Decatur High School - Azure and Maize Yearbook (Decatur, MI)

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D. H. S. GOLDEN RULE In one of Mrs. Mills' classes there was a Freshie QXYalter jenveyj who seemed to have trouble spelling words with ie and ei in them.. One day Mrs. Mills offered to give him an infallible rule for such cases. lt is a rule , she said, That for twenty-five years has never failed me. The Ifreshie expressed his delight and waited. Mrs. Mills resumed: The rule is to write your 'e' and 'i' exactly alike and place the dot half way between them. L'nanin1ously adopted by all D. ll. S. pupils. A SHADY QUESTION Hazel R. swears her hair isn't red. How's that, Lester? XVell. you see she says its Syracuse, just because its near- Auburn. HEARD IN PHYSICS Mr. XY.: XYhy does the full moon as it rises appear to be oblong with the major axis horizontal Mac Y.: The Earth was squashed flat at the poles. maybe the moon was too. At his desk a Freshie sat. His lesson he had got down pat . A funny picture he had found. ln a magazine nicely bound. He showed it round to all the boys. And then to make a great big noise. He let it drop upon the floor. Miss Owen woke up from a snore. She looked around: she saw the lad Then scowled. and frowned. and looked quite mad: The seniors they began to smile: Miss Owen then tried to beguile l'he little boy who dropped the book XYith that Awful Staring look. Robert XY. reading an essay on Scott said something to this eftect: Scott introduces hermits, battles. lunatics. and girls to revive interest.