NORMAL TIMES
At

VOLUME 5

Central

State

Normal

LOCK HAVEN, PA., APRIL

School

28,1927

NUMBER 12

M E S , LUSK, PAUL
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Semi-Annual Banqueters Hear
P. S. E. A. Secretary on Teachers' Four Big Problems—20
Student Speakers.
Elghty-flve students in the History of
Education classes of the Central State
Normal School attended t h e second semiannual dinner planned by Miss Minnie
Jane Merrells of the Department of Edu' cation and -Psychology, In the dining
rcjpm of tjie Hotel Fallon on Saturday,
A^ril 9 at iS:30. As the class has been
.emphasizing Pennsylvania history, the
program was in keeping with this theme,
opening with "Pennsylvania" sung by the
class, led by Blanche Swope, of Lock Haven, witli Elizabeth Jordon and Josephine Paul, pianist and violinist, respectively.
Marie McNellis welcomed the members
of t h e classes and their guests, to which
Dr. D. W. Armstrong, principal of the
school, responded. "We may be proud of
the educational record of our state," he
said, stressing tlie fact t h a t from the
flrst it offered religious freedom t o all
who came to dwell within its borders.
Miss Merrells introduced the speaker of
the evening. Dr. James Herbert Kelley,
of Harrisburg, executive secretary of the
Pennsylvania State Educational Association, who talked on "Teaclier Problems
as Distinct From Teacliing Problems."
She spoke of his successful work in education in tlie Far West and at the University of Pittsburgh, stating t h a t Institutional work was too small a parish for
his efforts and personality, and tliat even
the present state of Pennsylvania was
too small a fleld.
Teacliers have four big problems, the
speaker declared: Getting into tlie teaching profession; living after you are in it;
hanging on to your job; and checking
out. Ill getting into t h e teaching profession there is tlie problem of preparation, wlilcli will soon mean four years
of actual professional training in addition to four years of High School training. He urged the teachers to go back
to their home high scliools and urge
their younger brotliers and sisters to take
up tlie teacliing profession. Tills is tlie
acid test of loyalty," he declared. Living
after you are in tlie Job, lie states, means
receiving a wortliy return for your service, so tliat life is the professional type
not of tlie menial type.
"By hanging on to the job," Dr. Kelley
stated, "he meant tenure for teacliers. At
present Pennsylvania uses tlie 'hire and
Are'
system, wliich rests entirely with
the 26,000 scliool boards in tlie state on
whicli tliere are 14,000 men. In many
sections tlie entire teaching stafl is
changed with the politics. By cliecking
out lie meant tliat a retirement fund
should be invested by t h e state and the
individual for the teacher's pensions.
Tlie county representatives who spoke,
and tiieir subjects, are as follows:
Blair — Williamsburg Academy, Esther
Smavely.
Cambria—St. Francis Academy, Margaret
Sutton.
Cameron—Our Earliest Schools, Esther
Fulton.
Centre—The Mother of Governors, Ellen
Williams.
Clearfleld—County Superintendent Trestle's Gift, Nell Holton.
(Continued on Page 6)

Francis MacMillen, the
celebrated
American violinist, brought t h e Musical
Artist's Course to a close March 18.
Mr. MacMillan's very forceful personality, combined witli his supreme ability,
scored him a great success. Tlie outstanding characteristic of MacMillen's
playing is the broad beauty of his tone.
The requisites for producing such a tone
are a great art and a great violin, and
he lias them botli. His violin is a Stradlvarias, valued at $30,000, and said to be
one ot the two finest in the world.
The prograni which Mr. MacMillen
gave us was a most excellent one. D'Erlanger's "A Poem," revealed some very
difficult bowing, and Pugnanni's "A Prelude and Allegro," displayed the artist's
fine technique. The "Andante, and Rondo" movements from "Symphohle Espagnole," by Lalo, were excellent.
Perhaps t h e one selection t h a t pleased
every one most was liis own composition,
"Barcarolle," which Mr. MacMillen was
forced to repeat several times.
Handel's ever-familiar "Largo" from
"Xerxes" was very well received, and tlie
"Polonaise In D Major" made a very fltting climax to the whole program. Among
the lighter numbers were Boulanger's
"Cortege," "Flageolets," by
Gussen;
"Valse Caprice," by Saint Saens; "Gigue,"
by Rust, and "Moonlight," by Burleigh.
The entire program was enthusiastically received by every person present.

Dorm Student Walks Fifty
Miles to Classes
"Oh, I'm so tired!"
"Tliink I'll buy a little wagon to haul
tliese books around in."
"Darn these steps! Wish they'd install
elevators."
"Why do we have to trot over to tlie
training school so often, anyway?"
Sucli familiar exclamations set one student to wondering Just how far she did
walk in one week. Having no pedometer
such as was attached to the liousewife's
ankle to record how far she walked in tlie
performance of her liousehold duties, the
student resorted to a more crude and inaccurate method.
A distracted air, queer mumblings, and
moving of lips, and odd Jottings of figures could liave been noticed by observant girl friends on her Journeys to
and from class. If others noticed they
got no information or explanation. Tlie
ambitious stude was afraid she'd be bombarded continually witli inquiries as to
liow far slie liad walked up to that time.
At the end of the week all the necessary data was compiled and tlie problem
was ready for solution. The equivalent
of tlie total number of steps taken, in
miles, was computed after mucli puzzling
and scratching of forehead. Tlie result
was disappointing. After having the firm
conviction t h a t the distance walked was
no less than eight or ten miles, the student was chagrined t o flnd t h a t tile actual distance was only two and a half
miles for one week. It seemed that far
ill one day!
However, the student was partly consoled. Two and one-half times eighteen
Is forty-five. The distance walked to
classes in one semester approximates
flfty miles. And t h a t is no short hike
to take with never a hitch, O my sisters I

War is declared on increasing avoirdupois by girls of C. S. N. S. According
to those already active in the battle
against the calories, tliey'll flght t h a t line
if it takes all summer.
Pull-length mirrors on tlie stair landings reveal increasing waist lines. Just
stand on the landing and notice how
those who still retain their youthful figure sail by witli nary a glance to the
right or left. Those inclined to stoutness pause, give themselves a keen scrutiny, heave slglis and walk on.
Conversations at the dining room tables t u r n to vitamins. Diet lists are
propped up against sugar bowls, fat faces
scanning them eagerly.
Jerry, whose slender figure has been
the envy of the rest ot the girls shocked
tlie gang last Friday by not appearing at
lunch time. Jerry, yes, even Jerry was
dieting.
Whether the universal increase in
weight can be credited mainly to the exexcellency of t h e meals or the amount
consumed still remains a question.
The real test comes at meal-time. The
dieteer brigand bravely shake their heads
and remain intact while the rest madly
clash for the dining room. Later in the
day, more than one can be seen treading her way carefully down the hall to
the Y. W. candy sign. Still others walk
guitily toward t h e direction of the Arbor, casting anxious glances about for
fear of being recognized as traitors to the
cause. Deep down in their hearts a
voice seems to say, "After today, tomorrow I'll begin."

Our Junior Explorers
On a recent Saturday afternoon a few
venturesome Juniors decided to explore
the attic of the Normal School. Headed
by tliree Seniors, tliey first went to the
attic of West dorm. After crawling over
lumber piles, old dressers and beds, the
girls decided to go over to East attic.
Wlien ali tlie girls but Aniceta Boylan
liad gone up into tlie attic, Aniceta
slipped tlie catcli on the door and went
back to lier room, leaving tlie girls to
explore without any one interfering.
After wandering around looking for a
place to get out, tlie girls tried to break
the catcli on the door but failed to do
.so. About flteen minutes later Aniceta
slipped back and opened tlie door. Tlie
girls pursued her to her room but couldn't get in as Aniceta liad locked lierself
in.
All afternoon tlie girls waited for her
to open the door. The girls of third floor
west, even witli tlie assistance of Rose
Bower, one of tlie men engaged in work
on tile gym, failed to get tiie door open.
After returning from town one of the
girls spied Aniceta in tlie lialls and
yelled, "Aniceta Boylan!" This brought
the girls out and they dragged Aniceta
t o tile B. R. and gave lier a cool ducking, until slie swore off locking people up
in the attic.

Normal Times Increases
Membership
At a regular meeting of the Alph Zeta
Pi on March 14, two new members were
elected to tlie Normal Times staff. These
new members, Martlia Maitland and
Matliew Shaw, are the first Juniors to
make the staff, and it is felt t h a t these
"baby members" will be an asset to the
organization.

Rank First in Scholarship in
Three Groups — Room-mates
Tie for Honors — Commencement Day Orators.
Tlie names of tlie Commencement
speakers were announced In chapel on
Monday, March 28, te Dr. Armstrong.
The records of the ''Mblor class as a
whole were higli, and those of t h e best
students were iiigher t h a n usual. Dr.
Armstrong congratulated both t h e Senior
class and the lienor students. The speakers were chosen by the faculty on the
basis of scliolastic standing, one representing eacli of the three groups. The
Junior Higli Scliool group is to be represented by R u t h Jones, the Intermediate group by Josephine Paul, and t h e
Primary group by Ruth Lusk.
I n tlie case of t h e Primary group a
curious tiling liappened. There was a
tie between Rutli Lusk and Pearl Mtoore;
ali tlie more curious because t h e two
girls come from tlie same section of the
same town, went through high school
togetlier and have roomed together during tiieir two years at Central State. To
decide whicli of the two sliould speak
at Coiiimencement, lots were drawn. Ruth
Luslc drew tlie one t h a t counted.
Rutli Jones comes to Central State
from Kylertown. Slie has always been
an active niember of tlie class and has
held several Important oflHces, including
president of tlie Art Club, treasurer of
tlie T. W. C. A., advertising manager of
tlie Normal Times, and president of the
Shakespeare Literary Society. Slie Is also
a member of tlie Rho Omega Lambda
and tiie Naturalist Club.
Josepliine Paul, valedictorian of her
class of tlie Jolinstown Higli School, has
maintained lier good record. She has
stood higli botli scliolasticaliy and socially, being president of the Alpha
Sigma Tau, a member of t h e Art Club,
a meinber of tlie Orcliestra, of t h e Glee
Club, of several Prom committees.
Rutli Lusk, an lionor graduate of t h e
Williamsport High School, is also keeping up to her standard. Slie is a member of tlie Art Club, I. K. U., and Glee
Club. Pearl Moore, anotiier honor graduate of Williamsport High School, has taken an active part in our activities. She
is a member of Art Club, Aiplia Sigma
Tau, I. K. U., and Glee Club.
It is interesting to notice t h a t all four
of these girls iiave an average of approximately 1.36 for the flrst three semesters;
in the case of Ruth Jones, being a Group
III student, flve semesters. Estlier Snavely, a Group II student, had an average
of 1.37, and so Just missed tying with
Josepliine Paul.

Seniors Given Woodlawn
Appointments
Helen Shearer, Betty Hubley, Leona
Hayes, Jean Whiteliead, Alice Corby, and
Margaret Mortimer were t h e "lucky six"
who were cliosen to teach in t h e Woodlawn schools, beginning witli t h e 192728 term. Grace Shearer, of tlie class of
'26, will also go to Woodlawn to teach
at this time.
Teaching there at present are Betty
Shellenberger, Zelda Stiffler, Florence
Berkwater and Grace Crocker, of t h e class
of 1926.

NORMAL
Nevertheless Its Normal Life
At ten-tliirty tlie door gradually
opened. Its slirill squeak sounded like
tlie blast of a trumpet against the silence
of tlie liali. No one was in siglit. From
somewliere out of the darkness of tile
room, a bountiful supply of pillows.
books and pencils were produced. Everytliing ready to begin tlie lessons tliat
.sliould liave been done liours before.
Peg was nicely settled when a door
squeaked. A council member! Quickly she prepared for a liasty retreat before
she recognized Jerry, another niglitly
marauder. Again concentration was possible. For awlille everytliiiig was still
b u t for the appearance of au occasional
mouse.
From the distance came tlie sound ot
footsteps—faintly at first, tlien louder,
louder. Pillows, books, everytliing was
grabbed in a lielter-skeiter fasliion, as a
wild dasli was made for tlie seclusion of
tiieir rooms.
Only Mr. Walk on liis liouriy tour, A
little later work was again resumed,, tills
time with tlie liope of non-interruption,
taut no one can reckon witli fate., Tlie
art principles seemed interwoven,: witli
mathematical rules, the speech foy Oral
Expression acquired tlie melody tliit was
to be learned in music class. Heil liead
nodded, eyelids drooped, nodding,! nodding—asleep.
'.
When slie awoke at 4 o'clock ^very
muscle in lier body was aching from^tlie
cramped position in wliich she liad been
sitting. "Never again," says Peg, "tii*
result.s accomplished don't come up to
the efforts p u t fortli."

Smaller Normal Kids Get
Big P a r t y
Hair ribbons, rompers. ruflfle.s. and
lollypops came into tiieir own once more
on Saturday night. March 19. at tlie Kid
Party given in the gym by the Y. W.
As the kids entered tlie gym about 8
o'clock, they were given lollypops—any
color—to eat. After tliey got settled in
tlieii' chairs in the balcony, with tiieir
liands folded. Rutli Oechler. Cliairinan of
tlie Social Committee of tlie Y—nothing but a kid herself, announced tlie following program:
Piano Solo
^j_r.r-.-: Vtrrtet^ Duck
Motlier Goose RJiyifies—enacted by Miss
Russell, Ml«s''Gilkey and a large group
of "klda.'''

Solo Dance
Harriet Kelly
Solo
Ann Orlin
s6lo Dauce
Miss Dixon
Spring Fashion Show—Max Fitzsimmons.
Frizzle Feit. and Wilford Pomeroy.
Piano Solo
Edltli Hopkins
Recitation
Rutli Oecliler
When Rutli said "Let's dance," every
one came down from the balcony and
enjoyed the music and dancing till/ten
o'clock.
r*
Ice cream cones, candy, and .-•fieanuts
were on sale, so t h a t tlie ni06t important part of the party, i i v ^ kid's esti
mation. was not lackini

A Human Beehive
New Lights Installed in Gym
The relics of tlie past—two large cliandeliers—have flnally been replaced by the
most modern sort ot light fixtures for
a gym. The work of installing these
new lights has been going on for considerable time, but at last they are in
use and the old, fancy chandelier light
clusters liave been removed.
These new liglits will be a great improvement for it was necessary to raise
these old light fixtures by pulleys in order to get them out of tlie way for basketball playing. The Decorating Committees for the dances will be relieved, as
it was always a problem to transform
these lights to conform with t h e idea
of the decorations.
Much conjecture has been made concerning the four flood lights which are
located one in each corner of the gym.
The suggestion has been vouchsafed that
they were to be used to create a moonlight scene for our next dance. Their
purpose is of a different nature. These
four lights are on a separate circuit so
t h a t in case of flre, it the main circuit
was cut, these four lights would automaticallv flash on.

Annual Meet to Include Costume
Dancing
Our annual indoor gym meet will be
given on Friday evening. May 6. The
program includes several unique features
this year which no doubt will make the
event one of unusual interest.
I n addition to the usual series of
formal exercises done to music, each
class, the Senior and Junior, will give a
folk dance and an Engiisli country dance.
Contests in throwing quoits and in
dodge-ball, and a game of volley ball
will be staged.
The unusual part of the evening's affair will consist of various kinds of gymnastics by each of Miss Dixon's gym
classes, rhythms by the Senior Kindergarten class, and some very thrilling t u m bling s t u n t s by the Senior Junlor-Hl
group. There will also be several charming cosume dances which are always
keenly appreciated.
I t is hinted t h a t a fairy tale will be
enacted In which the May Queen will
have a prominent part. It all promises
t o be an extremely Interesting affair to
say the least—so let's go I

Did you ever see a human beehive? If
you liaven't Just go into the library anytime between tlie liours of four and six.
Here you will see all kinds of bees doing
different kinds of work, and in groups
of two's, tliree's and four's.
Over in one corner of this beehive you
will see a group of drone bees wlio do
not care if they work today or tomorrow,
or if they work at all. Then you will
see the worker bees in another group.
Perhaps it will be Mary, Ann and Helen
ali trying to study from one book. After
a few minutes of silence Ann says, "What
chapter in tliis book did she say we were
to outline?" Helen says the second and
Marys says the third. Then they all disagree and an argument follows.
Right in the midst of it and before
the argument is settled, wlio steps into
tlie room but the queen. Oh, yes, this
beelilve has a queen. After looking about
the room slie discovers where t h e buzzing
is coming from, and with one look at t h e
bees in this particular group, they begin to work or pretend to. The queen
places some books on a shelf then leaves
the room. After she has disappeared
the bees settle the argument and begin
to outline t h e fourth chapter in t h e
book.

On Being Large
Most people expend a great amount of
sympatliy upon the poor unfortunates
of tlie world, b u t I doubt if even t h e
softest hearted person would give a second thought to the tragedy of my life,
the tragedy of a desire that can never
be fulfilled.
Ever since childhood, I have been t h e
attribute complement to such phrases as,
"Isn't she a nice big girl!" or "My, how
big she is for her age!" "Stand up a n d
show the company how you've grown."
At first I was h u r t and humiliated a t
these continues references to my size; I
could never quite understand why I had
to be singled out for this embarrassment.
As I grew older my pride rebelled, and
I longed to be small and dainty like Elinor or Flossie.
I am now eighteen years of age, n o t
as stout as I used t o be, but still I'm a
"Nice big girl," and still flghting my old
enemy by giving u p palatables t h a t I
crave.
For consolation I visit the scales once
a week, and even they are accused of d e celt.

TIMES

Fourth Grade Has Varied
Composition Projects
The fourth grade of the training school
has been tauglit letter writing more thoroughly tills year t h a n heretofore. We are
giving you several samples of the product. The work has been motivated in
a variety of ways. Santa Claus speaks
for himself. You will see t h a t some one
also had a birthday. One of our number spent several months in tlie hospital One letter is written to Miss Charlotte Knapp, now teaching in York, Pa.
The work this semester has been liandled by Marlon Bradley and Honora
Mark. The last letter is one ol about
fprty sent to Miss Bradley's former pur*ls.
/ We also studied fables this year, then
told some original fables. You have one
of each to enjoy. The last piece of written work is based on the poem "Talking
in Their Sleep," wliich we studied recently.
I.

Flemington, Pa., Dec. 1, 1926.
Dear Santa Claus:
I have tried to be a good girl. I have
94 on our conduct chart. I have done
my best.
I wanted to ask you if you would bring
me a freshman cap, and a set of books
on anything you like if t h a t isn't too
much.
I will liang a stocking up for my little brother, John Martin, by the fireplace. It is not open, but I will unlock
the door so you can get in without getting dirty.
My stocking will be at my bed post.
If you don't want to fill it you don't
need to. I would like to have a set of
books mostly.
With much love,
FLORENCE LONG.
II.
Training School, Jan. 25, 1927.
Dear Santa Claus:
I thank you for the set of handkerchiefs, the washing set and for t h e six
Fairy Tale Books. I appreciated them
very much.
Your friend,
VERNA MACKEY.
III.
Dear Miss Knapp:
This year I would like to have a birthday party and invite all my cousins. Last
year I spent my birthday on the way to
California. I had enough of car riding
then. I was glad when I got back.
DOROTHY WINSLOW.
IV.
Training School, Jan. 20, 1927,
Death R u t h :
How are you getting along? I am glad
t h a t you are home and t h a t you can
come back to school soon.
We are getting new teachers on Monday. I think I will like t h e m all very
much. I don't know their names.
Your friend,
LUCILLE HAGAR.
714 Bellefonte Ave,, Mar. 16, 1927.
Dear Miss Knapp:
We are writing this letter In language.
We are learning how to do long-division
in arithmetic. Miss Mark teaches us
English. We wrote to some children in
Lilly, Pa. William Watkins and Dorothy Winslow were put in the B class.
Our teachers are Miss Mark, Miss Cannon, Miss Bowman, Miss Barnhart, Miss
Lipez, Miss Cornmesser, Miss Todhunter
and Miss McNally.
What grade are you teaching? What
are you doing In your school?
Show this letter to Miss Stewart. Barbara said she was teaching with you.
Your former pupil,
ANNA BRUNGARD.

VI.
Training School. Mar. 17. 1927.
Dear Felix:
I am now going to describe our school.
It is made of bricks. It has nine-rooms
in it and a kindergarten and nice sliade
trees around it.
We are getting along fine in school. We
go to the gym lor our exercises. We have
a flne spelling chart. In geography we
pretend we take trips and see many wonderful things.
Our teachers are very nice. They teacii
our classes very nice. Miss Mark and
Miss Bradley teach language. We liave
nine teachers.
I am in fourth grade. Tlie sun is shining here. I am eleven years old and am
growing flne. We bring our lunches and
eat in the room. After lunch we go out
to play.
Good-bye.
JAMES PERDY.
VII.
(A fable, "The Lark and Her Young
Ones" was studied in the 4A grade, t h e
moral being, "He who wants anything
well done must do it iiimselt." Pupils
were asked to write an original fable using the same moral).
•"I'lie 'rwo Scliool Cliildren."
One day there were a boy and a girl
in .school.
The little boy could not get his lesson.
He asked t h e girl to help him. She said
she would. But she did it wrong and
tile little boy had to do it after school.
The little boy said, "If I want anything done well I must do it myself."
KATHRYN ERTEL.
VIII.
(Can you guess on what fable this Is
based?)
"The Mouse and tlie Cheese."
One day a mouse was very hungry.
He began looking around the pantry.
Soon he saw a big piece of cheese.
He made u p his mind to get it.
But it was under a glass case.
Then he said, "I don't want t h a t
cheese. It would only make me sick."
WILLIAM WATKINS.
IX.
(Original prose based on study of
poem, "Talking in their Sleep.")
The apple tree said, "You think I am
dead because I have no leaves. I a m
stooped and my branches are drooping,
but I am folding the buds away Inside
of me. I pity the grass at my feet."
"You think I am dead," the quick grass
said, "because I have no blades to show.
But I am waiting without a stir for t h e
spring to come dancing here. I pity t h e
flowers without any stem or root."
"You t h i n k I am dead," a soft voice
said, "because I have no stem or root
to show. B u t I am waiting in a soft pod
that the wind has sown. I will come up
in the spring and laugh at you out of
the eyes of a hundred flowers."
MARY JEAN TREMBATH.

Y. M, C. A. Secretary
Visits C. S. N. S.
A very Interesting talk was given In
Chapel Wednesday, April 13, by Mr. Bancroft, the traveling secretary of the Y. M.
C. A. He told of an experience he met
with at Shippensburg and through It,
pointed out to us prospective teachers,
the spiritual side of a teacher's duty t o
his pupils. His speech was very short
but it got across to us the Idea t h a t we
are not to aim merely at perfection and
reformation, but to help the pupils t o
develop in themselves high ideals, aud
aid him in attaining them.

NORMAL

NORMAL TIMES
Norm.ll Times is published nt Centr.il State
Normal School, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, by
the Board ot Editors of Normal Times.
The subscription rate to all ulumul and imdorgraduates of the school is 75 cents.
BOAHD OF EDITORS
Lenore Sharp, Eose Bower, Harriett Kelt,
David Ulmer, Elverda Richardson, Sterjl Artley,
Blanche 'SVahl, Margaret Sutton, Ella Mao Lilly,
Edward Sherkel, Mary Margaret Adanis, Mildred Stewart, Thomas Hosterman, Doroth.v Kilcv,
Paul Vonada, Regiuald Fltasiinmons, Ruth .Tones,
Helen liettser, Ruth McLaUKhlin, Matthew Shaw,
Mary Kirby, Martha Maitland, Elizabeth Spotts,
Lucille Ro SPECIAl CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
Caroline Eckels
Walks Fifty Miles to Class
Lucille Rosa
War on Waistlines
Kuth Bckenro Spirit of C. S. N. S.
Edith Hopkins
Our Paper
Helen Young
Inja Ellwood Capper
Helen Young
The Pine Creek Blm
mizabeth Robb
Goins Up!
Mary Davidson
Those lialls Keep Kolllnp
Mary Kell
Not the Clock's Fault
Helen Carden
Our Junior Explorers
Mar.v App
Why Girls Arrived on Time
Dorothy Reading.. .Renovation of Girls' Dayroom
Rose Snvder
Little Brown Schoolhouse
Edith Hopkins
The Old Slud Church
Nell Holton
Hnnian Beehive
APRIL 2 8 , 1927

Our Paper
"Why look here! The mail boxes are
running over with mall. I swear there
m u s t have been a cloudburst. Here, hold
my books, while I open my box. It's
r u n n i n g over—Oh, it's only t h e Normal
Times."
"Only the Normal Times! Good Heavens, girl, are you crazy? It seems to me,
t h a t ' s a lot all in one day. I vi?ish they
p u t them out more often. I can scarcely wait to read them."
"Oh, yes, I know, b u t what's Normal
Times compared to a letter from home—
from Mother?"
"Hm—m—m! Is your Mother the only
one who writes to you?"
"Oh, don't be silly. Of course she
isn't, b u t she's the only one who really
tells me any news. That is she's t h e
only one beside the Normal Times. But
of course t h a t isn't home news."
"Oh, so you admit you like t o get t h e
Normal Times, too?"
"Wliy, certainly I do. It's t h e newsiest
little paper I've ever read. And when
it contains my name a time or two, it's
newsier t h a n ever."
"My, b u t you don't have a n exalted
opinion of yourself or anything."
"If I don't have, who will? Oh, I wonder if I can steal time t o read this now.
It looks very interesting."
"And say, may I read it when you're
flnished?
You know, I forgot to subscribe."
"Well, of all the nerve! You telling
me where to head in because I wasn't as
enthusiastic over the paper as I should
have been. Yes, my girl, you may read
It. But tlie paper needs boosters like
you. Subscribe!"

Those Balls Keep Rolling
Were you ever so excited you could
scream? Try and imagine yourself i n
my position. The dance is tomorrow
night. I'm having a fellow from the
best fraternity at State; he is, without
a doubt, my idea of a nice kid, and, well
try and imagine the rest. Tlie family
never sent my dress!
Now don't think this is a wonderful
creation, for it is not. I t is Just an ordinary evening dress, b u t oh! Ted lias
seen my otlier dress so many times it
Isn't even funny. No, I will n o t wear
my old brown velvet. I t makes me look
drab and commonplace. Ted does like
variety, I know, and oh, we girls do like
to look our best, don't we?
You know, I'm just dying to get to the
next dance at State. Let's see, oh, yes,
it's t h e Military Ball, Isn't it? Hope Ted
asks me. I hope I get my dress because
I must look my very best for tomorrow
night. Say, who'll loan me an evening
dress?

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Inja Ellwood Capper
"Inja Ellwood Capper next!" calls out
Judge Linn. As he does so, in, gingerly, walks Inja Ellwood. Judge Linn immediately casts off his official reserve,
and in no time is striking up a jesting
conversation.
There Inja stands, a m a n of average
size, of spare build, a round jovial, r a t h er good looking face, a derby hat, a light
Palm Beach suit of stylish cut, though
ratlier thread-bare and a little too large
for Inja Ellwood, highly polished shoes
and a large old-fashioned parasol which
he calls an umbrella. Beneath his h a t
is a brain that displays the mentality of
a child of eight years old. By the way,
herein lies the secret of t h e peculiar
popularity of this old man who resents
the word "old" and insists t h a t he is a
young man and always will be. His actions and speech bear out this idea.
Dressed as he is and with his snappy
manner, he has the appearance of t h e
best sport around the town. Indeed, he
takes great pride in his dress as well
as in his umbrella, which he never fails
to carry witli him, rain or shine, except
when it is temporarily changed, on special occasions, for a gold headed cane.
Perhaps because of his mentality, Inja
Ellwood has not a cent in t h e world; b u t
Inja Ellwood has more t h a n money: he
has thousands of friends who delight in
joshing him about his best girl, the fact
that he might get caught in a shower
without his umbrella, or come to misfortune of some kind. They are the ones
who provide for his wants and needs.
He doesn't know the value of money and
doesn't have use for it. He is not a beggar, but in the eyes of these friends he
is just a child, a mirth provoker who
drives dull care away.
Judge Linn, more so t h a n any of his
other friends, realizes Inja Ellwood's a m bition to be well dressed.
"What can I do for you today?" says
Judge Linn.
"Hello! Judge, old posey, what do you
think of me now?"
Judge Linn glances at Inja Ellwood.
"You're sort of a sport, aren't you?
What's up? Hanging around t h a t girl
again? Say, you're not going to get
hitched are you?"
Inja Ellwood reaches in his pocket,
pulls out a ring. "Yes, Judge; see t h a t
ring, ain't it a dandy? My best girl gave
me t h a t . You see—er—we're going to be
married."
"When's this happy event going to occur?"
"Well, I don't just know yet; my girl's
all togged out, taut I can't say so much
for myself. You know, she'd like to have
me married in a stove pipe h a t and other
clothes to match—oh! you know what
they wear when they get married."
"Inja Ellwood, it's been a long time
since I was married; I rather forget just
what they wear. Let's take a look at my
old wedding outflt in my wardrobe."
Here he presents an old time black broadcloth suit with a coat of "claw hammer"
style edges trimmed in black silk, a stiff
white pleated bosom shirt, stiff collar
and cuffs, a dandy pair of shoes of p a t ent leather and last, b u t not least, a proverbial "ten-quart" stove pipe hat and
a gold-headed cane.
"Try tliese on, Inja; see how they flt.
I'll help you."
In a few minutes Inja Ellwood makes
his appearance from an adjoining room
and after eyeing himself before a large
mirror, declared tiiem just t h e flt and
up to the minute. Indeed, they do flt
him better tlian any clothes he has worn
for ten years. The Judge walked over
to a dresser and procures a bright red
tie, fixes it on Inja, and tlien gives his
approval of tlie outflt; " J u s t the flt,
Inja Ellwood, just the flt! That's the
way I've been wanting to see you dressed
for a long time."
"Right you are, Judge," says Inja, as
he looks in the mirror. "Where did you
get this outfit? Tell me so I can get
rigged up; you know I won't care for expenses wlien I get married."
"Well, I'll tell you," says t h e Judge.
"I'll lend you this suit. You won't have
to return it either until I ask for it, but
on this one condition, t h a t I'll get an in-

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vitation t o this affair. When's it going
to come off, and who's t h e lucky woman?"
"Just goin' to see about that now.
Judge; will let you know later." Inja
Ellwood Capper departs witli his goldheaded can in one hand and his old u m brella in the otlier.
"Good-bye, Judge, old posey."
"Good-bye, Inja Ellwood."

The Pine Creek Elm
standing on the right bank of Pine
Creek, about a mile from its Junction
with the Susquehanna River, there is a
large, stately old elm tree, which possesses
deep interest, especially for the students
of local history. Its huge trunk provides a limb spread expansive enough for
hundreds of people to stand beneath its
brandies. This old tree was a silent witness to many an Indian council meeting,
and it sheltered t h e early settlers in Colonial times. No man can measure its
age accurately or t h e number of secrets
it has, for prior t o the coming of t h e
white men the red man held undisturbed
possession of the country round about.
The spirit of patriotism ran high
among the settlers of the West Branch
Valley in Colonial times, and when it
was rumored that the continental congress contemplates declaring the colonies
independent the leading Fair Play Men,
as tliey were called, living on the "forbidden territory" west of Lycoming
creek, were greatly elated. As they lived
on t h e Indian lands outside the Jurisdiction of all provincial law, they at once
set about making preparations to Indorse
the proposed action of Congress by an
emphatic mass meeting beneath this elm
tree. From the meager accounts t h a t
have been handed down, the meeting
was organized and its object was stated
by one of t h e leading men. The proposition was warmly discussed and a n u m ber of patriotic speeches made, when it
was decided to Indorse the proposition
under discussion i n Congress by a formal Declaration of Independence! A series
of resolutions was drawn up and passed,
absolving t h e settlers from all alleglence
to Great Britain and henceforth declaring themselves free and independent.
The result of t h i s meeting was the
most remarkable coincident of the Revolutionary struggle. The "Declaration"
was proclaimed at the same time the
Declaration of Independence was signed
in Philadelphia. It was remarkable t h a t
the Continental Congress
and
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"Squatter Sovereigns" on the West
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and without any knowledge of what each
other was doing, should declare for freedom and independence about t h e same
time. The coincidence stands without
parallel in t h e annals of history.
Tiie following are the names of some
of tlie people who were present and
took part in the Pine Creek Declaration
ol Independence: Thomas, Francis a n d
J o h n Clark, Alexander Donaldson, J o h n
Jackson, Adam Carson, Henry McCracken, Adam DeWitt, Robert Love and Hugh
Nicholas. Among these names will be
recognized several whose descendants
still live in t h a t part of Clinton Cotmty. Their ancestors, notably Hamilton,
Love and Clark, were distinguished for
their ability and representative character, and did much in their day t o give
tone and stability to the new settlement.
This grand old tree still stands a silent
witness of the benefits of civil liberty.
How wonderful t h a t it has been held In
sucli reverence for hundreds of years.
That it has not only escaped t h e ravages
of time, b u t also escaped t h e Indian's
tomahawk and t h e settler's ax. As I
stood beneath its shade last summer a n d
tried to pry from it t h e secrets of h i s tory which it holds, tried to guess t h e
secret of its sturdy preservation t h r o u g h out all this time, it was t h e n I imderstood better t h a n ever before what muBt
have been t h e feelings of the author of
t h e famous lines as he was inspired t o
write:
"Woodman, spare t h a t tree!"

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The Big Ben Goes Fishing
"You know, wlien flsliing season comes
around, I always iiave a hankering to get
out my old rod and line, even it my rlieiimatism does protest, and my legs keep
telling me my seventietli birthday is nigh
on its way." mused Uncle Jake one evening.
All of us were silent when Uncle Jake
gave the signal tliat he was beginning
to stroll back to liis boyliood days.
We knew wliat would be fortlicomlng.
A delightful tale or a rollicking story.
How Uncle Jake remembered them all
was more than I could tell, but as each
tale was new and interesting none of us
cared mucii whether they were real or
imaginary.
"Yes'm. I used to liaul the trout out
of old Rocky Run by the tens and twenties, some of tlieni 15, 18. and. yes. some
20 inclies. Maybe." as an atterthouglit.
"they weren't all t h a t big. Well, now I
remember one time, ha—ha—ha—I always liafta laugh wlien I tliink of it—
when I went fishing with little Jimmie
Grant."
"Little. Uncle. Why, Jimmie is at college now and is as big as father." put in
Jane, a little vexed.
"Aw. shut up." whispered Joe. "let
Uncle Jake tallc."
"Tut, tut, Janie," lauglied Uncle Jake,
"Jimmie was only ten years old then.
Ha! ha! I remember how he begged me
to take him witli me when I 'went fishing. Just to tease the little rascal I
told hlni to be over a t my place at 4 the
next morning, or I'd leave liim behind.
I never tliought tlie litle fellow would
do it, and so intended to take liim witli
me at 8 o'clock. Well, by lieck. if tliat
youngster wasn't over to my place at 4
o'clock, lianglng on tlie door like h
like
everytliing," he added quickly. "Tliere
lie was, fish basket, rod. line, lunch, and
yes. even an alarm clock. When he saw
t h a t I was not dressed to go, he said,
'Why, Uncle, hurry u p or we'll be too late
to go; everybody will have all the fish
fished out.' So I got into my clotlies as
quickly as I could to please the little
fellow, packed a lunch and we started
out. over the hill to old Rocky Run.
" 'Whatclia got the Big Ben for, sonny?'
I asked him.
" 'Well, you see Uncle Jake, dad said if
•I didn't get home by one o'clock to help
him cultivate, I could never go again.
This clock doesn't r u n very good, b u t if
I watcli it close and wind it every time
it stops. I think I can tell what time
it is..'
"I didn't laugh at the little scamp as
I wanted to, but rather took it seriously.
'You'd better watch close, Jimmie,' I admonished. We had not been going five
minutes wlien Jimmie stopped, held the
alarm clock to his ear, shook the Big
Ben, and then solemnly wound it up.
" 'Tliere, I guess it didn't lose more
t h a n a minute.'
"Every flve minutes the old clock would
stop, and every time Jimmie, with all the
patience of Job, and the seriousness of
Solomon, would wind it up again, and
always set it ahead one minute for the
time lost in winding it.
"When we arrived at Bourning Well, I
wager Jimmie had wound t h a t clock up
thirty times. Poor little fellow, he was
worried sick that it would stop. Well, I
flxed his rod and line, put his bait on the
hook a n d told him to try his luck. I t h e n
flxed my rod and going up the stream a
few feet, tlirew my line in, always keeping
my eye on the little fellow. Every few
m i n u t e s I would see him p u t tlie clock to
his ear, and if it was still going, lay It
down with a sigh of satisfaction.
"After a while lie called softly (the little fellow had brains), 'Uncle Jake, I got
a bite.' I went to him, pulled up his
line, and took off of his hook a monstrous crab. His disappointment showed
in his face. 'Never mind, sonny,' I said,
'you'll have better luck the next time.'
"I rebaited his hook, and went back to
my own line. 1 pulled in a large rainbow
t r o u t , and cast my line in again. My
luck wasn't very good here, so I went
u p t h e stream a litle farther. I t was
about ten-thirty now. I pulled in two
more beauties—one a brook trout, the
other a rainbow trout. I had been gone

about flfteii minutes when Jimmie's silence became conspicuous. A little friglitened, I hurried back to him. There he
was, the little mite, sound asleep, his pole
dangling in the water. As I watched
it. it gave a Jerk. I quickly pulled it in.
Plopping from the end was a trout larger
tlian any of mine.
"Jimmie woke wltli a start when he
lieard the splash. 'See what you caught,
sonny.' I said, holding up the sparkling
trout. Disregarding me, he hurriedly
picked up Ills clock. 1 knew it had
stopped wlien I saw the two big tears go
rolling down ills clieeks.
" 'Oh Uncle,' he sobbed. 'I don't know
wliat time it is. and I'm afraid it is after
one o'clock. "Let's go home.'
"All my assurance that it wasn't noon
yet, would not sootlie him. So packing
our tilings we set out for liome. We had
not gone more tlian a quarter of a mile
wlien I noticed liow tired he looked, so,
picking liini up. I carried lilm the rest
of tlie way liome. It was amusing to see
tlie worried look on his face. Every once
in a Willie a tear would steal down his
cheek. Wlien we got home nothing
would do until Jimmie iiad looked at the
clock. I never saw a more relieved boy
than when lie found out t h a t it was only
12:30. As I was leaving for my own place,
lie came out and begged t h a t I take him
fishing again."
"And did you. Uncle?" asked Jane.
"Sure, and I gave liim an Ingersoll to
keep with him tlie next time we went.
And the flsli t h a t he caught, ha, ha, every
boy ill town saw it. Jimmie with his Big
Ben was sure some chap. And he hasn't
clianged a mite. Jimmy hasn't. Darn
faltlilul little cuss!"
Maude Stangel,

Us and Others
Helen Keister visited her aunt, Mrs.
Edward Green, at Howard, over the weekend of Marcli 19.
Reba Johnson and Betty McKee spent
the week-end of March 19 at their homes
in Altoona. We know why Betty went
home. What's Reba's reason?
Dickinson's spring vacation solves tlie
mystery of d i e Herritt's deserting us on
March 20.
Mary Davidson was made happy over
Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20,
by a visit from iier cousin, Beatrice Jorden, of Scranton.
Alice Corby entertained her mother
over the week-end of March 19. Alice
wasn't the only lucky one cheered up
tay her family.
Jo Paul thinks she won't get lonesome any more since her mother and sister, Editli, told her all the Johnstown
news.
Sara Felix found time to enjoy a visit
at her home in Williamsport on March
19 and 20.
Rutli Jones, Jerry Conway, and Helen
Shearer had a delightful time at their
homes in Kylertown over the week-end.
Alice Hesser went along as Helen's guest.
Peg Sutton and Diz Statler visited
their parents in Johnstown the weekend of March 19.
Connie and Ann Gilloegly are very fortunate to have two uncles so near the
school, Connie and her roomie, Isabel
Boylan, enjoyed t h e week-end of March
19 with Rev. M. A. Gilloegly a t Jersey
Shore. Ann and her friends, Betty Jorden, Helen Cardon, Helen Horan and
Agnes Gallagher spent the week-end with
Rev. J. P. Gilloegly in Williamsport.
Rosa Lee Hinkley was surprised to have
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hinkley,
and her sister's family drive down t o see
her on Sunday, March 20.
Priscilla Heath had her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Poster Heath, and her brother,
John, with her on Sunday, March 20.

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Spring-

According to the wordiest m a n in t h e
world, wlio was cliristened Daniel Wetaster wlien but a child and has kept that
name ever since, "Spring is tlie portion
of tlie year when plants begin to vegetate; usually Including March, April, and
May in the nortli temperate zone. Spring
of tlie astronomical year begins with the
vernal equinox and ends witli the summer solstice."
Tliat's wliat Webster
tliinks Spring is!
A famous bard, fired by imagination,
probably, wrote, "Spring is tlie time when
a young maii't fancy turns lightly to
thoughts of love."
Of course, botli of tliese learned gentlemen may have been right; no doubt
they were. Our friend, Mr. Webster, for
instance, says, "Spring is the time of
year wlien plants begin to vegetate!"
Even automobile plants begin to put on
double shifts in order t h a t the speeding
American may knock down the required
liumber of fences and telephone poles
along t h e great highways during the
summer "survival of the fittest" cross
country Sunday race t h a t some people
call motoring.
Tlien again Webster says, "usually including March, April and May in t h e
north temperate zone." Now we all know
t h a t times have changed. There isn't
any temperate zone in America; it's eitlier
dry or wet. This may account for tlie
fact t h a t there was no spring a t all in
March, t h a t April boasted several snows,
and May—well, May reminds me of a
Ford; Just enough spring in it to make
me tired!
Going on with Webster, we flnd tliat
Spring begins with the vernal equinox
and ends with tlie summer solstice. It
may be true, but frankly if I would have
to look around until I found a vernal
equinox, I am afraid t h a t it would be
time to get my skates. Big words like
tliese are all right in dictionaries, just
as elephants are all right in circuses, taut
I hate to have either ol them around me
when I am Just full ot "spring fever."
So much for our friend Mr. Webster.
Consider what the poet has said;
"Spring—when a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love!" Out
of date! Young men these days t u r n
only to thoughts of love during tlie
wliole year. In the spring their thoughts
are concentrated on financing t h e purchase of tliat new roadster. The more
serious minded, however, t u r n tiieir
thoughts to getting the winter's ashes
out ot the cellar. Unfortunately, they
only think about it.
No, Spring isn't what it used to tae!
I t would seem ridiculously out of date
to hang over a girl's front gate just hecause it was Spring and one's fancy had
turned lightly to thoughts of love,
wouldn't it? Today the young fellows
step right into the house, slap "dad" on
the hack, and help themselves to his favorite smokes.
Personally, I have my own ideas on this
Spring question.
Now, flrst of all, when Mother gets a
scoured bottle of sulphur and molasses
down from the top shelf of t h e medicine
chest, and literally forces it into our daily
rations, when the odor of t h a t terrible
mixture that some folks call spring tonic,
fills every nook and corner of t h e house,
t h e n I think to myself, "Well, Spring is
coming."
About the time t h a t the medicine-taking is about half over, I see every lad in
the neighborhood apparently looking for
some muddy field in order t h a t a game
of agates may be waged. It's curious, b u t
true, t h a t martales just can't be played
except on some muddy fleld! it would
take half the Joy out of the game not to
track u p all t h e sidewalks in t h e district. A broken window here, a trampled
lawn there, give evidence to t h e fact t h a t
some future "Babe R u t h " has "knocked
o u t " a foul ball. The electric wires are
bedecked with kites t h a t have become
hopeless wrecks, and the cords make the
wires look like a mardi-gras. When I see
these signs, I think to myself with a little assurance, "Spring :must be Just
around t h e corner."

Now comes that clarion call. "It's
housecleaning time," and back yards take
on tlie appearance of a fieet of targets
such as tile Navy uses. Windows take
on that bare aspect that betrays no curtains, amateur painters proceed to splash
much paint and spread a little where it
belongs, and some carefree sons of toil
proceed to spade and hoe, and hoe and
spade, in earnest hopes tliat there may
be a garden before the neiglibors adopt
a dog. There's a lot of cutting up done,
too, for some folks prune o u t the dead
brandies of their favorite rosebush, wliile
otliers Just prune out everything but tlie
roots, with no chance ot even a first rose
of summer. When I see these signs of
progress, I say, almost audibly. "Surely
Spring is coming!"
Wlien the billboards are posted with
the glorious news tliat a circus will soon
be here, when the shop windows are
decorated with beautiful flowers that are
supposed to spring open dad's purse, and
bright reds, yellows, and greens stroll
along the boulevards; when these tilings
come to pass I say in a wliisper. "I believe t h a t Spring is here."
Wlien branches once more are covered
with green, and the skies are blue, almost cloudless, I flnd myself singing u n der by breath, "Spring is here."
But when I sit down to write, and my
mind wanders to the "great open spaces
where men are men, and some women are
married," when I rebel, at flrst secretly,
and t h e n openly, at the close classroom,
and the heavy assignments; when I write
a composition, and count tlie words about
every flve minutes in the hope t h a t I
have reached the limit; when I yawn and
stretch and yawn again even though the
whole world sings out, calls out to me
that I a m young, and life is good; t h a t
there is Joy today and no tomorrow; in
flne, when I write a composition so vague
as this—then I know, beyond a doubt
that "Spring has come!"
Josephine Paul.

Not the Clock's Fault
"Um-m-m-m gosh!" and an arm
stretched out from beneath the heap of
covers on the bed. "I wonder how many
blamed old alarm clocks go off here in a
morning. "Hey, did you hear me, roommate?"
"Uh-huh!" The room-mate was so
sleepy she scarcely got this sound out.
"Well, do you hear those blamed old
clocks? Bur-r-rr-r, ting-a-ling-ling, one
after the other," she added as she
stretclied still further.
"Gee, I'll say I do. Wonder how many
go off here before six o'clock," she flnally answered, between stretches and
yawns.
"I believe, you didn't hear me. I Just
asked you tiie same question."
"Oh, well, then! I don't know, but
how I do care. Must be a couple h u n dred of the little nuisances from the
number of times I've been half asleep
and t h e n awakened again by a new tinga-ling-ling-ling."
"Well, I wouldn't care if this happened to be one of the mornings I had
something to do and had to get up early.
Why yesterday when we did get up early
I didn't hear a single sound. The old
halls sounded like a morgue. So still
I was afraid some one would interrupt
any minute, and ask me t o go back to
bed,"
"So was I. O-o-o-o-o, I'm sleepy."
"Well, then, let's both get quiet long
enough to get back to sleep. If I don't
get some more sleep I'll tae yawning
around all day. Anyway, if we get the
kids next door awake with our talking,
they'll feel like we do about the alarm
clocks. Maybe we sound worse t h a n the
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^\ isconshi Normals In Forensic League
Wisconsin's nine normal schools were
all represented in the oratorical contests
staged at Eau Claire, March 18. This is
Then They :May Want Signals Off
Harvard students are advocating the the annual free-for-all of the Wisconsin
hudle system for use in examinations.— Inter-Normal Forensic League.
The Eastern, Madison, S. D.
Somewliere They Head I s
Normal Times evidently gets a reading
not entirely discreditable when it lands
in tlie hands of brother editors. Fortytwo quotations, clippings, or comments
of or on our "stuff" have appeared in
other papers since the flrst of the year.
The Buffalo Normal Record, in its very
clever Follies Number, Just received,
makes the number 43 by quoting in full
IVIarie Gordon's "I Buya da Ford."

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Baseball Prospects at C. S. N . S.
Fraternities of tlie University of NeIs C. S. N. S. going to have a varsity
braska who did not participate in the baseball team this year? Is tliere a schedinter-Iraternity track meet received teacups from the coach "in taehalf of their ule of games? Do we have any material?
These and other questions were brought
services."—The Eastern, Madison, S. D.
to the attention of the boys at a meet.\ MOrtUv Class Memorial
ing held by Coach Dyck on Wednesday
The class of 1927 at California, in pre- evening. There were different reactions;
senting to the scliool a sum of money to some held the opinion that there should
be used in tlie future as a senior loan not be a varsity team, but rather, a series
fund is setting up for itself a living me- of equally matched teams chosen from
morial. Senior students in years to come the student body. Yes, of course, there
will be recalling with gratitude the is enough material—forty boys all intertlioughtfuhiess of a class which was not ested in baseball.
content with a picture or a tablet on the
It was flnally agreed that there shall
wall.
be at least three competing teams organWestern Penn Normal Conference
ized among t h e boys—that from this
Representatives from Indiana, Clarion, group tlie coach shall select ten of the
Edinboro, Slippery Rock, and California best "performers" to play an occasional
Normals met at Pittsburgh on March 18 game with the City League Team, This
to establish an athletic conference for means t h a t there will be no regular
the western division of the state normal schedule of games.
scliools.
West Chester Wants .Vlma Mater
Prizes of flve dollars each are being
offered tay botli the music and t h e Engiisli Departments at West Chester Normal for a worthy Alma Mater song, the
Engiisli Department to select the prizewinning words and the Music Department the tune which fits them most
worthily.
Ka Kumiikiila Comes From Honolulu
The long distance championship is
hereby awarded to Ka Kumukula, all the
way from Honolulu to our editorial t a ble. Published by the students of t h e
Territorial Normal School in that Hawaiian city, appearing weekly, a threecolumn, four page news Journal of 9x12
size, Ka Kumukula is at once our youngest and our most traveled compeer.
The names of the student board of editors suggests i n miniature the complex
of peoples struggling there on equal footing to enter t h e profession of teaching
as American teachers in American
schools. To each of these editors the
Board of Editors of Normal Times, struggling on equally uncertain footing to
t u r n out a similar publication, extend
personal greetings and professional sympathies:
Editor-in-Chief
Lorraine Preitas
Alumni Editor
Lorna Awai
Club Notes
Emilie Freitas
Literary Notes
Rosina Chock
Girls Sports
Blanche Doi
Boys Sports
Ralph Shimokawa

TITUS'
Serve Dainty Lunches and Tasty
Sandwiches
Delicious Sundaes made with
Sitter's
White Deer Ice Cream
Enjoy a noonday luncheon just off
the Campus.
We deliver Ice Cream or Lunches
to Normal Students at 9:46 P. M.

The Glee Club girls were very happily
surprised wlien they learned tiiey were
lo have the evening out on Tuesday
niglit. That is they were permited to go
as far as the Methodist Churcli to help
in the opening exercises of the Methodist Episcopal Churcli Conference.
There was the usual scurrying around
and borrowing. At last after the "Who
has a clean middy?" and "Honey, do you
have a black tie you can lend me?" "Oh,
dear, I haven't any black stockings, wonder wliere I could get a pair?" had died
away, tiie girls were all ready to start.
An almost unheard of thing happened
this night. All the girls were there on
time and ready to begin. How come?
Well, the meeting was delayed about
twenty minutes and that gave all t h e last
ones a chance to get into their places
witliout the usual breathless rush and
contusion.
The cause ot tlie delay was not so
unusual, but of course it just had to
iiappen on t h a t niglit of all nights, during the opening night of an important
and very large conference. While the
people were coming in and others were
standing or sitting around talking and
still others were glancing over their programs, suddenly, witliout tiie slightest
warning they were left in total darkness.
Immediately a buzzing and suppressed
giggles fllled the room and about three
minutes later a faint light appeared in
one corner of the churcli, but it disappeared very suddenly followed by an
"ouch." About five minutes later the
tricky lights popped on and then out
again, they went, leaving the startled congregation blinking and squinting. After
ten minutes more of darkness, they finally decided not to hold up the meeting
any longer, so during the rest of the evening they behaved as perfectly good
lights sliould.

Art Club Initiation
As a rule, t h e members of the various
school organizations take great pleasure
in initiating their new members. The
Senior members of the Art Club are not
exceptions to this rule as any Junior will
readily testify, after what he or she endured at their hands Friday, April 7.
Price Hall was the scene of activity;
active activity, that would have kept a
flrst class newspaper reporter busy to
note Just half of what took place. It
will sufHce to say t h a t no Junior was
permitted to relax either mentally or
physically during the entire evening.
After a brief intermission the formal
initiation was conducted in t h e Art
room, after which Juniors and Seniors
met on equal terms around t h e art
desks to enjoy the refreshments which
were served.
Silvia Breth, ot Clearfleld, the flrst
president of t h e Art Club, was present.

Spirit of C. S. N. S.
There is a distinct spirit about C. S.
N. S. whicli is marked by every one who
visits it. It is the spirit of honesty,
friendship, and co-operation. This spirit
is shown not only in t h e relation of the
students one to another, but also in the
relation of students to the faculty. Here
in C. S. N. S., there is not the disposition to fence one's self off and to separate one's self from t h e common crowd.
The students have a spirit of real democracy; each one is as good as the other
is, she behaves herself aud does her
work earnestly and honestly.

Quality
Shoe Repairing
and
Shoe
Shining
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New Laundry Ready April First
The new laundry is completed and was
ready for operation on April flrst.
Most of t h e machinery is in and set
up and the rest is in transit.
The building is of brick trimmed with
red stone. The laundry will occupy the
main floor, and t h e basement will be
used for a carpenter shop and pipe room.
I t is equipped with the most modern
steam and electric machinery placed in
accordance with t h e best plans.

T h e h o m e of

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Your Real Opinions
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NORMAL
"Old Mud Church"
"The Old Mud Church," a famous
landmark in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania,
is t h e center of attraction for many tourists wlio pass through t h e little mountain
city. Hardman Phillips, the founder of
Phillipstaurg, very little realized t h a t the
little Churcli where he and his family
worshipped over a hundred years ago,
would today be the proud boast of t h a t
city.
The somewhat small building on Presqueisle Street is not a great deal unlike
a Uttle old country school house. Just
as its name would suggest, it is made of
mud, preserved by frequent coats of yellow paint. The small frame windows are
protected tay the characteristic shutter
of t h a t early period.
The ground surrounding the Church is
a cemetery. There most of the early settlers ai-e tauried, also a great many Civil
War Veterans.
The Interior of the Church has not
taeen greatly changed. Plain walls and

Compliments

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Restaurant-Delicatessen
Table Luxuries

uncarpeted floor greet the travelers' eyes.
Straight, uninviting benches, upon which
early settlers sat for hours at a time, are
still being used. No grand organ a n d
choir loft graces t h e front. The little
old organ of years gone by is still in use;
that is, when any one volunteers to play
it. Even the preacher's pulpit is t h e
same. People vow and declare it will
fall apart some day, when he is pounding especially hard.
Although services are still held in t h e
Cliurch, it's upkeep has become a problem for Pliillipsburg to solve. But it is
not a great protalem, for every one considers it a privilege t o help t h e Old Mud
Church, and so digs down deep in his
pocket, as many times as he is asked.

Coach Is a Backslider
The coach (and his Buick) received a
jar some time ago. He fell (with his
Buick) into a predicament. I t was because he has a "fast" car t h a t the entire
affair happened, and i t was because there
were a number of his friends available
that he got out all right.
It all happened t h i s way. He was trying to make a quick get-away after one
of the dances. (We don't know why).
He stepped on t h e gas and taecause it is
the hatalt of his car never to stay long in
one place, it traveled over t h e ground so
swiftly t h a t the next thing the aforementioned chauffeur had to get the help
of several of the taoys to push him o u t
of the ditch.

TIMES
DR. KELLEY SPEAKS AT
HISTORY OF ED DINNER
(Continued from Page 1)

Clinton—The Pine Creek Declaration of
Independence, David Ulmer.
Dauphin—John Harris, Mary Margaret
Adams.
Elk—Old Time School Books, Margaret
Mortimer.
Lackawanna—The Baby County, Constance GiUoigly.
Luzerne—Wilkes-Barre Academy, Margaret McHale.
Lycoming—The Underground Railway,
Edith Morrison.
McKean—Canoe Place, Beatrice Eichardson.
Northumberland—Northumberland Academy, Helen Thornton.
Philadelphia—Franklin's Academy, Mary
Daugherty.
Potter—Ole Bull's Colony, Wilford Pomeroy.
Venango—Oil in 1859, Margaret Kane.
Warren — Cobham's Castle, Josephine
Guild.
Clyde Swoyer and Harriet Kelt were
t h e financial committee and deserved
much credit for the success of t h e banquet.
Rhea Brungard sketched t h e life of
William Penn as a closing feature.
Mrs. J, Pranklin Long, of Flemington,
made a brief address in which she lauded
t h e work of t h e psychology and education courses, a n d spoke of the h u m a n i n terest brought into these classes tay Miss
Merrells. The gift of a history of Clearfleld County, from Superintendent Trostle, of the Clearfield County Schools, was
announced.

Hungry ?

Another Day for School Room
Observance
March 4th is to have a two-fold meaning for Pennsylvanians, especially school
teachers, in t h e future. This day is t o
tae otaserved in the school room, not as
the day of the inauguration of state and
national officers, b u t in commemoration
of the granting of t h e charter to William Penn by Charles I I of England.
Remember how you sat up a n d tool:
notice when your teacher, back in t h e
grades, announced t h a t you were going
to observe such and such a day because
of its historic significance? Let every C.
S. N. S. student remember his experience as a grade pupil and when he takes
up his charge as teacher, make these
special days mean something for his p u pils.

State Official Advises Care
of Teeth
A brief address on t h e importance of
the care of t h e teeth was given In
chapel, Friday morning, April 8, tay Dr.
C. J. HoUister of the Chief Dental Division of the Health Department, Harristaurg. Pa.
During his talk he stressed particularly the relation of the care of t h e teeth t o
the health of t h e taody and t o t h e general appearance. The importance of teachers carrying o u t t h e simple dental rules
of health was brought out forcibly.

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AINTY SERVICE
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Lock Haven's Shopping

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We invite the Student Body to visit this store with a
feeling of freedom and under no obligation whatever to buy.
We appreciate your patronage and will serve you to the
best of our ability.
HOSIERY, Silk or Cotton—UNDERTHINGS—NECKWEAR
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China—^Houseware—Gift Department
Rugs—Draperies—Curtains

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NORMAL

Bloomsburg Secures Another
Victory Over Normal
In one of the most peculiarly contested games ot the season. Normal lost to
Bloomsburg on Bloomsburg's court, Friday, February 25. Normal took off to a
whirl-wind start and ran up seven points
before Bloomsburg could get set. Sherkel and Hosterman divided the scoring.
Bloomsburg, liowever, settled down and
drawled up to six points making the
score at the end of t h e quarter 7-6. The
second quarter Normal gained another
7 points but Bloomsburg made their total 25. Bloomsburg came back the second half with a new team, the second
stringers, but these boys seemed to have
a good brand ot playing, for they chalked
up basket after basket, running t h e
score up to 77-23 at t h e end of the game.
The last half was slowed down considerably for Normal by t h e close refereeing.
Summary:
Lock Haven
Bloomsburg
Bauman
McGrath
Forward
Hosterman
Fisher
Forward
Sherkel
Austin
Center
Ulmer
Wadas
Guard
Bohn
Garrity
Guard
Field goals: Kraynack, 9; Fisher, 5;
McGrath, 3; Austin, 4; Shruser, 1; Wadas,
5; Garrity, 3; Hosterman, 6; Sherkel, 2;
Bauman, 1.
Foul goals: McGrath, 4 out of 8; Austin, 6 out of 14; Shruser, 3 out of 6;
Wadas, 3 out of 4; Kraynack, 4 out of 10;

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Garity, 0 out of 3: Hosterman, 1 o u t of
5; Sherkel, 3 out of 6; Fredericks, 1 out
of 2.
Referee: Serda.

Mansfield Drubs Normal
On Friday evening, Marcli 4, the Normal basketeers journeyed to Mansfleld,
confldent of a victory, b u t were disappointed. Mansfleld cut loose to an early
start which tliey maintained to the end.
The flnal score being 72-8.
Mansfield's stocky center was the star,
caging 13 fleld goals.
The game was ragged and slow throughout, neither side demonstrating any good
basketball.
Summary:
Lock Haven
Mansfleld
Bauman
Kelley
Forward
Hosterman
Miller
Forward
Sherkel
Woodward
Center
Ulmer
Brace
Guard
Bohn
Sorber
Guard
Field goals: Woodward, 13; Brace, 9;
Miller, 4; Johns, 2; Sortaer, 7; Renninger,
1; Sherkel, 1; Bohn, 1.
Fouls: Miller, 1 out of 2; Sortaer, 2
out of 3; Bauman, I out of 1; Sherkel,
1 out of 1.

Normal Loses to California
Normal lost to the fast California Normal team to the t u n e of 51-14. The game
was close and interesting t h e flrst quarter, with Tommy Hosterman plunging
through the giant defense of California

We can tell you the most
beautiful way to say it

CARLSON,

Florist

AT THE MONUMENT

TIMES
for repeated attempts at fleld goals. Tommy, however, missed many of his sliots.
At the beginning of the second quarter. Normal's guards loosened up and let
the California boys through for fleld
goals repeatedly. From then on the visitors seemed to pile up the points at will.
Summary:
C, S. \ . .><.
California
Hosterman
Drum
Forward
Renninger
Irwin
Forward
Ulmer
Baugliman
Center
Bolin
Linquist
Guard
Williams
Smitli
Guard
Field goals: Smith, 9; Linquist, 6;
Baughmau, 4; Hosterman, 3; Springer, 3;
Renninger, 2: Bolin, 2; Drum, 1.
Foul goals: Drum, 1 out of 2; Baugliman, 2 out of 4: Smith, 1 out of 2; Linquist, 1 out of 2.
Referee: Stewart.

Coaching Days
Dr-r-ring went the bell for retiring.
Bong, bong, eight, nine, ten, struck the
clock. Snap! Out went the lights.
But the fellows were not in bed. Tiiey
were out in the lialls, talking or doing
some other extra-curricular work.
Tramp, tramp, tramp. The dean was
coming down the hall. "What are you
doing out here?" he said. "Get to bed."
That was Monday night.
Dr-r-ring went the taell for retiring.
Bong, bong, eight, nine, t e n went t h e
clock. Snap! Out went the lights.
Again t h e fellows were not in bed.
They were o u t in the hall where they
didn't belong.
Tramp, tramp, tramp. The dean was
coming down the hall. "Say, will some
of you fellows come out and help me
push my car out of the ditch.
I'm
stuck over by the gym." That was Saturday night.

Coaching Class Commands
Gymnasium
While Miss Rearick and Miss Dixon a t tended an athletic conference at Washington, D. C , the class in coaching took
full charge of the gym classes. Practice for the approaching spring meet was
the emphatic point of the work and
quoit-pitching and dodge-ball went on
quite merrily, in spite of t h e teachers'
absence. No casualties have been reported, so it may be assumed t h a t the students accepted the substitution a t least
resignedly. T h u s does the coaching class
obtain first-hand practice.
Those who had charge of the classes
were: Dorothy Campbell, Sarah Felix,
Ruth Jones, Harriet Kelt, Edith Morrison, Elverda Richardson, Lenore Sharp,
Gwendolyn Stringfellow, a n d A n n e
Winklebleck.

The Little Brown School House
The little brown school house from a
distance looks like a cottage at tlie top
of the liighest road leading from the
country store. Large maple trees grow
against the school, spreading their limbs
around it.
The school was also remarkable for
the "dumb" windows with tlie most artful blinds painted on them. On each
side of the building there waa a large
playground, one for tlie boys, t h e other
for the girls, althougli they always
played together.
There were two rooms in tlie building,
the school-room whicli was down stairs
and the brown and white room above.
The school-room was so long t h a t it
looked very low in the ceiling. On tlie
walls were maps and shelves holding
texts. The teacher's desk was in the
middle of the room and there was another desk ill the corner where slie p u t tlie
pupils who did not behave.
One of the teachers was very queer,
Slie made the pupils bring liandkerchiefs, wliicli lead to its being called the
Hanky School. In time these liandkerchiels may be said to have assumed a
religious character, tliough their purpose was merely to protect their stockings. She opened each scholastic day
by reading flfteen verses from the Bible,
and then she said sternly, "Hankies!"
whereupon lier pupils took out their
handkerchiefs, spread them on t h e floor,
and kneeled on them while the teacher
repeated the Lord's Prayer. School always closed at 4 o'clock. No one was
kept after tliat time to do their work.
Only on great occasions were t h e boys
and girls admitted to the brown and
white room, for example wlien they were
sick, or when they were just entering
school. Everything in this room was
brown and white. There were white
blinds and brown curtains; a white table scarf, a brown foot-stool, brown
chairs with white dots on them. Only
white flowers came into this room where
there were brown vases for them. Not a
book was to be seen without a brown
cover. Here, this teacher received her
visitors and enrolled new pupils i n blue
ink and a white pen. Some laughed at
her, while others pitied her.
The teacher's name was Miss Carrie
Rydesky. She was somewhat beyond middle age, and stoutly built, which gave
her a masculine appearance, but as the
days passed she grew so timid, t h a t when
she spoke you felt t h a t either her figure or her manner must have been intended for some one else. In conversation she had a way of ending a sentence
in the middle, which gave her t h e reputation of taeing "through wither," though
an artifleial tooth was the cause. I t was
slightly loose, and had she not a t times
s h u t her mouth suddenly and t h e n done
something with her tongue, an accident
might have happened. This tooth fascinated Tommy, one of her pupils, and
when she was talking to the class as a
whole, he cried excitedly, "Quick, it's
coming!" whereupon her m o u t h snapped
shut, and she fainted in t h e middle of
her lecture.

We Serve the Ladies Also
We invite tlie ladies to come to
our barber sliop for their hair
cutting and trimming and permanent waving. We are specially equipped to render a
prompt and satisfactory service. When you or the cliildren require tonsorial attention you will find ua ready to
serve you. We have a chart
that shows the very latest
modes of bobbing, cutting and
trimming.
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Get the satisfaction of playing up to your best

Buy your Tennis Racquets, Tennis Shoes,
Tennis Balls and all Sport Accessories at

Stevenson's Sporting Goods Store
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;:::i.

8

NORMAL

OUR OWN LITTLE DIARY
Monday, March 14
This weather makes you feel like doing notliing. They are even playing t e n nis—sort of rushing t h e season. Worked
for awhile in t h e library. Went t o a
couple of meetings. That's about all.

t h a t the story was in our taook. After
I spent a perfectly good hour looking for
it.
Dropped my fountain pen today and
it's a wreck now. It looks as though it
was tlirough a war.
We had a test today. The next time
the gang tells u s not t o study for one,
I'm going to clean house. I answered
everything, b u t I can't say how near I
came to the question,
Thursday, March 24
Three weeks from today I won't be sitting in this room. How these weeks have
dragged. It seems years since I've been
home. Teny, Texas, and Kus went to t h e
movies. They came home thrilled t o
death. The rest of the gang stayed In.
We all are very good a t doing nothing.
Sent out for something to eat. I was
so hungry it wasn't even funny.

Tuesday, March 15
Work! Work! Work! If everybody
keeps up tlie good work I'll be going
around witli gray hair. I never thought
people were capable of thinking u p so
much for other people to do. It m u s t
be the weather.
Went down to the movies this afternoon, too. Enjoyed it Immensely. Met
Cookies afterwards. She would go in t h e
Sugar Bowl. I can sit through anything
though.
Wednesday, March 16
This is about t h e only day In the week
t h a t there isn't anything to do besides
Friday, March 25
work. There's lots of t h a t to keep me
This is the one day in the week I really
busy if I only look for it.
Haven't heard from home for an awful do enjoy. I hate to see it pass. It means
long time. I wisli they would write. I another week-end spent here. I wouldn't
wouldn't mind hearing from them oc- mind them so much if something interesting would happen.
casionally.
Danced a while in t h e Gym then we
Thursday, March 17
went to t h e play down at the High
Talk about taeing stunned. They al- School. I t was adorable, b u t I thought
most liad to use a stimulator to taring ours was every bit as good, if not better.
me around. When Helen told me I could
Saturday, March 26
hardly taelieve her. I guess it's so tliough.
No mail from home. I'd just as soon
We've taeen craving excitement for t h e
last month. We certainly have our share not get any mail as not to hear from
liome. Helen got another package of
now. I still can't realize it.
eats, and it certainly was a box. Nine
Girls' Meeting, short and sweet!
of us made quick work of it.
rrUlay, :Marcli 18
Sunday, Marcli 27
Tills is my easy day. Played tennis for
Went to church early this morning.
awhile. The rain dampened our spirits
Talk about work, it all come at once.
t o some extent.
I started a t 10 this morning and I'm
Such a crowd. I think we are jinxed. not through yet. Owing to a little inP. has to go home. If any more of us terference and recreation taken now and
leave right away I'll know we're jinxed. then. Going here and there, and doing
The violinist was simply wonderful. this and t h a t .
- When he was playing you'd think he
:Monday, Marcli 28
was there alone. I t was too short to
One test over and I'm not the least
suit me.
bit sorry. It certainly was more t h a n
Saturday, March 19
I expected. Didn't get any mail. I'm
Rain! Rain! That's about all it can getting used t o not hearing from home.
do I guess. I'm ready for it to quit any Dotty called taut I'd ratlier have a lettime now.
ter I think. There isn't time enough to
Keis went out this week-end. Another say everything to every one over t h e
gone.
phone.
Went to the movies this afternoon.
Tuesday, March 29
The Kid Party was cute. A few co-eds
We danced a while in the Gym, restepped out this evening. Looked snappy turned to our rooms, from there went to
i n some things taken from the third floor Girls' Meeting, from Girls' Meeting back
wardrobes. The effect was great, I t h i n k to our rooms, and flnally we went to bed.
we all could take a few lessons or get a Exciting—wliat? I almost forgot. Jean,
few pointers, especially in the matter of Plump and I went to the movies.
dancing.
Wednesday, i l a r c h 30
Sunday, March 20
Every one came to a t once. I never
Went down to cliurch this morning. I received so many letters in my life. Even
was only out a few minutes wlien I niy sisters tumbled and droped me a
wished 1 had gone prepared for a flood line. This is too much for me. Down
instead of a slight sliower.
town. Cookie bought a new dress. Went
I never knew inagazines were so scarce. to the plays given by the Play ProducI spent tlie best part of the day looking tion class, enjoyed them immensely. Afaround for tliera.
ter the plays we all came over to our
Heck, if it doesn't stop raining I'll go room and fooled the remainder of t h e
mad.
evening away. I don't know how we
Moiulay, Alarch 21
do it, b u t wlien it comes t o lelsuring
Another blue Monday spent peacefully, we all succeed beautifully.
cjuietly is more like it. The school is as
Thursday, March 31
calm as Sunday in tlie Blue Law State.
This is Billy's birthday and I forgot
I t stopped raining. It's a wonder.
all about it. Wliat's done can't be helped
now. I ought to be kicked though.
Tuesday, March 22
Whew! I'm glad this day is over. II Danced as usual in the Gym, It is getall classes were like t h a t one—excuse me. ting so monotonous going over there,
I tliink I'll quit and use my time to
I feel about t e n pounds lighter now. better advantage. Studied my story u n Girls' meeting was rather interesting. til I almost taelieve I could tell it backWent down to the library to look for a wards. Was j u s t getting out of the showstory. Wasn't quite as lucky as I might er when I had a phone call. I did some
have been.
wild dashing around. It was Dotty and
Wednesday, Marcli 23
the whole gang talking. I was tickled
Down town today for the flrst time this to death. They're all looking forward
week. I wish t h e Sugar Bowl was some to the dance as much as we are, I mean
other place. Cookies can't pass the place. t h e Easter Monday Ball. I can hardly
I ' m witli her a n d of course I can't either, wait. Only two more weeks. If this
weather keeps u p we'll be playing tennis
so there we are.
tomorrow.
Looked for a story again. I was a little
Friday, April 1
more successful this time, I mean the
I weathered t h e day pretty well. I was
librarian was. I couldn't imagine where
t o look for it. After I did have it I came afraid to move or look though. Played
u p a n d Texas greeted me with the news two sets of tennis with Jean. There

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wasn't much action. There couldn't have
taeen because I was colder t h a n heck.
My hands were numb.
Had a feed in Keis' room. Thirteen
eggs, oh my! The O. D. C's took in
three new members.
There are only
eleven and there has to tae twelve to get
going.
Saturday, April 2
Such weather, I could scream. We had
a t r u t h party after lunch. I was laid
low. I'm thinking I had taetter start all
over again. Never knew what was wrong
with me, taut I do now. Truth—nothing
but. We'll have to have t h e whole gang
in on the next one. T h a t seems to have
gone over big. Wonder where all the
pineapples are coming from. I used to
have a sneaking liking for them, but
now the further away I am from a dish
of them or a picture of them the better.
Didn't go over to t h e dance tonight.
After missing one I believe I could miss
all the Saturday 'light dances, and not
feel bad. The music was peppy though.
I t would be when I wasn't there. Had
a feed after the dance. We had our
dancing to the accompaniment of Paul
Whiteman's band.
Sunday, .Iprll 3
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I was so tired this morning. My eyes
felt as though they were ready to drop
out of my head. I flnished my taook
after all the kids went to bed. I went
to bed and couldn't sleep, so I got up
and read. After I finished it I went to
sleep in a m i n u t e it seemed. Our dinner
was good too. Cookies and I discovered
something. I really taelieve we accomplished something, anyhow we are going
to try it again,
Monday, April 4
There seems to be lots of things to do,
but for some reason or other I can't do
them. I t might be Spring fever. I've
never had a siege of it like this. Went
to all my classes—in body, but not in
spirit.
Tacs and I fooled around and we almost had J and Cookies tied in, taut
the scheme didn't work. We gave it up
and went t o our room. That was all
right, b u t when we tried to get out, the
door-knob wouldn't budge. The crowd
outside was having a howling good time,
a t our expense, I wouldn't have asked
to be let out if it was the last thing
I did. Our S. O. S.'s flnally resulted in
action on their part.
Tuesday, April 5
I'm simply lost when I don't go over
to tlie Gym to dance. I watclied though,
b u t tliat's worse tlian dancing.
We had an exciting girl's meeting. The
place Just buzzed. I heard something
that didn't suit me, I wonder if it's
true. If it Is, I miglit as well start in
now and look for sympathy, for I'll be
sadly in need of it.
Wednesday, April 6
Can't say that anything unusual happened. The sun didn't even shine. Talk
about gloom, the scliool, the weather and
myself register it to perfection.
Thursday, April 7
I need something most awfully bad and
if I don't soon get it—Down in the
library doing my History of Ed. I made
a little progress. The lecture this evening was interesting.
We made our rounds before going to
our rooms. It takes a good hall-chairman to hold third floor down. I never
laughed so much in all my life. Those
kids were funny.
Friday, April 8
I liaven't been downtown for so long
t h a t I've almost forgotten wliat it looks
like. Played tennis for a while. My arm
is so weak now.
Went to Church. The gang marked it
up, not t h a t we don't go often, b u t that
we went on tliat particular night. That
was the first time for me. Came back
and filled out a blank.
Saturday, April 9
I must have crawled out the wrong
side of t h e bed this morning. I certainly was In a beautiful humor. My
conversation for the most part of the

morning wouldn't have covered two
Inches of an ordinary piece of paper. I
felt so mean t h a t I got silent Instead ot
noisy.
Sunday, April 10
Our last week-end! I can hardly wait.
I've spent it the same as I have all t h e
rest. So much to do t h a t none of it
gets done, and I sit around and fool. My
hair ought to be gray from so much
worrying.

Going- Up!
The door opened and out rushed a
crowd of talkative people. A girl's voice,
"Watcli your step," and a new crowd, including our party, piled in the "box" and
up, up we went. A m a n said, "Sixteenth,
please," and with a jerk, a rush of air,
we eame to a stop and out stepped the
passenger. The door closed, and again
we had t h a t feeling of the floor dropping from under us, taut we all stuck
together and up we fiew again. Twentieth, thirty-first, forty-seventh,
fiftieth,
and fifty-third, we gathered ourselves t o gether and waited. Another jerk and we
stepped out on t h e fifty-fourth floor.
Through tlie gate we went and found
ourselves in an otaserving room, with
windows all around, and a t one end of
a small room, a booth where they were
selling souvenirs.
We walked to one of the windows and
looked out across t h e river, noting t h e
different New Jersey cities. From another window we could see t h e Statue
of Liberty.
But why waste oiir time here? We fell
in line and waited our t u r n to go up the
remaining distance. We finally stepped
into a little cylindrical elevator which
only five or six people could squeeze into at one time. So it was in this little
"affair" t h a t we rode up the last three
floors. We stepped out on a little platform of about twenty-five or thirty feet.
Around It was a railing about four feet
high.
Wliat a siglit! Looking down we were
almost led to think the people were ants
or dots, moving about. The automobiles
and trolleys looked like the toys you
buy in tlie five and ten-cent store. I t
made us shiver to think ot the tumble
we would take If we should happen to
lean over t h e railing too far.
All around we could see wonders: t h e
Brooklyn Bridge, Long Island, Ellis Island, S t a t u e of Liberty, Wall Street,
Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Chinatown,
Greenwich Village, the new telephone •
building, and other buildings t h a t tower
above tiie streets of New York.
The day was rather windy, and whenever a hard gust of wind came along we
could feel the building giving a little.
Imagine if it should have happened to
fall over, we probably would have landed
over in the Hudson river or somewhere
near there.
After about twenty niinutes of sightseeing from the tallest building in the
world, we got in tlie cylindrical, shaped
elevator which took us back down to the
fifty-fourth floor. There we got on the
elevator and continued our trip downward. Before we entered, we had been
told tliat if in t h e course of the drop,
our ear drums felt like bursting, we were
to open our m o u t h and swallow. We
found we were compelled to do this quite
often in tiie ride from t h e fifty fourth
floor to the first.
We all agreed t h a t our fifty-cents was
well spent In our visit to the Woolworth
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Renovation of Girls' Day Room
The Day Room girls were delightfully
surprised wlien they came bacK from
their early classes Thursday morning.
The dressing room was furnished with
chairs, benches and mirrors. Mrs. Cresswell also promised to get some paint to
complete the renovation of both dressing room and day room. There is little
need to say that t h e girls appreciate this
change, for if Mrs. Cresswell could have
taeen present when they returned she
would have found all of them "trying
out" t h e new accessories with great satisfaction.

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