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Page Six. THE SALEMITE Friday, February 18, 1938. AT ICANDCM GOOD NIGHT Good night ? Oh ! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still Then it will be good night. How can I call the love night good, Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight ? Be it not said, though, understood •— Then it will be — good night. To hearts which n«ar each other more From evening close to morning light. The night is good; because, my love. They never say good night. —Shelley. * * * « EYES: A FRAGMENT How eloquent are eyes! Not the rapt poet’s frenzied lay When the soul’s wildest feelings stray Can speak so well as they. How eloquent are eyes! Not music’s most impassioned note On which love’s warmest fevours float Like them bids rapture rise. Love, look thus again,— That your look may light a waste of years, Darting the beam that conquers cares Through the cold shower of tears. Love, look thus again! —Shelley. * * * * Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of marriage, master? And he answered, saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the vrhite wings of death scatter your days. Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness And let the winds of the heaven dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, , Even as the strings of a lute are alone although they quiver with the same music. * Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. —^From “The Prophet,” Kablil Gibran. * * * * Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. —Longfellow, / ‘ Evangeline. ’ ’ ANSWERS TO “HOW GOOD A EOOWCMATE AKE YOU” 1. No. 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. No. 5. Yes. 6. No. 7. Yes. 8. No. 9. No. 10. Yes. 11. No. 12. Yes. 13. No. 14. No. 15. No. 16. Yes. 17. Yes. 18. No. 19. No. 20. Yes. 21. No. 22. No. 23. Yes 24. No. 25. No. get 13 SALEM’S POST OFFICE HISTORY (Continued From Page One) still brings over the College’s and Academy’s mail every day. After the mail was brought over from the post office in long-ago days, it was carried around in a sack to the different “room companies” to be distributed. The senior in charge of the dormitory (Main Hall, then) would carry the bag to the teacher in charge of each room company for her to go through the whole packet to get out the mail which belonged to her girls. Later this practice was supplanted by the one of taking the sack to the dining room and pour ing the mail into the lap of the teach- at the head of each table for her to look through it and pick out the pieces for her table girls. The first individual mail boxes that the girls had were in Main Hall at the north ern end of the first floor near the fountain or to the right of the end door through which we enter after chapel (differing opinions on the lo cation of those boxes). When the Salem post office moved to its pres ent building, the College bought the United States boxes from the old post office building and put them up in two sections on the back porch of the book store. Those boxes had wooden sides and a metal grill in their bottoms to let dust fall through. Mrs. Mary S. Best, who ran the book store at that time, put the mail up from the end of the })ook store and the girls had to go outside on the porch to get it. Those boxes were free, but each girl bought her key for hers. It seems that Mrs. Best was a strict lady because Miss Turlington remembered very clearly the times that she and numerous others had gotten their hands slap ped, and hard, for reaching through from the back side to get their mail if they had forgotten or lost their key; when she caught them reaching through ilrs. Best would put their mail away and not give it to the girls for a week. And what a scram- Before I hear the doctors tell The danger of a kiss I had considered kissing you The nearest thing to bliss. But now I know biology, I sit and sigh and moan; Six million mad bacteria — .4.nd I thought we were alone. ble there was every morning after chapel on that back porch when the mail was put up! In 1932, when Mr. Snavely eame to Salem, these boxes were taken down, and the back end of the book store was boarded in. The sections of boxes were moved to Alice Clewell Building to Room 105 (Milicent McKendry’s room now). At that time the faculty mail boxes were outside Dr. Rondthaler’s office in • the office building, and every morning Miss Lawrence would bring the girls’ mail down from her box to Miss Mattie who put it up in the individual boxes in Clewell. After the new post office moved across the street in 1927, more and more girls each year rented boxes there. Now approximately 200 Salem girls have about 100 of the 270 boxes in the post office. Salem College, Salem Academy and “The Salemite ’ ’ each have a large-sized box there too. There are now five incoming mails daily and seven out going ones; on Sundays and holidays there are one incoming and two out- goig trips. (And by the way, if you ever want to get a package from behind the window on Sunday, there is always somebody to give it to you from 8:30 till 9 on Sunday mornings,) About 300 letters come to the Salem post office every day (We’d like for it to be 600, wouldn’t we? So answer the ones that you owe, girls!). The three men who sell us stamps and put up our mail every day are Mr. F. E. Coston, who has worked for the post office for 15 years, Mr. E. E. Phelps, who came down to the Salem Station this year from the Main Office, and Mr. S. J. Boyles, who has been working for the post office for 17 years. And so you have the history that I could find of Salem’s post office — an institution whose home has been on Main Street for years and years and years. 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