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The Belles of Saint Maet’s f f ^ The BELLES OF SAINT MARY'S Published every two weeks by the student body of Saint Mary’s School Editor . . . Beppy Hunter Exchange Editor . . . . . Erwin Gant Business Manager . Miss Kate Spruill Faculty Adviser . . Me. C. a. P. Moore STAITP ViEQiNiA Allison Helen Kendrick Theeesa Andeeson Mary Kistlee Sue Beeey Martha Lewis Julia Bookee Trick Martin Betty Beandt Mary Lily Mooee CoENELiA Clark Lucy Pittengee Maey W. Douthat Joyce Powell Page Eatman Aylett Putney Maey Gault Mallie Kamsey Vivian Gillespie Ernestine Rich Katheeine Haedison Dorothy See Meeeie Haynes Hallie Townes Althea Hooff Virginia Trotter 1938 Member 1939 Pissodated GDlIe6icite Press N. 0. Collegiate Press Association IT’S NO USE BUT— We, the people of America, consider ourselves a demo cratic nation with the right to demand justice. If it be so, then why is not something done about the weather % This meteorological phenomenon rules as with a des potic hand, determining our daily activities, spoiling our cherished plans, threatening our physical comfort. Why is there no legislation to handle it? Any lawyer could present a water-tight case against the weather on the charges of incompatibility, unfaithfulness, and as sault and battery. Sunday it rained. Monday it delib erated. Tuesday it rained; Wednesday it stormed. Then Thursday it snowed. But did the flakes stick? After all, that just wasn’t cricket! This is March, and only last week small messages of spring flaunted a gay promise. Buttercups whispered encouragement to winter-worn trees; at one corner of the campus ivory, scarlet, and pearly pink blossoms lent May-Day festivity; the condensed sunshine of jonquils hinted at warm days to come. Spring and the 15th seemed very near. _ . But yesterday it rained again. Rained as enthusiasti cally, as determinedly, as wholeheartedly as if it had not done the same thing the day before, and the one before that. Rained so that Saint Mary’s became an island and the ground a sponge. Rained so that Spring choked and drowned, and March swam in like a fish. And what a whale of a month it will be if such a de plorable state continues. Something must be done: the sun should be sued for desertion, the lightning for hit and run driving, the weather as a whale for inconstancy. And all in all there should be a law against it! OR THE PRICE OF EGGS “The price of eggs” is an often spoken but seldom discussed phrase which warrants more than a casual consideration, for it represents that type of knowledge which may be called “practical.” If asked the price of eggs, the average student prob ably would not know; if asked when the World War ended, she undoubtedly could answer. Yet no one would deny that, college education completed, when one enters the world outside, she will find the price of eggs of more vital importance to her than the date of the Armistice. “But how,” one may ask, “am I to know the price of eggs? Robody tells me.” Thus one of the failings of modern students is thinking that what is not taught in school is unimportant. It is a recognized fact that English, History, and Chemistry are valuable assets to one’s later life, culturally and practically, yet there are other things of equal importance, things which the indi vidual must learn for herself in accordance with her needs. “The price of eggS^’ represents one of a long series of bits of information available in newspapers, conversation with intelligent people, and by observation. After all, those people who are at Saint Mary’s today will one day have to deal with matters that are more utilitarian than intellectual. MEOW What do you think of these people who go around talking behind people’s backs? Do you like them or don’t you? Have you ever stopped to realize just hoW much of this talking you do? So many people sufier unhappiness because of malicious gossip of idle talkers who actually mean no harm. Perhaps the little gossip session begins as an idle gesture by two or three, but before one realizes it, the group grows to a large number and, urged on by another’s comment, each person tells something more unbelievable. These happy-go-lucky people intend no harm. Little do they realize that some comment which they probably do not remember making reaches the person of whom they were speaking. Some people have enough sense to realize the statements are gossip; others haven’t and consequently they develop an inferiority complex and become quiet and reserved. They are forced to pay the price of another’s wrongs- This makes you directly, if not completely, responsible for ruining another person’s life or at least casting a shadow over it that can never be erased. So don’t be Catty^—^be a Man! MAY QUEEN AND COURT ANNOUNCED The Queen and Court selected for May Day this year are as follows: May Queen Margaret Taylor Maid of Honoe Martha Anne Speight COUET Julia Vinson Meredyth McIntyre Toddy Boykin Elsie Broocks Peggy Thompson Dixie French Merrie Haynes Anne Flowe Virginia Allison Florence Withers Frances Moore Laura Gordon Honey Peck This Court was chosen by a committee of seven stu dents and three faculty members from the group oi girls receiving the greatest number of votes in the stu dent election.
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