Central Catholic High School - Echo Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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. ,., 6 CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ECHO of endearment increased, until Joe had to restrain himself from proposing via the mail order route. He would wait till Christmas and then get on his--knees for sure. Yes, he would do that. Why should he wait longer?-he knew what she would say. Her father would announce the engagement right thereeand then, and in June she would be all his own. He had made up his mind to this when the day for Christmas home-going had ar- rived. iHowever, his courage began to waver when he looked at the little photo before he put it in his suit-case. It's not that I'm afraid of your answer, Grace, he said, still looking at her picture but I don't know how to pop tl1'e question. A Strange to say Joe had not neglected his studies during the last three months at school. He had an excellent report for October, November and December. His father was greatly pleased at this and .bought him a new Mercer speeder for a Christmas present. An auto was a strange present for this time of the year, but old Mr. Bennet had a business eye. He had been accus- tomed to buy a straw hat each year in Septem- ber, for he knew that such things can be gotten then for half price. He had made up his mind to get Joe an auto next summer, but a salesman told him. that he could save more than a hundred dollars by buying one now. So he bought it. The weather was still good, and he saw no reason why he should not meet his son at the station with the auto. He drove the shining Mercer to the- station, and as soon as Joe got off the train his father said, Here, Joe, put that suit-case in your auto and we'll speed homef' Father, said Joe, did you say my auto? Yes, my son. You deserved something for your good report, so I thought you would like an auto, said the old man proudly. I'm very glad I studied hard, but I don't know how to thank you, father. Gee! but I shall enjoy the holidays if this weather keeps up. A hard frost makes the roads line for speeding, and I learned to drive about a monthago. Father, do letme drive it home! Joe got home in no time. After he had seen his mother, he took dinner and then phoned Grace telling her he was back and that he wanted her to come out for a ride with him. He was a little disappointed, for .Grace said she could not come until tomorrow, as she had to prepare things for Christmas. At two-thirty, the next day he had the auto in front of her door. The thought of proposing was uppermost in his mind. He had bought a 22-carat gold ring as a Christmas present for Grace, and he had it in his pocket now. Ifa favorable chance should present itself, he in- tended to propose and make her a present of the engagement ring that afternoon. If things would not go as he desired he would wait till tomorrow afternoon when he and Grace were togo skating together. As luck would have it, a mishap with his machine put him out of humor, so he decided not to press love affairs until the skating hour tomorrow. g , . That hour, so long waited for, had now come. Joe got his new skates and started offgto meet Grace. She waswaiting at the door for him, and when .I oe asked if she were ready, she said, 'fQuite ready! You know Fin always ready when you call for me, Joe. It's an ideal day to go skating, but I hope 'tisn't too warm to melt the ice. They walked briskly out to Delta Lake where scores of happy boys and girls were amusing them- selves, then seating themselves on the curb-stone Joe fastened on her skates and then as he was putting on his own he got all excited and said: Oh! Grace, I forgot to give you your Christmas present. He could say no more. ' Suspecting what Joe's present was, and seeing his embarrassment, she thought she would help him out. She stamped her foot on the thin ice, and as it cracked she turned to him and said: My, how easy 'tis to break the ice, Joe. ' Yes, said Joe absentmindedly, I think it would be dangerous for us to go skating together, don't you? ' Yes, I do, she said with emphasis. and I feel so foolish, I wish I was at home. J oe took her home that day and was unable to see her again during the holidays. He went back to school and wrote her. several letters but got no answer. He felt miserable around Easter time and sent for the Fort Worth Journal to comfort himself.. As fate would have it, the first copy he got announced the engagement of Miss Grace Ruth Winters and John Joseph Stillman, County Clerk. The shock aroused him and then for the first time he understood her remark about breaking the ice. L 1

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J 4' CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ECHO 5 THE HINT L..-i l 'By Leo Behler, '16 Just one in the world,'? said Joe Bennet to himself, as he gazed forgetfully upon the little picture of the girl who occupied his thoughts by day and his dreams by night. He looked at the picture for some time, kissed it, and then wrapped it up carefully and placed it in a cozy corner in his trunk. As he was sitting down again to his writing desk, he heard a knock at his door. He got up and opened it. There was his mother, a graceful woman of two score and ten years. , Father is in the library, she said, and he wants to say 'good bye to you now. All right, mother, said Joe, as he put his arm on her neck and walked along the hall to the library. He had always had a tender love and esteem for his mother, and even though he was a young man now, his child-like veneration for her had not waned. Mother was to him a sacred name. He entered the library and said, Father, mother told me you wanted me. 'Yes, Joe, said his father, I want to say a few words to you before you go back to college today. You know you are to finish this year. Now, I want you to work a little harder and get a little more serious. I was once young, too, and I liked my gay life, but, my son, it doesn't pay. Besides you are twenty-two now, and you're old enough to settle down when you are graduated next June. Here .is a check for a thousand, and be careful how you invest it. Hurry up and bid mother good-bye, so that you can come with me to the train in an hour. The man who had thus addressed his son was the foremost citizen in Fort Worth, K'entucky. No one ever dared to question his social stand- ing or.high moral character. He had married young-married a' virtuous and sensible young lady, and the serenity of his household wasqnever disturbed by, a family quarrel. As a business man, he was president of the First National Bank and devoted his whole time to his work. Joe went to his room after having thanked his father for the check and promised to do his best during his last year at school. He finished pack- ing his trunk, said good-bye to his mother, and at nine o'clock drove to the station with his father. As the Southern Limited was pulling out with Joe aboard, his Just-one-in-the-world opened her tired eyes and blinked eagerly at theclock on her dressing table. My goodness! twenty minutes past nine. Joe is gone, and I never went to the station to see him off, were the words she said aloud. But Miss Grace Ruth Winters knew that she had nothing to worry about. The fact that she had Joe Bennet for a beau made her the envy of all the good-looking girls in Fort Worth. Her father adored her. He had lost his wife when Grace was a mere triiie of a child. While she was still very young he sent her to a convent school, from which she was graduated a year ago. She remembered that graduation day well, because it was the day when Joe first admired her. It was Tuesday when Joe left Fort Worth. She a letter from him on Thursday, and not disappointed. She was waiting at expected she was the door for the mail man. O thank you! she said to the smiling letter-carrier as he handed her a ietter which had the stamp at the signin- cant angle. She tore it open and read the fol- lowing: - Dayton, Ohio, September 30, 1911. Darling Grace: ' I am back to the strenuous task once more, but my thoughts are of Fort Worth and you. Your little photo is ever on my table, but I am lonesome, very lonesome. I wish it was Christ- mas: I don't know how I can ever spend three months here. Yours in purgatory, 1 JOE. Grace sent the following by return mail: Winters' Mansion, Fort Worth, Kentucky, Oct. 2, 1911. Dear Joe: I got your dear letter this afternoon. O Joe! I am just as lonesome as you are. Father is very good to me, but you know I cannot always be talking to him, as he is in his ofhce most of the day. It seems a dream to think that we were so happy only a week ago. You remember how we walked in the park only last Sunday evening, and watched the moon pick its way through the clouds, and how, I said I would come to see you off on Tuesday? Don't be sore at me, Joe,-I slept till 9:20. Forgive me, dear Joe! I know you will. Come home for Christmas, and I'll make sure to be the first to congratulate you when you get your B. A. next June. ' Yours ever true, V ' GRACE. Letters were exchanged every week and terms

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CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ECHO is CATHOLIC SCIENTISTS. ' 'gf fBy H. C. Wiener, '1'6.J I.-Galileo. Galileo, the great Italian philosopher and as- tronomer, was born at Pisa in the year 1564, of a noble Florentine family. He received a good education, and at an early age distinguished him- self as a musician and mathematician. He then took up the study of drawing and paintingg and it is said that it was his love of drawing that led him to the study of geometry. His parents de- sired him to study medicine, but having little suc- cess in this, 'he again returned to mathematics. , He was but twenty years of age when he made a very important discovery by observing the swing- ing of a lamp in the cathedral at Pisa. Noticing that the oscillations of the swinging lamp were of equal duration, he inferred that this principle migh tbe used to measure time correctly. How- ever, it was not until iifty years later that he used this theory in the construction of an astronomical clock. I - In 1588 he wrote a treatise on the center of gravity in solids. This met with such success that he received a lectureship in the University of Pisa and was looked upon as a modern Archimedes. The following year he demonstrated the fallacy of the theory that falling bodies have velocities proportional to their weight, by letting fall un- equal weights from the top of the famous leaning tower at Pisa. This discovery made such a revo- lution in science that we now consider it as the starting point in modern science. Very simple laws and formulas for falling bodies have been deduced from Galileo's experimentg and it is lit- tle wonder that we call him Founder of Experi- mental Science. After much work on gravity and gravitation, the great scientist turned his energy to astronomy. In 1609ihe made his first telescope, which had a magnifying power of thirty. 'With it he discov- ered the mountainous character of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the ro- tation of the sun and th? spots on its disc. He also discovered that the moon was not self-lumin- ous as was then supposed, but that it owed its illumination to reflection of light. Such work in astronomy led him to discuss the teaching of Copernicus,-that the sun, not the earth, is the center of what we call the solar system. Many already believed the doctrine of Copernicus, but the greater number of schools and scientists still held the older doctrine. Galileo W-HS S0 SfI'0I1g in his support of the Copernican doctrine that he drew upon himself the hatred of many scientists by accusing them of ignorance and advising them to go back to school and learn something. It was these men that forced himito leave Pisa and seek the seclusion of Florence. This opposition caused Galileo to go' a step farther than a scientist should go. At Padua he ventured to declare that in Scripture there were proposi- tions which were false in the literal sense of the words, that even in matters of solemn dogma the forms of expression were sometimes inexact, out of due regard to the incapacity of the popular comprehension g and that in all natural questions philosophical argument should have more Weight than mere scriptural declaration. Cardinal Baronius answered this bold declara- tion, saying that the Scripture was given to men to teach them how to rise to heaven, not how the heavens were made. The Church had no ob- jection to the Copernican Doctrine as long as the Copernicans did not attempt to use Scriptures to prove it. A Council of the Church condemned the doctrine as ,contrary to Scripture, but it did not condemn it as hersey. The doctrine did not in- volve faith or morals 3 and it is only in teaching faith or morals that the Church is infallible. , Galileo still continued his scientific Work. He proved that all bodies, even invisible ones like air, have weight. We now know that the weight of a body is due to the force of gravity acting on it, that if some gases rise upward, it is because they are replaced by denser ones. We owe this knowledge to Galileo. To him we also owe the proportional compass which is now used so much in advanced drawing. While teaching at the Uni- versity of Padua he invented an air thermometer. He had studied the expansion of solids liquids and gases, and because gasses expand most with increase of temperature, he made a narrow glass tube with a bulb at one end, and placed this vertically in a vessel of water. When the temp- erature fell, the air in the bulb contracted and the water ascended the narrow tube. His last astronomical discovery was made in 1637, when he discovered the moon's diurnal and monthly librations. In the same year he became blind. For some time he had been suffering from a disease in his right eye. The same disease now impared his left eye, and blindness was the result. The misfortune of deafness was also addedbto his declining years. He died January S,