Adel High School - Scarlet and Black Yearbook (Adel, IA)

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vaudeville-started. Our first surprise was in the form of Mutt and jeff, whom, by their unique construction, we soon deciphered as Donald Eastman and Harry Brulport. Poor chaps, they received enough vegetables to start a market wagon. We left at once, not wishing to see the worst, and made our way to the theater. The play on was Madame X and was proclaimed the greatest hit of the season, with Bernice Eastman as the star and our two friends, Hazel Dillon and Grace Claassen in the front row of the chorus. . Later, at the cafe, I noticed the cabaret dancers smile at me in a familiar way. They seemed to know both -Mr. Coffin and myself. Upon being informed that they were Edith Steele and Thomas Fiske, I lost all craving for food and sat, with opened mouth, to watch the graceful Thomas. It is surely wonderful what changes time can make. After bidding Harold a fond farewell and wishing him a long life of mental and physiral agony, I boarded a train for New York. Arrivirg at New York, I made my way to a boarding house on Twenty-third street, as I intended staying here for some time. I received the shock of my life when at my elbow I heard someone say, Why, Ivyl Buckman, where on earth did you come from? This is certainly a pleasant surprise, Miss Fox. how are you? was my reply. ' I'm well, thank you, she answered, but Miss Fox no longer. Happily married, I suppose. Yes, I run a boarding house up the street aways. Come and walk up with me and I'll introduce you to my husband, from our friend Nellie. Agreed, I answered. , After a ten-minute walk we arrived before a neat, white-framed house, into which my Companion led rre. Standing in front of a large stove was a man of about thirty years, tall, slim and with a great abundance of dark hair fanging down over his shoulders. He was introduced as Mr. Wright, the greatest poet of the age. and I saw that he was none other than our school- mate of old, Dick. But I afterwards heard that there were only three poets on earth when Dick was the greatest. After a very enioyable chat of a half hour, we started for the business district to view a Women's Suffrage Parade. At the head of the proces- sion, with a cane in one hard and a pair of gloves in the other, and wearing a gentleman's cap. marched Elizabeth Storm: and following meekly at the heels of this noble personage, carrying a large-sized banner, inscribed upon which were the words. A vote for Women Suffrage will knock the Graft out of the State Politics, was a man whom I easily recognized as Tim- othy Hol. Mrs. Wright informed me that Forrest Mullins and Dwight Smith were staying at her boarding house, but she was sorry to say that Forrest was at the doctor's ofiice at the present time. It happened in this way. Forrest, who is chief of the New York fire department, was standing in the street, giving orders, when a brick wall fell on him, severely scratching his face. lt seems that Dwight, who was president of the Ash Wagon Association, was out of town attending a convention. From New York I was to cross the ocean and work a while in London. While on the liner I picked up a trans-continental paper and saw the name of Francis R. Bales, the great scientific farmer, living in Dallas county, way back in Iowa. It seems that Mr. Bales. after seven long years of patient study, has discovered a sure cure for the hoof and mouth disease. We felt 7' 7'-

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sure that Fussy would become a prominent man in the world of science and we now wish him the best of luck, for he was a great student in old Adel High. While in London I saw by the paper that Madame Opal Button was to sing at the Metropolitan opera house that evening, and so thought I would attend. I had been in my seat but a few moments when the curtain arose and there stool Opal, looking as happy and contented as of old. Her sing- ing, which I fear to describe, was greeted with loud bursts of applause. I was at first astounded at the audience's poor taste for music but a look at the program explained this. It read,- Annual Entertainment given for the Deaf and Dumb Inmates of the Clearfield Institution for the I-lelpless. I sailed for home the next day and after an uneventful voyage arrived in Adel. My first stop was at a barber shop. Here I was completely astonished to flrd Hugh Van Meter busily engaged in cutting a gentleman's fair. Fmom him I learned that his wife and family were doing well and business was good. And so in the course of a few short weeks I had learned of the fate of. every niember of the Junior class of Adel High and I am glad to say that some of them, if not most of them, did their old class ical honor. i B 'l 6