Monroe Township School - Mirror Yearbook (Bringhurst, IN)

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gli illn alll :Ill ullmlilpr iilirrlurlulll ulla :lla Ill: 1 my .1 L w 5 ,1 necessity it is laid on the dresser till the next day. But time is fleeing and I must close with these words of Tom Morris: Just how a woman combs her hair Is more than I can tell A hair pin here and then one there Back combs of tortoise shell She builds it up and out and in. With most experienced air, The deepest of thy mysteries O woman, is thy hair. I find that true to life, hats and hair have occupied so much space, I cannot disclose close clothes secrets so will close. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Gentlemen and classmates Ccoughsj gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls of this our glorious ban- ner of the free Cwalks nervouslyl of the free. I consider it a great honor to have the pleasure to grant you, yes, to hand youadiploma. Your inspiring motto is well chosen, for a diploma is the long-cherished th ng for which you have struggled so long Ccoughsj struggled so long. What though you have forgotten how Caesar crossed the Atlantic, and perchance the binominal theorenl With this bit of paper you can go forth into the World and waving it on high, demand a job Chesitatesj demand a job. Aim high. Accept nothing less than 82.50 per week. Conquer all difficulties. If the world gets too gay with you, shake your diploma in its face. That will bring it to a realization of who you are. I now have the honor, the pleasure, and great gratification to present thesi- tatesj to present freaches desperately for diplomas which are on the tableb to present. Well here they are,take them. CStumbles and diplomas go rolling on the floor.j Curtain. U CI joke ? 5 2 , Ad in Henpecks Morning Daily- She: Don't you think you'll be Double bed wanted cheap by an elderly cold without your coat? lady with wooden head and foot, Wire Her chum: f'You don't know Pat. 3 ' tt' , , Sprmg mil less Optimist: Well, I had to come down RGCIPQ f01' M0d91'U Tragedy anyway, said Pat who had fallen Take one reckless, natural born fool. down three Hights of Stairs. ' Two or three drinks of bad liquor, F, place in car, and let go, after due time Attorney: Where was the prisoner remove from wreckage, place in black milking the cow? satined box and garnish with flowers. Witness: Al ttle back of center. 1:1 In alla ullmllr alll ullulln :Hn :Halls alll 4. D c5wcnty-eight

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Blu alle ull: 4-'L 2 of the poor house forever. I cannot close without quoting these pathetic, yet powerful words of the House of Representatives: We live for those who send us To these historic halls We vote for all the measures That to our lot befalls. Providing all the measures Reach us amended so The common people of the land ull: xllnlilpr Hiirrnrlnlli alll alla lil' 1 C1 basketful of leaves, 4015 spangles, and a residue of lace, chiffon, etc. But time forbids a further discus- sion, I close this part of my essay with the touching words of Bryant: When passing by the milliner's No Woman now alive Can stand the window sign which reads Once 10 now 5. Iapproach the subject of hair with much trepidation. Some people are 'E Wm Simply have no Show. sensative about their hair,not about the such-is-life. 1 thank you. h have but that Whlcl' V HATS, HAIR AND CLOTHES Like the discussion of hats these re- :h Hats and hair should go together of marks will be confined to the hirsute T course, hence my combination of Sub- appendage of ladies and women for the y jects. They were both invented to cov- reason that man's hair has no possibili- er the head. Being such a broad sub-' ties, and one ca.n'tdiscussa bald-headed ject, I will have to part the hair from man's hair because he hasn't any. 5 the hats in its discussion. Unlike the styles in hats, the pre- 7 Hats are more complex in their vailing styles in hair dressing are al- mechanism than a time lock and there most all originated in Central Africa, a are as many styles as the sands of the few coming from Java. Of course im- sea. provements have been made by our ,E They run in size from a small flower talented American women,but for the E: pot to a ten-in-the-family wash tub. most part the original marcelle wave ' We are of course discussing women's is worn. hats as men's are scarcely worth men- The wild desire to be in the swim tioning. hirsutely speaking has led to many All the different styles originate in curious devices. But herein liesa secret ..-E Paris and are wired over from there. which perhaps I should not divulge. ' That is the reason there is so but what's the use? Who was it that much wire in hats. It takes the styles said. It's no fun to have a secret unless I somtimes three or four years to get all you can tell it. One of these devices -v the way across the continent but soon- is side tracked hair. This is hair that F er or later every woman in America has been switched, of course. Price 90 will be wearing a hat designed by some cents and up if real hair. One of the fussy man milliner in Paris. most delightful, health-giving and It is an egrugrious blunder to wear beauty making devices is the rat. - the same hat two seasons. It is almost These of course are not real live rats ? as much a breach of etiquette to have but just a vulgar name given to a very the old one fixed over. The words of useful article, probably applied be- the poet are only too true, Spare the cause it resembles a rat's nest,or do rats purse and spoil the hat. have nests? A scientist, who really did not know And puffs, those little curly things. -' what he was undertaking once analyz- They are so cheap K5 cents and up on cd a genuine society hat. The result bargain daysj and one can get so many was astonishing. Reduced to its com- on one's head. You know the poet said ponent parts contained: that the crowning glory of woman ,- 5 miles of straw braid, 2 3-4 miles of is her hair, even if it is not her own. wire, 60 yards of silk ribbon, 7 feet of A woman becomes very hard for her to ostrich plumes, 4 bushel of cherries, 1 part cornpay with it when from sheer U ll 'll' 'llUll'- 'll' 'IIDII' 'Il' 'IIUII' 'll' 'UD CGWCYIIQ'-567871

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Bla ill: alll - -. 41 -4- 1 3 if -. 1. ...- :E E. al 'T E if For Sale--Cash or Time One old Ford car with a piston ring, Two rear wheels and front spring, Has no fenders, seat or plank Burns a lot of gas and hard to crank Carbureator busted half-way through Engine misses, hits on two Three years old, four in the spring Has shock absorbers and everything. Come down to see the darn ol'boat, That requires a lot of juice to tote It will run on high But quits in low, and the devil himself couldn't make her go, , She's got a racking wobbly gait And needs two boards to guide her straight Her license plates are nine years old She's some disfigured-but good as gold Radiator twisted, she sure does leak Differential dry, you can hear it squeak Ten spokes missing, front all bent Tires blown out, both axles rent Got lot of speed if you turn her loose Burns either gas or tobacco juice. Tires all off, been run on the rim But a good old Ford for the shape she's in Cash in hand 552.39 30 years time 359.49 Hilda: Morris surely covers a lot of floor. Delilah: Huh, he'd ought to. His shoes are large enough. Mr. Sharp to Seniors: We will all meet in a reunion 20 years from now. Morris: And children too! . Old hen as she saw the farmer crossing the barnyard, Thats the guy I'm lay- ing for. He: When will there be only 25 let- ters in the alphabet? ills ullnliilgr iiiirrnrlnlli ella ills :gli in When Mother Washed My Neck This world is full of sorrow, And I guess I've had my share Since the day I peeled the hide off, Fallin' down the cellar stairs. And the toohache! I've had it- Had the mumps and chicken pox: And Tom Jones knocked my teeth out Day the gang was throwin' rock Then were times of tears and wailing But they didn't count a speck As compared with pain and sufferin' When my mother washed my neck. Though a soldier when he's wounded Only smile and say, Aw Heck. ' I'll just bet he yelled and holleredj When his mother washed his neck. Maybe Daniel faced them Lions While his gaze their courage checked But who knows how Daniel acted When his mother Washed nis neck? Someday when I am married Makin' money by the peck I'll be boss, and then I'll bet ya I won't, never wash my neck. Chas. S. Poling A Fast Age The world never moved so fast be- fore. We have winter ice on the Fourth of July, spring vegetables on Christ- masg we buy our straw hatsin February and our felt hats in August: we get our Sunday paper on Saturday night and our magazines a month ahead of time. If we call a man in San Francisco from New York, he hears our voice four hours before you speak, and if someone in Japan sends us a cablegram tomor- row, we get it today. Little Willie, full of fun, 5- Sher'K',0h, I d0f1't kf10W-' H Hid one day in a ten inch gun H95 When U and I are One- The .fourth it wasand sad to say, Student: .ir Worked tm Eve this Willie came down in the form ofaspray. morning on that problem. Mr. Yunker fto the physics classl: Instructor: And did you get the Now the only difference between an idea? electric bell and a buzzer is that the Student: It began to dawn on me. bell has a bell and a buzzer hasn't. mu- -n- 'nun-e ful 'Ianni' -ui IIIDII' in' I D cgwenly-nine