Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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t IAHO t ousands of years ago n who I narnc the vonce contanued proudly as Prancess La Qhee Kong whlch when trans lated means qweetest Flower of the l and Sax hundred years before Chrast the lxlncdc n ot China wa ruled by a very gre at and wrse Kang who was my father llas wafe was a very be autaful little peach blo som chrld tso he alled er S e w as as delicate and exqul ate as our most traga e ac rata Q bow When l was born both were xery happy and a l scemed to have the vlrtues of each l promased to be a xery loxely young prrncess But unfortuna ely a plague swept tht country and when rt w as oxer my beautiful little mother was dead or one entrre year mv father and l were an extreme mourn mg t cr parttcap ated IH no st te a urs sal ned no oc ments receaxed no guests and dad not once appear an publac l very year ercplred rt was necessary to go bac unto our ordlnrry IC agarn for l being only ten years old had become xery wealc as the result of such melancholla The '-ardens were opened the state naaehlnery was started guests agam thronged through the palace and court and a gay lafe e sway throuch all te realm splte c t arly en months more passed before l was agaln a gay llttle prance s N ou xery lalcely lcnow that at was custom ary for the Chinese and especaally prrnces and prancesses to marry xery early Soon after my brrth a marraage had been arranged whach was to take place when l reached the age of twelxe My father had srgned a con tract wath a nelvhborlng prince but unlllce most of such matches at seemed to he a very fane choice Both the prance and myself had great lands and money and were very young and beautatul Although we had seen each other a few tlmes at had been a case of love at first slght with both Naturally l was very happy and burlt about my prrnce many fancaful tales an whnch he always played the part of the hero an l the herorne fhen as at out of a clear sky my father receaved the news that the Great Khan was comang to wan my hand' He was the most powerful monarch of all the land and to go agarnst ham was to court death When he heard of my beauty he cletermmed to have me regardless of all other promtses As l had been brought up from babyhoocl wrth ham regarded as one to be feared at was not a verv gloraous prospect for me ln desperatron l broke the unwratten law of modesty and went to my lover 3SklU2Z. has help He promised has help though at might be futale I8 T H Q AA . M A h 3 : ' j . A d am 9 Nly . - A' ..:. 2 S , v ,. g V . . . Q 2 S z ' a A A A z ' - sr ' A A 3 cz h D. -Ah '23 . J AFA if J Azfl sz ' A c'- l. ' ' M ' z . z 'S . ' 2 . 1 Q . . , B- - 1 ' ' ' A 72 tv r A j. Nly fa h X 2 A 'A 4 A J a :ffl -. :Ag Cl 'u- one synapathizecl with us, for they. too. loved my mother. When the f . A A as ' j ' 'lc A A 1 l'f k .' ' k AA , j 2 ' ' 2 S, ' ' A A h ld 5 ' gg z h ' . ln 3 A at' his. nez t, AA A f A ' 1 A 2. ' 2 , , A , z

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I XHO Vfhmn the progrxm h d ended he started to go to them but was besieged on all hands by eongr xtulatlons and lntroductlons l'very one lnslsted on shalslng hxnds with him and remirlfclng about the excellence of hrs speeth ust as he wxs beunnlng to feel es per xte he sxw an openlng and dashed towards the wld people who were wutlng for hlm by the door Oh my boy you were wonderful quxvered his grandmother wuth texr dlmrned eyes whlle his grandfather silently shook hls hand lve got somethlny to tell you he blurted forth wlthout further prellmln xrles must tell you right now lf nts about Q.-len we alrexdy know saxd has grandfather laughlng You already Lnow why how rlhe doctor sent word to us the day after lle told us that It was not serlous and how you boys wanted to keep lt from us l was xll we could do to stay away but the doctor sand for us to let you work It out by yourselves xnd my boy you ve succeeded We re proud mf you Dale Yes Interrupted a gurl s VOICC ew eryone s proud of you Dale You re the hlt of the evening Lets go xnd tell Glen about lt A Pan' 0 Jeweled Chopsttcks ean Qlarlce who hxd approached the age of elghteen Furthermore lt was her fortune to bexr the xpellxtlon Mary fllzabeth Bxrlow Xs hrs young gurl was very fond of antnques she often wandered about the streets ln se xrth mf 1 new shop On thus pxrtxtular day she saw a sngn which read Wee Wmv Wcmng Antlques from Falryland And Indeed It was surely falryland into which she stumbled The walls were decorated wlth beautifully lustrous and tolorful txpestrles Here a Green and gold dragon leered xt her from a marvelous black xelyet background there a hideous Buddha grmned complacently from the depth ot starlet satm md there was a very large one whlch told the story of a great hero and h1s explolts Mary bllzabeth could scarcelv moye from the wonders lard out before her but as she Caught a wllmpsc of a pur of yewelled chopstlclts she hurrled toward them Of eourse only a prmcess tould have such beautiful Instruments she declded Then she mused on weavmv a romance whlch had begun about these dalnty tools quddenly a very sweet vonce broke from lmprlsonment wlthln them md seemed to say You are wonderxng to whom these Choo stlcl-is belonged I will tell you Thev belonged to me many Now lt hxppened t xt there llY6d ln a freat Cnty a young vlr r I H1-. f M A I 1 - .72 a . s . y , K 4, Q . 1. , K 2 , . 1 I 1 , .'.' .' ' ' A' 2 .' ' , 2 A ..: jff. if ,g K d- 2 , S2 ' L' ' '. ' 3 , 4 ,, , 2 . . . . , . 2 . ,., . .. Y , . , . . ., . . 2 3 , If -- ' 1 ' 1' . . . . 2 . . - . 1 , ' fi- . . 1. 2 . 0 C , . 2 . 2 hz ' ' g ' ' Q ,, l 2 ' ' ' Q ,, . . 2 2 2 . 2 , L .' 2 . 1 . t 3 Y Y if ' ' ' ' .. . 2 ' 2 J . ' . T. 1-. ' ' , . . . ' ' a K . , .H . I I K V L ' 1 2 . 2 , -' -b h . . . ,, . ' ' . Q , . , , , ' 2 '. . A u 1 -. x 1 -W. . ' ' K v 1-s . , 2 : -

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THF TXHOM 5. Xxrthrn r few drvs the Qreat Khan was rn our lftlngdom N1 my trmc he c rnre to me woorng me tempestuously only to be detr rntly repul ed Prnally rn a great burst of anger he threatened to use hrs mafrc upon me and rmprrson me wrthrn these jewelled th ypstlclc whrch you rre now hol rng Strll l was defrant because l knew that my lover would krll h n rf pcrssrlnle lhe Qrrc rt Khan gave me one day to thrnlc rt over rnd when he found l would not comply wrth hrs wrshes came t rrry out hrs thre l hc ard hrm sry the magrc words felt myself r w snrrller ind then l uddenly crught srght of my lover mal-crm., re rdw t thrust hrs dagger rnto the back of The Great Khan But the spell hrd worlced l wrs enclosed rn the jewelled chopstrcl-.s rnd my prrnce hrd been too late even though the Great Khan wrs derd Because of thrs complrcatron he became wrld wrth grref rnd trlrhed hrmself wrth the same drgger which he had so recently thrust rnto the back of hrs enemy And that the xorce ended wrth Thc Woman Wlth a Homemade Past N1 rrgaret Bare Oh my dear not re rllyl Drd he honestly tell you th1t3 l nex er drd see a man s0 crazy about a grrl He sent you those wonderful flowers md candy twrce 1 weelc how do you work rt3 ean st rndrng a lrttle out of the group of grrls gazed envrously xt the pretty bobhed harred grrl rn therr mrdt ean looked her cxer crrtrcrlly wonderrng why rt was that the boys flocked to her rde whrle ean wrth about as many attractrons was forced to be contented wrth a brd now and then mostly then There rs no use trlkrng rt s easy after you get the frrst three and the first three would appear rf l would offer a lrttle somethrng out of the ordrnary he thought on her wry to the last perrod class lt s up to me to furnrsh somethrng rnterestrng a lrttle mysterrous and completely fascrnatrng but what shall rt be3 all that evenrng he thought of everythrng she knew that would lend an added enchantment to her charms The evenrng papers brought a suggestron rn a rather unusual way As ean opened to the edrtorral page to read the l999th rnstallment of Her Husband and Hrs Wrfe she notrced that a new story was startrng on the opposrte pige Wrlma the Woman Wrth a Past a strrrrng story of lrfe at gay Deauvrlle and portrayrng vrvrdly the affarrs of a captrvatrng wrdow Thrnkrng that perhaps there mrght be a hrnt or two rn answer to her problem Jean hastrly read the rntroductron As Wrlma entered the lobby of the famous Deauvrlle hotel three dukes two krngs and a count put up therr glasses that they ' X . rf X lc' I Q ' 4 'S ' 'Z . L - . bi 7 S I 1 ' f k f A v 1 ' c . S A' ' 1 ,'- jr l I jf- . 'E ' k ' ' . e ' J . ' 0 4-. V' at. -' .2 'L ' , Lf cr ' .' 2 , 2 S '2 N In , ' U K' Q -' cr 'ju I ' . 2 n ' 2 ' . ' ,E K. R t .. K. K, . . ' .. B 1 sz A l aw ' ' J ' a sob, 'tis the story of these chopsticks. Q J c r z ' , . ' , 2 . . 2 . , . Q, 2 ., . 2 , , I E ' - . 51. . . . S' J 1' ' ' Q '. ' ' 1 ' ' . 2 , , . I ' . 5 nn V . s j 2 ' ' 3 . 1- V ' bi f f . . f ' ' K s ' J . z - 1 y A r s , :