Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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secured a drvorce from Arnold I stayed wrth the company three sears I hated the Work Durlng my lersure moments I taught Grace to read and wrrte I managed to save enough money to buy a llttle cottage at Newkerk a small coast town and here I am grvmg plano and vocal lessons I feel that my llfe has been very much of a fallure Of course, I have Grace and I shall see that she has all the care that a devoted mother can grve but thls rs what hurts me so Arnold marrred agarn and 1s now a successful lawyer He IS quoted far and wlde by newspapers and magaflnes I read not long ago a speech of hrs ln Whlkh he attrlbuted all hrs success to hrs wrfe Why C ecellr drd Ifa1l You c in see that mv llfe has not been happy I h wc found th xt lt rs not bcst to look for Ideals rn flesh and blood I suppose Cecella that you are the sxme sweet 1,111 grown Into a sweet unselhsh woman I can see you worklng among your grrls and boys and your books best beloved of all I wlsh you mlght come to sec us Auntie though she washed her hands of me when I marrlcd his relented md llvcs wlth us Well my dcrr Iam georng to end thrs dreary lettcr rrght now VV1th love ES'I ELI P Mlss Cecella was very quiet after she read thrs letter qhe had newer dreamed that Estelle had been so unhappy She had recerx ed a letter now and then from her but thrs was the first to tell her of her sorrows 'ihe opened the last letter Ah Harrret sard she ferx entlv to herself I do hope you have found lrfe krnder than have the first two glrls Dear Cecella I wonder lf you have possrbly forgotten that pledge we made ten years ago today I can hardlv realrze that rt has been that long ago It seems onlv vesterday Really Cecella, I don t know what to wrlte These letters I understand are to grve a complete record of how we have spent those fear that an account of my lrfe durlng that trme wrll be very humdrum You know I never had the ambrtrons that the rest of you had I never wanted to be a socrety leader or an opera smger no, not even a school teacher Cecella I never spoke much about my ambltrons but hrdden deep ln my heart was the prcture of a cozy lrttle home a lovlng, husband and fond chrldren I never thought that my dream would ever be realmed I never was bright and qurck lrke Nancv I could not play or slng lrke Estelle nor drd I even make the grades at school that you dld The year after I graduated I marrled Harold Lofton who you remember graduated four years before we d1d I have two lovely lrttle daughters Harold 1s not rrch but we are comfortably srtuated and I belrexe Cecelra that I can truthfully sav that I know what happrness rs Of course I h we seen the dark s1de now and then I have had doubts and drsrppomtments but they have never mastered me I used to worshrp Harold and placed hlm on a tmselled throne but after helpmg an lrate husband search for cuff buttons one rs soon LOIlVlDLQd that he IQ mortal, too' Harold and I lead a very quret life The dur man now 18 dolrng before the fue md scorchrng hrs new Sllpp6lS I used to trv to read Brownmg and Tennyson to h1m ln the evenmgs but I soon found fand lrked hrm none the less for ltb that he much preferred to read the newspaper by hlmself and to have me slt near hlm, elther sewlng or playlng and slnglng to hlm We go very lrttle I have my embroldery club We occasronally attend 1 good opera or a lecture I wish you could VlSlt us some tlme Cecella Our home IS not beautrful, but I thunk you and I would enJoy berng together again I have re read my letter and I rm afrald rt wlll be very dull beslde the letters from the other gnls How I should love to see them' Nevertheless mv letter though humble bears loads of love to you HARRIET As Mrss Cecella hmshed the letter she breathed a srgh of rehef Thank goodnessln she exclalmed at least one of us has found the pot of gold at the end of the ra1nbow ' For a Whrle she sat motlonless, her eyes havlng a far away expressron Has my l1fe been as happy as the1rs Surely rt has been as happy as Nancy s, much happrer than Estelle s, but has my happmess equalled Harr1et's Mlss Cecella drd not attempt to answer her questlon, but a wlstful ercpresslon crept rnto her face She opened a lrttle ' - - . , .' 1 1 .B ' - ' ' ' 1 U . - 1' . . ., . 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blrss, whrch we are all so desrrous of grasprng but whrch few people ever catch a glrmpse of Please dont mrsunderstand me I 'rm happy rn a w ry I have many frrends, and John sees that I h rve rll that money can buy, and yet there rs some thrng lackrng Really I shouldn t say rt but srnce thrs letter rs to contarn only the truth I shall speak plarnly, a thrng whrch I seldom do I have to guard my words so, rt rs a relref to speak freely for once I don t belreve John ever drd really love me' I don t beheve he knows what love rs' Of course he admrres me and rs proud of me but rf anythrng should ever happen to me, my place, I am sure could be easrly frlled by another Very easrlv John rs very popular among our frrends I would never admrt rt agarn, but I am horrrbly Jealous' lhrng of rt Cecelra Many trmes I have to put on a smrlrng rndrtferent face when I am nearly wrld to rush rcross the room and tear John away from elther a hrgh browed shrnrng lrght or a fur srmperrng debutante Ihey 'rll adore hrnr And what can I do I The first have the rntellect that I never h rd and the last have the beauty th xt I am fast losrng And then he gets restless rf he stays at home two evcnrngs rn successron I seem to bore hrm I get so lonely We have no chrldren O Cecelrr ten ye rrs ago I hoped md prayed that I vsoulclnt bc the one to rccerve those lctters but I h :vc ch rnged my vrews completely Xou should be rf you arc not nr my trmes h rpprer than I Well I sh rll not burden you longer wrth my tale of woe I do hope the othcr grrls have fared better I wrsh we could all see each other But that rs not to be thought of You wouldn t leave your books and I shouldn t drre to le we Iohn Wrth lots of love N-XNCX Mrss Cecelra paused a mrrrute after readrng thrs letter to vs rpe her eyes Dear lrttle Nance, she sard to herself you were so confrdent that you would be supremely hrppy wrth fr good lookrng husband and plenty of monev and yet thrs IS the result bhe opened the nerct letter currously for rt was from Fstelle, a grrl for herself alone But 1 year after Commencement Mrss Lecclra had heard that Lstelle had marrred and w as xery h rppy I erhaps, thought Cecelra, Estelle has found the happrrress that Nancy has farled to reach Dear Qecclrr I rlw rys thought and sard that I would be the one to re cerve those letters and now l rc rlly wrsh I were You know how craly I was to be an opera srnger How I wrsh th rt I mrght have kept my arnbrtron before me and frnally realrfed rt' I sh rll begrn my story from the fateful Commencement nrght ten long years ago I left rn r few d rys you renrember for Haddon Con servatory to study musrc I loved the work I studred farthfully for a year, and was far rn the second year when I met Arnold You know the rest I lost rn terest rn rny musrc My aunt becrme drsgusted and just before the close of my second year at Haddon, told me sharply to choose between Arnold and a mu srcal career And I took Arnold of course He was young a promrsrng law yer Our future lool ed very brrght The brrth of my daughter Hlled my cup of happrness to the brrm And then Arnold s health fuled and he became drs couraged I-Ie hui to leave hrs nerve rackrng professron and began work as a bookkeeper for a busrness nran rn Anton Our clrcumstances were greatly re duced, but I never complarrred for Arnold assured me that rt would be that way only a short trme Arnold grew stronger, but hrs ambrtron wrs gone He no longer talked of makrng of hrmself anythrng better than a thrrd rate book keeper I grew peevrsh md compl uned That m rde hrm cross and sullen and for a few nronths our home lrfe was any thrng but happy And then came the clrmax Arnold rn a fit of temper had words wrth hrs employer and wrs drs mrssed I drd not know what to do We hid to lrve Arnold seemed to care very lrttle what became of us At last I thought of nry long neglected musrc I went to the manager of a musrcal comedy company and trred out He lrked my vorce and gave me a place rn the company but rt was only a second class company I traveled wrth the company and though rt almost broke my heart to dot rt left lrttle Grace at Anton wrth Arnold I sent back nearly all that I made to Grace and hrm Whenever I suggested that he find somethrng to do, he always excused hrmself by statrng the possrbrlrty of another nervous break down At last I could stand rt no longer I sent for Grace and rn a short trme 1 - ' 1 , 44 , ' ' , 1 C C 1 i' 1 1: 1 C . 1 ' , 1 A. 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locket whlch hung at her throat The locket dlsclosed a Smlllng b0y1Sh face No and MISS Ceceha frowned at the plcture No It wouldnt have done You would have been l1ke the others I wxshed' for a quiet cozy home l1ke Harrlet s and you wanted an mdependent suffragette l1ke woman It IQ best so MISS Cecella closed the locket and sat Wlth folded hands Mmute after mlnute flew by Stlll Mxss Cecella sat wlth bowed head Long shadows began to creep over the room The church bells be gan to rlng for ewenlng prayer MISS Cecella sank to her knees and offered a prayer of thanksg1v1ng for the one g1rl who had found what she had sought for and asked help and strength for the other three who were stlll unsatlsfied Then she turned on the electrlc llght pulled a chalr up to the desk and selected a book from the table and began to prepare a lesson for her class 1n Terence s Phormlo A M D 14 A LOST SOU L NCE upon a tlme there ln ed a boy who was so good so terrlbly good that mlmsters were nerx ous IH h1s presence H1s goodness was not of the qulet sanctxmonlous long sufferlng k1nd but was 1n a way revo lutlonary Nlckel shows vsere abhorrent thlngs to hlm He was the presldent and teacher of hls Sunday School class H1s name was as good as the boy he was blessed wxth the name of Peter Smlth even when .1 llttle boy hls fevs playmates d1d not nlckname h1m Pete Wh1Ch IS I thlnk Whlle yet ln grade school Peter lmpressed upon hlS parents the ne cessxty of hax mg two sets of books to avold carrymg them ALL from school If he ever made anythlng less than 99+ IH hls studxes he was heart broken Naturally h1s frlends were few among h1s own sex and as he looked upon glrls merely as creatures who shr1eked and laughed thus lnterferlng Wlth h1s studles he rather d1sl1ked them Hls hatred however was burled deep down w1th1n h1s heart for outwardly all he dlsclosed was a great fear and bashfulness toward the falrer sex On one occaslon he was known to have been ser1ously 1ll for a week sxmply because he was forced to slt ln church w1th a pretty young lady on each Slde In due course of t1me Peter entered Hlgh School much to the terror of the teachers and students for Peter s record had gone before hlm It was comlcal to note the relleved expresslon upon the teachers faces when they would dlscover that Peter was not ln the class It was also rather an lnterestmg phenomenon to HOIICC how on the second day the classes whlch Peter had entered decreased 1n SIZQ leavlng only those who could not possl bly go elsewhere As a Freshman Peter was rather qulet 1ust a llttle awed by the strange surroundmgs At th1S t1me he was satlsfled Wlth a mere lnslgnlfi cant E on h1s card In h1s Sophomore year however Peter perked up conslderable and started to remonstrate w1th the boys concermng thexr wasted tlme and fr1vol1t1es and thus made hlmself d1sl1ked more than the most ardent boys welfare worker 1n the c1ty It was Whlle a Sophomore that Peter comrnltted a crlme whlch he held as a blot upon h1s falr record Thls occurred at a Sunday School p1cn1c . . , 44 yy - - - as u - 9 ' , ' . , . . s - v . . , . . ' 9 r ' . . ,, .Y . . ' .- . . N . , . . . . . , . . , ' as y , - n 3 . . . . ., . 7 ' Y Y H o nn 1 - v n v 9 ' . . H . U 7 S . n ' l N 1 . 1 W , , . . . , . .H 7 Y . . . 4, ,, . . . 5 ' Y I 7 the strongest proof of hls great goodness. x K ' . s I , , . .. . , . ' - 7 ' 7 K Y Y L s L , . . , , A' . . .N 'N 1 I W . , . . . , . . . 9 , ' . , . . . . , ' ' Iv ' y - , o A , A' , I K' , L ' . Y ' 7 - , - K6 7! ' . ' K6 ' Y! ! 3 7 . , . . L 1 ' v