Ennis High School - Cicerone Yearbook (Ennis, TX)

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 we made them understand that we were hungry. While we were eating, all the native women gathered around Thelma, and began to exclaim over her Paris clothes and her wonderful foot wear. ings. Annie Mae, Dorothy and Lillia them the English language. Dorothy curriculum later. Ilazel and Lola are for “Woman Suffrage.” Kathleen latest dancing step. Bouldin won the good-will of the men by taking them riding in Harry George’s car; and Miladi also made good use of the car. But I forgot to tell you about our meeting Mr. Fulton during our ride. He tied on to our airship so he is with us now. We have scarcely seen him though, since we landed, for he is tramping all over the country looking for specimens to take back to earth. The Natives think we are wonderful and beg us to teach them our ways. Cleo. Lois and Marcia have set themselves the task of instructing the natives in culinary art. Ilomer is teaching them to build beautiful stone build-l. seated on the village green, daily teach intends to add “Trigonometry” to the making speeches all over the country, is kept busy teaching the natives the

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY. The wonder of the age has happened! The laws of gravity have been defied! Isn’t it glorious to live in this glorious year of 1927! But for the fact that I have the support of Mr. Stargazer, the world-famed astronomer. I should not dare publish to the world the following: But let me start at the beginning; eleven years ago the Senior Class of 1916 agreed to have, in ten years, a reunion. So last year all the members of the class except the writer, who was providentially hindered, met in Galveston. Most of them came in their touring airships, for, as you know, in these modern times, the airship has practically taken the place of the autorgobile, steam-engin and steamship. As Harry George’s airship was the largest, he took his classmates for a spin among the clouds. As every one knows, they were never heard of again. Their former principal, Mr. Fulton, also disappeared on the same day. He was last seen by friends, in his two-passenger Monoplane. I’m now prepared to tell you their fate: A number of us were spending the evening at the lake. We were discussing the strange disappearance of my classmates, when we saw a falling meteor, and heard a dull thud near-by. Upon looking around, we saw a large rock with a metal box fastened to it. After prying the box open, we found this letter from one of the party which had disappeared. Pzog. Suptzyr. Miss Nina Abrams, Ennis. Texas.. IJ. S. A.. Earth. Dear Nina: The Senior Class of 1916 send greetings! No, not from the grave, as earth doubtless thinks, but from another Planet. When we took that fatefid ride in Harry George's airship, he lost control of the engine, and the ship shot upward, at an astonishing rate. The earth looked like a ball. The air became so rare that we had to put up the air-condenser, to be able to breathe. After a time, we became almost stationary, and the airship rocked back and forth as if be-calmed. Evidently we were at the space between two planets where gravitation is neutral. Suddenly we heard a terrible noise and were hurled through space af a terrific speed. We were on the tail of a comet! We must have been whirled through space at this rate for several days. Finally we stopped as suddenly as we had started. We had been dropped upon something solid. We could see in the distance forests and groups of small buildings. Now Harry George’s airship could be converted into an automobile, so we were soon spinning toward the nearest village. Some strange looking people came to meet us, with eyes and mouth open. Finally by signs, 30

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One of the first faults the girls found with the new home, is the absolute lack of powder and paint. Grace came to the rescue by saying that she would begin the manufacture of cosmetics. So once a week she, Jennie, and Effie, go to the factory (?) and mysteriously make quntities of nice white powder. It is rumored that they were found grinding up some white rocks. Guess who is the most popular boy here? Why, Shelby Smith! Yes, sir! The dusky beauties adore Shelby! And he don’t notice us. And Robbie has been uniquely popular. Yesterday we missed her, and upon searching we found her enthroned in one of the natives’ huts. A crowd had gathered, and they were forcing her to sing one song after another. One of them had heard her sing, and had dragged her off to entertain his family. It was only by promising to begin a daily program that they released her And now Wilell and I play ragtime on the piano, which Wilell made, and Lonnie and Robbie sing. The women cannot wonder enough at Mattie’s beautiful complexion; so she agreed to start a magazine to consist mostly of beauty hints. Thelma will edit the fashion page. The natives look upon us as higher beings, and have elected Johnnie and Vyvian as their rulers. They are paid about a gallon of precious stones every fifty days. Johnnie and Vyvian have given all of us high offices. These people have wonderful power over electricity. Their towns and even their forests are strung with millions of lights. Ted , a great electrician on earth, has combined earth’s knowledge with theirs and has made a flying-machine, which he claims can make a trip to earth. lie has already gone to one planet; presumably Mercury. He thinks this one is Venus. The natives call it Suptzyr. Bouldin happened to have a very powerful telescope, and we can see earth and things moving on it. We are each writing you a letter, putting them in magnetized metal boxes. We are going in Ted’s machine up above a