Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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locket whlch hung at her throat The locket dlsclosed a Smlllng b0y1Sh face No and MISS Ceceha frowned at the plcture No It wouldnt have done You would have been l1ke the others I wxshed' for a quiet cozy home l1ke Harrlet s and you wanted an mdependent suffragette l1ke woman It IQ best so MISS Cecella closed the locket and sat Wlth folded hands Mmute after mlnute flew by Stlll Mxss Cecella sat wlth bowed head Long shadows began to creep over the room The church bells be gan to rlng for ewenlng prayer MISS Cecella sank to her knees and offered a prayer of thanksg1v1ng for the one g1rl who had found what she had sought for and asked help and strength for the other three who were stlll unsatlsfied Then she turned on the electrlc llght pulled a chalr up to the desk and selected a book from the table and began to prepare a lesson for her class 1n Terence s Phormlo A M D 14 A LOST SOU L NCE upon a tlme there ln ed a boy who was so good so terrlbly good that mlmsters were nerx ous IH h1s presence H1s goodness was not of the qulet sanctxmonlous long sufferlng k1nd but was 1n a way revo lutlonary Nlckel shows vsere abhorrent thlngs to hlm He was the presldent and teacher of hls Sunday School class H1s name was as good as the boy he was blessed wxth the name of Peter Smlth even when .1 llttle boy hls fevs playmates d1d not nlckname h1m Pete Wh1Ch IS I thlnk Whlle yet ln grade school Peter lmpressed upon hlS parents the ne cessxty of hax mg two sets of books to avold carrymg them ALL from school If he ever made anythlng less than 99+ IH hls studxes he was heart broken Naturally h1s frlends were few among h1s own sex and as he looked upon glrls merely as creatures who shr1eked and laughed thus lnterferlng Wlth h1s studles he rather d1sl1ked them Hls hatred however was burled deep down w1th1n h1s heart for outwardly all he dlsclosed was a great fear and bashfulness toward the falrer sex On one occaslon he was known to have been ser1ously 1ll for a week sxmply because he was forced to slt ln church w1th a pretty young lady on each Slde In due course of t1me Peter entered Hlgh School much to the terror of the teachers and students for Peter s record had gone before hlm It was comlcal to note the relleved expresslon upon the teachers faces when they would dlscover that Peter was not ln the class It was also rather an lnterestmg phenomenon to HOIICC how on the second day the classes whlch Peter had entered decreased 1n SIZQ leavlng only those who could not possl bly go elsewhere As a Freshman Peter was rather qulet 1ust a llttle awed by the strange surroundmgs At th1S t1me he was satlsfled Wlth a mere lnslgnlfi cant E on h1s card In h1s Sophomore year however Peter perked up conslderable and started to remonstrate w1th the boys concermng thexr wasted tlme and fr1vol1t1es and thus made hlmself d1sl1ked more than the most ardent boys welfare worker 1n the c1ty It was Whlle a Sophomore that Peter comrnltted a crlme whlch he held as a blot upon h1s falr record Thls occurred at a Sunday School p1cn1c . . , 44 yy - - - as u - 9 ' , ' . , . . s - v . . , . . ' 9 r ' . . ,, .Y . . ' .- . . N . , . . . . . , . . , ' as y , - n 3 . . . . ., . 7 ' Y Y H o nn 1 - v n v 9 ' . . H . U 7 S . n ' l N 1 . 1 W , , . . . , . .H 7 Y . . . 4, ,, . . . 5 ' Y I 7 the strongest proof of hls great goodness. x K ' . s I , , . .. . , . ' - 7 ' 7 K Y Y L s L , . . , , A' . . .N 'N 1 I W . , . . . , . . . 9 , ' . , . . . . , ' ' Iv ' y - , o A , A' , I K' , L ' . Y ' 7 - , - K6 7! ' . ' K6 ' Y! ! 3 7 . , . . L 1 ' v

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secured a drvorce from Arnold I stayed wrth the company three sears I hated the Work Durlng my lersure moments I taught Grace to read and wrrte I managed to save enough money to buy a llttle cottage at Newkerk a small coast town and here I am grvmg plano and vocal lessons I feel that my llfe has been very much of a fallure Of course, I have Grace and I shall see that she has all the care that a devoted mother can grve but thls rs what hurts me so Arnold marrred agarn and 1s now a successful lawyer He IS quoted far and wlde by newspapers and magaflnes I read not long ago a speech of hrs ln Whlkh he attrlbuted all hrs success to hrs wrfe Why C ecellr drd Ifa1l You c in see that mv llfe has not been happy I h wc found th xt lt rs not bcst to look for Ideals rn flesh and blood I suppose Cecella that you are the sxme sweet 1,111 grown Into a sweet unselhsh woman I can see you worklng among your grrls and boys and your books best beloved of all I wlsh you mlght come to sec us Auntie though she washed her hands of me when I marrlcd his relented md llvcs wlth us Well my dcrr Iam georng to end thrs dreary lettcr rrght now VV1th love ES'I ELI P Mlss Cecella was very quiet after she read thrs letter qhe had newer dreamed that Estelle had been so unhappy She had recerx ed a letter now and then from her but thrs was the first to tell her of her sorrows 'ihe opened the last letter Ah Harrret sard she ferx entlv to herself I do hope you have found lrfe krnder than have the first two glrls Dear Cecella I wonder lf you have possrbly forgotten that pledge we made ten years ago today I can hardlv realrze that rt has been that long ago It seems onlv vesterday Really Cecella, I don t know what to wrlte These letters I understand are to grve a complete record of how we have spent those fear that an account of my lrfe durlng that trme wrll be very humdrum You know I never had the ambrtrons that the rest of you had I never wanted to be a socrety leader or an opera smger no, not even a school teacher Cecella I never spoke much about my ambltrons but hrdden deep ln my heart was the prcture of a cozy lrttle home a lovlng, husband and fond chrldren I never thought that my dream would ever be realmed I never was bright and qurck lrke Nancv I could not play or slng lrke Estelle nor drd I even make the grades at school that you dld The year after I graduated I marrled Harold Lofton who you remember graduated four years before we d1d I have two lovely lrttle daughters Harold 1s not rrch but we are comfortably srtuated and I belrexe Cecelra that I can truthfully sav that I know what happrness rs Of course I h we seen the dark s1de now and then I have had doubts and drsrppomtments but they have never mastered me I used to worshrp Harold and placed hlm on a tmselled throne but after helpmg an lrate husband search for cuff buttons one rs soon LOIlVlDLQd that he IQ mortal, too' Harold and I lead a very quret life The dur man now 18 dolrng before the fue md scorchrng hrs new Sllpp6lS I used to trv to read Brownmg and Tennyson to h1m ln the evenmgs but I soon found fand lrked hrm none the less for ltb that he much preferred to read the newspaper by hlmself and to have me slt near hlm, elther sewlng or playlng and slnglng to hlm We go very lrttle I have my embroldery club We occasronally attend 1 good opera or a lecture I wish you could VlSlt us some tlme Cecella Our home IS not beautrful, but I thunk you and I would enJoy berng together again I have re read my letter and I rm afrald rt wlll be very dull beslde the letters from the other gnls How I should love to see them' Nevertheless mv letter though humble bears loads of love to you HARRIET As Mrss Cecella hmshed the letter she breathed a srgh of rehef Thank goodnessln she exclalmed at least one of us has found the pot of gold at the end of the ra1nbow ' For a Whrle she sat motlonless, her eyes havlng a far away expressron Has my l1fe been as happy as the1rs Surely rt has been as happy as Nancy s, much happrer than Estelle s, but has my happmess equalled Harr1et's Mlss Cecella drd not attempt to answer her questlon, but a wlstful ercpresslon crept rnto her face She opened a lrttle ' - - . , .' 1 1 .B ' - ' ' ' 1 U . - 1' . . ., . 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when h1s fellow plcnlckers coaxed Peter to go 1n wadmg Wlth a shlver at h1s own darlng he waded IH unt1l the water was above h1s knees Peter IH h1s self 3Cll'l'l1I'dt10ll could have forglven h1mself thls crlme but the one that follow ed he trled to explate wlth hours ot prayer and davs of self de n1al for after wtdlng Peter was 1nve1gled 1nto drmkmg a bottle of pop Th1s 1n 1tself was not so bad for as Peter argued one cannot flght wlck edness wlthout knowmg what It IS The trouble was that Peter llked the first bottle and drank more whence clme the grlet Py the tlme Peter reached h1s Jumor Ve lr the boys had glven up cor ruptmg h1s mol tls and left hum strlctly to hlmself wh1ch rlther seemed to please Peter Not bemg bothered by the bunch comlng by fo1 h1m aftel supper on then way to the movles he was able to resume h1s stud es The only thmg that mterested Icter bcsldes h1s school studles was church work md the only thmg to wh1ch he would not apply hls sclence was the I1ble You mav wonder at Peter bemg so learned when onlv a Junlor 1n Hlgh School I would hke to say by way of explanat1on that h1s regular studles occupled only a small part of h1s study hours for he was able to concentrate h1s m1nd so perfectly that h1s work was accompllshed NV1th ease and he had a number of le1sure hours for outslde readlng Tlme rolled on unt1l Peter entered h1s Senlor year He was young but had assumed the stoop1ng galt and abstracted peermg expresslon chalac ter1st1c of deep thmklng scholars There was not a doubt that Peter would be valedxctorlan of h1s class Indeed he nearly attamed more honors for haue taken wlthout any make up at all but of course you know what he thought of such w1ckedness and he knew what he thought of It so It would be superfluous to say he dld not accept the part As for orator1cal honors Peter was a l1ttle too t1m1d to make a suc cess So after completmg an uneventful year Peter graduated much to the rehef of the teachers and scholars He had won so many scholarshlps that lt was a mere matter of cholce as to wh1ch college he should attend Now comes the pathetlc part of my story the precedlng 19 to show the character of Peter and to explaln consequent events Peter entered h1s State Un1vers1ty and for a tlme was unnotlced among the mob of other Iareshmen but soon they found hlm out and the report spre 1d over the school When they found that he was really lncorruptlble such a turmoll arose that the attentlon of the ones h1gher up was attracted Probably the reason they had not notlced before lay 1n the fault of some office clerk I think you wlll admlt howex er that It 1s rather a dxfficult task to keep all the people on th1s globe wlth thelr merlts and demerlts tab ulated Anyhow when the students reallzed thelr negllgence mysterlous powers fthe Iates or the Iurles 'J h ld alre xdy formed that they l Pls Ss There IQ an o1ly rlxer flowmg between dark banks llned w1th the gloomy cvpress The stlllness IS oppresslve the r1ver flows w1th nexer a rlpple ex en the reeds on the banks do not wave nor 18 there any smgmg of blrds Now as Vou gaze upon the left bank you notlce a dllapldated boat lancllng to wh1ch theze comes an endless sad processlon An anclent boat man m an old boat w 1th one oar carrles parts of the DTOCCSSIOH across the rlver One thmg 1s xery notlceable namely that the people ln the pro cesslon are perfectly transparent If you have not guessed It already I shall explaln The members of the processlon are shades and the boatman I , I I. , I ' , I I , Y . .l . Q . ' - - , , c , I . .1 . . 1 v 1 1 . u ' - A- 1 v v , c , 1 . J r I' l 2 . I c ' L. .2 . , L. . L. , 2 L. , , ' K4 sv - , ' . , '. I H ' . H 1. . '. . - I , I I I I 1 I. ' . ' . , J, ,.' . H . . ' 1 . , I , I I I I I, I I c t I I v L1 C r I ' 1 . 4 - s 9 ' 1 l 1 . 1 .1 1 1 7 Y I I I I I, I I . :I , I I , I , II , I II. , . Il, they were IH need of a professor ln the Semor class play, a part Peter could y ' - , 1 v 1 f y v ' 1 1 l 1 1 I ' I I II, ,c I, I I ' ' 7 O I . 1 1 1 1 N . '1 ' 7 1 1 l 1 . 1 I I I , I I , I . nu A I T 1 1 . 1 I 1 D I 1 l l L C A Q l I 1 L . . xv . , , I X c I' I I' ' V 1 1 1 . ' . 1 . 1 . , I I , I I ' I' 4 I' P z . z -- is 224 Sli 71 Ili 1 1 . 11 -1 1' . I 1 . V 1 1 1 .1 4 1. l , ' I I c , I I ' 1 r I I . ' 1 . I. I ' , c , v 1 I II, I II I ' v II A m In' - ' 1 9 II' , .7 I c . II ' , 1 r . 1 11. 1 I I . I I I , c