Walnut Hills High School - Remembrancer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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nouncing that Mason and Lane would open a shooting-gallery on the fifteenth of March. At the Tea Shop we sat down at a table across from Myrtle Helmers and Jean Heyl. Bitler told me that Myrtle was with the Hill- top Laundry and Jean at Putnam's Soda Foun- tain on Walnut Street. He also said that Mary Phillips and Cecille Stark were frequent callers at the Tea Shop, Mary being a stenographer at the Early 82 Daniels Grain Company and Ce- cille cashier at The Peerless? Say, What about Margaret Streit? Is she still living? questioned the second member. uWell, I should say she is, responded Sky- gack. ttShets living in hopes of getting thin, and Helen Robinson is still using Sarah Peerls Patent Medicine, How to Grow Tall in Twenty- Four Hours.' Do you three remember flirta- tious Ernestine Dunphey? Well, shes a mis- sionary in India and corresponding With her old friend Jane Griffith, who is in South America, collecting Bird-of-Paradise feathers for Mar- garet Graves' millinery shop. Jane has Allene Rosskopf acting as her interpreter of Spanish. HI received a letter last month from Nancy Bridgeford, the famous novelist, who wrote that Pauline Fisher has become enormously wealthy raising chickens at College Hill, Ohio, and that Aline Cantelon has a palatial Mansion for Homeless Cats and Dogs. Nancy also wrote that while Jeanette Campbell, an under- study for Mary Pickford, was in New York, she met Elsie Clawson exhibiting her famous col- lection of Indian Blankets, and that while there, she tJeanettel saw Edna Douglas and Frances 13 Evans sail for Africa to collect wild animals for the Zoological Gardens. HBy the way, Herb Winans stopped me one day On lower Broadway, New York, and wanted me to try his Reversible Bed-springsf on the installment plan. I asked him if any of his high-school classmates were in Chicago, be- sides Jack Roth, and he said that on Michigan Avenue he met Ruth Donnelly, who is acting as a model at Marshal Fields, and that in the course of the conversation Ruth advised him to go over to Mildred Crimls and have his for- tune told. He did so and while he was there Mary McDonald, Assistant Chief of Police, came in on an inspection tour? HBut aren't any of the girls married except Miss MeedsTt we of the Triumvirate asked in chorus. ttWhy, sure! Helen Cutaiar is in the midst of her third venture, and Bernice McDonald is a blase widow, Myra Freudenberger married a diamond cutter in Rotterdam, and Dorothy Gally and her husband are running a Matri- monial Bureau at Kings Mills, Ohio. They have arranged marriages for Naomi Lang and Ariel Chambers in accordance with Miss Wheel- erls Book of Etiquette. Sky, old fellow, interposed the first mem- ber cautiously, lets go out and get some eats. And if its all the same to you, well do the eat- ing while you continue your yarn. I'm agreed-I'm not very hungry anyhow, Skygack answered vaguely, as the four of us adjourned to the dining-room.

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head-steward 0n the ship, and that Jim Bryan was head-stoker. Jim was a husky youth in his day, and he hasnt changed. HUpon my arrival in London, after discharg- ing my immediate business obligations, Iran out to Buckingham Palace to see Charlie Boneau, who is acting as King Georgels valet. He told me that Charlie Monroe was cartooning for tLondon Punch' and that Catherine Coldewey was conducting a dancing academy down on Trafalgar Square? ttSay, Skygack, old scow, whatts lFatherl Fry doingf , interrupted the third member. ttGee! Fatherls changed awfully. Hets a minister out in Rising Sun, Indiana. At this juncture the third member of our Triumvirate collapsed, but he soon revived. llBut that isnlt the worst change that has taken place? resumed Skygack. Therets Champion Rowe down South on an onion farm, Matz running a hotel in Leadville, Colorado, Doggett in a pickle factory, Dorothy Cone, pianist at Bottls, Dave Rice on a coffee planta- tion, Tennenbaum working in the Dinery Res- taurant, Fallis Rees boxing instructor at the Cincinnati Gym, Doris Suttles in vaudeville, andriwhat do you think?isimpkinson is in the movies! We all gasped, and wondered what was com- ing next. ttSinkl, in the movies! Impossible! But Skygack's reminiscent mood was aroused and he talked an entirely unmindful of our presence. HAfter I left London I went over to Paris and dropped in to see Elizabeth McComas in her studio on the Rue de la Paix. We talked over old times and much to my surprise I learned that Lew Roth was selling opera glasses in Hammersteink opera house, that Schur was running a cabaret back in old Cincy, and that Katharine Monroe had a lace shop near the Seine. ttBut speaking of old Cincy makes me think of tDougt Cleveland, who has a small garage on Central Avenue. N0, hes not married; he was too bashful, I suppose. Shrieks of laughter rent the atmosphere at this. supposition 0f bashfulness, but Skygack talked on: ttTull and Rankin own a wheat farm in Mani- toba, and William Furber Smith is a tinsmith at Washington Court House, Ohio. Jack Roth is running a tugboat up at Chicago and his old friend Marion Carr is following much the same profession, being pilot of the Island Queen. I stopped in at Steidleis shoe shining parlor not long ago and ran across Fred Bitler, who invited me to come up to his tea shop. I said I didnt mind if I did. So we started out, but I got so hungry 0n the way that I had to stop at Ben Pushirfs peanut roaster and buy some of the goobers. We met Bill Foote a little farther on and after offering him some of the peanuts we learned that he was chief executioner at the Abattoir. I asked him what had become of Roy Geis and Bill told me that he was travel- ing for the Rappaport Bubble Pipe Company. Bitler bought a paper and we all started with amazement when he read the headlines an-

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ttI wonder if Lavina Otte and Madeline Pierson still go together, the second member of the Triumvirate managed to get out between mouthfuls. ttYou bet your life! Theytre both cash girls at J onapts. I always knew that the 1915 class of girls would make their mark in the world. For instance, Katharine Kreidler has married the Count of Luxemberg and Margaret Spicker is cutting soap at Proctor 8; Gambleis. She also is in charge of the Crisco Department. Erma Lischkofi has a Bird Store on Seventh Street. Hilda Hahn is at the head of the Free Day-Nursery and Cleopatra Hall and Lizzie Penn are both married. You wouldnit think it, would you? but Grace and Mary Hall are conducting a Soup House up in Sitka, Alaska? UThat is funny, but what are some of those Latin sharks doing? one of us asked in won- der. ttOhI Bertha Oeschle is translating Latin prescriptions for a large pharmacy and Hertha Gromme is editing Latin Ponies. Let's see; I believe Helen Maggini is a latin student, isn't she? Well, shes taking tickets at Lubin,s on Fifth Street, Marion Beekley is Wielding a rattan in a country school-house and Sarah White owns a dry goods store. itGee! there isnt anything left for the rest of the girls to do, is there? queried the second 14 member of the Triumvirate, who was becom- ing drowsy and longed for the end. ttDontt you fool yourself? Skygack replied with alacrity. ttDo you mean to say that there is no occupation for a girl with the oratoricai powers of Maria McDonald? Well, there cer- tainly is. Marie is working at Baldwinis Piano Factory, cleaning piano-keys; and, what's more, Lillian Herancourt is out at Fleischmanis cutting yeast-cakes. But Iill admit I was a little astonished to learn that Helen Margeson is a toe-dancer. Charlotte Metzner is doing nicely at the Rookwood Pottery and Dorothy Poole is cutting leather for the Taylor-Poole Leather Company. I almost forgot that Esther Conwell is selling tEd Pinaudis Hair Restorerf Viola Rogatzky is married and living in Okla- homa. Pauline Poole is with the Goodyear Rubber Company and Anna. Sullivan is a matron at the Reform School at Lancaster. But I see that my conversation is wearing upon you, so I guess Pd better be going. ttOh! it isn't late, ifs only three in the morn- ing; but if you insist, Why, of course Well not detain you? Skygackts auditors answered. And Skygack had no sooner left the house than the Triumvirate fell into a heavy slumber. Committeei DOROTHY CONE, FALLIS F. REES, HERBERT S. WINANS.