Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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a Sleeper Oh I wish I were a poet, For then these lines I'd rhyme; But it seems I can’t get started, Though I’ve tried the hundredth time. This is what I wish to tell you, For it served to make us gay, When at old tricks in Room Twenty, A young freshman lost the day. May be that he to study tried, But alas, began to dream; Thought he was great Caruso, Raised on high a tenor scream. If a bomb had there exploded, ’Twould have caused much less surprise; You can’t wonder that Room Twenty, Looked around with startled eyes. In the fourth row he was sitting. But he did not sit there long; He was sent to Mr. Weimer, Ne’er will he repeat his song. MORAL. Early to bed and early to rise, Will keep Freshmen wakeful, That they cause no surprise. BERTHA MUNZ, 1911. How dear to my heart is the school I attended When fond recollections present it to view; We’re glad, to be sure, when the long day is ended, But also we’re glad when the day starts anew. To every one the gymnasium is pleasure, And English is greater, we all do declare; In Algebra most of us just sit and measure The time as slowly it passes through air. GOLDIE THOW, ’13. 113

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not go, for he knew that he was paid for finishing the work that was assigned to him; and he stayed several times that week regardless of the hour. On Friday night, after office hours, Frank was busy at work when he was startled to hear some one speak behind him. He turned and beheld his employer standing there smiling peculiarly. •‘What are you doing here so late, Mr. Gird?” “I’m copying these proofs, sir; they came in at the last mail and must be copied today.” Mr. Davis said nothing and went back to his office still smiling. The next day Frank had just begun to make his last weekly statement at ten o’clock, when he was surprised to see the office boy. He came to say that Frank was wanted in the manager’s office. Frank’s heart beat with the hope that he might be asked to stay. Frank walked into the office and stood at the manager’s desk. ‘‘Mr. Gird.” his employer began, “we have decided to keep you in our employ, for we cannot afford to lose a clerk who so honors his trust. You may report next Monday morning as usual, and from now on your salary shall be increased ten percent. FERDINAND MEIER, 1911. (Cornin’ Cfjru’ tfje ftpe If a body meet a body, On the way to school, If a body kiss a body, Is it against the rule? Ev’ry freshman has his freshie, So I thought had I, Till one day we met on the way, A teacher of Commerce Hi. If a body scold a body, When they get to school, If a body send a body, To the principool. Tho’ he’s nice, he’s not so easy, And to the freshmen said— ‘‘Wait my sonny until a Senior, And then you may be led.” 112

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®f)e Slarm IT was a sultry day in June, and as I sat beneath the spreading branches of an Elm tree, my thoughts seemed to wander, far off among the hills in the distance. The monotonous hum of the bees among the flowers and the chirp of the birds in the trees seemed to have a mystic hold on my mind. Suddenly, I was aroused by the barking of a dog, and turning in the direction from which it came, I beheld my pet dog, Rover, running about madly pawing the ground and uttering wild snorts as though frightened at some object or being. Curiosity led me through a nearby field to the spot from which the barking issued. As soon as I appeared on the scene the dog rushed madly for me then back to the schoolhouse, for it was a burning schoolhouse which caused the frightened dog to spread the alarm. A wild shriek rent the air and, looking up, I beheld the face of my little sister enveloped in a sheet of flames. The school had been dismissed but my sister, who had been sent to the cloak-room for some trivial offense, was unknowingly left in the building by the teacher. The alarm was soon spread and my sister rescued from a terrible death. The faithful dog, who had accompanied her to school, failing to see her pass out, waited, and was the means of saving her life. ALICE O’BRIEN, ’13. 114