Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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LEAVES FROM MY DIARY. Perhaps the twenty-third of June isn’t just the proper time to begin a record of one's fortune.) and misfortunes, but at any rata this is the first entrance of my new diary. Hazelle Briggs and I start on a trip for Europe tomorrow, so we’re both starting a diary and have agreed to exchange accounts at the end of every week so we each may have the benefit of what the other learns. What interesting company—for me, at least, for Hazelle herself is more fun than a picnic. JUNE 29.—We’ve been sight seeing some of the most beautiful scenery! If we see anything more lovely in Europe, I’ll settle right down in the midst of it. Just returned from a trip to V’alley Forge. Oar guide was a perfect wonder. I heard someone behind me say that “Sonny” Finch always was the best informed boy in history she had ever seen. I turned around to see who else in our company knew our guide and there was Florence Sat-terlee on a trip through the East. We all had a pleasant conversation with Mr. Finch, whom we still persisted in calling “Sonny.” JULY 3.—The trip to Boston was hot and dustv and I don’t feel much inclined to write, but I’m in duty bound to do it. I don’t believe, how'ever, that even water could dampen Hazelle’s spirits, so I wish it would rain for this room is perfectly stuffy. JULY 4.—Hazelle found two cousins, Mr. and Miss Eldridge, here today, and verv kindly let me have Miss while she took Mr. To tell the truth I would have had a much pleasanter time if she had changed places with me, but perhaps I shouldn’t have learned so much. My escort (or escortess, since I feel somewhat edgewise) and I visited several art galleries. In one of them we met Everlyn Jensen, who acted as guide. She seemed especially Croud to show us the carved heads of several eautiful women, marked with the sculptor’s name, Miles Moon. Miles never was afraid to try anything new in the way of girls. In the afternoon we heard a Philadelphia Orchestra, the first large one I had ever seen conducted by a woman. My curiosity was aroused so we investigated and found out that the woman was Bernice De Hart. I had a very pleasant conversation with her and she told me she had just returned from a visit to Fernie’s aviation school in California. I’m dying to know' what Hazelle has done today, but she won’t tell until day after tomorrow. I, at least, have spent a very safe and sane Fourth. JULY' 6.—Goody! Tonight I’ll find out how Hazelle behaved day before yesterday. She went to see the latest pugilist, Cecil Burkholder! She remarks that she thinks the ladies were especially inflamed by Fat’s red hair. He told Hazelle that he came very near not being able to do his work, for he couldn’t get along without his glasses, and he knew they would get broken. But the great optometrist Lester Frownfelder, very kindly invented a kind of unbreakable spectacles. JULY 13, and FRIDAY TOO.—We’ve had a pleasant journey to New York, nevertheless. Met Addie Addis on the train. She’s a traveling saleswoman nowr for a publishing company, but her name isn’t Addis now; at any rate' I inferred that it wasn’t by the plain band on her finger. JULY 15—New York is a bewildering place. The first thing we did was to get mixed up in a mob on a strike for better street car service. But the disturbance w'as quickly quelled when Chief of Police Edythe Ruch called out the blue coats. We visited Miss Ruch at her office, where she gave us tickets to hear the great elocutionist, Hazelle Banks. We learned also that Nila Chapman is driving a mail route in Alaska. JULY 17—W’e’re all excitement today Start tomorrow for Europe, so we’re going to bed early. JULY 18—The first day of our ocean travel has been fine. Hope it is all as smooth. We w'ere very lucky in obtaining passage on This steamer, especially since the captain is our old friend, “Jimmy” Taylor, who is just as good natured as ever and really looks quite big and manly in his uniform. JULY' 19—Nothing of importance has happened yet today. But the famous singer, John Henkel, and his accompanist. Miss Griswold. who are on a tour through England and Scotland, have consented to give a concert in the saloon JULY 31—We were met in London bv rain and dreariness and w’e haven’t dispensed with their company yet. This has been a drearv day •outside, but w'e’ve been entertained by Charles Reid that we weren’t interested until we “Sweet Katrine”. There are so many Charles Reids that we weren’t interested until we learned that this one graduated at Greenville, Page Thirty-one

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IN SCHOOL. At three o'clock in the afternoon, The pupils left in the old main room Look up at the teacher’s desk and say “I never saw such a long, long day!” Then the clock on the wall seems to go on a strike, And you hardly can wait ’till your feet hit the pike. You look at the clock, and it’s just 3:10 You start to read and you wonder when You’ll get a breath of good fresh air. But just as you’re going to tear your hair It’s 3:15, just a few minutes more And you’ll be marching out the big front door. You glance at the stage and you see Diana Or Mercury over the big “Pianna.” Up at the clock it’s just 3:20, Time’s nearly up, but still there’s a plenty. You fix your books and look at the seats Lined up like so many streets, You look at the window and up at the sky, And just when you think you’re going to die, The bell rings, and you get your hat; And as you go out, you’re thinking that “School’s out for today!” D. B.,’19.

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Michigan, 1917. Of course then we understood the significance of the title of his story. AUG. 1—Sunday and one that does credit to its name. We went to hear Mr. Elvin Nelson’s sermon. Mr. Nelson is on a world’s tour in the interest of Prohibition and will probably end his journey in Alaska, which seems to hold a special attraction for him. AUG. 1U—Paris is a beautiful place but there isn’t the rural air about it that there was about all of England. Hazelle says the styles are perfectly “stunning,” but I hear that Irene Hansen and Julia Moore, who very strongly advocate “Made in America” goods, quite outshone the Parisian modistes. AUG. 11—We visited the English school tor girls founded by Mrs. Kerkoff. She very kindly invited us to a concert to be given for her pupils by Miss Louise Hillman. Our old friend comes highly recommended by the Germans, who declare that she quite equals Schumann-Keink in her mastery of the Deutsche Gesprach. AUG. 20 (Copenhagen, Denmark)—We’ve just returned from a visit to our doctor friend, Frank Ilauge. He has done so much in teaching individual sanitation that he will soon have to move in order to obtain practice. But he didn’t seem to worry much and his services as a guide were indispensable; at least Hazelle thinks so and I quite agree. Mr. Hauge has just returned from a visit to Belgium, where the devastation of war has practically been wiped away by the help of the American agriculturalist, Andrew Petersen, who has taught the people scientific farming. AUG. 28—(On deck again)—Just visited the pearl fisheries in the Persian Gulf, where we saw Ilah Emery doing her daring feats of deep sea diving. We’re on our w’ay to see our old friend, Emma Lucas, a missionary in India. SEPT. 12—We’re at the mission but for just a few' days. A long time ago I promised to present Emma with a woolen blanket as a w’edding gift. I infer that I’ll have to keep my promise from the fact that she speaks rather shyly of a Y. M. C. A. founded by Harry Nelson and Albert Vining in the mountains of Tennessee. Hazelle guesses that Albert probably spends most of his summer time in Greenville, Michigan, and as to the woolen blanket, she suggests that a refrigerator and an apparatus for manufacturing ice would be more appropriate. SEPT. LAST, or THIRTIETH—We’ve been sailing or steaming ever since we left India. We stopped at Hong Kong for a few’ hours and almost the first thing we saw was a great flaring banner, “Votes for Women,” borne by Edna Casw’ell. Edna has been a regular “Chinese Abraham Lincoln,” in emancipating the women of China. Only a short sojourn in Japan, where we met American Ambassador Charles Nelson. OCT. 10—I guess we’re on the home stretch at last, but for lack of time now', w’e’ve decided to visit the Orient again some time, hazelle and I are in the same predicament, were lacking funds. 'So it’s home again and home again, America for me; my heart is turning home again to God s countree.’' OCT. 11—We’re up one minute and down the next today, but the w’orst ox it is we don’t know which place we will stay finally. There w'ere so many seasick people on boad that the doctor and his assistant, r-dythe Shelden, had to be called to take care of them. I think it is safer to stay on deck; the railing is such a comfortable place to lean against. Hazelle told the steward to throw her supper overboard and save time. OCT. 23—Reached San Francisco safely and we’re “putting up” at the Thompson-Houle Hotel, although it has consolidated now’ and is generally known simply as the Thompson House. We were talking w’ith Edward, who told us that his two chemist friends, Wyman Moffatt and Peter Lyndrup, are making valuable experiments in Death Valley. I picked up a copy of the Out-Look Magazine with a pictureof Ralph Lape, the new editor, on the cover. Mr. Lape certainly chose the right vocation aw’ay back in 1917. OCT. 30—(Miller ranch, Montana)—We’re making a short visit at the ranch of Agnes and Eleanor Miller. They have a beautiful place and welcomed us warmly. Although the weather didn’t. Nov. 10—Grand Rapids looks good and it’s the most familiar spot I’ve struck for six months. We met Marion Edsall this morning on the street. She hasn’t recreased in circumference, but I hear that she is becoming quite prominent as an artist, although 1 always imagined that an artist must be tall and -slender. NOV. 11—I came to Greenville for a few days’ visit at Hazelle’s and then I’m off for home! The Daily Call says that in February Miss Zadie Zuver will take up her duties as commercial teacher in the Grand Rapids Central High School. The Advertising section invites the public to Silver’s Theater to see the latest movie star, Seth Slawson, so of course we can’t miss it. Hazelle says she is not going to w’ork any more, but if she thinks that settling down to mopping and baking and sweeping and dusting isn’t w’ork, I could very easily shatter her air castles. I never have had much practical experience for I guess I’m destined to be an ol --- bachelor maid, but at least w’e are both agreed that “Life is just one fool thing after another and Love is two fool things after each other.” Page Thirty-two