Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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(j T TRUE 6ditoria1. Published every month of the school year by Thk Tit UK Blur Publishing Club of the Hudson Hitfh School. Hudson. Wis. Eton Hay cox ............. Business Manager STAFF OF EDITORS. John Balsom James R Semple Elon C. Hay cox Geo. F. Trieb ... Oscar Nelson Walter Bell .... ’ .. Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Literary Editor Local Editor . Sporting Editor Exchange Editor .. Alumni Editor REPORTERS. Lillian McNeel. Gertrude Otis. Grace Sample. Maud Hodtfins. FACULTY. Mr. B. B. Jackson. Prin. Miss Louise Williams, Miss Matson. Miss E. Richardson Mr. Inviis. Terms of subscription 50c per year in advance If a blue pencil m irk appears in the space below, your subscription is due and a remit- tance will be expected. I,:;-: May. who have aided us by subscrip- tions: those who have advertised through our paper, and those who contributed articles for it. We hope that, when next year the Juniors publish the school paper the business men and citizens will just as readily aid them. For s veral years there has been no High School paper in our shod. This year a paper was published which with all its many short commings is an ini provenient on none at all. We will feel amply repaid for our efforts in this work, by the pub- lication of a school paper next year. We hope the publishers will profit by seeing our failings and do themselves sufficient credit in that line, in editing a Subscription price: 50 cents per year in ad v anc e. There is but one more issue of the True Blue, and I desire that those who have not paid their subscriptions, would remit as soon as possible, as I desire to settle up the account for the printing of the paper. The money for the unpaid subscriptions may be handed to any one of the Senior boys. E. C. Haycox, Business Manager. To Our Patrons: This being the last issue com- posed by the seniors, as the June number is to be the work of the Juniors, we desire to thank those paper as they have aided us. The declamatory contest which was held Friday. May lb, at River Falls, was attended by a large number of people from Hudson. There were two representatives from each school. The schools represented were New Rich- mond, Hudson, Hammond, River Falls and Ellsworth. The selec- tions that were rendered were very good, and showed much taste and study. The judges decided Miss Jennie Scott, of Hudson to be the winner, Robert Reed of River Falls was second. The winner is to represent tiie district in the state declamatory contest to be held at Madison next Friday.

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TRUE BLUE. actness in thought and speech. Ve cannot say as to the former, but the latter will be shown by the following: “I nearly died laughing!” “It took about a week to get in?” “I thought I would expire!” etc., etc., show- ing the great amount of good ac- quired from geometry by the female sex. We do not feel called upon to set forth “some opinions on the subject, uttered by some of the prominent citizens,” as it is our unutterable fate that we must live under the same roof with them for three weeks longer. We must confess that,however far the female sex are from reach- ing the perfection attained oy the males. Shakespeare spoke truly when he said: ‘ Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud, 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired,” But tis modesty that makes them divine. P. J. H. « Writing an Essay. The first and most perplexing part in writing an essay, is to de- cide upon a subject. In lists of subjects, from which you try to make a selection, you are sure to find “Home” which is such an acceptable subject,, that, in your case, it proves not at all accept- able. Don't select that unless you have a special gift of original thought, for you will not satisfy your audience, who are waiting for something new. Then there is ever a suggestion, “My Favor- ite Occupation.” That will give your tastes right away, which you wouldn’t have done for the world. Thus you pass subject after subject through your mind, till at last you select one out of pure disgust! Having found a subject there follows the harder task of writing the essay, for you, want to make your article agree with your subject, unless you do as some preachers, who write a ser- mon and then fit a text to it. If you were stormed at with objec- tions concerning your subject, don’t for a minute think that the supply is exhausted. Although there is no other form of composition which admits of so wide a scope as an essay does, probably the liberty thus given your pen will prove a fetter, for you are confronted with a variety of styles, and now on which will you decide? Are you going to write it in a merry jing ling mood introducing burner such as Holmes’ or Warner’s probably overreaching yourself and be styled giddy? Or will you try to be a Bryant, write something sober and melancholy, although very pretty, such as “The Flood Continued on patte 5.

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TRUE ELUE. Writing an Iv.say. Continued from pa«e ft. of Years,” “Thananopsis” or “The Death of the Flowers?” Will you attempt to write some- thing pathetic while you remem- ber—“iaughand the world laughs with you, weep, and you weep alone?” Then make a heroic at- tempt, wade in and try to reach the golden means and bravo! if you succeed in shaping anything which will but half satisfy your own tastes, not to mention those of others. As a preliminary caution you must remember that you need to analyze your subject, follow one special train of thought, and other subordinate ones if you like then, “with faces and bra- ces,” construct a framevrork. Now set your brain to work, to tind some pretty thoughts which you but faintly remember, un- less as Emerson, you keep a memory bag hung on your bed post. In the case of a beginner who usually writes about some familiar object, the essay usually begins this w’ay: “The cat is a very pretty animal with soft fur a long tail, and four legs.” Now you don’t want to use that old formula, and you think, and think, trying to form a decent introductory paragraph. Before you get your brain “boiled” that is, before the sub- ject becomes so real to your mind that it is a part of it you are grop- ing blindly for form or thought similar to something which you have heard and admired. But after you get started and become enthusiastic, you think on and on independent of former expres- sions, and if you are “very enthu. siastic you are likely to revert to Carlyleism. What a relief. Your essay is written. Yes, but not completed. You have placed the last period, and have drawn a sigh of relief, but you have not critically read your composition yet, and that brings “the most unkindest cut of all.” You lay it aside and go for a little recreation, returning with less of that wrought up feel- ing, now that the extreme stress is off your mind, you read it more as it will be read by others. You view its form and likeness more as the critical reader, than as the excited author, that is, if you are sensible. It is now that you dis- cover the defects and incongrui- ties. You notice a statement placed all by itself like an isolated island in the great Pacific, with- out one connecting link, with the surrounding civilization of your essay. How came such a con- struction to your mind? The thought was so forcible and clear to your busy brain, that it was a natural omission, but in spite of the old familiar quotation, other brains may not, in reading your