Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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of the highest peaks we stopped at a ho- tel to find our quiet and ever busy ones, Lewis Buell and Clement Corwin as joint proprietors doing well and satisfied. Passing over the land of sunny Italy our craft reached Rome where we found our noisy, ever busy, many-sided Corl La- Ross, making duplicates of many pieces of statuary for which he had become famous. He was hard at his task and I did not interrupt him but went north again to Venice, the city of canals to find Pearce Wright now a Morgan in wealth, seated in a gondola with Bernice, taking in the sights. On we sailed into Germany. Here in Munich I found our efficient musicians, James Reid and Priscilla Whiley pur- suing their musical course under the best of teachers. In Cologne I found Harry Kern, the owner of a large perfume fac- tory. Bernicce Brodrick had become the victim of Cupid’s darts and was now living with her husband, the Duke of Pretzelburg, in a beautiful castle on the famous River Rhine. My attention was now called to Ber- lin where our Bremen representative, Harold Driver, was serving in the ca- pacity of Ambassador to Germany. Leaving Germany, we were ushered into France where I found our beauties, Marjorie Pierce and Margaret Fink cutting quite a figure in Paris society circles. We journeyed to London to find Carl Reed and wife, formerly Clara Kirn, the former being ambassador to England and the latter having become famous by the writing of the song enti- tled “When Susan Sings Sweet Songs in Sunday School.” The Atlantic crossed, we reached New York, where I found Clayton Burnett as the customs collector. He and his wife nee Ruth Sharp resided in a mansion on Fifth avenue and held a high place in society. 23 In Washington, upon visiting the Senate Chamber, I saw Gordon Morris and Clarence Myers debating on the right of a man to kiss his wife in public. Of course Gordon, who had always been contrary, took the negative, but he cer- tainly did not have strong convictions as to being on the right side. I was sur- prised when visiting the House of Rep- resentatives to find among the leading members Maria Swope and Marie Ren- shaw. I was told that Maria was re- sponsible for national woman’s suf- frage and her success was due to her matchless oratory which completely cap- tivated all hearers. Marie had also won fame as the author of a book entitled: “Fools I Have Met,” which was dedicat- ed to James Hawk. Journeying on to Pittsburg I found Wallace Barr managing the steel indus- try which, since Andrew Carnegie’s death, had been entrusted to him. Wal- lace had always taken to such tasks so I was not surprised at his success. In Cleveland, Anna Lou Hyde was musical instructor, having won fame as a vocal- ist. In Columbus Edna Miller the her- oine of many a Lab. explosion, was the head of a Society for Research, and Har- old Barnhill, her once timid compan- ion, was the owner of a fifteen-story structure known as Hotel Buckeye which contained all modern improvements in- cluding electric baths, self-made beds, tipless waiters and mechanical shoe-but- toners. Turning southward, we came to Lan- caster. My! how it had changed! On the Fountain Square stood a large Y. W. C. A. building now under the man- agement of Elizabeth Shaw whose pleas- ure was to make everyone around her happy. Across the street was the home of the Y. M. C. A. which now had a membership of more than two thousand, due to the hard work of Carl Smoot

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(Class Prnpljfry By Earl C. Gray. The fatigue of a day's burdens which included a grammar lesson in Fourth English, a German quiz, a recitation in United States History and a celebrated lecture on electricity by Mr. Hawk, as well as chorus and gym practice, caused me to seek rest in a large arm-chair. There I sat exploring the pages of a Greek mythology, thinking how credu- lous those ancient Greeks must have been to have believed those marvelous, inconceivable tales of dragons, mer- maids, gods and goddesses. Suddenly 1 realized that I was fast becoming the victim of the Goddess of Sleep, who, together with her able assist- ant the Sand-man, is irresistible. My muscles slowly relaxed and my eyes wandered away from the pages of the book and slowly closed. Then I was suddenly transported to the scenes of the mythology. The pictures had be- come real. I was standing in front of the Delphian oracle of ancient fame and superstitiously gazing at its splendor. Tt occurred to me that I ought to visit mv old idol, the God of the Future, whose acquaintance and good will I had sought in many dreams and whose resi- dence was within the oracle. Ascending the stone steps, I pushed a button at one side of the door. Imme- diately a huge mechanical arm reached out, grabbed me and pulled me inside, removed coat and hat, and stood my cane in the rack. I was somewhat sur- prised to find this ancient building equipped with such mechanical apparatus 22 and I was also embarrassed at seeing no human being. But, assuming a very dignified air, I passed inside the first open door. Here was a magnificently furnished room, American style, with por- traits on the wall including those of such notables as Jimmy Hawk surround- ed by a few Ilawklets, all with the high forehead and intelligent look of the pro- fessor, Herr Thomas, with bearded face, now the President of Ohio State univer- sity; and last but not least, our belov- ed “Billie.” Seated at a magnificent polished ta- ble was the god, reading a copy of the 1913 Mirage. He rose to greet me as I entered and ushered me to a comforta- ble chair by the table. I found him to be as good-natured as Prugh, as bash- ful as Hickson and as willing to do as Jimmy Bloom. Our conversation grad- ually drifted to school topics in which he showed a great interest. Question after question flung at him was answered and at last I asked him the whereabouts of my school-mates, the members of the Class of 1913. He said that he could show me in as little time as it would take to tell it. Pressing a button under the table, he produced an aeroplane ready for flight. Another button was pressed and the roof above opened as if on hinges. We climbed into the machine and were off. Everything was done on the lightning scale and we soon bade farewell to the plains of Greece to sail over Austria- IIungarv and then to the Alps. On one

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whose ambition was unlimited. Beside our old High School on the hill stood the famous new $160,000 structure built chiefly through the efforts of Herr Thomas. Mary Schleicher was princi- pal, an honor due to the patient hard work for which Mary was noted. Pre- siding over the German department was Katherine Schmidt who after long study in the Fatherland had been engaged to teacher the madchen and knaben of Lan- caster. Helen Wolf, with language just so, after graduating from O. S. U. had taken charge of the English depart- ment. and was engaged in correcting the speech of others. Mabel Snider, the famous lightning talker had been hon- ored with the position of Latin instruc- tor while Gladys Shallcnberger was in charge of the splendidly equipped do- mestic science department. In Oxford, Ohio, I found Edna ICeely holding the position of Dean of Women of Miami university. In Cincinnati were Helen Court right and Ruth Lamb now editors of the “Woman’s Help,” a maga- zine of great renown and excellent pros- pects for the future. Chicago was next visited where I found Minnie Swartz and Ruth Spran- kle entertainers in the Conklc Lecture Bureau, and known as “The Two Invinc- iblcs.” They seemed to get along well with the head of the bureau, Walter Conklc who was a very efficient business man. In Wichita, Kansas, Merl Solt was the superintendent of a government agricultural station and had found a way to grow pickles which had no warts, horse-radish minus the bite, and peaches without seeds. lie is being hailed as a possibility for the Secretary of Agricul- ture in President Layton’s cabinet. In San Francisco May Pairan was filling a very responsible position in connection with the United States mint. Across the Pacific we flew to the Phil- ippines where I found Harry Fisher as Provincial Governor of the islands, hav- ing shown himself interested in the little Phillipinos. In China were Margaret Gardner and Grace Beck studying in preparation for writing a comedy-opera which was to startle the world. At the time they were arguing over the ques- tion as to which hand moves the fastest when eating rice with chop-sticks. In Japan Winifred Abele and Margaret Garling were running a Christian mis- sion house, having converted many hun- dreds of heathen to the Christian faith. In Persia I found our jolly Mary Peet and the coquettish Helen Sharp trying to locate the exact spot of the Garden of Eden just to settle an argu- ment. In Egypt I found Nina Weiland hard at work on a history of Ancient Egypt. Marie Zarbaugh and Florence Baugher, too, were in the land of the Pyramids studying ancient art and sculpture in preparation for becoming teachers in famous American universi- ties. Bv this time my head was fairly swimming from the extensive trip I had taken and now as the aeroplane reached the plains of Greece I noticed that the engine was not going steadily and that we surely must be out of gasoline. Just as we were over the oracle ready to de- scend and I had just put the question to the god concerning my own future, the machine swerved, stopped a moment nad darted quickly to the ground. The con- tact caused me to awake and find myself no longer in the arm-chair, but lying upon the floor. As the visions which had so lately appeared realistic to me grad- ually faded away—a voice whose tones seemed to grow more and more indis- tinct, spoke the following words: “TPif i heart and hand hard to the ta.de 24