Martin Boots Junior High School - Sketch Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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THE SKETCI-I 41 It was raining . . . of an interesting Krazy Kangaroos the 8A class of Martin Boots were trying to think contest to while away an idle hour. Suddenly Ralph Snyder shouted, Let,s have that contest called the Krazy Kangaroos! How do you play it? Donna Heil wanted to know. Why, Ralph replied, you just take 2 words that are always associated with each and separate them. For example, the words 'home run.' Separate them, add a few words, and you wouild have, Did you ever see a home run? The whole class shouted agreement, and the contest got under way. We shall look in and see how it's progressing. Ah! Mark Hinkle is in the lead!! He has: 1. Did you 2 3. Did you 4. Did you S. Did you ever see a cat fish? Did you ever see a day dream? ever see a horse fly? ever see butter fly? ever run up a bill? Elizabeth Masterson with this S is not far behind. 1. Did you 2. Did you 3. Did you 4. Did you S. Did you Richard Thomas very cleverly adds ever hear night fall? ever eat the dates of a ever hear a tree bark? ever see a board walk? ever see a sound wave? calendar? his share to the rapidly growing list. Among them we find: 1. Did you 2. Did you 3. you! 1. Did you 2. Did you 3. Did you 4. Did you S. Did you 6. Did you 7. Did you Here comes 1. Did you 2. Did you 3. Did you 4. Did you S. Did your 6. Did you 7. Did you 8. Did you see a cow hide? see a board fence? see the fire truck? slowly but surely draws ahead with: see a house fly? see a chimney smoke? hear a bugle call? see a cake walk? see a wall flower? see a dog fish? ever hear your eye ball Cbawlj? CVCI' EVCI' CVCI' Margaret Henry ever ever ever ever ever ever John Simons into lead position with: see a rubber band? see power plant? see a window's sash? hear your powder puff? a basket ball? a fox trot? a finger nail? a candle stick? CVCI' CVCI' CVCI' CVCI' CVCI' CVC! CVCI' SCC SCC see CVCI' SCC The contest is over!!! May we congratulate John Simons, the winner!!

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40 THE SKETCH A I sneezea' a sneeze into the air, It fell to earih I knew not where, But hard ami cold were the looks of ihose In whose vicinity I snoze. ' -SCHOLASTIC Wlaen the donkey saw the zebra He hegran to switch his tail, Well, I never, was his comment There's a mule thai's been in jail. --THE HORSE Lovisn Miss Sills: As you walk out on a cold winter day and look around, what do you see on every hand? Joe Wolf: Gloves. Miss Jones: Why doesn't hydrogen burn above the stratospheric line? Helen Joan Williamson: Because there is nobody up there to light a match. FROSH VOCABULARY 1. Unaware-the last thing you take off at night. 2. Dust--mud with the juice squeezed out. 3. Ping Pong-a city in China. 4. Symbolize-plain, ordinary lies. 5. Candid Camera-a sweetened camera. 6. Goblet-a baby turkey. 7. Blood Vessel-a pirate ship. 8. Harp-a piano without keys, top, sides, or legs. 9. Champion--sparkling wine. 10. Ivory-something soap is made of. 11. Phoenicians-modernistic blinds. 12. Eloquence-large mammals with big trunks in the front. Miss French: When was Rome built? Audrey Moore: At night? Miss French: Who told you? Audrey Moore: You did. You said Rome wasn't built in a day. Wayne Smith: Which is correct, Bill or William? Miss Owens: Why William, of course. Wayne Smith: Sounds kind of funny to say, 'There goes a duck with mud on his William,.', Janet Turner had just finished reading Edward Everett I-Iale's book, The Man Without a Country, and as she laid it down she sighed and said: I can't imagine anything worse than a man without a country! Oh, I can, said her friend, john Ehret. Why, what? asked Janet. A country without a man. was John's reply. u

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42 THE SKETCH Queer Ducks When the Empress Josephine was informed that a woman she detested would, on a certain occasion, wear a dress of deep green, she had her drawing room hastily redecorated at a great cost-wallpaper, furniture coverings, and rugs-in a shade of blue that would make the green dress appear glaring and vulgar. The artist Whisler gratified a grudge against his Venetian landlady by angling for her goldfish, placed temptingly on a ledge beneath his window sill. He caught them, fried them and dropped them dexterously back into their bowl. A society editor being refused a guest list by a haughty lady, retaliated by describing her, year after year, at luincheons, teas, the operas and races as wearing the same lavender dress and picture hat she had worn at the time of the fatal interview. -Reader's Digest John Browning, a stone carver of Potter Hill, Rhode Island, has fashioned out of granite, life-sized statutes of the girls with whom he has had romances, and placed them in a cemetery lot. When her lover, the poet William Congreve, died, Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, had a life-sized effigy made exactly to resemble him and dressed as in life. This image sat opposite her at table and she talked to it by the hour. At regular intervals the king's doctor examined the feet for traces of gout, Congreve's old complaint. John D. Rockefeller borrowed a dime from his secretary one day to pay his bus fare home from his office. Be sure to remind me of this transaction, he said. Oh that's nothing, Mr. Rockefeller, replied the secretary. Nothing!,' exclaimed Rockefeller, why that's a whole year's interest on a dollar. Dr. Bruce Bruce Porter, famous English surgeon, once found a slowly dying girl reading a newspaper serial in which the heroine suffered from the disease she had. Hurrying to the author, he was told that the character died in the last installment. Dr. Bruce-Porter persuaded the writer to change the ending-and the serial's heroine and his patient both lived. Noel Coward recently telephoned Western Union a mildly humorous first night telegram for Gertrude Lawrence, a part of the fun being the sig- nature of Mayor LaGuardia. I'm sorry Western Union told him, but you're not allowed to sign a telegram that way. All right, said Mr. Coward, just sign it Noel Coward. Oh, that's just as bad, she said. But I am Mr. Coward, he said. In that case said the young lady, you can sign it Mayor La Guardia.