Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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We were able to distinguish only a few phrases, such as, “They don’t know anything about us, do they?” “Hut they want to, don’t they?” Then a generous fellow said: “If they come again, I’ll tell them.” Fully convinced that they were talking about us, we made ourselves known. Great was the embar- rassment of the ones who had been giving vent totheir inmost feelings about us, but we soon relieved them of this by telling them how very much we would like to hear their story. They all brightened up at this, hut none seemed to dispute the right of the aforesaid generous speaker to relate his autobiography. “1 suppose,” began he,“you, who are so unable to understand perfect beauty, think I am a very ugly looking creature (and we certainly did), hut I flatter myself that among our little colony at the bottom of the water near by, I was one of the most beautiful and intellectual members. “As I lie here, I may say that I am just as I ought to he, that is—composed of three materials, lime- stone, calcareous or siliceous substance, and horny fibre. Hut bye and bye, I shall he taken off to some place to be prepared for market, or in other words, my limy substance will betaken away, and I will he put at the mercy of a hard-hearted druggist, only to be sold in town to some “sweet little child,” who will use me so roughly that 1 will soon be worn out and cast aside. Hut I must not indulge in a melancholy strain. “Some persons (possibly you) are ambitious to acquire names. In my life I have had live names, and no hearts have been smitten whatever. The name my mother first gave me was “Egg.” A common sort of name I admit, but it answered her purpose exactly Next she called me “Morula,” then “Hlas- tula,” after that, “Gastrula,” and at last 1 was an adult and needed no other name. “Among our class are little tow heads, negroes, and many other varieties, but, I myself, am nothing hut a beautiful shade of golden brown.” Although we were extremely sorry to do it, we knew that in order to reach our boat to take us hack to Palm Beach, we must close our interesting as well as profitable interview. With many thanks to our obliging little friend, we hastily departed, hearing as a parting word: “Don’t forget us or our story, and next time you have occasion to use one of us, remember “what we are.” HERNICE GOULD.

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CLASS or 1006 TKNTM QHAOK Harvey J Bo tick Theresa Cryderuian John Krikson Claude Fande Edward Lampkin Vernon H Smith Bessie Balconi Lynn Bamborough Hattie Brookins Jessie Carpenter Einnia Casterlin Lillian Cornell Pearl Conkright Abby Curtis Albert Eddy Adah Hall Jennie Hartwell Roberta Hemingway John Hodgkins Erma Jones Lawson Knowles Clarence Merriett Blanche Reynolds Jessie C Steele Luella Wright Raymond Beckwith Grace French Louise Kennedy Mary Micks Bertha Wing Chester Willard Morice Yeomans OBJECTS FORMED BY CLOUDS RAVE you ever watched the effects of the moonlight upon the clouds? As the clouds move on they form all sorts of mysterious objects and the moon shining brightly seems to change these objects from one color tp another. It was still quite early in the evening, and the dying light of day was giving place to the pale light of the moon. The dew, which lay heavy on the grass, glistened like brilliants. The sky gleamed with a