Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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59.1, if 'N as.. 'V f iw 3 H QJJ Q, 17? ' I' .x1, 1 I . . af 1. ws, ag' ,jm Mddern Atlas. The President sent me down to see the Vice-Pres- ident-the Vice-President, maw, is the feller that bosses when the other boss ain't here. Say, paw, I'm goin' to try to be Presidentg all you have to do is just boss and talk over the telyfone. But the Vice- 'u ,I buf!! 1 UU' I' e . J I are . A M . I , Yi if 5 No credit in teaching unless you're tought. President wasn't very glad to see me. While I was -15- there he refused to give one girl somethin' and re- marked that nothin' but forty weeks goes here. I-Ie sent me over to a Miss Whitbeck. She sat there drummin' her Hngers on a funny little thing just to pass away the time. She asked me for iive dollars. I didn't consider it very good music and I did think she was a little high, but I remembered what you said, paw, about not appearin' green, so I paid it and she gave me a. piece of paper and sent me down to a Miss Milligan who said to show up at 8:10 to-morrow. So I started out to look around. I Went out into a hall and saw a feller bossin' a lot of other fellers that had clothes-brushes and broom-sticks. One of 'ern told me his name was C. A. Boyles. I thot it ought to abeen C. A. Freckles, but he knows better'n I do. They s-ay, and in fact it is even rumored that he will lock you in or out of the Normal just wherever you happen to be at 6 o'clock. Says its Hirresipelas to him. He was purty tall and slim except about half- way up and looked like he wanted a fight, so I went into the gym-something, and while I was a standin' there a. lookin' at a feller turn summersets 'n things, another teller named Carney jumped up into the air and caught some rings and pulled his feet way up into the air, and then dropped 'em like a Sledge on my head. Coarse I couldn't blame him for droppin' 'em, but say, maw, do you remember when I fell on the ice? That same funny feelin' came over me. When I came to, there was a lady' standin' over me, sayin', Fours forward, halt! Some one said she was rattled, but I guess not. I went over to another room and saw a perfessor

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Faculty. Empory, Kans., Jan. 13, '01. D-ear Paw 'n M aw : GOT here safe this mornin' after which I suppose you will be glad to hear what 1've done to-day. I got a cattylog and learned all the big bugs by heart 'and lots of the little bugs too. As I was goin' up the Walk I saw a little man with some kind of a thing that looked like an eave spout wi-th a glass in each end, set upon three legs. I saw him squintin' thro' it and, as he had glasses on his nose I thot maybe he was near-sighted so I asked him what he was lookin' for. He said he was tryin' to locate the Normal. I told him Where it Was, but he wouldn't believe me. I didn't care, so I went on up to I 1 K 1' A QV?2ff Katja' 3' 1 11,7 Ji. pil f . 4977! rl-3 'ziffwf I.- M ' -:1'!p' 19 .l F is I' n ,l 44,5 Young man, Pm trying to locate the Normol. the Normal and knocked on the door, but no one came. I stood there 'til a feller came up and he said Uoilice Hrst door to left and went on. I knocked two or three times and some one on the inside yelled to come in, and I opened the door and there stood a fel- ler in a cage. I told him I felt sorry and asked him -17- what his name was. He said it was Newman. I told him I was sorry for what he had done and would try to get him out. There was a little hole to put food through, but in spite of that hole's bein' there, he didn't look very fat, so I 'm goin' to try to get him out to-morrow. I asked him what that feller was doing down in' front and he said he didu't know, and that you couldn't always tell, for he Was the figure-head of the Normal. I got in line to see the President. A. teller in front . in 1 I WW, el ll ,if Sl Il? ,. J - UQ, 1 V C16 N 1 A, ' -2 Figurehead of K. S. N. of me says, Hi, freshy, goin' up to see the Modern Atlas? Said he had been called down on the rug. I didnft know what he meant, but I heard the Presi- dent tell him that if he turned any more Seniors he couldn't go to his school any more. He showed me a picture of the Modern Atlas.

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named Abbott drawin' some queer lookin' things on the board and tellin' 'em how to make things in mud. Say, maw, they's purty, too. I saw a feller goin' into a room with a number on it in yaller. He was the teacher of funny things in position at a desk in a room filled with maps and things. I asked him what he was doin' and if he was waitin' for somebody. He said, naw, he was tryin' to write some poetry. He turned round real sudden and opened a. door back of him and says, Where's the fire? I didn't smell the smoke. Purty soon there wasn't so much noise in that next room. He turned wan 5' to me and says: EW 1 e ' K I r W fr i .V 'ig H J J W4 ' ' 'f ' if-' eh,-e il He went to illustrate a drawing. nature. Things with legs and wings and all that stuff. u Yi He was illustratin' some funny things and showin' 'em a bug's ant-annie. A P1 fx .Jr . ik K Q-ge N fffli I XF 6nxff:.Z:' QL J .H ' I gfzfhi ,,,+x ,.... 'Piller fights' is purty good, Soze 'Plum Creek 'Leaven', too, But all of 'em is most played out- I must write somethin' new. 'Baseball Daze' sounds purty nice, But 'Teachin' school' 's too dry. 'Thenadays' is on my mind, 'Thennowadaze' I '11 try. 'N then he gazed fer ten solid minutes at a spot on the wall, wrote one line, put the paper away and says, there she 's started. I saw a good-1ookin', stout feller settin' in a lazy As I passed by a room with some foreign writiu'