High School of Commerce - Annual Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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One leg of a chair on which a Senior boy is sitting gets into a hole in the floor in the chemistry laboratory. Mr. Harsh- Please don't go through the holes in the floor. Nothing is supposed to go down there except waste water and foul gases. Q29 Teacher-- What must a community do when there is no trade in that vicinity ? Pupil- Go where there is trade. Teacher- Then if there is no paradise here, we would have to go where there is paradise. Q29 Student- I don't see where you get this inventory. ' Mr. Craig'- Well, well, just look in your pretty picture book. Q29 Botany teacher to pupil- Explain the banana tree. Pupil- The same bananas never grow on the tree twice. Q29 Mr. Harsh- What is needed with soda to make soda biscuits? Nichols and Bowman- Sour milk. Q29 Mr. Gehring to a certain individual- Come hurry where you are going, quickly. Q29 Mr. Harsh, talking of aluminum- Now, you see this piece of aluminum is very lightg if I had a piece of iron the same weight as this it would be very much heavier. Q29 Karlovec-- What is a perpetual motion machine? Downing- A perpetual motion machine is a woman. Start her talk' ing once and she never knows when to stop. Q29 Mr. Harrison- Some people have the nervous habit of placing a pencil in the end of their mouth. .29 Krauss says-- People who live in glass houses are worth two in the bush. 116

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Mr, Griffith, having been to the Hippodrome to hear Mme. Tetrazzini sing, was describing in the class the stage setting, and also the gown of the singer, from an artistic point of view- You know, Class, Mme. Tetrazzini paints herself-I mean, I mean,-er-well-that is-she herself paints. .25 Mr. Harsh- This aluminum weights .172 feet per poundf' .25 Miss Pittis- What is one of the by-products of the slaughter house? H. McA1pine- Christian Science butter Qoleomargarinej. 65 Miss Pittis- Boys, our guest is Mr. Campbell, of Chicago. Mr. Campbell- Pleased to meet you. Miss Pittis- Mr. Campbell may be in the meat fmeetj business. 25 Mr. Hoover- What is said about the boy and his clothing, Ethel? Ethel Whipp- I donit remember about the boy and his clothing, but I do remember about the peanuts and lemonade. Q25 According to mythology Io died of love, but chemists say Iodide of Potassium. 2' Pupil- May I have an alumni tube ? Teacher-- What kind of a tube ? Pupil- Oh, one that is graduated. JW Miss Palmer, trying to play cornet-- Do you make those high notes with a different sound in your mouth or do you have to make faces to do it? .25 Martin giving a definition of vestige - Vestige means remains. We put his vestige in the grave. J' Krauss-- Give me a Payne. Conductor- Any particular place you'll have it? .29 Nichols- Anapest is a city in Hungary. 117