Glasgow High School - Hootman Yearbook (Glasgow, MT)

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WHO ' S WHO Singer Ruth Bronstad Basket Ball Star Ronald Baker Musician Dick Hoppin Artist Helen Harebo Reader Erna Hansen Broadcaster Marjory Hurly Orator Eldon Schuster Flapper Mary Daum Ladies ' Man Bert Sammons Scientist Roy De Haven Debater Paul Etchepare Best Trainer Norris Kjos Football Star Bob Cornwell Speller Mildred Johnson The Sheik Joe Martinkoski The Clown Charles Hoffman The Flirt Callie Peterson The Actor Dale Smith The Actress Frances Walker The Thoughtful Girl Velma Spangler The Thoughtful Boy Byron Armstrong Shorthand Shark Peggy Morton Typist Dorothy Hovey Literary Roy Johnson The Shining Star Ruben Lewow PREMONITIONS What do ■we mean by a premonition? Webster defines it as a warning or sign, often a feeling, of w hat is going to happen. The modern high school student would define it by simply saying that a premonition is a hunch. Never outside of English classes w ould he call it a warning or sign, often a feeling, of what is going to happen. We may ask why such a common word as premonition is not more grammatically defined by students who have had nine, ten, eleven, or even twelve years of education in grammar schools, junior high school, and high school. It cannot be explained except by the fact that the modern tendency is more toward slang than towards grammatical English. However, a premonition will always be a hunch to most of our young Americans. All of us have premonitions at some time or other in our lives. We have a hunch that certain things are going to happen; sometimes our hunch turns out just as we thought it would and sometimes vice versa. Many of the chances taken in big business deals are results of premoni- — 48 —

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t M tions. Fortunes have been made and lost within a few hours because someone depended on a hunch and took a chance. There are people who depend upon premonitions for a living; for example, the stock broker in the cities de- pends upon his hunch to get him the right stock, and often it is the hunch which makes him sell his stock when it has reached a certain height. We may safely say that premonitions play a large part in the lives of the modern people, especially in the lives of the money-making and money-spending Americans. Premonitions are very interesting things to study. Volume upon volume could be vi ritten upon the subject and it v ould not be exhausted. Authors have used premonitions to add interest to literature of all sorts — history, drama, and fiction. In history we have famous generals who have let the tide of war hang upon the thread of chance the result of a premonition. Napoleon did not know that his seizure of the French government would succeed, but he took a chance. He must have had some premonition of the outcome of his step. Likewise, other great generals have been made famous because they were not afraid to take a chance. They had some kind of premonition which guided them and made them more confident and able to lead their forces on to battle. In the World War many moves were made on the force of an investigated and proved hunch of some officer. Inventions are made on the strength of a premonition. The inventor has a hunch that certain things v rill vs ork out a certain way, and he enlarges upon his hunch, which sometimes v orks out, making the inventor ' s fortune for him. In this way premonition makes history. Authors have used premonition as an added bit of interest to their work. Some authors use a great deal of it, while others merely use it occasionally. Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, uses a great deal of premonition. When the reader reads Juliet ' s prophecy of the tragedy, he thrills with interest and expectancy of what is to come. Juliet ' s words, O God! I have an ill-divining soul. Methinks, I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb, prepare the reader for the tragedy that is to follow. Later, w hen Romeo was exiled in Mantua, he dreamed that Juliet came to him and found him dead. Again, when Friar Lawrence came to the grave of Juliet, he proph- ecied the tragedy which had taken place there. These things stir the reader ' s interest and anticipation for what is to come in the story. Just as Shakespeare used premonition in his drama, so do the authors and dramatists of today. However, the use of premonition is more prominent in the works of the older dramatists than in those of the modern dramatists. Modern mystery stories and plays contain a great deal of premonition. Authors of such literature like to play upon the importance of premonition in its effect upon the nerves and actions of people involved in mystery cases. Such has been the importance of premonitions or hunches upon the lives of people, their inventions, and written vyrorks. In the olden times pre- monition was much more important in the lives of people than it is today. People of today dwell more in a world of hard facts than ever before. They do not rely upon premonitions, only so far as they believe such premonitions will serve them in business deals. The world of today is a business w orld and has no time for the fanciful existence of other days. — M. J. ' 29. — 49 —