Eastern High School - Punch and Judy Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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THE EASTERNER Jack'o Lantern [Ss SAVED! ut Serious Accident! ] occurred had sufficient look-out been kept. In nearly all cases, how- ever, there is hope that the sunken pupils will be raised to the surface. ganized in our last issue, but disban- ded when the Feds asked for peace. President Summers states that there were too many casualties to have a successful team. The Chess and Checker Club or- | Scare Number Three NumBer 3 | NEW DANCING RULES OUT | Approved by Committee |. A small volume entitled, “Dane- ing ‘S She Are” and approved by a self-elected committee of t : { stu- as been printed and placed | on the market. dents, h Lack of space pre- | vents us from giving the contents | of the book in detail, but the gen- eral rules for dancing in the drill | hall are as follows: | 1. Nothing but the most barbaric | of music may be played. 9 « eer Se 5 2. “Ragging” is emphatically Proper, and may be indulged in at any time, but preferably when moonlight dances are being en- joyed. 3, Chaperones may be allowed to attend if asked, but are not abso- of Students—Will be Used in Drill Hall | lutely necessary. If chaperones do attend, they may be expected to pay one-half the admission price. Cou- ples are not expected to notice the chaperones in any way, if they do not desire to. {. The dances may last until one o'clock on Friday nights, and two o'clock on Saturday nights, since Sunday School does not begin until 9:30 A. M. - When dancing is held at noon, the fifth period shall be omitted, and an informal dance shall be held. Good music shall be furnished by the Faculty and by those who do not dance. It is to be hoped that all Eastern pupils will earnestly follow these tules, in order that no misunder- standing about dancing may occur. ANSWERS TO QUERIES Answered by Miss Information Dear Ed: How can I learn to | play golf? Yours, Crockery D. Ome. Ans.—Wait until spring comes, and then go out with the base ball team and shoot pool after practice. Dear Queery Ed: I saw a pretty girl in Room 13 the other day, and haven't seen her since. What the best thing to do in order to get another peep at her? Yours, Spaghet I. Mugg. Ans.—Maybe the reason haven't seen her is that you first. Disguise yourself as th is you she saw e€ |corridor and theyll all stick around you. Then you can pick her out. AFFAIRS OF THE HEART By Mrs. Dan Cupid Mrs. Cupid, having noticed a large number of love-lorn lads and lassies wandering about our halls of learning, has graciously offered to warn and advise them in their adversities of the heart. All let- | ters should be addressed to her and put in the local box at the end of the first floor corridor. They muct be signed or initialed and should be written on one side of the paper only. Here's your chance, girls! If you are contemplating an action that you fear may look too much like “leap year,” consult our new heart specialist, Mrs. Dan Cupid. Her answers will be published in this department in the next issue of | THe EasTERNER.

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20 WEATHER: after six weeks VotuME XIX Che Srare Head All anonymous contributions thankfully received PERSONALS Barr says they won't disqualify him for studying, anyway. No, we don’t believe in Municipal Games on the 4th of July. They hurt our teams too much. Well, the basket ball team won a game at last. We sure wish Gon- zaga was in the League. An Eastern alumnus was aboard the Ford Peace Ship when it sailed. We hope he’s played a clean square game, and hasn't plugged anybody in the dark with a young cannon. Newspaper Headline: “Detective Chief Resigns After Being Criti- cised.” If they did that over here we wouldn't have any faculty. Everytime we look at Sam Hardy's feet we think of that beau- tiful old hymn, “How firm a foun- dation.” At last they gave us a REAL substitute in English. Which re- minds us of the following: Gates: “Boteler studies his English since the substitute showed up.” Barkman: “Dewey?” Gates: “Yeh. He do.” Doc Williams says he wishes it would hurry up and get warm | again. Business is Business! THE EASTERNER Prospects bright, but will probably grow cloudy “BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS OVER 500 STUDEN] Many New Pupils Enter Eastern Witho sult from the crowded conditions) Nobody was killed and only a very few were hurt in any way when over seventy new pupils en- tered Eastern last week. Owing to the crowded conditions in the class rooms and corridors it was feared that bombs might be placed in some inconspicuous places, but such did not prove to be the case. It was also feared that some sort of an up- | rising among the students might re- and the Faculty Riot Corps, headed by Mr. Wallis and Miss Schwartz, stood ready to suppress any mutin- ous disorder. Such did not prove to be the case, however. The only casualties reported were thise caused by several reckless pu- pils being torpedoed by Matinee- day exams. It is said that this tor- pedoing would probably not have

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THE EASTERNER 22 On not a few subjects had Gladys con- templated writing ; they all treated, how- The Arnold ever, of common events. Literary Society was offering a valuable prize for a story of any kind that might exceed others of the competition in €xX- cellence. This story must be written by a student of a preparatory school, and Gladys was trying to put forth her power as an authoress. Now she wanted to be original and write something besides facts; yet she realized her lack of mate- rial, and decided to create a story from her imagination. She could think of any number of relatable themes, but always their similarity to some other story was apparent. So far Gladys had made lit- tle progress in surmounting the seem- ingly prodigious task; moreover, she could not settle down upon anything def- inite. Turning the pages of the encyclopae- dia in abandon, Gladys stopped here and there to notice a word. Almost to the end of the book, and about to close it she noted a word which had a startling effect upon her. Where had she heard it before? What had it in common with another word she had in mind? Differ- ent reminiscences sprang up in her mem- ory; she thought of books she had read, and of other recollective instances. How did her brother describe the mad sailor's yarns and how part of it had impressed Professor Meider of the University of Chicago, who happened to be there at the time. Hardly without knowing it Gladys had thought of a number of oc- currences which if handled properly, would harmonize, and likewise develop into an impressive narrative. An expedition was being formed by A Transformed Trial the Agricultural Department of the Uni- versity of Chicago, to study plant life in the Island of Java, and also to discover if possible an island in the Utopian Archipelago which was said to contain a peculiar tree. In a meeting held shortly after the arrival of Professor Meider from a trip he had taken to Bos- ton, he related to his brother instructors a tale told to him by a broken down deck-hand who had been caught in a ty- phoon in the Indian Ocean. The vessel to which he belonged had been driven aimlessly about for days, and finally beached on an unchartered island. As “One of the ship's boats went ashore” suddenly as it arose the great storm died down, and it was found that the vessel had grounded in such a place that once it was there it was comparatively safe. Having passed through the typhoon with his ship secure, but with half of his crew missing, the captain found that he could get off the reef at the next spring tide. One of the ship’s boats went ashore to get water and provisions, if possible. The men who were in charge of the long boat had no trouble in securing what they needed and they also learned from