Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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St. Valentine Uncle Jerry came stamping into the big roomy kitchen of the old homestead, scattering snow right and left. Ideal weather for St. V alentine Day, . Maria,” he said to his wife, who was busy with preparations for supper. “I've been thinking, while 1 was doing the chores, it would he nice to have the young folks come for a sort of Valentine party. What do you say.’' “You mean your nephews that are cousins and my nieces that are cousins?’ “Yes.” “How can we let them know? This is the tenth. “I am going to town this afternoon and I can telegraph each one separately. Have it a surprise for each that the others are here. Marion Hoyt was busily embroidering at her dormitory window. Having just refused an invitation to a skating party and to a tramp through the snow, she had scarcely settled herself with a plate of fudge and her embroidery when there was a knock at the door. “Come in, she called a little impatiently, he door opened and the maid brought in a telegram. Mariop opened it hastily and read it. “An invitation to Aunt Maria’s for St. Valentine Day. Wonder if I can go?” She went hack to her work thoughtfully, A shaft of sunlight broke through the clouds and struck the ring on Marion’s left hand. She looked at it dubiously.

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VOL. IV. CONNEAUT, OHIO, FEBRUARY, 1915 No. 3 LITERARY “St. Valentine,” M. S. S., ’ 15................................ 3 “The Romance of a ‘Surplus’ Freshman,” Ethel Taylor, ’17....... 5 “The Competition,” Ruth Neal, ’17.............................. 7 “A Noble Revenge,” Harold Kaiser, ’18...........................H DEPARTMENTAL Editorials........................................................13 Society......................................„•...................ig Athletics............................................................ Jokes.............................................................21 Exchanges.........................................................27 Honor Roll........................................................... Just a Note.......................................................26 PUBLISHED BY THE AU FAIT AND IRVING SOCIETIES

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4 THE TATTLER “Of course I like Joe awfully well, she thoughht aloud, “but 1 wonder if I ought to marry him. He’s so crazy about athletics and 1 don’t care a bit for them. I suppose he's out tramping around in the snow this instant and I wouldn’t he out there in the cold for anything he might offer me. We’re so different. Now if he were only quiet and studious I would be sure we’d always get along. 1 believe I’ll ask Aunt Maria. I’ll have her all to myself.” Ruth Joyce ran into her home with a shout: “Mother, we beat, we beat! Eight to five! Such team work! I never saw anything ike it! They would just seem to spirit that ball down the floor. We have the championship of this part of the State with only-’’ Ruth, broke in Mrs. Joyce gently, Ruth, please just one moment. You have a telegram here from the old homestead. 1 opened it because I was a little worried. It is an invitation to Aunt Maria’s for St. Valentine Day. Will you be able to go?’’ “Sure, I’ll go. I have been wanting to talk to Aunt Maria about Bob. Of course you know 1 think everything of him. but he is so quiet and studious. I don’t think I will make a good professor’s wife, do you, mother?’’ The mother smiled and said softly, “I am afraid my little athlete would have her professor practising team work on the basketball floor. Talk it over with Aunt Maria. You'll have her to yourself. When Marion reached halls Junction, where she had to change, the first person she saw was Bob Fleming. Why, hello, Marion. Where arc you going?’’ “I am going to Aunt Maria’s for St. Valentine Day.” 1 am going to 1 ncle Jerry’s, so we better go on together.’’ Ruth Joyce jumped easily off the west-bound train, scorning the eager brakeman’s proffered help. Oh, bother. There is Marion and Bob Fleming. And here comes Joe Rossiter. My quiet Bob seems interested in quiet Marion; now I'll just find out from her athlete what kind of a chance the Pirates stand for next season.” So, strangely enough, when all boarded the same train from Falls Junction, Marion and Bob were so engrossed in a discussion of the music of the verse of Vergil’s Aeneid, that they did not notice that Ruth and Joe were very much engrossed in the possibilities of the several baseball teams. Neither Ruth nor Marion talked to Aunt Maria on the subject but Cupid took an interest in the four-handed affair. And, on St. Valentine’s evening each couple, by itself, decided that things should be changed a little. This was accomplished and 1 rofessor Bob went back to his studies with Marion's promise to become a professor s wife while Joe, champion forward of the -Basket .Ball team, liked to think of the athletic little wife .that Ruth had promised to be. M. S. S., ’15.