Los Gatos High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Los Gatos, CA)

Text from Pages 1 - 76 of the 1917 volume:

3,2-11? -3 4, WM wwyf N 1 . ' rf. wage' --f..x.- ri- r ,.-..-.. Q -as-nuns: -- - up ' ' - A J?-aa, 'S-nu f C ' RWEQ1- , LN...-.. ,gh P,,,.4nv-: 5- Q? K , - -AA- -'- J' mx IE h -ix ' 1, Z -una' is . ,QM-M K- I xi 'x ,tim T8 ' 4 xv - - J T I J - ,fi ' Q x f,-.4 W ill Q xr . V Q' -1-.-If .., ,,. .. , wtf.: 0, V r u Y 2.7 . N, .PQ , ' f' ' -4--Q .-'HQ ey, .fs 1-A ,Fx 'gpg' . '--P-5 S4 EV- Q Jr. ' ...' , ...A -...Q .,. i NX -:id .f A -L 11 ',Xl,Uj k .1 N.: N4 ' xx ' '- 1 gi' 'NJ A ? 'l' .Q 7 V i-E Q, ,g.f.fF.Q'---. 5 -. ' iff? : 2:,:aaf- fE?:ii?,- . f g 1 . ' JL , A353 f, Aa.-5,'- 'lift' .'f'f-a.--9, ,- - .-fyg..., w - 1 ,gf Haw: he N- A X rf - f-'?2f', .A L .4--,fsjffw Y' ' in 1 .-- , , gm! Yu M ' vp v V xl' I X H N Hu ' y. . 1 jg,1,Jg,u,'J1.-W 2:1 'iwwiww MQWWMWDWU M wEgMQWAHH+ WHWW1 w m aQi3?5??FF?gi , ' 1 wx - U - ' '. 1 1 Mw H 4 ww, vw wwwwwmuww 'Hw4Wwqw mkw1 lwwx, mv mv MTM w NH -, ,N ww .M H, ., X 1 - W X , fp-M, Km 11 m w.- WUI, ,H V yw. , mw W ,N ' wx M' ' wx vv Qu, 1 ,ww mwd. ' ' -A .JM, M' mJ.w vdwwm , , QM, W. M v.yHMlML , X QW , N m,,,,.mfl1'1,5' ,, . V ' ' ' M' X .U-v nz.-W1-u1nmx....umm'.:w.mu H-umlwnnw-mv-4 ww 1--- -,w..www..nmm ,Jw ' w wx w f V'C f-'f '5 'o' x .f , Q ' 'ix T - H I . Jax, V' -' L ff A 7'1 -Q. A Q- HJVIANSELL Z 5 . S f f o GY X' I K 0 77 Warm, f Q- I ff XX Q , N June lm Published by The Student Body oF the Los Gatos Hugh School WE, the Graduating Class of nineteen hundred and seven- teen, 'wishing to show our lo'be and esteem for our friend and class teacher, do respectfully dedicate this issue of the Wild Cat to Mss Mary C1 'Day Faculty Alice Mabyn Chapman Theodore A. Cutting W. T. Walton' 'ms ' Ethel Evans Mary C. Day Leslie A. Phillips Donna J. Todd F. F. Jeffers Wlnnle E. Chamberlain 6 1 Views Ahead Bayard Taylor once wrote a book describing things he had seen and called it Views Afoot. I am writing of things I should like to see so I call it Views Ahead. The article is a new departure for the Wild Cat and is introduced at the invitation of the editorial staff who gave me carte Blanche as to my subject. It is addressed to both patrons and students since the views here expressed can be realized only if serious consideration is given them by both. I shall suggest two things as the most immediate needs of the high school. Last fall we opened the high school shop, fitting it at an expense of about one hundred fifty dollars. VVe thot, perhaps, one-fourth of the boys would be interested in the course offered. It proved much more popular than We cal- culated and students we thot would not care for it have entered and continued for the year. As two periods are required for a credit it cannot be contended that it was taken because of being easy. Whenever a practical problem has been given, such as building a room for the domestic science department, members of the class have asked for theprivilege of doing it. While many boys of the school are preparing for college, there are many, also, who call insistently for industrial and commercial studies. The latter have little inter- est in the academic subjects, but are as much entitled to the training for citi- zenship which the high school affords as the former. The Harvard investiga- tion as to the value of certain studies, such as mathematics, left these subjects with so little to stand upon that the advocates of the practical subjects have had a much better chance to present the value of these workaday doings. As- sociation is probably the greatest power in the high school to develop character and call forth ability, and association can be had only if the student is held in school. That his association may be of the right kind he must be kept at some interesting work. Hence, the extension of practical subjects to include more shop work, the construction of ONE well equipped shop for use of both grammar and high schools, the broadening of the course to include building of small farm buildings and farm equipment. the organization of a practical course in fruit raising, dairying, animal husbandry and general farm manage- ment is one of the really pressing needs of the high school. Such a course is altogether practicable and could be conducted by one good man. The shop can be constructed and equipped by the boys, the small amount of machinery necessary installed by them and the park offers ample means for elementary agricultural demonstration. To a large extent the park can be cared for by the students. It might not be so pretty but it would be more useful. This is no dream, it is just what has been accomplished in other schools under my supervision. In one such school the boys built a practical blacksmith shop, making many of the tools and installing forges for twelve boys where prac- tical work was continually going on. Farm horses were shod, neck yokes and double trees made, and one boy, who was lost in academic subjects, made a hay derrick, hewing every piece of timber and forging every piece of iron in it. and it worked successfully on a large farm. The same class built an open air school for a primary room of forty children at an expense of three hundred dollars, one-half the probable cost by contract, and it is still in use. If this work had been going on in our high school for the last few years several boys who have voluntarily dropped out to pursue a shifting course of unskilled labor or went elsewhere to seek the desired training would still be at homg with us, to their advantage and ours. 7 Three years ago our students began the accumulation of a gymnasium fund. When I came there were one hundred twenty-eight dollars in the fund, now there are one hundred seventy. Each year an entertainment is given and the receipts are all applied to it. A consideration of the high school grounds will convince one that the gymnasium is badly needed. We have a fairly good base ball diamond surrounded by a track. The base ball field is the only one in the town and is used by the highschool boys, the grammar school boys and the Los Gatos city team. Even the girls' base ball games are played on it. The girls have a sloping rocky ground in front of the high school on which to practice. In the rear of the building is a quoit court. So far the grounds are eminently satisfactory, but when we turn to the basket ball and tennis courts we find ourselves sadly lacking. For the thirty or more boys and girls who desire to play tennis we have just one court and no place to make another. Our basket ball court was so much in demand by the regular boys' and girls' teams and by others who wanted to play and could not find a suitable place that we tried making a temporary court on the base ball field. It was not a success as the ground was not level, was gravelly, and was being used at the same time as a base ball field. Furthermore basket ball is a winter sport and many times we are unable to play on account of rain. This applies to both home playing and league games. Thus space and cover are serious basket ball needs. These the gymnasium would supply and it can be built on a part of the ground that cannot be used for anything else. This would release the ground now used as a basket ball court and it could be lengthened and made into another tennis court. VVe really need four tennis courts, one of them to be so made that it can be turned into a basket ball part of the time. Some one may suggest, What's the matter with the park? VVhy not use that to make tennis courts, etc. P The chief matter is the Keep off the grass signs, which have been given such prominence that the students do not feel that the park is a part of the grounds at all. Possibly the signs are necessary till the grass is started, but Lawn tennis might satisfy one-third or more of those who desire to play and two such courts can be made in the park. At the pres- ent time we are borrowing the private courts in town to play our tennis games on and to practice on. If we had four courts they would be in use all of the time. Indoor baseball and class gymnastics could also be carried on in the gymnasium. We attempted a musical gymnasium class this year, but the lack of a suitable Hoor space seriously interfered with the plan. Thus while the gymnasium would not meet all our ,wants it would very materially in- crease our facilities and it is one of the really crying needs of the school. A year ago I was invited to address the Home and School Association on The School Plant. In that talk I suggested that for economic reasons as well as educational the high school should begin at the seventh grade. While it would be impossible to house these grades in the high school building, it would be an easy matter to erect a small open air building on the high school grounds, built by the students of the seventh to twelveth year high school under the direction of a competent builder. This would allow the common use of the high school assembly room, the library, the gymnasium, the shop, the domestic science equipment, the play ground, etc., without the necessity of going from one ground to another and without any feeling that the seventh and eighth grades are intruding. During this year the grammar school boys have used the high school grounds by an arrangement made thru the Principal, this being necessary because there is not another place in town where a base ball game can be played. Of the many things that might be considered, these two Views Ahead represent the ones that seem to me to demand immediate attention. If this is your opinion, and I am convinced that it is the opinion of those students and patrons who have considered the matter, it remains for us only to act, PROF. WALTON. 8 r:..,:,, 'A X V, I. ...uf ' yu. - 3, .-3,-ngzw' -1 XF- . -fi .fl ,.-Ziff' H1 ' X., X 1 T r' - -. 'rg F3Yfw Vpfkvfi .WW' Sikh 3? Wi'fWYw - .-Zi'-fk.hQQiff' 'figiff 3, Jrff -.rw .-.1- .xy .-g..y.wfh-'-M - - . - u..--...... .-,L Fr. . --,r ' -:Q wh? - mia-2pz2'55 ' . K .'J . ' zwizlxi ' rf: 'vai'--QM' . - . .x . .. ' 1 Q I ay., 5... sENloRs , - ' 'ff'.2st. '-'A-5' ! ' 3231? . la' . Ig.-. 1 Q2-'je ' 5.35.-j5.f.,,,.,. 'L . 1-mums s. srnomm, noun.nA rnccrnnurj 'Jj1.i.j-',5.,. . -1 I Laing wnxrnznm. nnru nnowu If ., .. .1-rf 3 nr mxunns ELSIE umm .asf-4. . . ., 1 1 i l3,,i,fJ.- - won.: mans: LYNDA nosnn-rs 1 1.1 3.5.339 2 X !f rnnNn.r.A :muon mnwm r. som-nav ' Li ., gin I Lnsnm rnunmrnmr. nanny nn. .,,5,.h.Q .. f W 1 231331 1-orrnm max. rruuzson , f:-., ' 'ey - , EI-INR BE!-L RALPH wuzznn f ' 'wnwmmr anon may zmmnlmmw R. I -- I .Ti A- -f F , WU-I-IAM '1'. moons wmm m:1'N'rs 3 'I H i 'PfaE 'i, ..Q 15?':' .5 5' ummm num vmru noon-:N XX N ,- I U nnvmas can-1-'rr nnmr. oor.nA-rn , -Ax3zjH3fUj? 'naw w.,f'QQHf ugmw wmwmM,.5 ,5-':-,':ZZ -'gy .. , X ,:2 zf..- , 3 .' .- , 11,1311-'-g.'.'a-: ,r :- 1. 1. -5 . ' :- 35. -it V I 2 . It :EH -- I-111 . . .' ,' 'S , ,,.?- .g ' .-. -5 , ., 5. . , . . ., X . b , .,,'.',f.: j r - -a1.:'f'f' ' X -v4'! --If . 55.3 Q ' 44 W1 veg..-.' . V . .-. W .mf -Q?g5g?m f 4r'H. 9 bFpj- jm.,v . -1 . ,.x 1. fi' x A 'Li' a f. JL. J. 1,311 .- I Af' .... ',,-aux-2-E.. 3 1 1 1 vu. b - V 1-.fag . QQGWM, ' .1 - 'N-4' . ., smpfffk x y 1 -M V w -v ,v HN: N VslV1fglull 3 'N-...u..... rfwefzgww w-4 5 f 5 1 . ' x r. x -, f ,, H x I ' I ,J ' 1. 2, Ml V' 5.-K '1,,'f 'L Y :- gn' f.f1'v . ' Vu if I ' l1.1.-.1.: -..1..,i'f Wm-'H . ' ,, ' Y 5-.f 'Y - -I - ff- 'f Hs- :Ham . 1. . : - 'su :SV-:-1 1. . J . . 1-. .. - -. ... I . . . ff .- .Y.. . 5331.3 3: '54 Q . LH . may 51.-m'.g-H - ..,, i E,:.,. .,. .X 1. V . A' .- 114, I, - .,'u,' .. - 1 . 15 .Q ','55f:'. 1. '3 ' I . CY? '- 1'-'-T-53 I - ' 1.--I' X ' '-F525-.415 . , bfi ,' 4' ' ef' Qi! '. - 'wi2f' , Y - .- . -1 ' ' :ii':1'-11:12-'.:'f '- L: i ' , . -. -u..-xr-.--. ..A ,-.- .,-2'-im-.-.: -. - .4 .-P , , . ' -'fx gf' gg ' Aj , ' -'i?L21'3 f'f1'.'jGV. ' ' if . ' -Q-:Es-E'.'. 'fl'-,r.ff'.'f.1 . .. -. . .. .., , -- .-,-.1.- -..- . ..- .- . . 1 ' SPH .' 2' ' . I ' 211.1 :',.1zLf-1-'. 71'Qff 'w' ' ' D' 35-'fL . 1' ...F .gb -'Mei' w V 'mfiwef ,e-5? ' fi- -'mf-.-f - 4:- urn- 1- SAE 'ff ,jg If., 1 .411 . :tht-I ' -..4gjfy,. '34Sm.g,, AQ' , xl -1 I . ' XT1'ff f nf-t 4 ' -':Q.'7?' Q., Pggmf- . :z z -1' 4l .'1I .SYM 'S' A 13 '.? - Af, ., 1252 'T' ' 1- ' . - , ,. ,-, .-.3-w. f. 4 .. ., V.. . ,,ji:...g. 4 ,I 2' I , '4 A gh .. Q---.guy j,g,..- .E,.5 A ,, ,yuan -:fp-,l .553 W. K 4 . -.P ...rv ':'?S?5- f .1 . ....f'cg'+e?2z - ' --' - -- 2: - --. - :wit v- 'z ' LQ. '79 if ff' '- . - f:.f K '-2: 'ff -. - - ff UW .H-w fx 4 ' -, .. . 'fx' -' '1I-J1',- - GSH '.:2.-l'-,' 5 A' FN -1 f '. ' ' 1 W' - f -' ' ,..'-Q, . wx. fm.: 1. N..,.. ... qw, -fa:-'L .- .-f .K .P 11. -1. , 1,3 . .hx-:,4. --f-. -. - ,- 3- .' ..-.. -. ..- .A , I. '.- 1'.- '.-.-. 1:55-. .' - .. -5 '. ' . -'. ',- 21455 A'xff:j' ' , 'Z' XR A - 'f ' 4 erm' fv . .-.,. :,a,,-L., -'fn 3 -.5 ' - A If , , - '. + 6 ' J-. ' .r fq, U... V, ,..g,:m A i sig! .M J.-. qx .- VU' l . -1 ., --... . 1 4' '.. . 3 f - . -, ' ' 'af ,f 'gv A v- -'G ..-j-f . - ' '.- ff' , . - ' fb :- - ,...-5. . .,,,.... .. --Q-.-.. , . 4 . ' ..'.,-H J .4 - ,,. i vig- xv - '- 'VW :Sif- , ff.. nj... ' ' ww- .Heb ' .vt . S-1:2 ' . . . '01, -h4u..3 W, .21 ., .1 Af. .I 4. ' I fji5'q'. 3 'f'f 'T .- 1125? H' ' - . . 5: ' -.:fv'4,' - 'bF .r l 4 I-1.i'z'f'-. 1 ..,.'fgf :'-' ' fffj' f f.. f . 4 9 ME74444 f 1 - dz IQXQZZVZZ Qwmga 56422, An artistic maiden is she, I 44B1ack, are her eyes 3,3 the And as bright as an early May night, m01'l1iH2-H She neveriis wanting in know- ledge. CLASS OFFICERS President .... I ..... .................... . .. Virginia 'Whiteliill Vice-President . . . .. . Carolyn Hughes Treasurer, Secretary . . ......... , ............. Aurela Bates Reporter .... ................. I ......................... E linor Topping Executive Committee ................ L Carolyn Hughes and Ralph Wanzer Class Flower-White Cherokee Rose Class Colors-Green and Gold Class Motto- Esc quam Videri 10 fzmfbfhzz, lg'uA?l't- I know that to grin all the He is determined and re time is not right sourceful But I think it is better than With a gay happy smile for weeping. all.' ' f94'w ' 7Y.fd,.,Q.A 741701 A youth full impotuous and HA sweet little maid is she, quick, And she always gets her way But none the less manly for that. ll .,L,JJwM..14.,, 'ller voice cloth ripple forth in wondrous Gadvncv, swvst :md clear. Pessimistic is his nature, But he accomplishes all that he starts. 0l,,,wLee.f. 21 wmv Modest and simple :mil sweet, The very type of Priscilla. Oh blest with temper whos? unclouded ray Can make tomorrow cheerful as today. 7.4,1ytAaJ1f6V7M A care-free and humorous youth, With a changeable aiection for maidens. 2144640 07-uf A quiet, gentle maiden is she, As shy as a sweet drooping violet. ' n ll A gay, happy maiden is she With eyes bright as sunshine in summeiz Av if s 4 k. eww? A true poet at heart is she, But displays a bright, happy nature. w Charming is this maiden, And full of wiles and graces. Her nature is gentle and kindg In her studios she is always excellingf' Qycgfiwm She is as fair as a rose, And 11-er intc-llevt shines as a diamond. Lo!-Z . She is as true as the sunshine With a pleasant and genial smile. hm A youth full of fire and eloquence, I Yet strong and athletic with all. Gentle and quiet her mien But beneath it a frank, joy- ous nature. 'She is a Winsome wee thing, full of joy and of laughter. -Zyiifggvg He is as happy as the day is long, With never a real eare to dis- turb him. HA joyous soul is she and a pleasure to all those around her. He is silent and thotful in manner, But supplied with a source of dry humour. Class Will As we rummage thru our pockets in quest of the necessary jitney to pay Charon for transportation across the River Styx, we pause and contemplate. We consider it necessary to bequeath and will away our personal possessions and property to those we leave behind us in dear old Los Gatos High. There- fore we do this day of June the eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, hereby bequeath the following: Elsie Mann's cooking ability to 'Thelma Springer since she shows such brilliant knowledge of the aforesaid subject. Pernilla Nelson's gay times at the Union dances to Margaret Borland lest Glenwood prove too slow. Ethel Colbat'h's knowledge of the science of tennis to Georgia Edwards as she is sadly lacking in that propensity. In order to instruct Rusty Shiras in the art of self-defense, we leave Harris Sproule's daily combats with Elizabeth Cameron to him. Nellie Mann's one-horse shay to Rachel Riggs for fear the Willys-Knight will not fill the ticket. Carolyn Hughes' A's to Edwin Roberts to prevent him from receiving such an abundance of Goose eggs. Helen Fail's unfailing failure to arrive at school on time to Elizabeth Hobbie. , Aurella Bates' ability to hit the Pill to Hop'head Shore. William Moore's mischievous nature to George Mors, lest he be too staid. The famous combination powder puff and mirror of Lynda Roberts' to Maggie Owen, that she may not have a slick facial expression, and also Lynda's ability to weild stove wood to her younger brother, Seymour. Dwight Rugh's constant companionship with Leslie F reudenthal to Rachael Riggs and Eleanor Ham to rejuvenate the historical friendship of Damon and Pythias. Ralph Wanzer's Morman disposition to Philo Beach so that Philo may have a sufficient number of female servants to satisfy his lazy and languid disposition. Elinor Topping's Haming sweater to the Lighthouse Commission to keep the ships off the rocks by its incandescent warning. Mary Zimmerman's gift of gab we leave to Mervin Reade, since he is such a bashful youth. The demureness of Edvidge Cerrutti to her sister Esther so as to keep it all in the family. Leslie Freuclenthal's cleverness in administering knock-out punches to Dick Houghton in order that it may assist him in future pugilistic encounters. Darwin Godfrey's propencity for falling in love with the leading lady to Alfred Lewis who is not afflicted with the aforesaid habit. Bessie Hams clever execution of the Twelfth Street Rag to Florence Carlyle so as to uphold the reputation of the Sanctified Ones. Lucile Macabee's propensity for describing snakes in Eng. IV to Charles Michelson for fear he will never have the opportunity to see any. Edna Brown's raving about Lowell High to any poor soul needing audi- tory exerciseq Earl Pearson's San Mateo lady to Chipmunk, in view of the fact that he will probably never possess the courage to choose one of his own accord. 17 The disturbing element which Romilda Puccinelli and Wilma Mients have always been in the Assembly Hall, especially in their pursual of the boys, we do bequeath to Elsie Kraft, hoping that she may overcome her timidity. Babe Bell's lengthy and Elevating oral recitations in English IV on Xifednesdays to Dorothy Pomeroy as she needs must have assistance on these ays. Virginia Whitehill's school pep and kicking ability to Cecil Chamberlain so that he won't give up hope entirely. ' To Dentzill Hall, Virna Hootenis bottle of health tonic and fat producer, since the wan little fellow needs it so sadly. To the Junior class our quick and unquestioning obedience to those in authority over us and our peaceful and dignified conduct in class meetings with the hope that they will be the success as Seniors that we have been. To the whole student-body we leave our wild enthusiasm at the games, our record in athletics and our large number of a'sl' in our various subjects. In witness whereof, we do set our hand and seal this 3d day of April, Year of Uur Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. Class of 1917, Los Gatos High School. EVANGELINE BELL HARRIS SPROULE 18 T141 T0 0 D Tran, from h QW ?EaE 60523 HOPE F2 me :avg 355 can om Q 5? It 31 .9 .2 0 m .E -if ,.4 M azw g QD ggig ig mm D-.544 7 as., Fil 5 ,J 5 qgiigi wks J .5 3 'S H mai? 'P q5x,-4 Sag 2 3, .2 gn 2 Riggs: 2 me 4 3- -..SE Ea R5 bv-54 fx F1 tg hu QM: .Lv .' lg. 42.5 as-3.2555 P, Zio-H0 9.35 '2Egw:'Mav'Pa Z 'nm 'Q s-1 QQBEE 22 -u 32 X J JJJ .g a E ik .2-v'Z5o: -r1,.oov-4 3'32, S253 Qnwwgas 25505--.-g h gahm ix - Ei: 'Z ,al v Q 3.4 ,, 5 - i4ifiIiXg I-1 E 5-g in N213 is-'D 'W 2 .E4Bf.i:: Q Gngmrzg tr-1 ,SCH on ..q DCI: 41 B J 3 Ei ,U is is ' A. EZ .C S fff.f'ji,, ii eu an 43 ff, 35 giwv Wm . nigga 155 vggg E ii no H 5: 21 . bv- Z2 Fsfl od 5 ',w , 3 K3 ?,1K Xgii' ifwl X 1 Lf '19 chi e Eqhggfb af. zggaag 02 el' ' -gas ,Id .,.,0 ,os oiawaxu. 2-...ewgqwgb 51.3 a 32 v 4 1' ee EE Eg .,.,: an na E-SOxmSP Done' 54.2 Q: Q-O-r-no Q gems cn :I 4 L X -Z , x w-n Id .X E Q: 0 -luv.-QQ .2- 255.0 3:24:15-Q sm ws? Df- I2 ,f '55 I' 'ri 5:2 , ', I 'f I I L fxgv X ,fx W .1 sa' P1 ' ESSEQ E Q25 is-2 D852 BEA Ofgmfflua mi 2 93 +1 V2 x .. an U22-.-' ?i51',Q?'i : if Uuffr' .- Eggxf 4 w 'Q Q 5 ' pgxlv RHf'1 I-. . ' u Q . Eiivv. as --'gin P, zggaag O2 oil' H -'les -I -.-9 can '3Eg.H:'idsu'5a Zgawan es' : .ai gi 32 19 S T0 O - 4' e 21 0 Q ,223 Ulu 'SSQOES 2 5:55 6:5 2 555'-c?:D S S Z3 :gg--e'5+1 N .-C2 Maman .W .4 ,D H .Q 2 1-gan! U P -FE -122 QUQUD av '53 -EQMS ,,,,J -' A255 5 ' H 25-5'f,:-. EZ' ,K awww ff 2, FH 'fi XT! RE xiii' K ' z II 5 Wu!! g ,Q 5 lt xx -5 ' 5:1-E - 15 .h sa im? r Q U Eiggaaod S U I-'Z' ' wa final' Q 35 Om Nu,--4 Z Emu D n I-IV! .E 243. nvwvmwg 2 Eu M' ,.'::D-12.-.ca .-4 za wa's'Sf.: 2 2,3 mfzfnpg E Q. WD 5' 4'- sf 'I Jf ?rr r 5-Q in , . .Z .,, w il E: rx -'I if Spf 45-5' xv ,E I-, gl L md fffgx 5 'S o I-1 : migfi gg 3 aijdgngrl -E dudes tv 'D E .:lA -1 3596 -no Q Uv 25:15:34 D 5 Q ww-em as-H.-.,a na EE E'J':5as 1 J 5 55 M E fl cfw 5: 3 xflkllnfj. ' 5 'sf E1f1MUEZ s B 'MIM 2 HM- gi v- l', - 5' - L4 1-- 5 fi eu,- Q.: g -9253-, Ezmafxlv Pav z.u55'S '5' 35 w..- .2E?E vg2 'M ,,E.2'3vp.. zN.,4m':gN'f:p-4 S .gawk hnggg ga Ezsmaeg Q as 30 Zgo-is 6 A H 9559.4 0-aa E .gui-HS.. 5QgEE 2 +- a E e S L4 ash M04 3 E5 -1.22 oaj-1 lu ti MEHE gl'-51434 rl ,L v b 35,3 'bind'-52 54153 .45-io' cf W X fu !,, X Q. I' ix O ill O Q ww H-SE Sf-1.gW3-5 Emixii'-3 me '51 3 2 2 Z' 33 2 ,,-A -e 5 ,E if ,155 z S5 ff' gi fu x -I if , EE .ag 56 : Fl Q' 'S IZ'-'E as 0 cv 0 -5 Q Q I Z QE sa 3 f',tl22 o Z so . 3 E 2 E G 1A',,K,,,f' ? VIH' f hx . wt: M4 ,fl ug .' 15 fi gui O op, b 522553: M 'E gwfjvn 0 Ei Z.-MOEQ 'QE Eggzglgiu ' l1l 'HS-SEE 5 20 'E scope l'0 O Fu 3 21 s 5h?3Qi B Q5 Q as 4' 5 tm: an cd 5 E 3 : 0 Cl 9 m k ,,, 1-w y., E .,.4 O 'C 5 F Em 2 2 ' .J 5' 2 C O 'E E, .-. ws... ff'-cs , re FP' -33 mag if Q-E: Z I C ,QQ EP sa , A 'C Q 060 is Eff F: 5 Q. . ,..-:.. V' gig Q - Ns m 1 K ,' 4 X? M J fi vf 3625 35 9 ,fi ,511 ,I 5 5.e8.PQ 2 .: ,W A on gf E : -5 .2 s: 56 v, sa. -- '- fr' 0+-' o jj N W D. E: ,if fi ea 0 Bw 0 5 2 Ed l. 'E Q -HQ un Ov eu 1:2 bo O ,Q as R,-'gums gp . 224513 o 'v E U 3 +2 3 E 5 : E11 Q fi E1 I1 8 Q5 gf H PQ Q Q. FD X-zz. 25224 kg' 5' -A K 14 x n In wx it 'ish v jkxr, ' 1 X X . L- gun R Lg 1 N ' .rl pf If 3 5 .2 'Q an 5 Q na Q 'U n.. negiszi-gg '5.,,,3g,.av.. A -99 N 5 :s U2 5:5 O 'I as Q5 3 'U -1 5 '53 0 5 'U U D4 .En-I-4.2 3 I-T1 Q Q CE 1- B: QQH 5 P1 L. -4 A is P' Q5 C' it 4 va! 2 5255 f' J g-- ' ,5 ' 'ig 1:1 'N wi XLR XIX , ,sf x---X xQNNf1 - - , uw! . l 5-IJ: N A IJ.: D nj ESEEE? Nw 0 Q ' z:g5'f,eS ,aiizsk , 'Mol3 '.M '-sap dmsgeg Us .sEg,,,gn 35 Ezggg-.Nga ' --' o. zhnrae gs zgaggggsgi ZSQEBE E2 'E 2 sa E on bi .Q 525 as E' 0:2 W--.Mia EEN- Q-Q f M5955 ,E E-1 :ng N 222 5 3551 5.5 Qu g sf E? .f75.w:ff: at 4-ggi E: ij 2EhwE '5,jggn.E5f3.:: ,.--.-sz:-:'oS0 'wg-Qu-l-,gqkc P35-'ftZg4U r.-'. 0,3 X EE X ,1 W w , -KQJM w '-aub- Eafasr Q zggnfga-Bag .-lags-4a,g:,,, 9 Q in ee 'e:- !:o..q.,.. A f 0 H I 3' 21 Prophecy SCENE: Office of Pearson Jewelry Company. Earl Pearson president is seated at desk. His secretary, Aurela Bates, enters the room with a package of letters AURELA :- EARL:- There are letters here you have quite neglected, They really must all be inspected, Oh, yes, they're from my classmates dear, Letters and notes from far and near. You know I did a generous thing, For I sent to each a wonderful ring, 'Cause at school they showed a taste quite lacking In' choosing the rings without my backing, So I made a fine ring of delicate hue To prove to them what an expert could do. So now come the answers from all twenty-four, 'Tis as if the class were here at my door. Harris-writes he has found a career, Has gone in the world as an auctioneer. He can sell a broom stick for ninety cents, VVhen in fact it is worth only two penceg But that's not his line, he's reached something higher He sells the black diamond and aerial flyer. This one's from Virginia, who with her partner, Is getting the money as a landscape gardner. In costume petite, and frolicking gown She orders the gardeners up and around, Planning tea gardens, beds and springs. ' QNot for bedrooms, but parks and thingsj. William, or Bill more usually called, Has sent me a letter most beautifully scrawled. He, who was always our class magician, Has settled down as a good electrician. He shinnies the poles and mends the wires. His tools are tape, screw drivers and plyers. He's a rising young fellow with a pleasing face. And will certainly find a way to his place. Bessie and Carolyn are keeping frats For all the poor lost and orphanic cats. Black ones, white ones, pink and blue, Green ones, yellow ones colored like glue. So the two old maids on cold and bad weather Sit by the fire and chatter together. Here's one from Africa far away, Made the long journey in a month and a day. Who can it be from such a legible hand? Why, it's Ralph, a missionary to the dark land. Preaching and talking and helping little niggers 22 To do and to act better than their biggers. He's doing a splendid and pleasing work, Is pastor and preacher of a little Scotch kirk. Pernilla Nelson has written in a hurried way, She's very especially busy today. There's the washing and cleaning and the cooking of course But she's harnessed up electricity better than Mors Sewing machine, dishwasher, stove and bucket Make her the best house-wife in Nantucket. Everything's run by electricity, Still is the height of simplicity. She still prefers the old-fashioned broom, Along with her children and second bridegroom. Leslie and Dwight, the always inseparable, Have made an invention indeed quite terrible. They've gone together on this infernal affair In which the poor victim sits in a chair, Then Leslie, the patient does hypnotize, Next comes the nation's great surprise 3- Connected with wires to the chair is a mirror fThen Dwight moves over a little bit nearerj Behold! across the wired mirror, quite plain Pass the workings of a hypnotized brain. So you see it is really the best of inventions, And therefore is used at hypnotic conventions, The name of this thing's in no catechism: Mes-thot-hyp-mer-noterism. This next letter is from Miss Elinor, In which she says what she saidbefore. She is the girl who never had measles, And now is working among pallettes and easles. With pencils and powders oils and brushes She paints people's faces and also bull rushes. An artist in picturing dancers on toes, Perfect resemblances from feet to their nose. Romilda says I'd be afraid to face her 'When she's all dressed up as an auto racer. Her car is a make of her own invention, And the speed she makes she won't even mention She's got so many cups, prizes and medals She melts them together and puts on her pedals It makes it easier to turn the corners, p Prevents all skidding and saves many mourners. She's won more races than the rest put together Is happy and well in all sorts of weather. This is from Wilma, and to use slang, She is the Queen of the potato gang. Forty thousand bushels of big large spuds, And just when they vanished like bubbles and suds She's the richest person in the whole Texas state. Says she may be up this year, but a little late. Darwin's envelope is headed with the title 23 Professor D. F. Godfrey, teacher of English stori At a private school for maidens fair, There he teaches and there does wear Fashionable clothes and silk socks fine. jovial and pleasing, but never gives a nine. He's got a good cook, good eats, you bet, And is thinking deep of marriage yet. Ethel Colbath, in her envelope filling Says the movies are certainly thrilling. She has the leading part in Julia Maud. A thrilling play of sea and land. She jumps from a cliff one thousand feet high, And then in the end she doesn't die. This comes from Paris Hotel de Onna. It's from Lucile, the world's Prima Donna. She can hit high X with a note so clear It'll carry ten miles, or pretty near. When she sings one song or a pretty lore, She pulls enough money for a year or more. She's happy and well as she always has been, And if she comes over she may drop in. ' This letter in envelope big and alarming Is from Evangeline, ever so charming. In a long black gown and with awesome mien, She honors the bench in the Court Supreme. For just decisions she's made quite a name, And far and wide has spread her fame. Here's a letter, if my eyes don't fail From Elsie, reporter for the Los Gatos Mail, A sample paper in which I hear es vital Los Gatos has four hundred sunny days in a year. The moon there shines in many bright ways, Perhaps they mistake some nights for the days. Lynda has had her letter typwritten. She keeps a place for things that are smitteng A hospital grand of the latest style, Steam-heated rooms, hot water all the while. Pretty bedrooms, every thing neatg Flowers at your head and at your feet, Flowers at your feet and at your head, COnly that is just when you are deadj, That a Los Gatos girl a nurse has become Should, as you know, be kept very mum. But of course in Mexico there may be Use for such things, not in Los Gatos,-see! This pretty letter in a pink envelope Must be from some one who can't elope. It's Edna Brown, no relation to John, The physical director best in town. She swings the husky dum bells and the club To the merry little tune of rub a dub a dubg She directs the pupils in an elementary school, 1 24 Always quiet, undisturbed, dignified and cool. Edvige Cerruti, the fickle, jolly Miss, Is a living image of happy foolish bliss, Since she got so very low in her High School grade, The saying goes well, The less the better said. Master or Mistress, whichever you like best, Of Latin, German, French, Swedish and the rest. The only living specimen now alive With a title of Professor with affixes five. Nellie Mann, as her name implies, Is like a man who always flies. Nothing like the regular adaption, But a peculiar thing of her own contraption. She rises straight up in the air In weather bad or weather fair. She's a record breaker of some note, But very modest when she wrote. This little envelope is very, very small. It doesn't represent the sender at all. A modest young maiden, slightly frail, Not whom you may think, but Helen Fail. A splendid and flashing society Miss, Wears a watch on her ankle, not on her wrist. Who many and many a time has said No. To the numerous suitors who after her go, S0 you see she yet has a chance very fine, To make a good choice from the promising line. This one looks very neat and trim. It's all in poetry, from Mary Zim. For she has become Shakespeare's rival. And caused in poetry a great revival. High in the Sierras she has her home, And there writes jingles and tales of Rome. And epics and sonnets and epitaphs, Produced the world over on phonographs, Not least but last or last not least Is a figure upon which our eyes may feast, A fashion designer with Parisian fixtures, Yellow and pink or any such mixtures, For figures slender, small as toys, Then for others with avoirdupois. Side skirts, finger bows, all hyfolootin' VVho could it be but our friend Virna Hooton? This ends the list except for you and me, They know what we are and so do we: So let's ring off and go out to lunch. We'll drink to ourselves and then to the bunch. CAROLYN HUGHES DWIGHT RUGH 25 IT III: I I 1 I I I I . I fi I I r , J. ,- m ' ' I Deathlike, Yet Alive It was dusk and the lamps were not yet lighted. All the room was filled with a dreamy dimness. I shut the ponderous volume I had been read- ing and looked out of the window. It was storming furiously outside and the rain pelted the glass like a host of tiny arrows. The spruce trees, silhouetted against the sky. swayed and tossed in time to the chanting of the wind. They bent, stood still, then flung themselves back till their fibers strained, throwing their limbs upward. Then swayed slowly, all in perfect rhythm, while the wind shrieked and wailed an accompaniment. It was like a witch dance, wild and weird. What magic were these dancers brewing? VVhat kind of a spell were they casting over me? I wondered and watched as they lifted and swung their branches while the keen rain shot thru them and hurled itself against the window. Faster and faster it fell till the glass was dimmed and I could see only the blurred shadows of the trees. JF Pk :If 31 lk Fl: flf PIC rk S4 PI: P21 PK HF Then all grew dark and still-deathly still-so dark and still that time seemed not. Then a gray light appeared, and a forest arose from the vague darkness. It was a strange forest. The trees stood close together, their frong-like branches hanging motionless and heavy as if to bear the weight of the oppres- sive vapors that steamed upwards. There was no sun, but only a dull grey light that cast no shadow. Off in the misty distance I saw the trees rise gray- green. The nearer ones were greener and darker while those in the fore- ground were quite distinct with dark shadows and soft high-lights. They were like palm trees-yet I had never seen palm trees like them, Below me lay a river-a wide river-deep, and still, and black, that seemed to have no banks but lost itself in the fathomless shadows. I saw the 26 little cliff on which I stood mirrored below without a Hawg and the nearer trees, their roots submerged, were reflected so perfectly that they seemed al- most to have grown double. An awful silence born of the muffling vapors pervaded it all. No birds sang. No flowers bloomed. No insects fluttered by. The very air was life- less. It was solemn and deathlike, yet there was life on every side. I began to descend and clambered over the rough boulders. They were dull brown and purple, streaked with maroon. Thick black-green mosses, that were damp and soggy to my touch, grew over them. Little streams of water trickled noiselessly beneath. As I neared the river the land grew black and boggy. I tramped knee deep in beds of ferns. Once I stepped on a log but it crumbled beneath my weight and sank into the mire. The river seemed to have no current and in the middle of it great crea- tures lay motionless or swam without noise. They heeded me not nor each other, but lay there like huge logs, the dull light glinting on their scales. But the stillness, the emptiness of it, and the oppressiveness, were awful. The silence seemed as long as eternity itself, almost, then- Somewhere a tree fell. It crashed thru its fellows and lay submerged at their feet, somewhere. Its falling startled me and went reverberating thru the dark bayous. The monsters lifted their heads, listened a moment, then sank back into the ooze, and the hush fell back on the vast swamp. Something within me-or was it a spirit-whispered to me, Three million years ago coal was formed in forests such as this - Then the vision dissolved and faded away into oblivion and I found my- self in the room once more. It was Hooded with mellow lamplight and the family sat around the table reading. The heavy book had fallen from my lap and lay on the floor. The rain had ceased and the wind crooned a soft lullaby thru the spruce trees. Dazed, I picked up the fallen book and words shot thru my mind again, Three million years ago- they were the words I had read last in the book and above them was a beautiful plate showing the trees of the later carboniferous period. HELEN SHIRAS. 81 Better l..ate Than Never' The drowsy afternoon wore on while all Brentville took its afternoon siesta. As it neared three o'clock however, things began to assume a more lively aspect. Children appeared as if by magic to enjoy their afternoon games. Women hurried forth to do their shopping, and a group of elderly men gathered in front of the General Store to discuss religion, the present war and all the latest exciting events of the village. At promptly half past three Colonel jonathan Saunders strode hastily around the corner of the main street and entered the Post Office. He soon reappeared and halted by the General Store to take his part in the discussion then going on. Well'C0lonel, what do you think of our chances for peace ? Pretty slim, pretty slim, Jacob, came the answer and so the talk went on. At four o'clock the Colonel pulled out his watch and seeing it was grow- ing late, turned homeward, Exactly fifteen minutes after he had disappeared, the figure of Miss Sophie Johnson came briskly down the same street. The men in front of the store glanced at each other in amusement. One of them explained the situ- ation to a new comer as follows: You see its this way. Ten years ago Jonathan Saunders came into town. He was about forty-five and the finest specimen of manhood I have ever seen. He courted Miss Sophie and finally won her consent. But right soon after she had said 'Yes' to him, they quarreled and have not spoken to each other since. No one knows the cause of it and neither of them ever speak of it. He takes off his hat to her if they happen to meet and she nods kind of frosty like and that's all. Every day he comes up town and plans to be home by four because that's when she always comes. They both live on the same street, almost op- posite and each has a dog. She has a mean tempered Spitz, called Duke, and he a big 'hunting dog named Wolf. On the morning following this conversation the Colonel accidently knocked his ancient time piece onto the floor. Nothing's smashed but it sounds kind of queer. All unknown to him the delicate spring was bent and the watch started to lose time. He had never bothered to keep any other clocks in running order and therefore had no means of knowing the correct time. Thru the day it managed to lose just an hour and fifteen minutes and so when the Colonel started up town, supposedly at three, it was quarter past four. Looks kind of dark for three o'clock, but maybe its going to rain, he remarked to the dog. The old timers saw him coming and glancing at their watches said Four fifteen ! and gasped in blank astonishment. Absorbed in his newspaper the Colonel walked into the Post Office and while in there he heard a low growl. He turned to look sharply, Miss Sophie and her dog were passing and Duke had nipped viciously at W'olf, who promptly resented this indignity. Before interference was possible a lively light was well started. The dogs rolled into the street, a biting, snarling mass. Small boys cheered them on. the Colonel vainly tried to separate them and Miss Sophie danced around in excitement. Those two dogs hung on with a remarkable pertinacity and refused to be separated. Duke's white curls were Hicked with blood and being the smaller dog he got much the worst of it. At 28 last the belligerents were forced apart and firmly with a sharp word and ges- ture and then turned to survey the damage done to Duke. His leg was badly hurt and apparently he could not walk. Madam, I-ah,-can-can not express my regrets -stammered the Col- onel. Pray do not try, Sir, the fault lies with my dog, came the dignified ans- wer from the lady. The people dispersed and left the two to themselves. Both were plainly embarrassed by this turn of events. At last the Colonel said. I fear your dog is hurt. He is small and light and I could carry him to your home with great ease. I dislike to trouble you, Sir, but I would appreciate it very much if you could carry him, was Miss Sophie's prim answer. Without more ado the Colonel picked up the whining dog and proceeded on his way. He and Miss Sophie walked to her gate and then, still holding the dog, he said, Sophie, don't you think we might arbitrate ? She looked up with a little smile and a slight twinkle appeared in the depths of the gray eyes. She answered him slowly. I think we might, Jonathan. I was to blame anyway, and very stubborn and unreasonable. No, no, argued the Colonel, I was hasty and hot headed, but have long since regretted that I let such a small matter part us. Never mind, now, Jonathan. Let's bury the past and forget all that oc- curred. Yes, let's go back to the old times before our foolish quarrel, was the Colonel's reply. But I never did think women ought to vote anyway. I really was not in earnest, came shyly from Miss Sophie. After his first few words the Colonel had set Duke down on the sidewalk. The two people passed on into the house, their faces beaming in joy and Duke sat forgotten by the gate. DOROTHY POMEROY. 29 A Legend of Los Gatos Before California was known to the world and before there were many people living there, a great many tragedies took place which never have and never will be known. Stories of the bravery and self-sacrifice of the gold- hunter 'have since gone over all the world. It is right that these men should be remembered, for it takes courage and enterprise to settle any new country. We seldom hear of those who came to California to follow any other pursuit than that of gold-hunting. However, there were people who came here and heroically carried on less adventurous occupations and it is thru a man who was not a gold-hunter, so the story goes, that Los Gatos received its name. The Santa Clara valley was then, as it is now, a very beautiful and fertile valley. Then, in the spring, instead of being one huge bouquet of prune blos, soms, it was a vast, sunny stretch of green grass which extended with lawn- like smoothness in every direction. The valley was an ideal place for sheep. So, altho neither the valley nor the surrounding mountains were noted for gold, there was much sheep raising. With the aid of the dogs, large numbers of sheep could be cared for by a few men and so there were very few people inhabiting this country. Andrew Ward was one of those few people who kept a lonely vigil over a Hock. With him was his wife and his young son, Billy, who was one year old. The Ward's Valley home was about where Gilroy is now. Every sum- mer they moved up into the foot-hills, and occupied a snug cabin near the banks of the Los Gatos creek, on the spot just above where the concrete bridge is now. The summer in which the events about to be related happened was an unusually disappointing one to Mr. Ward. He had not been well and some of the sheep had wandered off into the mountains. He did his best to find them but could not. His custom was to take the sheep back to their winter home about the first of October. However, this year, on account of the missing sheep, he had not considered returning but had spent all his time in hunting the missing animals. - About the middle of November, he rode down into the valley to ask his employer to send up some men to help him, and then he returned home to await the coming of the reinforcements. There were many wild cats in the mountains and he knew that it was possible that the lost sheep had been attacked by these animals. The know- ledge of their presence in the mountains increasd his anxiety. November passed and the first of December came. The weather began to change and al- most before he knew it, Mr. VVard found that an early winter was coming on them. Still the men did not come to hunt the sheep. Finally Mr. NVard became desperate and decided to go to the valley and warn his employer of the danger of leaving his Hocks unlooked for any longer. He planned to start on Wednesday, the third of December, and on Sunday night it had rained very hard. The creek rose rapidly and Mr. Ward knew now that whether the lost sheep were found or not, he would need help to get the others down into the valley safely. ' So on Wednesday morning he started out with the rain literally pouring and the clouds looking as if the supply in them was limitless. As he rode along, he saw at least twenty wild cats within a half mile of his little home. He felt a great longing to go back to his wife and baby. The cats might be- 30 come bold on account of the storm and cause trouble with the sheep or even bother the cabin. But he knew that he must go on, for the fate of hundreds of valuable sheep depended on his getting help. He arrived safely in the val- ley and found that his employer had forgotten all about his request. The trip down had been a difficult one, for the path was slippery and hard to find. In many places the creek had risen very high. He was very anxious to get back to his wife. He knew that the storm was likely to bring danger with it. Five men were found who would return with him. But they all had busi- ness to attend to and it would be four days before they could leave. Mr. Ward was in a perfect ferment of impatience at the delay. Two days passed. He was filled with an unusual dread and apprehension. On the morning of the fourth day, after passing a sleepless night, he de- termined to return ahead of the other men who were to start on the next morn- ing. So in spite of the objections of the others who demurred at his going alone in such a wild storm, he set out on his lonely trip full of fear and fore- bodm g. U HK Ik 241 :lf wk wk lk as Ik lk ak ik 21 251 In the meantime, Mrs. W'ard was having anything but a happy time. She fully expected that her husband would be back in a day and a half. When he did not come, she was almost afraid even to think of the dangers he had to encounter. As the days went on, the unusual storm seemed to increase rather than to lessen. The creek rose until it threatened to overflow into some of the sheep corrals which were quite near the bank. The sheep had to be fed regularly and it was a difficult task for a woman to accomplish in a driving storm. To add to the loneliness, Mrs. Ward saw that the wild cats were com- ing very near the house-something which they never had done before. She also noted that the sheep were restless. She knew that if the storm prevented the cats from getting food otherwise,, they would not hesitate to attack the sheep or even her and her child. At night she looked out of the window of the little cabin and saw blackness everywhere except, here and there, a pair of shiningseyes which she recognized to be those of the dreaded animals. As the evening of the fourth day since the husband's departure came on, she was almost frantic with fear for her husband and herself. The storm raged and the sheep were more restless than ever. As darkness descended, the shriek of a wild cat could be heard at intervals. To her lonely and im- aginative mind the sounds were multiplied to ten times their real number. Suddenly at about eight o'clock in the evening there was an ear-piercing shriek in the direction of the corral, accompanied by the terrified bleating of sheep. Mrs. Ward realized that either the wild cats had attacked the sheep or else the creek had come into the corrals and, in its rush, had swept along some cats which were prowling around outside. She knew that something must be done, for the sheep were some of the most valuable in the country. If many were lost, it would take Mr. WVard a lifetime of hard work to pay for them. She rushed out into the night and tried to slam the door after her. How- ever, the wind caught it and Hung it wide open. Without noticing this, she went down toward the creek to see just what was happening. She found that the wild cats were, indeed, in the corral and were attacking the sheep. She had her rifle with her and shot at several cats but they seemed to spring up from all around. She was afraid of being attacked herself. So she opened 31 the gates in order that the sheep might have a chance for their lives. She then hastened back to the cabin to get a new stock of cartridges. As she approached the hut, she perceived with a sinking heart that she had left the door open. When she was about thirty yards away, she saw, to her horror, a slinking form come out of the house and then another and an- other. She heard the cry of a child and knew that the animals were carrying her baby off. In a flash she followed them over the rocks, down towards the creek and then along the bank. As she leaped upon a slippery rock, overhang- ing the water, she missed her footing and fell into the roaring torrent. Her form was enveloped in the rush of Waters, never to rise again. Mr. Ward found the return journey difficult and he was obliged to go slowly. When night came on and he saw the intense darkness around him and heard the wail of the Wind mingled with the occasional shriek of some wild animal, he realized how his wife must be suffering. lt was with great relief that he slowly and carefully rode up the last stretch of path to the cabin. He was greatly surprised to see the cabin door open. He was almost petrified with fear when he saw the low burning lamp and the empty cradle in the cold room. Summoning his dazed faculties, he went out and instinct- ively followed the footprints which led down to the creek and then along the bank. Finally, he stood on the fateful rock and saw the place where someone had fallen off into the water. Farther on were just animal tracks and here and there some bits of cloth that were undoubtedly bits of a baby's clothing. It came to him with a sudden rush what had happened. He was tired and worn from travel and anxiety. For a moment his reason left him. In that moment he lost his footing and he, too, was lost in the rushing, roaring mass of water below. A day passed, and the next morning, at day break, the five men arrived from the valley, During the afternoon before, the weather, with characteris- tic California suddenness, had cleared. As evening descended, the stars seemed to diffuse a soft light of kindliness and love toward all the earth. The mountain, outlined against the sky. seemed to promise protection to the val- ley below. Only the creek mumbled an incessant objection to the tranquility of it all. As the men approached the cabin, they were surprised at its deserted look. With alarm they saw that some thing was wrong. Fearful as to what they should find, they first followed the footprints down to the corrals and saw the several lifeless wild cats and the scattered sheep. Next they retraced their steps to the cabin and followed the other footprints. They went down to the creek and along the bank until they saw the rock and the unmistakable signs of slipping. Then farther on the tracks of the animals and the pieces of child's clothing. They stood with bared heads, paying a silent tribute to those whose lives had so tragically ended. One man, a warm hearted, impulsive Spaniard, looked at the peaceful mountains and the trees glistening in the early morning sun and said, Let us name this beautiful spot Los Gatos CThe Catsj after the cause of this un- speakable tragedy. And thus it is called to this day. BESSIE HAM. 32 Qld Mr. jordan's Will When old Mr. Jordan died, and left no heirs, everyone wondered to whom all of his valuable property would go. When, after a long search, the will was found, it was discovered that he had left all his worldly possession to two young people who had never expected to receive anything. The will pro- vided that half of the money would go to one Mr. Herbert' Maxwell a son of one of Mr. Jordan's old friends, and that the rest sho-uld go to a Miss Marjorie Viletherington. To get this money however, the young man must marry Miss Wetherington within the next two years. Mr. Maxwell having graduated from college, was just beginning to be recognized as a promising young lawyer. He wanted the money very much, but he did not want a wife. Of course, if he had been a relative of Mr. Jordan, he might break the will, but under the circumstances that was quite impossible. He had never cared for girls-moreover, having once seen Miss Wetherington he was sure that she was just the sort of girl whom he least admired. That was a number of years ago before when she must have been about thirteen. He remembered a rather tall, awkward, girl very slender, with curly dark hair which she wore in a very small pigtail down her back. She wore spectacles, and her saucy little nose was covered with freckles. She was very fond of sports, and had always insisted upon accompanying him when he rode horseback or went hunting, or fishing. Of course, that had been a long time before, but she could not have improved very greatly in the meanwhile. Anyway, girls were silly, tiresome creatures, and he wanted nothing to do with them. At last, however, he decided that he must have that money. At least, he could call upon the girl and see what might be done. He had heard that she was to spend the day with friends who lived in a town not far distant, so one morning he started out in his car determined to settle the matter. She might be persuaded to marry him and then take her share of the money and go away. He had not gone far when he came to a small automobile, which had stopped at the side of the road. A young girl clad in yellow, was trying to mend the damaged tire. Maxwell stopped his car and got out. Here let me help you, he offered. What is the matter-a blow-out ? Yes, but I have it almost all fixed, now. I hardly think it will last until I get into Rosevale though. Do you ? Wait-let me see. He stooped down. Why you haven't fixed that rightly at all. That won't last anytime. Let me see what I can do. He put- tered around for awhile and at last gave up. You can't do anything with that. You were going into Rosevale, were you not? Couldn't I take you in ?', He did not like the idea, but of course it was impossible to leave her here alone. She's a plucky girl, anyway, he thought. Why -she hesitated. I-I don't know. You see I was going to spend the day at Rosevale, I am staying with friends in NVood1and. And-I must get back before tonight, but there are not trains leaving in the afternoon, I had planned to go back in my car, but now - That's right-there are no garages or repair shops in Rosevale, are there? Well, you are in a fix! VVe could send some one out to get your car --you can't very well leave it here. Then--if I'd stop for you at four would you let me take you home? 33 Well, I suppose I'd have to, she laughed. You're awfully kind. Oh it's nothing, he returned, quickly. It'll take me only a few minutes in my car. He glanced proudly at the shining roadster. Because he wished to make up for lost time, and because he was rather a shy young man, he drove the car as fast as the law would permit, and ar- rived in Rosevale in a very short time. There was little opportunity for con- versation, but Mr. Maxwell did not fail to notice how attractive his companion was. She was small and dark, dimpled and saucy-looking, with a determined little chin and freckled nose. At the Rosevale railway depot, she refused to allow him to take her any farther. i I can walk the rest of the way, it isn't very far. But don't you forget to come for me this afternoon, she called after him. It 'had been arranged that he should meet her at the depot at four o'clock. After sending a man out to get her automobile, and leaving his car at the vil- lage hotel, he stepped into the tiny drug store, and hunted up in the telephone directory, the number of the house at which Marjorie Wetherington was sup- posed to be spending the day. ' On the way out, he pictured himself making ia proposal of marriage to a tall, thin, spectacled woman with a little knot of hair on the back of her head, and wondered if she were as noisy and tomboyish as ever. When he arrived at her gate, he saw that another man fperhaps another suitor for her handj was before him. This person had not sooner reached the door however, than he seemed to have espied the object of his search in the arbor below him, for he immediately disappeared in that direction. Mr. Maxwell walked up the steps and rang the bell. A maid admitted him and took his card upstairs, evidently expecting to find Miss Weathering- ton in her room. Left alone in the library, the caller walked to the big French window, and looked out in the direction of the arbor. A young woman had risen from her seat and was greeting the lanky young man. The curtain hid our 'hero from her view, but from his position he could see her distinctly-her tall, spare figure, the little knob of hair at her back, the spectacles-all just as he had pictured them. Deciding not to stay and encounter her he turned hastily, strode out of the house and back down the path by which he had come. Miss Marjorie Vifetherington, too had been greatly surprised and excited over old Mr. Jordans will, but on the whole she had thought it all rather ro- mantic. She remembered Herbert Maxwell-a very nice boy she had thought a little rude, perhaps rather boastful and condescending, as most boys were, but she had rather liked his masterful ways. She wanted that money but,- oh, no, she didn't want to marry and settle down. If she had the money, she could take the long dreamed of trip to Europe to study art. But she couldn't study art without money and it was impossible to get any unless she married. Then on the other hand, if she married she couldn't very well go to Europe- so why worry about it at all? She decided to forget it and accepted an invitation from an old friend to visit her for a few weeks in VVoodland. She took her tiny car with her and enjoyed many long rides about the country. On this particular morning, she had planned to spend the day with an old school chum in Rosevale. The car had been unusually ill-behaved on this trip and consequently, when she arrived at her friend's home, she was rather tired and dusty, and had immediately sought her room to rest until luncheon was 34 announced. Her hostess had gone out into the arbor to read the morning papers. At last Marjorie, hearing voices in the garden below, became overcome with curiosity to see who her friend's caller could be. She tiptoed softly to the window and looking out beheld a tall, thin young man, with a very prom- inent nose, just entering the arbor. Several seconds later, a maid tapped at the door and announced that a Mr. Maxwell was waiting below. Marjorie Wetherington turned pale and gripped the arm of a chair for support. Well, if that's Herbert Maxwell- she thought, Good heavens, how the boy has changed! I shouldn't think he'd have had the nerve- she turned to the maid and said firmly, You may tell Mr. Maxwell that I am resting after a long journey, and that I am unable to receive callers. The maid failing to find Mr. Maxwell in the library where she had left him, reached the front door just in time to see his tall, gray-clad figure just disappearing in the distance. At four o'clock, a young woman found a very tired, irritable, young man waiting for her at the depot. His face brightened perceptibly when he saw her approaching. At that moment he heard foot-steps behind him and a voice said, Oh, Mr. Maxwell are you going home now P If you are, would you mind taking me out with you? I missed the train this morning, and I've been waiting all day to find someone going out my way. Oh, she broke off, How, do you do, Miss Wetherington? VVere you going with Mr. Maxwell too? The bewildered Mr. Maxwell put the ladies into the car and then jumped in. Miss Wetheringtonj' he thought. Why, of course it must be. Vlfhy h'adn't he noticed the resemblance before? She really hadn't changed much at all, and he was glad of it. What a cute, funny, plucky little child she had been and what good times they had had! He was ,sure that they'd get along just as well together now. When he dropped his other passenger at her door, he and Marjorie talked of all the good times they had had together, and made plans to visit all the old places where they had played and quarreled when they were children. Curiously enough, both seemed to have forgotten all about old Mr. jordan and the money. MARGARET BORLAND. 35 The Bell With a Soul The hot dry wind blew mercilessly across the plain on which was built a number of rude huts that made up the town of Damuda. The grass which had grown earlier in the year about the rude dwelling places was now with- ered and as the wind blew across it, it rustled to and fro and seemed to whis- per some secret of the plains. The hard and parched grey colored soil was wrinkled and cracked. The dust arose from the ground here and there in fit- ful gusts and playful whirlwinds. As the sun passed the zenith, by some un- analyzed trick of the atmosphere it took on a redder glow and the whole land- scape, bathed in this ruddy light, became almost unearthly in appearance. All unconscious of this were the three men who leaned over their work with absorbing interest for the wonderful bell of Mysore was almost com- pleted. Many weeks had been spent in molding and carving this object of such huge dimensions and tomorrow it was to be hung and rung for the first time. just as the last rays of the sinking sun shot slantingly across the plain the three tired workmen slowly walked away to their homes. They were happy because they had completed the bell and they were happy in the thought that their god, Mysore, would bless them for all their labour done in his honor. The bell was at last hung and every one waited in awed silence to hear the first silvery tones. It was struck and to the amazement and horror of the assembled crowd only a dull clank was the response. The throng was spell bound as the sudden realization of the failure of the bell came upon them. What might not the enraged Mysore do to them for 'hanging such an imperfect object in his temple? Amazed and terrified at the outcome of all their labor the three workmen hastened to the hut of the prophet Vyndebahn. Coming upon the aged man sitting before his humble dwelling they fell prostrate before him and between short gasps of terror they told him of their failure in the making of the bell and of their consequent fear of some terrible puishment that might be sent from Mysore. For they thought he surely would be angry with them and misfortune would be theirs to the end of their days. The old prophet sat lis- tening to their tale of woe and when they had finished told them to go out upon the desert and fast three days. At the end of that time they should re- turn to him and he would tell them what would be necessary for them to do in order to divert the wrath of Mysore and make the bell a success. After the three days had passed the men again stood before Vyndebahn. The old prophet slowly came forth from his hut and without a word to them motioned that they were to follow him to the village. This they did at a rev- erant distance. As they approached the village Vyndebahn turned and spoke to the men. In deep tones he said: In a vision I have been told that within the bell of Mysore must be im- prisoned the soul of a maiden. To do this you must sacrifice one of your own daughters and the bell shall be recast. Go to your homes and call forth all of your children. This little trinket will please the maidens and the first to touch it shall be sacrificed. Each man blanched with fear as the horrible words were uttered, but none dared disobey. Turning sorrowfully to their homes they did as they 36 were hidden. Soon children of all ages came running out of the houses in ex- pectation, little dreaming of the danger hanging over them. They ran toward the old man who held in his hand a glittering string of glass beads. Seeing the pretty toy one of the eldest of the maidens, a girl of about sixteen years, rushed forward to fondle the beads and in so doing de- cided her fate. Quickly she was seized and dragged away, forced to fulfill the awful words of Vyndebahn. The bell was recast. VVhen it was again hung and for the second time tested, beautiful tones issued forth from it. The sounds were mournful and at times reverberant until the echos died away almost like a wail. People whispering to each other said, The tones of this bell are so beautiful because the soul of a maiden is imprisoned within it. If you should be so fortunate as to pass thru this country at sunset you, too, would .hear the solemn tones that summon all worshippers to evening de- votions. And perchance you might hear the whispered prayer of one of the supplicants, an old bent man with white flowing hair, who in the blindness of his faith has given of that which he loved for the Bell with a Soul. DOROTHY WINTLER. 3 19' J' The Egyptian Vase Mr. White lived in a small town in New Jersey. He was the proprietor of a large grocery store in the heart of the town and was a quiet man, living much to himself, his only companion being, in fact, his servant, Sambo, who had been with him a number of years. Mr. White had his residence in the out- skirts of the town and although it was not a modern house, it nevertheless had all the conveniences a man could desire, and was fitted with all the modern improvements. It had been left him by his uncle, who was formerly a mis- sionary to Egypt and who had, a few years before, died and left Mr. White his entire property. One of the valuable articles left him was a vase, which his uncle had brought from Egypt and which was valued at thousands of dollars. It had been discovered in the ruins of an old temple which some scientists had un- covered in their search for relics. The outside was covered with unknown characters of gold and was studded with precious jewels. This vase was valued highly by Mr. White, and he had it kept in a secret place in the house which no one knew but himself. Although he tried to keep the knowledge of its existence a secret, a dealer in relics, a Mr. Carter, had heard of it, and was trying to get possession of it. Another valuable article of Mr. VVhite's was a grandfather's clock, that was said to have once belonged to George Washington. It was about eight feet high and was made in two sections, the back one being used as a place to store odds and ends, although it was now empty and minus the door, and the front one being the case in which the pendulum swung. Surmounting this was the main part of the clock, encircled by carved work and polished till it flashed in the fire light. The hands were of pure gold and shaped to resemble arrows. The entire woodwork was finished in a dull brown which had been polished till it resembled mahogany. At the opening of this story Mr.White was reclining in his favorite Morris chair before the dying embers of the fire in the library of his home, and watch- 37 ing the pendulum of the clock swing back and forth, back and forth as it had for years gone by. The silence was unbroken save by the steady ticking of the clock and the tolling of the town bell, striking the hour of ten. The light from the fire cast flickering shadows on the wall and the Hames were reflected on the clock giving the room a weird aspect. Suddenly as he was watching the pendulum it gave two or three convul- sive jerks and then stopped altogether. He stared at it as though he had seen a miracle. For ten long years this clock had been going steadily, and now without any warning it had stopped! Suddenly recollecting himself he called Sambo, to see if he could throw any light upon the mystery. In answer to his summons a negro appeared in the dim light and bowed low. Do you know what's the matter with this clock ? Mr. White spoke as though a crime had just been committed. f No suh, no suh, denied the negro, But she done bin actin' mighty funny las' two or three days. How's that ? interrogated Mr. White. She jus, seem 'spicious, dat's all. . Well, how P urged Mr. White. Ah dunno zacly, but pears to me like she done watch me all de time. Oh, you're too superstitious, exclaimed Mr. White, exasperated, as he arose from his chair and prepared to go upstairs. Get a man to fix it tomor- row. With this off his mind he went upstairs to bed, having first been to the hiding place of the vase to see that it was alright. He slept soundly until about midnight when suddenly he awoke with a start. He was sure he had 'heard something moving around downstairs. Yes, there it was again, the soft pat of stockinged feet upon the floor! He quickly and noiselessly got out of bed, trembling in every muscle, and cautiously opened the door of Sambo's room. He stepped stealthily across the threshold and approached the bed, awakening Sambo and at the same time putting his hand over the servant's mouth. A few minutes later they crept softly down the stairs, Mr. White clutch- ing a pistol and Sambo a club. They quietly entered the library and stood still listening. They could hear someone breathing in the other end of the room and Mr. White crept forward while, with a quick motion, Sambo switched on the electricity. The light dazzled their eyes for a second but in a moment they saw be- fore them two men and one was carrying the Egyptian vase! With a cry Mr. White dashed after the man who had the vase and who had fled the moment the light was switched on, while Sambo grappled with the other. In a moment the thief had freed himself from Sambo's grasp and had extinguished the light, but in a second Sambo had switched it on again. The man was gone! In a few minutes Mr. White returned, discouraged, as he had lost his man in an alley, and Hung himself into the Morris chair, where he sat for an hour or so thinking over the events of the night. Finally he arose, pushed back the chair and went upstairs. When morning came he was up at his usual hour, and after eating the breakfast Sambo had prepared he took a few minutes of rest in his Morris chair before going to business. He was debating with himself whether to in- form the police about the robbery, or to try to catch the culprits himself, when suddenly he heard a groan! H it 38 Startled he looked around but could sec nothing, and then suddenly he heard the sound again! This time he perceived that it came from the clock. Quickly he hurried out to the kitchen where Sambo was and sent him upstairs to get his pistol. The latter soon returned and together they approached the clock. It must be the man who got away from you, explained Mr. White to the superstitious Sambo, I happened to push this chair against the clock last night and that kept him a prisoner. They now pulled the clock from the wall and confronted the man who was in it. He fell to the floor and they could see an ugly cut across the top of his head where Sambo had evidently hit him. They carried him to the couch and laid him down, and Mr. VVhite went back to the Morris chair to think. After a moment he exclaimed, I have it, Sambo! Go get a man to mend this clock. Sambo hurried out and Mr. X-Vhite got a large piece of canvas and some rope which he had ready by the time Sambo came back. Giving him instructions he climbed into the clock and Sambo wrapped the time piece up, leaving one end of the canvas loose so Mr, White could get out if he wanted to. The men soon arrived with a wagon to take the clock away. They carried it out of the house and lifted it into the wagon. Witli a jerk the horses started and the wagon lumbered along the road. When they began to ascend a hill Mr. White's head was below the level of his feet and he could feel the blood rushing to his brain. This was something he had not counted on, but he was relieved presently by the wagon starting down a grade. In a few minutes it came to a stop. Mr. VVhite crawled out as quickly as he could and hid under the wagon while the men were tying the horse. While the men were carrying the clock into the house, before which the wagon had stopped, he ran towards it and around towards the rear where he mounted a Fire escape and crawled through a window. He found himself in a room, evidently a store-room, which was piled high with chests and rugs. He was just about to examine one of these chests when he heard footsteps on the stairs. Quickly he jumped into a closet and hid behind a box. The Egyptian Vase was at his feet! The man in the room was evidently disturbed because he kept walking back and forth, muttering to himself. Mr. VVhite tried to 'hear what he said, but failed. After a while the man left the room and Mr. White came out of his hid- ing place, clutching the Egyptian Vase, and descended the fire escape. He quickly ran up the street to where a policeman was standing, and explained the matter to him. The policeman and Mr. White then returned to the house and arrested the man. He was Mr. Carter, the dealer in relics! , The next day, in court, Mr. Carter acknowledged his guilt. He said that when he had heard of the Egyptian Vase he sent a man to watch Mr. White's movements, and to locate, if possible, the hiding place of the vase. This had hidden in the clock, and had returned to it when he had seen that escape was impossible, on the night of the robbery. As Mr. White had supposed, Mr. Carter remained near the house,to rescue his accomplice if it were possible and had told Sambo that he would mend the clock, hoping in this way to save the man hidden in it. Mr. Carter was sentenced to a good many years in prison and his term was lengthened when it was discovered that the chests in his room were filled with smuggled goods. 39 As for Mr. White, he returned home with his precious vase and in the morning went to his business as usual. He had learned his lesson and the next day put the Egyptian Vase in the bank. .3 3 J DICK HGUGHTON Saurias--The Autobiography of a Lizard I was hatched of a noble family among my people. My father was a hand- some specimen, and he was known as the best fighter between the acacia tree and the charred fence that divides our hill from the Country of Trees and No Grass. My mother, however, was timid and very swift of foot. Also she had a large mouth which gave her the pleasing grin so much admired among my kind. My infancy and early childhood were spent in frolic and hunting lessons. My first encounter with a grasshopper impressed me greatly. I found him teetering on a grass stem, and seized him by the fatest part of one of his hind legs. He spit and kicked me violently in the eye with his other leg inflicting an injury from which I have never totally recovered. I finally grabbed him in a good place and began to swallow him. He was so big that he made my jaws ache, but I got him down. Soon after this occurred the advent of the humans. They came in an immence black affair that shook the ground and coughed out blue smoke. All of us lizards hid in our holes until all was still. I grew curious and peered out of my hiding place and saw two of the humans close by. They were very queer creatures with no tails, and loose skins that flapped in the wind. They were tremendous, being taller than the fence posts or the milk weed plants and many times bigger around. They came often and at last began to build a huge wooden nest right over my hole, forcing me to change my abode. Homeless I wandered about. I kept on, giving chase to yellow jackets and other large game insects. I found a nice hole near dusk and settled down for the night. This was a pleasant location so I stayed there a second day. That night as I entered my new hole I found it occupied by another. He was a pugnacious fellow who had lost his tail and grown it again three times. He lunged at me, but the hole was a poor place in which to fight. Neither of us could get a grip and the fight ended by each one of us sleeping in opposite parts of the hole. This continued every night. We always fought in about the same place and always retired unconquered. I sometimes met him dur- ing the day, but either he did not recognize me, or I escaped by running awayg for he, being much older than I, would have finished me up in two shakes of m tail. y I went farther and farther from my new home in time. Sometimes I stayed out all night. At length I came back to the human's nest. They were piling stones about the bottom now and sticking them together with gray mud They made this mud in a big square thing and it was very sticky, as I found out when I crawled along the edge of the mixer one day and got my tail caught in it. One of the little humans pulled me out and dumped me into a pail of water where most of the stun? came off though some stayed on and incon- venienced me quite a little till I changed my skin. This little human was very much interested in animals, but very ignorant. She even killed flies and placed them in front of my new hole-I had found a 40 lovely cave in the rocks-How little she knew! To think that I would be a carrion eater-like the ants and the yellow-jackets! She took me inside the nest and put me on a fiat place in the sunlight where I fell asleep. When I awoke she had gone and I began to explore the premises. Very soon I fell off the object I was on kerplunk on to another flat place. It was very strange in their nest. Everything was either perfectly Hat or straight up and down. There were no rocks or grass about, just smooth Hatness. I ran around for quite a while and finally crawled thru a knot hole into a crack between the walls. This made the best home I had yet had and I spent a great deal of time in it, My mistress, I saw often and she was good to me in her way, picking me up and scratching my head and feeding me flies-which I would have pre- ferred to have caught myself. She also made me do many tricks such as crawling along slender stems upside down, and curling my body into queer positions. I grew very thin and weak and crawled into my crack to die but all at once I saw a patch of light ahead of me and, being curious, dragged myself up to it. It proved to be an opening onto the stones. I lay there and seized sev- eral flies as they lighted near. I felt better. I was once more in the land of plenty and throve. I slept in the crack between the walls. Here I spent my first winter. The next spring my mistress brought another lizard to the nest. He was my old acquaintance of my trip to foreign lands-I recognized him by his three tail rings. He took up his abode in my old grotto in the stones and I longed for the time when I would be large enough to fight him. Finally the opportunity came. I met him very abruptly as I was running around the edge of one of those chunks of wood that the humans always keep heaped up by their nest. He did not recognize me. I made straight for him and took him off his guard. My first grip was not strong enough and he shook himself loose and stood glowering at me. The blue bands on his chest showed brightly and his neck scales stood on end. But formidable as he appeared I could see that he was more frightened than anything else. He ran and I chased him, but though I was much swifter than he, he could out-jump me, and leaped up tremendous heights. At last we both fell into one of those im- mense circular things that the humans fill with water and soak their skins in when they shed them. It was very hard and our scales rattled on the bottom. I was delighted. At last I had him cornered. He hissed and sprang at me but I eluded him. Then he got on the side with my bad eye and seized my tail so that it broke oh' short. Maddened by pain and rage-for this is the greatest disgrace that can befall a lizard-I gripped him by the shoulder and hung on tight. He thrashed around but could not shake me off. Then sud- denly a black shadow fell on the floor of the place and after it came a big black creature with large glowing eyes, the stealthiest and most formidable of our enemies. It killed my antagonist with a single blow of its powerful feet. Then it siezed him between its long teeth. Still I held on. What right had this monster to my prey? He was mine. I had fought him fairly. He could eat me too if he wanted to, but the body of the lizard was mine. Then I felt myself and the body of my antagonist wrenched from the creature's jaws and found my mistress prying mine free. She took me into the nest, put me in a dark place so my tail could grow on. But I had conquered the ugly fellow, and I only a young lizard. To this day I feel proud of it- though the black thief did help me out quite a bit. HELEN SHIRAS, 41 5 4. Earl Pearsonl Marion Curtis Alfred Lewis , Bessie Ham Darwin Godfrey Cecil Chamberlain Winnifred Wintler 42 Editor ............. Assistant Editor . . . Editorials STA FF ....................... .-..-..................... Business Managers . . ............... Alfred Lewis Society ..... . . Girls' Athletics . . . Boys' Athletics . . . jokes ..... ....... Freshmen Reporter Sophomore Reporter Junior Reporter ..... Senior Reporter .... ASSOCIATES Bessie Ham . Darwin Godfrey and Earl Pearson. VVinifred Wintler . . . Marion Curtis .. Harris Sproule Cecil Chamberlain . . . . . . . Rachel Riggs 'X JI at .. . . . . Elsie Kraft . . . .Helen Yelland - . .Lynda Roberts We have tried to make this issue of the Wild Cat represent every one of the student body in some way. It would, of course, be impossible to put out a good annual without the co-operation of the students and we feel that we have had this support. The staff has worked ably and well. The assist- ant editor has been invaluable in his work in putting out this issue. At no time has he stopped at the first mile required and often even gone farther than the second. Much credit is due the business managers in the way they have done their part. We also wish to thank the various associates and Miss Evans for their aid which they have so willingly given. The year of 1917 has been a very successful one for the Los Gatos High School. The school has had a larger attendance than ever before. Every seat in the study hall has been taken and some of the seniors have even had to share their desks with the unfortunate post-graduates. The athletic activities of the school have been especially satisfying this year. We feel so proud of the boys, in particular, that we would like to give nine Rahs for each of them right now. VVith very little help the boys have practically coached themselves into fame. People many miles off have ad- mired our teams because of their swiftness, team-work, and, yes, their fair- ness too. The athletic spirit has been awakened among the girls this year, also. They have not been able to accomplish many spectacular feats because most of them are new at the games, but we expect great things from them in the next few years. Too much cannot be said in praise of the teachers. To be sure, they de- mand study and hard workg but after all we come to school to learn, and every student enjoys his recreation all the more when he has the feeling that his work is well done, tucked away in his subconscious mind. So let everyone say, Three cheers for the teacher who understands us and makes us study. .al J .8 What a blessing to the school the A-plus students are! VVhat ever should we do without them? If they should all disappear, we should soon be firmly con- vinced that B was a fine mark and there was no use in working for anything 43 higher. We get rather cross at these scholastic stars sometimes, and think the teachers favor them. We feel as if we should enjoy seeing them get B once in a while just like ordinary mortals. But how they do keep us going to show them that our heads are not entirely empty! They make us realize that A-plus is not above the clouds but right down here where we can all get it if we only want to badly enough. So let us call a blessing upon the heads of the A-plus students and may the time never come when our school is without them. -S .Sl .99 What a terriiic uproar there would be if the entire student-body were to give the school yells at a ball game! How astounded Pat and the team would be! Instead of getting enthusiastic, we are too likely to stand on the side-lines and look picturesque. Lack of enthusiasm and vim never won a game yet and never will as long as the players are human. Let's get out and yell! Schools with teams much inferior to ours give their yells with much more vigor. They yell so loud and long that an outsider would think that we were a glee club singing a lullaby. Why can't we yell for our team, the best team ever? Why can't we yell as if we meant our admiration and appre- ciation? .95 -8 .Sl A quiet study-hall, I think I hear someone say. VVhy that would be impossible! NVe have to enjoy ourselves sometime and we can't do it in re- citation very well. Of course we have to enjoy ourselves sometime, but wouldn't after school be better than in a study period? Yes, the speaker continues, we might as well give the teacher some- thing to do in the study hall, and besides there are so many people in there to see and laugh at our pranks. Teachers generally have enough to do in correcting papers or some- thing of that kind in a study period without doing police work. It is an ad- vantage to us, too, to be quiet. VVe can then get our studying done in school and will not be obliged to carry our books home. If we attend to our work, others will have a chance to study, too. We can enjoy life after school and in the evenings. Yes, but I- Oh say! think of someone else besides yourselig think of the teachers and your neighbor. Give everyone a square deal, showing the same instincts of courtesy in the study-hall that you would in any other public place. 5 al .Al STUDENT BODY The student body consisted of about one hundred and forty members. The officers for 1916-1917 were: President .... .................. . . . Dwight Rugh Vice-President ..,.. ..... - . . . ..... Bessie Ham Secretary .... .. ................. Aurela Bates Treasurer ..... .... ........-....... E d vidge Cerruti NVild Cat Managers . . . .... ..... A lfred Lewis and Earl Pearson XVild Cat Editor . . . ....... .................... B essie Ham 44 Baseball Manager . . . ..... Edward Briggs Track Manager .... Charles Michelson Yell Leader ..... .... C larence Mullen Tennis Manager .... Ethel Colbath Basket Ball Manager ..,.. .. . Ralph Wanzer Girls' Basket Ball Manager . . .... Marion Curtis Girls' Baseball Manager ...... Aurela Bates Dramatic Manager ...... Darwin Godfrey Debating Manager .... . . . Harris Sproule Athletic Manager .... ................................... D wight Rugh Association Reporter .... .............................. - .. Earl Pearson The student body meetings come whenever there are a need of them. The student body as a whole has had a number of functions this year, but of course the majority were social doings among the classes. In connection with the student body is the executive committee, which consists of two members from each class and before which all important matters are put and considered be- fore they go before the student body. BOOSTERS' CLUB The girls, this year, continued the Boosters' Club. They had their first meeting on Friday, October 27, 1916. , At this meeting Bessie Ham was elected president, and Carolyn Hughes, secretary and treasurer. Since then they have had meetings whenever the occasion has demanded it. The club has enter- tained visiting teams and besides numerous other things has given a dinner to the cast of the Misshaps of Minerva. By being organized in this way, the girls can do things far more quickly and efficiently than if they were not banded together. ORCHESTRA The school orchestra played an important part in the life of the school. Es- pecially at commencement time was it important. The arrangement was as follows: First Violins-Rachel Riggs, Winnifred Wintler and George Osmer: Second Violins-Eleanor Ham and Lester Hopping, Cello-Dwight Rughg Cornet-Cyril Verting Flute--Edward Chase. GLEE CLUB The Glee Club was organized again this year and gave much pleasure to us all in a musical way. The membership consisted of a number of both boys and girls who made up a splendid four-part chorus. Also a girls' and boys' Glee Club were worked up separately. 45 ' The Mishaps of Minerva . On the evening of December 22nd an excellent play The Mishaps of Minerva was stage under the efficient coaching of Miss Evans, our English teacher. The play was produced in the new Strand Theater, which added greatly to the enjoyment of the audience. The play portrayed the adventures and trials of a young society girl. She finally becomes tired of endless receptions, and social functions, and of her independent life. She becomes engaged to a rising young doctor and accepts a more quiet and domestic life. Marion Curtis took the lead excellently as Miss Minerva Ster- ling. She acted the part of a very energetic young lady who was fairly wearing herself out in var- ious kinds of club activities. In the first act of the play she was a reception to a certain honor of a celebrity-Mrs. Van Deusen Spuyker. Her acting was good all the way thru. Rugh as Victor Brown the young doctor acted his part admirably. I-le won the sympathy and good will of the audience from the very start in his efforts to con- vince Minerva that she was not getting as much out of life as she might be. Leslie Freudenthal as Mike Shannon the policeman quite took everyone by storm. He was every inchacomedian and caused much laughter with his amusing speeches Elizabeth Hobbie and Carl VVoodworth as the maid and butler added the needed finishing touch to the play. 1 Altho the play was O. K. as far as its producers were responsible, it was not a grand financial success owing to its nearness to Christmas and a very stormy evening. The cast was as fol- lows: Victor Brown-a young doctor: Dwight Rughg Min- erva Sterling-a society girl: Marion Curtisg Clara Ster- ling-her sister: Margaret Batesg Harry Stevenson-a club reporter: Darwin Godfreyg Mr, Sterling-a business man: W'm. Mooreg Mrs. Sterling --Minerva's mother: Mary Corbusg Mike Shannon--a new policeman: Leslie Freudenthalg Molly-the maid: Elizabeth Hobby: Belle Brantly-a reporter for the Screamer : Virna Hooton: Miss Palmer-a philanthropic worker: Eleanor Hamg Mrs. Wright-a society woman: Margaret Oweng Barnes- the butler: Carl Vifooddorth: Mrs. Jennie Van Deusen Spuyker. 'Bulbul' Bulbul, a very successful comic op- was staged by an all star High School of about forty members, in Ford's Op- House on April the twentieth. The scen- and costuming was very elaborate, the scenes being laid in the ball room and gar- den of a palace. The costuming was a mix- ture of oriental and colonial styles. Much of the credit for the efficient and finished n of the operetta was due to the coaching of Mr. Jeffers, assisted by Prof. and Mrs. XValton, and Miss Chapman. The leads in the operetta as portrayed in the accompanying photograph are as follows-left to right: Alain-friend to prince-Alfred Lewisg Dosay-attendant to king-Edwin Roberts: Caspian Prince-Dwight Rughg Iamit King-Seymour Robertsg Justo-attendant of king-Philo Beachg Lilla-friend of princess-Elinor Topping: Bulbul-prin- cess-Winnifrecl VVintlerg Ida-court chaperon-Marion Curtis. 47 S QJHI FRESHMAN RECEPTION The first social recognition the Freshmen received this year was a recep- tion given in their honor by the student body. As the weather was delightful, a part of the evening was spent on the campus around a great bonfire. Games were enjoyed for some time, when everyone adjourned to the assembly hall for ths program. This consisted of a stunt from each class among various other things. The stunts were amusing surprises to every one as each class had kept theirs a most profound secret. The evening was concluded with de- licious refreshments and the Freshmen went home feeling that perhaps the upper classmen did love them a little after all. HIKES As the weather has been so fine and the mountains so beautiful, hikes have been the favorite diversions of the classes this year. One Friday night in October the Seniors hiked to the Alma Soda Springs and enjoyed a delicious picnic supper around a bonfire. They sang and played games for a little time and then came home in the lovely moonlight. On Friday, February the ninth, the Seniors hiked to Cypress Ranch where they found a large bonfire awaiting them. They prepared a delicious supper and ably amused themselves until the moon came up. Then they hiked back again, everyone having had a glorious time. In Gctober the Freshmen hiked to Happy land. When they got there a huge bonfire was lighted and a hot supper was joyously received by the children. After amusing themselves in a more or less dignified manner until nine o'clock, they returned home, all having had a splendid time. On March the sixteenth the Juniors and Sophomores hiked to Cypress Ranch. They arrived there about 6 o'clock and after spending the evening very happily, they returned home tired but happy. PARTIES AND DINNERS , In January, the Sophomores had a class party in the school building. A good number were present and everyone enjoyed the games. At a late hour delicious refreshments were served and the Sophomores all voted that they had had a splendid time. In December the juniors and Sophomores enjoyed a party in the gymnas- ium of the Methodist church. Delightful games were played and dainty refresh- ments served. The party was voted a success by all present. Early in january the Boosters' Club gave a dinner to the cast of the Mishaps of Minerva. The table decorations were pink and a five course dinner was very daintily served. The cast enjoyed it immensely and sent a vote of thanks to the Boosters' Club. 48 Isa iiiliii! EEEEIV 'EEE M.TATE SEEN NN 1 ' N g 1 E q f Q4 ' Q, u 'f51'1', X xx , 'QE5 ff I f Q: i ETOPPIHG Bulb Bbfffllllll Mullen SPIVIIIO Winsor 50 Helen Yelland Stella AIIQIIIDIOIS nvmgeun. suck Mufion om-un F-Om Mmm Gladys Wurz 51 Boys' Basket Ball Basket ball started with a rush, as there were three gaps in the team to fill. Those of center and both guards. All the fellows worked their heads off for these positions. The season started with a double I. A. U. schedule and the team lined up as follows: Wanzer and Sproule, forwards 5 Curtis, center, and Rugh and Berryman, guards. Sproule was put out of running early in the season by a dislocated shoulder, and Briggs stepped in for a forward's berth. The team remained intact the rest of the season with the addition of Mullen and Feathers as subs. We won the I. A. U. League of eight games straight, losing to no one. As the season advanced, Mullen pressed Berryman closely for his position, but Freddie hung on like grim death. The C. I. F. schedule was won by San Mateo as usual, Los Gatos getting third place. Curtis lead in the number of field goals, and had a wonderful knack of dribbling the length of the court and dropping the ball in the basket. Wanzer played his usual steady game, and dropped in his usual number of long shots, making the people on the side lines gasp for joy. Little Eddie Briggs shot all the free throws and was all there. In one game he converted fourteen out of sixteen chances, gratis. Fred Berdyman played a bang up guard game, smearing 'his man at will. In the Mt. View game he made fourteen points, more than any forward. His weight heiped him a great deal, and he played goal guard letting Rugh do the foot work, race horse and octopus. Although always smaller than his man, he made many huge forwards look foolish. He was good at dribbling and his pass- es were pretty to look upon. Mullen who was first sub showed up Very well for a Freshman, and made Berryman hustle for his job. His work in the Santa Clara Prep. game was commendable, as he actually had his forward at his mercy. Feathers was second sub and forward. He played a heady game, but was a little light for the position. He played his best in the second Santa Clara Prep. game. On the whole the season was very satisfying, as we won the I. A. U. Championship, and were runners up in the C. I. F. What the team did was without the aid of any coach, and was done by the co-operation of the fellows themselves. Girls' Basket Ball Our girls' basket ball team had a very successful season. Not successful, perhaps, from the standpoint of having won a large percentage of games, but from the point of view of putting up a hard and game fight in the face of dif- ficulties. .............. . . Our team was imemnsely handicapped in that the teams, which it op- posed were made up of individuals who in almost every instance were taller than the members of our six. The line up for the past season was: Goals, Evangeline Glick, Marion Curtisg centers, Gladys Wurz, Helen Yellandg guards, Roma Macabee, Stella Allampressg subs., Ethel Wyant, Crystal Mason. The following games were played and won by the team mentioned first: San Jose vs. Los Gatos Q2 gamesjg Los Gatos vs. Campbell, San Mateo vs. Los Gatos C2 gamesjg Los Gatos vs. Redwood City C2 gamesj. 52 Tennis Q We did not enter league in tennis year, but, never- theless, we played several tournaments San jose, which to be both and full- pep The first ent was in San Jose we were defeat- However the de- was excusable it was our first of games with an school. Later Jose came here although we again defeated, showing was much better. Girls' Baseball This last year was the Hrst time that our girls. have played baseball. They have practised a great deal and made several creditable showings with other schools who have been playing the game much longer. VVe have great hopes for the team for next year. Those who made up the team were Maf1On Curtis, Helen Yelland, Crys- tal Mason, Evange 'lime Glick, sfeua A1- lampress, C G l a d y s Wurz, Ethel Col- bath, Margaret Bates, Aurela Bates, Rachel Riggs, Ma- bel Berry, Elizabeth Cameron and Lillian roxell. 53 I I P r r I I 5 r Boys' Base Ball When base ball started every one was worn out from so strenuous a basket ball season, and things at first moved slowly. Wanzer was elected captain and the work began. Many new faces were seen in the line up. Curtis cinched the catcher's job, as Mickelson was not attending school. Rauch, last year's second string man, developed speed, control and curves, and secured the position of first pitcher. Wanzer holds down first base and is very steady player, also a good batter. His batting average increasing perceptibly since last year. Second base was between three men, Berryman, Lewis and Rugh. As it stands Rugh holds the advantage as his last year's experience goes a long way. Mgr. Briggs cavorts on short and is sure a demon for gobbling grass cutters. His batting has also improved since last year. Mullen, as yet, gets the honor of guarding third base, but a bad ankle may prevent his playing. In the out field are Beach, Lasley and Sproule. The latter corners his old position in right and is put second in the batting order to Get his man down. Lasley plays center, he has shown a weakness with the willow which he must overcomeg his fielding is O. K. Beach plays left and is probably a cinch for that position. Roberts and Whitehill are subs. and will probably break into the game as regulars later on. Cur first game was with Mt. View on our diamond. That school at- tended in force, and sought to rattle Rauch by jeering at him. But they made about as much impression on him as a mosquito does in eating a marshmellow in a foundry. We won by the score of nine to four. , The second game was lost to Campbell by the score of five to three, due to the erratic off day of Mullen and Sproule. The latter playing hand ball with a pepper tree in the out field, and the former allowing an easy out to roll through his hands. The third game was won from Santa Clara High, score thirteen to seven. Briggs pitched a heady game, and the fellows chased three of Santa Clara's moundsmen to the showers. As this is Santa Clara's first year at base ball there is some excuse for her showing. As this goes to press the team is going to play Santa Clara University Preps., and we expect a victorious outcome. We hope to retrieve our laurels lost to Campbell in the next game at home, and are sure we can. Raz em. 55 Track As yet track has not started except for some of the weight men and a couple of fellows who intend interesting the AC. I. F. meet at Stanford, April 14th. Feathers and Sproule are entered in the meet and surely ought to place. t. Darlingisthe Los Gatos won the I. A. U. meet last year, and' should repea only man out of the fold, and with many new fellows we should cop the rag again. 1 Roach and Mullen 'fa J Rugh and Roberts i . A Q t 5 ,Q 1' 5 sa ,A Curtis Ag ' , ' .. n l V Wanzer and Sproule Briggs and Chamberlain 56 -zz r Mimfe' ii . , 41 W 'rv Q' i S ' 1'Q f 4 15055 -'., A c y . - ' -2 tiff 1 nil, lb 09' 4 .,,,fv ,, , nl A Il. Our list of Exchanges was very small this year. VVe are going to send out a large number of exchange copies this year in order that we will have a large number of exchanges next year. The students are interested in exchanges and would enjoy receiving a larger number. The exchanges on hand are: Quad, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Blue and Gray, Mountain View High School. Madrone, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto. San Mateo Weekly, San Mateo High School, San Mateo. 57 . 1 , Y 'A X - -- . . I 1 . A l 1'-. ,fx l i I 1 f si ' 1 1 1 I g l ' IQ., ,E X f ,jj 15 X' 'Kg' L ,5: 1 jk? li Q f,1'i 1' l .giggle ' A 553:15-,:A.l.'I'f J l ' wt. A - -I NX As the years roll by, more and more names are added to the Alumni. Each new commencement brings a class to say farewell to the Los Gatos High School for ever and these, in the future are known only as the Alumni. The list of the Alumni from the year '96 was in the Wild Cat of 1914 and so this year we will only give the graduates of 1915, 1916, 1917 and the present occupations of the last. Class of 1.915 Lawrence Hansen Ruth Littlepage Frances Briggs Mary Yocco Cecil Dickinson Eva Lynn Wallace Martin LeFevre Mabel Sheffield fnee Singerj Myrtle Lathrop Elizabeth Campbell jean Lord Grace Conklin Ione Angwin Pauline Fowler Dorothy Dixon Marion Osmer Ruth Neyman Gregory Rice Class of 1916 Harry Davis, Alice Yelland, and Faith Williams are attending the Uni- versity of California. Ruth Rigby, Anna Lupton, Mary Berry, Homer McClellan and Flora Carmichael are attending San Jose Normal. Eldred Coats, Harold Troxell, Edith Troxell and Virgil Rice are attend- ing the College of the Pacific. Elmer Hardies and Edward Lupton are attending Stanford. Elva Lupton and Ruby Thompson are in training for a nurse. Florence Noddin and Harry Gertridge are living in Los Gatos. Frank Scott is residing in his home town in Kansas. Bessie Osmer is residing at her home at Alma. Laura Hamilton is a cashier at Templeman's Hardware store. Eloise Bouton is cashier at the Strand Theatre. Zola Hopping is assistant in Dr. Newbre's dentist office. Helen Mansell is doing post-graduate work in the L. G. H. S. Flora Carmichael is attending San Jose Normal. Ruth Alexander is living in Stockton. George Soule is working for tae Sperry Flour Co., in Oakland. 2 d First student- What time is it ? Second student- I don't know. First- I see a fob hanging out of your pocket. Second- Well! if you saw a halter hanging out of my pocket, you wouldn't think I had a horse in there, would you P 5 el ,AU Ralph VV. appears with one of the seams in his baseball cap ripped open. Campbell youth, Say, have you got any more corners on your head like the one that ripped your cap? .Al .8 9' Chemistry student treading directionj, Add a few small pieces of cal- cium chloride, 'then agitate'-1 have looked on every shelf and can't find agitatef' ' .er ,sl .x Q Little Freshie- VV hy is it that Ralph Wanzer is always such a star in athletics ? Wise Senior :- Oh, first he had Faith and now he has Yellin' fYellandj. .N 8 JU Inquisitive classmate to H. B. S. :- Say, did you say Edith CFoxj Trotswell ? I Q H. B. S. :- Oh no! She's a minister's daughter. .8 J J Instructor :- Why is it that once in four years we have leap year? , I Ng B. :- Why, don't you know? To give us girls a chance-what else P 59' DON'T READ THIS, GIRLS . She said, We fell in love at sightg I met him on the street: His eyes were large and soft and bright, His manner was so sweet. He looked so strong and clashing, too, VVith such a noble air, His clear gaze said his heart was true, And oh, his lovely hair! His step was light, ah! you'd adore The grace in every limb. And, though we ne'er had met before, I-yes, I spoke to him. I put my arms around his neck And drew him close to me: And not an atom did we reck, That all the town could see. Such love how few can understand! He nestled closer up And wagged his tail and kissed my hand- That precious Collie pup. -Exchange. B Natural IS THE KEYNOTE TO GOOD MANNERS! Be Cleaned and Tailored at Fords' IS THE KEYNOTE TO SATISFACTION! dl .95 3 FO RD BROS. Plume H I 33 Santa Crua Ave., Los Gatos, Cal 60 QUESTIONS FRESHMEN ASK How long did the Thirty Years' VVar last? NVho wrote Gray's Elegy ? When was the INar of 1812? On what date does the Fourth of july fall this year? How was the One Hoss Shay propelled? How often do we pay our semester dues? -Exchange Z4 255 .23 Teacher-Hugh, bring me that gum this minute. Hugh-just a minute-I'll get you a fresh stick. -Exchange .3 5 .23 I.XV.W'.-I want land reform g I want religions reform : I want educational reforing I want- High school Audience-Chloroform. -Exchange el Q99 -3 First Freshman 1- Aw, shut up Y Second Freshman 1- You are the biggest dunce in school. Teacher Cangrilyl :- Boys! Don't forget that I'm here. -Exchange J N -.99 First Girl-How do you like my new dress? Second Girl-Fine: I had one when they were in style. -Exchange '3 J' I Teacher--What is steam? I Pupil-Steam is water gone crazy with the heat.-Exchange. J Q3 J' Do you stutter all the time? No, only when I talk.-Exchange. - I 1 : 1- -L 1 1 BASTIAN BROS. Engravers i ROCHESTER, N. Y. We Specialize in Wedding Announcements, Menus and invitations. 61' Heard at Palo Alto game :--QPaly subfp My but the Los Gatos fellows make fine windows. ' L. F. :- That's because you give us such. a big pane Cpainjf' -3 tb' 5 , . Overheard in Chemistry :- Can't I have a new piece of wire gauze, Mr. Philipps? This one is full of holes. vb' .95 .95 Irwin F.- VVhe1'e's that thistle tube, Carl ? Carl H. flooking in lower drawerj- Dunno, aint here. I guess you'd better look in the upper story. el -3 V95 Helen S. VVhat's the matter, Arthur, have you got nervous prostration ? Arthur A. ftrying to catch Hiesj- No, just St. Vitus turkey trot. al .al ,SI First Pupil :- Have you got any famous ancestors? Second Pupil :- Sure, Adam and Eve. .97 .3 V35 Mr. Phillips Qin Chemistryj :- As a matter of fact, we will spend several days in dying fdyeingjf' 5 .H .gl Mr. Walton :- I think it would be a good idea for the student body to have a stuffed wild cat for a mascot. Charlie Nl.:- VVe did have one but it died. J' .Al -85 Alfred L, Cin Geomjj- If two things are equal to a third thing they are equal to themselves. Is the latest creation in your men s clothing two or three styles all in one suit different from any passing and ask to see a Kombo BILLY HOBSON 24 south First st san Jose Cal thing you have ever seen. Drop in when you are 62. Oh! To be a Freshie, now that Springtime is here. Suspense A Catastrophe Aren 't We Picturesque Peaceful Noon ln Oroville 1 Studying Rah!.For Girls Athletics In Action 63 Chocolate Shop Try our full Cream Caramels-they are delicious. Salted nuts of all kinds. Our nut taffies are up-to-date. Qur candies, ice cream, ices and other refreshments are made on the premises-fresh and from the best materials. We prepare punches, ice creams, ices and other refreshments for home and other entertainments. Phone 105 10 Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, Cal. Thelma S.- Pat never takes his eyes oi? his books in the study period. Ethel C.- How do you know ? .95 tbl JF lNanted!!-by A. Lewis, a patent device for canceling eighth periods. H .59 .JF E. P. Qin General Sciencej- Mr. Phillips, do they use search lights at the observatories to throw light on the stars ? 8 .8 .3 Miss Day :- XVhat was that buzzing there in the corner, Florence P Harris S. :-4'Maybe she's got a bee in her bonnet. .3 H .3 Miss Evans Cin Englishl :- Don't get your compositions out of anything. Get them out of your heads. .23 3 6' Miss Evans fEnglishj 1- Elizabeth, when was the golden age ? Elizabeth H. :-- ln 1849 I guess. All Wool Blue Serge Suits fa or mixed novelty weaves in Pinch Back Styles at 317.00 full: Sold at 525.00 in other makes: or let us tailor you a suit to Jrder by the largest and best tailors in America, Ed V. Q Nfl' ll H' Price or Royal Tailors. 5 lux L X llii 318.00 up w U I liix 0 A CfldEl',S i Department Store yi . i in Los Gatos Main St. 54' 64 WANTED :-By Freshmen Class President: Ten baby carriages, small size.-Ex. JJ! J - At a village meeting at which village improvements were being discussed an old German arose and made the following brilliant remark: Ach, mein fellow Germans, why can't we do somedings? just look at those Irishment in Doonsville, how they have a cement sidewalk! Ach, let us put our heads together unt make a block pavement. -Ex. dl dl .al Lives of editors oft remind us That their lives are not sublime: For they have to work like thunder, To get their paper out on time.-Ex. CEd.-There never was a truer statement madej They're Here! Young Men's Suits SHOVVING NEVV STYLES IN ENGLISH MODELS AND PINCH BACKS-SO ADMIRABLY SUITED TO THE YOUNG MAN OFTODAY. , K QUALITY FABRICS IN PLAIN AND FANCY PAT- TERNS, 315.00 to s3s.oo. A BLUE SERGE FOR EASTER You Should See the Q , Snappy Ties and Shim S l'lH S IHC that are 0 arriving daily Home of HART, SCHAFFNER 81 MARX 65 The Bank of Los Gatos I Incorporated 1883 CAPITAL and SURPLUS ...S100,000 TOTAL RESOURCES ....... 900,000 ' l Capital and Surplus .lrico e5d-j1vl.:eh 1tCL marof Students, as well as all others, are assured of individual service and protection at this bank. The world is old and likes to laughg New jokes are hard to find. A whole new editorial staff Can tickle every mind. So if you find an ancient joke. Decked out in modern guise, Don't frown and call the thing a poke. just laugh 3 don't be too wise. -Exchange. ,Bl M4 .5 Teacher-Before we begin the recitation, has anyone a question to ask? Pupil-Yesg where is the lesson ?--Exchange. vb' 5 .Al Teacher-What is a chafing dish? Pupil-A chafing dish is a frying pan thats got into society.--Exchange. Smart Clothes at a P rice You young fellows should know that we have the newest models and the latest patterns at SEl5.00, 951750, 320.00 Th Model Corner First and San Fernando SAN JQSE, CAL. YE SWEET SHOP C. H. LOGUS We carry a fine line of candies e Ice Cream, Sodas, Luncheons ' ' Call and see 'our place, the most beautiful in the Santa Clara Valley. GOODYEAR Strand Theater Block, Los Gatos Shoe Repairing Machine 66 Take your Elms to THE CITY MARKET CRALLS Robers 84 Springer Our Meats are of the best STORE Ye Pastrie Shoppe to be finished PHONE YOUR ORDER DEVELOPING FREE for home-made Cakes, Pies, Dough- nuts and Salads to A complete line of Photo Supplies Phone 119 LOS GATOS Sporting Headquarters Camp Utensils, Hunting Knives, Guns and Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, Ten- nis Goods, Baseball Goods, Spaulding, Wright, and Diston Sz Goldsmith Agencies. ALWAYS RELIABLE, A. W. TEMPLEMAN Santa Cruz Avenue PHONE 77 DRUGS PHOTO SUPPLIES When your shoes need repairing, or you need a new pair, go to A reen , East End of Bndgef LOS Gatos Latest Electric Shoe Machinery Phone L05 Gatos 9 Marshall Block, Santa Cruz Ave. 12 Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, Cal. A good and clean place to eat-All Home Cooking. Home-made Pies and Park Cafe Cakes. Doughnuts 20c per doz. Mexican home-made Tamales. Captain Nelson and Mrs. Alice Swindler, Props. Come in and visit our Athletic Goods De- W R partemnt. Everything for the Athlete. Boschken Hardware Co. R X3 San Jose's Leading Sporting Goods House 825.00 and the name A Angevine Will give you the best suit of clothes in San Jose for the money. 67-69 South Second Street 87 Here We Are Again! Wanzer Flying The Study Hall Sproule in Action Noon Tlme The Unlprit Three Cheers for the Park Camping-7 za.. m. 68 VVULZEN'S DRUGS-STATIONERY-PHOTO SUPPLIES ICE CREAM and CANDIES FREE DELIVERY PHONE 90 Gas Given Phone Los Gatos 5 R. B. Newbre DENTIST Rooms 1-2-3-4 La Canada Bldg. Los Gatos, Cal. Phone San Jose 1692 GOOD HOME COOKING Royal Cafeteria A 79-81 S. First Street, San Jose, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. H. Thompson, Mgrs. Meals:-11 to 25 5 to 7:30 p. m. DIAMONDS SILVERWARE O Frank E. Smith, Inc. J E w E L E R s 92 So. First Street, San Jose, Cal. CUT GLASS CLASS PINS Mr. Phillips fin Chem.j- Arsenic is poison, and is used in dyfejing. Miss Day fin Hist. 1111- Lynda, what does the fish and game warden do? Lynda R.- Oh-he's the one who goes around catching people who shoot the fishes. .3 V93 .Al FOOLISH QUESTIONS NO. 131313131313. George M. fLatinj- Don't we get our marks raised on account of the war? Everything else is going up. .9 .Bl .X Teacher fgrasping Freshman by the collarj-- Young man, I believe Satan has got a hold on you. Freshman.- I believe so too. .bl 8 3 Have you ever heard Al Gebre sing, Every little factor has an exponent of its own ? 69 Graduation Gifts You can always find a large selection of thebest quality of Jewelry and Silverware at Geo. W. Ryder Se Son 8 South First St. SAN JOSE, CAL: illamnlln . Grill LEADING RESTAURANT Phone S. J. 403 Meals at all hours 36-38 North First St. SAN JOSE, CAL. The Wonder for Nlilli er Phone Red 5561 108-110 S. First Street, San Jose, Cal. Lecturer- Boys are less vain, as a rule, than girls. For instance the best-looking boy in this audience has his collar twisted. Every boy in the room at once ielt his collar.-Exchange. C. S. GILMORE Watches, Clocks, jewelry Don't neglect your watch, if it does FIRST CLASS not suit you bring it to me, I will BARBER SHOP put it in o good condition for time Gigars and Tobacco keeping-it pays. hast Mam St' L05 Gatos Cor, Main 8: University, Los Gatos Dr. R. I'I. Irons D E N T I S T Montezuma Block Los Gatos Ex l ' G cl ' S l c uslve ra uatlon ty es HALF RATES OFFICIAL TO STUDENTS W E 41 North First st., SAN Jose, CAL. 70 YOUR DEPOSIT if kept in a NATIONAL bank is under the supervision of the United States Government LOS GP-TOS mar NMEANK CALIFORNIA MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION F. VV. THACKERAY E. L. CLARK Thackeray 84 Clark . . . . . . . . . . . Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . Phone Los Gatos 17 23 Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, Cal. Laugh and the teacher laughs with you, Laugh again and you laugh alone, The HI'St,S the teacher's joke, The seconcl's your Own.-Exchange. b los Gatos leIephoneCo. , Serving over 650 subscribers ARE YOU ONE? MEET ME AT Owned by local capital FOR DELICIOUS ICE XVI: are growing every day. CREAM and CANDIES SERVICE FIRST I Any Flies In Your Soup? VVOn't be if you cook it on a Danglcr Oil Stove-VVon't have time to get in. Nuss 8I Hays Hardware Co. Phone 35. Los Gatos Agency. 71 Geo. P. Rasmussen THE LEADING STATIONER ' 28 Main Street : : : . : : : : LOS GATOS, CAL. The Colroed Woman fvas once the champion of the washtub Modern system has taken the starch out of her supremacy. We are supreme in the Loundry business. If a fabric is in good condition. we return it looking like new. ASK FOR PRICES l0S GAWS MUNDRY H. S. Beckwith Distributor of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Crockery and Agate VVare. Phone 27Y No. 9 Santa Cruz Ave.. Los Gatos, Cal. an-fi. R. U. HUNGRY?-lf so visit the me L RESTAURANT MRS. H. I.. COLBATH : : z : Next to Bank of Los Gatos I- G A S I C Strand Barber Shop os 0. The only legitimate Union Shop. W N Look for the Union Shop Card. It LHA5- L- NICHG-I-Sv PFOP- gives sanitation and protection from Q Plume -nf contagion. Electric Massage. Next 165 53mg Cr'-'Z Ave-v L05 Gams- to Strand Theater. M. H. DICK. H. G. SHIRLEY Fresh, Salt Meats, Fish. Game, Poultry, Ham, Bacon ancl Lard WE SLAUGHTER OUR OWN MEATS Phone Los Gatos 8 Santa Cruz Ave., LOS GATOS. Ripken's Home Bakery y FRESH BREAD and PASTRY Try us once and you will come again. Phone 160. Main St., Los Gatos, Cal. 72 -21 1515? .- 5 524 1 Q.,-'QL-EE. ci-A -'M . ni. . A , 1'--4. 5, . Y , 3 .ii 'Sf 1 , 21, S J. X . iff'-13 ,F L ja, ' . -'lifg 'iffy 5 5 gl.-7 I W .,-:ws 2 Phan. .44--f 4 B+- . - .rg I. h I L,