Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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to the step, a beauty to the face, and force and vigor to the whole body. Someone has said. “A cheerful heart doth good like a medicine.” A physician turning to friends that surrounded a sick bed. said. 1 have three things to recommend: ti rs t, cheerfulness; second, cheerfulness; third, cheerfulness. 1 somehow admire a fat matt. He ' s so jolly. 1 have never found a fat man who was really cranks. I don ' t know what relation there might be between adipose tissue and cheerfulness, hut they are. no doubt, near relatives. Arc you homely and want to be better looking?—smile. Are you good looking and want to improve?— smile. The State Su] crintendent of Michigan has said that only good looking school teachers shall be given certificates in the future. He tells us that it would he enough to produce insanity to compel a hoy to sit day after day and look into the face of an ugly teacher. Teachers must have a bright eye. a cheerful expression, a pleasing smile, a neat appearance—in short, be good looking, before they are given permission to teach. Cheerfulness helps us mentally. Harrison was never lonesome, although in jail, For, said he. 1 have ever present two jolly companions—a clear con¬ science and a cheerful mind.” A teacher of niy acquaintance gave me a new use of the word, sunny. It was—sunny flays, sunny disposition, sunny hoys and girls. She was a living example of sunshine, and her room reflected her disposition. We ttiay get a lesson from the old woman with two teeth who was thankful that they were opposite. There is a bright side and we should find it. Cheerfulness has another use. It helps others. One of Riley’s poems ex¬ presses the thought. “When a man ain ' t got a cent, an’ he’s feeliu’ kind o’ lilue. An’ the clouds hang dark an ' heavy, an ' won ' t let the sunshine through. It ' s a great thing. O my brethren, for a fellow just to lay His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort of way. A cheerful look and a jolly disposition invite friendships. Laugh and the girls laugh with you, weep and you ' ll go away hack and weep by yourself. Boys take notice. The West is a great place for boosters. There is no state in the L’nioti like Washington, and no city in the state like F.llensburg, says the booster. A ltoostcr writes a letter home. She says: We have the best location for a school, the finest weather, the prettiest scenery, the smartest pupils, and the licst looking fac¬ ulty in the state. She is willing to help others. It ' s the true Normal spirit, and il ' s catching. Take a group of these boosters out on a picnic, anil after they return hear them talk. We had just the jollies! time, the breezes were so cool, and the boys so courteous. And the dinner! I never tasted such sandwiches in my life. And the cookies and the meat. 1 do wonder who planned for that lunch? Those Domestic Science girls I ' ll bet you. 1 wish wc would go again! Work is essential to success hut closely associated with it we should find cheerfulness. Have a cheerful disposition. Cheerfulness gives a healthy body. It gets music from the waving trees, the pattering rain, or the murmuring brook. H gives new licauty and purpose to life. It will help you on the road toward use¬ fulness in this life, and give you an inheritance in the life to conic.

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That poem was written in a few minutes, but it was not an extemporaneous effort. Tennyson had been thinking those thoughts for years and all his prepara¬ tion was brought to bear upon this effort. The scene merely arranged the thoughts in a new manner. One cannot tell the amount of effort required for a particular production. The great artists conceal all the art. bunker Hill Monument stands ujxm fifty feet of solid cement. Patrick Henry came from the rear of the room in the ir- ginia Assembly and under the inspiration of the moment delivered that oration which every American school-boy knows, ' T repeat it sir, we must fight. but the youthful orator had delivered similar productions in the woods many times before, when there was no one to hear save the birds. Bryan took the Democratic Convention at Chicago by storm when lie delivered that speech in which he said. “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon the cross of gold. but these thoughts had been given to the people of Nebraska on numerous occasions. Success comes to any one who can pay the price. Some one has said that genius is ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Turner, the great painter, when asked for the secret of his success replied: “1 have no secret, only hard work.” Webster said, All 1 have attained of success is due to energy, not genius. Thanatopsis was written one hundred times before it was given to the public. George Eliot tells us that she wrote Middlemarch in her youth. She wrote it as a young woman. She revised it in parts during her later life. And when she presents it to the world she says: I give-you a volume that is the product of my whole life ' s effort. A youth ap¬ proached Angelo and said: “I would like to l c an artist, of what can you assure me? “Well. said the artist, looking up from his work, if you give me twelve vears of your life. I may be able to make you an ordinary workman. Not much encouragement for the get-success-quiek youth. Labor can make five dol¬ lars worth of iron into ten dollars worth of horseshoes, or one hundred eighty dollars worth of knives, or six thousand eight hundred dollars worth of needles, or two hundred thousand dollars worth of watch springs, or four hundred thousand dollars worth of hair springs. If you expect to succeed in school life, work. If you hope to win in life’s school, work. but a more pleasant side of our subject is cheerfulness. Wc should work, but we may smile as wc work. “Laugh anil the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone. This dear old earth must borrow its mirth. It has trouble enough of it own.” It ' s a great waste of time to worry—smile. Frowns mean defeat. Clouds darken, sunshine brightens. Cheerfulness helps us physically. It increases the heart action. It encourages deep breathing. It produces clear thinking. It gives appetite. It reduces doctor bills. It buys opera tickets. Cheerfulness sends the blood coursing through the veins and arteries, giving a glow to the check, a brightness to the eye. a quickness -4

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Class Colors —Crimson and Silver Class Floiwrs —Red and White Carnations CLASS YELL Thunder Thunder Thunderation We’re the Freshmen Aggregation We create a consternation Thunder Thunder Thunderation. iihj (Tnitr Shrmujh Amrrira as Slunk Agrnt in 1925 One summer morning in 1925 I started on a tour through the United States, as book agent. Just as I was stepping on board the train, an airship gracefully alighted above the rear platform. A whiskered gentleman stepped down from it and ran up to me. “Miss—? he inquired. I nodded. “No doubt you have forgotten me, but since we studied balloons in Physics 1 have made a wonderful invention. A number of people are going with me to attend a Better Air Transportation Con¬ vention in San Francisco. He handed me his card and with astonishment I read: Mr. Carmen Woods, President of the New York Puget Sound Air Trans- portation System. hen I was inside the train again I noticed how beautiful the furnishings were. The parlor car was equipped with a baby grand piano and the train (although it went at the rate of 120 miles an hour) went so smoothly that the 26