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

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COMMERCE their hair-cutting process. Reita then began to relieve Sylvia of her curls, which she thought were troublesome. Her main object was to appear like her little pal, Edwards, who had just shown them his new hair cut. When Patty’s work was finished, and Sylvia had a goodly start, the mother appeared and was stunned by the appearance of her once pretty babies. The following day the twins visited Gebo’s, where their hair was evenly shorn, to their great delight, and their mother’s perturbation. Thanksgiving day gave the busy little twinnies another opportunity to employ their active little brains and hands. Their mother, expecting out-of-town guests, had prepared an unusually tempting dinner. Among her various courses were four luscious apple pies. The twins had con- fiscated a box of paprika, which their mother had been using in the preparation of the turkey. As they were pie lovers, they were very interested in the making of pies. Therefore, they had noticed their mother sprinkle cinnamon on the tops of her pies before placing them in the oven. As the pies were to be served with ice cream, the mother decided to place them outside to cool. The twins immediately decided to put the finishing touches on the pies by sprinkling them with a generous amount of paprika on each one. The distracted mother was horrified to notice the different expres- sions on the faces of her various guests, and wondered what could be the matter with what she thought was her greatest success in pie making. Being suspicious, she stepped out into the kitchen and sam- pled her pies, and then knew immediately that her naughty twins had been at work again. When she announced what had taken place, the amused guests burst into hilarity. After having been chastised for their naughtiness, the twins gave the members of their family a rest for some time. Their mother, thinking she would reward them for their good behavior, took them calling on their aunt, where the twins were always well treated with cookies and candies. As the day was hot, their cousin, Ray, a boy of fourteen, was rest- ing in the couch hammock, on the shaded front porch, interested in one of Jack London’s stories. His mother and fath- er were in another part of the house en- tertaining their guest, the twins’ mother. Unknowingly, he had the twins for com- pany. On one side of the porch was a smoking stand, which had a few stray matches on it. The twins immediately seized these, and then hid behind the hammock, where, after a few minutes’ scratching, they finally succeeded in ob- taining light. They held the matches in their hands for only a few seconds, and then threw them on Raymond’s book, which imemdiately became a mass of flames. He threw the book from him, and jumped up, yelling: “Fire! Fire!” in a terror-stricken voice, which immediate- ly summoned his moiher, father, aunt and many interested spectators to the scene. The twins, frightened at what they had done, fled to avoid the dreadful “spank- ing” which they knew was coming their way. The fire had spread rapidly, and played havoc with one side of the porch, when the firemen finally arrived. They after a few minutes use of the hose ex- tinguished the fire, and the now uninter- ested crowd dispersed. After having found the cause of the fire, by question- ing the twinnies, the firemen also left, and peace reigned again. Do you all realize why I close my sto- ry without giving the details of what took place after the firemen had left? SOME HEAT (Leo Dunn to Oscar Jazz) “Can you prove that one swallow makes a summer?” (Oscar Jazz) “Sure! Just the oth- er day 1 took one swallow of pertubus bickorometer by mistake and I thought I was in the tropics!” TOO EFFECTIVE. “Chick” Cerago’s personality is very effective, isn’t it?” “Very effective, it enables her to pass without working.” 29

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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

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COMMERCE THAT SCOUT CAMP AT CHESTER Myron J. Boedeker. Troop 18, the Commerce unit of the Boy Scouts, was one of three troops in- vited by Mr. Campbell to camp on his farm in Chester during the Easter va- cation. Eight of the Troop 18 Scouts reported in Chester Monday morning, being joined there by others from Troop 9. Later in the day, representatives of Troop 35 appeared, having been led in a 27-mile bicycle ride by Scoutmaster C. T. Powers of the Commerce faculty. Finally a loud rattling and chugging was heard in the distance, smoke was seen upon the horizon, and beneath a huge moving pile of luggage (the equipment of Troops 9 and 18), triumphantly ap- peared Scoutmaster Fred Stone, and his redoubtable Ford. Monday was a beautiful day, and was spent in settling camp, admiring the scenery, and preparing for the week of fun to follow. Some scouts walked the three miles to town, where Frances R. Senneff achieved the record at the soda fountain. The first night was spent in perfect discomfort. “Hey! Take ya knees outa my back.” “Aw shut up.” “Gim- me half that blanket, or Pll land you in the eye, Youngie, old Sport.” These and similar remarks helped make the night horrible for those who wished to sleep. The climax was reached, however, when Fred Stone chugged merrily away to aid a party of distressed motorists on the hillside, returning in the wee, small hours when all was quiet with two new camp- ers, who managed, with admirable ease and nonchalance, to disturb the entire camp, recalling from the arms of Mor- pheus all those who had been lucky enough (and warm enough) to fall asleep. Finally, however, after hours and hours of shivering and kicking, sleeping and waking, the day dawned, and at 5 A. M., the camp was stirring. After breakfast, fishing was next upon the program of the day. Although pur- sued by a dozen or more enthusiastic fishermen ( ?) all but two of the trout in the streams near Chester succeeded in escaping the wiles of the tempting bait. Through superior knowledge or exces- sive good luck, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Stone each succeeded in attaching a trout to his hook and line. The remainder of the party, tired of drowning worms, re- turned to camp in the forenoon. 0