Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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,f vga, - I f V' ' f ff y , , ' y I ,E if 126, I SI ?2 ! ef is U Qi . . is ' U g ' fi s l,. ,fi i A , , 544 F pg.,-5 K . XKVVV g,2,f L4 . I .ffl ,K F -5 Q .. , WINDOWS They think they are more important than any I am just a window brush, but how many different homes I have visited and what differ- ent kinds of windows I have washed! It is very interesting work because they don't see many people to whom they can talk. so they tell me all their troubles. They have a great many of them, too. You see. the windows al- ways know all the family affairs, or the hap- penings in a store, or all the sermons in churchg it depends, of course. where they live. Perhaps you have never realized before how human windows really are. Did you ever notice how much a dirty win- dow locks like a little child with a dirty face? Then, after it has been washed and is all bright and shiny, it seems to sit upright and shout to all the world, Fee how nice I look! There is nothing more aggravating than a dirty window. Yet, even after it has been washed, it will not stay clean. Neither can a little child keep its face clean. After all. per- haps the dirt on the windows is none other than bits of sand hunting for their old friends and ancestors that were made into glass. A broken window is like a broken spirit. It was new and shiny once. the house to which it gave light was bright with paint. But no one cares about it now. The windows are stuffed with old papers and rags, the house needs paintfng and everyone is downhearted. Per- haps the downheartedness is partly the win- dow's fault, for some of them get discouraged quickly. If they are just a little cracked, they get very impatient before they are fixed again. other window, but think of the store windows and the valuable goods they are protecting. It has taken a great deal of work and care to make the plate glass windows and to bring them to the stores without breaking them. I am always very careful when I wash them. so as not to break them. These windows tell very interesting stories of the people that go by. They are very proud of their responsibilities and they like to show off the goods displayed if they are arranged attractively. Others are ashamed of themselves and of the slipshod way in which the storekeeper has put the things in the window. Sometimes I give these windows a little extra scrub to try to brighten up their spirits. After awhile some of them get as careless as their owners and do not m'nd if the cobwebs and dust do show. Some of the dirt, however. are marks of which they are far from ashamed. Last week I was washing the window of a candy store, and in one corner was the print of two little hands. Of course I started scrubbing them off, but the window protested and then told me the story. Two little girls had stopped to look in the window at the candy and had put their dirty hands on the window. One had said, I'd buy that big lollypop if I was rich. The other one answered, I wouldn't, I'd buy some animal crackers so I could give my Mumsy some. The window was proud to have that thought- ful little girl's handprint left there to remind him that all the world was not cold. Then some people consider windows merely glass.

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H I always like to wash the church windows, too, they are so beautiful. Did you ever stop to think of all the work there is in a church window? In order to make the stained glass, the designs have to be painted on plain glass first, then the glass must be heated until the designs become stained into it. In this way they portray main parts of the Bible and Christ's life. These windows tell me wonder- ful stories about His life and have such a calm and serene air about them that I always feel at peace with the world after I have been there. I like to wash the windows in a real home the best of all. Wfhen I am washing the out- side of the windows in the kitchen, I always imagine that a new batch of cookies or a cake has just been baked. Sometimes I'm wrong, but kitchen windows with pretty gingham cur- tains always look mysteriously important to me. Often they look as though they were planning the next meal, or a party, or some- thing else interesting. It is hard to resist the inviting looks that just hint at the baking that has been done. I always scrub the kitchen windows hard because a sunny kitchen helps to keep the cook in good humor. Sun parlor windows are always cheerful. Through them you can see the gay colored cushions and rugs and just imagine the good times the family has there. These windows are usually very tired in the morning, for many people keep their radios in the sun parlor and the noise and the sun make them feel tired. Many times people scold because these win- dows look streaked, and they blame it on to meg whereas, it really isn't my fault. It is hard for a window to have to look the sun in the face all day and keep shining, sometimes, if they are tired, it makes them cry. Of course that makes them look streaked, but if I have just washed them I get the blame. I guess people will never understand a window. If a window sticks, they slam itg if it dries in streaks, there is something wrong with the glass. I-Ialf the people don't give a window a fair chance. The Blue fr VVhite But consider windows as material things- could we possibly live without them? Think of all the light they give to your home, of all the sunshine they let in to brighten things up. Think what a cure for the blues it is to sit by the window and watch the people and auto- mobiles go by. Did you ever sit by the window and look out into the night? Think of all the different places the people you see are going. The lights of automobiles dart up and down the street, some going for pleasure, perhaps some are a long ways from home, others are coming homei once in a while a sleighride jingles merrily by. When airplanes were un- common how you would rush to a window to see one. How much you would miss but for a window. A window is also a great consolation to an invalid. One can while away many long min- utes idly looking out of the window. On a cold morning it is fascinating to see how many pic- tures .Iack Frost has painted during the night. For the windows are his easels on which he practices his nightly lessons in art for Mother Nature. It is interesting to watch these pic- tures change as the sun, laughing at them, comes out and chases them away. All of these windows. no matter how hard I try to wash them clean, reflect the habits, characteristics and life of their owners: so are the eyes of the human being the windows of the soul. revealing it to the world. I have seen many eyes I would like to have washed, for they show low morals, lack of ambition, de- spair, hostility, or a criminal character. Of course there are just as many shining with faith, ambition, friendliness, and a good char- acter. It is these eyes revealing a shining soul, just as it is the attractive windows revealing shining neatness and cleanliness within, that makes me feel that it's a pretty good world after all. . D. VV. H., '31, TRUE BLUE Gay laughter and the sound of loud voices were heard from the sorority house at Dale