Bayless High School - Oracle Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THEDETOUR 'v As you stumble along that wearisome road, That ribbon-like essence of strife. Don't get discouraged though heavy your load, For it represents the struggle of life! When finally you come to a really smooth stretch Of the route, with much darkness ahead, Ominous, mysterious, ogre-like blackness Like Valhalla, the home of the dead. But as you approach, you may see there a sign Near which a rough rutted side road appears, Detour, the sign says, you've made a mistake. Resign to your fate! Don't stop to shed tears! But don't get discouraged, don't alter your pace, lust keep your head high and a smile on your face: The detour will come out on a beautiful lane That's free from ill, weary heartache and pain. Shirley Kaeser. BUSINESS V Dim-yellow lighted, By muddy soot covered Windows, Shaded by narrow, green blinds, edges ragged, Sticky cuspidors in dusty corners- A den made drab by Webby ceilings and Streaked Walls held up and apart by The thick fog of smoke issuing From frustrated human beings- This-a criminal lawyer's office in A wretched downtown district. ln this atmosphere of low poyvered lights, Where a single brilliant mind prods and plugs To master the problems of lowly offenders, In these sordid surroundings Felons find haven and counsel. Is there any reason for such dregs? Yet they persist, for some cannot resist Temptation. Robert Bronson, '40 '40 48 tf '- '--f JJ U xi TL. lifts

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TIMES HAVE CHANGED v How times have changed from olden days when Grandma was a girl, And wore a ribbon in her hair to hold a straying curl, Those days will never come again, but now and then we sigh And think of things that used to be before they had to die. A chaperon was quite the thing in days of long ago When Iohn and Mary went to see a good old-fashioned show A maicaen blushed to show her arms when sleeves were rolled a it And mothers used to sternly say, We'll have no more of itl Yes, times have changed from olden days and just between you and me, There's little use in wishing for things that used to be. They've gone with all old-fashioned things, they're as distant as a star There's nothing quite as good on earth as things just as they are. Dolores Schellhase J J' Ak 112114 QQ, sg?-at ,N dj, f, t L Xi? -.-ri' f- 1, F If 1 rj , -:L 'J .. ylmfvltwf l '5 ' e y! k -35 3, 75, it 5,33 ,jf Y , '..,,.,,. -1 - ,..-- k gpg,l'f-, . . , -sv .4- ,Q '4

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F... -.--lq 1 HE Board of Education, the Super- intendent and the Members of the Faculty who constitute the adminis- trative group of Bayless High School extend their congratulations to Seniors of the Class of '39. V EW Horizons-dedicated to the un beatable soul, who offers no alibis, makes no excuses, accepts misfortune as vsrell as happiness and with eyes to the future carries on.