Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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SENIORS FAIL EVANS “Paulie Debating Society 1-2-3, Orchestra 2-3-4, Quartette 3, Glee Club 3-4, Black River Falls Debating Team 3-4. “A lecherous thing is wyne.” VERA BIEBECKER “Weary” English-German Course. Nautilus 1-2-3-4, Students’ Association 2-3-4, Hiking ( lub 2, Kodak Club 4, Glee Club 1-3-4, Girls’ Quartet 3-4. “I will never, never marry. Oh! bliss!” REV. C. W. PINKNEY Delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday evening, May 28th

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SENIORS ROME SKYFOKTH Commercial Course. Class Secretary and Treasurer 1, Captain Basket Ball Team 1, Class Vice-President 2, Class President 3-4, Football 3-4, Captain Second Team 3. Students Association 1-2-3-4, President 4. Basket Ball 4. “Smiles, smiles, unending smiles, In radient lines for miles and miles. MARIAN FUNK “Mike Eng ish-Gern an Course Nautilus 1-2-3-4, Glee Club 3-4, Athletic Association 1-2-3-4, Hiking Club 2, Kodak Club 4, Mirror Artist 4. “Silence when nothing can be said is the eloquence of discretion. MARGARET JACOBI “Mutch English-German Course. Glee Club 1-3-4, Basket Ball 1-2-3, Capt. 2. Nautilus 1-2-3-4, Treasurer 1st semester 1, Guard 2nd semester 1, President 1st semester 3, President 1st semester 4, Class President 1, Hiking Club 2 Vice President Athletic Association 1-2-3-4, Kodak Club 4. Mirror Staff 1-2-3-4. “Her manner is as sweet as her countenance and that is saying much. ALLAN SMITH Commercial Course Football 2-3-4, Capt.4, Class Basket Ball 1, Capt., Basket Ball Team 3-4, Captain 4. Track Team 2-3, Black River Falls Debating Team 3, Fairchild Debating Team 3, Arcadia Debating Team 4. Assistant Business Manager Mirror 2, Students Association 1-2-3-4-5, Debating Socioty 1-2-3-4, Secretary 2. ADA HOLMES Teachers’ Training Course Nautilus 1-2-3-4, Students’ Association 1-2-3, “Love! her affections do not that way tend.

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VALKDK TOBY. Myrtle Paulson, ’IT. Books and the Reading of Books. Books, we know Are a substantial work, both pure and good Round which with tendrils strong as flesh and blood. Our pastime and our happiness can grow.’’ These words are taken from Wordsworth and express his sentiments in regard to the importance and need of books and reading. Whv should we read and absorb the thought and companionship of the great men of the past? Why read the best books of the day? Because books influence action; they will mold your character. “A good book is among the best of companions and by elevating the thoughts and aspirations, they act as a preservative against low associations.” Does this help the housewife ard farmer any? How can she acquire this taste in the first place? The High School will do much to gain this end. She is entitled to this as well as the business man. People are approaching the age, when they feel that this is necessary. The woman can take more comfort out of life, she can spend some of her recreation in reading the choicest literature with enjoyment. How much more there is to life! Tt does not seem like a grind. The farmer can see more than the tilling of his soil. He will live and not only exist, “A good book may be his best friend. Tt is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It may be the best of which that life was cajmble; for the world of his life is for the most part by the world of his thoughts.” lie has been made an efficient man—one able to cope with the problems of getting a living and of developing his mental and spiritual being. How can the High School aid in this? get a living? But is it the dollars and cents together with what they bring all that should be asked of the High School education. Would you define living in the terms of dollars and cents? Studies are not merelv lor delight and for the adornment of the individual. Our High School education is becoming broadei ami more practical. Here, we are striving for the happy medium. I lie essential benefit of this system is to teach the boys and girls to think, by learning how to think. Who will teach one how to think? Can anyone be taught? Yes, by reading. liven the humblest and jxxir-est may (‘liter the great spirits of Shake-six are, Horace and Irving, without being intrusive. The housewife and farmer could not realize this, if they had not had their High School training. They would not know the difference lietween good and poor books. One cannot study Bryant, Irving, Emerson, Cooper and others with enjoyment and not have acquired a taste for books that are worth while. Books will do so much for us. Whether they are good or bad, they cast their influence o er us. 11 hat he reads will determine his future career, and the amount he reads will be a greater guide to his future life. It has been truly said, “that the best books are those which most resemble good actions. Books contain the treasured knowledge of the human race. From the Bible downward, they exercise great influence upon civilization.” “Books are forever guides to those who read them thoughtfully. Every |x rson may learn something from the recorded life of another. Here we find instruction in our jov, in our sorrow and adversity.” Therefore a good book is among the best friends, for it molds a man. When you read a work of some great writer, for instance Irving, you are pleased when he has written your ideas, although in a way that surpasses your ability, think of Irving’s description of an autumnal day. He is able to place