Fulton School - Fulton Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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575' I- l.lL..'l ZINI gig Mrs. William Murphy. The name suggested something to ine, and after a time I was able to plaee it. Mr. Murphy was the great ehewing-gum manufaeturer and Jane was loyally advertising his produr-ts. After talking with her for a while she told us that she was due for a dam-ing lesson and asked us to aeeompany her, As that was right along my line we were glad to aeeept her invitation. It didn't take long for me to dec-ide that New York was ahead in that partieular if not in some others. They were just learning steps that I had taught my elasses th,ef previous season, There were a number of points that I eould give the instruetor and he seemed appreeiat-ive, The next morning, when we inet for breakfast, we der-ided to start out inde- pendent. of eat-h other, as I wanted to visit a barber shop and Dorothy didn't2 want to sit around waiting for me. When I entered the shop a vaguely familiar voir-e asked, Hair eut or shave? I found that I had ehaneed on a shop owned by Bert Seligman and that .lohn Turner was his assistant. It was .Tohn who had addressed me. He also told me that Hazel Smith was Bert's wife, but that they more frequently disagreed than agreed. From .lohn I got the additional infor- mation that Harold Mat-k was a sec-ond Babe Ruth, While I was at the barber shop, Dorothy had gone for a walk and, among other things, saw a double house. There were two signs on it. Une read, Leonard Heeht., Dom-tor, and the other, t'arl Lavey, Undertaker. She heard that they were doing a thriving business. When we met and I told her that, Harold was playing in Toledo, she suggested that we attend the game. But in some way we got lost- and landed at a sc-hool for blind children instead. There we found Mareella Bossie teaehing the pupils musie by eleetrieity. YVhile we were there Helen Fox eame in to give them an Intelligent Test. She was a regular old-fashioned sehool teaeher, with her hair pulled baek and wearing speetaeles. IYe told her that teaehing hadn't improved her appearanee and she replied that it wasn't mueh fun to grade over a hundred papers every night. There wasn't mueh time left to think about how one looked. From there we went to .Iohn Mandler's Home for Cats and Dogs. At. first we e0uldn't tell whieh was John, but got straightened out after a time and later he told us where we eould find another of our elassmates. After a short walk we saw a sign whieh read, Lena Rappaport, Washwoinanf' VVe entered the building and Lena eame to Hnd out our wants. She didntt look like wash- women are generally supposed to look, and we soon diseovered whyg for while we were there a youngster eaine in and asked for B's wash, She had worked out. a st-heme by whieh the wash was all done by eleetrieityg she was having an easy time of it and getting rim-h, too. Our last visit was to the Board of Eduf-ation's olfiees. Lucille Pool had at- tained tlie position of Superintendent of S1-hools of Toledo. We had a little visit with her and found that even if some things had f-hanged a lot, boys and girls were about the same as ever. Now we had seen all our old elassmates, not one was missing, and we had enjoyed it all immenselyg so we were ready to go baek home and settle again to our respective tasks of uplifting womankind and tear-hing the world to be frivolous. Perhaps some day in the future we will take another vacation, and if We do, hope to find all our old friends at least as happy as they now are. -DOROTHY STOPHLET, Louis GIBBONS. '17u'rU'-lhrep