High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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The Boys9 Glee Club

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The Girls Glee Club

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COMMERCE I hose Troublesome Twins A True-Blue Story Eva Kaplan. tw ns. OUR years ago, on that day that every true American celebrates yearly, February 22nd, a usual- ly quiet and peaceful household was disturbed by the arrival of Since that day, the members of that particular household have known neither a day nor a night of rest. Their once serene and undisturbed lives are now a series of periods of suspense, when they are wondering what mischief is about to take place, and then horror when they discover what has taken place, and all on account of the arrival of that pair of holy terrors. After the arrival of the twins, the now enlarged family found that it would be impossible to live in their tiny four-room flat comfortably, and so accordingly they moved to a more spacious home cn Cath- er'ne street, where the twins thrived suc- cessfully until they were nearly a year old, when they moved again, this time to the Forest Park district, where the m’sehievious part of their lives first be- gan. The twins, Reita Ruth, and Sylvia Flizabeth, as they were called, had grown to be healthy, two-year old youngsters, and compared with their homely appear- ance when one week old they were now considerably improved. Their once red little faces now had a complexion which the women of today try to obtain from the druggist, but which only nature gives. Their once bald little heads, were now covered with bobbing yellow curls, and their big, blue eyes seemed always to be asking questions, but the ever-wagging tongues inside their tiny rosebud mouths, proved that they did the actual question- ing. It was at this time that their busy mother received a letter, stating that her ssiter-in-law was to arrive in a few hours. She had just finished her spring house- cleaning and felt thoroughly satisfied with the condition of her house. An hour before the train was due to arrive, she had dressed herself in a becoming suit and was about to start to go down to the railroad station to meet her sister- in-law, when she discovered a spot on her suit. She took a bottle of gasoline and removed the spot, but carelessly left the bottle in plain view. A minute after she had gone, the twins, who had been left in the care of their two older sisters, who were so busily occupied with interesting books, that they paid no attention to their little sisters, toddled up to the large bot- tle and carefully carried it into the bed- room, where they deposited it on the bed. They then took out the cork, and inverted the bottle. Lo, and behold, the bed was one Hood of gasolii.e which commenced to cover the pillow shams also, and the odor which filled the room was—inde- scribable! ! The twins, their mischief done, walked out of the roonj, and shut the door. How they arrived in the next room safely, without the use of gas masks is indeed a miracle. Can you imagine the disappointment the mother experi- enced when she arrived home with her guest, expecting to find it spick and span as she had left it? Another one of their many pranks was of a vastly different sort. Their mother had had a trying day and had lain down for a few minutes' rest. The twins de- cided they would play ‘barber, which wasn’t a totally new game to them, as they had been interested spectators in the window of the corner tonsorial par- lor. With this scene in mind, they took a pair of scissors off of their mother’s dressing table. They then went out on the back steps, where they commenced 28