Lake View High School - Red and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Red and White of Lake View High School 107 spite of the fact that we aren't in- voking the muses, we proceed. To D. XV. Your field is the world of poetry. If your magazine and book publish- ers get too much excited over your work, change your style. Good poetry is never really appreciated till its author is dead. Poetry in its best sense is caviar to the general-as one of your fellow literary men would say. If your poetry is unappreciated shut yourself in the attic room and starve writing it. Your end ought to be tragic. It's the greatest advertise- ment for one's work. To E. M. You have shown your responsibility in the past so we suggest that you be a business woman. You may have a great deal to offer the world. You might even be president of the young ladies' sewing circle that will distin- guish itself by making clothing for the destitute strikers' wives and chil- dren. This is a noble cause and your soul will be blessed for your kindness. In the crystal of the future you can be seen seated comfortably in a rocker rapidly knitting sox for The Spin- ster Ladies' Board of Stocking Con- tracters , a noble task for a noble soul. T0 V. C. Vu' .nu:sC.cC our futuii: is bright. If your career is not in any way hindered, you may some day be at the head of the Tribune organization. This is quite a literary height and when you reach it, you are radical enou h, the whole word wi turn its atten- tion to your direction. Don't let this Bother you, however. Stand up for your rights. Stick to your principles. To M. E. The presidency of the United States is a good aim for your ambitions. lf there is not a majority of votes cast for your rival candidate, when you run in the election, you will easily attain the position. NVhen you are there, that is, in the White House, it may be well to remember some of your high-school acquaintances so that when you are dead and gone Chaving been heroically assassinated by per- nicious menj these very persons, pleased at their mere association with you, will write countless tales of your boyhood fame and high morality. This will tickle your sense of humor and will cause you to turn in your grave. a preceeding which might relieve you from a very monotonous po-sition. To H. Wfln. If you don't break your neck be- fore you're old enough, the place for you is the circus. Here you will have every opportunity for standing on your head, tumbling all around, and falling from great heights without fear of being obstructed by electric light fixtures. Don't think that we are trying to insinuate that your men- tal faculties are not sufhcient for other industries. A circus man must have a head. If you have much trouble getting in a circus company, which we think you won't, you might switch your life's work and be a stage man. You might shine in some of these dialogues since you know jokes that are so old that they have long been forgotten by everyone else. Quite a compliment, indeed. Unless you fail, you will get along all right. o F. E. You should be a great military eader. You look so line in the uni- orm. NV hen you are graduated from Vest Point, if there is no war in which you can show your ability, have the president start one with-well, the country won't make any difference. -lust start a war with anyone. After you have won the war, come home and after receiving your own nation's tokens of admiration, tour the world and be royally accepted by queens and kings. If what we planned for you in this reply comes true, we will be good prophets and after it all hap- pens, by dragging this out, we'll be- come famous. Harold C. Steiner.

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l06 Red and White of Lake View High School the forest fairy-king, and he agrees with me that there will he much griev- ing at this event. Poor little dears, you are expected to weep so long and so loud, that we have already arranged that your ac- cumulated tears will be used to fill the swimming pond, in which the new set of forest folk may take salt baths. Those tears left over will be packed in fire extinguishers for use in clean- ing the cactus. just guess what we're going to do with your wild shrieks of sorrow! Since we are a practical in- stitution, these shrieks are expected to loosen the roof of the Lake View Forest and this is very good, for it will be so much easier to add on a few stories to the forest roof as Lake View must be larger, for animals are packing in, in hordes. Prevously, we were going to add on from the bottom up, but you have saved us much work. I hope some of our great lions will succeed in their leadership in the zoo as well as in our little forest. l just know our sprightly deers will attain success as the zoo's head chorus in the annual musical comedy Zoo Step- persf' Our singing birds will certain- ly add to the Zoo Steppersn also. Perhaps our fish will capture swim- ming prizes in the Zoo's lagoon as they did in our brook meets. I could go on and on, little friends, picturing the forest folks' futures but time and space forbid me. You do not know how it grieves me to call this - - THE END. -Erna B. Hczzcrllzan. Q Q Q sh. Q.. .0 Real Horoscopery Using hyperbole only moderately, we can say that the replies to last month's horoscope article were tre- mendous. Long confidential letters, outlining the individual cares and re- sponsibilities of so many souls, showed us that our last month's treatise on this subject impressed everyone with its truth and sincerity. To be able to answer these thousands of letters would be beyond our capacity and as a result, only the letters that ex- ceeded 10,000 words are being an- swered. Holding the truth, facts, and logic before us, we will proceed to Hoping that answer these queries. we will receive divine inspiration in .Ji-' ei, E - 1, l l -5-

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108 Red and White of Lake View High School Conceit Maybe you have noticed it Cyou're pretty dumb if you haven'tl that whenever anyone speaks to a senior, who is about to graduate, he always makes a few remarks about how con- ceited seniors are over their intelli- gence. Of course, they don't come out point blank and say that you, a senior. are conceited. If they are bald headed lectures or teachers, they look at you musingly and say, My, how much I thought I knew when I was your age! or NYhen I graduated from high school, I was the most conceited fool in the class. And then they re- minisce, proving that they haven't quite got over it yet. It makes me sick and tired to have a bunch of teachers and lecturers be- gin telling me how conceited I am and how little I know. Not that I am conceited. No, I'm not. Get that out of your head. But I do take a justi- iiable pride in 1ny accomplishments and in what I have learned. I reiter- ate, I take a justifiable pride in my education. For am I not educated? Can I not recite in order the names of all the Presidents of the United States and all the Kings of England? Can I not at a moment's notice tell who wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, ,Iulius Caesar and other books by diverse authors ? There you have ample proof of my intelligence. And yet some would call me conceited when I take a justi- fiable pride in lllf' accomplishments! I'ooh! pooh! -Harfiy. Modest Dora Everyone takes me for a baby, pouted Dora. just because I'm lit- tle and young, people thnk I haven't brains. I have. I'm as intelligent as anybody at school. Some of the teachers think that there are smarter ones in their classes, but I'm little and young and I'm not appreciated. The very fact that a person of my age shouldbe in high school is cause for a good deal of credit. The little group to whom she was telling her tale of woe giggled. She was insulted. So they had that same idea! She should have to be daring to overcome it. I'll tell you, she said eagerly, just what I think about each one of you. I'm so matured that I don't care how you regard my criticisms. You may think that I have no opi- nio-ns. At this point there was more laughter. You, she half shouted, pointing to the youth that was laughing the hardest, are the most conceited per- son in the world -but here a new roar drowned her voice. Ive wonder what was so funny. H. C. S. 4. Q. .:. Interview with a Genius IYalking into Room 311 I perceived a gathering of girls around a desk and plowing my way through I found the my quest. what are the advantages in man of just being a genius, said I. 'io : 0 Xl If : I . A Q I Z f 7 J lllu-Il 1 llllllllllllll sf I I A K JBNT- illllIll-Illllllilllllllllllll' NVell, there are many, said my subject, whose name I will not men- tion. First of all, like Oliver Gold- smith, who when he ran out of funds