Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

Text from Pages 1 - 126 of the 1899 volume:

3oarb of £bttor EOITORS-1N-CHIEF. MK jAMF.S 8 iIbSON. t MISS BlTFORD SCRUGGS. 9 A� sis«« iil BUSINESS MANAGERS MfC HH t t- JF. PARKINSON, MK. KURD ItabST, LITERARY EOiTORS. MK. CH.’.VOJ ER U WATSON. Mo MR. RAY MFkRiLI. ’ � MISS S' ATTIR LEE PEAR V, EXCHANGE EDITOR. M 5S •.kVfc TiCi.r-XJKDWARn .0 LOCAL EOITORS. ' MU. KTIU K BVKM- •« ' MISS JtL!A !iER .. K MISSOURI XIi-.«.tRDS-ON - ARTISTS MR. LEON SLAB . v MR. CLAY DOBSON MR. WlL? L. TOOL MK TAYLOR RORKRTS MR. R1C-MISS MADGE ELLIOTT MK. W1I.UAM WE THINK. Think how such remarkable people as now compose the Senior class were all once Freshmen. We are the proud possessors of all the wisdom of this enlightened age. Indeed, we know so much that the teachers give us nothing but hundreds, then apologize because they cannot give more. Think not that because we are so brilliant, we are a vain, useless class; for we are not. The art-loving Seniors have formed an Art Club with which to beat the Freshmen into taking drawing. The boys organized the Athletic Association for the promotion of base-ball practice among the teachers. Under such editors-in-chief as Parkinson, Miss Zens, and Gibson, the Luminary has eclipsed the sun and likewise the rays from Brinkman’s countenance. Yea, verily, we are famous abroad. The waves of ora-, tory started in Central, reached Chicago, brought back a medal for Cromer to put safely away. As to the essays written for the Sons of the Revolution—why, they so excelled the others that the judges could not and did not consider them. Alter all this was accomplished the Seniors finally thought that a class would be a good thing. This x'raordinary class did not have the usual Senior fight; ----v. f but calmly elected James E. Gibson, president. The Seniors’ eye for beauty was shown in the class pin selected. As a proof of the deference which is paid to our choice of colors, let it be said that both the Manual and Lincoln High Schools selected the same, realizing that no colors more beautiful could be found. Although the Convention Hall was built for our commencement exercises, nevertheless the Seniors of ’99, the crowning glory of Old Central, had become so attached to the school and had rendered such able assistance to the faculty that they preferred to be graduated in the Assembly Hall, amid the reading of the Declarations ot Independence and beating of tom-toms. THE JUNIORS. [The historian wishes to place before the public a correct journal of this noble class, without any of that sneering and deriding, that raillery and culogism that are so much indulged in by ignorant Seniors and otnersof unmentionable insignificance. Sophomores and Freshmen ] Introduction. HOW preposterous to think of anybody’s needing an introduction to the Juniors,—to the class of 1900. The fame of the brave class that contemplated giving a ball to the Seniors when the irate treasurer repeatedly said that the class possessed sixty cents, surely that has come to your ears? But come with me —an introduction. He who assumes the attitude of Macbeth, or scans with a pencil until your tired brain whirls, or he who self-assertively possesses the right of way; any one of these is he. And being now able to distinguish him at a distance (usually less than you wish it might be), you enquire,—the origin of this animal? We blush with shame to say that we were once Freshmen. Yet that blush wanes when we look at the examples of that class now before us. We attended to our lessons, not trying to occupy the whole school to the discomfiture of other inmates, but relying wholly upon ourselves and shunning the other classes. We held ourselves aloof from the debilitating and paralyzing influences that they produced not only upon themselves, but upon everyone who came their way. The blush almost fades away when we realize that this first strength of character was the root of our present greatness. When Sophomores we held in memory all that had proven valuable to us in the past, and, being endowed with better developed minds than the present Sopho- mores have, we were enabled to add much more to our already large stock of understanding and scholarship. In this way we shut ourselves away from the vacillating class in advance of us; but, as nearly all animals do, we also sought company, and because we would not allow ourselves to be contaminated with the socialism of the other classes, we took the other alternative; we came back in the afternoon and visited our teachers. This, we afterwards found out helped them wonderfully in preparing the lessons for the next day. So, practically speaking, there are but few of you who do not owe us an everlasting debt of gratitude for having so well instructed your teachers to impart their knowledge to you. But now we are Juniors; we have reached the highest pinnacle that can be attained in High School. In this position we are the loftiest and most envied. Below us, on one side, are the Sophomores,makinga reasonable breach between the Freshmen and us; while, below, on the other side, are the Seniors, widening the breach between us and the Freshmen at college. And as the Seniors begin to sec their littleness quite a good deal, they are more worthy of our near relation than the college Freshies. For where could we have a more disgusting position than to be placed next to the cringing, crawling college Freshmen? Therefore, brethrens and sisturns, let 11s rejoice that we are mighty Juniors. Photo by Thomson. opbontorc anb rc5 man £ sscs Photo by Thoiiiw.ii. Hill. Switzer. Warren. Miss Andrews. Miss Stewart. Miss Marsh. Miss Bushey. Miss Dunne. Harry Switzer. - President Miss Lpra Bushey. - Secretary Miss E a Stewart. Critic F.. A. Warren. Miss Birdie Dunne, George Hill. - Vice-President Miss Myrti.k Andrews, - Treasurer Miss Eva Marsh, - Sergeant-at-Arms ' Reporters. Russell. Pugslcy. Morrow. Singleton. Miss Gibson. Miss Swoltord. Miss Brent. Fred Pugslky. • Miss Martha Brent, Miss I.ucii.e Gibson. -Will Singleton. - I.loyd Morrow. Roy Russell. President Vice-President Secretary - Treasurer Reporter THE SOPHOMORES. IT was on Friday, October 14. 1898, that we first began 1 to move the universe and we have kept it on the move for the whole nine months. In fact, we are the only class organization that ever has a quorum at its meetings. On account of closed doors and intense interest in candy eating our meetings are always well filled until adjournment. With the two years of society training, every member of our class has learned how to vote “aye ” and “no,” half know how to move to adjourn, and one says he knows what is meant by the previous question, but as he refuses to divulge the secret, a committee of three has been appointed to investigate the aforesaid member and report to the society the meaning of this mysterious phrase. Our wit and humor is of dark brown color, but when warmed up by a heated debate, effervesces with sparkling repartee. Mr. Howard Packer pounded the table at the first meeting, but now Mr. Harry Switzer wields the eraser. We have only two hundred and ninety-seven members, and the loss of two. of the class, Packer and Warrick, possessed of so much intelligence and beauty, has greatly impaired the progress of the organization. We also miss the presence of Miss Emery and Miss Kinney. Mr. Downing, one of our most valued members is repeatedly absent on account of continuous engagements at two o’clock. By next year we hope that all these evils will be remedied and that we will be the noble, illustrious, world-renowned, eye-dazzling Juniors of 1900, as we have been the Sophs of ’99. ill _ I) -18- THE FRESHMEN. Yell. Central Ree, Central Rah! Freshmen! Freshmen! Sis, Boom, Ah! Colors Burnt Orange and Light Blue. RECIPIENTS for all anti-diluvian jokes, unspared objects for jest and jibes so called, milk-drinking, candy-eating, sand-pile-playing Freshmen, we want to state right now that we are here, four hundred strong, patiently, calmly serenely abiding the time when the hated name of Freshmen will be relegated to the past and we shall be Sophomores, rampant in name and in deed. The history of our year’s existence has been one long series of abuses imposed upon a patient, long-suffering class of individuals whose only fault was inexperience and extreme youth. But how can we help being young and unsophisticated. We were born young and we have not the grinding out of the years so that we can make ourselves older faster than other people become; and as for being inexperienced, the time will come when we will talk back to our teachers just as Seniors do. and chew gum like Sophomores, and flirt like Juniors. Just wait ’till we get started and the school will be in a continuous hubbub as we pass through the four years’ course. Already we have had a meeting where one obstreperous member was bodily expelled, where chairs flew through the air like meteors through the sky, where frightened girls lost their false hair and boys fainted in the excitement. Just think when we get old and strong how we will tear things up. We advise the Board of Education to brace the building with iron girders so that in future years it will stand the strain of our meetings. We are organized and ready to do business; we have chosen colors and a yell and have elected officers. These are the regulators: President, Fred Pugsley (strong enough to enforce all rulings by physical backing); Vice Brest., Martha Brent (good to look at); Sec., Lucile Gibson (adds dignity to the meetings); Treas., Will Singleton (counts coin easily); Ser., Roy Russell (a good rustler); Ser., Helen Swofford (does cake-walk when performing duty); Reporter, Lloyd Morrow (a regular sunbeam. ) Mr. Frank Copley (98) is attending Ann Arbor. Mr. Kersey Reed (98) and Mr. I). L. James (98) are at Vale. Miss Ruth Gentry (98) is at Vassar. Misses Virginia Moore and Marie Pugsley (98) are at Smith. Miss Fthel Osgood (97) is clerk of the Manual Training High School. Mr. James Yeager (97) is attending Ann Arbor. Mr. Earl Rieger (97) will in a short time be admitted to the bar. Miss Grace Hawes (98) is studying elocution in Boston. Miss Alice Russell (98) has been in Chicago taking the kindergarten course. Miss Mary Bone (98) is substituting in the Kansas City schools. Mr. Benjamin Lee (97)1 is at Harvard. Miss Bernice Wells (98) is teaching in the Humboldt school. Miss Cora Waring (98) is substituting. Miss Sophia Baum (98) is traveling in Europe. Mr. Steve Ganson (96) is at the Missouri State University. Mr. George B. Longan (98) is reporter for the Times. o— Mr. Halsey Lyle (98) and Mr. William Wallace (98) are attending the Medical University. Mr. David Hirsch (97) is a sophomore at Harvard, lie is president of the Sophomore Debating Club, and is considered one of the best speakers in the University. He won second place in the contest for the Pasteur Debating Medal. Miss Lea Woolf of the class of ’96 graduated with the highest honors at the Medical College this year. Mr. Guy Lewis, Central’s declaimer (96) graduated from the Kansas City School of Oratory last year. He is now teaching elocution in Rich Hill, Mo. Miss Elizabeth Parkinson (96), whose beautiful voice has charmed so many hearers, is now studying Music in Europe. Miss Bertha Elston (96) is substituting in Kansas w City schools, preparing to become a teacher. Mr. Will Vaughan (97) is in business in the city and has been very successful. Mr. Will Whitfield (96) is on the exchange department of the Star. Miss Edith Davenport (96) has been taking a postgraduate course at Central, and is now preparing to go to Europe to study art and music. Miss Nathal Sharp (97) is teaching. Mr. Frank Wilbur (97) is in business in the city. Miss Lucilc Stewart (97) is substituting in the Kansas City schools. Mr. Ralph Wakefield has become a very successful minister. Mr. TheodoreCriley, the valedictorian of the class of ’98 has spent the winter in Arizona. Mr. Shelton Stone (98) is a deputy sheriff at the Court House. Miss Pearl Constable, the winner of the senior latin medal in the class of ’97, is traveling in the South. Miss Martha Criley, who graduated in ’97 as valedictorian of her class, is at Smith. Mr. Clifford Snow (97) is employed with Swofford Bros’. Dry Goods Co. Miss Virgie Hubbell has been compelled to leave college on account of ill-health. Mr. Charles Eldridge (98) is employed at Emery, Bird, Thayer's. Miss Fannie Rembert has been traveling in the South the past winter. 9 Oje pbilomatbcan Society. Yell. Thalassa, Thalassa, Thala, Philometica, Philo, Philo! 1 Colors—Yellow and White. Jtjt OFFICERS: President. Christine Brinkman Vice-President, Sallif. Seawell Secretary, Nellie Carkener Kyburnates, - Dorothea M'Ann Critic, Mary Johnson Sergeant-at-Arms, Olive Oburn Scribe, - LoTTA 11 EWSON MEMBERS: Ruth Austin, Helen Mann, Helen Beaham, Justine Mann, Julia Berger, Mary McMillan, Christine Brinkman, Julia Moore, Nellie Carkener, Ruth Mosher, Margaret Cole, Olive Oburn, Margaret Dennis, Mattie Lee Peak, Pauline Kllison, Monica Railsback, Julia Freeman, Sallie Seawell, Mary Gentry, Marie Stewart, Lucile Gibson, Bessie Stocking, Mabel Hays, Helen Swofford, 1 lelen Hendrix, Cornelia Thacher, I.otta Hewson, Marion Thayer, Louise Hopkins, Cora Tracy, Harriett Houston, Marguerite Tyler, Mary Johnson, Helen Williams, Cornelia Ketcham, Fannie James, Dorothea Mann, Alta Zens. THE P — 2 ON Friday the Philomathean Society met, and the next day it snowed, so the saying goes. Yes, but it was not flakes that fell. It might have snowed fakes, for the Platos make enough racket to break the floor and fall down upon us. Once the Platos did disturb a select meeting of the Philos. They did not come through the floor, but burst in the door. When they saw the dignified conduct of the Philos they wished that the floor might open and swallow them up. They have never “just dropped in” since. To go back to my original statement, it snowed. In the room stood the renowned Philo tree of wisdom which changes blossoms about once a week to agree with each mood of the girls. The tree makes lightning changes. Hut it snowed. The girls took their seats and the president called out in stentorian tones, “Order!” Another thing I admire about the Philos is—but it snowed—oh, that’ll come later—that there is no contention for honors. We always have our minds made up. One gets the position and there’s an end on’t. HILOS. Oh no, we are never stubborn—simply set in our ideas. We are jolly girls, too. We do not believe in devoting a lifetime under the tree of knowledge, but often turn down the broad path of pleasure. Now and then we stop for a party or a feast, yet return ever and anon to the protection of our wisdom tree. We, simple as we are in our habits, sweet though we may be in our manners, inspire a certain awe in the hearts of our fellow students. When we made bold to challenge the winners on the Plato-C. L. C. contest, you should have heard the petty excuses, the laughs from our worthy fellow colleagues. And why? Because of the fear the boys hold for us sisters. But now it snowed. A shower of leaves and hawthorn blossoms fell down like snow from the tree of wisdom. Leaves for the dear old Seniors whose days among us are numbered. I la, ha’s for the Juniors, who need a little laugh at their expense to take away some of their conceit. Thorns for the Sophomores who, though they want the highest branches trom the tree of wisdom, are so hindered by the thorns that they must remain in the ranks of mediocrity. And blossoms for the Freshmen, who, up to their high school life picked but the buds of knowledge. s - Cfye piatonian Society. Yell. MEMBERS: (Printed according to the length of membership.) Agomen, Derkomen, Bryant Cromer, J. Byers Love, Rip, Ray, Rah, Plato, Plato, Janies E. Gibson, v C. Lester Hall Sis, Boom, Ah! Douglas Atwill, Stanley Stewart, Colors—Apple Green and Pink. John Walker, Arthur Brown, Howard Mullctt, Thomas Reed, OFFICERS: Philip F. Parkinson, Richard McCarty, President, Albert J. Bone P'rcd Lee, Dan McFarland, Albert Bone, Will L. Todd, Vice- President, Lee E. Piiilbrook Lee Phil brook, Arthur Sutermeister, 7 Chandler Watson, Secretary, C. Arthur Brown 1 leberd James, Treasurer, - - Tom B. Reed Clay Dobson, Waltus Scruggs, John Long, Richard Robertson, Critic, - Dan McFarland Lathrop Ripley, Dudley Black, Sergeant-at-Arms, Wallace Lee John Sills. Wallace Lee, Edward Hill, Will Hogsett, Praetor Piatonian, - Ed Hill Harry Lyons, Henry Thayer. -37- THE PLATONIAN SOCIETY, AS IT IS. THE “High School Debating Society,” was the first literary organization in High' School. This society was composed of both boys and girls, and its aim was teaching its members to be more at their ease in extemporaneous flirting. Candy was their sweetest fancy; but some of the more fastidious boys became disgusted with the class of candy the girls furnished them, and, declaring that no one could carry on a flirtation with such candy as that weighing on his mind(?) they withdrew, and formed, with the addition of a few outside boys, a society composed entirely of boys. This new society was given the euphonious appellation of the Platonian” Society; probably because not a solitary Plato had ever been guilty of forming a purely Platonic friendship with a girl. But from that day, the word “platonic” took on a different meaning in old Central, and some of the “Platonic” friendships that now exist between Philos and Platos are veritable works of art, or rather of Cupid. In this same year, the old Debating Society,” reor- ganized as the Central Literary Club;” whereupon the Platos challenged them to an annual beauty show, each soc.cty to have four contestants. The Platos, of course, won the first contest, but the second year they sprung a ringer” on us, and, being represented by four white dresses, their victory was decidedly unanimous. This was a terrible blow to the beautiful and fragile Platos. Nevertheless, undaunted still, they set to work to buy Peroxide of Hydrogen,” Pozzoni’s Complexion I o� vder, and all the latest things in rouges and curling irons on the market. Even all' this expense and hard consistent work was just barely able to counterbalance the spell of those white dresses, and for ten years they could do no better than two and two. But last year, two of the Platos, veritable geniuses in their way, discovered a method of curling the hair so that it looked exactly like a frizzled door-mat, and through this invention the Platos were at last enabled to again defeat the C. L.C. From now on we anticipate nothing but easy victories, and in after generations the Platos will bow in praise to the one who invented that way to curl the hair. —28— Photo by John-on. The Central Literary Club. O}o (Central titorary (Club. Yell. Nika. Nika, Rip, Rah, Ree, Nota, Rene, C. L. C. Colors Old Rose and Rluc. jM OFFtCERS: President, Will Lawrence Vice-President, Norman Watson Secretary, Miss Thelma Orbison Treasurer, Edgar Lovejoy Critic, Lath hop Smith Sergeant-at-Arms, - Leon Searl Reporter, Thomas Scruggs MEMBERS: Celia Abernathy, Raymond Barnett, Arthur Byrne, Ray Brinkman, Floy Bridgeford, Jessie Butts, Frank Clay, Mason Dean, Comingo Griffith, Elsie Gilliam, Edith Gilliam, Zoe Ford, Barton Hall, Katherine Harroun, Kate L. Holloway, M. H. Hudson, Jr., Edna King, Will Lawrence, Edgar Lovejoy, Ray Merrill, Lloyd Morrow, Ethel Murray, George Mulford, Nellie Murray, Virgil Platt, Thelma Orbison, Will P. M. Stevens, Ruby Ridgway, Tom Scruggs, Buford Scruggs, 1 Ielen Stout, Leon Searl, Alberta Smith, Roy Standish, Norman Watson, Lathrop Smith, Allen Withers, Diller Wood, -3o- % THE C. L. C S. TO condense to one page a history with a sufficient number of facts to fill this book is indeed a difficult task. Our career dates from the year eighteen eighty-two. With bright girls inspiring intelligent boys, the “Debating Society,” so-called, decided such questions as “Whether condensed m i 1 k should be fed the Freshies” and “The best kind of a pony to use.” Opinions varied. Some boys could not stand it and formed a society called the Platonian, where one idea only was necessary. Many times have our girls spoken tender words of comfort to these wandering minstrels (?) after the contests, but in vain. It was in the contest of eighteen eighty-eight that the once proud Platos were compelled to drop their heads and even forget their yell defeated four numbers out of four. The heat of our enthusiasm by the society thermometer was 99 degrees. This old tune kept ringing in our heads: Hush, little Plato, don’t you cry, You’ll win a number bye and bye, After you get a member or so, That has some sense as well as dough. Several years ago the Philos wished to join the contest. In an attitude of supplication, with hands thrown heavenward, they poured forth such a stream of verbosity and incoherent logic that we were almost persuaded, but our deep sympathy for them was too great, and both societies refused the challenge. Sobs burst forth like soap bubbles, but all was in vain. This year a Thanksgiving dinner was given by the girls to the boys. How the hungry and meek Platos longed once more to be in that “Debating Society. A large dining room was found, which happened to be the basement. During the dinner, with wooden knives and the floor for chairs, the chicken could not be found until our president informed us that the Freshmen were having an election and roosters were needed to crow. The diversity of toasts was simply immense— “Hail to the chief who in 17 roasts us, And brings up the joke he’s told oft before; Hail to the dear little teacher of thirteen, Who greets us with French ere we enter the door.” Such is the history of the Central Literary Club; it hav ing furnished the S. L. H.’s with boxes of starch and scenery for the Open Session, the Philos with new and unheard of jokes, and the Platos with words of consolation and hints how to win in contests. -3 The Society of Literature and History. Photo by 'ohnson. (The Society of literature att history. MEMBERS: Colors—Purple and White. Mary Alexander, Carrie Bacon, Russell Bartlett, OFFICERS: Inez Clark, Mary Coon, President, - Alfred Seddon Almon Copley, Vice-President, Marie Alexander Bessie Daniels, Ernest Davidson, Secretary, Mabel Jenkins Lorenzo Dewey, Treasurer, - - Fred Elliott Gwendolen Edwards, Fred 11. Elliott, Critic, - Nellie Milam Margaret Elliott, Sergeant-at Arms, Ed North Roy F. Harrison, Geo F. Hax, Samuel Lucretius Historicus, - Ralph Morrison Mablc Hax. Otto E. Hirsch, Reporter, Gwendolen Edwards Walter Clay Hyatt. Mabel Jenkins, Harold P. Kuhn, William H. Maclaren, Ruth McMillan, Ralph K. Morrison, Grace Medes, Nellie Milam, Florence Merry man, Ed. North, Fred W. Pabst, Winnifred Patton, Olive Richardson, Clement Richardson, Gertrude Rockfeller, Florence Ross, Albert M. Scddon. Gene Smith, Chester Swan, Carrie Stoner, Maud Swygard, Archibald Smith, Alein Triplette, Allan VVayman, THE S. DREVIOUS to March I School dragged on a 21, 1892, the Central High wearisome existence with a fortitude and perseverance that was truly remarkable. To be sure, the Glee Club pounded their guitars and sang most dolefully, the Platos and C. E. C.’s held their insomnia-curing contests, yet there was no real life to be seen, no S. L. H. to keep things going. At that time many of the pupils and teachers felt the need of a society which should have for its object something more than dancing and “running the school.” Accordingly on the twenty-first day of the calendar month of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred four score and twelve, about twenty-five of the best pupils in the school organized a new society. To this organization they gave the rather formidable Latin name, “Societos Letteras Historiaquc,” which has since been translated “The Society of Literature and History,” or the S. L. H. These members, with the help of a few who left the other societies, went to work. Their first and second open sessions were held in the Auditorium and Coates L. H S. Opera House. These were undoubtedly the greatest and most successful undertakings ever attempted by any society. In the years of ’94,’95 and '96, the High School competed in the Interstate Oratorical Contests. In all three of these years S. L. II. members won in both the preliminary and the interstate contests. Since then the other societies have deemed it wisest not to compete with the S. L. H., but t 1 hold little contests of their own, in which they can get at least even honors. During the seven years of the existence of the S. L. H. the Glee Club has expired in agony, the Choral Club has howled through two operas and died, little infantine Freshmen have become grave and reverend university students, “frats” composed of boys sometimes wise, but oftener otherwise, have risen, fought their little fights and subsided; the ferocious cadets have fired their terrific volleys of blank cartridges and then silently retired to the hidden recesses of the cellar; yea, verily, even the much ridiculed Manual boys have beaten old Central to the score of 51 to 39. But through all this turmoil and confusion the S. L. II. lias stood firm as the towering Gibraltar, unconquerable as the “raging Raw,” and so will it ever stand. When old age be our gray heads to the ground we shall s see our grandchildren wave the pur and white, and hear them yell Boom-a-laca! Boom-a-laca! Boom! Boom! Bah! S. L. H.. S. L. H.! Rip! Ray! Rah! 1'hoto by 'Johnson. Central High School Football Team. i I Points scored by .....5. 2nd Medics..................0 ......17.... K. C. Law School...........0 .....6 K. C. Kan. Medical College. 0 6 .. Warrensburg Normal ...... 0 ...... 0....Wentworth. ..............13 ......47. . Woodland College..... ......0 ...... 5----Fort Scott. „............ 6 ......12----Manual..................... 6 ......6.... 1st Medics (practice game).. 0 . C. H. S., 106; points scored by opponents, 25. THE TEAM. Manager, John R. Walker, Jr. John Moore..........Left End Right............. E. Baehr E. Washer....... . Left—Tackle—Right... __Taylor Duncan Ernest Davidson.....Left—Guard—Right..... .....C. Washer J. Adamson... . ........Center......................... Lloyd Martz..........Quarter-Back...................... Walter Shaw, Capt.. Left—Half-Back—Right- Archibald Smith McKee Welch............Full Back....................... -37- Photo by Johnson. (Lfye £ econ! (Team. Taylor. VnnKtnan. LoveJoy. Rider. Hunt. Long. Kendall. Dougherty. VTillliama. Shlppey. Anderson. OUR NEXT BEST PIG SKIN CHASERS. DID you see us on the other page? If not, look again. We arc the first—the second—the first second team to break through the line of yearly drawbacks. When it comes to grit and determination we are right there. It is with mingled joy and pride, with a conglomeration of bruised arms and battered shins that we hang out our record of numerous victories and one little defeat. Read on. Was it the first game that you asked us about? Well, we were game; but really, we wouldn’t have done a thing to the Westports if they hadn’t changed rules on us. As it was, the score was only six to five. The next side-splitting contest was with the Beacon Hill team. Here we got tied up, as the score was five to five. Ah, how sweet is revenge! In the second game with Westport we knew we were up against the real thing. Here’s where we cheated the barbers and the dentists. We beat these undefeated champions by a score of seventeen to six. Our fame preceded us, and a trail of glory followed. Only two more teams dared to tackle us and they tackled too high. The Brooklyn’ Heights were downed two to nothing; and the Kansas City, Kansas, jays had surely seen better days before they swallowed that score of twelve to nothing. Thus endeth the career of one mighty. In all the Annuals of Time will our names be forever remembered. The Second Football Team. Woodford Taylor ....Left—End—Right.................Eugene Rider Pat Dougherty....... Left—Tackle—Right....Everett Williams Isadore Anderson.....Left—Guard—Right .......Roszell Hunt H. Van Eman..........................Center............. Warren Kendall....................Quarter-Back.......... John Long..........Left—Ha’f-Back—Right...............Lee Shippey Ed Lovejoy, Capt....................Full-Back........... -39- Something to kick about. BASEBALL TEAM C. Washer. Barnes. Smith. Green. E Washer. Zener. Moore. Shaw. Cole. BASEBALL. Vt n rr iWBKKKKMj RULY, ever since athletics was introduced into the band of philosphers at high school, all the base ball and foot ball scrubs and in fact everything pertaining to athletics, has been hobbyized and petrified by individuals, and the teams have not been, speaking honestly for once, high school teams. But this year, through the dying efforts of several of the boys, and also with the.aid of many of the bleacherite teachers, the Kansas City High School Athletic Association, U. S. A., was established for several purposes. These were to teach the school how to fight in elections, form a gym, where paper darts could be thrown and dummies killed, and to control and sustain baseball, football, and other bully teams. Through the efforts of this organized body of wooden men, the base ball and track teams were manufactured. As a result of this, both teams are strictly high school, in sentiment, as well as in personal (as evidenced on field day). John Moore, a prominent member of last year’s football team, was elected captain of the baseball bums. lie immediately commenced training and rubbing the boys, and as a consequence had a good team ready to compete against the Manual on field day. But we lost a very hotly contested game, owing to the fact that one of our most influential members was sick, and had been so for a week prior to the game. Anyone will admit, we think, however, that the nine did very well, considering that the captain was not able to participate in the struggle to death, and that the team had had practically no practice at tiddledy-winks for a week before field day. The team, however, is not soured by this defeat and is working hard for several other games which they intend to play this year and possibly to retrieve its honor by' another game with the Manual fat boys. For the Athletic Association has laid the stone, iron, and brick foundation on which Central in future may' contest and win in athletic games from any and every high school academy in this grand state of Mizzouree. track team, Welsh. Shaw. Watson. Smith. Duncan Ellis. Field. Green. Offut. Harrison. Mullord. Davidson. Washer. Christopher. FIELD LVVAYS, for years past, a few teachers and pupils have tried to boost up athletics. However, it was not until this year that they actually did anything. In January, the Central Athletic Association was formed. Then it had only forty members; today it has two hundred. Not only has it succeeded in hood-winking the boys, but also the fairer sex. Of the thousand High School pupils that yelled themselves blue in the face on Field Day, at least half were girls. Following arc the events and the winners in the Field Day contests: Standing Broad Jump—Henry. M. first, o (t . in.: Shaw. C, second: C hr 1 Ball’ Throw —Green. C. first. 4 it• : Shaw. C. second; Estill. M. third. Running High Jump Douglass. M. and Tate. M. tied for hrst. 5 «eot; Christopher, C. third. .... .... . .. . , Putting 16-lb. Shot—Shaw. C. first. 31 ft.. S in.; Washer. C. second; Lindsley. M th'iSLd. Dash—Douglass. M. first: Harrison. C. second: Mnlford. C. third Running Broad Jump—Tate. M. first. 16 ft., 9 in.; Shaw. C. second; Lindsley. M. third. Three-Legged Race Parson and Staley. M. first; Davis and Rowe. M. second Shaw and Weicn. C. third. Throwing the’ 16-lb. Hammer—Bryant. M, first. 66 ft.; Lindsley, M. second; Arni, M, third. Quarter-Mile Dash—Dougjass. M. first: F.llis, C. second; Watson. C. third. Hop. Ste Offut. C, third juarier-niiie w«su-uuuKirt -. .m. , lop. Step and Jump—Christopher. C. hrst. 37 ft.. 2 in.; Lindsley. M. second. Had the Central ball team more practice, it could easily have defeated the Manual team. Central played -43 DAY. three substitutes. The game resulted in a victory for Manual; the score being 8 to 4. It is fortunate for Ganzcl, who is admitted on all sides to be the star first baseman of the Western League, that Manning did not see Mr. Cammack play first. If he had, Ganzcl would be looking for a place, while the dignified professor would now be playing an errorless game at first, and knocking home runs for the Blues. But Mr. Cammack alone was not responsible for Central’s victory. Did not Mr. Bainter prove a second Hermann Long, and Mr. Welch throw curves that would make Kid Nichols’ eyes water with envy? Did not our outfield have a fielding average of !,ooo? (They had no chances.) We were proud of Major Kelsey last year when he mounted his impatient black steed, drew his sword, and went away to fight for Cuba and cat embalmed beef, but we were prouder of him on Field Day when he caught Mr. Welch’s curves. We could hardly believe that it was the same Mr. Peters who calmly steps aside when there is a dangerous experiment to be performed, and leaves Miss Kidwcll to perform it, that held down third in such fine form. Mr. Smith did well as water boy. The contest brought sufficient funds to equip a fine gymnasium And now that the whole school will unite in the praise of a good athlete, the boys will strive as never before, to gain new laurels for themselves, their girls, and their private fortunes. CADETS. THE KANSAS CITY HIGH SCHOOL CADETS. ILITARY drills and brass buttons are very fascinating. At least that is what John Miller and Taylor Duncan thought when, three years ago they sent out a call for a meeting for the purpose of organizing a salutin’ corps of wooden men in old Central. About two hundred answered the call and a committee was appointed to confer with the faculty and the board of education. The fur having been rubbed the right way, the boys organized. When it came to the scrap of electing officers it was found that there were too many boys for one company, and so they were divided into three companies, “A,”“B and “C. A” and “B” were composed of large “tins and “C” of small ones. The mighty Duncan was elected captain of Co “A,” with Millard Russell and John Miller as first and second water carriers. Steven Hall was made captain of “B,” with Robt. Brockett and Howard Vrooman for his “slaves. Carl Slavens was elected high scrubabalutes in “C company, with John R. Walker and Walter Wilson as best men. Feeling the need of an instructor, the Cadets applied to the board, and our present commandant, Major S. E. Kelsey was installed. He immediately placed the boys under strict military discipline, organized his staff of stiffs and set to work to make brigadier generals out of them. How well he succeeded every one knows, or ought to, and the erect carriage, square shoulders and quick military step of the boys, as they move through the halls, attests the efficiency of his training. The Major’s efforts were well seconded by “Big Gun Taylor Duncan, and so well did he learn the military art from the Major, that when the Spanish-American war broke out, he was able, through the Major’s influence, to obtain a commission as a lieutenant of volunteers. Others also of our high school cadets figured in the Spanish war, with credit to themselves anti the school they came from. OFFICERS OF BATTALION OF HIGH SCHOOL CADETS. S E. Kelsey. Maj. U. S. V.. Commandant. Harold Kuhn. First Lieut, and Adjt. CO. “A.” CO. “B.” Capt 1st Lieut Commanding Nathaniel Grant 1st Scrgt 2nd Lieut Scrgt John Starkie 1st Scrgt Sergt Sergt Corp Sergt Corp Corp Corp Corp Corp Corp -45- 'OLD CENTRAL” IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Camp Alger. Major S. E. Kelsey. Commanding 1st Battalion of 3rd Mo. Vols. Lieutenant Taylor E. Duncan. 2nd Lieut., Co. L, 3rd Mo. Vols. Sergeant Fred Norman. Co. L, 3rd Mo. Vols. Corporal Clarence Miller. Co. L, 3rd Mo. Vols. George Smith. Private in Hospital Corps of 20th Inf., U. S. A. Albert Lowry. Trumpeter in 3rd Mo. Vols. George English. Capt. in 5th Mo. Vols. Robert Kirk. Private in 5th Mo. Vols. Scott Carruthers. Private, Co. II, 3rd Mo. Vols. —46— IP ReD PA6ST AtlS5jULIABf.l� .C F r Jam65 QiBSon ’arm' rititf.PtAK —47— Photo by Thom on. lbc Central luminary Staff Watson. Pabst. Parkinson. Gibson. Byrne. Searl. Merrill. Miss Richardson. Miss Edwards. Misspeak. Miss Zens. Miss Berger. Miss Scruggs. WHAT IT IS. IT may be of interest to the school in general to know 1 how the Central Luminary is managed, and for this reason we insert this article. On the opposite page is a . picture of the staff for the year just closing. It is composed of three members from each of the four literary societies. The offices arc changed every three months among the staff; Philip Parkinson, Miss Zens and James Gibson being the three editors-in-chief. During the last year considerable change has been made in the policy of conducting the paper. The price has been reduced from ten to five cents and the circulation increased from five hundred to a thousand. It as been the endeavor ol the management to conduct the paper free from any clique feeling and prejudice. In our efforts toward this end we feel that much thanks is due the teachers for their continued assistance. We would call attention further to the snap-shot picture of The Luminary box. which shows how willingly the school has contributed during the past year. 49 pROGftr!.M FOR 1899. GRAND MARCH. 1. “The Sea Hath its Pearls,” - 2. Invocation, -3- Salutatory, - 4. Valedictory, - ( j. “Ye Banks and Braes,” I b. “The Voice of Spring,” 6. Presentation of Diplomas, 7. “In This Hour of Softened Splendor,” 8. Commencement Address, 9. Spring Song, • Pinsuti Rev. Dr. Cameron Mann M R. JAM ES E. Gl BSON Miss Sallik V. Si;aw kit. Vogrick Labbett - Hon. R. L. Yeager Bruch Dr. M ATTH EW S. HUGH ES Mendelssohn MUSIC FURNISHED BY THE • « • LYRIC QUARTET COMPOSED OF • • • MR. AND MRS. BEN HOLLENBECK, MRS. CARRIE FARWELL-VOORHEES, MR. E. K. CHAFEE. MRS. E. C. WHITE. ACCOMPANIST. —So— {•Names followed by a star have received honorable mention. This is attained by making an average of 93 on 32 points. 95 on 30 points, or 97 on 28 points.] BOYS. I Douglass If. Atwill 2. Edwin L. Barber 3. Milton O. Barnes 4. Peter Bayzman 5. Dudley F. Black 6. William Lowe Bridges 7. Raymond Paul Brinkman 8. James Frank Brooke 9. Campbell Christopher 10. Frank B. Clay 11. Granville M. Cole 12. Almon Warren Copley 13. Bryant S. Cromer 14. Ernest PL. Davidson 1 5. Mason L. Dean 16. St. Clair Dimmitt 17. Patrick Henry Doherty 18. Albert F. Drake 19. Adolph Flersheim 20. James PLdgar Gibson 21. Herbert P. Green 22. Crawford Lester Hall, Jr. 23. Geo. L. Hax, Jr. 24. Otto E. Hirsch 25. C. Roszell Hunt 26. PLlza Hurst 27. Walter Clay I lyatt 28. Heberd James 29. Virgil H. Jaudon 30. John Kavanaugh 31. Joseph Knoche 32. Robt. W. Knowles 33. Harold Philip Kuhn 34. Joseph G. Lasky 35. Fred L. Lee 36. Frank W. Liepsner 37. John Coleman Long 38. Glenn A. Loop 39. Loyd Charles Sumner Martz 40. John T. McDonnell 41. Jacob Me Millin 42. Harry Bullard Moore 43. John Bragg Moore 44. Frank Mulford 45. Howard Mullett 46. Clarence Adkins Neal 47. Robert G. Offutt 48. F'red Winfield Pabst 49. Philip Fulton Parkinson 50. Virgil N. Platt 51. Ernest Morgan Quinlan 52. Audrain Ira Renick 53. Eugene Edwin Rider 54. Millard Howell Russell 55. PLlmcr Bird Sanford 56. Waltus W. Scruggs 57. Edward Allan Setzler 58. PLlmer R. Sharon 59. Frederick S. Shaw 60. Walter White Shaw THE SENIORS. 6l. Thomas P. Shea 6 2. Philip Brown Shi Hi to O3. John M. Sills 64. D. O. Smart 65. R. Archibald Smith 66. Gene Smith 67. Gustav Stein 68. Stanley G. Stewart 69. Edgar Alphonse Sullivan 70. P. Arthur Sutermeistcr 71. Frank I.. Sweet 72. Harry Addison Sweet 73. Will L. C. Todd 74. Ernest Turner 75. Frank T. Uhrig 76. Franklin M. Underwood 77. J. Lewis Ward 78. Charles Washer 79. Norman Louis Watson 80. Royal S. Webster 81. Walter L. Wilson 82. Thomas McCoy Woods 83. Aytch P. Woodson 84. Herbert Carmack Zener. GIRLS. 1. Myrtle Gertrude Abcel 2. Leonora Adler 3. Anna Ahrens 4. Anna Alexander 5. Lillie Allin 6. Ethyl YVinnifred Austin 7. Sadie Barragar 8. Lillie Doris Barthcls 9. Clara Baumgardt 10. Helen Beahani 11. Sadie J. Bedell 12. L. Julia Berger 13. Sarah Jane Boland 14. Motlie Brewer 15. Christine Brinkman 16. Persis Brisky 17. Rose Lorena Brown 18. Clara K. Brueser 19. Mamie L. Bryant 20. Mary Elizabeth Bullard 21. Josephine Lorreto Burke 22. Nellie Cecilia Burke 23. Mable Gilliland Burnside 24. Mary Canny 2$. Anna A. Canty 26. Marie Carraher 27. E. Mabel Chamberlain 28. Allie J. Chambers 29. Edna Grace Chapman 30. Grace Chapman 31. Inez Clark 32. Edith M. Coe 33. Margaret Cole 34. Estelle M.Colgan 35. Birdie Collins 36. Gladys Lois Colt 37. Ellen Giltner Coombs 38. Mary C. Coon 39. Florence Corcoran 40. Margaret Cox 41. Frankie T. Cumming 42. Leila Cunningham 43. M. Beatrice Cutler 44. Bes ie Davis 45. Hattie Davis 46. Mabel I. Davis 47. Norma A. DeBarr 48. Elizabeth Donovan 49. Ida Beery Dunham 50. Helen Dunlap 51. Edith Elizabeth Edson C2. Alice C. Elmer 53. Cora Ettlinger 54. Fannie Ettlinger 55. Lucy M. Eylar 56. Grace Jean Ferguson 57. Anna H. Forbes 58. Lulu Margaret Garin 59. Maude Hadden 60. E. Stella Hale 61. Mary Hanson 62. Luranah Harris 63. Mabel Georgina I lax 64. Helen Chick Hendrix 65. Gertrude Blanche Hermelink 66. Florence Eugenie Higley 67. Lotta Hilliker 68. Margaret Catherine Hockcr 69. Dorothy Hodson -S3- THE SENIORS. jo. Florence Hooper ji. Harriett B. Houston 72. Ada T. Jamieson 73. Mary Judith Jennings 74. Mary Jones 75. Ethel Clair Kaufman 76. Lulu A. Knopp 77. Jessie M. Knox 78. Majie Lambkin 79. Bessie Madeline Lewis 80. Margaret Edna Lewis 81. Helen Loewen 82. Neilie Lyon 83. Anna Josephine Mahoney 84. Mabel Martin 85. Mary Frances Masters 86. Alma Olivia Mattson 87. Ella V. McDonell 88. Mary Mimms McKee 89. Margaret McKeighan 90. Willie McWilliams 91. Grace Medes 92. Florence E. Merryman 93. Genevieve May Miller 94. Julia Moore 95. Ada J. Morris 96. Nellie Eric Murray 97. Helen Claire Ney 98. Alice Norton 99. Imogene Downs Norton 00. Nadine Nowlin 01. Nellie Grace Ollis 02. Thelma Birdie Orbison 03. Artie B. Orcar 04. Maude Arnold Packard 05. Ethel Leroy Parrish 06. Mattie Lee Peak 07. Clara Barlow Peck 08. Eula Elizabetli Pennington 09. Ida May Peppard 10. Alice Marie Petrie 11. Dora Pierce 12. Monica Railsback 13. Juliette Miller Reynolds 14. Ruby Ridgway 15. Gertrude Rockefeller 16. Mary Alice Rodgers 17. Florence L. Ross 18. I ulu Schott 19. Flora PL Scott 20. Buford Scruggs 21. Sallie Virginia Seawell 22. Gretchen Seidel 23. Grace Laguna Sheridan 24. F!va M. Sherwood 25. Stella May Sherwood 26. Orpha Mabel Shoudy 27. Mary L. Silver 128. Margcret Roach Spivey 129. Irene M. Stephenson 130. P'annic Fern Stieg 131. Mabel Stone 132. Carrie.Stoner 133. Helen Louise Stout 134. Stella M. Surface 135. Katie Isabelle Sutherland 136. Maud Marie Swygard 137. Edith Erwin Thornes 138. Marcella Torrance 139. Celia Traber 140. Minnie Mac Turner 141. Margarethe Von Unwerth 142. Bertha I. Van Natta 143. Beulah Wasson 144. Olga Henrietta Welhener 145. Zennie Wells 146. Edna Gertrude White 147. Mabel Sara White 148. Bertha M. Wilkinson 149. Isabella A. Winslow 150. Samyra A. Winterbower 151. Sarah E. Woodard 152. Sophie Woolf 153. May Anclla Yancy 154. Myrtle Marie Young 155. Alta Zens V -55- « THE SENIORS. GIRLS. Zcnnie Wells Not Absent During Entire Course. BOYS. Aytch Woodson Eugene E. Rider. Ethel Kaufman Alma Mattson Grace Modes Mabel Stone Alta Zens BOYS. Not Tardy During Entire Course. Leonora Adler Sadie Barragar Clara Brueser Edna Grace Chapman Grace Chapman Mary Coon Margaret Cox Frankie Cumming Mabel I. Davis Harriett Houston GIRLS. May Miller Imogene Norton Clara Feck Ida Peppard M. Alice Rodgers Flora E. Scott Sal lie Sea well O. Mabel Shoudy Mary L. Silver Margaret R. Spivey Frank Brooke George 1 lax John M. Sills Neither Absent nor GIRLS. Maude Hadden Mabel Georgina Hax Willie McWilliams Eula Pennington Minnie M. Turner Frank Sweet Frank T. Uhrig During Entire Course. BOYS. Campbell Christopher St. Clair I) im mitt James Edgar Gibson Lloyd S. Martz Howard Mullett Robert Offutt -57- i A SHORT POEM. w ITHIN this short and silent grave Lies one the doctors failed to save. His name was Short; and short his strife To climb the short steep hill of life. An editor was lie, in short, Far-famed for wit and keen retort; . But once he met a brother quill Whose name was Long; for words of ill Long challenged Short to deadly strife; The fight to be a fight for life. A paper field was chosen, then; Each weapon was the deadly pen; The seconds chosen, those of Time. Each combatant was in his prime, And those who watched to see the fray, Said Long to Short would soon give way. —ss— Short rained his blows, short, thick and fast, While Long’s arm tarried; but, at last, It fell on Short with mighty force, And shortly made poor Short a corse. Short-sighted Short; not to have known 11 is short-comings ’twere best to own! The verdict, rendered o’er his clay, Was given in a short-hand way: “This man, named Short, came to his death By being most too short of breath.” G.F.J. A Kresluc at S:oo A M. “59- Photo by Thomson. Atwill. Dean. Mall. By rue. Dobson. James. Hopkins. Mulford. Gibson. Griffith. Parkinson. Turquoise. Pearl and Gold. ACTIVE MEMBERS: Douglass II. A twill, Arthur W. Byrne, Mason Dean, M. Clay Dobson, James E. Gibson, Comi Barton Hall, Henry Hopkins, Ilebertl James, Frank Mill ford, Philip F. Parkinson, Griffith. r g m a ALUMNI MEMBERS: Howard Austin, Edward A. H ran iff, Benj. S. Brown, Theodore M. Crilly, D. L. James, Benj. B. Lee, Paul G. Leidigh, Paul M. Mohr, T. Whitfield Mulford. Kersey C. Reed, Clifford Snow, Ralph P. Swofford, John S. Welch, Jr., Wii). A. Vaughan, Albert Lombard. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Thf.ta, Iota Alpha San. CHAPTER ROLL: Grand Rapids, Michigan Detroit, Michigan Kansas City, Missouri Chicago, Illinois - Oakland, California San Francisco, California Chicago, Illinois Mastin Park, Buffalo, New York Los Angeles, California —61— Brown. Bone. W. Lee. Fhilbrook. McCarty. Cromer. F. Lee. ,, „ Todd. Shaw. Love joy. Armour. Reed. Withers. Watson. phi €amb a (Epsilon. Fraternity Colors—Scarlet, Gold and White. Sub-Rosa Alpha. Sub-Rosa Beta. Flower—Red Carnation. Sub-Rosa Gamma. Chapters active, 12; Sub-rosa, 7; Alumni, 6. Zeta Chapter. ACTIVE MEMBERS: Watson Armour, Chas. Arthur Brown, Bryant S. Cromer, C. Lester Hall, Albert Bone, Norman L. Watson, Allen L. Withers, Lathrop Smith, Tom B. Reed, John R. Walker, Jr. Fred L. Lee, Will L. Todd, Walter White Shaw, Lee E. Phil brook, G. Edgar Lovejoy, Wallace Lee, Richard McCarty, Lathrop Ripley. HONORS HELD BY MEMBERS. Bryant S. Cromer. hirst prize, Si2$, in interacademic contest in oratory, held in Chicago. Open session President, Platonian Society. Walter W. Shaw. Captain, Football Team. Winner of greatest number of points in Field Day Contest. John R. Walker. President, Platonian Society. Football Minager. Albert J. Bone. President-elect, Platonian Society. Lee E. Philbrook. President Junior Class. The Lyceum building is no longer occupied by the Zeta and Theta chapters. New rooms will soon be completed and partly occupied by the Kansas City Phi Lambda Epsilon Alumni. Delta ©micron ©micron. Delta Chapter. Colors—Cam Flower—Red ACTIVE Raymond B. Barnett. Frank B. Clay. Roy B. Standish. Elmer B. Sanford. ALUMNI E. D. Holliwcll. Henry Myers. Merritt VV. Lucas. Halsey M. Lyle. Herbert B. Yeager. line and Gold. Rose. MEMBERS. C. Will Lawrence. Virgil N. Platt. McLain Alexander. Lloyd Morrow. MEMBERS. Oliver R. Welch. Will McCrum. Shelton P. Stone. William W. Jones. Douglas C. Crowell. CHAPTERS. Alpha, Ithaca, New York Beta, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Gamma, Cleveland, Ohio Delta, Kansas City, Missouri Epsilon, Colorado City, Colorado Zkta, Omaha, Nebraska -63“ THE GIRLS Photo by Thornton. Miss Lowry. Miss Griffith. Miss Mosher. Miss Ruth Mosher. Miss Louise Griffith. Miss Ruth Lowry. - - President - Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer ' COLLEGE CLUB. THE Girls’ College Club was organized May 4, 1899. It is composed entirely of girls intending to take a course in some good college after graduation from the High School. This extract from the constitution shows the purposes of the club: “The object of this club shall be (1) to promote good scholarship in High School work in order to insure better preparation for college; (2) to assist members in selecting proper courses of study to meet college requirements; (3) to unite more closely the High School and college by creating interest in college affairs and by becoming acquainted with college customs.” The club calls for no literary efforts from the girls. Nothing is required that will take up the time or energy of its members. The programs are supplied by talks given by college graduates or by the volunteer work of the girls. The club meets every alternate Thursday. It has been decided to adopt the school colors, blue and white, and every member will wear with them the pin of her special college. -66- 2Uembcrs. Inez Adams. Clarabel Denton. Katheryn Harroun. Mary Miller. Lulu Allen. Irene Drake. Mabel Hays. Genevieve Milnes. Mary Atchison. Cornelia Ellet. Lotta Hewson. Virginia Moninger. Ada Barrere. Erma Ellis. Lucy Holmes. Irene Moore. Isabell Baylor. Pauline Ellison. Katherine Howe. Stella Moore. Helen Beaham. Lucia Ford. Aley Hutchings. Maud Morrison. Ella Beardsley. Zoc Ford. Fannie James. • Alle Morton. Alice Bovard. Annabeth Fox. Mary Johnson. Elizabeth Morton. Floy Bridgeford. Julia Freeman. Cornelia Ketcham. Ruth Mosher. Christine Brinkman. Helen Gentry. Daisy Kirk. Ethel Murphy. Susie Brooks. Mary Gentry. Ruth Lowry. Maud Neal. Georgia Brown. Lucile Gibson. Elsie Mcllvried. Imogene Norton. Annie Clay. ' Louise Griffith. Mary Me Milieu. Madine Nowlin. Maysie Collins. Van Hammett. Anna Mayfield. Bessie Packard. Margaret Philbrook. Monica Railsback. Adelaide Randolph. Ktta Reach. Louise Reck. Olive Richardson. Louise Roberts. Minnie Ryder. Ruby Ryder. Bolena Saunders. Edith Scholey. Marguerite Shaeffer. Florence Shepard. Julia Shillito. Ethel Sparks. Ruth Spaulding. Bessie Stocking. Helen S wofford. Lucile Tappan. Helen Thornes. Flora Wolfson. Alta Zens. CENTRAL H THIS is the grand Central High School. The wide-spreading wings of the building, Darkened with dust, and in age advanced, most distinct in the sunlight, Stretch from Eleventh and Locust half-way to much travelled Twelfth street, Stretch like strong-holds old, with gates forever unyielding. IGH SCHOOL. Loud from its inmost recess, the deep-voiced, laboring (?) Senior Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the Freshman. This is the grand Central High School: but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when was heard in the distance the voice of Buchanan? Where is the Professor himself, who has taught the young ideas to shoot,— Ideas which missed in the shooting the mark at which they were aiming, Missed like the archer of old, whose arrow fell earthward unnoticed? Gone are those pleasant day's, and those pupils foreve departed Scattered like piles of green grass, when the soft blowing breezes of May Seize them and bear them away, and sprinkle them fa1 o’er the meadow. Naught but tradition remains of their achievements anc prowess at Central. PART THE FIRST. In the Missouri land, on the shores of the treacherous Muddy, this Distant, surrounded by smoke, great structure of learning Lay in the heart of the city. It was the month of December, And up to the vast auditorium surged people in flocks without number. Doors, which the skill of the workman had hung with hinges most powerful Shut out the turbulent throngs. But at intervals the strong gates Opened, and welcomed the crowds to wander at will thro’ the aisles. Here and there waved vast fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields,— These were the hats of the women simple and plain. Up (fl?LCf AT=2 Aft- in the west end The stage rose and the new curtains, and aloft in the balconies, Small children lifted their voices, and wept to the tunc of “Old Hundred,” Played by an orchestra grand—and ne’er from this pastime desisted. There, in great expectation, sat waiting the eager spectators, But they sat in opera-chairs, too, with frames of oak and of hemlock - 9- Such as the builders of schools are wont to provide for all pupils. Gay was the stage with flags of the nation; and palm-leaves projecting Over the heads of the speakers protected and shaded their faces. Here in this noble hall, where brightly the sunlight Touched the new-built walls, and gilded the heads of the people. Matrons and men all were gathered The young and the old of the city, with minds fully tuned for each Discourse, that the prominent lords of creation had prepared For this joyful event,—the formal dedication of Central, our noble High School. Solemnly down to the footlights advanced A royal Chorus, a hundred young men and young women, Trained by one of our teachers. Up rose those basses and tenors, The altos and thrilling sopranos, singing—in truth, why I know not—a song called “Come Away.’’ The audience Fain would have gone; but serenely the ushers With soft words restrained them, and quiet prevailed. Then followed many a discourse on our educational system, And talks on the growth of the city—columns of valuable matter, Which ere the sun rose the next morning, had reached to A thousand hearths and enkindled there for the speakers all honor. Thus was launched on its course in glory the grand Central High School, Launched in the pride of youth and of beauty. Alike was it free from Contentions and frats, the vice of all schools. Neither rival had it in the town nor in the country surrounding; Clear was its title as heaven, to the best of all high schools. There the youth of the city gleamed, and in gleaming gained knowledge. PART THE SECOND. Many a weary year has passed since the opening of Central, Class after class on Life’s tide, like freighted ships have departed, Bearing a nation’s weight on their young, inexperienced shoulders. Far asunder, in separate states, the stately Grads have landed; The Intellectual Companion ot Man—Chemistry Department. Scattered afe they, like Hakes of snow, when the wind from Harlem Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the banks of the Muddy. Each new year, friendless, hopeless, small freshmen roam thro' the building, From the coldness of Study Mali H to hot, sultry room seventeen— From the bleak doors of room number one to the place where the king of the janitors Seizes them in his arms and drags them into the office. Mammas they seek and homes; and many despairing, heartbroken, Ask of the clerk but an admit, and no longer mercy or pity. Oft among them are seen Sophomores, anxious and weary, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things. Fair are they and young; but alas! before them is spread out I leavy and vast and silent, the desert of school life and study, Marked by the tears of those who have sorrowed and suffered before them. Many a junior, too, with dignity walks thro’ the hallway. Always accompanied is he by a fairer and gentler being- k a study, necessary for the advancement of young people. Oh, how short is that hour! and oh, how “tempus does fugit.” Whither she goes, there his heart is, and ne’er his mind on his lessons. Thus it has ever been in the different years of the school life— Thus it bids fair to be in the centuries fast coming near us. Each year old Central grows dearer. We honor our faculty ever; We beam to regard them as friends, not foes, as we think them while freshmen. Just now we regard them with pride and garland their broad brows with laurel, Since on the baseball field they have covered themselves with glory; Glory e’er without end and without an example in story. Each year the frats have grown stronger, ’til at last they create Much discord, even as the insect of summer Disturbs the dreamer at eve-tide. Now has been issued A stern decree, and banished the Greeks are forever, If into old Central’s sacred realm they bring their quarrels and contentions. Societies still reign supreme and strive to outrival each other, Claiming each for itself all glory and power literary. Hut by the school at large, in regard to these declarations, Addison-like, ’tis opinioned, “There’s much to be said on all sides.” So goes the gay life at Central; we know that it ever will be so, We feel that no Manual school, with the noise of hammer and dish-pan, Can drown out our song of glory. Theirs but ever will be An echo of our fame, far greater. Long may these noble walls stand, and daily The tides of life go ebbing and flowing within them, Burying far in the depths of the mind, jewels of bright Thoughts and sparkling, shut in caskets of strong resolutions. — Gwendolen Edwards, Photo by Johnoiw. The S. V. E S. V. (Socictas Voci I T11K S. V. K. grew out of the Glee Club and Choral Society. The Glee Club, organized four years ago, made its first public appearance before the Teacher’s Institute, where it was greeted with long, continued and vociferous applause. Encouraged by the flattering reception accorded them by the teachers, the boys accepted an invitation to give a blow-out in Assembly Hall. I he programme of college songs and local hits was extremely enthusiastically received. At the close of the school year, the boys, in recognition of Mr. Bennett’s valuable services as wielder of the wand, presented him with a handsome souvenir. At the beginning of the next year the club reorganized. This was first known at the Symphony concert rehearsals. These concerts, given by one of the finest musical organizations of the age, could not have been so thoroughly appreciated without Mr. I luselton s valuable notes, which the Glee Club presented to the school in a series of handsome books. In April of this year the club gave the opera of “The Mikado” for the purpose of presenting Old Central” with a beautiful baby grand piano. The opera was a brilliant success musically and financially, and the Glee Club had the enviable reputation of being the first high school organization in the world that —73 E. xercendae.) ever presented an entire opera successfully. This success however could not have been achieved without the beautiful assistance of the young ladies. In the third year of its happy life the club changed its name to “Choral Society.” This year the society grew in strength of numbers and quality of voice. Another opera was attempted and the “Chimes of Normandy” was given. When the present school year opened, it was decided to organize already once again. The result is the present S. V. K.t long may it live, which has sung quite a tune for itself. The excellent programme in Assembly Hall speaks for itself, and from the warmth and glow of the reception accorded, the society bids fair to be one of the most high and mighty in school. OFFICERS. President. Taylor E. Dun an Treasurer ...............Miss Young V-President...............Miss Elmer Sergtat-arms. Warren Kendall Secretary........Miss Williams Critic.............Albert Sargent Pianist, Miss Larson. f i qpiIK wciglitie wise I doe despise; I love ye merrie jeste, And whenne this little booke goeth Yound Let cache one laugh hys beste. For here is wit and poesie (?) And allc that is toe please. And ne’er before inne thys Ilighe School Saw man suche jestes as these. There’s some yt wille receive the roastes, Yt they’ve deserved all yea re; Stille, let ye merrie laughter ring And all be of good checre. —A. A Thing; of the Past. The Glee Ciub. -75- Some people’s idea of a Frat member. THE BELLS. ITH sad dejection And recollection, I often think of That tardy bell, Whose sound came so soon, Sent each to his room With a sad-hearted feeling That no tongue could tell. Of all bells that peal Not one makes you feel So happy in mind As that one so kind, That cuts off the hour And gives you the power To rush through the halls Twenty minutes too soon. I’ve heard a bell ringing That sounds like sweet singing; ’Tis the sixth hour gong, . And the time seems so long While waiting to dine, We sorrow and pine While waiting impatient For that bell to sound. THE SIDE DOOR Or answers to questions asked by some of our young friends who are not quite sure that it would be prudent for them to follow their own indiscreet council, and do not wish to disclose their own weaknesses to friends by asking their advice. Under this head we charge 7? cents per word for advice upon all matters of love, business, or political and scientific topics of the day. Notice—All communications strictly confidential. Something Barnum never had: A dog-eared pony. M-s-n Dean—Should you be unable to find other relief, I advise you to swallow one end of a wick and light the other. M. K. J.—Yes, as long as I have known Mr. Smith his whiskers have always seemed genuine. As to whether they are physiognomy beautifiers or not, I really can not say. L. Ph-lbro-k—Well, don’t let your sister read any more of your notes if she is going to tell on you that way. 1 wouldn’t tell her that I loved D. M. at all if I were you. Q. E. D.—I do not believe there is a poker club among our teachers here, but 1 do think that the janitors get one up every winter when fires are most needed. A. By-ne—If you cannot be a man, why get a Mann to be a Byrne. “Sllis”—(a) How long a perpetual motion machine has run is not actually known, (b) No; I have never invented anything—except ways to get out of my lessons, of course, (c) I really don t know what docs come nearest to being perpetual motion; my knowledge of such things doesn’t date very far back, but 1 am certain that the Missouri river hasn’t been wound up since 1 was a boy, and it is running yet. “Hal”—No; it is not the best form to sit on benches on the street corner and talk to the same girl for the space of an hour or so every day, thus compelling her to risk her “immortal soul” by telling her mother she had to go back to school, or that she has been down town. “Bonnie C”—Your case is a sad one without doubt; but console yourself with the fact that Billie didn t win out after all. “Ph-l p Park-nson”—For a rest such as you describe: strengthening, bracing, invigorating, nerve giving, etc., etc., I advise you to take a trip to Marion. •77— “Pedestrian”—Yes, you are quite right. What is the use of working hard for six months to get the presidency, if you don’t intend to “get your money’s worth” out of it. Really, I think your leniency is commendable. If 1 were in your place I would talk all instead of just two-thirds of the time. Pabst B—Yes, I think you had best be a journalist if your talents are as great as you describe them to be. And as you say, you will have an opportunity to ride free on the street cars and go the show when ever you wish to. “Lawyer”—I have looked the subject up to the best of my ability and find that I can give you no better refer ence book on “how to conduct a case properly” than a book in your own high school library, entitled That First Affair,” by Douglas Atwill. “Fred Pug”—That Latin phrase in the note from E. G. meant nothing but “sweetheart. If 1 were you I’d tell her to write her little endearing appellations” in plain English, as it is sometimes rather embarrasing to have to let another fellow read about half the note in order to translate the phrase properly. C. U. Beb”—I have investigated your case thor-oughly and decide that if you don’t stop smoking cigarettes you will dry up and blow away. R chard Rob-rtson—The best quotation I can think of for you is, “And he shall be likened unto the devil ' J. Ames—Assuredly you are in a very embarassing position, and I hardly know what to advise. Still, if you yet love her, I would suggest that you wait a little while longer till she is tired of A. W, and then she will take you up again until she finds someone she likes better. “Elmer Sanford”—From the description you send of yourself; I am forced to believe that you are “short, but sweet,” and can see no reason why the actress doesn’t take up with you. Convention L. Hall—Yes, the Auditorium is certainly a bonanza, and I would try to get the entire collection of pictures. If you can manage to get hold of two of Inez McCauley’s I shall be under lasting obligation to you if you will send me one. Walt us Scr-ggs—Try and if you don’t succeed, “try, try again.” Surely some of the girls would like to go. V-rg-1 F.—My dear boy, the only thing for you to do is to stop cutting classes. She won’t think any the less of you, besides, you can meet her after school. W-ll Stevens—No, smoking will not have the desired effect. Truly, it would sooner or later take some of the color out of your checks, but the result would be a broken down constitution. The only thing that might keep the girls away would be to get a good bull dog that is very fond of dress goods. Earl All-n—Leave Bessie alone. Ed Hill will sec that she has sufficient attention. Cam. Chris.—Of course she loves you, but don’t you suppose she wishes to have other boy friends besides you? Don’t try to run a monopoly and you will come out on top. Now, take my advice. Stan. Stewart—You have answered your own question. You seem to know how to win a medal without any coaching. p K. 0. C. P. 1.—No, I do not think Russell Bartlett is a mar her at all; his principal occupation seems to be wearing his eyeglasses and treating the boys. C. O. D.—The figures below arc about what you will have to use: Dress suit.......... Carriage............ P. L. shoes ........ Flowers............. Dress shirt......... Collar, cuffs and tie Pair black pants. Hair cut and shave S 3 00 2 50 5 00 3 00 2 00 . 1 50 . 5 00 50 Making a total of $22 50 So you sec you can go very cheaply to any one of the parties. W-ll Todd—You shouldn’t feel so chagrined if her mother did call to you, from the top of the stairs, to throw in the morning paper as you went out; we all stay a little late sometimes. A BRIEF HISTORY. NAME. PASTIME. DESCRIPTION. WHERE FOUND. FAVORITE STUDY. ULTIMATUM. Atwill Sighing .Always Thayer .. .Writing notes. Cromer . Pounding the air. Blacksmith .. Office ... Bass To graduate. Dean ..Sleeping . 38th and Main .. .Girls . Bum. Mulford ... • Singing . Cute .. Bed . The mitten . Angel. Walker. Hunting (Judges) ... .. Lump of dough.. . E’ocution Byrne Argifving Byrneing. Shaw .Fighting ... Kid .. .. . Field ... Football .Poacher. Lawrence Strutting .. With the ladies ... Lawrence , .Clod hopper. Adams Washing dog ... Fluteing .Greek Prof. Todd Girls ...Dude ... Stage .Not Study . Death. Pabst .Jawing ... Newspapers .Brewer. Sills ) Black 5 • • .Sparking .. Double action perpetual motion Atoms. Parkinson Studying jokes How to get fat Don’t know. Griffith .Eating .. Greek Doctor. Hirsch . . . Loping . The voice Tramp. Stein . .Looking up Grades.. . A dead language . Professor. F. Elliott. Killing time . . . Lower Hall . Another Elliott .Gas works. Wood . .Stretching . Sharps and flats .6 ft. 2. —to— Calidissimi sumus.” OFFICERS. President, - Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Kyburnates, Samuel Lucretius Historicus, ACTIVE MEMBERS. Will L. C. Todd Will L. C. Todd. Will L. C. Todd. Will L. C. Todd Will L. C. Todd. Will L. C. Todd. Will L. C. Todd Will L. C. Todd alumni members Will L. C. Todd Will L. C. Todd. Will L. C. Todd. Will L. C. Todd. —81— HIGH SCHOOL DICTIONARY. Plato-C. L. C. Contest—The annual gas explosion of the High School. Room 17—A place to get warm. The rendezvous of all all who get too sharp. The roasting department; Mr. Minckwitz, chef. Cute—(See Philo) A threadbare adjective qualifying old and young, beautiful and ugly, large and small, black and white, intelligence and stupidity. Exam—A bridge between two grades. Flunk—A collapsed condition often due to a pony ride. Test—The professor’s inventory of stock and contents. Open Session—Parade and pyrotechnic display of knowledge. Cadets—The latest brood from the army incubator. Kicker—The Central School donkey. Pony (Lat. Poena, punishment, if caught) A disreputable bronco ridden in the race for knowledge that sooner or later is bound to throw his rider. (Freshmen and others take notice “Equo tie credited) Head-Janitor—From janua, meaning door; doors are of wood, hence, wooden head. Case—Two heads without a single thought. Tip A pony track. Trot—(See Pony). Freshy—The High School infant. Soph—The youthful prattler of the second year. Junior—The depository of inaccessible knowledge. Senior—Quintessence of knowledge. Pass About 60 degrees. Faculty—Curious people; always asking questions. Assembly Hall— A place to sleep and dream. The Friday morning study hour. To Jolly—To make like jelly so that the mind may be easily swayed. Plato — One who knows nothing at all and who knows that he knows it all. Philo—From philomathean, meaning having a love of letters; hence, love letters. C. L. C.—Center of Literary Confections. S. L. H.—Society of Lassies and Hobsons. Push Wait ’till you are in it. SURE CURE FOR LOVE. Take 12 oz. of dislike, 1 lb. of resolution, 2 grs. of common sense, 2 oz. of. experience, a large sprig of time, 3 qts. of the cooling water of consideration. Set them over the gentle fire of love, sweeten with the sugar of forgetfulness, skim with the spoon of melancholy. Place in the bottom of your heart, cork with a clear conscience and let it remain. You will quickly find ease and be restored to your sense again. These things can be found with the Apothecary, at the House of Understanding, next door to Reason, on Prudence street, in the Village of Contentment. Take when the spell comes on. THE GREAT PPRIL twenty-eight was set apart by the powers that be for demonstrating the vanity of London’s boast and the characteristic modesty of Kansas City, U. S. A From near and from far, over hills and thro’ valleys came children. The mouse tower on the Rhine was not more eagerly sought than the Convention Hall on 13th and Central. By rail, by foot, children, great and small, colors, black and white, teachers, male and female, all PANTOMIME. came with that “get there” determination of “Eli,” written on their sun-burned, perspiration-beaded brows. The commune of Paris could not surpass that “do or die” energy shown by the firm tread in the ever-pervading dust, and thro' the inspiring breezes from the sunny south. Ihe patience of Job, the gentleness of the lamb, and the Kansas push, at length brought the seething mass to the wide expanding arms of the center door of Convention Hall, flanked by the faithful guardians of the city’s fun and frolic. Yeager, Garfield and Central were the sesame for admittance. The glory of Convention Hall, rising in all its grandeur and immensity, supported airily by the unbroken laws of architects and physics, overawes and restrains the enthusiasm for the moment, but the appearance of the Joshua standing or gliding from one to another of the rough planks, well poised—for see-sawing—on delicately constructed camp chairs—reassured the Bands of unstrained Mercy—they knew now ’twas net the Paris exposition—but their very own superintendent, their very-own Convention Hall, whose buttons they had bought and worn so many months ago. Then came from the youthful throats of the separate bands, the yells so laboriously devised and framed by the principals and so carefully trained by the beloved teachers. As the only note spared was the key note of the glass and iron of the building—no disaster followed—only the wild scramble for scats, or to escape by an open door. The wild hordes of Scythes came not more surely through the defiles of Asia than these spring time enthusiasts to secure scats. Although the science of numbers has advanced since the Israelites, or some one else, built the pyramids of Egypt, the house built for 15,000 can not yet comfortably seat 25,000, and like the hive of bees on a summer’s day—some bringing their labor of love, and others taking away their dejected circumstances, so opposing lines met in aisles and doors. Banners were finally settled,along with some 20,000 figures, the tiers of faces, from floor to ceiling, suggested the clouds around the Sistine Madonna. In due time, animated figures made their appearance on the stage, with the distinctness—to an observer opposite —of the primeval urchins hidden beneath the ocean shell dripping with its native element. A sea green maiden announces something to be done by testing her lung power through an apparent morning glory. Then a black object glides to the center of the stage, and with extended arms and upturned palms, remains in this attitude as long as endurance holds out. This was followed by loud and appreciative applause—for children interpret a pantomime according to their own consciousness, and seldom fail to enjoy an entertainment provided for them. The lady in green announces a change in programme by placing the horn to her lips, as if blowing. The printed programmes circulated, announce the pantomime as if invested with rhyme and reason, in sound, and this was of service in identifying the movers on the platform. The president of the school board was to appear as reader of some ward school essays, upon The Little Busy Bees,” “Black Beauty,” “Leap Frog,” “The Orang-Outang,” and “The Sparrows that Hop About our Doors.” The thrusting of the arms into space at regular intervals, designated the supreme moment for the frog, the flight of the pretty birds, etc. The tall, dignified, benign superintendent was the next passive actor. Apparently, much nervous energy was expended on a poor little wand brought into frequent contact with the floor; even a Plato cane was pressed into service. Loud, frequent applause followed this antic. 5 - Showing anew, that the wisest of men relish a little fun now and then. The bearer of other’s burdens, the one that can travel over a desert the longest without thirst, then came forward with both humps up, and bowed to the ground in seeming thanks for the privilege of appearing before the appreciating assembly whose very presence would indicate a disposition to be kind to something. Then appeared the grave sympathetic protector of all Rands of Mercy against the London rivals, the promoter of the incandescent light, against which millions of innocent things, with and without wings, daily give up their slender lives, from the very excess of light, or force of resistance. A round of applause and wild cheers went up for the man who had so generously planned a half holiday and who helps to kill the ugly bugs whose horrid bodies are so thickly strewn beneath the evening lights. The ethical, scholarly professor uneasily kept his seat, impatiently awaiting his turn in this whirligig of pantomime, but as this was all something about preventing cruelty to animals, he mercifully performed his performance as a back ground to the above named. All things end, even with waiting, and the vociferous “My Country,” made the windows rattle and the neighbors hold their ears. Amidst the verdict “well done,” bestowed in the well tuned yells and buzz of applause, the tired squads of gentleness and long forbearance vied with the Comanche on his native heath. They finally reached the crowds of parents and friends on the outside who were busy organizing Bands of Mercy—towards children. Thus the first and ondit, the last annual gathering of the Bands of Mercy—“But,” quoth Peterkin, “’twas a famous pantomime.” OLD CENTRAL IN THE AFTERNOON. (Alter Tennyson.) Sweep! sweep! sweep! In thy dark, drear halls, O School! And if we our thoughts should utter, They’d be ’gainst the Golden Rule. O well for Old Central boys If they’re not in at this time of day! O well for Old Central girls If they, too, are out of the way! But the steady brooms go on, And the dust rises higher still; And we long for the use of a watering can, And we long to sprinkle at will. They sweep, sweep, sweep, As our way through the halls we pick; Hut we know that the dust of the day that is past Will be there tomorrow as thick. , BREVITIES. Life; agitation. Death; stagnation. Self-help; helping others. Polite laughter; a loud smile. I he impossible; that which is most desired. A happy man; he who grieves with his neighbor. Woman; an unwritten lyric: Man; an unwritten epic. Character; the sum of all the angles of man’s polygonous nature. Capital punishment; murdering a man because he has committed murder. WISH TO BE PLEDGED.’' Waltus Scruggs, John Adams, Lee Fhilbrook, Frank Mulford, Philip Shillito, Ileberd James, John Walker. CHARTER MEMBERS: George Forsee, George Hicks. MEMBERS: Bryant Cromer, Mason Dean, Will Todd, Arthur Byrne, Hal Hopkins, Douglass Atwill, Allen Withers, Frank Brooke, Ray Merrill, Byers Love, Clay Dobson, Barton Hall, PLEDGED: Harry Moore, Lester Hall, Howard Mullett, Comingo Griffith. BACK TALKS TO GIRLS. Letters on subjects about which you wish to talk to me privately, will be answered through these columns.' I will be glad to advise you wisely and to give you the benefit of my own vast experience. —N. . T. Trilby—If your young gentleman friend has hair the color you most prefer, there would be no impropriety in your asking him what blondine he uses. Sing Sing—From what you say, I believe that the only thing you lack to make you a famous singer is the voice. As soon as this has been supplied you will experience no difficulty whatever. N. A. F.—No, my dear girl, it is not considered good form to sit on benches at the corner and talk to a favored youth. It pleases me to hear that you so heartily agree with me in condemning this custom. Any Old Girl—If your mother seriously objects to the young men remaining late, I would not tell them in words, but place an alarm clock in the adjoining room as a gentle reminder. Church Goer It has come to be recognized as proper for a young man and young lady to chat pleasantly together during the sermon. Chewing gum is also a necessary refreshment. Horsey—If you are very anxious to take a drive, and see no vehicle forthcoming, a hammer and some nails will probably answer the purpose. J. A. . It is safest for you not to tell your fiancee that your teeth are false, until after the knot is securely tied. Doubting Heart When there are two distracted youths suing for your heart and hand, 1 would show no partiality, but keep both on the string as long is possible. Muck and Others—If your hair obstinate!) refuses to curl, try a wash of fire and salt water. If that fails, you may consider your case hopeless. G. A. L.—As the young man seriously objects to calling on you, 1 think I would not force it on him. —qo- A. B. C.—You are quite right in paying your own carfare. It is too much for your escort to accompany you and to pay your transportation too. K. K K.—When stung by a spider or bee, careful search should be made for the insect. It should be promptly killed to prevent repetition of the offence. Young Thing—If you arc bent on trapping the young man. read “Maurine” to him and your engagement will be announced within six months. MM •YELL. Feeten legs, Feeten legs, Rah! Rah! Rah! Pipe stems, pipe stems, Sis, Boom, Bah. Color—Flesh. Time High time. Mascot—Harry Nichols. STORK CLUB. MEMBERS. Sam Barton Ray Brinkman Ernest Quinlan Walter Hyatt James E. Gibson Dan McFarland Albert Bone Comingo Griffith John Sills Frank Clay Fred Pabst Allen Withers Virgil Platt. HONORARY MEMBERS. Prof. C. H. Nowlin Prof. E. E. Rush Prof. J. H. White Prof. C. D. Welch -91- OLI) Central doesn t lag far behind the leading colleges of the United States. We are taking rapid strides towards having a gymnasium, and already a fine library has been presented. This latter acquisition will prove a great addition, as it contains many rare and well-nigh priceless volumes. The following is a partial catalogue of the new books: Randem Shots, a History of the Cuban Campaign,” by Taylor E. Duncan; “Mason-ic Emblems,” by I M. Ellison; “Mamma’s Darling,” by Ray Merrill; “Love Finds a Way,” by Mabel Hays; “A Study in Scarlet,” by Ray Brinkman; “Which Shall It Be?” by Marion Thayer; “A Self-Made Man, or How I Became a Plato,” b John Long; “Life of Frederick the Great,” by Helen Hendrix. -92- This book is deserving of especial notice, both on account of accuracy and detail. The author had a close and intimate acquaintance with the subject of her book, and no one is better qualified than she to write on this subject. “Surprises,M by Bryant Cromer; “Love’s Young Dream,” by Hal Hopkins. The tender passion and devotion breathed forth in this little poem is touching in the extreme. “The Gilded Youth,” by Will Todd; “Ponies I Have Ridden,” by Will P. M. Stevens. The author of this book is a great equestrian, and knows his subject well. The book is fairly bristling with amusing incidents and hair breadth escapes. “In the Reign of Foncsca, or God Save the Queen,” by Wm. C. Lawrence; “The Awkward Age,” by Philip Shillito; “Constancy,” by 12171127 Nellie Peak; “Military Tactics, or the Use of Arms, by R. P. Hobson; “That First Affair,” by Douglass Atwill; This little book breathes all the charm and tenderness of a first attachment; “Shadows of the Stage,” by Marie Stewart; “Plato and Platonism,” by the Philos; “The Mitten, or Love’s Labor Lost,” by Heberd James; “The Drummer's Rride,” by Ruby Ridgway; “Called Back,” by John Adams; “Only Sixteen,”by KIsie Gilliam; “Captains Courageous, ’ by Major Kelsey; Decrslaycr,” by Waltus Scruggs; “That Last Rehearsal,” by Mr. Dillen- TESTIMONIALS. Gentlemen: Two years ago I caught a severe cold which developed into pneumonia. I immediately purchased a can of your silver polish. Since that time I have moved away. Yours truly, W. H. MOORK. Dear Sirs: Kor several ears I have been troubled with an emptiness in the head. At the advice of my friends, 1 procured three bottles of your Surest Mucilage and got stuck on it. Yours in haste, -93- JOHN J. GREEN. beck; “Romance of a Poor Young Man,” by John Reed Walker; “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight,” by Diller Wood; “My King Can Do No Wrong,” by Thelma Orbi-son; “Forging the Fetters,”by Mr. Minckwitz; “Marion’s Faith,” by Douglass Crowell; “The Terrible Mystery of Geometry, or Not Proven,” Anonymous; “How to Endeavor to Attempt to Try to Make an Effort to be Funny and How I Succeeded,” by Alta Zens; “The Joys and Sorrows of Maidenhood,” by Harry Moore. HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB. First Base—Hal Hopkins. Second Base—Fred Lee. Short Stop—Philip Parkinson. Time—Rag time. Measure—Pint measure. Meeting Place—Junction of two parallel lines. Latitude and Longitude—C. Washer and Virgil Platt. Our Friday morning exercises. A SENIOR’S FAREWELL ADVICE TO A JUNIOR. D IG, dig, dig, On thy dry old books my child, And I would that 1 could leave thee Some sheets of wisdom filed. Plow, plow, plow, In the fields of knowledge wide, And we joyfully leave behind us Our example for a guide. Hump, hump, hump, From September until May; And never pause a moment, Hut hump the live long day. Ride, ride, ride, That “pony” blithe and gay; For if you do not do it, You’ll have “two sharp” each day. Quit, quit; quit, That spooning in the hall; That sitting ’round in corners, Till you’re chased by Snoozer Coll. Git git, That is our motto now; You’ll never see our faces more, So give us a farewell bow (spread). -94- Omnis exeunt. THE A FOR Freshmen. Being a list of the principal animals and things to be found at Central. Note—The collection from which these are taken was kindly furnished by the Senior and Junior classes, and to them we are indebted for the same. A—Stands for John Adams, a cute witty mite, Who licked Mr. Minckwitz in a tongue to tongue, fight. B—Stands for Bum, the predominant word In the Platonian Parody, which but few have not heard. C Stands for Cornelia, Rah! Rah! Rah! Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. D—Stands for Dude, Willie Todd in plain words, Mis shoes, they are pears, and his thoughts flit like birds. E—Stands for Chas. Edwards the actor to be “I’ll rant ’round the stage and make love,” says he. F—Stands for that dreadful word Flunk, Or when all our thoughts in vain are thunk. -95- . B. C S. G—Stands for Gum, that pestilential weed, Consumed by the Philos with such alarming greed. H—Stands for Ed Hill (The Popular Baladist) “Every Sunday down to her home I go.” I—Stands for Cromer—“Away, and touch me not! I can, and do, and dare, and will say I’m a maun. J Stands for Justine her last name we were just telling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling. K—Stands for Kid, the kind that cries and bawls. For example see the Freshmen running thro’the halls. L—Stands for lasslorn description indeed Of Walker, who for a girl is sorely in need. M -Stands for Minckwitz, we cannot leave him out. He is so ever ready to roast, taunt, and flout. N -Stands for Nit, you may use it without fear. For, according to the S. L. H., it was written by Shakespeare. O—Stands for Exclamation, heard so much of late. For now since spring has come again he lingers at the gate. P—Stands for Pony, that poor old hackneyed beast, If he has grown as his rep. has, lie’s a mammoth at least. Q Stands for Don’t, Stop, or Quit, I should say, The first two are in use now by the Philos, every day. R Stands for Russell, Millard with the pretty locks. Who hunts violets with the girls upon clean logs or rocks. S—Stands for Silly,—The Frat fight at Manual, The reason why some teachers would not put their pictures in the Annual. T—Stands for training, what the Central boys lacked, Especially when our side of the Grand stand was packed. U—Stands lor us, for we’re the whole show, Cromer, Walker, and Todd—we all blow. V—Stands for Virgil, we have him down pat, Not the writer, but that good old C. L. C. Platt. W -Stands for Diller Wood, that impudent little cuss, Who is always watching for a chance to get Minck-witz in a fuss. —96- � X i.—Stands for Kiss, I mean one that’s sincere, For it is the crossroad to love. Now give ear, While I explain why I have used, here, this figure— Friendship narrows to the kiss; love grows bigger and bigger. Y—Stands for Ewe, another name for a sheep. Which is just what I feel like after writing this Heap. Z—Stands for Alta, she is first yet comes last. She will not admit it; but her line is now cast. FIN DE SIECLE CLUB. To prohibit the use of such terms as “oh shucks” and “pshaw.” Flower—A daisy. Color—Pearl. Sal lie Seawell, Ruth Austin, Grace Modes, Julia Moore, Katherine Harroun, MEMBERS. Carrie Stoner, Olive Richardson, Nellie Carkener, Louise Hopkins, Lester Hall. WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT. Scene I. “Walker, you are the hardest fellow on books I ever saw.” “Well, they’re mine; I have a right to be.” Scene II. “Walker, why do you bang your books around that way?” “Well, there’re borrowed; what do I care.” -?8- A COMEDY CON DOLORE.” Time—Monday, May 8th, ’99. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. W-Jt-r Sh-w, T-ylor I) nc-n and Dillcr V--d, a wee fellow. Act I—Scene I. Christian Church. Eleventh and Locust. Wee Fellow—Stop hitting me Shaw, I ’aint doin’ nothin'. Scene II. T. D.—Let’s catch him, Shaw. I guess two fellows our size can manage him. Act II.—Scene I. W. S.—Here you arc, kid; thought you could outrun us, didn’t you? T. D.—Let’s chuck him in the cellar. W. S.—Yes and lock the door; here goes! (A struggle is heard.) Scene II (Sometime later). Wee Fellow (at a distance)—There were two of them and I’m little, but I did ’em up. T. D. (groaning)—Say, Shaw, let’s go home. THE ENGAGED GIRL. After (a long ways) J. G. Whittier. Dem swell culled people. Blessings on thee, engaged girl; Happy maid, with hair in curl! With thy memory of “spoons” Underneath the light of moons. With thy red lips—redder still, Kissed by somebody—on the hill! With the sunshine on thy face, ’Neath thy bride hat’s dainty grace,— From my heart 1 wish you joy With thy Kansas City boy! Queen thou art, serves that man Only as a vassel can. Let us lonely maids deride, Happy, standing at his side— Thou hast what we’d like to buy, Be the price however high. Once again I wish thee joy With thy Kansas City boy! —M. C. H. --------- SOME LETTERS OF ENCOURAGEMENT RECEIVED FROM SOME OF OUR ADMIRERS. Deere Mister Editor- Please may 1 sa that I think you all have undertaken the bigest work that Old Central has ever witnessed. Jest to think High School is goin to have a annual! 1 jest wants to say to you all that I think you're fine an I’ll do all I can to help you. Yours Most admiringly, Willie Todd. Say Gibson, youse is the Uditor of dis hear annual, ain’t youse, ef youse ain’t youse ought to be for youse is the hottest thing we have got up tbis-er-way. Wull whut I wus a goin to say to youse is this-I think that thar annual is a domed good thing, push it along an I tell youse I’ll jes do all whut I kin to hulp youse along. From your Friend till D ath, Johnathan Rueben Walker. Say feller whats got inter yer anyhow, has yer done gone an made thet there Anul a sho thing? ef its a sho thing Ise agwine fer to holp yer all I kin, fer sho kaise I dun knowed yer is er warm baby. Edward Rastus Hill. FAVORITE SONGS. Hal Hopkins “Just One Girl. Dick Gentry ) „ Bryant Cromer [ Mar«cr ' ‘ Will Todd—“Sweet Marie. Mason Dean— Oh! Has it Just Struck Ten?” Russell Bartlett—“Look Who I am.” Frank Ensminger Give My Love to Nellie.” Philip Parkinson— When Love’s Sweet Dream is O’er. Waltus Scruggs—“Tis I, Love, I.” Douglas Atwill—“Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey Boy.” Clay Dobson— Cadiz.” John Walker—“Come Back to Me, Sweetheart.” Will Stevens—“My Angeline.” Frank Mulford—“Why Don’t You Get a Lady of Your Own?” Freshman— The Girl I Left Behind Me.” Howard Mullett— Seeing Nellie Home. Clarence Neal—“I Wants Ma Sunday Nights.” Color—Red. Pass-word—Ready. Chief, Pompier Dept., Hose Reel, ------£ 38 FIRE COMPANY No. J. Will Todd, Frank Munson, Peter Bayzman, Lowell Fillmore, „ ■ ,, Ediar Loveioy. Arthur Byrne John Sills it will be noticed that all are Clarence Neal required to carry a headlight. — 100 ' THERE lived in the blith of a gennobell, Where the leren do has a thero kell, The terrible gooranoo. lie slang aguy, and he kang debuy, And he nade a bral of a ferodie, For the garr was a warton boo. Now a beautiful gay with a wanum hore Came near the blith in her gymanore, And the terrible gooranoo With a glay of gore and a whymalore, Rushed out in a pesh of a rusapore, And alas for the gay—ahroo! And still if you ree of the ladoray, And the bral, and the do, and the minimay, By the blith where the dune is loo, You’ll find the gay, the beautiful gay, With her wanum hore in the cyronay Of the terrible gooranoo!! —Ruby Archer. “THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRESHMAN.’ I. You surely all must know him, With those golden curls so long, For every one picks “Freshie” out From all of Central's throng. They know him by his broad white frill, His dainty Winsor tie. His tiny feet in spring heeled shoes. His manners coy and shy. He often weeps in seventeen, But looks with face serene On all the jokes the teachers tell, He don’t know what they mean. IN FOUR CHAPTERS. He carries many ponderous books, He “awful” bright you see. As his mamma has said He’ll win the valedictory. II. But now a summer comes and goes. And last year's little lad Has shorn his golden curls, so long, And left his mother sad. For he never’ll wear his frills again, He’ll never wear a tie. And the “horrid” slang he’s learned to use, Oft makes his mother sigh, His trousers, too, are much too long. His hair he’ll never part— In fact, our little “freshie boy” Nigh breaks his mother’s heart. He’s learned to use a pony now, Thinks teacher's roasts a bore— And since our lad has changed so much They call him Sophomore. III. Good gracious, how old time goes on! Another year rolled by— Well, can this be our “freshie boy?” Yes, surely time does fly. Yet can this be that careless boy, That last year’s “little freak — This gallant lad who charms the girls? I’m dreaming—someone speak. Ah, yes, ’tis true—'tis really he. And clever you’ll allow, For if you would your teacher work, Sir Junior’ll show you how. He dresses very neat and swell, -103- So all the girls declare. He calls on them, he wears their pins -The Junior has no care. His hair is smoothly plastered down; His shoes just from the East, And his collar—measured up and down, Isa five inch at the least. 1 He scoffs at hooks—as we all know, All hail, the conquering hero comes! e wonder w ,at he 11 do For him all must make way, Yet somehow on commencement night, Our “freshie is a Senior tall, Sir Senior’s sifted through. Whose mandates all obey. CONCLUSION. Behold he comes with a kingly grace, Thus from experience I have spun In a suit of the latest styles, This tale of Central life, A pipe he smokes—’tis the college way For I, a Senior, stand to-day And the weary hours beguiles. Done with our high school strife. And if you’ve wearied of my tale And found it rather dry, Remember 1 can say no more, That I have drifted by. —L. Julia Berger. Major S. E. Kelsey upon the horse presented him bt the Central High School. -104- QUOTATIONS. •‘Forget and Forgive.” Shaw—“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Mulfo-d—“Alas! how light a cause may move” Gri-fith—“He is not dead, but sleepeth.” Pauline E.—“Eternal source of every joy.” Phi L. Epsilon—“We are all here.” Prof. Holmes—“But I remember when the fight was done.” T. Duncan—“Heaven, what an age is this!” Philbr—k—“I am monarch of all I survey.” Heb. —“Give, oh, give me back my heart.” Bone—“I wondered lonely as a cloud.” Park—“My little love, do you remember?” Bartl-tt—“See, O see!” Lund—“One more unfortunate.” Platos —“Our band is few.” Zoe F-rd—“O whistle, and I will come to you. my lad.” Neal “The bell strikes one; we take no note of time.” The Major—“The warrior bowed his crested head.” P. R. C-ll—“The wisest of the wise.” Delta O. O.—“There was a sound of revelry by night.” Clay Dob. (in Geom. 'class)—“They waked me from my sleep.” Mas-n—“Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime.” Gib—n—“How long, O Lord, how long.” Sc-ug-s “What! was it a dream? am I all alone?” Ruby Ar.—“What hope is there for modern rhyme?” Mr. Minkwitz (to Fieshman)—“Awake, awake, my lyre!” At the Opera—“Between the broad fields of wheat and corn.” Cor-el-a—“I never gave a lock of hair away.” A janitor—“Long did I toil, and knew no earthly rest.” J. R. Walk-r—“Methinks it is good to be here.” Marion Tha—r “She is a winsome, wee thing.” Ruth Aus—n—“Thou happy, happy elf.” Senior- “When the lessons and tasks are all ended.” Barnett—“Vet once more, O ye laurels, and once more.” A TOUCHY MOMENT. Her little sister (to John)—“Thay, Mithter Walker, ain’t you ’fraid you’ll ’poil your nithe overtoat?” John (wonderingly)—“No; why do you ask such a question as that?” I S.—“Tause thister thaid you had it in thoak all the thime.” (Who could blame John for chewing the two hairs on his upper lip?) A SUCCESSFUL RUSE. IT was after Relic and I had‘been married about three months, and while we were living in one of the pretty suburbs of Chicago, that the incident I am about to relate happened. This is the way it came about. A little after nine one morning, just after I had finished my breakfast, I heard a loud peal of the door-bell and presently the sound of voices, apparently in angry discussion. Soon the maid appeared with a telegram addressed to Miss Belle Thornton —my wife’s former name. ‘‘Here, sir,” she said, “is a telegram for Miss Something-or-other, and I told the boy out there that there ain't no such person here. Rut he wouldn’t believe me, the minx, and told me to take it to the man of the house. These messenger-boys think they know so much,” she muttered as she flounced out of the room. Now my wife had spent the night before with one of her old school-girl friends in the city, and would not be home until later in the day; so I read the telegram myself. When I opened the envelope, this message met my gaze:— “Dear Niece,— Will arrive Wednesday morning at 10, and will come directly to you. Maria Liscomb.” Well, here was a predicament! You see, this aunt of my wife’s was a whimsical but very wealthy —106— A suggestion to J. W. Ktrk—or Will L. Todd. old maid, and had willed all her fortune to Belle, on conditions that she should never marry. And now here she was coming at ten, and it was not far from ten at that very moment! My glance fell on the envelope; it had been addressed first to my wife’s former home, and had been sent here from that address. Horrors! Then Aunt Maria would go straight to that place and would there find that Belle was married! For she and Belle had not kept up a very lively correspondence, so she did not know that Belle had changed her address— and, incidentally, her name I was very excited, and in one of my wildest moments began with great energy to shovel our black cat, which had been sleeping on the hearth-stone, into the fire, thinking, of course, that she was a lump of coal. Pussy was much opposed to the idea, and gave voice to her objections in several prolonged howls, which brought me to my senses. Suddenly a happy thought struck me, and hastily ringing for the hired man, I scrawled out this note to the landlady of the boarding-house where my wife had formerly lived: Mrs. James,— An old lady will soon call to see Miss Thornton. Please send her out to my house, and for pity’s sake don’t tell her that Belle is married. I will explain this later. Truly, Will Upton. Then I told John, the man, to deliver the note, and to hurry faster than he ever had before. But what good would it do for Aunt Maria to come to our house, if Belle was not there, and I was? Of course she would find out then that her niece was married. I was in despair. But soon another happy thought sprung from my fertile brain—to present myself to Aunt Maria as Belle Thornton. So 1 tore up to my wife’s room to don some of her clothes. Of course, I couldn't begin to insert my portly form into her dainty garments; so I rushed down to the kitchen, told my story to the cook, and implored her aid. Our cook is no small person, so when she brought me some of her own clothes, I easily got into them. I do not wear a mustache, and when I had put on the cook’s clothes, and a wig that the maid had, I think I made a very presentable young lady. Soon a cab rolled up, and Aunt Maria alighted. I rushed to the door, and covered myself with everlasting glory in my reception of her. “O Auntie,” I cried, “I’m delighted to see you. By Jove—er—that is—goodness, how well you look! Why, you don’t look as if you’d ever die—O, I mean you look so youthful you know! Don t mind what I say; I’m so overjoyed at your coming that I can’t talk straight.” “Mercy!” I thought, “if I can’t do any better than this—!!’’ “Why, Belle,” gasped Aunt Maria, “how you've changed! Of course, it’s ten years since I saw you, but you’ve grown so much taller and stouter and—homelier, too.” “Yes, 1 have changed, but, by Jove—” “Belle!” sternly cried Aunt Maria, “don’t let me ever hear you say that again.” I blushed becomingly, and murmured my apoligies. It would be impossible to tell of all the unheard of things I said and did, and it tires me even — IC now to think of the trouble I had to keep my voice at the proper pitch and my heels from catching in my skirts. But I labored on until one o’clock, when the door-bell rang and in walked my wife! Now, I had known all along that this would happen sooner or later, but had not been able to decide what to do when it would happen; so, when I saw my wife, I said nothing, relying on her ingenuity to carry us safely through. Belle looked at us for a moment, then saw through it all. Rushing up to Aunt, she greeted her effusively, much to the astonishment of the old lady. As for me, I was dumb with amazement. Had my wife lost her senses, and was she going to betray me? But Belle, seeing that Aunt was bewildered, cried, “Why, Auntie, don't you know me? And this is my friend, Miss Kate Smith, who has evidently been entertaining you. So kind of you, Kate,” turning to me. i hen I understood her scheme and saw what was expected of me. So I gravely said, “Belle, your aunt is bewildered by your unexpected arrival. For I’m such a silly girl that 1 thought it would he a huge joke 1o play the part of Belle Thornton. But I apologize; and now I really must go home.” I made my escape to the kitchen, where I burst into roars of laughter, mingled with long speeches to the cook in praise of my wife’s cleverness. Then 1 got out of my strange apparel and went to a neighbor’s house, where I remained until Aunt left. She went the next day, for she merely stopped in Chicago on her way West. She scolded Belle for choosing such an associate as I seemed to be, but added that even Kate Smith was better than a man. And to this day Aunt Maria Liscomb doesn’t know that Belle is married. —Mabel C. Jenkins. -109- f') gi'-e me a pipe and a rare old book. And I'll wander through the glades; For the love of books, the love of books, It passeth love of maids. I’ll lay me down in the cool green grass, And gaze up at the sky, Watching the fleecy cloudlets While they go floating by. A dreamy sort of reverie Over my whole soul steals, -110- And all mv heart within me A passive calmness feels. The rare old book slips from mv hands, Forgotten is its love— Before me in my vision stands A dear little maid of yore. I dreamily turned my eyes away And looked down through the shades— “The love of books,” I murmured still, “Surpasseth love of maids.” Yet sec! with a tender smile she smiles, Yea, into my soul she looks— “The love of maids, I faltered then, “It passeth love of books.” l’eNvoi. So, give me a pipe and give me a book, And give me a comely maid; Then give me a whiff of curling blue smoke And give me a page to read, And give me the maid to be at my side With a tender and loving kiss— Alack-a-day! I’ve been dreaming, I know, Yet a very sweet dream it is. TF you long fot dear old Central, And vacation grows too slow, If you wish you could go back there for a time! Why, just go to church on Sunday, Sit right still and shut j our eyes, And then, no doubt, you’ll understand this rhyme(?) THE BACHELORS’ CLUB. Colok—Pale blue. Game—Solitaire. Song—“Alone.” Flower—Cactus. Place of Meeting—None. PAST MASTERS. Leon Brady, E. A. Braniff, Ben Brown Paul Mohr. James Austin, OS OtfBRo PLEDGED MEMBERS. MEMBERS. Fred Pabst, P'dwin Barber, Gustave Stein, Albert Bone, Dan McFarland, Ray Brinkman, Virgil Platt, Chandler Watson, Harold Kuhn. Malcom Lowry, Ralph Byrne, Geo. Mulford, Dan Swartz. Harry Harris' Sept. 1—Luminary meet ng. Last year's debt. Awful fuss. Sept. 12—School begins. Freshmen stumble over toothpicks and drown in the ink wells. C omcr comes back. Sept. 13—Second day of school. John Adams has an idea. Sept. 14—A freshman cries in room 22. Sept. 16—“Send the bill to papa.' Will Todd elected in the Platos the same day. Sept. 18—Sunday. It rains. Sept. 20 Copley refused an offer as a model. Harry Moore has typhoid fever. Sept. 21 Harry Moore recovers from his sickness. Sept. 22—Fannie thinks of Hal's coming home. Sept. 23—Miss Fox loses track of her age. Sept. 25—Sunday. It rains. -ii3- Sept. 28—Marie takes Toddie. Mr. Minckwitz cracks a joke (?). Sept. 29—Mr. H. goes to the Orpheum. Oct. 1—Hal comes home. Luranah and Harry Moore give cook mg lessens. Oct. 2—Sunday. Rained, of course. Our local editor at work. Oct. 3—K. K. Kavorts. Walker paints, the girls’ cheeks red. Oct. 4—Runaway accident in the Greek class. Oct. 5—John Adams arrives home from his recent stay of two days, after a short trip (free ride). Oct. 0—A gun goes off in a cadet’s hands. Oct. 7— Prof. M.: “I didn’t eat much breakfast this morning-only sixteen biscuits.” Friday—hence much advice. Oct. 9—Sunday. Rains again. Oct. 12—Thelma recovers her heart. By Georg !! Oct. 14—Circus man offers Hirsch a job of traini g camels howto walk. Oct. 17—Gene Smith falls off a stool and dislocates his collar button. Oct. 20—Cromer gives six cents to the Lafayette fu d. Oct. 23—Sunday. It rains. Oct. 25—Mr. Luby returns from his yachting trip. Oct. 28—Differ Wood changes pants. Ocf. 31—Royal Webster first confesses that he is handsome. Nov. 3 Freshman mistakes chemi-try lab. for cooking dep.rt-ment. Nov. 4—Clem Richardson loses a pound of flesh. Large reward offered for return. Nov. 7—Prof. Smith gives a lecture on love. Nov. 10 Choral Club loses its voice. Nov. 14—Letter to O. O.— My dear baby, etc., etc. Nov. 16—Grand rush for Convention Hall tickets. Year's subscription to the Luminary donated. Value, beyond estimation. Nov. 18—Field buys a Conven.ion Hall ticket with a view to drawing a shaving set. The school expressed its hearty desire for Mr. Field’s success. Nov. 1—Shaw goes to sleep in Greek and makes a touchdown at the same time. i Nov. 25—Miss Harriman adopts High School Nursery Rhymes.’ Nov. 27—Sunday. Bone visits ancestors at the Zoo. Nov. 30—School slowly recovers from Thanksgiving stuff. Dec. 2—Cornelia already sees visions of the mistletoe. Dec. 8—Virgil Platt is mistaken for a giraffe at the Zoo. 4— Dec. 13 — Atwill, Philip and Douglas C.—at the quarter. Crowell leads by an eyelash. Dec. 21—Aytch Woodson falls in love. Dec. 23—Christmas play—air turns blue. Dec. 24—Cornelia’s visions realized. Dec. 25—Harry Harris starts to Sunday school. Dec. 28—Vacation. Prof. Ayres sleeps three days. Jan. 1—Following resolutions made : Parkinson—Never to grow fat. Prof. Smith—Never to tell a joke (?) over six times a day. Prof. J. W. White—Never to take anti-fat. Walker—Never to love. Major Kelsey—Never to go to war. Mr. Coll—Never to work. Lawrence—Always to work—his friends. Oilier Wood—Never to grow. Field—Never to shave. Miss Fox—Never to smile. Miss Whipple—Never to come off her perch. Glee Club—Never to sing. Jan. 2—Field fails to get the shaving set. Much ignorance on part of directors. Harry Moore draws a silk shirt waist. Searl draws a wooden leg. Helen Hendrix draws three hair cuts. Virgil Platt draws one keg; gives an ice water social next evening. Jan. 13—Freshmen meeting reported. Report unfounded. Jan. 18—Great naval battle. F. Lee attacks a schooner. Jan. 27—Prof. Minckwitz tells that joke. Ditto Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31 and Feb. 3, 8, and 10. Feb. 14—Lovejoy buys a 75 cent valentine. Misses three performances at the Coates. Fred Elliot soaks his coat and buys a 10 cent one. Feb. 22—Freshmen chop down trees in memory of G. Wash, ington. Feb. 25—Philos give a-----. Feb. 28—Great sensation in S. L. H. Olive Richardson contracts the boy habit. March 3—C. L. C. postpone literary programme and hold a cake walk. March 11—Platos hold ourang-outang show. Raise------ March 14—Teachers lunch in Prof. A)res’ room. Mr. Coll participates and later removes cases, bottles, and corks. March 18—C. L. C.’s hold a beauty (?) show. March 22—X-Ray picture from Physics department proves that rabbits have long tails. March 28—Ray Barnett decides that he is a tragedian of the first water. March 31—Philo initiation. Victim compelled to chew gum, untie her apron strings, and Haunt her hair to the breeze. April I—“The day on which we are reminded what we are the other 364 days.” Frankie Brooke ties can to dog’s tail. Dewey is told he is bright—what a cruel joke. April 8—S. L. 11. gives a pony show. April 13—Seniors express desire to graduate in Convention Hall. Later—Board of Education meeting—desire suppressed. April 14—Seniors refuse to graduate. On second thought they decide to graduate under protest. April 28—Band of Mercy farce. May 6—Field day. Enough said. Contest—A howling success. Hark! are those chestnut bells? May 8—Our Athletes tell how it happened. Everybody sore. May 12—The bestest time of the whole year for the Seniors. The wail of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior heard in the distance. May 24 -Graduation and Suffocation. May 26—Class day.—Amen. 5- u WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE?” U T AMLET”overheard “JuliusC;esar” tell “King Lear” on the “Twelfth Night” after the “Tempest” that “Antony and Cleopatra” had told “Coriolanus” that the two “Gentlemen of Verona” were the authors of Shakespeare’s plays. Lear said, You may say it “As You Like It,” but I do not believe it, for I heard “Romeo and Juliet” say “Love’s Labor” was lost when “Trolius and Cressida” stole the “Comedy of Errors” and sold it ta “The Merchant of Venice” for forty bottles of old bourbon and a “Package of Checks.” “Timon of Athens” and “Cymfce-line” were parties to the theft and after drinking “Measure for Measure” with the “Merry Wives of Windsor” told “King John” all about it. “Richard III,” a competent critic, said Bacon could not write even a “Winter’s Tale;” and “Henry IV” says “that settles it;” so why so “Much Ado About Nothing?” Othello was busy conversing with the “III, V and VI Henrys,” and “Richard I” was busy “Taming the Shrew” so I could get no further information as to who wrote Shakespeare, but “All’s Well that Ends Well.” M. McK. BREVITIES. There is nothing so uncertain as certainty. He who would write well in prose, must first dive deeply into poetry. Patriotism should not be nourished at the expense of literature. There is no sound so loud as the silence of a deserted home. He who heals, need not be well. He who would as a reformer pose, Should first be certain that he knows he knows. The dying man exclaims: “Oh, for a little more time!” yet he has wasted years. In selecting a book take into consideration the editor as well as the author. -G.T.J. Photo by Thom-on. Hext gear’s Staff. 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LANING-HARRIS COAL GRAIN CO. Coal, Grain and Hay Merchants. 204 WEST NINTH ST. Our Coal will Roast High School Pupils to a Nice Brown Color. TELEPHONE 1721. KANSAS CITY. MO. FOR GOOD Luncheon or Dinner, Served from U:30 to 2:30, go to the . .. Woman’s Exchange, 1120 WALNUT STREET. CHOOL BOOKS WANTED. THE KIND YOU USE. .. .LIBERAL CASH PRICES PAID... RODE’S OLD BOOK STORE, Nelson Building, 535 MAIN ST. Kansas City Medical College. ESTABLISHED 1869. Washington and Seventh Streets. NEW AND WELL EQUIPPED LABORATORIES OF HISTOLOGY, PATHOLOGY AND BACTERIOLO GY. J GRADED COURSE. J LECTURE_AND RECITATION SYSTEM OFJNSTRUCTION, J Annual Session Begins September 14th and Continues Six Months. For Announcements and Other Information, Address: DR. FRANKLIN E. HURPHY, Secretary. DR. J. D. GRIFFITH, Dean. Buford—Leave the door open Waltus, when you go out wide. Toni—Shut the door Waltus when y« u come back, tight. Ask Alfred what a ••flustrated” cone is. We have at la-� t found Thelma’s secret of perpetual beauty through all «ix hours: In re.� ote recesses about her person, she carries a powder bag, a mirror, a comb, and other numerous toilet articles. It is ru nored that when Alta went to get her last diamond ring, she asked for a stone ten onions strong. She meant karats fine; she knew it do with a vegetable. We learn that Prof. A. F. Smith, 2100 Montgall, will have a summer class, preparing pupils for the entrance examination of the High S' hool. He will also tutor pupils ol the High School who art-short on points. fsr had something to Hickman Hubbard, Sboes Anir store: new shoes: No. 1005 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. The Biggest Retail Dry Goods Store in the State of Missouri. With our ways of buying and liberal methods of doing business, you are able at all seasons of the year to make advantageous purchases in seasonable, desirable merchan-disc. The different lines we carry make this store a store for men, women and children. We are in constant communication with the fashion centers of the world, having buyers in New York City all the year round who watch the changes of fashion, and with the aid of our resident buyers, keep this store foremost with its large stocks of the latest fashions and novelties. We arc importers of Dress Goods, Silks, Laces, Millinery, Gloves, Linens,Veilings, etc., and can, at all times in the season give you the most popular and most fashionable goods in vogue. Walnut llthStx Orand lvc Walnut HthSt Grand Avc GERARD PRINTING CO. INCORPORATED TELEPHONE 1468. GOOD PRINTING. 14TH A BALTIMORE The Popular Rough Braid Straw Hat . . . $1.00 Up At... Clark Co., Prof. Welch. Prof. Holmes. JM TTMMSo 906 Main. Find the Happy Man. -129- Your CHANCE We are going to move July 1st. and don’t want to move our stock of Bicycles. 500 BICYCLES To sold at less than ever before for similar Bicycles in this town. «?£ A High Grade 99 Bicycle, M. W. Tires, perfectly up-to-date and guaranteed worth $30.00. $42.50 Nationals (The famous blue racers $42.50 This famous wheel we will offer at the above sacrifice price. It can t be approached. Come and see us. WILLIS ARMS CYCLE CO. OPEN EVENINGS 1111 Walnut St. He met with an icy stair.” F. WEBER'S SONS, — MANUFACTURERS OF -AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN HARNESS, SADDLES, - - WHIPS, Etc. - - Largest and Finest Line of Blankets and Robes in the City. 1004 and 1006 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Mo. TELEPHONE 2331. ;4th Annual... Summer School. Courses and terms. . . Bookkeeping, three months, Shorthand and Typewriting, three months, Telegraphy, three months, English Branches, three months, The Hours of Instruction are from 8 A. M. to 12 M. The College Rooms are large, and having North, East and South exposure, they are the coolest, best ventilated, and most pleasant in the city. The Faculty is composed of Teachers, who by extensive stuck, and successful experience are specially fitted for their different Departments of Work. Our Employment Bureau is daily placing Students in good positions, Free of Cost. Over 2,000 of our graduates and former students are now filling good positiors in this city alone. We have so placed 90 per cent of our students this year. We Guarantee perfect satisfaction in every particular, but in common with all first-class institutions of learning everywhere, never fakely guaramee positions in order to secure patronage. Be Sure to Visit or Address this College before going elsewhere. No similar institut.on in the Wes can offer you the same facilities, and give such thorough and practical instruction, on such equitable terms, and tv of as much assistance to you in securing a position as this College. Thirty-three Years Experience, and unquestioned reputation as progressive educators, has enabled us to perfect a Course of Stuly the practical value of which is attested by over 16,000 graduates and former students, who are now filling good positions in all sections of this country. At no Time during its long and successful career, has this old and reliable Institution been so well equipped and prepared as it is at present, to give thorough and practical instruction in all Business Branches. CATALOGUE FREE. TELEPHONE 1174- M., Prest., FALL TERH Begins September 1st. NIGHT SCHOOL Begins September 15. J. F. SPALDING, A. East Wing, N Y. Life Building. - Spal ing’s SrSc,AL (INCORPORATED.) BEGINS JUNE 1st AND CONTINUES UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1st. $10 00 - 10 00 10 00 5 00 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY, T. MULFORD, Manager. J0J9 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. r aeKii)tosl?e5-: • Rubber Boots a[) 51?065 =— poot Balls, ££ . RUBBER GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Have been our especial study, and we are showing a large Assortment of Novelties in Gold and Silver, besides pretty Pearl Brooches from $10.00 to $25.00; Diamond Rings, $15.00 to $50.00: Nobby Watches. $10.00 to $35.00, and Lockets, $5.00 to $10-00. We will take pleasure in showing these goods whether you desire to purchase or not. 1032 MAIN STREET. PALMISTRY DEPARTMENT. Prof. Baintbr: Miss Kidwell: you would make a good You have a very loving short-stop- mayhc. nature; will marry before school begins. LL(VTS iNTniVKNNVXL M XDI lHI V“' _ Telephone, . 2901 A r • — Kansas (itv CUTS FDR CATALOGUES SOUVENIRS. BOOKS. MAGAZINES. NEWSPAPERS, O LETTERHEADS.ETC ' DESIGNING OU0F TONE ' J 'ZINC ETCHING' WOOD ENGRAVING' SCHMELZER LEAGUE. No ®cMcir Made. Same Guarantee; Exactly Same Ball as the Official League. J J Jt J Price, Si.oo ICacli. SCHHELZERLEAGUEBA | H| Sporting Goods Headquarters. .....'%g Zp SCHMELZER ARMS CO, 710-712-714 MAIN ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Hyatt. Platt. Bone. KINO THE FATTEST. JSteremttb Ibcrrill, BUILDERS OF CLOTHES FOR MEN. i Tailors Row, No. 15 West 10th Street. This Store Grows Strong ln, hc IcoP,esconfiden,ce. not through what it promises,hut because of what it does. . . . , We weigh every word we print in the scales of fact. We measure carefully every value we place before you In consequence this is a sincere store. Everybody knows just what to expect, and expect just what they find—the very best line of pianos at the lowest possible prices. prices J. W.JENKINS' SONS MUSIC CO, Mfgrs. Harwood Guitars anti Mandolins. Made in Kansas City, Mo. 50c Sheet Music at 15c - By the Winding Tennessee.” ‘A Golden Picture.” Get Your Money’s Worth.” Letter Edged in Black 021-993 Main Sreet. Mid the Green Fields of Yirgime.” THE SUMMER SESSION OF . . . The Kansas City School of Oratory Will begin June 7, and continue five weeks. Call or write for illustrated circular. c PRESTON K. DILLENBECK, 1012 and 1014 Walnut Street. KANSAS CITY, U. S. A. PALMISTRY DEPARTMENT. Mr. Coll—You have missed’er Ray Brinkman—We don't read Calling. I he fishing hook is feet. You should have sent an very prominent. impression of your palm.