Decatur Catholic High School - Tattler Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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1 I I I WILLYS KNIGHT AND OVERLAND Fine Motor Cars WILLYS KNIGHT With a motor you will never wear out Clyde Leo F ugate 248 West Monroe Street DECATUR Phone 904 INDIANA West End BHELGI' hop Hair Cuts a Specialty

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N' ' 'flvleiri 'l'A'Ii'liLhR H N NECKTIES IN YE OLDEN DAYS c Neckties! Isn't that a strange topic? We all know what a necktie is. Every- body knows what a necktie is. I'll take that backg I don't think old Josh Hayseed does. Neckties are too high-flootin for him. There is nothing more to say about a necktie than to tell what it is. It is the finishing touch, I think, of most anything. Let us start with the history of the necktie. It was Phidippidiphidias tquite a name, but since it is that of one of those. ancient Greeks who made history. we must accept what comes! who invented it. The wit and learning of his wife fwomen have not lost that superiority over men to this dayj made his house a favorite meeting place for a large circle of prominent men. I may here say that men have not changed a bit: even in those days. they feared lest their wives should go beyond their positions. Well, Phidippidiphidias' wife was one of the dangerous sort and her husband set his mind upon an effective means of governing her. IVith a long cord of great strength he tied her, really tied her, to himself, She didn't enjoy her situation, and a terrible wrangle followed. There weren't very many nice things said, either. He pulled and she pulled, both pulled and the cord was finally torn apart. A part of it remained about his neck and although it came into contact with the blood and loose flesh it was not removed. For some time he was compelled to wear it. To sympathize with the ancient philosopher. all the men started to wear a cord about their necks. The women didn't think of adorning themselves with such a thing. That is one proof that the gentler sex is growing better in every way. Neckties grew to be quite a novelty and have been in vogue from generation to generation until at the present time both males and females consider a necktie appro- priate wearing apparel. -Frances Schultz,'29. AND NOW NECKTIES AND SOCKS One Friday evening before a basketball game, I went into my brother's room to get a necktie. After examining each one very closely, I picked out his best one, to wear with my blue dress. That evening when I returned, I forgot to put the tie back. The next morning my brother came downstairs, with a terrible frown on his face. I knew something was wrong, but was bliSSfll1ly unconscious of having done anything wro11g. Of course, I happened to be the first one he asked. I said, I wore it to the game last night. Wait a minute and I'll get it for you. But that didn't satisfy him. He said, VVell. hurry up about it, and be sure there aren't any wrinkles in it. I don't see why you girls always have to tal-ie a fellow's ties. Say, did you take my socks. too? But it wasn't I who had taken the socks. He had put them in mother's cedar chest so that I couldn't find them, and then he forgot where he had put them. -Patricia Teeple,'29. gg ..... .-.... gg Ninety sexen

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2 'IIII IIIIIIIV' 'Z s 0 U C 0 0 0 . f 9 9 , . I A BICYCLE AFTER MEETING WITH AN AUTOMOBILE One tire was here, the other one hung around the hydrantg the front wheel, which was minus twenty-eight spokes, was hanging on the front of the autog and the rear one rested on top of it. The fork inot a fork used to eat withl was broken into two parts, one was found on the fender of the car, and the other poked one end out of the spare tire. The saddle was lieing in the yard across the street and the handle-bar, which was badly bent was hanging on the limb of a tree. The frame was broken into two parts, and was near the auto which had both head-lights broken and the radiator bent in. Well, to say it all in a few words, the automobile was about in the same con- dition as the bicycle. The car was towed to the garage and it took about a, year to repair it. The next day I went to the Cletus Junk's yard and saw the bicycle there. I asked Cletus who was riding it when it received those slight damages, and he said, A Cookie. I should have liked to have been there to see how many crumbs were left after the kids got finished! -Robert Rumschlag,'29. MY BIG BROTHER The most annoying character in our family is, My Big Brother. One of his chief weaknesses is keeping in touch with his ties and other such articles of men'S apparel. His cap can be found in a11y place from the coal bin to the attic. and he certainly seems to abide by the -scientific fact that like lightning, it can never be found in the same place twice. If he had within reach all of his sweaters but one, that one, of course, would be the one he most desired to wear. It's. Sis, where's this, and Sis where's that? If all big brothers are like that ONE big brother of mine, I wish I had one less. -Helen Schmitz,'28. MY EXPERIENCE AS A PIECE OF PAPER It'S a sad story I have to tell you. After the hardships I had to undergo to be' come what I am, excuse me, I mean what I was, a nice, smooth sheet of paper, I think I deserved to be the first sheet in a new clean tablet. Natugrally, I became a. little soiled lying around in the store so long, but that was no reason why, after I had been bought by a High School student of the Decatur Catholic School. I should be torn off and used to be scribbled all over, On one side three attempts were made to write a story for the Tattler fall of which failed! and the other side, was filled with algebra signs and Latin phrases. However, not being able to hold any more figuring or writ- ing, I was crushed into a ball and thrown into the back of the desk. Here I am wait- ing 111Y inevitable fate, when more than likely I shall be thrown into the wastepaper basket and then-but I shudder to think of the thereafter. -Mary Virginia Hyland,'29. Ninety nine