Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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Svvninr lgrnpltvrg Ilarvard t'niversity, Meanwhile Big' Feet stood as grouchy April 20. 2000. My Dear Sister:+So well I know your sympatlietic nature that Iwill write this to tell you my latest experience. a discovery of a new constellation in the Heavens and what it has brougiht forth. As you know, I have always had a firm belief in 'the transniigration of the soul and lately it has been proven to me. who I was when I was an inhabitant of this earth in the year nineteen hundred and ftwelve. Listen to my story! Last Saturday evening' the stars were very bright and I sat for some time on the piaza, viewing' the different constellations. I inally my eye found one that appeared altogether different from the others. There was one large star with two points much lzrnger than the others. The second star was a britg'ht fiery red and stood close to the first one. The other two were not so gentile. Une of 'them insisted on tumbling' around, as if it were constantly falling' down. Its mate behaved in a most pe- culiar tmanner. too, for it eeaselessly 1'e- volved around the other three darting here and there as if it were intoxicated. My culriosity was deeply aroused and I ordered my chariot. a model aeroplane. Soon I was soaring- oft' into space in 'the direction ot' these peculiar stars. Bang! Smash! Before I was aware of it. I had crashed into the one with the long' project- ing' points and to my great surprise these paints we1'e SIIUQNI I heard some one calll Great Ileavensl It was my own voice and I had a dim recollection ot' having' seen those shoes somewhere. lint 'lllj' mind was clouded. Yoiees began to call me. Get out ol' my way, I'm going- sporting. said one and the hig tutnthling' star sped hy me. hut tripped on a moon heam and sailed headlong' into spare soon returning' to its formelr position. Wt-'ve got to decide on those pins, said the blazing' red sl:tI'. I -hall write to the jeweler. I wish something' exciting would hap- pen, l'm tired of this. I.et's take a day oft.. I d'vn't know my lesson. as ever in her corner with never a word to sav. All this was vaguely familiar to me but I could not -collect my senses and bus- ied lmyself with my broken machine which I had hitched to the corner of Big' Feet's heel. Beat itl Get off the earth. Those words were too familiar. I knew now who my companions were-the lSenior Class of 1912. How did I knolw it IVhy that star with the impossible feet was none other than myself. Instinct told me that. IYhat did I know about the ISBIIIOIUCIHSS of 1912? II'ell, I was one of them. Did I not say that I believed in transmigration of the soul? IYhen I was on this earth before. I was 'called Jessie Johnson and though I am a professor at Harvard University now, it is a fact. just the same. I was glad to meet myself and to see myself as others see me and also to have a proof of my favorite doctrine, that of translmigration. Next Ibegan to introduce myself. Of course. the girls were glad to see me again. I'Iven my other self was sociable. lIYe talked over old times. Esther Ilainty. the star twhifch tumbled around. related that she had heeome so tired of living' single life. that she had taken up missionary work in an entirely uncivilized island. lying a trifle to ,the north west of the south pole. There she made life so warm that the in- night. hy halhitants had killed her one drowning' 'her in a kettle ut' iee eold whale oil. She was placed in the heavens as a star. Ilere she remained alone until Katie Murpliy. the red star. had come up to keep her company. hy special permission from Jupiter. lit-fore this Katie had lived a short life on earth and had set up a fae- tory in lirentwood lint' the purpose ol' hrintino' Ili-fh 'School invitations and ol' lll'4l-QlllllgtitllIlllIlOll1'Pllll'lll dresses. lI ive vears after lfalie's arrival. tliivt Siple had surprised her old schoolmates hy suddenly appearing' in their midst one lnoruing- before they were awake and sing- lllg1 Gootl Night in a wondert'ul alto voir-e

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that. had startled all stars there-about and nearly drove them insane. They had taken refuge by punehing many h-oles through the floor of the sky and several had fallen to earth, one landing on the tennis -eourt of the Liberty Union High School, thetn under the prineipalship of Mr. YV. A. Vivian's great, great grandson. Olive had nothing to say for herselt' exeept that she had fallen t'roni a box nailed on the tbaek ot' an auto- niolbile wI1iIe passing through Knigthtsen. The t'a:II had hroken her neek and ruined her poinpadonr. so to avoid expending too mueh 'money advertising in the eounty papers for her lost rats, she had been -hnstled off to Heaven. As she was not 't'hristian enough to enter she had tbeen as- signed a position as a star until she should improve enough to be allowed to pass through the Golden Gates. That was sev- enty yi'il1'S ago and as yet she is still a star here and there. disfeussing eurrent. events with and spends her time. darting about -her other neighbors who a.re getting tired ot' it now, sinee the womanfs suffrage elec- tion is over. Nly other self -had an interesting story to tell. As slle told it to me little by little mv past existenee eame tbaek to me. .Xt'ter graduating from Itiiberty in 1912 she had gone to India, engaging there in the trade of manufacturing false teeth out of biehloride of mereury and sulphur for the natives. After -going lbankrutpt, she had returned to America and had endeav- ored to invent a. maehine which woull 1'e- vive dead niiee and fifty year old dried paper t'Iowers by injeetiug a compound of stryehnine and tearbolie acid int-o their veins. After proving to herself 'that life was a failure she had ended 'her eventful ea reer by eutting he1' throat on wall paper. Not beeause she deserved it but beeause of the sympathy of her fel-low graduates she was given a plaee with them in the sky on eondition that she should be seen and never heard. The four formed a very 'beautiful eonstellation. 'Urashl I -eame baek to earth quite suddenly. To this day I ani wandering. dear sisterl write this to you Init expeet no answer for by some queer freak of the brain, I eannot plaee myself or my Sur- roundings. When I eonuneneed this let- ter. I imagined I was at Harvaid. Prob- atblv I ani-seome and look for ine. Maybe I don't exist at all. I don't know. Yours in distress, J. J.. '12. .Uuninr Ernphrrg 1912 It was one ot' those gloriously beau- the others. seems to expand, It eliang-es tiI'ul evenings on the Nile. into a beautiful white satin dress eovered ,During the day I had visited the with pearls, soon a head appears dimlv Sphinx. .ts I had stood looking at it my seen at tirst. then beeoiming elearer and I mind had wandered batik to the I,iberty look into the taee ot' I'llIIlIIltl2llil l!l'L'1ltl. She I'nion Iligh Sehool in Htl! ten years In-tore, seems to he standing on a plattorim tbetore Ilow I wished some ot' my old selnmlintates a great entltusiastie erowd. tVhnt is it? ut-re with mel Ah, at last I see! A great singer 'has our NNW as I sat in mv room in the dying little I'lditIi beeome and the people applaud light 4-onttortaibly smoking a 4-igat' my Iler. 'lllie tlt4'lllI'l' fades. tllutlgllts again reverted to the old 1'I:I-s- I blow another ring wondering what mates. I blew rings ot' smoke into the thin would happen next. The smoke parts. air and watt-hed them vanish. lint sud- goes up and then suddenly eomes together denly something strange happened. The and I see a tigure. ereet and proud, twat,-- last ring ot' stllolil' instead ot' vanishing as ing- on his arm a lovely bride. lYiII Blat--