Glasgow High School - Hootman Yearbook (Glasgow, MT)

Page 60 text:

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN— A EULOGY Poor fish. Not in a sarcastic tone but in a sympathetic mood. Did Anonymous, the Httle gold fish, ever harm anyone? No, but someone had to harm him. Living a peaceful and perfectly innocent life in the bowl on the row of books on the English desk, the little gold fish reached the end of the lonesome trail. Lonesome? Yes, here ' s the story: Nearly a year ago two small gold fish made their appearance in the English room and were named Anonymous and Ditto. Whether they came from the Milk River or from regions unknown is not known, nor does it greatly matter. Great favorites they became and were happy together for several w eeks. But alas! There is always some disturber of the peace. This time it was a tall junior boy v fho, every time he approached the desk to confer with his teacher would also confer with the fish and stir them about with his pencil. Such attention was not appreciated by Ditto who left this world of strife shortly before the school year ended. It was a survival of the fitter and Anonymous proved to be of sterner stuff. Another school year came and poor little Anonymous, after spending the summer with many other fish at a kind neighbor ' s, came back to start another school year. A more loyal student never lived. Never absent, never tardy, it attended four classes of English each day for five days a w eek, and became the favorite of the junior class. It acted as sort of overseer, although it didn ' t see much. Gold fish eyes are rather weak, you know. So the days went by and nearly a year had passed. Did a junior boy sitting near the desk grow tired of the merry gleam of gold that darted here and there in the bow l ? Or why were some matches and a small cigarette stub found floating together with the lifeless body of Anonymous? Anonymous who had never violated that law of school life which states, Thou shalt not smoke a ' Lucky Strike, ' an ' Old Gold ' nor a ' Chesterfield, ' neither let it be a ' Fatima ' nor a ' Camel. ' A certain member of the class ventured to say he had come to the con- clusion it was not a Chesterfield since it is a vsrell knov n fact that Chester- fields are mild as May and always satisfy; it could not have been Lucky Strikes for all fishy things use them, so it must have been an Old Gold because although there is not a cough in a carload there is not a decent smoke in a train load. But, why the hard heartedness of sop- ' e people? Last year ' s tall junior took poor Anonymous from the bowl under the pretense of giving it a burial, but returned with two other seniors and a post graduate carrying it pickled in a bottle of alcohol. But as one junior says, there is a moral in this story for all cigarette users: So perhaps Anonymous neither lived nor died in vain. — By the English III B Section. — 38-

Page 59 text:

f!y: ' ' k ] ' ' C !: ' SjW - M:f ALLEY RAT ' S LETTERS By the Alley Baby Dear Alley Rat: How can 1 learn to be a printer? — Black Bat Tom. Dear Tom: Be a devil. — Alley Rat. ♦ Dear Ima Nut: What cheese makes the best sandwiclaes for gaining strength? - — Diet E Tics. Dear Diet: Limburger Cheese is the strongest. — Alley Rat. Dear Alley Rat: Why is that football player sitting on the radiator? — F An. Dear Fan: Just warming up, you know. — Alley Rat. Dear Alley Rat: Why the can of flea powder? — R Unt. DearRUnt: To stop the itch of my dogs. — Alley Rat. Dear Alley Rat: Are you a fireman ? — W Arm. Dear W Arm: No, 1 go to G. H. S. —Alley Rat. Dear Alley Rat: What is dew? — D Umb. Dear D Umb: All sorts of bills. — Alley Rat. Dear Alley Rat: Why is she so homely? — Crit Ic. Dear Crit Ic: Her body was built by Fisher but that was no excuse for the face. — Alley Rat. Dear Alley Rat: Do you know Teresa Green? — Dumb Ness. Dear Dumb Ness: Nope, I don ' t. Dumb Ness: Well, they are. —J. M. ' 30. — 37 —

Page 61 text:

H Mx CAN YOU IMAGINE— Peggy losing her gift of ' persuasion ' ? Bob without his hatred of reciting in classes? Paul without some love ? Smithy reading Current History? Chas. without his good nature? Margie without a fiction book? Dorothy without shyness? Callie without beaux? Eldon refusing to make public speeches? Bert not rushing ladies? Frances coming to English on time? Jack not learning his speeches in Problems of Democracy? Norris not engaged? Roy Johnson not in love? Ruben without his bluffing qualities? Roy De Haven ever studying? Gertie married? Velma taking Public Speaking? Tena dyeing her hair black? Ida with a windblown? Irene six inches taller? Mary not sitting next to Bert in Problems? Ethel not finding all the data on all subjects? Fern losing her dimples? Evalyn M. not giggling? Tubby not liking rubies? Evelyn B. without a perm ? Lucile F. without anything to say? Reo not afraid to recite? Erna calm and contented ? Clayton ' s hair on fire? Russell Scott without his red sweater? THE ART OF HORSEBACK RIDING Remember, gentle reader, as Leigh Hunt states it, that talents are not to be despised in the humblest walks of life. Years ago, thousands and thousands of horses roamed wild upon the plains, brought over by the Spaniards in the early days and allowed to rove about as they pleased. Some of them were quite small and shaggy, but many were as beautiful as they were wild. When the colonists first came to America they had no ways and means — 39 —