Arthur Hill High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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.1-' kc , , , :nu-. Yrn, N As You Like It To understand to a better degree the peculiar nature of our hero, Henry, it is necessary to trace his pursuits and doings during a certain few days of his courting-life. On Monday Henry did not go to work. He left the house, however, at about eight o'clock and took a car down-town. In the hot and turbulent business section of the city he entered a dry- goods store. VVhatever transactions he made in the store is of little importance. After he came out of the building he visited in the following order the hardware department of a nearby store, the china department, the furniture department, then a jewelry store. When he arrived home that noon he had noth- ing but a few Butterick fashion sheets. In the afternoon his course was again down-town. He drifted into a jewelry store, two drug stores, Cone at a time, of coursej, another drug store, a music store, and into a few other places., All he had when he arrived home was nothing more than what he had when he went away. His father was not aware that Henry had quit working. His mother did not know of it. The dog did not know of it. The.creature prob- ably never thought that he did work. The Butterick fashions Henry had brought home at,noon he hid. Tuesday morning Henry left the house at the usual time and went down-town. Hle drifted first thing into a second hand store, then into amillinery, a book store, an electric sltore Ca place where electrical supplies and devices can be ad . In the afternoon he went to see a tailor, a fiorist, a doctor, a photographer, and other articles too few to mention. In the evening Henry confidentially approached his mother and asked her for advice upon the matter which had kept him busy these days. He asked her what she thought he ought to buy for his sweetheart for her birthday. Oh, let me see, said his mother, putting on her glasses and looking toward the ceiling, what does Alice need? She said the other day she needed a neck-a-a neckligee. But I believe she is getting that herself.'T Well then, why don't you get her a-a-oh get her a- A what, for heaven's sake! ejaculated Henry: You ought to know what women folks need and what they like. What did people give you for your birthday when you were young? But his mother could not suggest any gift which he con- sidered proper. She saiddthat the nature of gifts she received when she was young an that of gifts young ladies receive from young men nowadays are distinctly different. And so it is. Who would think of giving his sweetheart what father gave his sweetheart for a birthday present. Where is there a young man who would make his beloved one a present in the form of a shoe-string, as father did: a dish-ragg lice-killing powder, as father didg or a rope used in milking to tie the cow's tail when the fiies are bothersome. No, things have changed. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

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And lo--the famed Martuch, gave no dancer the least excuse To deny the musical score, had e'er been excelled in years before. Only this and nothing more. Ten Now at last we see an ending of our school days so long pend- ing When Miss Ascherfs room we enter and we find we are Seniors. Schweizer as our President, with Browne, Haft and Vogt did represent To us the wisest class yet seen-the class of 1919. In all the lines that have gone before we have told much But there's some more. Eleven Someone soon called for a party and we gave a Senior Dance. It was very well attended and the music did intrance. The lights were dim, then dimmer, and soon they all went out, Our toil on decorations seemed then all without result. Never the less this party was as good as all before. ' One could wish for nothing more. Twelve We then all felt quite generous, and so to Arthur Hill We gave a fifty-dollar bond, in memory of Josephine E. Johnston. Then after Christmas vacation we started on our play. We gave An American Citizen on the sixteenth of May. It proved to be a great success, the best that had been scored. There is very little else to say-there' only one thing more. Thirteen And now our story's ended, the history is told, All things the class of '19 did, I have tried to you unfold. And now that we are leaving, we a parting sigh are heaving For we are forever closing behind us the school door. We hope we'll not be forgotten when' we've passed outside that door, Forgotten nevermore.

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But I will go back to my story. On Wednesday morning Henry went to the public library and read the lives of a few noted or notorious women in an effort to find out what these women received on their birthday anniversaries. In reading the account of the life of a certain woman who had acquired notoriety as a suffragette he found the following: The young lady's birthday was approaching. She wished very much to have an elaborate dinner for the occasion and, on inviting her lover, she intimated that the dinner should be a chicken dinner. She said, however, that she had no hatchet to decapitate the chicken. Her lover, being a simple, good-hearted fellow, gave her a small shapely hatchet. This proved unfortunate. Carry, after having killed the chicken, experimented with the hatchet and soon became familiar with the various destructive facilities of the hatchet which she made use of in later life. Henry was utterly bewildered when he left the library. He certainly had a great problem before him, he said to him- self. He wondered if it was possible that the making of the treaty of the league of nations could present greater difficulties than he had before him. The sad part of it was that he could not solve his problem. That did not discourage him, however. He certainly prided himself that it was a great problem, a problem demanding keen insight. This encouraged him. How incomprehensible and funny are some human beings! When they see good food before them they become hungry. But this hunger is not appeased by not eating it whenthey cannot. Before Henry went home that forenoon he went to see a lawyer. Whether the lawyer could help him out I doubt. He was probably able to direct Henry to the elevator, if he did not happen to ,be in a mood to walk back down. At any rate, Henry did not gain anything by seeking the advice of this lawyer upon his huge problem. In the afternoon Henry had a depressing conversation with a grocer with whom he had become somewhat ac- quainted. This was Wednesday afternoon, of course, and Henry had made up his mind to buy the gift before he went home. His sweetheart's birthday was Thursday, and he was entirely adverse to the thought of chasing after a gift Thurs- day. Said he to the grocer, upon finding him reading in a chair beside the counter: Mr. Smith, I'd like to ask you something. Well, sir, young man, replied the grocer in a friendly way, you can ask me anything but I'm not a-goin' to promise that I c'n answer your question. You see, a few years ago I always acted as if I knew everything when somebody wanted to ask me somethin', but since I bought a encyclopedia and read in it now and then I realize more'n more that there's a lot of things I don't know nothin' about. There's the ether, for instance. The encyclopedia says that the ether is a fine fluid that pervades all space and is the medium that conveys light. I didn't understand that so I went to see a chemist and asked him what that stuff was. He said it is this. Smith picked up a pencil and scratched on a slip of paper the combination Sea-