THE • MERCIA Published at Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa. VOLUME II FEBRUAKY, 1931 Number 2 U JUST IN CASE | TRAGEDY * k MICKEY *%? OUR FILLING STATION: THE _OLD RELIABLE—THE BUS: You didn't f He was dirty and ragged and KN 0W we want You The steady pitter-patter of rain SODA FOUNTAIN With the birth of this institution, his little tattered coat flapped there was ushered into the lives To know that we was inviting sleep; nevertheless, thinly in the icy blasts * of the Three meals a day, once a func­ Miss our ALUMNAE very a fuzzy head, which had been tion of heart and home and lately of many of us, a certain feature Much—FIRST blizzard, but his face was express­ destined to become the very exist­ bu ied in a pillow slowly appeared. ive of fencer. Many a passerby of kitchenette and restaurant, are Just because we Its owner pried her heavy lids passing before our unconsiderable ence of our daily routine, the mak­ DO—and then because open for enough to see her watch bought his wares because of that gaze to the nickicd and marble ing or breaking of our scholastic No one ever gets as smile, which never failed, tho the records. You, the "day-hops", know and then she dropped back to doze lips that framed it were blue and counter of the soda fountain. Many letters as off again. Fifteen whole minutes, Where a decade ago it provided a immediately to what I have refer­ MAKGY did from Gus sixty seconds in every one of them, stiff, g I n i ence, and only you are at; fault if And because no one has "Paper, sir?" His boyish voice few timid crackers along with hot you cannot say that its very move­ before it would be necessary to chocolate, today there is little ments are indelibly imprinted upon ^uite as infectious a make the supreme effort, which rang hopefully as he thrust'forth from waffles to chop-suey. Truly, Giggle at TETE and do would be 'backed by a great ment­ an eager arm. your hearts and minds. For who We ever miss cute His customer stopped, "Pretty the soda-fountain is a human fill­ of you can forget the bumps, the al decision, to get out of bed. Just ing station. jolts, the mad clutching at thin air EVELYN and we a bit more sleep; even then if she tough on a fellow to sell papers Wonder if REGINA'S this kind of weather— eh! Bud­ The fountain is becoming an in an effort to remain seated upon hastened she would be ready. A its benches, the entwining of one's Eyes still snap and small wall clock ticked off time as dy?" he asked kindly. 1 addition of almost every type 01 Sparkle—didn'ttyou "Oh! I dunno," was the boy's shop under the sun. As to what arms about the neck of the person the girl's subconscious mind made has changed the fountain from a directly opposite in order to main­ Love them? and her realize that priceless minutes ready answer, "course I ain't get- tain a glue-like hold upon the seat Now that MARGARET MARY were speeding by; if she could re­ ting na sunstroke, but I g*uess I'm refreshment stand to a serious buffet, no one seems to know. or ; upon the lap so kind in its Has found the ONE what | tard them awhile, if she could de­ pretty lucky to be fable to stand generosity for holding you? Ah! Will the other boys . lay them! In spite of all her ment­ the gaff." He smiled brightly into Even though it has all happened it was an art to remain seated Do<and do MARY ELLEN'S al and physical, rebellion against the man's face. within the past decade, we*"will when it swung madly around the Pupils still ilove } the ever fleeting seconds, five min­ "Why, what do you mean?" The not admit that prohibition has Her because "She*'s much to do with the matter. To corners, or bounded over the utes, ten minutes had raced by question came gruffly. ravines, ruts, and miniature can- So sweet but she's so and she slid across that delightful "Qh!" the newsie ^hesitated and my mind the gathering at the Smart" and if MAUREEN fountain is primarily a part of yons of Cooper Road in the mak­ boundary line into slumberland. then a little shame-facedly he ing. Those were the days when its and ELEANOR knewShow Five more minutes! She?leaped blurted out: "Well—I inean- -we the speeding-up of modern life. Much we miss "Mama" occupants had |a "bouncing good out of bed with a startled expres­ don't all get such a good break in Lunch is quicker, more con,enient time." Those were the days when And "Bebe" they would sion on her face; she realized she life—but I jigger the Lord gives and sometimes cheaper. Then too Visit us once in a might made right and the vehicle had lost these precious minutes, ya something to make up for it. there has been the?amazingly suc­ getting through that sea of mud While and we can't SEE which could never be regained and I'm strong and healthy and I've cessful propaganda towax'd a was always right, for it required WHY with only eighty above all, that time, not to'men­ got a couple of good jobs and lighter diet. Many of the fairer might to accomplish such a featl Odd miles between WiM tion tide, waits for no woman; enough to eat, most of the time, sex are everyday eating outside Yea, it'was the Mercyhurst Bus, Us MARGARET CANTALUPE but worst of all, she realized with and a place to sleep and a mother the home in^search of viands at the wonder of the city, and the Doesn't come up for sinking iheart, the extra fifteen and a kid sister. I guess that's once sweet and slenderizing. alarm clock of the "day-hops". That week-end she minutes with Morpheus had made about all any feller can ask for— Four and one-half years ago the Promised^ us tho' we her late for Sister Philippa's class. Already the soda-fountain has Hear she is QUITE the ain't it?" he looked up with shy a personnel and a dialect'all its Bus was delivered, shiny, bright, English teacher and pride. 3* own. I Where restaurant waiters guiltless of mud, and bountiful in Margaret Clark, #84 and cooks are more often than not brown seats and fresh air, and AGNES (for we can't o A curious look swept over the Get used to saying Mrs. Friant) man's face. "Yes, Buddy, I guess foreignborn, the typical "soda luxurious injfat, healthy springs. COURAGE it is—only the LORD torgets us jerker" is now and has been im- Before it was soiled by human Don't get too wrapped up in I hands, the student-body was draped Lou and forget all about f Exactly what does courage sometimes," he added bitterly. memorially a Yankee. The boy fresh from the farm who comes around it, and the camera was Us and we are glad mean to you? As for myself I am "Aw! no He don't. Why gee! snapped. That, my dear, is how That BIANCA is teaching not confident enough to try to ex­ You just didn't give Him a chanct, to the city to seek his fortune is Mister. You just see if He don't usually found behind the soda history is made! And we think ^ that Academy plain my conception of it or to Came the Autumn of the year— Is LUCKY to get her and 'I, term it in a specific manner. help you, if you ask Him. Honest, fountain, **iore 01 ten, than any NOW CECELIA and MARY I never seen anyone so obliging. place else. But his selling is only that season so beautiful now, but Webster's definition of courage is temporary. For in spite of the so horrible then. For ^it stained How about a line from "that quality of mind which en­ I'm for Him every time." that Bus with mud, internally and You everybody says T "Alright kid, you win," laughed fountain's narrow confines, its ser­ ; ables one to encounter danger and vice apparently is only second to externally; it drenched its body HELLO and when 1 you difficulties with firmness or with­ the other. "Here take this, and with rain, and marked its windows Take that trip tot t buy that kid sister a lollypop." He joining the navy for seeing the out fear or fainting of heart." world or at least, America first. with frost.5 But ah! mud, rain, Philadelphia The faculty of courage is with­ pressed a twenty dollar bill into frost, snow — nothing stopped its MARG HUNGIVTLLE why They seem to have a code all their out a doubt the most coveted qual­ the lad's rough little hand. own, for instance, "thirty on one" course, so on-on-on it plowed, Not drop Ground by ity to be had, as well as the most "Gee! Thank y' sir! The Lord through thick and thin, just like Way or Erie AND is fountainese for a sardine sand­ appreciated. A woman loves a sure ain't forgot me—when lie. wich while "hold the grass", sug- the army-tractor that it was.& S Weren't you surprised man's courage, and her fortitude made you do this—and I ain't for­ That first winter with its drifts Tofhear about BECKY'S omitting the lettuce.