Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL rich plutocrat, who invented pipe lines for dry counties, is riding down Fifth Avenue in his new limousine. Ruth Evans is in Boston composing the final words for her new comic opera, The Poisonous Gum-Drop, or Fate Lurks in the Boarding-House Prune. Over in London I see Mildred Loring the misguided reformer, who tries to show how the pear is descended from the aciduous citron — the lemon. Across in Paris is a fine lady, Margaret Peirce. She was always expected to do something wonderful and is living up to expectations. She is soon to marry the rich Count Blank-de-Blank. The vision is growing dimmer but in the fading picture I catch a glimpse of a man under strong guard forced to read his own poetry, which seems to be in the main introductions to prophecies. EDWARD JOHNSTON.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL On a liill boai-d oiii)u.site 1 see in tlamiug red letters the advertise- ment of Martha Nuppnau ' s famous song, Tell me, tell me, Someone please. Is Wanatah a village Or only a disease. But what is that object, farther down the street, which is the center of attraction for a bevy of beautiful creatures? Ah, now I recognize Cupid ' s understudy, William Strahi! The gay group moves on in the direction of a pretty, new, modern home presided over by one who moves in a mysterious way, her wonders to perform. The name on the door is indistinct, but the face at the window once belonged to ISTellie Shinabarger. Looking into another part of the city I see Kenneth Wolf walking slowly with the aid of a cane. The wise men on the railing at the corner are explaining how his brain dried up on account of the heat of his search after the higher knowledge, so that now it rattles when he shakes his head to a (luestion. Over in the new city park I see Jennie Brown wielding the baton while her orchestra assists in the dedication of the new nuisic pavilion. The excursionists arriving via interurban are disjilaying the latest edition of the Prattsville Times, a famous newspaper edited by Laura King. Conspicuous among the locals is the name of ] rariola Cornell. The item states that she is at her country home still trying to figure out Why the hen crossed the road. As I gaze beyond our own native county, I see ] Iildi ' ed Htoner entering her millinery establishment in Gary. A little further on in the vicinity of the Chicago University is Grace Mains, a very sad looking individual, who when asked what she was, resjionded that the state of her affairs had lieen lirought about by the too constant study of the perplexing (|uestion, How old is Adam. ' ' In the same city were posters announcing the coming of Dorothy DeWitt, expounder of the social ideas of Carrie Nation. And workijig ])atiently in the hot sunshine, I perceive Melvin Stinchfield trying to figure out the shortest route from Chicago to New York for Aubrey Dye ' s projected Air-ship Ijine. Shifting my gaze, I behold Myron Conover sedately studying at the Rockefeller Institute, trying to discover some means with which to successfully combat the fatal pip germ, while Reginald Felton, the

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 23 THE FAMOUS ENGLISH FIVE. Composed during the study of Chaucer. HERE was a classe that highte English five Of boys and girls and they were all alive But natlieless whyl I have time and space Er that I further in this tale apace Methinketh it aecordaunt to resoun To telle you al the condicioun Of ech of hem so as it semed me And whiche they weren and of what degree And eek in what array that they were inne And at a Feltou wole I first beginne. A clerk there was his name was Reg Felton-ne Of Basket Ball ful many game he ' d wonne, He asked of questions five hundred and three He studied Chaucer, Dutch and Chemistree. He laughed at every one and also me His clothes were green lyk grass as I could see His hairs were blak but sometyme had been yelle Now will I stint and telle you of Nelle. Nell Shinabarger too was in our keej e Of Latin and of Dutch she knew a heepe Of Skinkle, Wedeking and eek of Benney Of Miller, Nona Mac, lykwise of Minny Of all hir teechings had she much of studie Eek could she spell and reed, hir cheeks were ruddie She wore a skirte of gray and waist of white And hat of black and cloke that fitted tite. A Margaretta too we did possesse A little girle of fifteen yeer I geese. But she was very smart as we wel knewe And eek could talke as only Peirces dooe. And eek a Latyn scholar was this girle Wlio wore a waist of white and skirt of pearle.