Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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Guru without a doubt, millionaire fhanker. just -married. One need only look at his face to see t-hat he is happy. 'Another ring of smoke and now I see a room crowded with people talking and laughing. Suddenly a hush falls upon them. I look around eagerly. Then from a distant part ot' tl1e stage comes a woman, dressed as Q1 girl in the Early English times. Where have I'-seen the costume be- fore? In the great Shakesperian plays Macbeth and I'Ia+mlet. The Lady is Lady Macbeth. How well she does that difficult act and with what pathos she speaks tfhose words. The face becomes clearer and now a cry of surprise comes from my lips. It is Minnie 'S'heddrick. She continues acting then I see her glance fearfully towards the ha ck of the stage. The audience think her acting ibut no, there goes a little red flame, anot-her and another. But Minnie tbravely keeps on. Suddenly a loud voice below is people out. Those I notice even then. heard ordering the tones are familiar. The people, knowing- nothing, wonderingly pass out. I follow. Yes. of course. no one but I'Iarold't'ollis could speak so loud and clear. Ile trained his voice at Liberty, The picture lbecotmes dim and fades away. Another. another and another ring ot' smoke ascends and all disappear. IViIl I see anthing more? Ye-sl The last as- cends and I see a slowly moving train. As it passes by a familiar face appears at a window. It is the merry face ot' Manta I'ntca-mp. 'She is talking happily with an- other girl. The train moves faster Init I follow with my glance. Into the dark night it goes on and on. Then a sudden roar and crashing and all in chaos. I think of the happy face seen such a short time be- fore. IYill it ever be seen again? Oh horrors Y and with t-his exclamation I awoke from my sound sleep in my easy chair. my neck almost stiff and my fing- ers severely bu1'ned 'by my cigar. Getting up I walked out on the cool veranda and seated myself. Sitting here I heard voices and so familiar that laugh was. And then-was I still dreaming or was it reality? There before me stood Manta Putcalmp. In my surprise I satw only her and went up to her. lSthe knew me immediately. I asked her if she had a pleasant journey. :She paled and then told me of an awful wreck the night be- fore. She asked me if I did not remember her companions. Then I looked around me and there was Elaine Ivallace. Judson Swift. Everett Lemoine and Myra Pearce. The had all started for Egypt at the safme time. Elaine had come over in an aero- plane, in which she had won much fame. Judson -was ambassador to England and was now taking- a vacation. Everett to my great astonislnnent was still a batchelor and was out on his steam yacht for pleas- ure. Myra was there to help the cause of IYoman Suffrage. I eagerly asked after Richie IYaIlace of whom all the girls were fond and heard that he was looking for the flag planted on the South Pole. 0. '12, lgrnphvrg nf .Svnphnmnrra It was a pleasant atternoon ot the to me. and tell me all about them. I was . . , , sunnner ot' ISl2ll and I was lying in the tlnnktngl ol Sula. when the dove seemed to hannnock under a tall tree near my old be changing itselt' into a little girl with country home. thinking ol' my classmates golden hair. She was no larger than my nl' liilierty. when a beautiful white dove little finger, and she had two tiny wings perched on the hammock near my feet. I upon her back. She stretched out her gmilotl gf it 511111 said unconsciously. Yon small arms and beckoned to me. dear little dove, I wish you would fly to IIow can I come with yon? I asked. where mv classmates are. and then return I am so large and you are so small. The

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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--

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fairy waved ber wand in the ai1' and said i11 the sweetest voiee ,I ever heard. But see, you a1'e only as large las I am. The hammock suddenly grew so large that I was t'ri1g l1tened for fear I'd fall out, 'but the fairy, who was as large as I was, took me -by the hand an-d we sailed througih the air. It seemed to me that we had sailed a long way, but when the fairy lighted, I found that we were only on the rosebush just aeross the garden. She opened a rose bud with her fingers and led me into it be- tween the petals. In front of me I saw a very long' hall, so long' in t'aet, that I eouldn't see the end of it. The fairy asked me whieh one of mv elassmates I wished to see first. The faet. that the fairy so nearly resembled Sala made me ask to see her first. She put her hands on the knob of a door on one side of the hall and said, Sala, whose patienee always lasts Is now the 'teaeher olf a Latin class. She opened the door and I saw a tall young' lady standing' at a desk. holding a book in her hand. Beyond 'her was a large 1-'lass ot' students. listening to her as she asked them questions. 'She was very en- thusiastie about her work and her students were bright and attentive. I wanted to speak to Sala. tbut the fairy took ime out and elosed the door asking' me who was the next person l wished to see. l thought I would like to see one ot' the boys. so l asked to see John. The fairy put her hand on the kuob ol' a door, whieh was aeross the hall, and said. John, the sturdy pioneer. 'llas beeome a meehauieal eug'iueer. -She opened the door. and there. amidst all kinds ol inaelunery, I beheld .lohu. lle was tall and broad. due to athleties at sehool. Apart from the ma- elunery I saw a woman ui a kitehen. at- tending' 'to household duties, 'l'he fairy told me that this was John s wite. I should like to be iutrodueed to .lohu's wife. I said. 'l'he fairy took my hand and led me to out of the door. ls there auvone else you wish to .. , I 5 I 'I see. -lll aslvsd. Ilet'ore l :lsli to see some one. I said, I would like to know why you will not let me speak to any of my class- mates? The reason is, answered the fairy, 'tthat if you speak to them, the charm breaks and they disappear ifrom your 77 sight. Very well, I said, let me see Ail- een. The fairy put her hand on a door whieh was on the sa-me 'side of the hall as the first one I had en-tered, and said, Aileen has surpassed all her rank, And is now working in a. bankf, When the fairy opened the door, I saw a tall young' lady leaning over a coun- ter in a 'beautiful 'bank build-ing: She was keeping' books, and around her were many other employes doing other work. I no- tieed one young' man paying' partir-ular at- tention to Aileen. The fairy told me that Aileen was engaged to hiini. As long' as I eault talk to Aileen. I might as well go to see some of my other elassmates. Let me see Ray, I said, when we were in the hall again. The fairy approaehed a door on 'the opposite side ot' the hall and plaeing' .her hand upon the knob. said, opening' it. For hard work. Ray never eared, 'So -with the Brentwood Bank he shared. l ibeheld a gentleman sitting on a Morris ehai1'. near a table, reading- a book. This was surely Ray, the lover ot' books. ln another part of 'the room was a woman lying' ou a divan. l imagined this to be Hay's wit'e. and found l was right. The t'airy told me that it was flIay's tbantk in wliieh .Xileeu was employed, l.et ine see l'Isther. I said. going' out into the hall. When I saw the fairy go to a dior aeross the hall. l supposed that the girls were all on one side ot' the hall. and the lt .Vf on the other. She opened the door saying. l'Isther's brightness was ue'er surpassed. She! Ieaehing' students now at last. l -HU' lfsther witll a large elass oft' rllldvtlls. Some ot' her students 'were l1o':ei' than she was. t'ol' she was not vi-VY