Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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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

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One leg of a chair on which a Senior boy is sitting gets into a hole in the floor in the chemistry laboratory. Mr. Harsh— Please don’t go through the holes in the floor. Nothing is supposed to go down there except waste water and foul gases.” J Teacher— What must a community do when there is no trade in that vicinity?” Pupil— Go where there is trade.” Teacher— Then if there is no paradise here, we would have to go where there is paradise.” Student— I don’t see where you get this inventory.” Mr. Craig— Well, well, just look in your pretty picture book.” Botany teacher to pupil— Explain the banana tree.” Pupil— The same bananas never grow on the tree twice.” Mr. Harsh— What is needed with soda to make soda biscuits?” Nichols and Bowman— Sour milk.” Mr. Gehring to a certain individual— Come hurry where you are going, quickly.” Mr. Harsh, talking of aluminum— Now, you see this piece of aluminum is very light; if I had a piece of iron the same weight as this it would be very much heavier.” Karlovec— What is a perpetual motion machine?” Downing—“A perpetual motion machine is a woman. Start her talking once and she never knows when to stop.” Mr. Harrison— Some people have the nervous habit of placing a pencil in the end of their mouth.” J Krauss says— People who live in glass houses are worth two in the bush.” 116