Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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THE OWL 91 conclusion of the chapter fufor there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by fewnd. He quickly awakened the men and at their head set out to find the pass by the rocky erags on each side. VVonderfully enough the passage was quickly located and the little army crossed to safety. The Turks thought next morning that the earth must have swallowed the giaours, as the secret passage was not on any map. The strategy of Jonathan as recorded in the Bible, saved the lives of G00 Britishers in 1918, Hand the word of God was like the pillar of fire guiding the Israelites through the desert. BELIEVE IT OR NOT THE LAST SUPPERH The plan to paint nThe Last Supper matured in Da Vinci's mind in 1478. When he received his commission from Duke Lud- ovico of lVIilan, he painted all the figures, with the exception of the Lord and Judas, in short order. The first difficulty he experienced was the inability to find a model for the noble picture of the Lord. At the urgings of the Duke he finally located one and immortalized him on the Wall of the Con- vent of Santa lVIaria delle Grazis, but for about eleven years there- after the great master searched in vain for a model for Judas--ihe antithesis of the Lord. In the end he located the horrible face which was to serve as a model for the portrait of history's greatest traitor. He hurried his model with him to his studio, where he Worked feverishly for sever- al days. IfVhen he had finished it and immortalized the old, greedy, and rapacious features, he dismissed his model-after compensating hii11 very generously-but the model tarried and intimated to the great artist that he had seen him before. Da Vinci was distraught and inquired where, to which the old man retorted, I am Pier Sa- laino, the man who was your model for Jesus eleven years ago. An unfortunate love and inordinate pride had brought about the complete metamorphosis in the features of the most famous of all models. This story can be found in Leonardo Da Vinci's own diary, which was was written in mirror writing, with the left hand, and was recently deciphered by Professor lVIanutt. BELIEVE IT OR NOT

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90 y THE OWL THE MIRACLE OF MICHMASH After the capture of Jerusalem by the British, the Christian armies suffered a slight setback in the hills near .lericho in January 1918. A battalion of the 24th Welsh Infantry found themselves en- rapped in a valley near Miclimash f about eight miles from jeru- salem and about twelve miles from .lerichoj The hills around them were massed with Turkish artillery and the road by which they entered was barrred by overwhelming numbers of Turkish troops. There seemed to be no escape for the 600 Britishers. Await- ing the inevitable attack in the morning at which it was determined they would dearly sell their lives, Major Spence was sitting in his bivouac, unable to sleep, when a strange association of ideas conjured up a vision of his boyhood home in Wales on a Sunday morning. Puzzled over this constantly recurring thought, he finally decided that the names on the map before him must have something to do with it. Suddenly he paused. The name of Ramah, only a mile away was familiar. He suddenly thought of the Bible and Sunday School. He rose and inquired whether there was a Bible in the battalion. Because their luggage was at headquarters, there was some difficulty in locating one, until a private spoke up and informed the Major that he had part of a Bible. Some of the pages- he told the officer - had been consumed as cigarette paper. The Major fingered the book for awhile, and then began to turn its leaves, reading as he went. Ramah, he discovered, was the birthplace of Samuel. He reread the book of Samuel until he found Chapters 13 and 14 of lsamuel I D. He found that his desperate situation was the same as confronted the Israelitic Army in the identical valley in the time of King Saul. l When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait.lAnd then he came to the following passage fSamuel1, 1-L, 4 86 SJ - And between the passages by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines, he found a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side and the name ofthe one was Bozez and that of the other Seneh. The forefront of the one was situated northward over against Miclimash flV1ichmash was on the Major's map, and the other southward against Gibeahf' There was a great light in the lVIajor's soul when he read the

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2 THE OWL NEFERTITI In 1912 a German expedition to Egypt succeeded in locating the statue of Queen Nefertiti, through the strange presentiment of a member of the expedition, Dr. Friedrich fFritzl Kampf. On the pedestal of the statue was an inscription which was de- ciphered to the effect that a reincarnation was anticipated. Dr. Kampf revisited Egypt in 1931, met and fell in love with Nepher, the daughter of the foreman of the expedition of 1912. The girl was born within a year after the statue was found and was named after the Queen. Dr. Kampf married Nepher and took her to Berlin, Where they lived at Lietzenseeufer 8. Obscure reference to a single year in the original inscription worried Dr. Kampf that his happiness will be brief. Indeed on the first anniversary of their wedding Mrs. Kampf vanished in the midst of metropolitan Berlin and was never heard from again. BELIEVE IT OR NOT THE MARCHING CHINESE Although there is no definite information on the population of China, as a census has not been taken since 1403, let us take the reasonable estimate of 600,000,000 as the number of Chinese on earth. CThis includes lVIongolia, Nlanchuria, China, Tibet, Mayalsia, South Seas, North and South America, etc.l Following the conduct marches as ordered by the United States Army Field Service Regulations, the Chinese-marching four abreast, or platoon-squads formation, at the rate of three miles an hour for the average fifteen miles per day-will require 22 years, 302 days to pass a given point. A generation l There will be 26,280, 000 passing each year. Assuming that the birth-rate of Chinese is ten per cent. and that half of these children die before they are able to walk, there will be 30,000,000 new Chinese coming on each year to take the place of the 25,280,000 that have passed the given point. And so they could march on forever. BELIEVE IT OR NOT