Grants Pass High School - Toka Yearbook (Grants Pass, OR)

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THE TOKA 25 iExrltattxjpa. Ocean Breeze, Aberdeen, Wash. Your stories are interesting and well written. We are pleased also to notice that your exchange list is to be better taken care of. • • Oracle, Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. Although your paper is very attractive, it would be materially bettered by an enlarged joke column. • • • The Clarion, Salem, Oregon. We are glad to see our last year’s exchanges back again. Your’s is a fine paper. • • The Spectrum, Jefferson High School, Portland, Oregon. The Spectrum is our best exchange for this month. The material is good and all departments are well attended to. The cover especially is to be commended, being suggestive and of very simple and neat design. • • • The Kh Hah Xam, Walla Walla, Washington. Your stories are good and the paper throughout is attractive on account of its simplicity. • • • The Mountaineer, Butte, Montana. Your cover Is especially neat and pleasing this time. Also we notice the good stories In your paper. • • • The Premier, Fall River, Mass. The Freshman number is Indeed a very good issue and we are glad to have it on our exchange list this month. • • • The Troulwulour, Portland Academy, Portland, Oregon. The Troubadour shows plenty of school spirit. It is interesting to notice that you do not have an advertising section but devote your whole paper to the benefit of its readers.

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24 THE TOKA The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 16, 1911. Mr. H. J. Gllkey, Oregon City, Oregon. Dear Kid: I suppose you are still of the same opinion that I am a poor letter writer. It’s true all right, and the disadvantages of living In camp do not tend to help me any. We had a thunder of a time getting started to camp. You know at the beginning we were living off the country, and while waiting for the camp outfit to come (it was shipped to the wrong place), we lost five working days. We are now in a camp about 22 miles up the river and move Wednesday to a place about 32 miles up. We have a good camp outfit; two sleeping tents and one mess tent where the cook also sleeps. Each man has a small folding camp cot, and Mr. Taylor and I have a small folding camp table. The cook is fine. Best man cook I ever knew. We have a big variety of things, too. Our bread and meat we get fresh from The Dalles every two or four days (by express). On the whole, this camping out isn’t half bad. It’s going to be quite cold later on, however. The mornings and evenings are quite cool now. I usually go to bed about 8 or S:S0, because it’s so cold I must do that in order to keep warm. Saturday I flagged the train here at the camp and went to The Dalles, comlig back yesterday. The trains go either way during the middle of the day. My trip was purely a business one. there being a lot of things we needed. We have the permission to flag the train at any point we wish to. which makes traveling an easy matter. We have difficulty in getting our mall out from here tho. You see the mail is carried by the Oregon Trunk, on the other side of the river, and there are no postoffices on this side. We have finally rigged up a stunt whereby we fasten the letters on a stl k and hand them up to the engineer as he goes by. They all know us and are very obliging. Our mail Is sent out to us from The Dalles with the meat and bread. I am suffering, have been suffering and probably will continue to suffer until I get out of this country, with a malignant, soul-terrifying, heart-rending attack of hay fever. There is quite a bit of sage brush on the less steep slopes and at this season of the year It has a sort of flower on it which is heavily laden with fine, yellow dust. This gets In my nostrils and T sneeze for half an hour steadily sometimes (almost). It even sets me going if I look at it too hard. Laying iokes aside, the case Is serious. If I accidentally brush against some of It and breathe some of the dust, a regular paroxysm (do you know what that Is?) of sneezing siez.es me and I rarely stop short of 1R sneezes. W'hen I am finally through, I hardly know whether my head is still on or not, and it leaves me with a weak, all-in feeling. They are not ordinary sneezes. I defy even you to choke one of them back. They start in my nose, run down my throat, grab my stomach at the bottom, drag that up to my throat, let loose, then run out my mouth, eyes, nose, and every other vent hole; from my mouth as noise and wind, from my nose as wind, from my eyes as water, and ro forth, et cetera, etc., etc. I guess I’ve told it all now. At least, I think I’d better stop before I think of something worse. Yours, GEORGE.

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2b THE TOKA (Enurt nf JfuoUHfjnpHfl. TOKA QUESTION BOX. (The Editor will be glad to answer all questions on any perplexities.) Dear Editor:—I am worried and desire your advice. Is it all right for me to sit at the reading table and smile at the other girls when “She” is not in the room? Yours, H. H. P. S.—I wish we could sign our full names for I do not want you to think this is Howard Hall. Ans.—You may do this safely provided you are sure that some one will not run and tell “Her. • • Mr. Editor:—Can you tell me some way in which I can make the other students, especially the Freshmen, realize that I am an Alumnus, and treat me with proper respect? in haste, V. B. Ans.—Act the part. • • • Mr. Editor:—Is it not rather discouraging to have to write up the accounts of our football games? Truly yours. Athletic Editor. Ans.—If it is discouraging for you, think of the story written up from the other side. However, above all things, do not knock the team. There is a wider field than that for knocking. • • • My dear Editor:—Don’t you think it was unkind of the faculty to change my seat? I was very happy where I was and I was having a fine time. Sorrowfully yours, M. F. Ans.—It certainly was. But why expect kindness from such as they? • • • My dearest Editor:—Will you please explain to me why my name is not on the honor roll pasted near the reading table? I have studied hard and I am sure that I have done as good work as some of those who are there. In tears. Freshman. Ans.—Never be discouraged. Some of those who are there now never attained that honor during their first year in school. • • • My dear Editor:—I wish some friendly advice. Could you supply me with the latest styles in hair dressing so that I could vary It at least every two days? Yours, D. J. Ans.—You will find what you want by reading volume five of Mme. De La Brunzwoir.