Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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l 4 'l'Hic ComiicN'r 25 IN FLIGHT BY liuz.-xBE'1'l1 NANCY WILSUN As young birds from their nests are attempting to Hy VVhen still weak and their wings they so hopefully try Their pinions, untested, will fail oft to bear Them upward and onward through thin pathless air. They flutter, thy struggle in efforts to rise,4 These venturesome messengers of the far skies- They sink, then they fall, but at last soar aloft, Now high, and now higher, amid cloudlets soft. Of failure they know not, they only achieve, Most fruitful their efforts when dull earth they lea Their earnest endeavors are crowned with the best, These fledgelings so eager to leave the home nest. Un pinions grown strong they are now borne along Till high in the heavens resounds their glad song, Ever singing of joy with a full-throated ease, The thrill of their rapturous hearts to appease. Thus we, like the birds, from these portals so wide, Henceforth on the bosom of life must now glide, Taught by them for highest in life to aspire, That the truest, the noblest, must be our desire. Uft fond backward glances welll cast to you here, To our own Alma Nlater, our mother most dear, VS You've guided and cherished our steps throughout youth, You've urged us from childhood to glean but the truth Still onward and onward, success be our lot, lNIay each hidden future be unstained by a blotg Nlay Fortune her mantle o'er each head extend, As a fostering mother her care to us lend. If life could unroll each one's future today, And foreshadow the highways in which each must stray This truth should blaze forth amid glorious beams Our aims are fulfilled in Hlleeds and not Dreams.

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'I Ii CoMM1cN'1' ARTHUR ROBBINS The less weight a race horse Carries, the faster he runs and the same holds good for Artie's', tongue. He is the Wit of the class and Well liked by everyone in it. I'm a rczil witty' guy with thesc handy rctorts, I keep czxuued within me :issortetl otlcl S1lO1'l.h. You thiult tliz1t's :1 steam cli'ilI's louil contact with rock, llut huh uh it isu't4l'm winding my clock. RUTH BLAND A Very quiet member of the class and for that reason not Very Well known. She is always Well escorted to our class meetings. I wear sailor suits of :I rather ful hue Autl, as sc:11'let's my fz1v'1'ite, a rcrl rilwlion, too. I ordered, this spring, uincty-six invitations. I shall till up the housc with my closest relations. YVILLIAM MCKINLEY BROOKS ln one semester this youth has succeeded in establishing his ability in elocution as Well as loosening up some of his joints. Brooks is an industrious, well meaning lad. I'u1 11 rliguiticnl luoy of culchuahcrl aspect. I'm hettcx' in spczilsing than you would expect. My mcloclious voice and ziccotnpzmying gestures Are worthy of tlxesui' iu his long llowing vesturesf' -.-f gr I 3 i i 'wg

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26 Tue COMMENT THE MAGIC TUBE BY FLOYD AUSTIN SICIFICRT During my travels in Turkey I was very much impressed by a curious looking little shop along one of the narrow streets. Because this building and its decorations were so much dilierent from the rest of the houses, I became curious to enter and see what was sold there. I was met by a pleasant old man who, I noticed, carried a highly pol- ished tube, and who informed me his business was to look into the future. I at once became very much interested and asked him how it was possible for him to do this. He immediately held up his tube and lovingly stroking it said, You have wonderful powers hidden in you, and then he went on to tell me about the tube. The construction of this tube was quite simple, but the work it did was beyond my knowledge. If you would write the name of a person on a piece of blank paper and then put it into this tube, leave it for one minute, then remove it, there would be printed on this paper something of interest about the person whose name you had written. I had now been out of school for sixteen years and of course I was interested to know what my classmates were doing, so I, in turn, wrote their names on blank paper and gave them to the old man to put into the tube. I first wrote the name of Gerard Huiskamp. I found that Iuss had become a great financier and he also was at the head of a manu- facturing concern. I was quite sure that Gerard could now use some of the experience which he obtained in leading our scrappy' class meetings. Could this be possible that Clarence Alling and Vivian Demple were making a big hit in the stage world by dancing the Ancient, bledieval and blodern Tango Dance and some of the oriental dances? lWy, how glad I was when I read that Arthur Kirby had made good in his ollice as bodyguard and had lately been promotedl He married that fair junior girl. Remembering NIary Kiedaisch's skill in working trigonometry, I wasn't at all surprised that she had become a teacher in that stu lly. Ross VVilson and Russell Buss were now at the head of an en- gineering company, and the contract for building the highest building in the world was let to them. ,Ieanette VVunderly, the young lady with the big determinations and air castles floating about her, had at last come down from her J