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The children had been to the Zoo at Druid Hill Park. The teacher asked:
"What had a hump on it?"
Becky (with much eagerness) : "My father's nose."
On one of the cards for registra- tion. a father filled in the following: "Place of birth-Hebrew Hospital."
One day while on an excursion, Randolph remarked that he could run a car and that some day he would take the kindergarten for a car-ride.
"And who taught you how to run a car?" asked the teacher.
"Oh," was the reply, "I taught my- self on the toy car out Gwynn Oak."
Lillian had been home for about a week. When she came back her teacher said:
"Lillian," were you ill?"
"No." replied Lillian earnestly. "I was only sick."
Mother told her child that if he wouldn't behave he couldn't go to heaven with the angels.
"Angels!" exclaimed the child. "There ain't no angels. Papa put them all in the angel cake."
Riddle brought in to the second grade class:
"What was Adam's and Eve's telephone number?"
Answer: "281:Apple (Two ate one apple )". SENIOR I.
LINKING WITH PAST EXPERI- ENCE.
John, aged three, had just re- turned from his first visit to Sun- day School.
As you can well imagine, everyone was eager to greet her. A single line was formed to give everyone an "Well, John," said the kindly, hut somewhat skeptical uncle, "whom did you study about today ?" opportunity to walk past her, shake hands, and receive her smiling "How do you do". You can easily under- "Peter and John," answered John- ny promptly. stand how elated I felt taking the interview in shorthand, while talking Then he continued with a slight pucker of his baby brows: "Not this to Mrs. Warner and Miss Rich. As Miss Rich was so busy greeting every- John (pointing to himself),-Peter one, Mrs. Warner gave me most of Rabbit!"
I'll syncopate 'Most any date But to modulate From key of C To X or Z Bamboozles me!
Synonyms: Modulation-Despera- tion -- prostration.
THE AIM-AS SHE SAW IT. It was in good old flytime. "Mam- ma," said little Emmy, who was watching her mother opening up several new pieces of the time-hon- ored Tanglefoot, preparatory to
spreading them at strategic points. "I know where you can get some of that in the store across the street, with flies already on it!"
Classes may come and classes may go, but Senior 3 has its infant prodi- gy. Louise Hudgins has just re- turned to school after an attack of the juvenile disease, chicken-pox.
HEARD AT MONTEBELLO .- 3RD GRADE.
Teacher: "What word means the place where you are going? It's a long word and begins des- ( mean- ing destination). Child: "I know. It's decimal point."
Several Normal girls were walking to Towson. A wagon load of hay, drawn by two mules, was passing by. One of the absent-minded girls ex- claimed: "We're going to have shred- ded wheat for breakfast."
A group of girls were congregated in one of the "dorm" rooms after a day of "blues." One girl was lazily scratching her head. Just as a visi- tor interrupted this action, she thoughtlessly said: "I have a splin- ter in my finger."
THE ARTS.
The Theatre.
How many of you have ever really wanted to meet a movie star? I know the answer without even lock- ing to see the hands.
On December 14, I had the pleas- ure of personally seeing and inter -! viewing Miss Irene Rich, who ap- peared at the Metropolitan Movie Theatre, in Baltimore, in conjunction with "Compromise." a picture in which she appeared.
the interview. Mrs. Warner has ap-
peared in Baltimore as a dancer with the Follies.
Before I give the substance of my interview, I must tell you my im- pressions of Miss Rich and Mrs. Warner. They were both very neat- ly and tastetuily dressed. Too often do people have the idea that actresses diess in a flashy, bizarre manner. Most of us could well take a few les- sons from them. Miss Rich and Mrs. Warner had pleasant, charming voices. And girls-cosmetics were very sparingly used. Let's all note this fact.
Miss Rich and Mrs. Warner have just returned from Europe. This is Miss Rich's first vacation in seven and a-half years. She has been mak- ing pictures for Warner Brothers. When I broached the subject of school and schoolmarms, Miss Rich was very interested. She has just placed her two daughters in school in Switzerland, and her motlter is with them.
Miss Rich, like most of us, has a hobby. It is swimming and horse- back riding. She does not diet, and even eats candy' and ice-cream. (There's still hope for us). She at- tributes her figure to plenty of exer- cise. Miss Rich admires the athletic prowess of the modern girl, and has great confidence in her.
Wben 1 shook hands with Miss Rich to say "good night." she asked me not to believe all the flowery things Mrs. Warner said about her. 1 assured her I would take them with "a grain of salt." However, after administering that grain of salt, I find it unnecessary to change a single thing Mrs. Warner told me. I went away with the feeling that Miss Rich and Mrs. Warner were real human beings, "even as you and I."
ROSE L. KORNBLATT.
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THE ORIOLE
January, 1926.
NORMAL AUTHORSHIP CLUB.
THOUGHTS OF YOU.
I heard a golden-throated lark Singing in the dawn:
I touched the deep blue violets Like those your eyes have drawn.
I breathed the fragrance of a rose Wet with cooling dew;
I saw a star fall from the sky- All things bring thoughts of you. ANNETTA REHLING, Sr. Special.
THE WIND.
Sometimes the wind is full of joy When whispering through the
irses.
When playing with the fleecy clouds, When wandering o'er the seas. 1
Sometimes the wind is full of woe When shrieking over the leas.
When sobbing, moaning in the pines. When wailing through the trees. MARIE L. BRIX, Jr. 9,
THE CHINA CAT.
1 long to howl on fences at night, To lap milk by the door;
1 long to purr before the fire As I Jie on the kitchen floor.
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I'd like to mingle with my kind, And I wouldn't mind a fight
If I could join the rest of the cats In the back alley at night.
But none of these joys can be for me
As I sit here shiny and fat;
I'm used as an ornament for shelf,
'Cause I'm only a China Cat.
MYRA J. CHRISTOPHER, Jr. 9.
A BROOKLYN SCHOOL PROBLEM.
Have you ever wondered if our Christmas trees are like those of other lands? Yes? Well, then. I During 1926: will tell you about the fifth grade 1 "Try to give God a quarter of in one schol. Several weeks before an hour every day. Shut your door Christmas, when the children were and be alone with Him that He may studying Christmas customs of many speak to you, and you may speak to lands, they suggested that each Ilim.
11. "Take down your Bible from trees. its place on the shelf and make it Their parents helped them get things your company every day. Kneel down and read six to ten verses out
group of different nationalities in the school trim Christmas ready just as they had done in the old country. Bundles and boxes of loud to yourself.
curious things were brought to school in the days that followed. Ill. Be faithful as never before in the three-fold relations of life: to Soon. had you chanced to go to your work and to those with whom the fifth grade room, you would have you work and play; to your own seen a Bohemian tree decked with nearest and dearest who have a right nuts covered with silver paper, figs, to expect from you the best that the apples. oranges and silver bells. Next human heart holds of life and ser- to this was an Italian tree shining vice; and then be faithful to God as with Italian candies. oranges, bright vou expect him to be faithful with bows of ribbon and a sugar baby you. Never let a day pass without doll. In the Italian garden there real communion."
was a scene in Bethlehem of the stable where Christ was born.
On the Lithuanian tree there were candy canes, candles. Lithuanian dough nuts, dainty little paper chains of many colors and. last of all, a beautiful white bird made from an egg shell!
The German Christmas tree was more like our own trees than any of the others. It was decorated with colored balls and tinsel. Besides this there were nuts which had been dipped in flour to be made white, and also many sugar cakes. The children had planned to touch up the tree with "snow" made of a flour paste, but in the busy days this final touch was not accomplished.
At this time many amusing things happened in this room. On arriving at school the morning after the Lith- uanian tree was trimmed, the follow- ing sign was found.
LITHUANIAN TREE.
6 pieces of candy.
1112 1 candy canes. bird. 1 heart.
5 apples.
2 oranges.
25 silver bells.
3 paper chains. doughnuts.
ALL THINGS MISSED WILL BE REPORTED. FINAL.
Many good things came out of this project. The children and par- ents and teachers have a better un- derstanding of one another, the chil- dren are better able to work togeth- er. some knowledge of customs of other nationalities has been gained and last, but far from being the least, the children had much real pleasure the whole time.
VICTORINE MUMMA, and MARGARET REILLY.
Y. W. C. A.
PEST AUTHORSHIP CLUB.
Our club consists of eleven mem- bers. Not great in numbers, it's true, but watch our progress. We have been writing original poetry, as well as reading the works of mod- ern poets. Beginning with January, our efforts will turn to prose.
At our second December meeting. we had quite a treat. Miss Eckford. who heard Aifred Noyes speak. gave us a short talk on his lecture. This aroused so much enthusiasm that the club as a whole decided to hear Ed- win Markham. when he speaks in Baltimore, which will be in Febru- ary.
The second treat was a talk by Miss Eckford's sister, Miss Eugenia Eckford from the North Carolina State College for Women, at Greens- boro. Miss Eckford gave ns a talk on John Drinkwater, who recently spoke at this college. She said that Mr. Drinkwater used beauty as his keynote. He has the power to take the plain. ordinary things in life. envelope them in beautiful thoughts and beautiful expressions, and we know the result. We have some of Mr. Drinkwater's poems in our own library.
We meet every Club Day in Room 216. If you are not affiliated with any club, and wish to become a mem- ber of our group of "artistes", come up and join ns.
R. L. K.
IN THE FOG.
There is nothing which holds a more subtle appeal
Than a lavender haze-strewn with silver and grey.
Just a fog-that enfolds with in- tangible cloak
All the vibrating life which is held in its sway.
While within is exquisite suspense at its height.
From the cautious movements of things in regime ---
Ever straining to catch sight or sound from about- To the guarded alertness of man in this scheine.
How unreal does it seem in such softening tones,
Every noise partly hushed, hy the denseness subdued. And the world drifts along just the same, yet apart
As the dreamer weaves dreams so delightfully hned.
Just a quiet delight in this modified world-
Like harmonious strains of a far- away song-
By a fog- that has softened, refined to content.
lonk, honk, honk! Don't park here! Will you please move along? LENA T. REILLY, Jr. 1.
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THE ORIOLE
January, 1926.
Wilson's Silent Partner Speaks
A SENSIBLE, modest man of remarkable F-wer and influence, which he used only to get things done, arises as though from the dead and unfolds vital and important history of current times. The man is Col. Edward M. House, Woodrow Wilson's silent partner. The man whose importance, because of his friendship with our War President, was so great that in Europe and America he was known as "Wilson's other self"-a President with- out office. Through "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House" there will come into the limelight the ramifications that make politics so intricate and diplomacy so mysterious. You will see how this "man of mystery"-Colonel House- went to England, France and Germany early in 1914 and there. in the name of Woodrow Wilson, sought to stop the orcoming war.
C LONEL HOUSE unfolds how he supported Wilson for the nomination-how their incomparable friendship started and developed-how Wilson was kept from having a break with Murphy and Tammany Hall, which would probably have cost him the nomination. Here Bryan, Page, Baker, MeAdoo, Burleson, Houston, Daniels and other prominent Democratic figures, as well as Sir Edward Gray, Clemenceau, Von Bernstorff, Lloyd George, the Kaiser and hosts of other figures in current history will pass in review, their importanee-and unimportance-revealed. You will be taken behind the scenes and given the proof of so many events and of so many people that no man or woman, young or old, can afford to miss the opportunity to read this remarkable series of one of the greatest periods in our eurrent history.
"The Intimate Papers of Colonel House"
Begins January 31-in the Sunday
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January, 1926.
THE ORIOLE
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THE NEW YEAR.
The New Year once again is here; 'It's time to start today To make new resolutions." The folks around us say.
If only we could start again With a new hfe-every one.
And leave out all the things gone by
That we wish had not been done. |voice. Now it was low and hushed.
This world would be a better place, Our lives would be more bright, And almost every home would be A happier place tonight.
Alas, we cannot start anew. But- a quick sigh of relief,
If we tear our last year's pages out We'll find a clean, white leaf. RUTH OWENS, Sr. 3.
SPANISH LEGENDS.
(By one of our students who travels) Miss Purnell is going to write a brace.
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Spanish legend for each issue of The Oriole. She has lived in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking parts of the country. She is very interested in everything Spanish, and also travels, speaks and writes Spanish. These legends have actually been told to Aliss Purnell by the old peons. It is very likely that they have never been written before. We need not tell you that this will be one of the most interesting features of The Oriole:
The Enchanted Pool.
The student had boasted of his skeptical attitude toward the story told him by an old peon. He had even defied the warning given him, and had set out with a smile of scorn and words of mockery to prove to himself the fallacy in this ancient legend.
Journeying on foot from Mexico City to the nearby village of Atzca- potzalco, he reached the outskirts on the second night. Alone, he fell into a dreamless slumber. Daylight soon came. The clouds shaken from Aurora's hed were tinted by the glowing finger of sunrise. Morning adorned herself with softest blue and palest rose; dawn, hesitant, slipped into a sleeping world.
The traveler started, listened. A voice bubbling with pure joy, leaped, then glided in glorious melody. He jooked about him. Yes, there was the pond of clear, still water. But did the singing come from it? Was it true that far down in the depths is a wondrous palace of rock crystal where lives the enchantress, Triana ? The voice came no more.
Throughout the day the traveler watched by the pond. No signs of life did ne see. The peaceful waters smiled upon him, reflecting only the serenity of tropical skies. The acrid fragrance of lemon trees, the sweet-
ness of orange blossoms, served to induce dreams. Fanciful ideas flit- ted through his mind. It must have heen a voice singing, that sound of running, molten gold. Surely, no spirit inhabited the pond ?
1 That evening, as the stars rose 'higher in the heavens and the moon became more silver clear, the trav- eler heard that mysterious, lovely
dulling his senses like an old wine from Arabia. He crept to the pond's edge. Smotth. smooth water only. The song continued; a contented lethargy possessed his being.
Looking into the untroubled wat- ers he saw a form gradually mater- "The High School Times," Easton, Maryland : ialize. Hair of entwined moon- beams framed a face of indescribable You have a splendidly written paper with plenty of school news. heauty. Eyes of star-dust and lips | We think a few more jokes would of chisled ruby smiled slowly upon make it still better. him; marble-white arms stretched invitingly upward. Fascinated, the "The Normal Trumpet," West Lib- erty, W. Va .: traveler forgot all else; the cold water received him in its black em-
Days later, a student's body was found floating on the surface of a small pend in the village named Atz- capotzalco. Perhaps the spirit of the Mexican superstition resents mod- ern intrusion upon her age-old myths. Quien sabe ?
PHYLLIS PURNELL. Sr. 7.
Judge-'What name?"
Humorous Aviator-"Angel, sir." Judge-"Where did you come from ?" Aviator -- "Heaven, sir."
Judge-"Well, how did you get here?"
Aviator-"Slid down a rainbow, sir." Judge-"Well, take six months for skylarking." -The Owl, Baltimore, Md.
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THE ORIOLE
January, 1926.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB.
The last meeting of the Psychology Club was an extremely interesting one. and provided a great deal of amusement as well as some material tor thought. The chairman read sections from a psychological satire by Stephen Leacock. It dealt humor- ously with the outbreak of psychol- ogy, there being a Psychology of Business. a l'sychology of Salesman- ship, etc. It recommends the em- ployment of a practicing psychologist for the settling of domestic warfares, just as we call in al emergency plumber when the pipe is burst. It defends the possible installation of sign reading:
PSYCHOLOGIST
Open Day and Night.
We gather from its satirical pages that the intelligence tests are essen- tial materials in the tool chest of the modern business house. It seems that in applying for a position, the employer has just to send the appli-
How can you keep your children from telling you their family secrets? In a very few minutes we have been told about the new baby and moth- cant to a practicing psychologst, who er's new recipe. We do so hate to will supply the person with intelli- cut them short-it scems so un- sympathetic.
gence tests. How much easier is this method than the old-fashioned one of determining the applicant's fitness for a certain line of business. Imag- ine a man who has professed to have followed the celery business for twenty years and who does not know the meaning of psychology, able to judge a man by the number of bumps on his head, and call a man a "thinker" who can with ease count the scales on a goldfish.
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PROBLEMS OF A STUDENT TEACHER.
Before we went out, we were told not to say that we are doing practice- teaching. We must admit that stu- dent-reaching is a more dignified term. but we still feel that we are practice-teaching-practicing. our de- vices upon innocent children who have done nothing wrong except that they happen to be in a Practice Center.
One of the things we had to over- come was laughing at the children's funny remarks. Blessed is he who has a keen sense of humor, but we often wished that ours were not
quite so keen. Who is there with soul so dead that he would not laugh out loud when one of the youngsters says that he saw "Evolution" at the circus?
What do you do with the children who insist on hugging you every time they pass you? How can you hide your emharassment and retain your dignity at the same time? We have done away with most of this, but it is really quite flattering to have the children make a fuss over you.
One of the children received a sweater for Christmas. It was a brilliant red with white stripes. Could you have kept the class from ha-ha-ing when they saw him?
If you can go through all of the above without cracking a smile, and without losing an inch of your dig- nity, you indeed deserve the epithet of "professional poise"-but what
does that mean?
ANNA DIAMOND.
CHRISTMAS AND PEACE.
Peace is the very essence of Christ- mas Spirit. Peace is the most im- portant single issue in the world to- day. This was the subject of the most inspiring and valuable lecture given by Miss M. Carey of Johns Hop- kins University at assembly last Tuesday. Miss Carey studied in England after the war and knows well the harrowing effect the war had upon the individual and the devast- ating effect upon the nation. Some of the high lights in the lecture werc:
Prevention of future wars can only be brought about by an organization working in unity toward World
Peace.
Future wars will be more terrible and more deadly than any the world has ever known. Science has brought this issue to pass, be- cause it has reached such a high plane in development of poisonous
gases These gases will destroy and eliminate a large city in a very few minutes. Think of the millions who will be sacrificed unless we have World Peace.
The effects of the war in England are still very discernible, in that mil- lions of men are unemployed as a re- sult of discontinued trade with Ger- many. This country was England's most valuable customer. These men have been without work for nearly seven years. This impairs the mor- ule of the nation, and is an economic loss to the nation. The men who
fought in the World War who are physically disabled and shell-shocked suffer from the lack of employment as well as others.
Not only the men feel the horrible tentacles of war, but the women who were once sturdy. The strong have become victims of nerves. The bur- den of the war and its effect has add- ed hardships and privations to the women of England.
Wars accomplish nothing, settle nothing, decide nothing, but only cause new wars. The World War was an evidence of this. When the carnage was over America withdrew her troops from foreign fields and calmly let the other nations take the burden of reconstruction upon them- selves, to progress as best they could. Since this manifestation of obvious selfishness on America's part, most of the nations feel that all our pur- poses have been selfish.
What can we do?
Within the last two years histor- ians and writers have come to realize the importance of teaching the young people of this country truth. Text-books of modern writers empha- size peace, truth, and the brother- hood of mail rather than hatred. 'Then, if the text books are advocat- ing World Peace, the teachers have it in their hands to teach truth to the future citizens of this glorious country. So we must press on to the knowledge of right and brotherhood among nations, and join an organiz- ation whose clarions call is World Peace.
MARGARET E. MATTHEWS.
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SOME PIECES OF LITERA- from their cave. Just then a strang- TURE WHICH
CAN BE DRAMATIZED IN CONNEC- TION WITH THE STUDY OF RECORDS.
Junior Eleven in the study of the history of records, found that a well rounded view of how our present book came to be. could he obtained through a series of dramatizations. We believe these same dramatiza- tions can be used to advantage in the elementary school.
Third grade children in their study of primitive life wish to know how people communicated with one another way back in those early times. Kipling's Just So Story "The First Letter." gives one an amusing story of how a litle girl attempted to send a message to her mother, and how it was misinterpreted.
The story runs something like this:
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