Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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RGHLIGHT. 5ITION. OCCUPATION. FAVORITE SONG. AMBITION. pered. Addressing the public. Ambolina Snow. To be a success. • Traveling. If- To meet fame. ned. Making “Goo-goo” eyes. Take Back Your Gold. To find a Jewel. Thinking. Yankee-Doodle. Circumnavigate the globe Strolling. Paradise Alley. To be an angel. Primping. Because. To vote. Arguing. She is the Real Thing. ( ? ) Dreaming. I Want My Chicken. To get her chicken. Whistling. Just One Girl. [Barney. To be President of U. S. Flirting. Gathering Shamrocks With To own a telephone. Lecturing. My Lady Lu. To change her name. Eating bon-bons. Won’t you be my sweetheart? Ask Julian.

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CLASS SEA NAME. AGE. APPEARANCE. DISPO Mamie Brady. Don’t want to tell. Independent. Quick ten Olive Burchard. Unknown. Village maiden. “Ornary’ Frances Clark. Old enough. Takes life easy. Good nat Josie Dwyer. Who knows? Reserved. Peaceful. Alma Drayer. Doubtful. Graceful. Angelic. Ida Force. Too old. Flaughty. Lightning Wayne Kelsey. Ask his Ma. The whole thing. Contrary. Clara Nadolni. Sunny side of twenty. Stylish. Stubborn George Porter. Ancient. Support for Phaseolus Lunatus. Sensitive. Birdie Smith. So yc ung(?) Shy. Mild. Lucelia Thurber. Would you like to know? Important. Gentle. Ethel Weaver. One year younger than last y ear Last, but not least. Spitfire.

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Valedictory ©ratioiy BY MAMIE A BRADY. ‘‘SINE LABORE NIHIL.” An axiom is a self evident truth, yet we are apt to mistake axioms for demonstrated truths. Statements that to one person are axiomatic, to another need positive and convincing proof. Take, for instance, the Pythagorian Proposition, “The square described on the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.” This theorem, after being used by mathe¬ maticians for many years comes to be considered, by many of them, as an axiom; and yet, to other people, it needs proof. Great labor produces great results. Historians tell us that, not many hundred years ago, what is now the fertile kingdom of Holland was one broad expanse of water. Has this great change been accomplished without labor ? ' No, it is due to the untiring energy of the Dutch, and today, that country stands one of the richest in Europe, a monument alike to their energy and their perseverance. Compare our own country, at present, with what it was when first dis¬ covered by white men, and tell me if this great change be not due to con¬ tinuous and untiring toil. Constant use causes the arm of the blacksmith to become large and sin¬ ewy. Physical exercise strengthens the body, and, by analogy, we reason that mental exercise necessarily strengthens the mind. An apparent exception to this rule is, that the memory of the child, which has but little exercise, is better than that of the adult. The one moves in the little world of the home and school, and his activities are circumscribed; the other participates in the stir and bustle of the social, political and intellectual world, and the great ocean of knowledge about him is at once limitless and unfathomable. The perception of the child is keen but his reasoning is inaccurate, and