Hart High School - Hartian Yearbook (Hart, MI)

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 AN ANALYSIS “That man surely has been a success in life. “Well, as a golfer he certainly has plenty of lie abilities.” FULL OF RUNS “I think these stockings I have on are like a bit of art.” “Viewed from the back they’re like opera music.” “How’s that?” “Full of runs.” ------o------- BET HE MEANT HORSES He: “I’ve made up my mind to know all about the races.” She: “Horses or men?” SYMPATHETIC “I was just taking a little beauty nap.” “Oh! It’s too bad I disturbed you.” — o---------- Wifie: “Did you hear those knocks on the table? What could have caused them?” Hubby: “There’s a piece of wrapping paper lying on it, I see.” THEY DON’T WEAR ANY “Are you opposed to petticoat government?” “Absolutely! Keep all women out of politics but the flappers.” THE GREAT DANE “Did you know Shakespeare devoted one of his plays to a dog?” “No, which one?” “His play about Hamlet, the great Dane.” -------o------ HAD FIGURED ALL RIGHT Mary: “Have you ever figured in any gripping situations?” May: “Oh, been hugged a fe times.” PAGE 11

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The Fisher: “Then it won’t be a crime if 1 land a fish?” The Inhabitant: “No, it’ll be a miracle!” Artist: “I’ve got some of the funniest pictures you ever saw.” Editor: “Really? Where did you have them taken?” He was an up-to-the-minute motorist, but had lost his way. Suddenly his eyes brightened as he shouted to his wife: “I think we’re getting near a town. We’re hitting more people.” Wiggs: “Sorry to keep you waiting, old man; but I’ve just been setting a trap for my wife.” Wagg: “Heavens! What do you suspect?” Wigg: “A mouse in the pantry.” • “How old is your son?” asked the visitor. “Well,” replied the dad, “he’s reached that age when he thinks the most important thing to pass isn’t his examination, but the car ahead.” Kind Friend: “I did what I could, Tony; I told her you had more money than sense.” The Victim: “And what did she say?” Kind Friend: “She asked if you had any money.” • • The teacher was giving a lesson on “snow.” “As you walk out on a cold winter day and look around, what do we see on every hand?” she inquired. “Gloves,” answered the jedhaired boy in the rear seat. “One of our little pigs was sick, so I gave him some sugar.” “Sugar—what for?” “For medicine, of course. Haven’t you heard of sugar-cured hams?” • • Patient: “Will the anaesthetic make me sick?” Doctor: “No, I think not.” Patient: “How long will it be before I know anything?” Doctor: “Aren’t you expecting too much of an anaesthetic?” Old Lady: “Oh, conductor, please stop the train. I dropped my wig out the window.” Conductor: “Never mind, madam, there is a switch just this side of the next station.” The Fisher: “Is this a public lake?” The Inhabitant: “Yes, sir.” • A man who was wanted by the police had been photographed in six positions and the pictures sent out to the state police. In a few days headquarters received this from a small-town chief: ‘I duly received the pictures of six miscreants wanted. Five of them have been captured and we are on the trail of the sixth.” Oldest Sewing Machines. A contest for the purpose of discovering the hundred oldest sewing machines in the United States has brought to light many interesting facts. Two A chines began service in 1853, which is only two yeW-Ps after the first successful machine was placed on the market. The one hundred prize-winning machines range in age from sixty-eight to seventy-four years. The make of the winning machines included: Singer, 73; Grover Baker, 10; Howe, 5; Willcox Gibbs, 5; Wheeler Wilson, 5; Leavit, 1, and Bartholf, 1. One machine, owned by Mrs. Frank Pallot of Plain-well. Mich., was the machine on which she made her own wedding gown and the christening, graduation and wedding dresses of her two daughters. Snowy Owl Captured at Sea. Out of a clear blue sky one thousand miles from land, came a snowy white owl, says The Pathfinder. It flew to the rigging of the Leviathan, giant American liner, crossing the Atlantic. The rare “creature of the night” was captured by the crew and is now in the possession of the New York zoo. In announcing the gift to the zoo. Captain Hartley of the Leviathan, said the bird had alighted in mid-ocean and anparently had relayed from other liners. » « Birch Wood Used for Spools. Nearly all ordinary spools are said to be made from the white birch, and while this species of tree grows in all parts of the United States, we read that it grows best in Maine. Practically all of the world’s supply of spool wood comes from the great woods of the north. A few spools are manufactured in Maine, but generally after the wood is seasoned, it is shipped elsewhere to be made into spools. (’ash Preferred to Paternalism. No man is rich enough or wise enough to set himself up as his brother’s keeper, declared Dr. C. R. Brown, dean of Yale Divinity School, not long ago. He stated that he was opposed to the policy of paternalism. “Welfare work on the part of great corporations Is an excellent thing; but the workers prefer to rewarded in cash. It is good mathematics and good morals to insist that ‘I am my brother’s brother’ from beginning to end,” he said. TROCADERO ORGAN. After twenty years of silence and disuse, the “finest concert organ in Europe,” that of the Troca aero at Paris, is once more in tune and is functioning. An American’s contribution of $500 started thn fund for repairs. The organ has twelve keyboards and is now blown by electric motors instead of hand pumped bel ows. PAGE 10

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 You May Be a Genius OMEONE has said: Genius is dictatorial without knowing it, obstructive without wishing to to be, intolerant unawares, and unsocial because it cannot help it.” Right away someone jumps up and exclaims, I’m a genius!’ We are not printing the above quo-tation to furnish anyone with an excuse for being bossy or for always being on the contrary side, or for thinking that he knows it all and that other persons are therefore surely wrong, or for holding himself aloof from his fellow beings. Upon discovering the consistency of this attitude, we inquired of said person, and she gave us this comment: “In a public meeting, somebody has to be obtrusive or the matter will not be thoroughly thrashed out, and action may be taken hastily without due consideration for all of the things at stake. I have made it a lifetime policy always to be obtrusive. Therefore I have been thoroughly disliked and hated in public more than anyone about me—and I have had a glorious time!” If the above characteristics constituted all that there is to genius, we would advise our friends to knock genius over the head with an “alley apple” whenever they see it popping up in their lives. Bu ' let’s stop a moment and conside ' the above elements of human nature. How often almost anyone is inclined to be dictatorial! Sometimes, if we look back at a week or month of our associations with others in the home, or at business, or in social relationships, we can see instances wherein we actually were dictatorial, without knowing it. There are more geniuses than this world has been given credit for, if being unsocial because of timidity puts one in that class. Many people will discover, as the horses did when automobiles first came out, that familiarity will breed con tempt for anything of which one is at first afraid. It will not take a great deal of acting for a very long period for a person who feels that he cannot be sociable to cultivate many sociable instincts and habits. It merely requires constant practice as occasion affords, or as opportunity can be made. But for the most part, people know when they are assuming this attitude. To recognize a fault is the first step in overcoming it. Stop a moment and think. Are you ever dictatorial in situations wherein you have no right to be? The next point in the quotation is that genius is often obtrusive, without wishing to be. We once knew a person who always took the opposite side of a question being discussed, especially if it were an aggressive program of advancement. Anyone can be a genius in a certain sense. By resolving to watch themselves in relation to the above undesirable characteristics, and by constantly endeavoring to cultivate the last one or sociability. That is, after a given period of time of such effort, they can look back and see what great progress they have made. The effect in just a little effort will be so miraculous that one will feel like exclaiming to himself because of his success: “Why, you certainly are a genius!” • -