Washington Seminary - Facts and Fancies Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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THE STAIRS OF LIFE From the cradle The stairs of life Lure us. Those first few steps Are easy. We wonder at The simplicity of life, Until the fifteenth step Is a bit bumpy, And we stumble, Only once. Yet, as we climb, The edges of the steps Become more jagged. Fascinated, We push on, And, as we Near the top And look back, We realize Those jagged edges Made life. -Betty Lee. RAIN Do you like rain? I do. It is fresh Yet dull and monotonous. Some hate it, I like it. It glistens like gems On the trees, In the grass, Delightfully cool and clean, Yet saddening. Still I like it. It brings to me dreams Of home, Firesides, Of happy days long gone. Some hate it, I love it! -Virginia Murray. OUT OF THE DEPRESSION By GENEVIEVE BAIRD. Wall, joe, how am dis here depression iffectin' you? Oh, I'se jest easin' 'long, but Ah tells you, Willie, b'lieve me it's gettin' wusser an' wusser lookin' fer a job and yet keep- in' from findin' one. The people whom Joe used to work for had got the depression bug and had fired him to decrease expenses. How- ever, Joe's wife had not liked his being idle and she had sent him from house to house to ask the dear people to give him work of some kind. I'se got plenty 0' work, continued Joe, wid makin' dese here dice do what Ah wants dem to, much less worryin' mahself out tryin' not to find a job. But you know things is gettin' pretty hot. Why, jest yestiddy, Ah went to a lady by de name o' Miss White an' asked her fo' a job coz I hadn't had one in two years. An' you know what she says? Says she, 'you poor thing! Come by tomorrow and I'l1 see if I can give you a permanent job.' O Lawd, Ah hopes she gets de de- pression bug too, and . . . Lawsey boy, broke in Willie, don't you be a fool an' work fo' white folks. You work fo' de gover'ment. De gover'- ment, it gives you money whut is money. You know de gover'ment's under de N.R.A., an' no madder what you do, dey gotta give you lots o' money. De white folks, dey's s'pose to be under de N.R.A., too-, but dey ain't. Dey boot- legs der labor. Dey hang a blue eagle on de front do' and smile at de policemen an' nobody knows de difference. Ah'se got a good mind, Joe, to tell 'em. Oh, Ah knows 'bout de N.R.A. Dat's what Mr. Rose-a-velt done, ain't it? Dey say he s de man dat's draggin' back pros- perity. Dey's always talkin' 'bout how wonderful he is. Ah's sick an' tied o' hearin' Rose-a-velt done dis, an' Rose-a- velt done dat. Why don't dey say sum- pin' innerestin' 'bout him? Dey foun' somethin' wrong wid ever udder president. Why, ever'thing dat man does people likes. De udder day he says he wants ten billion dollars to help de po'r, an' you know as well as Ah do dat if day gives ten billion dollars, ever'body would be de po'r! Joe, you doan' know what you's talk- in' 'bout. Rose-a-velt's de one dat's gonna help de forgotten man. De forgotten man? Who's he? You ain't go no disgression, Joe. But Ah tell you, if you intend to go playin' roun' dese days, you sure gotta hab money. An' nobody's got it 'cept de gover'ment. Wall, it ain't gonna do nobody no wrong to see what proposition dey can make me. I'll be seein' you sometime.

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Washington Seminar PEACHTREE ATLANTA AN EFFICIENT AND BEAUTIFUL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS DISTINCTIVE FEATURES Unusual attractiveness of equipment. Admirable combination of advantages of city and country. Open air class rooms for seasonahle weather. Athletics a specialty. Limited boarding department. Faculty of 28 experienced teachers. Average of 15 students to each recitation. Four courses leading to graduation. Member of the Association of Colleges and Schools of Southern States. For illzzsfrfafvfl mfalog, zzdclwss L. D. ScoTT and EMMA B. ScoTT, Prinvijmls FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 13, 1934