The San Francisco call., 1897-06-10
Waller Wanted High
School Girls to Talk
Politics.
Aad the Graduating Class Gave
Hin More Than He
Asked For.
The School Director Discusses Juries
and Is Now a Sadder and
Wiser Man.

School Director S. L. Waller told the
Girls High School class of '97 yesterday
that young ladies should be able to argu.
politics with men as ''man 10 man." 1t
was Just a little advice that the School
Director was giving, but the girls TOOK
him at his word and before many minutes
were over he found himself surrounded by
a mob of 100 girls, all arguing with him on
The Jury question. NJ. Waller will proba-
bly, think twice now before he advises
young ladies to argue politics, for he found
not a girl in the graduating class that
could not more than hold her own with
him in arguing politics.
1t was at lunch given yesterday by the
graduating class OF '97 that S. l.. Waller
met his Waterloo. The lunch was a
charming affair, at which IL was hard to
tell which looked prettiest, the flowers
that decked the dainty tables or the nun
dIed or so bright young girls in summer
frocks. Several School Directors were
present, and Mrs. Mary Prsg, who always
helps the girls with their iinks, and Presi-
dent BROOKS acted as master OF ceremonies.
All the Directors were called on tor
speeches. When il came to S. L. Walters S
turn ne said lmpressively: Young
ladies. there is one thing you neglect.
YOU know nothing about politics." At
these words the girls were heard 10 MUIR
mur that they knew all about the institu-
tion.
Theoretically you may know all about
it. but practically you cannot talk politics
with men, and you are not fitting your
selves to do So" continued the School d.
horting the girls to post themselves on
the live political and municipal issues OF
the day.
a hundred pairs of pretty ears drank in
this advIce, and the owners OF the ears
mutlnled at 1t.
The class OF 97 has been holding debat-
ing meetings lately whereaJ very live
municipal questions OF the day were DIS
cussed. I'VE viii try him on the Jury
question" whispered the girls, and no
sooner had the party risen from table
than the hundred surrounded School
Director Waller.
WHAT'S your opinion on the Jury ques-
ton 2" they asked, anu then followed such
q political debate as had probably never
been seen before. The School Director
had arguments to right OF him, arguments
10 lett OF him, he debated all round, but il
was always 'One down, the next come on,
with his antagonists. The last of the fray
was: I'VE mean to tell our parents anu
brothers that the DUTY of every citizen is
to go to the polls, so you see we have been
doing q whole lot OF thinking" and
Waller replied, shake hands-but tell
other peoples brothsrs as we'll" After
that Walters fellow School Directors res
cued him. and The girls danced the "Nir-
ginia Reel" and vowed to be always good
and true TO the dear old High School.
The following girls compose the gradu-
ating class:
Blanche Abrams, Emma Won Ahnden, Alice
NJ. Allen, Annie Harriet Allen, Ella Laura An
derson, Margaret l. Appleton, Eliza be Ii MiunA
Helen Bocarde, Emma Nevada Brady, Grace
Brown, Mercedes Call, Blanche Maple Clark
Georgina Davis, Pauline Des ROches, Ethel
DimoEd, Montgomery Duncan, Charlotte L.
FInlay, Adellne E. Frisbee, Annie Gardner,
Bessie Gorhukel, Ruby GracIer, Mary GRAY,
Helen HailowelI, Ruth Hammerschlag, May
Harris, Eleanor hart, Mary Ames Hart,
Maude R. Hart, Mildred F. Hartter, Emma Ag-
mes Harvey Carrie Hirstel, Charlotte Holling
Marion L. Huber, Alice Orne Hunt, Martha A.
klns, Elizabeth G. Kane, Eliza beth Key
ser, May k1ncaid, Hllda Vicloria Kline,
Carolina horDel, Grace W. Knowlton,
Mabel Kraft, Rachel Kurlander, Augusta
GLADYS Lahl, Edith LaIZalere, Evelyn Laugh
ton, ELZaDe tn J. Lavery, Julia Miriam Lesser
Adelaide Lewis, Adelaide c. Lime, May
Gertrude Lippert, kdaG Luse, Amy Mccarthy
Mary {. Mccarthy, Margaret Mccarthy, Mar
garet Mcleod, Emma L. Madden, Rofena E.
May, Florence Mon tgomery, Maud Moore, Elsie
Nolan, May Owens, Laura Edlth Perkins, Emily
IL. Pltch1ord, PhIlomena A. Powers, Maud
Pratt, Lillian A. Radford Elsie Ritter, Mildred
RoIph, Ell a Bell Ross, Ruby Roylance, Frances
.. Scheuern, Dora SpAfford, Penelope STANDARD
Teresa NJ. Sullivan, Edith G. Thatcher Elsa
Triest, Juliet A. Wagner, Eta Weller Heloise
I. Williams, Mary Estelle Wilson, Esther
NoI1I Miriam Nollner Alice Barbara Wright