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

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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.

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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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THE SKETCH 43 Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal, once decided a dispute between two brothers about an inheritance of land in South Africa thus- Let one brother divide the land and let the other have first choice. When Raphael called on a friend and found him out he left neither his name nor a card but instead drew a circle on a piece of paper. His friends knew that only Raphael could draw a perfect circle free hand. John Grimshaw Wilkinson, blind botanist, lost his sight when he was 23, but he learned to distinguish flowers by touching them with the tip of his tongue. He could name instantly each of 5,000 specimens. Wfilliam Hickling Prescott, American man of letters, had his tailor mark his clothes with the exact number of ounces each garment weighed. When he awoke each morning, he asked what the temperature was, and dressed accordingly. Napoleon felt comfortable only in clothes that were too big for him. Marie Antoinette made popular a headdress so towering that doorways had to be made higher and ladies could no longer sit in their carriages, but had to travel kneeling on the floor. William Wilke, the Scottish Homer, wore as many clothes as he could hang on his frame and slept with a dozen blankets on his bed. Mark Twain despised pajamas and always wore a long nightgown. Anita Lourise is left-handed in everything she does except write her name. Mrs. Mattie Payne Blank, widow of a California physician, has driven her car across the continent several times accompanied by a dummy she has named Colonel Pottersby. The Colonel, which she created out of a laundry bag, a Hallowe'en mask, a hat and suit, has proved to be a perfect protec- tion against hitchhikers and suspicious characters. In an Ohio town is a colored man whose last name is Washington. Wash- ington is blessed with 3 sons. When the first son arrived, the father named him George Washington. A second son naturally was called Booker Washington. The third son, if he lives, will go through life as Spokane Washington.