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

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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.

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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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MeKINLEY lVllltROR 13 And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruningshoolts. Agnes Jurasek, agirl in the 7-A, has been in America since May 30, 1925. With the help of Miss Rugh, she has learned the English language. ller home was in Hamburg, Germany. The schools there are about the same, but in Germany the teachers change and the children remain in the same room. The seats are large, and have room enough for four people. The boys are placed on one side of the room and the girls sit on the other side. ller fatluer has been in the United States about four years and he will soon take out his Hrst papers. Agnes came alone to America. She was twelve days ou the ocean, and they didn 't have any storms, although when her mother came over in June, they had live days of storm. Agnes has accomplished a great deal ill her sewing and she enjoys 'it. ln five years they expect to go back to Germany for a visit. -Kathleen Pecldyeozlrt, 9-A. An able orator once said: To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. WAITING T0 GROW All the llowers are just waking up, Violet, Daisy, and sweet Buttereupl Think of the flowers under the snow, ' Waiting to growl And great numbers of queer little seeds Of llowers, and inosses, of ferns and of weeds Under the iee and the leaves and the snow, .Waiting to grow! Gnly a lnonth or few weeks more, Will they be waiting behind that door, Listen and watch, for they are below, Waiting to grow! -Boyd Sanford, S-Az. IN MEMORY OF MR. JOHN HOOD fCUSTODIANQ, WHO PASSED AWAY ' MARCH 25, 1927 In the passing of Mr. John Hood, all of us in McKinley feel that we have lost a. personal friend. To have left sneh at feeling among such a large corps of teachers and so many students, to have left a niche that only the most cheerful and faithful can fill, is a fitting memorial that only one of real char- aeter niay achieve, and one that anyone might covet. ln the days to come, as we pass through the halls, we shall see engraved on the lintels above the class-room doors-cheerfuhiess, faithfulness, honesty- three large words that mean :L man's eharaeter. I