

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12 MAROON AND GRAY have retired, so we’ll have the pleasure of greeting the visitor”, said Babs, as she crawled into the hammock. Be still Gerdy. The shadow is moving —it’s a man! He looks as if he has over- alls on, and Gerdy, 1 do believe it is neigh- bor Jones’ hired man. What do you sup- pose he wants?” asked Babs. ‘T wouldn’t doubt but that he is com- ing over to sing love ballads to Miss Bar- bara , answered Gerdy in a relieved voice. “Nonsense! What do you mean?” hen 1 was at the post office the other day some of the men were teasing him about dreaming of the light-haired farmerette, and it must be you, for my hair is dark brown. 1 wouldn’t doubt but that it was he whom my aunt heard”, whispered Gerdy. e'll fix him so he won’t dream about her any more. Gerdy, you slip through the open window on the side porch and get two sheets that your aunt just washed today. They are on the top of the clothes basket in the corner of the kitchen. Be quick and I’ll watch here”, finished Babs. In a few seconds Gerdy was back with the sheets. By this time the “dreamer” was within a few rods of the porch steps, so that the girls were compelled to lie quietly in the hammock and wait for the next move. Slowly and quietly the man walked around the front of the house and at the side the footsteps ceased. The girls conjectured that he had stopped be- neath their bedroom window. Now was the time for their work. Quickly they draped the sheets around themselves and stealthly slipped from the porch to the op- posite side of the house from which their guest was located. “Now Gerdy, you slip over by the elm tree and hide behind it until I send my friend over in that direction. He will likely come in a hurry, so be on the look- out. I hen if he seems inclined to hang around, which I doubt very much, make your appearance and follow after him un- til he is off the premises. Now hurry, and be ready for action”. With these words Babs started around the house. It seemed only a few seconds to Gerdy until she heard a muffled scream, and then a dark figure, followed by Babs in white, darted towards the elm tree. Gerdy was ready for action, and as she heard the panting near her. she made her appear- ance. Another groan of fright and the poor hired man made another dash for safety. The girls now heard sounds with- in the house, and glancing at the fleeing man and deciding that he did not mean to stop until he reached his farmhouse, they hurried back to the porch where the uncle and aunt were standing wrapped up in bed clothes. Babs was the first to regain her breath, and she gasped, “ e—thought we’d—have —some fun, but didn’t mean to frighten you”. Gerdy then came to the rescue and explained the affair. The uncle and aunt, after hearing the story, looked serious. Uncle Joe was the first to speak. “I’m afraid, girlies, you have had too much fun. I don’t like to have ghosts around my place, and if you are going to attract all the young men around here to come prowling around my house at night as you have in this case, I would suggest that you give up being farmerettes. Neither of you are much good as farmers and I can’t afford to waste my time show- ing you how to do things. Babs looked at Gerdy and Gerdy looked at Babs until their auntie said, “Let’s go to bed now and we’ll talk about it in the morning”. The procession slowly climbed the stairs to their rooms. When the girls were

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14 MAROON AND GRAY 1919 CLASS WILL NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the class of 1919, of State College High School, of the city of State College, State of Pennsyl- vania, U. S. A., being of sound mind and memory, do hereby publish this our last Will and Testament. No doubt some articles we bequeath may seem small, but their actual value can be measured only by the joy, peace, content, misery, amusement, sport, enter- tainment, etc., they afforded certain members of the 1919 Class or the Faculty. Some of these gifts have been our best friends for only a few months, while others were born in our infancy four years ago. (lather near. then, all of you, and receive your bequests from our dying hands with our last wish, namely, that you make the same use of them as we did. We give and bequeath unto the insignificant members of the class of 1920 the row of seats commonly considered the rightful property of the Senior class; the aforesaid seats are to be NEXT to the eastern wall but not AGAINST it. Also all the regal privileges understood to go with the said seats, enumerated below ac- cording to their intrinsic value: First, the “Animalistic Tendencies”, usually thought of by Miss Buckhout to be the property of Ernest Royer, together with the parrot language and similar barn- yard noises. Second, the Physic’s apparatus, broken, lost, confiscated and otherwise dis- qualified, to be utilized in their futile search for the ever-forbidden fruits of that science. Third, to those students of Miss Jones’ hobby, namely, the gentle art of type- writing. the Seniors efficiency of placing the shields on the machines upon the un- expected appearance of the said member of the faculty. Fourth, to the girls of the 1920 class, the privilege of loafing in the library en- joyed by the present Senior girls. Fifth, to the Sophomores and brilliant upper classmen who may be exposed to Caesars’ Commentaries we give this warning: “BEWARE of Miss Buckhout’s long- ing, craving and capricious appetite for the acquirement of an additional volume of the same in English”. Sixth, to all succeeding classes, especially the 1920 class, we give the great re- sponsibility of always keeping the Maroon and Gray up to the high standard to which WE have raised it.