Glasgow High School - Hootman Yearbook (Glasgow, MT)

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V.» -i G. H. S. BOOK SHELF The Crisis Report Card Day The Crossing Commencement Night Reign of Law Extra Curricular Council When a Man ' s Single Roy Johnson The Sheik Richard Hallett Alice-for-Short Alice Byer Wanted a Husband Marjorie Hurly The Three Musketeers Eldon Schuster, Paul Etchepare, Ruben Lewow Eyes of the World Vclria Spangler The Green Hat Fat Watson The Genius Rcy De Haven The Lane That Hath No Turning The Halls The White Monkey Chas. Hoffman Uphill Climb Prof. Byer Growth of the Soil Jack Fagan Personality Plus Callie Peterson Sentimental Tommy Tom Cornweli Dancing Star Harriet Christophersen Holiday Touch Dale Smith The Loving Are the Daring Micky Friedl The Story of a Plow Boy Eugene Tourtlotte Smoky Cyral Walsh Seventeen Bill Al vord The Sturdy Oak ' Bob Cornweli Old Chester Tales Peggy Morton Great Expectations Erna Hansen The Gentle Grafter Dorothy Hovey The Pest Ralph Keagy Old Fashioned Girl Loucile Finney A COUNTRY DANCE Scrape, scrape, scrape went the fiddle. Bum ta-ta, bum ta-ta went the organ and strum, strum, strum vsrent the banjo. Altogether this little symphony orchestra lacked only harmony; however, they made up in motion and rhythm vhat they lacked in harmony. The fiddle was being operated by an elderly man who energetically sawed aw ay as if his entire life depended upon his scraping. He kept time by stomping lustily with both feet and occasionally spatting tobacco juice at the coal pail ten feet away. The organist was a little, weazened up man who seemed to be expending — 50 —

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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 —

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(( ' ' hU;, : C t too much energy in proportion to the windy tones produced. The fault, how- ever, was in the organ. It must have been made somewhere back in the days of Nero and was now very sorely in need of repair. The beads of perspiration stood out on the forehead of the poor fellow, and I had great fear that he would fall exhausted to the floor at any moment. The banjo player was manipulating an Uncle Tom ' s style banjo. It was complete except for three strings. But now let us view the dance. Near the trio of musicians stood a large, deep-chested, giant bellowing commands as if he were Napoleon or Julius Caesar. Swing yer partner to the right; squeeze her tight and around you go. All join hands and circle to the right. Now to the left with all your might. Grab that lady and don ' t be slow. And the buxom belles and gallant swains obeyed with all the dexterity and alertness they possessed. Alas the dance is ended. The males escort their exhausted partnrs to their seats and then fall against the w all. The old men, mothers holding their babies, and fathers stoically view the performance and say, They can ' t do it like we uster. Will 1 enter the next dance and be trampled down amid the whirl, melee and confusion? 1 should say not. If ever one should trip and fall, he would be trampled into bits and wiped from the face of the earth. But later 1 did try it and got through it all right, alive; but no more. I was dizzy, confused and exhausted. 1 had all 1 wanted of Henry Ford ' s favorite style of dancing. — E. S. ' 29. The girls have taken our collars and cuffs. They ' ve stolen our hats and shoes; They copy our walk, our slang, our talk; They take v rhatever they choose; They sport our neckties — vi hy, in fact, There ' s nothing at all we can save. For ourselves alon, but this one thing, The luxury of a shave. — 51-