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THE RAIN FLOWER MOUNTAIN HERE stands in China a high moun- tain on which a golden temple is sit- uated. Here a grey-robed priest lived alone. Every day he put sticks of fragrant smoke before the images that lived in the temple shrine. He looked at the willow trees and understood how they wished for bright. new green dresses every spring. He laughed with the wind when it ruffled the faces of the pools and teased the willow leaves. A time came when for many months there was no rain. The air dried the faces of the trees and stole the water from the pools. The psople were sick and thirsty. The priest sat in his temple and wondered what had happsned to heaven. Why had heaven suddenly kept all the rain and let the whole world dry up? The people shouted for water and claimed that heaven was unkind and stingy. It was the gentle priest who decided to ask heaven about it. He went out on top of the mountain and told the bright blue sky that little children were thirsty. and he wished that there would be rain. The heavens listened, and the blue sky clouded as if bothered by this message of the priest. At last it seemed as if whoever turned on the rain understood. and down came the rain. pouring and streaming. whirling and dancing. The earth sucked in the cool wetness. The trees washed off their dusty faces and the pools glittered again with pattering drops of rain. The children went out into the rain and held up their faces and laughed. At last there was water enough. But heaven lost interest again. They seemed to forget to watch the pools and wells to see when they were full. The rain kept on and the wells overflowed. The courtyards overflowed into the people's yards and houses. The willow trees. so high up and safe. looked down at their wet trunks and shook their green hair. O. why did the rain not stop? The priest looked down and thought it strange how the rain kept pouring. He de- cided to go out and politely remind the heavens that there was enough rain. Then the magic thing happened that gave to the mountain its lovely name. Those words which the priest so politely had spoken went up into the cloudy sky and surprised the heavens very much. The heavens were so sorry to have sent so much rain that they did a very magic thing. All the shin- ing drops of rain that had passed the words of the priest on the way to the sky were turned into smooth pebbles. as brightly colored as delicate flowers. They fell un- seen into the courtyard and pools. but on the mountain they lay wet and shining in the grass and the priest called them flowers of the rain. When the sun came out. the children ran to the hill to play and found the gay colored pebbles. The priest said they were drops of rain turned to magic flowers so people would know the heavens were sorry for flooding the world with water. The children hunted the pebbles all over the mountain and called O, see. here is one that is green and has yellow eyes. or Look at the one l found. lt is bigger then any other and it is clear like a bit of clean water. People began to say Let us go to the mountain where the rain flowers fell. Quite easily the mountain got its name: The Rain Elower Mountain. The priest. who was old by that time, whispered it over to himself and smiled as he tended the rustling bamboo trees in the temple court. -Joan Pabst. EVENTIDE The shadowy fingers of night Draw the misty veil of evening Hiding that glowing golden disc Sinking in that unfathomable sea. Long shadows slipping silently Over the quivering breast of the earth Merge into a black mystic majesty And life lies tranquil in the calm of night. Overhead a silvery star dusted canopy. Cool sparkling jewels of dew underfoot. Surrounded by silence and solitude l'm filled with an unknown sweet sadness. -Patricia Keister. A'He plays a fair game. doesn't he? A'Yes. if you watch him. HOOSIER POET 13
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SENIQR CLASS, JANUARY, 1937 ETON SWEANY sanlf' 9' 'gg N ci 1.1 Q JI may -E- HENRIETTA Vv7lLLlAlN'lS Henry's big ambition is to be a nurse, and with such a grand sense of humor, and cheerf ful disposition. we feel sure she will be very successful. She pals around with Mary Jean Heiden and LaDonna Powell. Etiquette and Home Nursing were her club choices. IDOROTHY ZILLKIER Gladys Lucas. Carolyn Rudig, Marcelle Henry and many others will tell you that Dorothy is a charming person and an excellent student. She has been a member of the National Honor Society and the Typing Club. and has re- ceived her Typing and Penmanship certifi- cates. ELSIE ELLEN lVlOULLENHOUR Elsie plans to utilize her commercial courses in preparing for a business career. Knitting and the movies occupy her spare time and are made enjoyable by the company of LaDonna Powell and Alice Miller. The girl admits her eyes are greenf Vkfell, XVellY HOWARD SNYDER lno picturel Eton entered Riley in the fall of 1935 from Cicero Academy near Indianapolis. Since then he has belonged to the Learn to Dance Club, the Table Tennis Club and the Ushers Club. He enjoys reading and various sports. SANETTE VAN ZANT Jeanette is an attractive gray-eyed blonde. who is quite ''athletically-inclined, having participated in girls basketball. track, and in- door. She enjoys reading. dancing. and lis- tening to the radio when with Helen Babich. Kathryn Johnson. and Ruth Blair. Stenog- raphy is her chosen occupation. lVlARQARET MARIE VJEAVER Margaret is a dancer superb. and her greatest ambition is to be a classical toe-dancer. Dur- ing her high school career she has taken four years of tap. and has danced in the Junior ,A Play, and in the gym exhibitions. She plans to attend Chicago U. ul:- DONALD 'NVELLS Don is the lad who particularly likes good orchestras and dancing-and don't we alll XVith his friends Harold Hanna. and Wilbur Calkins he has enjoyed the Ping-Pong, and Etiquette Clubs. He is interested in a busi- ness career. in j N- Whii ,., , up K A' ' i 4 Howie was a gift from Central in 1935- f one of the few breaks we ever got from .- ' them. In the short time he has been a mem- A.. 3 ber of our class, he's won many friends-ine -,H J fc ' YQ. X ,. . X , . . . X cludin Bob Sweene i. NVarren Ritter, and is if . Wit M . N 3 l ,X at Q . . . Q 'Se James Barkley. VJill attend either Purdue or fr if -3 .1 - x - ,es Indiana. ' i i ' .I X viii V+ wi, 3..E':1'L rs-x kbyii 12 HOOSIER POET
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