Charles City High School - Ce Ce Hi Yearbook (Charles City, IA)

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ART iifji NE day when the cock was jumping over the lockers to get away from Miss VVhite because he hadn't learned his latin vocabulary, what should S - meet his furtive glance but some strange and colorful paintings covering the walls of the front hall. His boyish curiosity overwhelmed him and he decided to investigate their source, thinking at the same time that it would be a good refuge. Following the smell of wet paint and avoiding Mlle's charging car, he wondered down the driveway. He poked his inquisitive beak in the door of the Art Studio, and his feathers ruffled with righteous, masculine indignation, for, covering the walls were huge posters expounding the theory The Women Have Their Way . Comb aloft and feathers bristling he strode into the room. Un every side were painty girls hard at work. After glancing hastily about, his interest was aroused by some lovely pastels done by a dark-haired girl in an orange smock, called Squee,' for some obscure reason. He remembered that he had seen a Madonna in Miss Elcock's oHice which looked similar in style to the pictures she was drawing. In another corner of the room two girls struggled manfully over hooked rugs. One product of their labor was being exhibited above their heads, and an admiring group of girls was hovering over it. As he walked over to see this exhibit, he noticed some girls moulding clay into very intriguing forms. They reminded him of the days when his mother, the hen, had taught him how to mould his butter plates from the mud in the ancestral backyard. He awoke from his reminiscences to see some charming linoleum blocks, done by the younger classes, pinned up in front of him. As he always patronized the younger generation's work, he gazed long and proudly at Page Tillflllj'-.Vf.V

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