Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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attempt was made on the life of her sweetheart. This caused her to utter his name which was the beginning of her new life. Thus she was able to take her place fully in the new life waiting for her. —M. S. Gone with the Wind I enjoyed reading Gone with the Wind” written by Margaret Mitchell, and I have learned some very interesting things about the Civil War from it. It tells how the Southerners hated Lincoln, and much about the war near Atlanta. It tells how the South suffered when their homes were destroyed by the Yankees. The main character is Scarlett O'Hara, a very selfish and proud woman who thought only of herself. 1 think the author’s idea in writing this story was to show that selfishness will not bring you real happiness. The old proverb. Pride goes before a fall is perhaps another idea. The story was so interesting that I could hardly pull myself away from it. It tells of so many hardships that I am sure I know whai it was like in the South during those trying days, and how I would have hated it, had I been living then. This story has been filmed and is being shown in the larger theatres. It is said to be a wonderful picture. Some day 1 hope to see it. —F. M. ------------------ The Yearling By Marjorie K. Rnwliiue The Yearling is a story of the Baxter family in Florida. It tells about their hard life there and about their only son, Jody, who amused himself in the deep woods where they made their home. It tells how Jody found a new-horn fawn which he wanted to bring home as a pet. His father, however, said it was too young. The story tells of the father’s going hunting to get meat for winter with Jody and the dog and of the awful accident they had on the way home when a rattler struck the tather's leg. Jody ran to a neighbor's for help to take his father home. Afterawhile Jody got the fawn for a pet which he called Flag. The story tells of Jody's great love for Flag, and how Jody ran away from home when his parents said that Flag must be taken away. In the end Flag was shot. Then Jody found that he was no longer a small boy. but a man and that he had the work and the responsibilities of a man before him. —G. D. “Bob—Son of Battle The story tells how two shepherds in Northern England had trouble all the time because of their dogs, how M’Adam tried many times to make Janies Moore seem to be in the wrong, and how in the end M'Adam’s dog was caught killing sheep, and how finally the killer met his death. The book was very interesting because it was packed full of excitement, pathos, and romance. The incident that I liked best was when Bob. the dog. had just barely driven the sheep into the pen as the whistle blew during the contest for the Shepherd’s Cup. The sheep had stalled on the plank bridge when Bob leaped on the back of one of them guiding them into the pen just as the whistle announced that time was up. Had one minute been wasted, it would have cost James Moore the cup. Alfred Ollivant, the Englishman who wrote the book, was born sometime after the Civil War. He had been an officer of the Royal Artillery in Great Britain at the age of nineteen. It was while he was fiat on his back in bed from a spinal injury that he wrote his first and best known book. Bob—Son of Battle which took him several years to finish because he wrote only at intervals. This book was published in London in 1898 under the title Owd Bob. In America, after a slow start, it soon became one of the best sellers. It has been called the best dog story ever written. —H. S. 22

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This story is filled with humorous and exciting adventures. The story tells us about a Mr and Mrs. Robinson who. with their four sons. Jack. Fritz. Ernest, and Francis, were shipwrecked during a storm on their way to Australia where they were to make a new home. It tells how they reached an island safely on a raft of barrels, made by the boys and how they carried cattle, sheep, ho , food, grain, and tools from the wrecked ship to the mainland and how they made a home in the top of a huge tree. It also tells us the things they saw on the island, and how at Inst an English ship appeared. Now this story of the Robinson family may be enjoyed by all in the movies. I like this story as I learned much from the descriptions of the queer animals and plunts on the island that the Robinson family made use of. Thrilling parts were killing a boa constrictor; Jack’s riding on the tame ostrich: being attacked by lions; and finding an English girl. —R. S. •------- Evangeline The poem Evangeline. ' which was written by Henry V. Longfellow, tells about the Acad-ians who were driven from their homes by the English before the Revolutionary War. Fathers and mothers were cruelly separated from their children, and some of them never met again on earth. Evangeline was a young girl, the daughter of a wealthy farmer named Benedict Bellefon-taine. They lived in the village of Grand Prc. Evangeline’s mother was dead. Gabriel was the son of Basil, the blacksmith. Gabriel and Evangeline were engaged to be married at the time when the story opens. One day all the men of the village were called to the church. There a British officer read the king’s order for all the Acadians to leave their homes and to go away on boats. At first the men were very angry but Father Felieian, the village priest, told them to be patient, and pointing to a large crucifix, he told them to remember the prayer of Jesus. Father forgive them. After they had prayed they all repeated. Father forgive them, and were quiet. Soon they were all taken down to the shore where boats were waiting for them. It was evening. Evangeline was trying to be cheerful, but her father seemed broken-hearted Father Felieian was with her. Suddenly they looked up and saw a bright light. It was caused by their burning homes. Poor people! How sad they were! When Evangeline turned to speak to her father, he had fallen forward. They raised him and found that he was dead. Evangeline had nobody but Gabriel. The next morning they were put into different boats. Father Felieian was in the same boat with Evangeline, and they decided to search for Gabriel until they found him. Gabriel, too looked and looked for Evangeline. Evangeline became a Sister of Mercy. She visited the poor and nursed the sick. A plague broke out in the city, and many died. Evangeline helped care for the sick. One day she went to a poor house. As she was walking from bed to bed. she suddenly stopped. On the bed before her lay Gabriel. He was dying, but he opened his eyes and recognized her. Evangeline’s long search was ended. —R. K. ------• ■ — Kilmenny of the Orchard In my opinion Kilmenny of the Orchard was indeed a very interesting story. It told of the life of Kilmenny. a beautiful young girl, who had never been able to speak. Living alone with her grandparents, she was constantly separated from the outside world. Thus she grew into an innocent shy child, never knowing how beautiful she really was. It told of her visits to an orchard near her home where she went to be alone and to play her violin. She happened to meet a young man from New York who had come to take a sick friend’s place in the village school. Their friendship developed into a beautiful romance. Finally it told how Dick's friend, a specialist in ear and throat, examined her and of his verdict that she could talk if she wanted to badly enough. The story tells how she was badly frightened when an

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Thc c troubled day we hear everyone nxkinjr, ‘•Where i» America goins? What will come to the Americas? The Social Studio claw hu.« had good prncticc in wrestling with Ohm problems but the answers nre left for prophets. We are happy, however, to liable to answer an easier question— How the Americas begun. The Mayas Amonjf the earliest Americans that we have any recortl of were the Mayas. They lived in Mexico and Central America from 500 B. C. to 500 A. D. These people erected marvellous temples to their gods, worshipped stone idols and sometimes offered human sacrifices. They paid more attention to agriculture than to warfare and in this point differed from the Aztecs. By 160 A. 1). the Mayas had a system of writing, largely pictorial and a very accurate calendar based on the study of astronomy. They used metal for tools. They made vessels of day and wove beautiful cloth. Today three books are in existence which were made by the Mayas These books are written on both sides of long sheets of paper. Later this wonderful civilization changed. The Mayas were forced to leave the region which had been theirs for so long and find new homes elsewhere. No one knows exactly why they had to go. Some think they had used the soil so long without knowing how to improve it that cereals and plants would no longer grow. Perhaps there were other reasons that we know nothing about. Their temples were especially beautiful. The walls were embellished with ornaments and picture writing, which has led many people to believe these people were descendents of the Egyptians. It is not known where these people originated. or how they came to live in America. They were here long before the white man came to America. Then at a later day the Spaniards conquered the Mayas and ruled them for many years. Many disappeared, and they decreased in numbers and what was left was finally finished by the jungle. Today a thick growth of trees and bushes almost covering the ruins of Mayan cities is our reminder of what once was a great civilization. —R. R. H. S. The Aztecs Of ancient American peoples, the Aztecs of central Mexico are the best known as well as the most terrible. The civilization of these people was remarkable in many ways. They were not such good builders as the Mayas, but their temples and palaces were very large and beautiful. They did not know iron, but their workmen did wonderful work in gold, copper. tin and silver. They used a system of picture-writing and in their schools they were taught to read and write. They learned the their workmen did wonderful work in gold, copper. tin and silver. They used a system of pic-use of cotton which they wove into cloth. The Aztecs, we read, were pagans. Their religion was a cruel one and they had many gods and made human sacrifices. After the discovery of America. European missionaries tried to teach these Indians to give up their religious customs, but the Aztecs were so puzzled by the teaching of the missionaries that they destroyed their idols, temples, and Carvings everywhere. They thought that in this way the truth about their religion would