Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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CAMERA STUDIES GIRLS' CONCERT CLUB CONCERT ORCHESTRA GIRL RESERVES SPANISH CLUB CAMP FIRE GIRLS I3

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OF FACT KEEPING HOUSE ways been one of the great mysteries of my life. But things happen for no other reason than to make mysteries. It was my fate to become a housekeeper. I looked upon housekeeping as a small boy looks upon a ten-syllabled word. What was it all about? However, it came in this way. Because of a death in the family I was forced to keep house for my father and my younger brother. I knew very little of this occupationg and, as I had no time to study for it, I decided to learn as I went along. My first assignment was getting the meals. I knew two things about cooking, that was the knowledge of frying eggs and boiling water. Consequently, I made out my menu as follows: BREAKFAST Fried Eggs DINNER Fried Eggs SUPPER Fried Eggs This menu was all right for the Hrst two days. But on the dawn of the third day I was informed in a very impressive manner that if I fried another egg in the next ten -years, I would be sued for damages, accused of murder, and be hanged on the spot after I had been tarred and feathered. I very quickly came to the conclu- sion that I had better not fry any more eggs. I was the most despondent person in the world. What could I do? All at once, as if a hammer had struck me on the head, a thought struck me. I must admit I was amazed at my- self for inventing such an idea. Why not look for help in a cook book? I immediately procured a cook book, only to find that my troubles were not over. Finally, with a cook book, a dictionary, burnt food, and a confusion of ideas, I found that I could cook something in addition to frying eggs and boiling water. I. .f Alas! Alas! I soon discovered that in house- keeping there was no peace. My next big prob- lem was wash-day. By the way, if any of you happens to know the person who invented Wash- day, send him to me, as I have an account to settle with him. My first lesson in washing taught me that some clothes fade, for one week my washing would be blue and the next week, red. I have been keeping house for the last two years, although I hope to graduate from it some day. But I find it takes more credits to gradu- ate from housekeeping than it does to graduate from high school. HAROLD CALBERT. MY BOOKS f T I HAVE LIVED a thousand lives. I have traveled in countries all over the world-in France, Spain, Mexico, and Alaska. I have flown above the clouds and explored the depths of the oceans. I have waged wars, and I have been a famous states- man and swayed hundreds by my eloquence. My book adventures are not dead, they have been lilled with life, romance, tragedy, and adventure. V Q There are so many characters of whom I never grow tired. They become a part of me g l thrill at their happiness or weep at their grief. A few years ago I was the Beth or Jo ol Little Women, or perhaps Mrs. Wiggs with the trials and joys of the Cabbage Patch. I laughed at the strange things of Wonderland with Alice. Now I wander in the lands of Gulliver's Travels, or I climb .Fujiyama and swim the Hellespont with Richard Halliburton. I am filled with pride at the courage with which I light the awful hardships of the West as Abbie Deal. I am bowed down with the bur- den of slavery and the Civil War in Forever Freef' I am completely happy in a Haunted Bookshop. I tremble at the mysteries of the desert with Lawrence in Arabia. How simple it is to go from America to the Orient within the covers of a book. I have often thought that when I enter the realms of the great unknown to make my for- tune, I would do it by way of a bookstore. It will not be just an ordinary bookstore It will be a cozy, pleasant place with shaded lights and deep, soft chairs in snug little al- coves. Around' the walls will be rows and rows of line books'with the brightest of coversl There will be a warm, cheerful fire, and there will be pictures on the walls. I will not bother my customers with useless questions, I will let them browse among my books to their heart's content while I, too, prowl along the by-ways of other lands. GRACE mmcuirn.

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OF TECH GROUPS STEATEORD LITERARY CLUB FRENCH CLUB HOME ECONOMICS CLUB I9 DEMAGORIANS xx