Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-06-10
A REVIEW OF HARDIN
Read Before Alumnae GatherngPranks Of Girls Of Other
School Days Mentioned

Bv Martha c. Frost.

privilege was thrust upon me by the
program committee unless it was be-
cause of my being almost Hardin
College bred and for several years
Hardin's baby, having spent only
one year at the public school. Pa
rental persuasion by the gift of a
large china doll dressed in red tar
latan induced me to attend. Jeffer-
son street crossing was a menace to
the public as now and Minnie Frost
Cunningham carried me across the
tracks weeping with frightened back
ward looks at the engine and dried
the tears with the corner of her
long-sleeved white apron.
There was no primary department
and the little reading, writing and
spelling lessons were heard when
ever the teachers of other depart
ments were disposed to hear them,
consequently play was an important
factor in thetraining of the child, and
Virgie Hart, now an artist in Chi
cago, and myself roamed the Cam
pus plucking the cowslips and vio-
let's, gathering the Indian corn, i'm
agining all the while that the Red
Man would appear and claim his
own, breaking thorns from the old
thorn-tree and swinging in rope
swing which was suspended from
large oak tree Just north of the old
College.
Ella Forrist Guthrie of the first
graduating class has observed the
ups and downs of the Alumnae AS
ISOLATION since it's birth and has
brought the downs up when all
other hearts had failed.
The pats on our heads of Laura
Clark Collins, one of the first pri-
mary teachers, were more of an in
spiration than the perfect marks in
black and white.
Hardin's first uniform-brown
dresses and blue cashmere quilted
sunbonnets with ribbon strings,
worn on the back of the neck oftener
than on the head. The next was
dark blue dresses, black hats with
white wings, and the last, caps and
gowns.
How many of the first classes had
beaux when it was against the rules
of the College for even the day pu-
pills to go with the boys? Ella For
rist-Guthrie received honorable CD
mention in, this line having been
brought before the faculty because
young Baptist minister thru mere
politeness escorted her to school I'M
der his dripping umbrella.
Do you know that Nettie Bourne
Fry was so patriotic that she hum
med "My Country, 'Tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty" and caused
the other pupils to hum? Prof. Will
COX asked who was humming and
Linnie Steele-C Clayton with raised
hand said, "I think it is a bee, Prof.
Wilcox"
Mary Guthrie Evans and Nina
Ribble played hockey one afternoon
when seniors, and next morning APP
peared in the classes as usual, but
Mrs. Terrill stated that two young
ladies had taken affairs into their
own hands but it was not recorded
that they would graduate.
Do you remember Mrs. Baird's
green striped scarf which she used
first as a scarf then as a tie and az
forwards as a belt, and Miss Hays
scarlet basket cloth fascinator and
then her blue veil?
Hands up of those who stole ap-
plesout of the cellar next to the cloak
room!
First Gymnasium was the screws
in the cloakroom where the wrists
were exercised, then one corner of a
temporary platform in the chapel was
used with the addition of wands and
dumb bells Uniform-white cheese
cloth dressed trimmed in light blue