Jefferson Junior High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Page 10 The Jeffersonian Monday, June 7, 1926 THE ORIGIN OF THE PITCHER PLANT Margaret Holmboe A long time age there lived near the headwaters of the Mississippi an individual named Camouflage who, through his pleasing exterior, masked his truly cunning and grasping nature. In spite of his selfish character he prospered, by taking advantage of those who trusted in his supposed goodness. The gods being displeased with his mean disposition decided to punish him. One day while sitting in his cottage brooding over a new evil plan. Camouflage heard a knock at the door. Assuming his usual benevolent smile he opened the door and beheld a stranger whom he bade enter. The stranger told him that he had hidden a valuable treasure in a tamarack swamp not far away. He informed him where the bog was and requested Camouflage to guard it until his return. After warning him not to seek the treasure the stranger bade his host good-day. The temptation was too great and so following his natural inclinations Camouflage gleefully set out to possess the treasure. He went where the stranger had directed and arriving at the bog, he eagerly plunged in. His avaricious desire led him deeper and deeper in until he suddenly realized he was lost. In his terror he turned, only to find himself sinking into the bottomless quagmire. After a futile struggle he disappeared and in his place a brilliant plant sprang u.). This flower marking the grave of Camouflage was our first pitcher plant. The gods ordained that this plant should retain the characteristics of the being it sprung from. SYMPHONY AND JAZZ Laura Hughes Once upon a time there were two lovers, Jazz and Symphony. There was a feud between the two families, and Dirge, Symphony’s father, was bound to kill Jazz. The feud also made it hard for the lovers to meet often. Jazz decided that things could not go on as they were. He and Symphony would run away and be married. They agreed upon a grove outside the town gates for a meeting place. At the appointed time. Symphony slipped out of the town, and into the dark, silent grove. The wind wh stled mournfully in the tree tops, and Symphony was frightened. Ther. Jazz appeared in the d'stance running breathlessly. Behind him were heard the shouts and cries of Dirge and his friends. Suddenly a shot rang out, and Jazz staggered and fell dead to the ground. Dirge was v'ctori-ous. With a stifled cry Symphony turned and ran. She fled into the country, running blind-y, where, she did not know. It seemed that she had run for hours and miles, when throwing herself on the ground, she wept bitterly. The wind, seeing her anguish, and pitying her, took her up, and carried her into the sky. She became a beautiful skylark, ever flying almo-t up to the very heavens, and singing to her lover. Just as Camouflage attracted the people by his affable appearance and afterwards took advantage of them, so the pitcher plants attract the insects by their beautiful coloring and consume them in their pitcher like leaves. Thus this be iutiful but carnivorous plant was originated o be mtify our Minnesota swamps and bogs. DIARIES AND THE FAMILY Katherine Osburne A diary is a book in which your private feelings and affair i may be recorded. Almost every girl keeps one. It is wise to keep your diary locked up in some drawer; especially if your family is inquisitive. If you have a brother or a sister, write something in your diary about them so they will see it when they read it. It is also a good idea to read their diaries, so that you are avenged beforehand. When a family is of an exceptionally curious nature, the diary should be written in a code. If this i» done, be careful not to leave the eynote on the first page. Most girls write on their diaries “Burn this when I die.” However, they usually burn them of the;r own a?cord before they die. This is a good illustration of the trust we have in our relatives. It ’8 a customary thing to write certain threats and inscriptions on the front cover. “Not open to the public view'.” “Read at your own risk,” “Leave your name and address,” and others are equally appropriate. If necessary write a personal letter to the family on the first ) ge. It may serve as a warning, a threat, a welcome, or a wartime address. Some girls keep two diaries. One is for the family to read, and the other is strictly confidential. If managed properly, it works. However, it is not easy to deceive a family. If you have brothers or sisters, you cannot deceive them as they are doing the same thing. If there are more than eight members in the family, it is not wise to keep a diary. Too much handling is injurious to the book, and your relatives become too well acquainted with you.

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Monday. June 7, 1926 The Jeffersonian Page 9 The coming summer will be a very interesting one for many of the students of 9A-8. Some will travel, some study, and some will work. Wallace Webster will take Chemistry and Physics at West or Central this summer, to help him toward his goal in his chosen life work. Howard Wilcox, who intends to follow in the footsteps of his father and be an optician, will work for the Twin City Optical Co., until two weeks before the Fall term opens, when he will go on a trip for pleasure, alone. Carroll Far-ber leaves for Montana to work on a ranch. We know the wheat will be of finer qua’ity because Car-oil helps to stack it. Evelyn Go’dstein, after a visit at White Bear Lake and a short stay at the Girl Reserves Camp, will keep house so her mother may have n vacation as well. Evelyn Prie’eman will go to a summer camp at “Lake Minnewaskta,” while Katharine Hall will go to l ake Charlotte with the Girl Scouts for a recreation period. Toris Freemantel leaves the 'ast r f May to visit her aunt in Philadelphia and from there will take j trips to many points of interest in the East. Jerome Salinges will visit in De3 Moines a s'.ort time and Robert Carey expects to visit in both Milwaukee and New York the last oart of the summer, but f.rst he will have a “job,” in order to pay for the good time. Leslie Sylvester will work too, except for two weeks’ touring. Francis Gregory travels to Dakota but to the south one rather than to the north. The 9A-6 girls have pi nne romc delightful vacations. Mar-c'a Rice will span 1 her vaca io in ort i ranees, Canada, with her mother. Later she intends to go to California to make .icr new home. Gwendolyn Redd w.h tour the east with her parents TRAVELOGUE and will spend some time in the Adirondacks. Evelyn Louis will also spend her summer touring some of the large cities in the east, while Vesta Davidson will visit her aunt in Los Angeles, California, and later some friends at Granite Falls, Minnesota. Florence MacPherson will spend the summer at Duluth, Minnesota, and at the Dalles of St. Croix, Wisconsin. Doesn’t that sound interesting? Jane Schwantes will spend part of her vacation at Camp Tanadoona, and also at Lake Sylvia. She will motor through the north w'oods in late August. In the meantime Susan Mary Shuman will be enjoying herself at her summer home at St. Albans Bay, Lake Minnetonka, where she has spent many previous summers. Fay Hurteau will spend her summer with her grandmother in Rock Island, Illinois, while Jean Gifford will find pleasure on her grandmother’s farm in Corning, Iowa. Vivian Helland is going north and Marie Fritzell will spend the summer at Lake Elizabeth, Fergus Fa’ls Other girls who are going to Northern Minnesota are Carroll Freeman, De Vona Sleeper and Marion Opfer. Novel vacations have been planned by the 9A-3’s of Room 320. Regina Pothkopf will visit an aunt in Eveleth and see the “Range Country.” Jean Steele will accompany her folks on a tour of Northern Minnesota and Wisconrin. Algot Lindstrom i planning a trip to the state of Washington. Keith Jones anticipates renewing acquaintancej in Cresco, Iowa, w’here he attended school six years, before motor-ng to M nnesota. Bill Mathison will have a “sweet” vacation running a candy manufacturing machine at Pendergast Candy Co. Jess Waughtel’s vacation is de- pendent on his report card. Charles Graham and a chum are going to catch all the fish in Long Lake, Barrett, Minnesota. If you get sun-burned this summer, buy your lotion from David Ellis, who will be with the Public Drug Co. Madge Jones and seven other girls have been engaged by the M. R. Railroad to work in Yellowstone National Park this summer. Arna Rip-stein is visiting Duluth, and Winona. Jack Barnum of Room 209 will go to the South Carolina “Y” boys’ camp in the Blue Ridge mountains. He will climb to the highest peak east of the Rockies on one of their hikes. Robert Beecher will go to Burlington and West Pawlet, Vermont. Warren Bugbee will spend his vacation at Chautauqua Lake, New York, where they have a summer home. This lake is interesting as it is tw’enty-two miles long and no wider than three-fourths of a mile at any place. Janet Ferguson, of Room 305, will spend the summer touring New' York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Muriel Branham will be at Camp Tanadoona of the Camp Fire Girls. Robert Hoover of Room 304 is going to Escanaba, Michigan, and Gladys Peterson will spend her vacation on the farm in South Dakota. Helen Hostetter of Room 310, is going to Montana on her grandfather’s Big Star Ranch on w'hich are raised a thousand or more head of cattle. She will have the experience of being a cow girl for two months. Dorothy Holzbach is planning to • ake a camping trip to Ohio. As soon as school closes, Emily-belle Craige, with her parents, will drive to Devils Lake, North Dakota, and then she will go through Yellowstone National Park with some of her friends. Opal Bagne will spend a week at Lake Sarah.

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Monday, 7, 1926 The Jeffersonian Page 11 The Loud Speaker Yet the East Claims to be Ahead It seems that a young bride, tuning in on the daily cooking lesson from the Minneapolis-St. Paul station, got herself all tangled up with the daily dozen from W. L. W., Cincinnati, which is only six meters away, and this is the report she was able to hand to her husband when he ca ne home for dinner. “Hands on hips, place one cup of flour on the shoulder, raise knee, depress toes, and wash thoroughly in one half cup of milk. In four counts raise and lower left foot and mash two hard-boiled eggs through a sieve. Repeat six times, inhale one-half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon baking powder and one cup of flour. Then, breathing naturally, exhale and s;ft. Attention. Jump to a squatting position of quick 1 me. Twist sideways and forward left and right as far as possible and beat eggs swiftly and briskly, arms forward over head. Raise the cooked eggs with flour in four counts and make stiff dough, which is stretched at the waist. Thighs flexed, lie flat on the floor and roll into marbles the size of a walnut. Hop to a straddle in boiling water but do not boil at a gallon. After 10 minutes remove and wipe with a rough towel and serve with fish soup. The Minneapolis Journal Leonard Nelson: “George, have you ever been in an accident? George Shama: “No, but I’ve refereed a basketball game. BUG HOUSE FABLES Gym. classes play every day. No “homework is ever assigned. The height of hard luck in Grand-dad’s days: ‘To get a haircut just before an Indian massacre. Jim Williams: “Sssshhhhh, they sleep!” Jack Price: “Who sleep? Jim Williams: “My feet. Myron P. (to old negro): “So you remember way back to the Revolution, do you? Sambo: “Yassa. De Revolution and Gen’l Washington an’ all them.” M. P.: “Perhaps you were a witness of the fall of Rome? Sambo: “Nossa, Ah didn’t ex-ctJy see it, but Ah recollect 'nearin’ somethin’ drop. Helen Millman (excitedly): Oh, Miss Purdy! did you know that there were two men in the library ? Miss Purdy: No! Who? Helen: . Wight-man and Lyman. “Now I understand why these ‘hot house flowers’ must take reducing exercises: they do not have the benefit of going to school. Yesterday I wore my hikemeter all day. I found that without purposely exaggerating my mileage in the least, I had walked fifteen miles, one-half of which was done in the school building. Richard Whitely—101— (after distilling water to which materials had been added)—We drank it to prove it was pure. Traffic officers are never on duty. Lessons are always excellent Lost articles are always found and returned. Halls are always quiet and clean. Ink wells never tip over. Seven B’s never get lost when they first arrive. There are always short lines at dri iking fountains when you are thristy. Teachers never scold. Lunch lines are never long. Waiter: Has your order been taken ? Elmer Dahlin: Yeah, and so has Bunker Hill. George Shama: What does Ed. Conklin do with that loud red tie of his? Irving Dunsmore: He wears it during Latin. When his head falls down on his chest, the tie wakes him up again. “This is what I call a clean get away, said Jack Price, as he left the Turkish bath without paying. Student in Mr. Haugen’s C. L. P. class: In the census, under which of the nine heads of occupations does fishing for diamonds belong?