Burbank Junior High School - Wizard Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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10 THE WIZARD sun finds them out! Gloom runs away and hides in the dark places, to escape from being burnt. Some linger and are killed. Some morning you must rise early and look up at the sun as lie comes over the hills. His rays arc like great wide shafts of gold. This golden light is made out of seven different colors of the rainbow. If one of the colors should get lost there would be no white sunlight in the sunbeams. Let us then re- joice in the golden sunshine of Cali- fornia. LEROY MERKLE A T. LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU. Laughter is a great gift which we all should possess. It is a gift which would make the world a much better place, if constantly used. If one laughs other persons laugh also. Laughing is sometimes called a con- tagious disease. One ought to be glad if one can catch it. The weeper does not find others to weep with him, but laughter is a different mat- ter. There are always others to join in one’s laugh. Some people laugh the day through. Others fret and mourn, wondering how they are going to do the task set before them. A light heart makes a light task. “Then laugh and the world laughs with you.” Now the good old world must borrow its mirth, and it is well that we should be the lenders. CARL BALLWANZA 7 REINCARNATION. There was an old gentleman who kept an office on one of the busiest streets in his city. As the work was too hard for him alone, Tic engaged a youth by the name of Thomas Sloane, who was approaching his eighteenth birthday and thought him- self very important. When he started he was quick and always finished on time. But a few weeks later he received a book from a friend. He was not very fond of reading and his friends were surprised when he took such an in- terest in this book. He would not let anyone sec it but always had it with him. In the office lie would sit and dream for hours. He was getting very nervous, too. Anything his employer said humbled him. His employer took advantage of this and worked him over time, without extra pay. One day, he ordered him to clean up the office but Thomas rose and fixed his eyes on the old miser and said, “Do you know who I was? Well, I guess no King of Babylon would take such talk from a man like you!” His voice was stern and shaky, his eyes lit up with a strange light and he stood clapping his hands and saying, “Ah, those were the days! 1 can remember them so well!” Just then the friend who had given him the book came in. He looked surprised and turned to the astonished employer. Then they started laughing at poor Tom. When asked what ailed him he re- plied, “Why, you do not understand. I was once a great King of Baby- lon. I can just close my eyes and dream of my kingdom now. Every- one was some one years ago. Per- haps you were a cobbler,” lie said to his employer; and then to his friend, “you might have been my brother.” Just then a book dropped on the floor. They all looked at it and the name of it was “Reincarnation.” This is what he had been reading! The employer laughed but Tom and his friend were serious. What do you think of it? AYLF.NE BURNHAM B 9.

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THE WIZARD 9 OUR LITTLE FEATHERED FRIENDS. Some of us do not protect “Our Little Feathered Friends” as much as we should. Many of us do not realize what a lot of help they arc to us. If all of the birds were to go away, and there were no birds on this earth, we would realize what a great deal of good they do. This world would be a very gloomy place. All of our beautiful flowers would be covered with bugs, and would blossom no more, and we would have no flowers to brighten things. The birds eat many, many million bugs a day, destroying them instead of allowing them to kill the plants. We would also miss their singing, as they cheer us sometimes when we are sad. Besides singing to us, and eating the bugs that are in our gardens, they are beautiful to see. It is a very beautiful sight, to go out into the garden on a nice summer morning and see the beau- tiful bright colored birds, darting in and out among the flowers and trees. There is a small bird which is most commonly found in gardens. He is of a greenish color. The feathers of his throat are prolonged in a ruff, and he has a forked tail. He is seen in the garden taking food from the different flowers. He seems to hum as he flies. He is called the Humming Bird. He has a very long narrow bill. Another common bird is the Blue Bird. He is of an azure blue, with a reddish-brown back, his breast is a brick-red, his wings are blue with dark edging, and the lower parts are white. There are several other birds that we may recognize if we look for them. Some boys kill birds for pleasure. But, I do not see any pleasure in killing poor, innocent, little creatures. They do not harm us, so why should we kill them? Some of the birds are troublesome, but they have “some good spots” in them as well as any other birds or one of us, for we are not perfect either. LILLIAN GIESENHOFER B 7 ' . CALIFORNIA, THE GOLDEN GATE. California first attracted men who were seeking for new lands. When gold was discovered people flocked to California with fortunes before them. In 1850 California was admit- ted into the union as a state. Be- sides being next to the largest state in the Union it has a sunny climate, beautiful parks and lovely natural scenery. Tourists come from all parts of the country to enjoy its beautiful lakes, beaches, hills and climate. An example of our climate is shown in the fact that strawberries may be had in the winter. It is sometimes hard for the farmers o-f the Middle West to believe that strawberries may be gathered from an outdoor patch of strawberries a week before Thanksgiving. Every month in the year is planting for some orchard or farm and every month is harvest for some crop. There are no snow storms, water pipes never freeze, zero weather and blizzards never occur. Through the Golden Gate may be seen the sun sinking slowly, casting its red and gold rays all around San Francisco Bay. Every day a differ- ent picture is painted as the “sun sinks ; n the golden west.” RUTH TOM WYE B 9. SUNSHINE. In the morning the sun comes up over the hills sending forth beams of joy. Little by little they jump higher and higher in the air looking for gloomy houses in very lonely places. Oh, how the gloomy places burst into sunshine when the

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T H E W IZARD l TRUE FRIENDS. I he other day the Berkeley Pound caught fire. The man who takes care of the dogs quickly jumped out of bed and ran over to the Pound and unlocked the doors and let all of the dogs and his horse out, so they would not be burned. To show how much the dogs appreciated his kindness after the fire was put out, all of the dogs except one came back to him. The missing dog returned with the horse. It has not been learned what started the fire. LILLIAN GEISENLIOFER B 7 1 . PICTURE FROM THE PAST. Long ago the noonday sun looked down on a small party of travelers. They were toiling through the moun- tains of Southern California. They were led by a tall, dark man with a corslet of steel on his breast, a glittering sword by his side and a feathered plume in his hat. He was closely followed by two men bear- ing between them what looked like a flag of Spain. There was also a man in coarse, black robe and girdle. His head was bared to all the heat of the sun. He was leading a mule carrying a man whose white face and bowed head told of fever. The rest of the little party was made up of soldiers and mules carrying the baggage. A soldier rode up to a tall man in the plain garb of the Franciscan monk, who limped painfully. Dis- mounting, the soldier said, “Father Scrra, will you not ride this mule?” The man merely shook his head and passed on up the’ trail. The noble-looking leader sharply questioned the Indian guide, who had been with them all the way, as to the distance yet to go. For reply the native held up his ten fingers and said, “Ugh!” The leader was Don Ga.spar Da Portola, and the tall, limping, grey-haired monk was Father Junipera Serra. PAUL BURNHAM A 7 THE BIRD MAN. “The Bird Man” is a very wonder- ful and interesting man. He can imitate the birds so well that you can imagine that the birds are beside you or up on the stage where he gives his program. “The Bird Man” came to our school the other night, and I will tell you some of the things he did for us. He imitated the songs of several different kinds of birds. He also told us facts about them. The birds are very loving and they do all they can to help one another. He also told us several jokes and funny stories. He told us a very sad story about a mother bird and her little ones, and I will tell that story to you. Some boy scouts and a scout mas- ter were camping on a certain island, and an island not far away caught on fire. The boys saw the fire and asked to go nearer to it. The scout master took them to the island. But the boys were not satisfied; they wanted to go right up close to the fire. The scout master said that he would take them there, if they would do exactly what he told them. It was very dangerous for them, because the trees were fall- ing, and they might hit the boys and they would get killed. They went up as close to the fire as they dared to. A big tree fell very near them. As .the boys were watching the fire, one of them noticed that a bird was flying around the tree, that had just fallen near them, in great excitement. Lie called the other boys’ attention to the bird. Then they saw that the bird was flying around her little ones which