University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A Psychological, Pedagogical, Physiological, Biological Phenomenon MRS. DE GRACE One of the strangest incidents that ever came under my knowledge happened this year in tlie Normal School. Miss E. and Miss S., two of the well-known and ]io])uIar young ladies of one of the higher classes, were the principal actors in the tragedy. Miss E. is of fair comjilexion. bright eves of the deepest blue, and lips that are always smil- ing. She dresses in perfect taste, and is a great ELLSWORTH favorite both with the faculty and students. Miss S. is Miss E. ' s intimate friend ; she has a dark olive complexion, large dreamy brown eyes, and brown hair that waves naturall}- over a high lorehcad. She is equally attractive to her friends, but is not so strong a student in her class work. lloth girls left the school for home, at the usual hour, on Wednesday. It was the day of the heaviest rainfall this vear. and as thev started

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Cora M. Boqulst Mamie Yaroe Jacintha Smitb mfiital collapse. And on .Monday, Fcljruarv 4, 1901. she sat down to write an nrijjinal story, and she has heen writing- ever since. She never suc- ceeded in endinjr the first one she started, and she can be seen to this day, sittine; in four feet of unnumbered sheets of manuscript, fallen on the floor just as she cast them aside. I came through from Venus with our cherished Guy Stewart. He is starrins; ' in seventeen of Jessie Day ' s serio- comic tragedies, [r. ' on X. gave him his first training, you know, and now he is so fine that he travels alone — the whole show in himself. Flora Kerr is his advance agent. Guy said that his most humlile worshiper is .Miss Hagan, who follows him from star to star to witness his uni(|ue presentation of Lohengrin, . ' Comedy in Three Keys. adapted by J. r)a -. These are all the items I call to mind at present. If I think of more I ' ll send them on. This is rather lengthy, but I remember that I ' m not the one who is paying for it. P)y the way, I wonder if I acknowledged the receijjt of your cards. Whatever made you go and marry that man? 1 know you always declared you would take any old stick before you ' d live single, but to change Florence Xewell to Mrs. Snakc-Charmer ! Well, address me at the Improved Ether Waffle Foundry, iii Half-Moon street, Sirius, as there isn ' t enough doing here to make a ])ermanent loca- tion worth while. Yours for Old Times, LoR. ' . Rii-:i.. Ella Redmond Bonnie Travis

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the rain seemed to come in torrents. When they reached Twenty-fifth street, the car was com- jjelled to stop, for the water was so high they coiihl go no further. ' I ' lie girls waited for sometime, but finally determined to try to walk home. They both started to cross to the sidewalk: when half-way across, a telephone pole, carried down the street with terrible force, struck liss E., throwing her violently to the ground. This so frightened her friend that from sheer nervousness she fainted dead away. The girls were rescued immediately, but both were unconscious and almost beyond hope before the ambulance arrived. They were taken home immediately and Dr. S was summoned. Miss 1 ' . had her leg broken in several places. Later comi)lications developed blood poisoning, and death seemed certain. Miss S , after regain- ing consciousness, appeared about as well as usual, and was able to be in school the next few days. lUit one day in pedagogy, it was noticed Miss S had rather a vacant, preoccupied look, while Prof. S ex])lained that the necessary steps to a proper f kiii were frr. and called on liss S to name them. Miss S rejilied, Marshmallows, olives, chicken, vanilla ice and electric lights. Consternation was written on every face. ' T will repeat my question, said the professor, steridy, looking at Miss S , who sat all unconscious of anything unusual. But the repetition brought the same answer. Then our genial professor said, looking sternly at Miss S , The fact of the matter is, Miss S has not been giving close attention, and such care- lessness will not be permitted. Xevertheless, he was troubled. The faculty believe in correlation in all sub- jects, so we were not surprised to see Professors D and S in earnest consultation during the short recess. But when the biology lesson was called, and Prof. D asked Miss S to name the five steps she would use in presenting a biology les- son, and when the same answer was given as in the pedagogy class, we began to feel cold shivers chasing each other up and down our spina! col- unms. We knew something was wrong, and discussed it in groups at noon. Some said Miss S must surely be insane ; others, that she must have fallen in love or been disappointed. That evening Mr. X , the accepted suitor of Miss S called to see her. He also noticed a growing strangeness in his betrothed. It seemed to him she was very cool and unconcerned. When he told of his plans for their happy future. He left earlv, and .Miss S started to retire. Sud- (lenl - the family were startled by a iiiercing shriek, and rushing to Miss S ' s room, they found her raving and tearing her hair in deli- rium. Or. S was called, and after an ex- nmin.Ttion. he pronounced her hupclesslv insane; caused, he said, from the terrible shock to her