Findlay High School - Trojan Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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THE BLUE AND GOLD A SIMPLE ADVENTURE Dear Readers: I am about to relate the story of my trip around the world which I think was caused by sleeping under a crazy quilt. Starting out from New York City on a dark, warm night in December on a wintry day in june, I went out automobiling on a bicycle. Going through a dense woods in a desert in Pennsylvania, I thought that some person was speaking to me and turning around, immediately I found out that it was 1ny bicycle spoke. Going on a little farther, I thought I heard a dog barking but I soon learned that it was the bark of the trees. After riding about six miles in four hours. I made a discovery that thrilled me, my bicycle was tired trubber tiredj. So noticing a horse and a carriage up the road about twenty miles, I walked there in five minutes and rode the automobile through to Cleve- land. You ask why I said automobile? You see I took the carriage away from the horse and therefore it was a horseless carriage. I found Cleveland filled with people and buildings. Being a little bit hungry, I asked a small boy where I could get good plain board, and he directed me to a lumber yard. So consequently I went down there to have some sawdust, It was fine board and no mistake. I attended a very grand ball that night at the hotel and went to bed at a quarter of twelve tthree is a quarter of twelvel. I had a dream, I dreamed that I was awake and upon awakening I found myself asleep. After getting dressed, I went down stairs and did somethnig desperate: I ate breakfast food for dinner. Having been in Cleveland two days and four weeks, I concluded to go to Chicago. Upon arriving, I found the city in great excitement on account of labor troubles. Upon inquiry, I learned that all hammers had gone on a strike and all the benches were mad because everybody was sitting upon them. Still all the men were happy because their wages had been raised tthey had been taken up in an elevatorj. Really I found everything was fair! The reason why I know, is that, I got on a street car and all the conductor said was fare, Some of the exposition buildings, not being finished and further no one was working on them, I looked up the contractor and said, What's the matter, haven't you enough laborers or material? He replied that they did not have enough planes to smooth the boards. I then answered that he ought to have enough planes around here for the Mississippi plains ought to be enough. He rejoiced at my suggestion and finished the buildings in two days and one minute. After this I journeyed to the Rocky Mountains. I did not know how to get my automobile over so I just sat down and thought it over. I then journeyed to San Francisco and I saw several signs there, such as fire sale, alteration sale, and finally such a surprising thing as a sail on a boat. After buying one, I arrived in Japan, having rowed seven days across the Pacific. The only thing that I discovered on the ocean was that it was Filled with water. In Japan I learned why they did not conquer Russia immediately. They said they did not like to be Russian things. I journeyed to Canton. China, and there I told a Chinese laundryman that I was Lynn Collar, for I certainly was done up. Having lost a knee on the Pacific in a storm. I went to Africa where the negroes tknee growsj and got another so that I still was alright. Down at Cape Town I met a few witty English liappers who asked me if I had ever heard the joke and saw through it, that is. about the sand in the well. I said that I had not and so they laughed and replied that it was too deep for me. I next went to Paris and then to Brussels. There I rode in a car about the town. I noticed a cat lying upon the seat, the seat being covered with a beautiful carpet. I asked the man if that tpointing to the catl was a pet, and he said, Yes, that is a Brussels car-pet. I arrived in Liverpool, England a week later. Going to the dock, I saw a lot of papers and some fellow said, There is a raft of papers. Here was my chalice to save money so I rode home on the raft to New York City, being well satisfied with my journey. -RUTH SHANK, 225. IN FINDLAY HIGH Rest you in peace. you Flappers dead The tight that you so bravely led We've taken up. And we will keep True faith with you who lie asleep VVhere once your cheeks were rouged so red. In Findlay High. Fear not that you have rouged for naught The torch you threw to us we caught. The million faces rouged so high, So rouge and powder shall never die. VVe learned to rouge as you were taught In Findlay High. -EDYTHE SVVANK. Page One Hundred and Twelve

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THE BLUE AND GOLD FOLLIES OF THE FELLOWS All people talk about now-a-days Are Flappers and their awful waysg Their bobbed hair and their silken hose, Their painted cheeks and powdered nose. But no one ever seems able to see How funny the boys can really be lNith their long side-burns and shoe-polished hair Bell-bottom trousers, and silly Sheik stare, 1 They walk with an R. Valentino gait And move their shoulders in a way hard to relate. They cock their heads, stick a fcign in their lips And certainly think that they're the snake's hips. Their dancing of course is nothing else but, Yet one sometimes thinks they have struck a deep rut, For in talking they all use the very same line, XYhich for them truly isn't a very good sign. Now if people would only leave Flappers alone, And give some attention to Sheiks in their homeg The fellows might learn to be bright, shining stars, Instead of knowing how to drive all makes of cars. -MURIEL DEHAVEN. WHAT'S IN A NAME? A Newcomer came to visit our Sophomore class. These are his experiences as he relates them. First they introduced me to a Bright, Sharp, Goodman who took me to the places of interest. It was very interesting indeed to see the Brickman, Tinsman and Foreman at their work. XYe also saw our future Bishop and Marshall industriously working. Then my Hart gave a leap, for up walked a Badger and a Brown Bear and I soon took to my Shanks. I was told the Badger Burrows in the ground. I said I was Dunn and wanted no Moore frights. For dinner we dined on Simmons although I really Pheitfefd pie for dinner. Later, while walking down the hall we passed a man Whaleii after a student fat least I thought sol saying re-Pentzer, re-Pentzerf' In asking who it was, the Goodman replied, Tis, Dale, Next I was introduced to some of the pupils, namely, Miss HayJward, Miss Bill- stone, Mr. Colling-wood and Mr. Swine-hart. Our next journey was to the Domestic Science Kitchen. I was seated in a Morris chair like a King and watched the girls Mix, Fry, and Cook, when to my surprise they put before me a Feist and I partook of it like a Kanable. I just love to recall this scene for I wanted to Dye there of happiness. But, I was too Young. I saw the girls sew and some of them certainly could handle the Needles. Ow, Ow, I was too inquisitive, I had touched something hot and received some bad Burns. Wfe then went through many Chambers and soon came to the furnace room which was in charge of a Krauss Blackman, named Charles. There I saw a lot of Cole. Moving on we saw Folks ahead of us and one especially looked familiar. I ran up to Turner around when I saw that I had met her before in Frantz, when I was there with my Foster parents. That afternoon the high school presented a show of Sterling character in which simple Simon and Mutt and Geffs took part. I rode away in my Dray and after a Hunt I found a delightful Hill which Rose with a gentle slope. This over-looked a clear Poole with an Edie in it. After climbing a NVyer fence I seated myself on a Stump and recalled a recent visit to an ole Mill which I reached by going up a Lane. I made myself acquainted with the Miller who had two other men working for him. He called them Mickey and john. A little boy playing around the mill he called john-son. I saw a Wooley sheep tied outside and he said he was going to Shearer. I watched him do this and when he was through the sheep was Bare, and he loosened it and hollered Shuey,'l and away scampered the sheep. Then he showed me around the mill, how the grain first went in the Sheller and then through the Roller. Then he went to the shed where he got a XVhetstone which he was going to use to make his scythe Sharp. In the shed was a Ricker-Ctyj old wagon which he said he was going to take to Page One Hundred and Thirteen