Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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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

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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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THE TAHOMA 27' happened to strike Charles Mettler and Harry Nelson ,who were lounging there, and they are in the hospital yet from the effects of it. My companions now left me and as I was writing asmall book on the fair, I thought that first of all I would take in Paradise Alley, corresponding to Pay Streak in the Seattle fair of 1909L The sign that first caught my attention was Block and Berg's Bucking Board. There was a great commotion inside and so I was determined to enter, and sure enough! In the center of a large room was a huge plank going first one way and then another so fast that you were scarcely sensible it was moving. I noticed that among those who tried it, there were always three who got on, and on fur- ther investigation I found that they were Myrtle Antrim, Bernice Cox and Raymond Hay, who were specially hired for this purpose, and that the establishment was run by our classmates, Fred Block and Marvin Berg. 'I decided not to try the accomplishment myself but to go further and investigate other places of amusement. In a refreshment room, I found six of the girls I used to know serving ice cream and other eatables to tl1e tourists. They were called the Sweet Sexette and comprised respectively Florence Prich- ard, Wfinifred Combs, Blanche Abercrombie, Fern Bone, Anna Hart- ley and Marion Sisson. 'While I was sipping some tea Florence came over and talked to me. She said they enjoyed their work ever so much, that Fannie ,Russell and Bernice Short had been with them but had become tired of it and went to give dancing lessons. She said that Dorothy Kizer and Myra Healy were at the head of the Y. VV. C. A. work in .Wfashington and that in the Puyallup branch, Clara MacDonald had charge of the gymnasium, and Elsie Kuett of the cafeteria. Raymond Dodge was now manager of a New York theater and at 'present Fred Conrad was playing the role of leading comedian. Acting with him were Alfred Driscoll, Anthony Jaureguy and Clare Thompson, who did juggling' performances for the amuse- ment of those in the gallery. Marion Sisson now came up and said she had just heard from Norma Palmer who was busy having Elsonis U. S-. History placed in every public school in large quantities. Norma had told her that Edwin and Carl Peterson had just manufactured a new kind of coal, one shovel of which put on a fire would last all day. Helen Twitchell and Eva Vance had gone to housekeeping and had jointly invented a universal bed-maker which acted automatically in laying the' covers on a bed. It was also guaranteed, to keep the bugs out. Bernice