Ball High School - Purple Quill Yearbook (Galveston, TX)

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Sporting Life of the Teens: Dozing CWith Thanks to Robert Benchleyl by Barbara Mussey One of the most charming exhibits of sleep which we, as teens, indulge in, is the doze I mean those little snatches of sleep which are caught now and then when the teacher isn't looking. Usually they appear when you are pretending to be interested in your book with your head in your hand. CNaturally the teacher is too busy to notice.j Of course there is one form of doze which, to the casual observer, gives the appearance of deep sleep. This is the doze or quickie,', which is taken after the main -awakening in the morning. The alarm rings, or the Lord High Chamberlain taps us on the shoulder. Cln the absence of a Chamberlain, a relative will do. There are some rela- tives who take actual delight in awakening people. They hover about with ghoulish anticipation until the minute arrives when they may legitimately begin their dirty work, and then, leering unpleasantly, they shake the sleeper roughly with a Come, come! Time to get up l and wait right there until he is actually out on the cold floor in his bare feet.j At any rate, we are awakened, and we look at the clock. There are five minutes before it is absolutely necessary to get out of bed. Who knows? Perhaps those few minutes of extra sleep might make us just ten times as efficient during the day. That is what we must think of-efficiency. There is no doubt that five minutes more sleep would do wonders for us. By the time we have finished this line of argument, we are fairly cold again, but not so cold that we are not conscious of someone en- tering the room. We feel that they are going to say, Come on, don't go back to sleep again,', and we forestall this warning with I know! I know! l'm just resting my eyesf' It is one of natureis wonders how a teen can carry on an argument with someone standing beside his bed and- still be asleep to all intents and purposes. Not a very good argument, perhaps, and one in which many important words are missing or indistinct, but still an argu- ment. There is the short-distance doze on the bus, probably the most hu- miliating form of sleeping. Here we allow our head to rest upon our hand fwhich is propped up by a pile of books belonging to our friends who are standing upj for just a minute. It is then but the work of a minute for the mouth to open slightly and the head to tip a little to 115

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the right, and there we are-as pretty a picture as one would care to see. You are very lucky if, when you come to and look about you, you do not find your neighbors smiling indulgently at some little noise of breathing or your facial expressions. Of course there are a few lucky people who get a ride Cin a carl to school. There the elbow is rested on the window sill and the head placed in the hand in an'attitude of thought. The glass feels very cool on the forehead and we rest it there, more to cool off than any- thing else. The next thing we know the forehead Ccarrying the entire head with itj has slid down the length of the slippery pane and we have received a rather nasty blow against the molding. They shou1dn't keep the glass so slippery, a person is likely to get badly hurt that way. However, back again goes the forehead against the pane in its original position, with the hand serving more or less as a buffer, until another skid occurs, this time resulting in an angry determination to give the whole thing up entirely and sit up straight in the seat. Some dozers will take four or five slides without whimpering, going back each time for more. It is a game that can't be beat, however, and the soone'r you sit up straight in your seat, the sooner you will stop banging your head. The game in all this is to act, on awakening, as if you had known all along what you were doing. If your neighbors are smiling, you should smile back, as if to say, Fooled you that time! You thought I was asleep, didn't you PU The whole problem is one which calls for a great deal of thought. If we can develop some way in which a person can doze and still keep from making a monkey of himself, we will have removed one of the big obstacles to human happiness in modern civilization. - They Said It, and We're Glaol This is what we heard jerry say as he was being measured for his cap and gown: Ball High will lose all of its 'Prestidge' when I grad- uatef' Carl Nau was told by his history teacher that if he couldn't find the assignment in three books, he wouldn't have to get it. In what books did he look? Math, English, and chemistry. Irving Pozmantier says that he has a very clean mind. It ought to beg he never uses it. . 117