McKinley Middle School - Mirror Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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MeKINLEY MIRROR 11 WRONG- ANSWERS Amo belongs to the sixth cleelensionf' Wearily, Miss Jackson laid down her pencil and looked at the paper she was correcting. Another answer caught her eye. Reason is expressed by the genitive ease. Would these children ever learn their Latin? , In the next room, the self-pitying Miss Redmond sat, likewise correcting test papers. Pronouns have two eases, singular and plural. A predicate nominative follows a transitive verb and is in the possessive ease. Who wouldn't pity himself when all he found was wrong answers? Another groaning teacher sat at her desk, vainly trying to iind a right answer on an arithnietie paper. Miss Inskeep? You have guessed right. 4x3:7, 2x3:6, 2x9:11. These answers stared her in the face. Grimly she marked another zero in a eonspieuous place. Do you wonder why teachers get old and gray? -Marjorie Miller, 9-A. TOP-HEAVY I wonder whether the teacher will notice if I just part my lmiri? I am sure she won't. There! I hope it is even. I would like to know why Maxine keeps turning around and making motions. Ol new I know! My hair isn't parted even. I will have to 'borrow a mirror from Maxine. There nowl I have made so much noise that I have attracted the nttenv- tion of the whole class, ineluding the teacher. Well, I have finally gotten the mirror. - Why ea11't that Kaeena boy sit still? He just keeps wiggliug around so mueh, I ean't do a thing. Oh! ut last I have my hair combed! Why! there's the bell! And I hnven't a bit of studying done. Whn.t's the matter with everybody today? ' -Mm-y Enen seelye, 9-B. ON 'WINGS VVITI-I SPRING A soft damp wind :ind a merry tune, A tune with a merry laugh, While a little round moon Looks down from above, While splitting a cloud in half. The stars and the wind are swept along, By the lilting tune of the happy spring, And the southwest wind and the west wind sing, And spring salutes us with her early song, Whipping the little white clouds along. The pale moon glides in her silvery veil, And moth-like stars are flickering out, But on and on we sail, sail, sail, Through eternity-with lovely spring. -Betty Moore, 9-A.

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10 MeKINLEY MIRROR THE CLOTHES-LINE IN THE LOWER HALL Prize Story Good grief! I reinarked. Just look at all those dresses! And all made by the 9-A girls of McKinley! I Do you know, said a dainty blue and white dress, confidently, the girl that made me was not neat, and I was made in sneh 21 short time. You,re lucky! sighed a. green dress. The one that made mcuspent two days on one seam, and she get the left sleeve in the rilit arm-hole, and had to take it out. She was so angry that I was afraid she would tear me to pieces. Too bad! I synipathized. What material are you? Oh, we 're English prints, said a pretty printed dress, waving a sleeve toward five or six others. V And 17111. :1 linen, made nicely, too, said a. suit proudly. See the eolor scheme? Short jacket, blue skirt, and white blouse. XVe're the nieest things, eonlided the snioeks, to slip on. We den'l. know of u. thing easier 'ro get on, er daintier or easier to make. Not one bit easier than we are, declared two good-looking sports dresses. Why, sh-shi Miss Boggs walked up and not another word was heard from any of the dresses. -Marco Luis, 9-B. SPRING Sunny hours, blooming flowers, Singing birds :L-wing, I just run and suminersnultl Wonder if 'tis spring. Mossy bowers, dazzling towers, Gliding in my swing, I never felt so happy- Yes, I guess it's spring. -Mary Ellen Seelye, 9-B. T0 A VIOLET Violet, sweet Violet, please show your face, I have been waiting, yes waiting with grace For you-Croeus and Snowdrop Are beginning to sprout, But it wou't he spring till you eome out. Violet, sweet Violet, I want you so- Dou't be afraid, gone is all the snow! Here is Robin and Red Wing And other birds too- 'Violet 4lon't you see? We're pining for you! Come, come Violet, don't be so shy, Look up, up, and laugh :lt the sky That is so envious of your blue, Because none can ever compete with you! , -Marco Luis, 9-B.

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q, 1 2 MEKINLEY MIRROR In one issue of The Scholastic an educator said that one of the first marks of ai. good mind is to be curious. Perhaps some one of the boys interested in butterllics or some other hobby, may find. out something that hns never been thought of before. Vifho knows? T0 A LITTLE BIRD It must bo fun to be IL bird, And sing the whole day long- ilfo .live among the illfllillg-121'CCS And clmrin folks with your song. And yet I wonder why you do11't Fly 'way up to the sky, And perch upon :L golden sim' And watch the clouds go by! -Dale liiilier, S-Ax. AN ADVENTURE WITH TWO ROBINS One day, while sitting on the front steps, I heard n little bird chirping. I picked it up :md found that it was :i robin. Then I put it on 1ny nrm. The mother bird saw me :uid didn't know whether to be scared or not. After :L while, the mother ezune and sat on my arm, :ind fed the little bird. She Went buck :ind forth :ind fed the bird on my nrm, for nbout :ui hour. When I went to dinner, I put the bnby robin in u, tree, :ind when I came out, I could walk right up to the mother bird, :ind she wonldn't fly away. Be- cause she w:1sn't seared of me, I thought that nt one time, she must harve been :1 pet bird. -Louis Knceun, 9-B. T0 A BUTTERFLY Beautiful little louttei-ily, Giving eheer before you die, With your dainty gold-tip wing, .Iust another sign of spring. A flush of green, fi llnsh of red, Now you have lit on :1 pnusy bed. You lift your wings :ins if to sigh, Oh, pretty creature, do not ily! On every frzigrunt flower you porch Just us if you were in Search Of t1'e:isure. Now beyond the garden wnll, i1Von't you listen to my cull? -Maxine Randall, D-A.