Farmington High School - Student Yearbook (Farmington, CT)

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,S ,ilfarmingtnn ,stuhent . e,Qa,QveQEef'.9' st.me-Qu Pete thought he was about fifty feet in the air and for this reason he wouldn't jump for fear of breaking his neck. To make up for that the boys put him into an old blanket and tossed him into the air until he was so dizzy he couldn't see. Last but not least they took him over to the ole swimmin' hole and threw him in clothes, music and all. At last they let him go and followed him home to see what kind of a reception he got. Peter said not a word when his mother scolded him and fifteen minutes later he reappeared on the way to take his belated music lesson. The boys marvelled that he dare face them again but he was coming down the street whistling. Hello, fellows, goin' swimmin' when I come back? he asked. With this they decided that after a little training Pete would be a regular fellow in spite of his n1other's attitude and other handicaps. EMMETT ROURKE, 1928. TAKING CARE OF THE BABY RS. SMITH went over to Mrs. Jones' house for five minutes one da ' and 1 ' mv- ' . . I 6 ri left Billy to take care of her youngest offspring, Esmerelda, who happened 4 , to be about three years old. . Billy expected Esmerelda to behave as usual, so he borrowed his mother's clothesline and tied her down to the table, leaving her hands free. Esmerelda immediately began yelling , which was a favorite occupation of hers, and to quiet her, Billy gave her the first thing he laid his hands on, which happened to be the scissors. Then thinking that all was well, since Esmerelda was tied down and quiet, he sneaked out the back door and over to the lot where the rest of the alley were playing ball. He only plannedtto stay' for two or three minutes, for he intended to get back before his mother arrived on the scene. Two hours later, his mother remembered that she had left the corned beef boiling five minutes ago, and it was now time to put the cabbage on. Corned beef and cabbage was Mr. Jones' favorite dinner. So Mrs. Jones hastened to her residence, hurried into the kitchen and saw spread before her, a scene of utter destruction. 3 Esmerelda had somehow managed to sawithe rope with the scissors and was now sitting in the middle of the floor, wondering why the scissors wouldn't break when she bit on them. The remains of the breakfast were scattered on the floor, for Mrs. Jones had not started her morning's work, and Esmerelda had given the table cloth a couple of jerks and destruction followed. A tattered old cat now sat on the floor drinking up the only milk Mrs. Jones had in the house. Everything in reach had been cut and whacked at by the ambitious Esmerelda's scissors. , And, Esmerelda herself presented a pretty well dilapidated appearance as ga result of spilling a bottle of bluing from the table over herself. The corned beef was burning and in hurrying to right some of the things in the kitchen, she put Esmerelda in the sink and set the dishes in a chair. Then she hurried out after Billy, who, deem- ing it time to return home, had come in the front way as his mother went out the back door. - p When he saw the kitchen, he made a dive for the cellar and started bringing up armful after armful ,of wood. This took the edge from the scolding which his mother administered when she came home. ALETA FULLER, 1927. Q 11

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is Qmrmingtnn ,ituhent iSQQvf-E- Z'2- '-' keg? 'C:?-iii!-bv' all of New York, Connecticut, and several other states had congregated at this place. As we survived this ordeal we next proceeded to the Pan-American Union Building. Here a jolly old gentleman showed us about. The open patio filled with tropical plants and two tropical birds was one of the prettiest sights. The Aztec Garden was wonderful. The last building was the National Museum. We didn't have time enough to view all of the euriosities here but did see animal skeletons, rocks, stuffed animals, and wax figures. The afternoon was free to be spent as we desired. That night a few members of the Collinsville group came over to the lnn. We danced, played cards and talked. After we walked down to their hotel we concluded we fared better than they. The Capitol completed our views of the public buildings. We saw all the executive rooms and imagined ourselves occupying a seat there some day in the future. We climbed to the dome, where we obtained a lovely view of Washington. Afterwards Emma, Ethel, and Betty with Mrs. Doody, our guide, visited the Corcoran Art Gallery, Red Cross Building, and the Army and Navy Building. The remaining members of the party went to the Zoo. We were afraid they would keep us there but we eluded them. That afternoon was free and was spent in various ways. We took in a show at Keith's during the evening even if the weather was damp., There was some scrambling to pack our grips and get the eight o'clock at the Union Station. We went about Philadelphia in a sight seeing bus, the only two stops being made at Independence Hall and at Green's Hotel for lunch. At Jersey City, Allan Watson and Jack Dillon left the party as they were remaining until Sunday with relatives. Madeline and J ack Bowler, Anna Flood, and Mr. Burns left the party at the Grand Central Station, the rest of us going on to Hartford. We arrived there at 7.59, tired and happy. We all appreciate the help which the townspeople and friends gave us to make our trip possible. - , , r . 1 4 ' ' ' - ' 3 y, f 1 REATQA THOMPSON, 1921. ..T,......-...l ,,' . . . '. gi -i .. PETER, VERSUS THE REGULAR, FELLOWS Q ETER was his mother's boy-he always had been and it looked as if he always would be. The fellows thought it was too had because he could have made a real boy of himself if his mother had'not kept him tied to n ' her apron strings so long. His mother was unaware of the fact that she was making life hard for Peter and often wondered why the other boys didn't take him with them when they went swimming, camping, hiking, or skating. One hot afternoon just before the gang went down to the 'cole swimmin' hole Peter came along with his music roll under' his arm, on his way to his lesson. He was immaciilately clean and his hair had been combed and groomed to the nth degree. He would have been quite respectable, they' thought, if it were not for his manner, his hands, his glasses fgreat horn rimmed ones which stood out very prominently on his nosel and his silly walk. ' L-etis muss him up a bit, said Harry, softly, he looksutoo nice and cool on this hot day. ' ' ' ' So they agreed-captured Peter and speedily silencing his loud but useless protests, hauled him off to an old barn. Someone blindfolded him and led him on to a plank which Harry and Mike were holding about two inches from the ground. The gang kept shouting directions until 10

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A 41- , s arminatun ,ituhent .1-is-f1.:ssg-fae2ii.afQ:'2Qf-Q 13'5?'3s.2S?2: WHY CIGARETTES ARE HARMFUL NE day last year when I was traveling to New York on a train I overheard - - the following conversation between a senior in a certain high school and a 4 freshman from the same school. From the opening of the conversation Q' I gathered that the senior was a player on the 'varsity squad and also coached the freshman basketball squad. After a discussion on the merits of certain players of the team, the freshman broke in: 4'But why didn't you let 'Spud' Morgan play in the Friday night's game? he said. Well, you seef' the upperclassman answered, he broke training rules by indulg- ing in smoking cigarettesf' What difference does that make? the freshman asked, A few cigarettes can't hurt a person. You're right there,', was the reply, 'ibut a few cigarettes may lead to a habit and in the habit lies the whole trouble with cigarette smoking. Explain your meaning. Well, when a fellow once attains the habit of cigarette smoking he can never break himself unless he uses a very strong will power, and very few people want to do that. When a person first begins to smoke he seldom inhales, but gradually as the habit grows he inhales more. This inhalation does the harm and holds the smoker to the habit. It causes an irritation in the throat which can be appeased onlyby more smoke. Yvhen he tries to break himself of the habit this irritation drives him into desperation and he seldom has the will power to resist the temptation. Nowjto get to the harm in the habit, the nicotine in the tobacco smoke, attacks the mucous membranes and the delicate tissues in the lungs. These tissues are built by nature through the oxygen we breathe and are destroyed by the carbon dioxide which we exhaleg and when the nicotine comes in contact with these tissues it, tears them down faster than they can be built up by the oxygen. If you have ever noticed a habitual smoker at work and a man who does not smoke you cannot help but see that the smoker is shorter winded than the other and is affected more by hard work. When you go out into the world and apply for positions where you must have a steady nerve and a cool brain, the first requisite you must have is a freedom from the smoking habit. If, however, you haven't that requisite you cannot hope to acquire the job, which probably has numerous lives dependent on its completion, because your senses have been dulled by the nicotine. If it was a job where you would have to read signals in a fraction of a second you would miss it in nine times out of ten. And, as for the case of 'Spud' Morgan, he, if he were allowed to go unpunished for that offence, would undoubtedly try a second time and then again, until he got into the habit which would slacken his playing ability., by shortening his wind and dulling the fine perceptions of smell, sight, and hearing. Furthermore, if he were allowed to go unpunished, others would follow his example and our team would eventually fall to the bottom of the league. But why did you let Mike Andrews go' off and have a good time Friday night? He smoked then and you let him, asked the now interested freshman. Oh, that was a different case altogether. Mike was overtrained. He had trained to such a point that he was too highly strung and nervous. He could not sleep nights and fumbled and made mistakes in the practice games because he was over anxiousg and so we had to send him out of town for one night for a cgood time' so as to let down on his high strung nature and to take his mind off basketball 12