Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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§ rluml Saits Oh, that day in warm September, When we entered Alton High! Did we think the years would come And go so quickly by? Xo! we thought the years of toil, Would be so hard and long, That many came with heartaches, And not a thought of song. But now the year is closing, That means we ll soon be Seniors. With many a song and never a tear. We will drop the name of Juniors. And then when in the years to come, We think of days gone by, Just for a while we'll close our eyes, And dream of Alton High. C. W. D„ ’12. Miss W.: “Slower, Torrey, slower. Three times slower.” Torrey: “Does the sound get three times faster when it reaches the audience?” 20

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®lu paisa (prill Eight issues, published monthly by the students during the school year, in the interests of the Alton High School, Alton, 111. Editor-in-Chief, Literary, News, Athletic, Alumni, Editorial Staff. Frederic P. Norton, ’ll Elizabeth Dorman, ’12 - Edith Lowe, ’ll John A. Ryrie, ’ll Miss Ferguson Business Manager, Assistant Manager, f Class Managers { I I Business Management. Carl Volz, ’ll Martha Stanley, ’12 Walter Woods, ’13 Bert Russell, ’14 Washington McDonald, ’14 - George F. Smith, ’12 Courtney Perrin, ’13 Entered as second-class matter, February 24th. 1908, at Alton, 111., under Act of Congress of March 3d, 1878. Subscription Price, 50 Cents the School Year. T is the duty of every pupil of A. H. S. to subscribe for the Quill. The Quill is a good paper. The Boards are always very competent and there is no excuse for a debt hanging over the heads of the board who have worked so hard to make the paper a success. Arouse your school-spirit and subscribe for the Quill next year. You won’t regret your 50 cents. 19

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ah? JJottjjffl ffat? Scene I. (Girls’ Cloakroom). (Fourteen girls in room. Enter H. B.). H. B.: “Oh, girls, have you heard the dreadful news about some one of our boys?’’ R. R.: “Mercy, no! What news?” H. B.: “Why, someone has been accused of stealing a horse. All girls: “How perfectly dreadful!” A. P.: “Was it a black horse? H. B.: “Yes, a black horse.” A. P.: “Then it was G. S. I saw him riding one past our house last night. F. H.: “Well, whoever it was, will be found out, as B. C. is going to hold court, with twelve Seniors, six boys and six girls, to act as jury.” L. B.: “Then will the police get whoever they find guilty?” C. R.: “Of course they will, and send him to the penitentiary.” G. L.: “Why, sometimes they hang them for horse-stealing.” R. R.: “Poor G.; he was such a nice boy!” F. H.: “You girls are just as mean as you can be. You know G. didn’t do it.” E. D.: “Oh, girls! What if it should be J. S. He was absent from school yesterday.” B. M.: “Oh! I never saw such a hateful, spiteful girl as you are, E. J. S. stayed home yesterday just because I did. He said it would be so lonesome here without me.” (Signal rings, and girls pass to Assembly Room.) Scene II. Jury in box. B. C. acts as judge. B. C.: “It is my painful duty to inform you that a theft has been committed, and the evidence that we obtain to-day will be carefully weighed by the jury and the penalty fixed by them. I have tried to make clear to the students that honesty should be the greatest aim of our lives. Without it, we can expect nothing but failure and humiliation—while with it, we may look forward to happiness and success. T. McK., will you please state to the jury what you know about this theft?” T. McK.: “Truly, sir, I have been so busy in broad daylight, also in lamplight, upon my Latin (and writing to H. D.) I would 21