THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

SLIPPERY ROCKET

VOLUME VI

“COME OUT OF
THE KITCHEN”

The kitchen is not usually consid-
ered a setting for romance; but who
would mind being courted by so im-
petuous a lover and in so attractive
a kitchen as that which we saw in
the play given by the Literary Socie-
ties on Saturday evening, January
19th?

“Come Out of the Kitchen” was
certainly a huge success. Each char-
acter seemed to fit his part to per-
fection. Miriam McGarrah as Jane
Ellen, the cook, won great applause.
Notable performances were given by
Hazel Wolford, Daisy Lynn, Nora
Upton and Oliver, alias “Jimmy,”
Gordon. The cast also included
Eleanor Wyndham, Charles Schade,
‘John Gatzy, Howard Schink, Charles
Metzger and Joseph Ammon.

The story is that the trials of the
children of an aristocratic southern
family whose father and mother were
abroad because of the former’s ill-
health, After the premiums on the
father’s life insurance had been paid,
two hundred and fifteen dollars re-
mained to support four children and
to pay the expenses of the home. The
children decided to rent the house to
a gentleman from the North. One
provision in the lease was that white
servants must be provided. Due fto
the failure to secure the servanis in
time, the children themselves took
the part of servants. Their troubles
as domestics and the final discovery
of their identity make a very humor-
ous story.

 

 

During the music appreciation
hour yesterday Miss Marion Johnson
played Chopin’s “Nocturne in E
Flat,” from Wagner’s “Tannhauser.”
Both humbers were greatly appreci-
ated.

SLIPPERY ROCK, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924 :

NUMBER 8

THE WHEEL OF FATE  SUPPERY ROCK SCORES

 

By Grace Gallagher, ’22

It was a beautiful May day. The
gentle breezes wafted through the
open window of the Frazier cottage
the sweet scent of blooming lilacs and
wild crabapple blossoms. Such was
the spirit of the day, and such was
the joy in the heart of Adelaide Fra-
zier. For the first time in years, she
today went about her work with a
light heart and a sunny smile.

Adelaide’s home life had never
been happy. Her mother had died
while she was yet very small, and
scarcely two years had passed before
her father married again.

As Adelaide went happily about
her work, her thoughts reverted in-
voluntarily to her absent brothers,
who had long since been driven from
the shelter of home by the cruelty of
their stepmother, and the song died
on her lips, and the smile faded
from her face. Just at this moment
a step sounded in the hall and the
stepmother entered. “It is no won-
der that I am always buying
brooms,” said the woman naggingly
as she entered the room.

“Well, mother, is not that the way
you have always taught me to
sweep?” replied Adelaide meekly and
with a touch of sadness in her voice.

“No, you liar! I can prove it by
your father and even by the neigh-
bors. Your ungratefulness towards
your parents certainly has been dis-
played by that false statement. We
are too good to you,” replied the
stepmother, and she slammed the
door behind her.

Adelaide quietly endured this, for
on the morrow a ray of sunshine was
to come into her life. This she had
long looked forward to with great
anticipation.

Quickly the day wore away, bul

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VICTORY FROM GROVE CITY

Score: 22-21

 

 

Nearly two hundred wildly en-
thusiastic Slippery Rock rooters,
most of them seniors, journeyed to
Grove City last Tuesday evening to
see our boys nose out a hair-line vie-
tory over Grove City’s fast and furi-
ous freshman basketball team.

Yes, we won! That’s the real
story, and that’s all of it, importance
being considered.

At the end of the first quarter the
score stood 8 to 5 in favor of Grove
City, with their team really picking
the persimmon at every chance. They
did play good basketball; that’s all
there is about it. At the end of the
half the figures were 13 to 10, and
not all the enthusiasm of all those
S. R. Rooters could make them feel
much hope of final victory.

But then!

Within thirty seconds after the
third quarter began we picked up
two beautiful baskets, with our boys
ahead! Well, 14 to 13 isn’t much to
give confidence, but it surely did look
mighty good to that crowd of Slip-
pery Rock enthusiasts. Did they
show their enthusiasm? Ask the
roof! Is it still intact?

Then it was nip and tuck to the
end of the race. First one horse and
then the other was a nose ahead. But
when the goal-line was crossed the
horse with the white and green was a
trifle in advance. Yes, there was
some enthusiasm from the gang.
But those Grove City boys can play
basketball !

Komora picked three field goals,
Carroll one, Whitehall one, Schink
one and Boldberg three; then Carroll
grabbed in another point by a foul

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