West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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. XXVII , , . Mlle. Francis Bundie, Russian danseuse, has recently returned from the Figil lslands where she learned the improved interpretation of their dance, the 'Tancake ' XXVII . U. .lean Kaxntner, the soulful baritone, will thrill his audience with the pro- logue to 6'Pagliacci at the Metropolitan Opera House this week. The house is sold out already, .lean's family being very much in prominence. They have reserved XXIX Bert Watson's new '4Hot Dogi' establishment became ignited last night, and before assistance arrived, the doggies had passed away in the fiames. Poor Bert is consumed with grief and is planning an elaborate funeral. ' XXX Miss Frances Pratt is now running the elevator to Heaven in cooperation with Victor Peterson, St. Peter's grandson, the new gate keeper. Miss Pratt insists that anyone wishing to make an intermediate stop make known their intentions to her so she will not have such a load to carry back. XXXI Miss Carolyn Burgess, instructor in Latin at the local high school, is endeavor- ing to impress upon her pupils that it was Gaul and not Julius Caesar that was divided into three parts. . XXXII I , Ellen Heroux, the New York sculpor, has presented Luna Park with her new XXXIII Chief of Police Delores Amondsen recently rounded up some agitators for men's rights who were picketing the city hall. Among them were Henry Potter and William Melvin. - XXXIV Ralph Gailey, the lightweight champion, is recovering from his last fight. He was hit in the solar perplexity. Flop. the whole front section. statue The Blinker . XXXV The Reverend Gladys Roll is conducting a vigorous war on gum chewing and pop drinking. XXXVI Detective Chief William Markey believes that after many years he is at last on the trail of Kimball Myers who decamped with the Class funds in 1922. XXXVII A rumor of ghosts at Turner's Creek sent the eminent psychologists, Professors Gordon, Keeling and Davidek, post haste to the spot. They spent the night in a haunted house. About midnight Professor Gordon swears that a ghost nearly seven feet high stalked up to his bed and grabbed him by the ear. Dr. Keeling in- sists, however, that it was only Davidek who was walking in his sleep. The mystery XXXVIII Dorothy Lee, the super-futurist painter, showed us a picture which represents a summer sunrise, but which we mistook for an exploding firecracker. XXXIX Lillian Duggan, who married the king of Bingembangia in Africa, is reported to have led the recent raid on the British garrison where she personally scalped the commandant. remains unsolved. XL The Crab's Retreat Seminary on Vashon Island is offering several special Courses this year. Miss Bess Humphrey will teach French Millineryg Miss Gudren Eide is conducting a class in Etiquette for the Young Debutanteng and Barbara Hare is personally instructing the girls in Archery and Riding. It is probable that the famous danseuse, Mlle. Barbara Cady, will offer aesthetic dancing. The semin- ary is one of the most attractive of its kind in the west. . XLI Roberta Bellazzi, our famous novelist, has just published one of the best sellers of the season, '6The Romance of Jake Heintz , or What Happened to the Page Twenty-one

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XIII Edward Colcock, Miss Virena O'Keefe's office boy, was haled before the juvenile court for putting liquid glue in his employer's chair. ' ' XIV Never again will bandmaster Miller Owen conduct a band where red trousers form part of the uniform. Last spring his band, so attired, played at the North- west Cattle Show. While strolling through the grounds Owen came face to face with dairyman Don MacNaught's prize bull. Mr. Owen was in the hospital for three months. XV James Thomas is engaged in training parrots to talk. The price of a bird varies wizth the picturesqueness of its vocabulary. XVI An ingenious dentist, May Petrie, has perfected a device for introducing a small amount of dynamite into a defective tooth and blasting out the cavity. How- ever, Lawton Dickenson, the South American Mining engineer on whom Dr. Petrie experimented, wasn't particularly enthusiastic over it. XVII Professor Norah Zeiher, the noted mathematician, whose advice If you haven't a quadrant or a sextant, use the hydrant has become a byword among navigators, broken down by her strenuous labors died yesterday of the delirium triangles. XVIII . Professor Lyle Blagg of Sheflield Scientific School, Yale, last Saturday had himself shot in the direction of Mars in the new electrically driven rocket which he invented. Professor Arthur Clark, director of Lick Observatory, who watchedthe flight reported that Blagg lit in the principal canal, and greatly obstructed the traffic until the Martians got a derrick and hoisted him out. fThis must have been a mistake for according to a Mercury of the day the professor hit the Methodist Church steeple, with dire results to the congregation's nerves.J-M. D. Mercury. XIX A dry world is pouring forth its blessings on Vivian Belford, the botanist, for her discovery of the remarkable aquae vitae' alcoltolis or uhighballu plant, the brew from whose leaves can be indulged in without offending Mr, Volstead. XX President Mahnken of the Northern Pacihc Railways has just issued his auto- biography for the inspiration of young America. It is entitled 'fCarl Mahnken, A Self-Made Man fwith the assistance of his wifel. XXI Professor Mildred Keeling, sent into the interior of Thibet hy the the anthro- pological bureau of the Smithsonian Institute, claims that she found the missing link, but for lack of proper tools failed to solder it on. XXII WANTEDwMen for whaling voyageg able seamen, ordinary seamen and green hands. No experience necessary. Big money for a lucky voyage. Apply at the XXIII Mayor Margaret Ayton and a few of the officials held a poker party at the city hall after office hours yesterday. In the midst of the party a keg of home brew exploded, injuring among others Leona Niles, County Clerk, Dr. Kathryn Kelly, County Coronerg and Bernice Humphrey, Chief of the udry squad. office of Captain Ruby Sayre. XXIV Dr. Albert Olsen is evading the police. He gave a measles patient 4'Rough on Ratsv by mistake. XXV A big shark was sighted off the coast of Zanzibar this morning at two bells by the Deep Sea Scavengersw, Beatrice Miller and Ethel Lee. They are hot on his trail with paris green and hope to bag him before sundown. XXVI Armed with a forty year school-teaching experience Helen Russel has gone to China to help uncivilize the heathen. Puge Twenty

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Nth Variety. Later in the year she may give a course of lectures on joumalism at the Crab's Retreat Seminaryl' if time pemrits. XLII The great Paris surgeon, Dr. Marjorie Thole, was highly honored yesterday. The President of France, in a public ceremony, presented her with the Croix de Guerre, and her throng of surviving patients sang After the Battle Mothern. XLIII Census Director Lyle Isabel is in disfavor. Erma Harris, a greenhand at census taking, put the house number of Miss Permelia Lipsky, president of the Old Maid's Club , in the age column by mistake. lt read: Name-Permelia Lipsky Age-14-23 Miss Lipsky called on the director with a shotgun. XLIV Professor George Owens is at the head of the Southern Beauty Institute at La Mesa, California. One of the popular courses is, How to Kiss a Girl Without Getting Painter's Colicf' fPersonal dtinltirlstration by the instructor.J Mrs. Leslie Grabbit, formerly Blanche Sanders, is suing Miss Viola Reese, her son's school teacher. She alleges that Miss Reese has ruined her son's genius and XLVI Our poet-laureate, Joan Jones, has inflicted The Charge of the Hash Brigade on an imnocent and unsuspecting public. XLVII Beatrice Walters, the world renowned man hunter, has just left for Mesopo- tamia to stalk the brute in his native jungles. Although she has never succeeded in bringing back a specimen alive, she still has hopes. XLVIII The eminent physicist, Janet Wallace, has just been awarded the Nobel prize for her monumental work, Why a Molecule Can't Sit Down. XLIX Garnett Leyman, the great African big game hunter, has recently returned from the jungles accompanied by her secretary, Viola McElreath. While on a hunting trip Miss Leyman bagged one monkey, three palm trees, a Zulu Chief's top- knot, and her secretary's leg. L abused his brilliant talents. Miss Mildred Smith, historical research worker, led the discussion of the Northwest History Society on In What Year Did the Whale Swallow Jonah. fVigorous protests have arrived from Hades by way of radio. Jonah declares that he was not swallowed by a whale.J-M, D. Mercury. LI Marion Pierce and Helen Sibley, Bolsheviki soap-box orators, were holding forth on Why Revolutions are Good for a Government's Stabilityu when Sergeant John Tershin arrived with a squad of national guardsmen. The meeting was in- definitely postponed. LII Marion Madison has had Bernice Nourse, manager of the Breaking Heart Matrimonial Bureau, arrested. She claims that Miss Nourse promised her a member of a royal family for a husband. He was-an African Golf King. LIII A new school for unruly girls has been organized at Bird Cage, Canary Islands. The first superintendent, Mr. Robert Wylde, was received with great ovation by the natives and they sincerely hope that Mr. Wylde will have a calming effect on these LIV While laying the foundation for the new municipal pier, diver Marion Kimble unearthed the cache of Malcolm fSpearrn.intJ MacNaugl1t, the notorious bootlegger. The dry squad submarine was sent for it. These fragments give a general idea of the work and are inteersting as they form a relic of the queer men who inhabited the earth in the Dumb Ages. We must say, however, that they are more bewildering than enlightening as to the customs and manners of the time. willful flappers. Page Twenty-two