Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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Janie I . was slightly discomfited over a certain mark on a term paper in Latin one morning, and Edward D., observing her plight, thought he could have a little fun. Consequently he drew up close to her and remarked, “Some women, like roses, retain their sweetness, long after their beauty is gone.” Janie retorted, “Is that so,” as she slapped him in the eye. Edward, as he rubbed his eye, grunted, “There are only two good women in the world ; the one is dead, and the other is not to be found.” Shortly before school was out Spencer O’B. met up with Edward D. and the following conversation ensued : Edward D. : Ach, I’m sleepy. I sat up all night with a corpse.” Spencer O’B.: “Sure, an’ what was it? A wake?” Edward D. : “Awake! You fool, it was dead!” As Hazel N and Charlie C. were talking quietly over the lawn one day, Hazel asked What becomes of the love triangles, Charlie ?” Cliai lie looked as vacant as an opossum glaring down at the coon hunter’s Haze?” 3nd JamCS M ' anSWCred from behind - “ The y become wreck-tangles, First Porter : Boy, you sho’ has got a big mouth. Second Porter : Fool nigger, that ain’t no keyhole in the front of your face. A few boys in Berea love their fathers so much they won’t leave them to go to work. 6 Mr. Briggs : “Wasn’t it a splendid picture Mr. Gooch drew in Church yesterday explaining ,liow he was called into the ministry. He said that he was walking along a lonely path m the early part of the night and beheld a light in the heavens and saw two great golden letters, G. P., which meant, ‘Go Preach ’ ” Dorsey Mangum (who holds an over-due balance from the Reverend) • “I guess the letters meant ‘Go Plow.’ ” Ed Briggs was once on the witness stand and a lawyer asked him, “Do you live on the road, Mr. Briggs? Briggs replied, “No, I live in my house.” Mr. Bob Daniel : “Louie, I need that money I lent you.” Louie D. : “But father, I haven’t got it.” Mr. B. Daniel : “Come on and pay me. I know you, I raised you.” Mr. Stone (on history class) : “Who can tell me Annie Frances O’B. : “He is mentioned in ‘Nero, something about Nero?” My God to Thee.’ ” [ Page 82 ]

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PHIMA LUCE Louise B. : “What time is it?” Mrs. Brooks: “Seven o’clock.” Louise B. (going back to sleep) : “Please tell me what time it is when it gets half-past seven.” Helen S. : What did Mr. Stone say in political science yesterday?” Willie Lee Id.: “Shall I leave out unnecessary details ' 1 ” Helen S. : “Yes.” Willie Lee H. : “Nothing.” »iS r„Zl h r e“’?° X ' 0 ' (af r “ T el ' P ' ’ an,) : H ™ I-” » • » . my 1 ha ' ' e ' There ' VM “ rnjiiii-nibber bull eating Miss Farabow: “What great work did Milton write just after his wife left Charlie C. : “ ‘Paradise Regained.’ ” ' t T H nL ry p N ‘ : u The J e WCr 1 th ree people who got out of the ark before Noah.” -Loee i . : How do you know ? Harry N. : “Why, it says here in the Bible that Noah came forth.” Miss barabow. Don t you know whv I won’t marry you ' ’” Cameron Id. : “I can’t think.” Miss Farabow : “That’s it exactly.” Clide M. : I here s a man outside with a wooden leg named Smith.” Miss Farabow : What is the name of his other leg?” Waitress : I ve got frog legs, chicken liver, calves brains and — Mr. Briggs: You had better see the doctor.” y0U wouId be a g° od dancer but for two things.” Guthrie W. : “What are they?” s Clyde H. : “Your feet.” Helen C. : “Why papa, you are not leaving before the play Mi. C. Claik: What s the use staying. The program says the same as the first’.” • is over ?” ‘Act II and Act III Louise B., in her brother’s car, drove up to Mr. Mangum’s store for some oil Mi . Mangum asked : What kind do you want — heavy ?” “Don’t get fresh with me,” Louise retorted, as she hurried away without pur- chasing the oil. Mr. Mangum could not understand why she did not buy the oil.

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Mr. Stone (on algebra class) : “Well, I suppose that you have been through algebra ?” Clyde H. : “Yes, sir, but I went through it at night and coukln’t see the blame place.” Clide Morris thinks that neology is studied on the front row of a burlesque show. Poem by Janie Pruett: “When doughnuts grow on peanut trees, And Spencer O’Brien is not nutty, When bumblebees put powder on their knees, Then I’ll begin to study.” . M r s. Crawford C. : “What would you call a man who hid behind a woman’s skirt ? Mr. Crawford C. : “A magician.” REAL COMPETITION . Mr. Stone, who believes that much of the world’s progress has been gained ir [. Periods of idleness suggested giving a gold medal to the one in his class in Ninth-Grade History that should prove himself to have been the idlest. Rhodes b lazier, Clide Morris, and Charlie Currin arose and expressed wil- lingness to take part in the contest. Rhodes said that the others need not vex themselves with vain hopes, for he was sine to obtain the prize, for the other day he was very cold, and having requested his friends to light a fire, he sat down in such a way that his le s were burned with the heat, but, although he suffered severe pain, he was too slothful to remove them. Clide, however, advised Rhodes not to be too confident, for recently he him- self happened to be standing by the wall from which his father’s sword hung and having accidently pushed it, he saw that it would rebound so as to wound his stom- ach, yet from sloth he remained still and was wounded. But Charlie said gently that he feared he was after all the laziest, for though he had heard Rhodes and Clide lying horribly in order to get the prize,’ and though he knew he could lie much better still, from pure sloth, he would hold his peace. Whci eupon Mi. Stone said that Charlie had won | for Rhodes injured his leg and Clide his belly from sloth, but Charlie his whole life. [ Page 83 )