McKinley Junior High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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L 1 YTYTYIYYWWVYYVYVY Punctuation Punctuation is very necessary, but many .people do not think so. You can tell that by listening to them read, or by reading their let- ters or themes. A sentence can have more than one meaningg all you -need to change is the punctuation. Probably the story of Mrs. Fiske and Miss Anglin ftwo of America's greatest actressesl can show you this. Mrs. Fiske went to call upon Miss Anglin, but found her out. So she left a note, which read, Mrs, Fiske says Miss Anglin is America's greatest actress. When Miss Anglin came back, she found the note, read it, then changed the punctuation, and sent it back to Mrs. Fiske as a com- pliment. This is how she changed it: Mrs Fiske, says Miss Anglin, is America's greatest actress. There is another story about two men who had a quarrel. One man called the other a liar. The insulted man said the offender ought to apologize for calling him that in public. After thinking it over, the man asked, How shall I apologize? Put it in the paper like this, said the so-called liar, I called you a liar, it is true, and I am sorry for it. The man agreed tol put it in just those words, but he punctuated it differently, so that it read thus: I called you a liar. It is true, and I am sorry for it. In all themes and letters you should be very careful in your punctu- ation, because punctuation comes next in importance to the correct spelling of words.--Compiled by Elma Hedberg, A8. The Story of My Life I fBy Math E. Maticsj When I was very little and started in the kindergatren, I was in the shape of colored papers and blocks that were placed on strings. Then I was promoted to the first grade in the form of One and One are Two, and things' of that sort. I tell you I was very puzzling to the little children. I-n the subtracting, multiplying, and dividing age, I was terrible, according to some peopIe's idea. As a fraction, the chil- dren wished I never lived. As a decimal I grew rich and poor by one turn of a pencil. In the Junior High School I was a trifle easier in the seventh grade, but I made up for it i-n the eighth. Then they. turned me into an alphabet-and of all the tests they made over me! But' I have led a useful life, as the following testimonials will tell: I ' ARI'I'l-IMETIC AS A HELPER IN PLAY Arithmetic helps me in my ball playing by finding the percentage of games we have won and lost, and my batting averages. It helps +11 lLLlz.LJ.lL..LlLLLLLLLL J J

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v1v1fvvY1fQQrv1vvvvvz-1,2 Memorizing It is always nice to know some poem, for you may be called on at some gathering to recite one. A poem delivered well is enjoyed. Therefore, the learning is an important part of the address. lt is a pleasure when alone and unoccupied to think over the beautiful thoughts conveyed to us in poems. 'There are many queer places and ways, which to some are ideal for learning verses. Some pupils study on the way to school. A few girls when washing dishes have the book on the table before them. One girl can memorize best while sewing. Another finds it easy to learn if read before going to bed at night. A boy likes to play with his dog between learning stanzas. Some people insist on quietness and seek remote places for their memorizing. Diiferent ways are used, for instance, some read the whole poem over and proceed to learn it line by line. Others take two lines and still others learn stanzas at a time. The rhythm of a poem often helps people to learn it. Memorizing is like many other nice things, for the more a person meinorizes the easier it is, and the more you know.--Compiled by Bradley Spencer. A Vocabulary A person's vocabulary means the number of words that he knows and can use correctly. Some people are familiar with only a few hundred words. Shakespeare used more than any other writer, for he had 15,000 words in his vocabulary. One object in studying English is to increase our vocabulary, then we will be able to ex- press ourselves better. There are many ways in which to increase one's vocabulary. A very common way is to look in the dictionary a-nd learn a new word every day. Other ways are by reading and listening to older people talk. One may also keep a note book in which to write definitions and sentences. Sentences with the longest word possible may be practiced Solving cross-word puzzles is another method of learning words. , A B7 was busily getting her lessons. When she came across the word gormandize her face took on a puzzled look. As she had to tell the item orally, she expected to be asked the menaing of the word. She got a dictionary and found that gormanclize meant eating greedily. Her face seemed to have a relieved expression. She had added a word to her vocabulary. She seemed to want to show off with the word. so she said to her sister at supper-time, You certainly are gormarndizingf' Her sister asker? her what she meant. She told her, and thus added a word to her sister's vocabulary.-Lenora Carson, Home Room '10, A8. LllllL1lLllLLLLL1,LL 1

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fY1Y1TYYY,1mfTYYfiYYY me to count up the scores, if we have a-ny, and to tell what day and time we play. It helps me in playing handball by counting up points, and it helps me in all sports in making the places to play, as in handball I k-now how far back to put the short line and long line, and how wide to make it. In baseball, I know how big to make the bases and how far apart, and in basketball how high to put the basket and how large to make the basket and where to put the outside lines.- Ralph Beck. HOW ARITHMETIC HELPS ME IN SHOP Arithmetic helps me many ways in shop. We have to know how to read the ruler which we use so ofte-n. We also have to make out our lumber bills, and one mistake might make adifference in dollars. One must know how to'set the shop machine. There are many numbers on the machine, and you must be able to set them correctly. ln the tin shop we are now making cookie cutters, a-nd have a great deal of measuring to do. ln the print shop one must do much measuring. A beginning printer learns to measure and space with accuracy. These different steps in the job demand a sort of mathematical brain. Many slugs and leads are to be measured and cut for the many jobs. There is a cutting machine by which all paper is cut, and this must be done accurately. HOW MATHEMATICS HELPS ME IN MECHANICAL DRAWING Mathematics is the key to mechanical drawing, because if there were no mathematics we could not do any drawing. You must know mathematics to use the scales on the triangular ruler and to figure out the dimensions on blue prints and blocks. There is no way you can draw a projection drawing unless you have studied mathematics, because you have to figure out dimen- sions on 30 and 40 degree lines. A mechanical draftsman has to be a very good mathematician, because when he draws plans of buildings and houses, he does all the figuring of the plan, and one little mistake on the part of the man drawim-' the plan would be very costly, and sometimes very danger- ous.-Ernest Brooks. MATHEMATICS AS A HELP TO HOME ECONOMY Miss Noble: Those who can draw a draft, please stand. QAII girls stand but onel. Miss Noble: tsurprisedl Johanna, do you know where all of you learned to draw drafts? Johanna: ln mathematics, of course. Miss Noble: Mathematics comes in handy in sewing after all, fi! Llllllllllllllllll LL!