Monroe Township School - Mirror Yearbook (Bringhurst, IN)

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gi -ui ini n me I forgot the elocution teacher on my list. We're glad you're here too. in iunlihr 1-Hirriirlizilli ills ulli :Eli njjmg Passing on we come to bride-pies. Bride-pies are made the subject of ' We feel that the schools in present- many a rude joke, by a thoughtless F: ing this feast of reason and How of young husband and other fellow jour- n i soul, as Lousia Alcott once said, nals. Had I the tongue of Carrie Na- I should receive the hearty co-operation tion and the pen of Andrew Carnegie l 5 of this distinguished assemblage We I could not describe the bride pie. But 5 feel that at intervals of not more than by this time you will have guessed that ' ten minutes, a mild clapping of hands the bride pie was invented during the should be heard, thereby encouraging bride age. While a bride pie would . L the distressed souls who are now sitting hardly appear on the food map at 'T-' in front of you, dying to enlighten you. Battle Creek, Mich., it isn't too bad Q Again I say I salute you and you after all. Any man who can't stand a and you etc., and the whole crowd. little tough crust mixed by the lily white hands of his cherished bride is :Q PIES fit for spoils and treasons I' as the I f History seems to be somewhat vague 'lpoet Says, Was it not Geofflfey Chan- E as to when the first pie was invented. oer who Said, Some historians have attempted to HI h . h I prove that the reason Eve stole the Wit ere? mm? Sou Sqdead ' S apple was to surprise Adam with an UF O to mmsf aanevcr Said - ' apple pie when he came home from the Of ine 'io ancy md of Cake W ': Office that night. This, however, has But pies like mother used to make. never been satisfactorily confirmed. No one' has ever been able to make It has bgen proven beyond a doubt, one like it. Some brides have never 5 however. that pies were known in tried it to their sorrow. Aren't men S .2 Dante's time, for it is stated on re- mean? The klfld mother US9d to H12-ke Q ' liable aiiihoriiy thai he were his Iii- we be detected when ever fpvnd by a T ferno one night after eating a mince 411311010115 httle POQA 01 Waxy JUICE gath- pie. This disproves the oft-repeated as- ered around Qhf? all' h01eS, 3 SQDGTOUS A sertion that pie is an American crea- SUPDIY Of fruit and brown melt H1 YOUI' q tion. It made its appearance in Eng. mouth crust. Icoulrl paint more vivid 5 land at an early date, but there a pie IJICWTQS about P105 but teU1PPYS fllgitiu ' is not a pie but a tart. as George. Ade says.. I cannot close Be that as it ,nay it ie not ,ny pro- i however without quoting these touch- -,L vice to transcribe the ancient history IHS Words of BFOWUIUEII 7 Of PWS- The Walrus for the Esquimanx E' The first American pie landed in For Ge,-mane bread of rye New York about 1784. Some of them Bot for We hungry Yankee folks are being served at New Just, give us good old pief, 2. York restaurants. Pies can be divided , . T into two classes: restaurant pies, bride The Auwblogfaphy Of H MICFOIJC- 'E' . pies and pies like mother used to make. In the high school at Liberty Corner Restaurant pies are noted for their ab- Ohio, the Senior class was killing time . sence of flavor and strength of crust. Cas was also the teacher in chargej by Q One can have considerable fun with a doinglaboratory work. In passing I will ,1 4 restaurant pie trying to find out what explain thatlaboratory work isn't work 4: kind of fruit is occupying the interior. at all, but consists largely in taking This cannot be done hy tasting it but turns at watching some real bright stu- can only be determined by a micro- dent do stunts with chemicals, and 5' scope examination of its contents. Res- once in a while looking through a mic- 5 taurant pies always taste best on the roscope. Of course one is required to ' menu cards. put down on paper a few notations ' L. Ui' 'll' 'HUII' 'H' 'IIUH' 'll' 'IIUII' 'll' ' U Lgwenty

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FRESH M AN CLASS Back Row--Celia Cook, Ruth Yost, Donald Myer, Kenneth Callane, John Shot? Rachel Wilcox, Thelma Quinn. Front Row-Hoseniary Carter, Iiaurene Trent livelyn Ross, Demarice Retherford, Opal Barnett, Olive Shell, Hazel Printz. was the immortal Socrates who thrilled the world with his laconic sentence flashed over the wires to Washington, I salute you. In emulation of his noble example I will ask the class to rise while they are saluted, The hour being late and knowing that you will need all of your reserve force to keep you awake during this, our first, coni- mencement, I refrain from asking the audience to rise. You may consider yourself saluted. I am proud, fellow classmates and girls, of the honor you have thrust upon me. To me falls the proud honor of telling these people bow glad we are to see them. What though this should be in language of John Milton, an idle dream and also a fabrication! CTommencement since l l l Adam commenced in the Garden oi Eden has always had to have a saluter. Fellow-citizens, this class has a his- tory! If Bancroft were living today he eould write at least five lines and a half short hand, concerning the virtues of its, 'tout ensemble' My own feeble pen failed me-I always like a stub the best-and any how, it is not my busi- ness as a saluter to laud and magnify my classmates. In behalf of the Superintendent, each and every member of the Board ot' Education, the teachers, including the Manual Training teacher, the Drawing teacher, the Music teacher, the Domes- tic Science teacher and the janitor, I welcome you to this our first exhibition of elocutionary stunts. That reminds Uwneteen

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J UNIUR HIGH SCHOOL Wilbur Wilcox, tile-nu Shotl, John Hinklo, Robert liikenberry, Dave Carter. Leon Vincy, Harry Anglo, lflarl Stanton. May Wharton, llolotha Chapman, Isabcllc liuns, Edith Mycr, Frances lCik0nbcrry, Marv Anglo, Frccla Cook, Sylvia Boling- cr. lCsthcr Wolf, Dona Allen, Willard McCain, Frances llcnton, Paul Flora, Marion liigglv, Velma B1-rkcy, Ruby Martha Flora, Hazcl Kingcry, Florcncv Albaugh, llc-nova Harrison, ltobcrt Clingcnpccl, Carroll Garrison, Dcncil Wilc rx, llobcrt, Mc-1 Tarty. which thc tt-aclicr tells him to. But t,o my story: Ono tlay as a fair haircel Scnior lass was looking with la-:u'nr-tl cxprcssion into thc unknown slcpth ol' a niicroscopc, she gave a startlctl cry. l'uelcr thc microsoopc 1'0- post-tl :1 small scction of rich, ripc cliccsc. Hcr 1-rybrought thc class around hcr instantly. Falling lor a pair ol' ttwcczcrs, she rcachctl with clcli- atc y0t5t1'2l-flyll3,Illl into thc he-art, of tlicrliccsc VVit,h onc swoop sho drcw forth a curious looking article-. lt rc- se-mhlcfl somt-what a tiny tubc barcly visiblctototlw nakwl cya. llrasping thc twcczcrs again, shc opcnml tfhctuhc ai nd found a tiny bit, of lumlcncrl ch:-csc. ffm-ositv inipollctl her to nut it again under the microscope-. To lll'l' surprise- shcfounrl carvcrl in cxcollcnb English latlcastthcre wcrc only a few mis- takes which rlirl not amount to il, CSD ccntl the following which she 1-cad aloud: To Whom it may concern, pray gvntlc rcaclcr pause before you eat this autobiography, and rl-acl the first :incl last words of :1 mir-robc You woulmln't, cxpcct, mc, om- has to ch-pf-ml upon hirnsclf whcn oncs cncmics arc publish- ing in the ycllow journals virulcnt fffwmly-onf