Coplay High School - Coplayite Yearbook (Coplay, PA)

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HOW GREAT MEN BEGAN Harding began as a country printer; Coolidge was a farmer’s boy; Hughes, a preacher’s son; Weeks, a farmer's son; Daugherty, a store clerk; Work, a farmer’s boy; Fall, a cowpuncher and miner; Wallace, a farmer’s hoy; Hoover, the son of a butcher; Davis, an iron puddler. That’s the executive end of the government. A CHILD OF BOSTON The little boy sat disconsolately on the curb and sobbed as though his heart was breaking. The kind old lady stopped and asked sweetly: “Is a itta boy cwyin’? Turn tella nice wady wassa matter.” “If you are inquiring as to the cause of my eachrymose condition,” he answered, looking up at her pittyinglv, “it is because I have been unable to find any suitable intelligent playmate whose eugenic constitutions are in harmony with my pathological tendencies and whose hereditary affiliations meet with the approval of my paternal relations since we moved to this place from Boston.” 8. E. A., ’26 — “Mother, 1 can’t go to school today.” Mother — “Why?” 8. E. A., ’26— “I don’t feel well.” Mother — “Where don’t you feel well?” S. E. A., ’26 — “In school.” R.J. W., '26 — “Glory, there an awful lot of girls stuck on me.” M. li., ’26 — “Yeah. They must be an awful lot.” “I am innocent, your honor. Heaven is my witness.” “I am sorry,” returned the judge, “but your witness is beyond the jurisdiction of the court. Five years.” 'The school teacher was explaining what to do in case of fire. The ■ pupils listened with respectful attention until he came to his final instruction. “Above all things,” he said, “if your clothing catches fire remain cool.”

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Ills INFERENCE C. G., '26 — “So you imagine you know as muc-h as Prof. Wink, do you ? IIow is that ? (i. M. G., ’26 — “Well, ho himself has said that it was quite impossible to teach me anythin .’’ DIDN’T HAVE MUCH Teacher — “I came into this town, sir, as a very small boy, without a shoe to my feet or a penny in my pocket, and now look at me.” Boy — “But I always thought, you were born in this place?” Teacher — “And so I was. Doesn’t that prove my statement?” A. 7’., ’26 — “Gosh, but I’m thirsty.” (■ ('■ 26 — Just a minute and I’ll get you some water.” A. T., ’26 — “I said thirsty, not dirty.” “The sun rose high and bright On that beautiful summer night.” —Couplet, by R.. . IV., ’26. Customer — “Can I try on that dress in the window.” Salesman — “No, ma’am. We have dressing rooms for that purpose in the rear.” Agent — “Don’t you want your office furnishings insured against theft?” Manager — “Yes; all except the clock. Everybody watches that.”

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“Papa, where do they make these ukes?” “Know your geography, my hoy?” “In Yukon, of course.” Traffic Cop — “What’s your name?” Truck Driver — “It’s on the side of me wagon.” Cop (trying to read name) — “It’s obliterated.” Driver — “Yer a liar. It’s O’Brien.” “Aw, go jump in a creek. You know what a creek is, don’t you?” “Sure. One of those guys what runs a restaurant.”