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

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Q jfamiliar Sums With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe. Once upon a morning dreary, while I pondered weak and weary Over many a hard and irksome lesson, lessons by the score, While I studied in Room Twenty on my lessons Oh so plenty, Suddenly there came a pounding, pounding on the school room door. This it was and nothing more. Open now were Hung the portals. Gracious me! the nerve of mortals, In there came some dirty workmen, two, three, four, and then some more, Not the least obeisance made they, not a minute stopped or stayed they, But with an air of privileged persons who had been there oft before Go about the room so noisy, pounding, pounding, more and more. This it was and nothing more. Pounding there forevermore. Ah how well I do remember, it was in the drear November, And I longed for a condemner, with these workmen to make war. But the noise remained unbroken, and the teacher gave no token, And the only word there spoken, were the words of O you bore. Teacher, said I, man of wisdom, will this pounding ne'er be o'er? Quoth the teacher, Nevermore. MABEL HUMMELL, 1910. 298 ZBnn'ts for the Zluninrs 1. Don't be discouraged g-the worst is yet to come. QNext year.j 2. Don't gather a collection of blotters at Mr. Curry's expense. 3. Don't chew gum in the presence of Seniors, 4. Don't keep your seats in the street cars if any Senior is standing 1- its bad form. 5. Never make a poor recitation:-wait until you are Seniors. 6. Don't start anything you can't finish. QMr. Heald's motto.j 7. Boys, don't learn to dance till two weeks before the Senior formal QSee boys of 1910 for referenceq 8. Don't abuse your typewritersg they have feelings as well as your- selves, and are apt to get broke. fLike yourse1ves.j 9. Don't use slang as it has been copyrighted by the Seniors. 10. Don't laugh till you are laughed at. fBy the Seniors.j MILDRED BOLTEY, 1910. 132

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There's Cosgriff and Sinek and Hadde, And Downing and Nichols and Laddie, They are all a good bunch, And can stand a good lunch, And for money they go to their daddy. There's Goldberg and Lampus and Caldwell, Now don't you think those sound well, They all help each other, And think it no bother, By their teachers their lessons are called swell, There's johnson and Karlovec and Martin, And Krauss and De Forest, the smart 'un, Their ambitions are high, They'1l come bye and bye, And thatis all We can say about 'um. Wherever of girls there's a lot, There Joslin you'll see on the spot, He's awfully funny, And hasn't much money, But values all that he's got. In our orchestra, Thumm plays the Fiddle, just how it sounds is a riddle, He is so quiet, He would enter no riot, If the cat played High, Diddle, Diddle. NELLIE KING. 296 Qims I am striving to be an amanuensis, Between times, I work for a p1'10t0gfHph6r: But when they take names for the nineteen-ten census I shall be labeled plain Hstenographerf' 99 , Lost :-A pocket-book containing bills. Finder, please return the pocket book, but pay the bills. 131

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what is a Sleeper? ERE is a definition which is as difficult to read rapidly as, Peter Piper picked a peck of Pickled peppers, and is much more sensible. In fact it is an unusual statement of facts, which you will admit when you read the facts, if you will read them slowly. A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the sleeper runs while the sleeper sleeps. There- fore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sle eper, the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper until the sleeper which carries the sleeper jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper on the sleeper, and there is not any longer any sleeper sleeping in the sleeper on the sleeper. 66 HE first diction meaning for presently is immediately. Today, when any one calls us we say, presently, when we mean in a minute, soon, after while, when I get to it, pretty quick, after a little, in a second, wait a minute, pretty soon, when I get ready. Owing to this bad habit of putting off things, the dictionary has revised the meaning and now uses presently in a dilatory sense. Mother said to her little girl, Helen you must never say, 'When I get ready,' but say 'presently' when mother calls you, because 'presently' doesn't sound so saucy as 'When I get ready.' Little Helen thoughtfully replied, Then, mother, 'presently' is only a polite way of saucing. GC Qian you Zlmagine? Stella Beck a blonde. Edwin Krauss in love. Harold Nichols 6 feet, 2 inches. Richard De Forest bashful. Clara Vietz in school every day for a month. Bessie Haferneister with a pug nose. Fred Johnson with black, curly hair. Mabel Hummell a suffragette. Walter Madigan as the living skeleton. Clyde Downing in school on time. Laddie Lustig playing Basket Ball. Harold Romanis managing the Naps. 133