Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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THE TAI-IOMA 25 skirt on one side of the road and Clarence Maulsby in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat and velvet knee breeches on the other side, each vying with the other, in selling to the passers-by some kind of a concoc- tion guaranteed to make one fat in three weeks. I descended from the coach and rushed up to Trixie, delighted to see her after so many years. She, however, simply turned her nose up at metand went on with her business. I was suddenly conscious of my hoop-skirt so I went over to speak to Clarence whom I knew belonged to our side. He graciously welcomed me. ' Don't mind her, he said with a dissenting motion towards Miss Camp. She's a fake. But arenit you selling the same thing? I asked. t 'WVell, no, you see, he stammered. Mine is a powdered liquid and hers is a liquidized powder. And besides, she floesn't get fat herself. She has Louise Atchison and Grace Berry as models. Vifhen anyone asks her why she isnit fat, she says she has just begun on it. I stole a glance at Clarence and noticed that his legs were as long as usual, but I said not a word. Just then I happened to see Louise Quilliam across the street with a long line of male attendants among whom' were Leander 'Tollefson and Raymond Mnrry. Oh, she's leader of the other faction, always got a string of men around her, Clarence vouchsafed. Did you know that Roy Ander- son, one of our classmates, was startling Europe with his violin-play- ing and that Ruth Birks was made poet-laureate of England? I had not heard of either of these facts and I begged Clarence to tell me more about our class. NVe1l, I can't think of much else, he said, except that Vivian Barber and Marvel Hall are travelling in Europe, writing for a Seattle paper, and O, yes, Roger Elder had such success with the Tahoma that he is now editor of the News, Adele Young and Dorothy Perry were disappointed in love and so went into a con- vent. And would you ever think that I-Iazel'Bachus was teaching oral expression and Charles Morgan, manual-training? I thought now that I had better go on to the fair and leave Clar- ence- with his patent medicine, so I walked towards the gates, and on passing a billboard, I noticed a large gaily-colored sign See the famous hypnotist, Jacob Hoffman. The only educated one alive. Special features will be snake-charming by Calvin Phillips and Oliver La Chapelle andfancy dancing by Ruby Bales and Clyde Ballinger. At'the close instructive lessons will be given as to how to cultivate

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24 TI-IE. TAI-IOMA Class Prophecy HE stage-coach came to a sudden halt. XYhat is the meaning of this? I asked my driver as I poked my bonnet out of the window and vigor- ously grabbed for my hoop skirt. Just Waiting for that flying automobile to get by, he answered, in a voice which struck me as being peculiarly familiar. I sized him up a moment and then asked his name. 'Whoa there! My name, eh? O, my name's Burfordf' Burford! No wonder that voice was familiar. My hoops nearly suitered a collapse as I grasped for his hand. . VValdo Burford, don't you remember me?,' VVell, if it isn't youf' he thundered. This reversion of styles gets me all mixed up. I wish these fanatics would either stay one way or the other. I'm tired of having flying-machines bumping into stage-coaches, and hoop skirts into hobbles. There's likely to be civil war over this very thing? ' I see you still have your voice left, VValdo, I mildly observed. Yes, I guess it's getting worse, he sighed. 'Tm selling patent medicines when I'm not running stage-coaches and between them it's kind of hard on the lungs. . I thought it certainly must be. You wouldn't have thought when we graduated fifteen years ago, that Puyallup would have been as big as Seattle and that they would even have a fair there, would you? he went on. O, say, I was over to the High School the other day and what do you think! Earl Jones is principal. Don Stevens got fired because the girls made remarks about his dimples and he made eyes at them. Marie LaGasa has charge off the library with Grady Mahaffey as assistant. I tell you, there was a hubbub when I was there. Wfill VVright is teaching chemistry, too, and VX7ill Gaffney, U. S. Historyf' - - I The coach was now atpthe end of its journey audas the door flew open, imagine my amazement when I saw Trixie Camp in a sheath

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26 THE TAHOMA n a tenor voice by Williain Fraser. At the Puyallup Theater, 8 P. M. After reading the sign and deciding in my mind I would visit the performance that evening, I paused to look atfan elderly lady going by, with spectacles and a hoop-skirt similar to my own. I at once recognized an old class-mate, Mary Ireland. I had heard that she had gone in for women's suffrage on a grand scale, and' now my rumors were confirmed for she bore a large banner with the inscrip- tion Votes for XVo1nen. I She didn't have time to say much, but I learned from her that Anna Gilbransen, Iva Curren, and Linda Dennis were associated with her in her ennobling enterprise and that they were all trying to convert the backward states. She also said that the name Mary Ireland signified as 1Tll.1Cl1 now as Carry Nation did when we went to school. By this time I had arrived at the entrance when great was my surprise to find' Mr. and Mrs. Bradner entering at the same time. Gertrude, too, had on a hoop skirt, which, I am sorry to say, did not increase her slimness any. She told me that Burke was making a specialty of renting summer resorts and launches to different tour- ist parties. , I VVe entered the grounds together and of course I was desirous of knowing where many of our class were. Gertrude had been corre- sponding with a number of them and was able to tell me quite a bit. She said that Myra Ford and Quinn Trott were leading the great temperance movement and were giving five-minute stump speeches in all the small towns over the United States. Barry Glen now com- posed the Newlyweds in the comic supplement of ai New York paper. Veva Sadler and Margie I-Iall were posing as artists' models in Seattle and Lucile Lamoreaux and Marie Mock were canvassing for a face cream. She also said that Robert Chalmers was put out of the House of Representatives for interrupting the Speaker too much. Goodness, what has become of Romanzo XValsh P I asked. W'ell, he and Wfallace McPherson and IVillis Herbert are giving a minstrel show, advertising that they are the only red-headed negroes alive, Burke said. And what about Alison Taylor? She and Zella Turner are running a kindergartenin Utah and I guess they have a kind of hard time. I heard that Catherine Fitch tends to the babies when they cry. And by the way, Philip Barret lately invented a model aeroplane but in lighting on a haystack he