Lacon High School - Tickler Yearbook (Lacon, IL)

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4y1 L , THE RELATIONS OF MAN AND .WOMAN lu the beginning, when Twashtri ttiodl came to the creation of woman, he found that he had exhausted his materials in the making of man, and that no solid elements were left. In this dilemma, after profound meditation. he did as follows. He took the rotundity of the moon, and the curves of the creepers, and the clinging of tendrils, and the trembling of grass, and thc slenderness of the reed. and the bloom of flowers, and the lightness of leaves, and the timidity of the hare, and the vanity of the peacock, and the clustering of rovvs of bees, and the joyous gaiety of sunbeams. and the weeping of clouds. and the fickleness of the winds, and the softness of the parrot's bosom. and the hardness of adamant. and the sweetness of honey, and the cruelty of the tiger, and the warm glow of fire, and the coldness of snow, and the chat- tering of jay, and the cooing of the kokila. and the hypocrisy of the crane. and the fidelity of the chakrawaka, and compounding all these togetlzer, he made woman and gave her to man. But after one week man came to him and said: Lord, this creature that you have given me makes my life miserable. She chatters incessantly and teases me beyond endurance, never leaving me aloneg and she requires incessant attention, and takes up all my time and cries about nothing, and is always idle: and so l have come to give her back again. as l cannot live with her. So God said: Very Well: and he took her back. Then after another week man came to him and said: Lord, l find that my life is very lonely, since l gave you back that creature. l remember how she used to dance and sing to me, and look at me out of the corner of her eye, and play with me, and cling to me: and her laughter was music and she was beautiful to look at. and soft to touch: so give her back to me again. So God said: Yery well: and he gave her back again. Then after only three days, man came back to him again and said: Lord. l know not how it is, but after all I have come to the conclusion that she is more of a trouble than a pleasure to meg so please take her back again. llut God said: Out on you! lie off! l will have no more of this. You must manage how you can. Then man said: Hut l cannot live with her. ,Xnd God replied: Neither can you live without her. And he turned his back on man, and went on with his work. Then man said: XVhat is to be done? For l cannot live either with her or without her.

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WITH NICHOLS IN THE .IUNGLES .-X hair-raising, hairbreadth. bloodcurdling story of that great scientist and explorer, together with his class, and their advantages, duly chronicled by one of the party: Wlhat the object was in exploring the beast-Hlled dense and tropical for- est, and sandbur jungle, none of us, not even Col. Nichols. who was in com- mand of the expedition, seemed to know. XYe were like a duck on its Way. but didn't know where we were going. The unlucky expdition was started at 3:15 o'clock Monday, Qctober 10, 1020. XVe met with disaster at the very start. A Hat tire on Col. Nichols' trust can halted us and were obliged to commandeer another roadlouse to transport us to the outposts of civilization. From here we plunged forth into a new world Cof burrsl and began to experience the difficulties attending on explorers. Somehow the burrs were always getting in the girls' hair, and tireen, another member of the party, was hit with a jimpson burr and tem- porarily disabled. XVe wandered for miles below the little village of Lacon without seeing a single white person. XYe saw a few natives in a boat, but Col. Nichols could not get close enough to talk to them. XYe had Green along as interpreter the can translate anything from Hog Latin to Gibber- ish, very efficient in factl. lloa-constrictors were numerous and of great size. Some were at least three feet long and three-fourths inch thick. It was here that tireen's savage nature asserted itself tfor he was born and raised in the woodsl. lle no sooner saw a bug or worm than he was for putting it to death. He caused Col. Nichols no end of trouble hy his blood- EXTRA EXTRA-HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GASSED Un the afternoon of that memorable day. january 12th, five murderous boys, whose names we refrain from mentioning, perpetrated a villainous deed in the laboratory. They prepared a container of HQO, heating it with a burner. NVhen the poisonous vapor began to issue from the mouth of the boiler, a tube was attached, the end of which was forced under the door lead- ing to the High School assembly room. Soon the effects of the terrible gas thirstiness. were noted by the students. who were diligently studying. All sorts of ex- cuses were found for leaving that side of the room where the vapors were entering. lly these omens it was that Miss Toyne discovered to her horror the obnoxious tube. liravely holding her breath she advanced with a firm step and quickly grasped the death-dealing instrument with a grip of iron. As ill luck would have it the vapors were of high temperature. Consequently the tube was very unpleasant to play with. liy the law of Gay-Lussac, the heat of the tube was transferred almost immediately to the hand, which caused a rapid rise in Miss 'l'oyne's temper. The villains were immediately apprehended of the act and it was only after many evasive answers to the stern questions that were directed toward them that they escaped long prison sentences.