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

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rs could dance upon the polished floor. I was told that the inventor of the engine which carried ns so smoothly was Ray Stenger and that the interior decorations of the car were planned by Harriet Taylor, the best known designer in America. When I was jwssing through a small country ' town in Idaho I came to a field „i strange plants. Some of them had long feelers which kept constantly lashing the air in search of food. 1 was about to turn away when a sign caught my eye: Professor Francis Keller, Professor of Plantology. 1 hurried up the walk until I came in sight of a large house, and there in the doorway stood the Professor himself. He explained to me that the ugly plants I had seen were used as a means of getting rid of undesirable citizens. The first afternoon that I was in Montana I visited the “Jolly Old Maid ' s Club. in I-—• Here 1 found Elsie Hamilton as president. Most of the old maids were driving in their electric auto, but Cleofa Champey and Alferctta Curlass, were there and I had a nice chat with them. They told me that Ella Berg and Ella Slingsby, who had always been v ery delicate ( ?) had gone to Mars for their health. Also that I -aura I.ambson had a candy factory in New York. I.ater while in St. Louis I attended a great piano recital. When the j crform- er appeared upon the stage it w as none other than Gladys McFarlane. While 1 was lunching in a restaurant in the same city, a very stylish lady came in and sat at my table. My eye caught a name on her hand bag: Miss Fema Banks, See. National Suffragette Union. She said she had seen several of the old normal bunch lately. “Edna Sadler is teaching school with a pupil of one,” she commented laughingly. And so is Beulah Streubin. The latter rules poor William with a stem hand. Laura Sheldon is teaching Latin at Yassar. Oh Yes and Elaine Felch (who never did like mathematics) invented a machine that could do any problem no matter how difficult. She thought to make a name for herself but a young man came along with a ready made one so that she took that.” And Emma Cook,” I asked, is she still looking for a man ?” “No, she gave up the hunt and is teaching school out west somewhere. In Boston I was just in time to see Marie Gilbreath starring in. “Love in an Airship. On my way home 1 learned that Miss Finley was running a large orphanage. When 1 reached Rllcnsburg 1 was surprised to see Archie McDonald as chief instructor in Arithmetic and Algebra in the normal. Also Marguerite Heraity as chief instructor in Domestic Science. She told me that the work was so much easier since they had installed new electric stoves. The next morning 1 visited the school again and the principal kindly showed me all over the new additions. He pointed out the new gymnasium and the girl ' s and boy’s dormitories. But with all these improvements to our town,” he con¬ cluded, our streets are not paved yet.” 27

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SECOND YEAR Motto Four Mori-: Years of Cares, Then tiie Top of the Normal Stairs.” YELL “Hi diddle dee! Who arc we? . W. S. N. S. Cant you see? Of all the mass, the very best class! Soph ' mores! Soph ' mores t Whcc-ce-ee-ee! (Elaiig Eurnts Our first class meeting was held September 22 , and the following officers were elected: President. Stella Peck; Vice-President. Ida Dixon; Treasurer, lien Rader; Secretary, Edith Bramhall; Class Teachers, Miss Meisner and Prof. Frazce. In October we gave a jolly party in the Y. W. C. A. rooms, when six of the faculty and many friends of the class attended. About fifty Were present. The room was decorated in green and white, and the class flowers, white chrysanthe¬ mums. The class will not soon forget our mishaps; how we burned the cocoa, and how we had no knife to cut the cake, and how some became adept in using forks for ice-cream. But we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves playing Three Deep,” Musical Chair. “Hot potato, ami other juvenile games. One of the never-to-be-forgotten events was a sleighriding party and a hot supper at a hospitable farmhouse, one cold night in January, ' when we were all 29