Barstow High School - El Desierto Yearbook (Barstow, CA)

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1 . . 1 school and each chooses a different path in life We feel that need more keenly. h v V As each year draws to a close and some of us leave our High h School group, We shall be much happier if We have developed t e faculty of surrounding ourselves with friends, friends, Who are ready to lend a helping hand, who will criticize usiif We need toibe 't' 'Z d' in an open friendly Way' and Who Will help us to decide cri ici e , i , , , those vexing problems which are bound to arise in life- ,Them ' ' 1 d the 'o though there Will be, no doubt, some blue and lone y ays, 3 y of the ,sympathy and encouragement which a true friendship brings Will help us to overcome them. I A Once in a While We find a person who, wherever he goes, sur- d himself with friends With an incredible facility, but We are roun s . not all blessed with that good fortune. - Friends must be made and 'A ' ' b 'tt n on then kept. Odes, songs, legends, stories, epics have een Wri e friendship We find it everywhere recognized .as one of the great truths in life and one of the blessings of mankind. . . r, - vwid-7' t sENioR CLASS---1920 i . . t Page Fou 1

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'la Belle CDame Sans Merci I . . The last gleaming rays of Old Sol had disappeared behind the hills of the little desert valley, leaving the small town to refresh itself in the cool shadows of the evening. With the shadows ap- peared a few people, who, during the day had been in hiding from the scorching rays of the sun. ' In the street one figure was conspicuous. It was that of an old woman, hobbling slowly towards a square cement building two stories in height. Upon the roof of a very extensive porch was displayed a large sign with black lettering: GENERAL MERCHANDISE ' The entrance to the second story was gained bya flight of wooden steps which ascended from the -right of the building and connected with a porch. Above the stairway was a similar sign: ' HROGMSJ' -. 4 The figure approached the long wooden bench placed against the front wall of the store, and seated herself by the door. She was large, shapeless, and bent with age and strenuouspast experiences. Her feet were clad in shabby, coarse shoes. Her skirt trailed be- hind, but hiked up high in front to display a pair of tanned bare legs. The dirty appearance of her brown outing flannel dress was somewhat offset by a fresh white apron. Her white hair was cut short, not unlike a man 's, parted on one side and a curly lock was brushed back from her forehead. She reached' 'for a newspaper, and, open-mouthed, peered at it over silver-rimmed glasses, displayu ing a set of rugged teeth. The lines of her face were drawn and hard-the tell-tale marks of her many past hardships. e She had come from France when but a mere girl. Her mother had died soon after reaching this country, and she had grown to womanhood in the rough mining camps of the desert, where her father earned their living by following the mining booms with his saloons. Upon his death she inherited a small sum of money and a considerable stock of liquor. She, too, had followed the mining booms for a long time, then had settled down with her grocery store and rooming house. I She glanced up from her paper upon the arrival of an old gentleman.. He wore a pair of old striped overalls with a blue Jacket. His hair was hidden by his high black cap, although its color was suggested by his heavy white moustache. He was 'fOld Tom, Mrs. lEfarker's husband. Husband? Yes-legally so, although she treated him more as if he were a child, and a very disobedient one, too. In one hand he carried a lantern, for he had just rem turned from meeting one of the evening trains. I ' ' Page Six l', y 4, 4 . --.va 1 . . l xl l -. - -7 l .4 l 1 i I v 4 E l .4 l