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

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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

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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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12 THE W I Z A R D were in a nest in the tree that had just fallen. One of the boys, a very brave boy, said to the scout master, “I am going to help that poor little bird. In a few minutes her nest and little ones will be burned.” The scout master would not let him go because he said the boy’s clothing would catch on fire, too. Sure enough, in a minute or two the flames had crawled up to the nest and was burning it. The mother bird flew down to her nest and spread her wings over her little ones, so they could live a few min- utes more and that she might not live to remember what a cruel death they died. LILLIAN GEISENHOFER B 7 ' . A MONOLOGUE. If the telephone had been used in Colonial times, Paul Revere, instead of making his spectacular ride to warn the farmers of Lexington, might have sent the news over the wire, such as the following: ‘‘Hello? Give me — Hello? What’s the matter with the line, Central? Give me — I want Concord 381 — Con- cord three — eight — one. Yes, that’s it. Is that you, Concord? This is Paul Revere. No — Revere, Boston. Well, never mind who I am. Just tell your folks that the British are landing here in Boston with a strong force. Yes, that’s it. And ring up Lexington, will you, and tell them? Thank you. Good-bye!” MARJORIE WAT N W RIGHT B 8 THE TWO WALNUTS. Once upon a time there were two little boys, who lived out in the country on a big ranch. Next to this ranch was a walnut ranch with ripe walnuts. One day these little boys thought they would like some walnuts, so they got a sack and went over the fence to steal some. When they got their sack full they thought it would be wise to divide them immediately. They picked out a shady spot, which was just inside of the cemetery. On crawling over the fence one boy dropped two wal- nuts on the outside. He said he would leave them there and get them as they went out. Just then an old colored man came down the street. He thought he heard something, so he listened through a hole in the cemetery wall. He heard very distinctly the w r ords, “I’ll take this one, you take that one. I’ll take this one, you take that one.” The colored man was almost frightened to death, so he ran down the street as fast as he could until he met a while man whom he told, that he had heard the ghosts dividing up the dead in the cemetery. The white man said, “Oh you’re just dreaming, but anyway I’ll go with you to find out.” So they walked down to the cemetery to- gether. The man listened — lie heard also, “I’ll take this one and you take that one. I’ll take this one and you take that one.” Just then the boys had finished dividing up the nuts, so one boy said, “Now we’ll get those two on the other side of the fence.” I noticed that the white man was beating the col- ored man in running away from the place. M ELY IN SCOTT B 9.