Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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place in which to live. Because we will have studied the fiowers and birds, Nature will have a new meaning, and hence, a new enjoyment, for us. Through our studies of History and Economics, we will be able to understand the importance and origin of most of the social and political institutions of the world-we will have gained interest in the affairs of our country and its people. The world of literature, with which we shall have become acquainted, will cause our imaginations to quicken at the suggestion of some familiar phrase and will provide enter- tainment .for idle hoursi The most sordid task will be surrounded by the glamour of the inner beauty which we will acquire. To sum it up, the college provides the lasting things of life to those who are will- ing to work for them. These three great boons await us: H'ealth, wealth, happiness. and, in addition, the equally important ones of friendships and interests. Then for the sake of these advantages, which will make us of use to any community, an inspiration to our friends, and an aid to future genera- tions, let us turn to the college, Hthe foun- tain of perpetual youth-the youth of the spirit. WISHES ESTHER M. 101-INSON-111116, 1917 I wish I'd been a Cave Boy in the Prehistoric Age, Although the dinosaur roamed 'round and wasn't in a cage. W'hen the Cave Boy in the morning took his usual road to school, If he felt hot and weary, he would plunge into a pool. fAnd while he's there, I'll tell you why I envy his lot soy It's a very serious matter, and I think you ought to know. He didn't have to hurry if the hour was getting late: For there wasn't a Miss Carney to make him mend his gait. He didn't have to think about that nickel library fine, And nearly rush himself to death to get upstairs by nine. He had no frightful troubles to disturb his nightly rest, fI'm referring to our custom of observing ten week's testsl. He didn't have to study hard for hours the night before, He didn't have to cogitate on HQSO4. He didn't have to struggle through great Burke's Conciliation , He didnit have to ruminate on problems of a nation. - Translations from the Latin never bothered him at all, He never heard of Caesar and his mighty wars in Gaul. He didn't have to rave about the Babylonian homes, Or fall into a rhapsody on the grandeur that was Rome's. He didn't have to ponder over shirts and socks and ties, And choose a pleasing color scheme to charm his teacher's eyes. No, when the Cave Boy with reluctance left his cool, refreshing pool, He donned his little tiger skin and strolled along to school. More likely when he got there, he'd find upon thedoor, f'The dinosaur has been here and dear teacher is no more. So when I think of all the things he didn't have to do, You don't know how I envy him, by the way, d0n't you? One Hundred Two

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THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLEGE TO THE GIRL RUTH FRANKLIN-june, 1919 OLLEGE meanslittle to most of us. We realize .that it is a place of learning- an institution for higher education, the dictionary has it- but our knowledge seldom carries us further. As far as its importance to ourselves, and the real spirit and usefullness of its life are concerned, we are ignorant. Our impres- sion wavers between visions of the daring pranks of the story-book college girl and of the eternal grind of study. Of course. we are willing to admit that there we can learn things-formidable ologies and Hogra- phies which, in our vast experience, we declare can have no bearing on our every- day lives. We realize, too, that the college graduate can secure an excellent position immediately after commencement. But, says the business girl, that signifies noth- thingj' and she proceeds to cite numerous instances of the rise of women who have not received degrees. Why waste four years ? she asks. The ambitious girl can advance without such an education and be earning money at the same time. This is true, but the college woman's ad- vantage lies, as James Russel Lowell has said, not in getting something by which she can earn her bread, but in making every mouthful sweeter to her taste. Alice Free- man Palmer, first woman president of a college, has explained very fully the benefits, aside from the commercial ones, to be ob- tained by the girl who throws herself whole- heartedly into the activities of the college life. Some of us find it hard to realize that fun can enter years so crowded with work The realization that happiness lies, not in idleness, but in congenial occupation, is one of the greatest lessons of the college. Strengthened by the companionship of many others whose purpose, occupations and ideals are substantially the same as ours, in a beau- tiful environment, we shall learn the place of work and play in our daily lives and to combine the two so that they become indis- tinguishable from each other. Another great advantage, says Mrs. Palmer, His health. In the college, there is no time for sickness. Life is much too full and interesting. There we shall learn that ill-health is carelessness and discover, under the regular hours that we shall be forced to keep, wholesome food, and the regular exercise, that we are constantly gaining in mental and physical vitality. New and lasting friends are a third boon of college. Because we are thrown among people of all stations of society, political ideas, and creeds, these things will become negligible in our selection of friends. Tn- stcad, we shall he attracted to each other by similar tastes, ideals and ambitions. Then, too, through this association with all kinds of people, we shall form the ability to under- stand another person's point of view and so discover a new interest in humanity. VVC shall learn to appreciate and to form the ideals of personal character, another great gift of college life. Through association with the best scholars we shall gradually form new of life, culture and character. of the age, conceptions The power to see great things large, and little things small is said to be the supreme test of education and it is this that we shall be enabled to gain by observing the char- acters and attitudes of our instructors. The lasting advantages of upright character will be made apparent and this will become a thing for which we are encouraged to strive. The last of these benefits, and the one which Mrs. Palmer considers most im- portant, is that of life interests! Because of these we will become entertaining to our- selves and -interesting and 'attractive to others. We will emerge 'from college with knowledge on a great many subjects which will make the world a much more interesting V One Hundred One

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OF THE SALT OF THE EARTH GERTRUDE LYNN XVALTHISR-june, 1917 H HAT new office boy of yours said you were too busy to seeleven 'a client, but, as Im not in that tr' class, I just blew in. It was not necessary for me to look up to know that my visitor was none other than Sophronia Stubbs. As she herself had said, my old friend Phronie could hardly be called a client. ,She has too much of the milk of human kindness in her nature ever herself to become in- volved in a lawsuit. But in all my years of legal practice I have not had a more loyal supporter than Phronie. Whenever one of her friends-and they are legion, ranging from the poorest on the East Side to the richest in the W'est End-is in need of a lawyer, she never rests until she has landed him at my shop. Phronie is not sensitive about her age and will cheerfully admit to being about fifty years-young. Her own troubles, and more particularly the misfortunes of her friends, have not failed to leave tell-tale lines upon her face. but lines which are softened by the kindly gleam of blue eyes and are almost lost in her genial smile. She is a magnificent figure, tall, commanding, rather masculine. Her suits are always plain and mannish and never by any chance does she wear a hat that is in style. Such trivial things as clothes she affects to scorn, yet I have known her to waste a whole evening helping a young girl friend doll up for a party. For all her matter-of-factness and masculinity, Phronie is really a sentimentalist at heart. 'When I first met her, she was playing the piano in the old Orpheum Opera House. It was while I was working my way through law school, and I used to usher at the Or- pheum in the evenings. In her youth-that is, whenishe was about seventeen-Phronie had taken music lessons for as much as six months and had learned to play the Sack NValtz, The Maiden's Prayer, and The Battle of Praguef' This completed her musical education, and thus equipped, she had undertaken to teach the unsuspecting innocents of the poor district' in which she lived, at twenty-live cents a lesson, also to play the Sack Waltz. Phronie never labored under the delusion that she was a musician, but to her devoted disciples she was ever a genius. After hav- ing, by teaching, created a demand for pianos, Phronie now took to selling them to supply that demand, and, in time, became head-saleswoman of a piano iirm, but that was later. At the time I first met her, she was helping to eke out an existence for her- self and her old father by adding to her pedagogic and .salesmanship activities the thumping of the tin-piano instrument which passed for a piano in the Orpheum orches- tra. She and I often laugh at the thrilling melerdramers we used to see there. The thought of matrimony had never en- tered Phronie's mind-that is, so far as it concerned herself. In respect to other peo- ple, however. she had all the old match- making dowagers and chaperons beaten a mile. lVell, to get back to my story. Phronie breezed in, and after having in- quired minutely into the well-being of each and every member of my family, broached the real object of her visit. She had just had paid to her four hundred dollars, and came to consult me about the investment of it. Funny thing about this money, she in- terrupted in the midst of my explanation of how we ought to invest it-Phronie is feminine in one quality, she will get off the track of the subject in hand- Funny thing. I had kissed this money good-bye a long One Hundred Three