Monterey High School - El Susurro Yearbook (Monterey, CA)

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. Q '1 4 . 7 0 0 Tl io Arrival ol Marie lly li. I'ilQ1u'l-1 The littlc town of Centreville was at an unusual pitch of excitement. No circus tent concealed alluring charms. nor were there movies at the town hall. llut Blarie was coming home that night. 'l'o an outsider this is but an insig- niticant statement. but to Centreville it meant much. Marie llenson was the belle of the village. or rather was until she sorrow- fully left for a fashionable girls' seminary two years before. And Marie was expected home that night. l-'rom advance notices a surprise was in store for her parents. Thus the excitement. Old man llenson had grown comfortably well off in a small grocery store and had promised his daughter a course at one of the foremost schools. There,- fore it was with a mingled feeling of joy and doubt that he waited at the depot when the train arrived. with the old horse in the delivery wagon to convey his daughter and her trunk home. lVhen the cars stopped. a bewitching array of dry goods and wide-brimmed millinery dashed from them and Hung itself into the elderly man's arms. Why you superlative pa. she exclaimed, l'm so utterly glad to see you! The old man was somewhat ilnnerved by this greeting. but he recognized thc sealslcin coat in his grip as the identical piece of property he had paid for with the bay marc. So he sort of squeezed it up to his arms and planted a kiss where it would do the most good with a report which sounded above the noise of the'depot. In a brief space of time the trunk and its attendant baggage were loaded onto the wagon. which was soon bumping towards home. lla. dear. said the young miss. surveying the team with a critical cyc, do you consider this quite excessively beyond? Hey, returned the old man with a puzzled air, quite excessively beyond what? lieyond tireenbush? l consider it somewhat about two miles beyond tirccnbush coming from the depot, if that's what you mean. 13

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EL SUSURRO Senior X-Xclvice lYe. the Class of ISHS, of Nlonterey Union High School, hereby leave bits of fatherly advice to our most needy schoolmates, hoping that they may be benefited by it and thereby achieve a success as brilliant and remarkable as ours. I, lVilliain Nlcliachren. advise all Freshmen to learn to dance before they become juniors. I. -Therese Schaufele. advise all Freshmen not to talk to themselves the third period in the afternoon. A I, Abraham Brazil, advise Ross Sargeant and james Doud to stop talking with the girls and try studying once in a while. I, Agnes McCann, advise the Senior girls of next year to do their hair up in curl papers the night before. if they wish to wear it down. and not to use Ilandoline. I, Yincent Iinea, advise all boys who notice rouge on the cheeks of their girl friends, to keep mum about it. You will not get any thanks for it. I, lllary l5eXVitt, advise Marion Iilanks to refrain from interrupting love atfairs. H I. Lewis XVells. treasurer, advise Hugh Nlartin that studying is cheaper than loving. I. Klyrtle Klachado, advise all Ifreshmen never to cut school without a wonderful excuse. I, I'eter Dolan, advise james Corbett to take his high school day a little easier, and stop devoting so much of his time to the fair sex. I, Olga Redbrook, advise each and every student of this school not to wait until the last ten weeks of school before you discover that you must make up a missing credit. I, Nelle Scudder, advise the students to say more funny things in class next year, so the -losh Editor will not have to work so hard the week before the journal goes to print. I. Earl Ifiles, advise all kind-hearted owners of machines to profit by my example and think long and deeply before deciding to run a jitney service to town at noon hour. I, Robert Norton, ,advise james Wilson to follow the straight and narrow path. as I have done, from this day till finis. I, lYilton Ciunzendorfer, advise students to refrain from talking in Student Ilody meetings, as by such talking. school activities and school spirit might be developed. I. Ilorothy Harrington. advise Marie Rudolph not to go too near the Marine. ' I, Roland Xoack. advise Ray Zanetta to develop great powers of concen- tration and study as I have done. in order that he may establish a scholastic record second to none. I, lYilIiain Klctiowan. advise Helen Ilarks to proht by my example and make it known to all Freshmen that joy riding is against the rules of the school. I, Ilarold Redbrook. advise all Freshmen to profit by Buck l3olan's exam- ple. and in order to avoid making any breaks in History IY. be sure to tind out what l'-I.-Y-S-S-Ii-S spells and never call Grant Useless I, Ilernice I'eacocke. advise Ilobby'I not to take the .lunior girls seriously. 12

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EL SUSURRO Oh, no! pa. you don't understand me. the daughter exclaimed: l mean this horse and wagon. Do you think they are soulful? Do you think they could he studied apart in the light of a symphony. or even a single poem, and appear as intensely utter to one returning home. as one could express F The old man twisted uneasily in his seat and muttered something about he believed it used to be an express wagon before he bought it, to deliver pork in, but the severe jolting over frozen ground prevented further remarks. Oh, there is that lovely, consummate ma! screamed the returned colle- giate, as they drove up to the door, and presently she was lost in the embrace of a motherly woman, in spectacles. Well. Marie. said Mr. Benson at the supper table, as he nipped a piece of butter off the lump with his knife, an' how'd you like your school ? Well, there, pa, now you shout-I mean I consider it quite too beyond, replied the daughter. 'ilt is unquenchably ineffable. The girls are sumptu- ously stunning-l mean grand--so exquisite-so intensive, and then the parties, the calls. the rides--oh. the past months have been one sublime harmony! l s'pose so, 1 s'pose so, nervously assented the old man as he reached for his third cup, half full, but how about your books, readin', writin', grammar, 'rithmetic.-how about them P l'a, don't. exclaimed Marie. reproachfully. Arithmetic! lt is French and music and painting and the dernier in art that has made my school life the boss-l mean that has made it one unbroken flow of rhythmic bliss-incom- parahly and exquisitely all but. The groceryman and his wife looked helplessly across the table. After a lonesome pause the old lady said: How do you like the biscuits, Marie ? They are too utter for anything, gushed the accomplished young lady, and the plum preserve is simply a poem of itself. The old man abruptly rose from the table and went out of the room, ruh- bing his head in a bewildered manner. and the mass convention was dissolved. That night he and his wife sat close to the Fire until a late hour, and at the breakfast table the next morning he rapped smartly on the table with the handle of his knife and remarked: Marie, me an' your mother have been talkin' this thing over, an' we've come to the conclusion that this boarding-school business is too much nonsense. U Me and her consider that we haven't lived sixty odd consummate years for the purpose of raisin' a curiosity. an' there's going to be a stop put to this unquenchable foolishness. Now after you've finished eatin' that poem of fried sa'sage and that symphony of twisted doughnut, you take an' dust upstairs in less'n.two seconds au' peel off that fancy gown an put on a caliker an' then come down an' help your mother wash dishes. 1 want it distinctly understood that there aren't going to be no more rhythmic foolishness in this house so long as your superlative pa and your lovely. consummate ma's runnin' this ranch. You hear me, Marie PU Marie was listening. 14