Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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the girls to sneeze, it would be the last we’d ever hear of Amber Hendricks, Mildred Johnson, Lilith Bales and Irene Johnson. “There is a rest-cure cottage. I see Gladys Ferguson and Jessie Gallup. It seems they have suffered a nervous breakdown for they have spent forty days and nights trying to figure out Paul Rigden’s theory of a fifth dimension which he adds to Einstein’s fourth. A court room scene is evident. Marian Ullman, the defendant is charged with permitting her caddy to appropriate golf balls belonging to other club members. Harold Hoyt, attorney for the defense, seems to be winning the case as they are using the pul-motor on Vincent Kellogg, Doris Mullin, Florence Wilson and Miriam Large, four members of the jury. While Dorothy Brainard, star witness for the defense is winning over the rest of the jury, (masculine of course.)” At this point Mary Elizabeth decided that she wanted to peer into the sphere and so of course she did. I imagined that what she saw must have been amusing because she laughed so much that she was unable to tell me what appeared, however the gazer continued: “William Matson is working in his sister’s bakery; he fits the rims around the holes in doughnuts. Harriet is becoming wealthy working on the principle that the whole should be greater than any of its parts. “In South Africa I can see a Missionary, Wesley Stokes, going on his rounds and near him are John Man-tell, Clyde Daugherty and John Pu-zinski who operate a diamond mine there. There seems to be quite a bit of rivalry between Geraldine Heater, Leroy Kibbee and Frances Page Hventy-cight Cox who are candidates for the office of caretaker of an old ladies’ home in Saybrook. Ford Carlisle conducts a correspondence school. He and Chester McBride are the authors of ‘How to go up in the World in Six Weeks.’ It keeps his associates Mary Elizabeth Smith and Annetta Lang busy traveling around to the Post Offices in different cities to supervise the music at the graduation exercises of the ‘Carlisle School.’ Four recent graudates were Jennie Van Akin, MayGouhin. Margaret Knowlton and Genevieve Ensell.” I looked over at Mary to see what she thought of her life work but she kept her eyes straight ahead on the crystal without even blinking. “Dorothea Eberle is a doctor, her latest patients are Alma Whitman and Sarah Seymour who, as they were going down some stone steps, slipped on their coats and broke an arm and collar bone, respectively. Three other regular patients of the doctor’s are Mildred Arvidson, Hazei Ford and Grace Benham, scientists, who take treatments after devouring the latest books. Edward Green is noted for his new discovery; he was able with his radio outfit to transmit a drink of water to Frank Mitchell and Wayne Frederick who were stranded on the Sahara desert. Frances Good is earning from $.05 to $100.00 per week posing for ‘Campbell’s Soup’ posters. “Dorothy French, Susan Davis and Lorieta Williams are lightning artists; however they paint woodwork during the winter since lightning is scarce at that time of year. Laura Buelow, Kathryn Morgan, and Ruth Hubbard have a secondhand clothing store in Hawaii. They

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In the Years to Come LOUISE LYNNE MARY Elizabeth Smith and 1 were walking down a little street in a certain small city in Ohio. We were passing a low building and both of us happened to notice a sign over the door which read “Crystal Gazing, fifty cents an hour” and just below was a second sign “More .than your money’s worth.” It was the lower sign which appealed to me; however we both decided to go in and .learn something about Crystal Gazing We were met by the gazer himself who was dressed like a Hindoo. He asked us to be seated about a large glass globe which rested upon a pedestal in a dimly lighted room. In a deep monotone he began to speak as he studied the globe intently, “I can see the members of the 1922 graduating class of Ashtabula High School engaged in their various occupations fifteen years from now. “There is a record of Caruso’s playing on a victrola. A man stands beside it, the victrola stops and the man finishes the song. The audience can not detect the difference. The man’s name is Palmer, Ross Palmer.” Pausing only long enough to pass his hand slowly over the crystal he resumed, “Here is Edward Dickinson with a job that keeps him going. He is chasing hop-toads, gathering up the hops for Fred Ducro and Lawrence Whitman who are in the home brew business.” This was getting interesting but I was rather dissapointed that it was not I gazing into the crystal. He seemed to notice this because he told me to come closer and look steadily into the glass globe, and then he asked me what I saw. I told him that what I seemed to see looked like six different suns setting. He smiled; it was the first time he had changed his expression. Then he gave his interpretation: You do not see correctly. I see Kenneth Church, Donald Babbitt, Jean Clark, Helen Harshaw, Elizabeth Johnson and Clarence Bailey going down an elevator in the Wool-worth building where they all have offices. A beautiful vegetable green house can be seen; it is run by Lewis Enquist, Herbert Young and Algot Anderson. Their motto is ‘Say it with Cauliflowers.’ I can see a brilliantly lighted sign in front of a theatre which reads, ‘Gordon Pritchard, Ben Turpin’s understudy will appear in ‘There is Magic in His Eyes.’ ’ Now a large crowd appears eating peanuts and drinking pink lemonade. It is at a circus and the crowd is watching breathlessly four girls who are hanging from the top of the tent by their teeth. If the clowns, Alfred Guarnieri and Farn-ham Hogue should empty out the contents of a pepper box causing Pnf r tu'cnly-scrcn

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are fabulously rich from the proceeds of the unique baskets which they have made from the tropical clothing. Julius McElroy, Gerald O’Brien and Charles Britcher are noted musicians. They play with a large rubber band in Cleveland. Bessie Anderson and Helen Guarnieri invented a very useful device— a sort of shield for the eyes of grape fruit epicures. Margaret Borden, Eleanor Tilton and Helen Friedel manufacture the shields.” Here the gazer burst into a loud laugh, the first real mirth he had registered. When I walked over to see what the joke was I saw a girl who looked very much like myself. She didn’t seem to be doing anything so I didn’t know just how to take it but deeded not to show any agitation. Probably he meant it all right so I told him to hurry on to the next vision. ‘‘A girl is sit.ing near a fire place embroidering and watching the clock. She seems to be a model home-maker and I get the name of Susan Ford. Her husband hasn’t arrived yet so I don’t know his name.” Mary and I exjhanged knowing glances. We could have enlightened the Gazer. He continued, “The Literary Digest is being edited by Juliette Dit-tenhaver, Hazel Woodworth and Dorolhy Compton. The poetry is contributed by Melita Seymour and Virginia Van Tassel. The joke department is written by Irene Askue and Florence Beaty. 1 see Lucy Tredent and Mary Wilenius in London interviewing diplomats for the ‘Personal Glimpses’ department. Anna Larson and Jeanette Humphrey write the clever topics in brief John Frabutt and Tony Guarino are the cartoonists. Ruth Ray, Freder ika Van Slyke and Anna Edixon have gone to China to give a series of French plays. Mildred Brown and Florence Rushton own a large Tapioca farm. Alice Norris and Gladwin Pilkington supervise a large force who grow the Tapie trees and Fannie Vetrano is the manufacturer of the Oca. Wallace Johnson and Harry Swift are firemen. It was their ambition from childhood. Roger Landmesser is a stern professor at Ohio State, so stern that I see he recently attempted to have Lilah Sprague suspended from the faculty force because he learned she had been a member of the Shifter’s organization in her youth. Herbert Weeks and Mary Richens are teachers there also, ins'ructors of Aesthetic Dancing and Penwomanship respectively. Rose Sheppard's—but it is four o’clock. The hour is up so I must stop.” He broke off abruptly after glancing at the tall clock ticking away in the corner of the room. We did want to know about Rose but we couldn't offer him any more money because we had spent all but fifty cents for Eskimo pies just before going into the Gazer’s. But a thought accidently crept into my head and I showed him my wrist watch which was several minutes slow as I knew it invariably would be since it was the same watch that always made me late to school. Anyway he gave my watch the benefit of the doubt and finished the sentence. ‘‘Rose Sheppard’s name is printed across the cover of a large dictionary. She is a writer, and it is the standard dictionary.” As Mary and I were leaving, we both agreed that the lower sign was perfectly true.