Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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THEOREM With you and I, prove you love me. Given you and me To prove that you love me. All the world loves a lover. I am a lover; You are all the world to me, Therefore you love me. “What does your papa do, little boy?” “He does as mamma tells him.” Miss Wormuth: “Can anyone tell me what makes the Tower of Pisa lean?” Clancy: “I don’t know, or I’d take some myself.” Brutus: “How many doughnuts did you eat?” Caesar: “Et tu, Brute.” Miss Rauch: “How was iron first discovered?” Ardus: “I guess they smelt it.” Appropos of Nothing: “All the dumb-bells aren’t in the gymnasium.” Miss Pike: “How do we know that Chaucer dictated to a stenographer?” Jim Fuess: “Anybody can tell—just look at the spelling.” Serman Gilmore: “Generally speaking, girls are Doris Blanding: “Are what??” S. G.: “Well, generally speaking girls are ---- D. B.: “Are what???” S. G.: “Generally speaking!!!” Native: “Sir, I saw a lot of tiger tracks about a mile north of here— big ones too.” Mighty Nimrod: “Good! WThich way is south?” Miss Wormuth (in history class): “Where was Caesar killed?” W. L. Clark: “On page 187.” “The Yanks are coming,” hummed the dentist as he prepared for an extraction. Ethel: “Were you ever pinched for going too fast?” Orris: “No; but I’ve been slapped!” He put his arm around her five times. Some arm! Miss Rauch (Phys. Geog.): “What keeps the moon from falling?” Curtiss: “I don't know—perhaps it’s the beams.” “Well,” said Tut, as the sound of the excavators' shovels on the stone roof disturbed his slumbers, “This goes to show that you can’t keep a good man down.” “Man wants but little here below,” said the new arrival in Hades as he removed his overcoat. Adria Gaylord: “What a girl is always looking for is a permanent wave in her hair.” Bobbie Turner: “What a fellow is always looking for is a permanent crease in his trousers.” 18

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Dan Moulton having been detained, sends his friend, Phil Lester, on ahead of him. Anne, the maid, takes him for the doctor, whom Dan’s Aunt Janet has called for her poor little doggy-woggy, Fido. The maid presents him to Bernice, Dan’s sister, who at once instructs him to baste the turkey. Ambling about with a large stick in an effort to find the tur- key, he stumbles upon Dr. Decker. The Doctor, who has been called to get an insane person, believes this is his man. He tries to persuade him to come away with him but does not succeed. Bertha, Bernice’s friend, has a few encounters with the Doctor and believes he is insane. Dan Moulton arrives just as the cook pushes the Doctor in a tub of water for Fido’s bath. In the end Dr. Decker explains his purpose. He finds out that he has come to the wrong house. Phil is taken out of his awk- ward position as cook by the explanation of Dan. Characters: Phil Lester........................ Jeremiah Decker, M. D............... Dan Moulton ........................ Miss Janet Spencer ................. Bernice Moulton ................... Bertha Melvin....................... Anne, the maid .................... Synopsis of “The Two Bonnycastles:’’ . . . James Fuess . Russell Smith . . George Lewis Laura Loveless . Dorothy Smith . Beatrice Myers Dorothy Kratzer Helen is complaining to her maid, Patty, that her uncle, Mr. Smug- gins is determined she shall marry his new clerk, Jeremiah Jorum. Hardly has Patty gone before a young gentleman, Mr. Johnson, who has been fol- lowing Helen about lately, leaps through the window and makes violent love to Helen. Pie is interrupted by Mr. Jorum, who is really Mr. Bonny- castle. Mr. Johnson introduces himself to Mr. Smuggins as Mr. Bonny- castle. The real and the false Bonnycastle come face to face with each other. The affiairs become still more inextricably mixed when Mrs. Bonny- castle appears. Both Mr. Bonnycastles are forced to keep up their decep- tion. After a number of very funny incidents the mystery is unravelled. Characters: Mr. Smuggins....................................Curtiss Butler Mr. Johnson ................................. Frederick Horton Mr. Bonnycastle (alias Mr. Jorum) .............. Lloyd Schultz Mrs. Bonnycastle ............................... Ethel Preston Helen ......................................... Bertha Patchett Patty ......................................... Doris Blanding BEATRICE MYERS. JOKES Sunday School Teacher (to a young lad): “If you say such naughty words you won’t be able to go to heaven.” Young Lad: “Oh, that doesn’t make any difference. I can stay with ‘Pop’.” They say that violin music is a good hair tonic. We can’t say about that; but some of it is certainly hair raising. Boy-Page Dave Whalen. He was driven to his grave. W'hat was he expetced to do—walk? Of course, the flapper isn’t nearly as nice as her grandmother; but at least she doesn’t have to faint in order to attract attention. Sunday School Teacher: “Who let the children of Israel into Canaan?” A New Boy: “Please, sir, I didn’t because we just moved here a week ago from Kansas.” 17

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It is said that the weaker sex spends about $100,000,000 for powder for their face and arms. Just think of the amount that the others spend in having the same powder cleaned off their coats. Hi! Dot Smith: “Have you ever noticed how bliss always ryhmes with kiss?” Sweet William: “Ye—s and have you ever noticed how blister rhymes with kissed her? Kywrect.” Soph.: “Did you ever hear the story about the red hot poker?” Frosh: “Not yet.” Soph: “It doesn’t matter; you couldn’t grasp it.” Dentist: “So you broke off a tooth. How did you do it?” Small Boy: “Shifting gears on a lolly-pop.” Rain is wet, This country’s dry; Time is short. So am I. —Morris Decker. FINAL POEM We, the Class of ’23, Bid farewell to the Faculty; To all our friends and school chums, too, We also bid farewell to you. From the time we entered our Freshman year Till now when we finish our High School career, We have tried to do our very best In absorbing the things which our books possessed. But where’er we may go, or whate’er we may be, We shall always retain our loyalty To the dear old B. H. S., To whom we owe our real success. So now departs the Class of ’23 With a great deal of solemnity; For we feel that we no longer shall share A part of our High School’s joy and care. 19