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THROUGH FRENCH EYES
= we
(Specially contributed by Thérése Pérette,
? graduate scholar from France)
Jarrive d’un lointain petit pays des bords
du Rhin, ,ou certain ‘villages perdus dans les
montagnées de gres rose hors de I’atteinte
du chemin de fer, ont conserve leurs vieilles
‘maisons bagses, aux solides: poutres de bois.
La-bas quelques vieux @aysans et pay-
sannes portent fidélement encore, les premi-
ers, le gilet rouge ou pendent de nombreuses
medailles ancestrales, les derniers le corselet
de velour, le chale a ramages et la coiffe a
grands noéuds noirs, ce qui me fait’ chanter
souvent: “Les vieilles de notre pays ne sont

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“pas des vieilles mordses,”

Les braves gens s’en vont veiller, les soirs
dhiver, la lariterne de leurs péres ala main,
parceque |’electricité. ferait mal 4 leurs yeux
qui yirent tant d’anneés; et ils rentrent chez
eux aussi vite que le permettent leurs sabots
de bois, bravant la neige, pour attiser le feu
si clair et si gai qui pétille dans l’atre noircie|
par le temps. . ... A

Les chéres tétes d’un autre age, n’ont
jamais eu d’accident’ d’automobile, et ne
savent pas ce que c'est que manquer le
train, pour la bonne raison qu'il ne sont
jamajs montés dans une ‘Ford’ pas plus que
dans une ’Litrolu,’ et s’il leur est arrivé de
se servir d’une gare, ils ont su s’y rendre
bien avant l’ouverture du guichet.

Si yous voulez reposer vos nerfs du
vingtiéme siécle, allez demander de la ser-
énité a une certain petit hameau niché %
lombre des ruines moussues d’un- vieux
chateau du Moyen—Age”att sommet d’une
montagne toute bleytée, le soir. Vous n’y
entendez ni rouflements de moteurs, ni
sonneries-electriques, Vous n’entendez que
le murmure de la cascade, le chant d’oisaux
et peut-etre si vous etes chanceux une vieille
legende des chevaliers du ’burg.’

J'ai quitté tout c charme 1a, sans trop de
regrets pourtant, depuis trop peu de temps,
pour ne pas m’étonner de biert de choses,
depuis trois grandes semaines que j’ai tra-

-versé la “mare aux harengs”—Aussi je suis

bien sure que personne parmi vous ne m’en

doudra si je demande, ’ pourqtioi les maisons

ont-elle ambition de vouloir toucher les
nues a New York? Pourquoi les servantes
portent—elles des_ bas de soie sur leurs
jambes- couleur febéne ou de chocolat?
Pourquoi “nos aimables hotesses Améri-
caines éteignent les lustres électriques de
leurs somptueuses salles 4 manger, pour
vous faire savourer des’ ananas a la mayon-
naise a la lueur des candelabres, et pourquoi,
par contraste, un regiment , de lanternes
toutes rieuves parade dans le hall de Pem-
broke East? ts

Pourquoi |’Architécte du“ Collége a-t-il
oublié les murs, et lac ministration de con-
ciérge et ses clefs? =:,

Pourquoi se trou: ‘tom enfermé dans
une certaine salle de musique parceque per-
sonne tourne la clef de Ia porte magique?
magique? «:

Pouquoi les jolis Sivceuits gris du parc,
eux-mémes, sont si. miodernisé squ’ils _mar-
quent ayec efffonterie les automobiles de la
route, ét trouvent naturel que les étudiantes
de 1924 quittent leur costume universitaire
de ttadition pour arborer de multicolores et

des involtes ‘knicReeg,’

une ultime’ permission, puis-je
’ enfin, avec toute ma_ vieille
dité catholique. et francaise de discuter
léGtion de "Ma Ferguson en arpentant lés
allé$ d’un cloitre né en 1880, dont les murs
nd@igents ne voient dans ma politique et

Hale méditation, rien de acrilege,- puis’

jamais nonne en chair et en os n’est
éfite |at ne viendra violer le sanctuairé of
intellectuelle des cerveaux de la jeune







ons les plus riches de- aeumenegl ee



ENGAGED»
> —- ~~

- Miss Marjorie L. Franklin, Aiiéeinid in
Regnoiics and Politics at Bryn Mawr for
five years, who resigned in February, 1923,
to accept the position of Commercial Trea-
~~ ties expert on the Tariff Commission, has an-
nounced ‘her cogepement te Dr. waltes.

. Freeman, o 0
zc he | "22, to H.. Samuel Paul,

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_jand the elements are here at war.

SUMMER STUDENTS EAGER



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to enter into some ufiversity. at home.

They wrote letters like this:

a You are so fortunate to be abl to
got to college for four years. The two
months I spent there seem like a dream
to me and I shall never forget it. |
nevgr thought there were so nrany kind
women in all the world.”

‘Another writes from Chicago, “I
that Monday you went back, shrinking
with jealousy and envy. Do Taylor, Den-
bigh, Gym, and all the other buildings
look the same? Do you know the girl
living in Denbigh 70% If you do, tell her
of the happy hours I spent there.”

“My job at.times is very interesting,
for I am working on the spinning frames,

{ had.a job as bookkeeper offered me at
$21°a week but I refused, for I want to
Teo back to school again next summer
and couldn’t go if I took that job. Then,
too, I hope to go in a hospital to tfain
for a nurse in another year. . . . I am
also back at school, for I am taking a
special evening course in high school sub-
jects. I will make the best of my own op-
portunities and be thankful I havea school
I can attend-in the evening. i am taking
spelling, arithmetic, English, civics and
Latin. I am. particularly keen about the
Latin, for I think it will be fascinating
to read a book written in Latin.”* She
goes on to tell about all the speeches she
has made on her Summes# School expe-
rience and then ‘says, “I. am enclosing
two pieces of tatting that I thought you
might like to have.”

And each girl writes ‘eotidentatie how
nige it would be if she were one of the
five or six fortunate ones to he allowed
to come back another summer.



We used to wonder when the Summer
School began just how much those girls
could be expected to learn frofn a_ brief
eight weeks’ term. Most of them
been ‘no farther than the eighth grade and
had been in industry for the last eight
or 10 years. i i

A Bulgarian girl who knew no. English
when she came toythis country less than
a year ago, wrote:

eg oe “OY. AGE

The coast line recedes and disappears

and night comes down upon the ocean.

Into what dangers will the great ship
plunge? Through what mysterious way
of waters will she make her unseen path?
The black waves
Overhead the stars shinesdimly among
the driving clouds. A strange sadness
settles upon my heart. Thoughts and
images of: the past crowd thick upon my
remembrance. - The faces of absent
friends rise up before me whom perhaps
I will never see any more. I see their
smiles, I hear their voices, but they are
very far away now, and it seems months
instead of hours since the parting mo-
ment. And now I am all alone upon
the wild sea. All alone, surrounded with
new faces and unknoOwn companions, and
the best’ I can do is to seek my _ lonely
pillow and lie down with a prayes in my
heart and on my lips.

Never before did I so clearly know,
never again will I so deeply feel the un-
certainty of human life and the weakness
of human nature. As I notice the rush
of the ship and the noise of the breaking] -
waves around her and think of the, mighty
deep, beneath, I cannot miss the impres-
sion of human courage. For this ship is
the center of a splendid conflict. Man
With
these thoughts I sink to sleep, and this
is my first night at sea.

It is best to have few acquaintances or
Lnone at all on shipboard. The voyager
should yield Himself to nature and meet
his. own soul face to face. The routine



thought of Bryn Mawr and all you girls] '

and there is_always.something new to.do.|.

had|

I have walked down the streets pest the.

roll up around her.

of every day life is commonplace enough Ne
upon the land, but the ocean is. contin-
ually filling and sorties: the mind with



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inexpressible peace. Its freedom, its joy
and its: beauty overwhelm the mind.
Sometimes it shines in the sun, some-
times its long waves are black, smooth}
and dangerous, sometimes it is grey and
quiet as in a sullen sleep. One of the
most exquisite delights of the voyage, by
day or night, is to lie-upon the deck and
look far out toward the horizon. «No need
now of books or newspapers or talk;
the eyes are fed by every object you see.
The song of the sailors, “Jean Francois
of Nantes,” rises in happy melody and
mingles with the romance of the sea., .

Days and nights pass in waiting for
1 _ The Ahip rocks lazily upon the
sand from the deck I see the
shining sea and the circling gulls that
have come to weleome the ship to the
shores of the New World.

Mary Tchukleva.

landing.
quiet







Another girl who works in a_ hosiery
factory in Pennsylvania handed in this
poem as an English assignment:

"COMPANY HOUSES

company houses,

Streets that are gray with the dust of the

steel works,

streets, robbed of all

nature, —

Houses are bare frame aereptneyt. just
houses, not homes.

Right outside of the smoky, ‘hot, dirty
shops,

Just rows of hanael no trees, no grass,

No flowers to refresh the weary workers,

Dull beauty of

I saw the men go home from_ work to
these company houses,

Young men with the look of hoped
their faces,

Old men with the lines of care and a
deeply written, never to be erased,
Their clothes all damp with sweat and

grease,
All glad that another day was well done.

And there are the children,

Dirty, bare-footed, but happy,

Playing in the dusty streets

In front of the company. houses, -

Robbed of all the beautiful things in life,
But not of the sun,

The sun can get in through the smoke

and the dust. ar
ue Anna Bill.



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: MARRIED
Susan Nichols,. 1915, to “Harold Siow:
bridge Pulsifer, Harvard, 1911; publisher
and owner of The Outlook.”
Katharine Stiles, ’22, to Mr. Carroll Har-
rington on October 4 at Fitchburg, Mass. |



We note feaud the Havebtiond: Nine
October 14, that Dr. Meiklejohn “will talk

- |purely. non-partisan.

and distinction.

STUDENTS PLAN INDUSTRIAL +
‘CONFERENCE AT SWARTHMORE

Candidates For Coming Elections Will
Be impartially Discussed -



Swarthmore Polity Club plans to hold
a; students’ industrial conference October
18 and 19 for the purpose of discussing
the candidates in the coming elections, ,

The attitude of the conference will be
Each speaker will
‘present his respective party and defend
its platform. Mr. Roland Gibson will
lead the discussion on the third party, Dr.
Brooks, of Swarthmore, ‘the Democratic,
and Mr, Robert Limberton, the Republi-
can. The Universities of both Pennsyl-
vania and Haverford are sending dele-
gates and delegates are also going from
the Bryn Mawr Liberal Club. The con-
ference will -have special interest as an
expression of political opinion in the col-
leges of eastern Pennsylvania.

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BOOK REVIEW

'Balisand; Joseph Hergesheimer; Alfred
A. Knopf. i

‘Mr. Hergesheimer has written Balisand
as a picture ‘of Virginia in the days that
preceded and followed the Signing of the _
Constitution. In the centre of the pic-
tre he has placed the fitting and signifi-
cant figure of Richard Bale, officer of Wash-
ington’s army and plantation owner. As a
picture the story is convincing though too
long drawn out. In fact Mr. Hergeshei-
mer seems peculiarly fitted to this impersonal
type of narrative by the inflexibility of his
style. His writing seems petrified. It is
cold and smooth anid so achieves an appear-
ance of. solidity... At the same. time one is’
more likely to see the words of ‘his de-
scriptions than the things described.

On the surface the baok, though inani-
mate, stands firmly on its feet as a finished
product of Mr. Hergesheimer’s pains.

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HEDGEROW THEATRE



The program of the Hedgerow Theatre,
at Rose Valley, under the direction of Mr.
Beeter, promises to be of unusual variety
_Miss Ann Harding, soon
to appear in New York, plays the lead.

iLast week’s program offered two one-
act plays: Bernard Shaw’s comedy Misalli-
avice, and Ibsen’s The Master Builders.
“Next week The Dreamers, by Barry Gon-
nors, produced fo¥the first time in America,
will be given. “Mr. Beeter and Miss Hard-
ing will ‘have ‘ ‘thie leading parts. Under
the management of A. H. Woods, The
Dreamers will probably be the vehicle for
Miss Harding’s New York appearance this



before the Bryn Mawr Y.M.C. A.”_

season, “4