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Thursday, April 10, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER, MrCORMIGK, SouiM CsreTln*. Page NumKer Tfitat McCormick High I School News f STAFF Editor-in-Chief ___ Louise Remsen Assistant Editor Welbourne ' Schumpert # Business Manager James Blackwell Stenographer Nina Edmunds ’ Special Editors Sport Archie Langley Socials Selma Walker Fun and Humor Mabel Lyon Clubs Ellen Bosdell Features Lucille McGrath Class Reporters Eleventh Frances Lee Cowan Tenth Ruby White Ninth Louise Vaughn Eighth Elizabeth Lake Reporters Dollie Rankin, Pearl White, Myrtis Dillashaw. MR. BRANCH SPEAKS AT CHAPEL. Mr. Branch, superintendent of the De la Howe Orphanage, gave a very interesting talk in chapel Tuesday morning. He chose for his subject mother hood and mother love. He told the three crises in a mother’s life— namely: I*. When she becomes a mother. 2. When her boy takes off his short pants and puts on long pnes. 3. When her son marries. He brought out many beautiful thoughts on this subject of moth er, who, as we all know should be loved and cherished more than anvone else in all the world. . E. B. MR. BARFIELD GIVES TALK. In chapel last week Mr. Barfield ' gave an interesting talk on better ing the self. The way he said to do this, is to do the right things that would be good examples for others and to profit by your mis takes. It is not the enjoyment of too much pleasure, but the way a person masters his actions toward thiS pleasure. A time will come when he will be glad that he did not take too great 'advantage of this pleasure. Of course, it will not be so pleasant here on earth to refrain from these pleasures, but in Heaven, God is laying up treas urers and what one sows he shall reap. DIARY OF A BEDROOM SLIPPER. MONDAY— Everybody’s in bed, now. The clock has just struck twelve, and there’s not' a noise anywhere,, ex cept that Clara is snoring terribly. She annoys me so much that I can’t even think what to write! Dear Diary, please forgive me for ribt writing in you for such a long time. I’ve been so tired lately, that I would forget about you some times; but I intend to write in you ■ every night from now on. Oh, poor me l My toe hurts all the time now. Clara has such big feet that she has worn a hole in niy toe. It hurts awfully! I don’t see why Clara didn’t get some bedroom slippers that would ,fit her. After she had taken her bath Saturday, her chum ; Mary, came to take her to ride. Mrs. Brown told Clara to be sure to cut her toe nails, but Clara was in a big hurry to go with Mary. She just pushed her big feet into me and forgot all about cut ting her toe nails. Her big toe nail was so long today that it cut me like a knife. Do you know, Diary? Clara takes a bath but once a week! You may not be lieve it but I sit by the tub, and I’m sure. TUESDAY— . Well, of all things! Clara, didn’t wash her feet today. It’s a shame! Now I can’t sleep because I’m so dirty, and the odor is simply ter rible. That little sHly Mary came and took her to a party. She tried me on, and while Clara was out of the room, she said she had a much nicer pair than I am. She said I looked cheap and dirty, but it’s all Clara’s fault if I do! She ought to be more considerate! Anyway, when Mary took her foot out, her stocking was dirty. It serves her right! She ought not to bother me so WEDNESDAY— Clara’s snoring again, and my toe’s hurting again, and everything wrong is happening. Clara spilled milk on me and then molasses. Ugh! I’ll die if the stuff isn’t tak en off soon. It just sticks every where, and besides I don’t like sweets. But out of all this, Diary, I’m thrilled nearly to death. I can hardly hold my pen straight, fm so Happy- Today, Mrs. Brown—the dear, kind lady—cleaned me up so Jbr Economical Trantporlatiom Ji yCHEVROLET It’s wise to choose a SIX! 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BY ANY STANDARD the Chevrolet Six is the wisest choice in the low-price field ... with its six- cylinder valve-in-head motor . . . with full scientific equipment . . . with Body by Fisher . . . with four long semi-elliptic springs, long wheelbase,’ low suspension, rear- ipounted gasoline tank, honeycomb radiator and all the other features of this day and age. ROADSTER OR PHAETON *495 See your nearest Chev rolet dealer today and drive this six. Ten min utes at the wheel will show you what a differ ence six cylinders mrke. The Coupe $565 The Coach. .*.... 565 The Spcrj Roadster 555 The Sport Coupe. 655 The Chib Sedan 625 The Sedan 675 The Special Sedan (6 wire wheels standard) $725 The-Light Delivery Chassis 365 The Sedan Delivery ’. 595 The \*/i-Ton Chassis 529 l*A-Ton Chassis with Cab 625 Roadster Delivery {pick-up hox extra).. 440 All prices f. o. b. factory, Flint, Mich. McCORMICK CHEVROLET CO. . McCormick, S. C. that I looked nice, if ever I could look nice. She set me near the window, and I could look out and see everything, I saw lots of flow ers, and grass, and people, and houses. And then what do you guess happened, Diary? A nice old lady came to visit Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Brown brought her in here by me. The first thing she noticed was me. She took me in her hands, and said, “Oh, don’t they look nice and comfortable? I’m going to get me some exactly like them.” She set me back down, then, but she would look at me every now and then and smile. I’m so happy, dear Diary. I really be lieve I sfiall die of happiness. THURSDAY— Nothing happened today accept the same old things. Clara woke up early and knocked me out of at least an hour’s sleep. She put me on, and went about kicking chairs and stools over, looking for her clothes. Dairy, I’ve had another experience I’m going to tell you about. Before Clara went to school this morning, she got a needle and thread, and sewed my toe up. It was about the most painful opera- ter all, I wonder? Clara fussed ’til time to go to church, and Bill (her brother, you know) cussed too. I guess it’s just natural for everybody to fuss, though! I know I get so mad I could fuss my head off, sometimes. I get mad every Sunday that comes, but I have a right too! Clara hides me behind her trunk on Sunday, and wears her nice, new bed room slippers. I feel so bad I don’t know what to do, but I guess it’s,a good thing I can rest sometimes. I do wish that I could get out and see the world, once in awhile. If I were a shoe, I could see everything, but I’m not, and that’s that. I’m going to stop complaining from now on, because what I put up with is what every other bedroom slipper has to put up with, I guess. It is just our luck, but I’m going to enjoy life even if I do have to put up ‘with Clara. Good night. Diary, I think I can sleep now,, after having writ ten in you. DOLLIE RANKIN. SEVENTH GRADE to write in English. Everybody seems to like Shakespeare so I guess I’ll write on him but Miss McGee likes Browning best so I might get a better mark if I wrote on Browning. Aw, I can write English but History—. And we have to have foot-notes, too. I must say Miss White is getting us ready for college (some of us). She’s getting me ready to come back to school next .year, I think. • We had a clas^ 1 meeting last week. I guess that’s what you would' call the argument we had about Graduation. Caps and gowns, organdie, or voile? • What will we wear on graduation night? Well, we haven’t decided yet. Charlie has expressed his opinion and I think he. will wear organdie. And, too, it is time for the Sen iors to begin to think of the Sen ior play. Oh! I wonder who will be the hero and heroine. Every one will have something to do. And it will be thrilling even to haul furniture for the Senior play. I wonder what exams. I will get out of. You know, Seniors are ex empt from all subjects they make over 90 on. I’m so glad I’m a LITERARY SOCIETY. , . _ . ^ ^ , , The Seventh Grade Literary, „ . tion I ever had; it really did hurt i Society held its monthly meeting ; Senior * lots. I feel better now, though, i ApriI 3 , in the McC ormick Gram? °. h! f. m getting so thrilled over stace all the pain's gone. mar School Auditorium It was graduation. But nght now I have FRIDAY ~ . i called to order by the president, I t0 wnte term paper f „ Q Today is April Fool’s Day, j Sara Louise Strom. The minutes us a e i . Diary, and something terribly fun- j were then read by the secretary | " ny has happened. I know all about and approved. Since there was no! SENIORS WRITE it, for I was the main thing in the. business, the meeting was turned TERM PAPERS, joke. Clara was in such a hurry over to the chairman of the pro- ! The Seniors are at present busily she forgot to take me off and put gram committee. She read the fol- engaged in writing term papers, on her shoes. I thought Mary lowing program as it was carried both in their English class and in would tell • her about it, but she but. didn’t. Clara was walking along, ( Devotion—Sara Smith, and she met lots of folks. She Poem—“Going for Vtolets’’—Jes- passed some boys and they laughed S i e Bowick. ’til I thought they would pop. i * poem—“A Little Tease”—Mabel When she and Mary got nearly to Johnson. school, Mary couldn’t help laugh- j play—“Wilt Thou Mabel?”— ing. Clara knew something was Seven Girls. wrong then, so she looked down at An Easter Prayer—Evelyn Walk- me. My, she was mad! She ran er home and kicked me off as if it Poem—“The Water Lily”—Fran- 1 were my fault. She was late to ces Robinson, school on account of it, but I am I jokes—Richard Williams, Char- glad. | ies Dillashaw. , SATURDAY— As there was no further business You know. Dairy, I felt kind of the society adjourned until its sonry for Clara today. She had to next meeting, wash out a pair of socks to wear to F. R. a party. She had to iron a dress 1 and then bathe and dress. It ANOTHER DIARY really wasn’t much work, but it’s Dear Diary: a. lot for Clara, poor child. SUNDAY— What is this world coming to z read, and that their book was the 3ible, so we may understand this age of popular government by re membering that the chief subject of romantic literature was the es sential nobleness of common men and the value of the individual. The period of Romanticism be gins in the latter half of the reign of George III and ends with the coming of Victoria to the throne. When King George recognized the independence of the United States of America, he unconsciously pro claimed the triumph of that free government by free men which had been the ideal of English lit erature for more than a thousand years; though it was not until 1832, when the Reform Bill be came the law of the land, that England herself learned the lesson taught her by America, and be came the democracy of which her writers had always dreamed. After the French Revolution it is interesting to note how litera ture at first reflected the political turmoil of the age; and then, when the turmoil was over and England began her work of reform, how lit erature suddenly developed a new creative spirit, which shows itself in the poetry of Wordsworth, Col eridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and in the prose of Scott, Jane Austen, Lamb, and DeQuincey—a wonder ful group of writers whose patrio tic enthusiasm suggests the Eliza bethan days, and whose genius has caused their age to be known as the second creative period of our literature. It was an age of rom antic enthusiasm. The second characteristic of this age is that it is emphatically an age of poetry: The glory of the age is in the poetry of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Moore and Sou they. It was during this period that woman assumed, for the first tune an important place in our litera ture. Probably the chief reason for this was that woman had never before had the chance of getting an education, of entering into the intellectual life of the race; and as is always the case when woman is given anything like a fair op portunity, she responded magnifi cently. In this age literary criticism be came firmly established by the appearance of a number of mag azines. Wordsworth and Coleridge, two great poets of this age, are es pecially remembered for the writ ing of the “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798. The “Lyrical Ballads” were better appreciated in America than in England. The first edition was printed here in 1802. In the “Ly rical Ballads” Coleridge was to take the supernatural things and make them natural while Words- v/orth was to take simple things and give the mystery and charm to them. They were influenced greatly by Wordworth’s sister, Dorothy. Wordsworth was a great lover of nature. He loves beauti ful and simple things and we are so used to stage effects in poetry, that beauty unadorned is apt to escape notice,—like Wordsworth’s “Lucy.” “A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one la shining in the sky.” Scott is remembered for four great things that he accomplished. (1) He created the historical novel. His novels were not the first to have 'an historical basis; but it was due to his genius that the histori cal novel became a permanent type of literature. (2) His novels are concerned with public rather than with private interests . No other novelist in England, ap proaches Scott in the scope of his naratives. (3) Scott was the first novelist in any language to make Every Woman Known Every woman knows how easy it is to bum or scald herself while working in her home. Every woman knows that these bums and scalds are painful and sometimes very slow to heal. Every woman should know that the pain of bums and scalds will be quickly re lieved, infection positively prevented and speedy healing assured if Liquid Borozone is instantly applied. Get a bottle of Liquid Borozone and keep it handy in your medicine cabinet. Sold by STROMS’ DRUG STORE Cotton Farmers Advised To Grow Pork And Feed More pork, and plenty of home grown feed to grow it, is the sug gestion of E. Z. Russell, swine specialist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to cotton farmers of the South who are looking for new sources of income for this year. To give a definite idea of what he considers a sufficient amount of feed, Mr. Russell says < that four acres of corn should be grown for each litter of pigs expected this year. He figures on a yield of about five barrels of corn per acre and six pigs per litter. Some kind of protein supplement is necessary, adds Mr. Russell. Good pasture will supply part of the protein. Soybeans may be used as an additional protein supple ment, but soybeans fed in large amounts are sure to cause the pork to be “soft,” in which case it will not command top prices. Exper ience has shown that tankage or* fish meal should usually be in cluded as protein supplements. Good pastures are absolutely es sential for successful hog raising, Mr. Russell believes. Alfalfa is perhaps the best; all the clovers are good; and satisfactory tempor ary pastures can be made by sow-* ing rye or oats for fall, winter and early spring use, and rape, cow- peas, and soybeans for late spring', and summer. “The ground on which hogs-are kept continuously becomes infest ed with parasites, particularly roundworms, and for this reason pastures should be changed. If temporary pastures are used they should be plowed and seeded twice a year. This will provide green forage and help materially to k^eep down infestation. “We occasionally hear of some one who has not kept any hogs making a start by getting a few bred sows, to find later that he had forgotten about he necessary feed. Hogs can not grow arid fatten without feed—and plenty of it—so our suggestion is that at least rea sonable assurance be had that the necessary feed will be produced be- fore any hogs are bought.” tXt Some road engineers are advo cating wider highways, but they are not designed in order to give the poor pedestrian more range in side stepping. tXI The beautiful thing about hap piness is that the more of it you use, the more of it you have left. txx No wonder some people want the earth. They cried for the moon when they were kids. tXt— Some folks never turn their eyes toward heaven until an airplane passes over. grief are mine alone.” Shelley, one of Byron’s great friends, is another famous poet of this period. The very spirit of na ture, which appeals to us in the wind and the cloud, the sunset and the moonrise, seems to have pos sessed him, at times, and made him a chosen instrument of mel ody. At times he is a true poet, the scene an essential element in anc j his work is unrivaled. At other their History class. For their Eng lish papers they have chosen a great variety of subjects, dealing with the lives and works of the great writers and the ages in which they wrote. In order that those who are interested may have ! an idea what the course in English ; eleven consists of, some of the best papers are to be published in this column for the next few weeks. The following paper is a descrip tion of one of the greatest ages in English literature, the age of Ro manticism : The Age of Romanticism. The first half of the nineteenth ; century records the triumph of Romanticism in literature and of democracy in government. Just as we understand the influence of Puritanism in the matter of Hug- Term papers—term papers— | that’s all I can think of right now. 1 lish liberty by remembering that i What to write on in History—what the common people had begun to j the action. He knew Scotland and loved it; and there is hardly an event in any of his Scottish novels in which we do not breathe the very atmosphere of the place, and feel the presence of its moors and mountains. (4) Scott’s chief | claim to greatness lies in the fact | that he was the first novelist to ■ recreate the past; that he changed our whole conception of history by 'making it to be a stage on which living men and women played their parts.* George Gordon (Lord Byron) an other great pote of this age. There are two distinct sides to Byron and his poetry, one good, the other bad. The best known and most readable “The Prisoner of Chillon," and of Byron’s works are “Mazeppa,” “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.” By ron rebelled against everything. | He lived a very disappointing life which he sums up as follows: ! “My days are in the yellow leaf. The flowers and fruits of love are gone. The worm, the canker, and the times, unfortunately, Shelley joins with Byron in rebelling against everything. As a lyric poet, Shel ley is one cf the supreme geniuses of our literature; and the reader will do well to begin with the poems which show him at his very best. These poems are as follows; “The Cloud,” “To a Skylark,” • Ode to the West Wind,” “To Night.” It is said that Wordsworth found and Shelley lost himself in nature. Keats was not only the last but the most perfect of the Romantic ists. Keats lived apart from men and all political measures, wor shipping beauty, willing to write what was in his own heart or things as he saw them or dreamed them. Besides the other writers which I have mentioned there were a number of prose writers in this period, also/among whom are the following: Charles Lamb, Thomas de Quincey. Jane Austen and Wal ter Savage Landor. —MARY EDWARDS.