The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
THEIR GRADUATING ESSAYS.
r,ro GIRL STUDENTS PREPARE TO
IMPRESS THEIR RELATIVES.

cfrihOOG. the Condition or People
,,-,o VIII Wear Too Much Jewell
and the Deep Learning of Egypt
and sweet Things I'm Gowns.
From the New York Sun
-sev we're two sweet girl graduates ana
.,sr lad shut themselves up in the double
IN which they shared to write their es-
~ The frivolous one, who had the
s.'oifetory on her hands, was curled up
couch with books on quotations and
nosms all around her. She was writing
tdg pad balanced on one knee. The
overlooking girl was at table sur
s,,raed with open cyclopedias, books OF
Inference and dictionaries.
oIJsfen 60 this" said the valedictorian.
.rsu me how this sounds We must
tealze that life is a reality; one that
eonfronts us now, as never before. We
stsud on the threshold of the dim, impene-
rab.e future. Heretofore our paths have
bsen strewn with the roses of kindness
and affection. The scnoolroom has been
air UNIVERSAL world from which we step
feluo@nt.y into the newer arena that opes
bff0- e us.
"'1hat what?"
"Opes
or uufolds sounds better But IL 5 all right
| You're in luck 20 have that kind of rot
70 write instead of this thing I'm work
low far have you got?''
The severe-looking girl picked up the
sheets Of paper OH which she had been
writing and began to read in Evolutionary
aBeck-back to the dim mysteries ana
remote past, we children of the present
. eaze through the mists of years to the
/ centuries when the minds of the ancients
| conceived the discoveries for which we OF
to-day are the beneficiaries. Ethnology
comparative philology and prehis torc
| archaeology teach us'-That's as far I've
advanced. How do you like it,"
That's great 1t sounds just like a his
tory"
tory. Last year Jessie Cooley's essay was
copied exactly from the history word for
word and the girls all repeated it softly
| TO themselves while she was reading it,
| and IL made such a buzz that she had 10
stop half way. 1t was dreadful
oh, yours doesn't sound like that. It's
| Just smooth and nice Now, what ought
take up after the arena opening before
"About parting with schoolmates. That's
always good for page and a half Make
| it real strong. She turned over a page
| OF the cyclopedia, and ran her finger along
It in search for a word. Now / go on
/ from here" she said. The manufacture
Of glass, usually attributed 10 the Phoe-
/ nicians, was really discovered by the
Egyptians more than 4000 years ago-m-
mm-mm The ancient Egyptians had
/ methods Of colOring glass which we have
never been able to equal Their limitations
Of precious stones Say. did YOU hear
that Sadie Flareby is going to wear
diamond necklace at the graduation
u shouldn't be q bit surprised; She al
/ ways dresses in horrid taste. Now, my
frOck is absolutely plain, JUST a mousse
line de sole slip over white taffeta / won't
wear even pearl; nothing but class
Il have to wear lorgnette, you know.
on account OF my eyes: so ! am going 10
wear chain with small pearls. in the
links. It's very simple, though. Oh, how
hate that F'lareby girl, don't you?''
81 despise her. I've ordered white kid
Shoes because she is going 10 wear satin
Sappers, and she wanted all the girls to.
Do you know there are none of the girls
that ! should care 10 associate with when
We get away from here. Stupid frumps,
most of them! You are the only girl that
have ever made a confldante Of. I don't
depend on one of them. Mean. tricky
things! Always gossiping behind ones
back! But I'm disturbing your
The pen and the pencil Travelled busily
over the paper. The severe girl skipped
from page 10 page of her reference books.
The frivolous girl chewed her pencil and
looked at the ceiling now and then, as
though for inspiration. Suddenly she
stopped
"Lstenv' she commanded. 81 think this
is good: The day. which seems so auspic-
ious, so filed with happiness and the fra
GRANGE of our vanished school days, sweet
er than the blossoms which we wear In
uOUOF OF our commencement DAY, is sad
dened by one cloud that darkens the
vista smiling before our wondering eyes.
Our graduation means parting from dear
friends and schoolmates with whom we
nave been bound together in the closest
ties Of affection and companionship for so
many months. When we think of those
trends who will perhaps pass out of our
AYes forever, the tears must dim our eyes
whist our thoughts fit back 10 the days
gone by"
Loyelyr said the severe girl "but not
Whllst-While is just as good and one let
Ter less. When you read that, you must
look quickly around the class from face
10 face and smile at them. Even though
you nate EN-. smile and it makes a great
bit with all the relatives Addie Sandal
nope did that last year, and the reporters
all spoke Of her unaffected friendly man
her n addressing her mates
What had she orr
oh, you can imagine! White satin with
a Train and short sleevesp'
Just fancy! Have you decided to have
Yes. l think It's more the thing with
dotted null. It's one of those cling
,ns skirts, you known, with bow knot en-
oroldery running up the side and ending
m rosette on the left hip"
:, How perfectly sweet! Just give me
hiht about what subject l should take up
after the days gone by"
IF | Were you I'd go right on: And now,
dear teachers Give it to them strong
an9ut their patience and affection. Try
ana forget how old Miss Hearinson broke
up our party that night and took away
Ihe cigarettes to show as proof. Well
SSit even with her some day for thatl
iihen go on to our hopes and ideals. Oh,
mat so easy, / envy you"
Foor thingl l do pity you How far
nave you got now?"l
I've just started on the literature of
Egypt: The key TO Egyptian writing was
discovered by means of a heavy block of
olack basalt now relic in the British mu-
scum Il bears a trilingual inscription,
Srllien in hieroglyphic, demotic and
Nieek characters. p"
IN, that's beautiful Go onl'
,, ne hieroglyphical writing reveals it.
AZ IN monuments of the first dynasties.
lhey are vast and wonderful replicas of
an an age When great minds CROPPED dimly in
oae sciences that now are Included in the
turTlculum of every college Now /
"anch off into ancient astronomy"
NIKE Shields is going to wear the gold
S.et medal she took in astronomy. Did
3oI ever hear of such ostentationz'
,Wha nat can you expect of girl who
wars fnade-up neckties?"
always suspected that she did; but
fpu know she denied IL and said she tied
'u .., herself. How did you find out?"
D., ne chambermaid showed me some
IHiAle had given her when they were
SoiiSq. They We're an sewed in place"
a., ell! Well What do you think OF
tnis, GEAR? And now, dear teachers, you
H. Whom we owe the deepest debt of graf