Park City High School - Kalendar Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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if He started out loaded with his many articles and passed proudly by the gossipers. On his way home,-he began to be frightened. What had he done? But he was glad-he was glad he had done it. Mother listened to the constant rumbling of packages as they were placed on the kitchen table and wondered Why that salt pork, and cream of tarter made so much noise. Suddenly father appeared in the doorway and explained what he had done. It was agreed that they should make their preparations just as on other Thanksgiving seasons and pre- tend to all the neighbors that John, his wife and baby had come. While father went to the depot in the old wagon, mother brought John's high chair from the attic for little John, and placed it very near the window. She had also brought some baby clothes to hang on the clothes line next morning. But she did not have to do this, as father was seen com- ing with the desired guests. So mother had the privilege of hanging out The real baby clothes. A. E. R., '15, ET 57 M4 nv' it svhdwegmra, 4 S M2 - Wifi' .L gif-1 269' G52 ' ' 1ifgQ1 ?a-,Q .gg SJ LJ 1 ev Q1 52

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vi e' 'N is The Thankful Minute CSecond Prizej Woli ERE'S your list, father, your memorandum. Do you un- derstand? Mother was so used to memoranda, but father did not understand. There were, however. comparatively few articles to be bought. Much fewer than before at that particular time of the year. After eautioning father to turn up his collar before going out into the cold wind, mother returned into the house and was soon busily at work cn her quilt. Never before had she faced so much. The very thoughts of it made tears eome to her eyes. But she was determined that father shouldn't see her shed a single tear, for his heart was sad over the same thing. To hope and plan for something and then that thing never come to pass, makes us all exceedingly blue. Every year mother and father had looked with pleasure to the time when John, their only child, should come home. But this year John had said nothing of it in his letters, but rather wrote of the good times that he and Bess were having. Bess was the rich girl whom John had met while at college. They were married now, and all the people in the little town told mother and father that John was not coming home be- cause he was above the people of that little town. This hurt father and mother worse than their own disappointment. Father had overheard the conversation of a crowd of loaf- ers in Amos' store, into which he had entered unobserved. When they had finished, he determined to make them think that John was coming, by purchasing a number of things not on mother's memorandum. A turkey, cranherries, nuts, rais- ins, and oysters. 51 .iAilcr..,LJ 'ZZTJJ .'5.7 :

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W1 A A Journey of Forty Miles UR high school was recently honored by a lecture by Prof. Wilsoli, president of Maryville College. His ex- cellent talk was based on the proverb, ln a journey of forty miles, when the thirty-ninth mile has been finished, the journey is only half completed. He compared this proverb to a Chinese puzzle. We ha.ve all seen one' I'm sure, you think you have solved the puzzle by removing the box, but another box remains, you remove this one and there is still another. This proverb is in a box of meanings. Let us remove the boxes and find some. Taking out the first box we find that some of us when we have gone thirty-nine miles on a forty mile job, lose interest and think we have done our share and the task will do just as well if nearly finished. Did you ever see a quitter? Their job remains unfinished. They might as well have stopped at the twentieth mile. No one can take up their work and complete it according to the plan on which it was started. They had better stopped at the twentieth mile and let this other some- body Weave in their ideas earlier. The chair a pupil started in the manual training department can best be finished by the one who started it. Frequently pupils get tired of studying and stop at the top of the last page. They started out all right, with the intention of getting every point in the lesson. They got tired though a.nd stopped at the thirty-ninth mile. They consoled themselves bv saying, T never missed any- thing much by not studying the rest, or I'll get that to- morrow. When in truth the last page was the most impor- tant, a summary of the lesson probably. Their task is only half finished. Let us take out the second box, here we find sometimes the last mile is the hardest. When one has gone thirty-nine miles they are tired and think they will never get through. This 53