Plainfield High School - Hermiad Yearbook (Central Village, CT)

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THIL HLRMI Poison Nix chum 1ndI one lfternoon Went walklng pleasure bent There was no danger lurklng Donn the c'1rtp1th where we nent Oh no' Phat s vshat uc thought But behold the werx next dn I knew that poison had gotten me Much to mv dlsmay That night, to finish a perfect day We xx ent to a plcture show The polson began to do lts work, I ltched from head to toe I remoxed my shoes so carefully To ease my ltchmg feet But wh t thlt act dld cost me I msh nexer to repeat My feet had swollen by that t1me It caused me terrible pam To push and squeeve md crowd them buck My chum thought thls 1 splendld Joke And laughed and Jollled me But I spent three dass out of school Wxth a lace not nlce to see Iols Metcalf 1947 Goals O BP suues ful m 1 e people measure success achlexement but really makmg somethmg of hlmself determmed one mav be, not e the goal of ewery normal person Some terms of wealth and others 1n terms of one can make an honest lnmg vuthout No matter how strong the deslre or how veryone can achleve dlstlnctlon ln the pubhc me but everyone can md should do the best he can and make as much of hlmself as posslble He should alm hlgh and work accordingly, then he mll at least not fall short of makmg a good llvlng It 15 only natural for a man to want to make a good lnwmg That means 1 1 AA D W 7 ,YY mmi , . www, ,HN I Q 2 , 2 1 ' , . : A vi C . r , vu , , , . . , Y , U, . ZW., v a 'L' ' YY' , ' ,. 'J . . , ' 21 1 ' ' I v'Lv v 2 . .1 1 L- v uv l 5 J z .' , z ' f ' Into my shoes again. ' 2 : ' ' . , ' : nl C V.. tv , - . I.. all PK PK I 3 -' ' l'f is ' ' 'f , 1 v Y 1 1 1 ' y' f'

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HPRMI husbands she could have a splrltual xlslt wlth them She was so LOHSLIOUN ol protectmg md amusmg the spnxts th tt she scnrcely cared what people thought of her 1ct1ons Qhe once poulcd a kettle of soup down the kltchen draln m the hou e of one of her nelghbors because she sald lt waw a brew to polson her husband She used to pour hot tea mmus cream and sugar on the etove covers The tea evapor lted md she believed, went up to heaven 101 the edlficatlon of her hu bmds Thli wom lll nas some dusky Il9lg'llbOls whose bellefs 'md practlces IIN ml her own One of these nelphbors keeps the wmdow sh ldes down durmg 1 full moon for, at that tlme xccordmg to hl bellef the splrlts are able to peer In at hlm Thls gentleman xlw ns closes the she urs after usmg them IN older to prevent the splllts from plClClI1L them up and Cllttlllg' ofl' his plans and hopes He belleye that when he splllw alt he has to put Qome on the Qtarte a new txsk on Friday because he fears that the Qplrlta wlll plague hlm wlth poor Success before he Hmshes lt last of all he would not dream of comblng hm han after dark because there are fearful consequences attached to that act Now after re zdlng the mst lnces utcd lboye stop and thmk How many tlmes have you and I been at leaet Jlttery at the eight of a black cat crossmg our pathsq How many tlmes have you w nlked under a ladder and then been unwllhnq to bet on a horse ln the fifth race because you thought that you w ere destlned to have bad luck Bad luck IS just another form of wltchcraft and splrlt bellef We thank of wltchcraft ae somethmg- that happened ln Qxlem and other New England towns hundreds of years leo Yet there are many of ua today who have not the wlll power to rld our mlnds of bellefs ln fearful consequences of some trlvlal act Edward Reld 1043 Comic Stnps HI' FUNNY papers hue become an American tradltxon Accordmfr to some pcople they haye become also an Amer1can tragedy becauee not many of them are really funny any more People read the funnle to eecape from the realltles of hfe but the recent tendency has been to reflect the trend of modern affalrs m a SCFIOUQ way on the comlc sheets When you are trying to forget the headlmes ln the mornmg paper dont you llke to read the antlc Henry Amernc 1 s funmest youngster or Maggle and Jlggs rather than to read all about Qupermen fightmg wan wlth men from Mars, or about sp1e's IH defenee factorlei' Why not make comic btrlpb one of our malnstaye agam a boost for our morale? Lets have an all out campalgn to encourage wrltera who really try to 'tlckle our funnybones ' Rudolph Klvela 1942 10 'I' H E I A D ' ' 2 : .' z .' .' 2 j ' e 1 , 1 ' Lv. K , , V I L. 1 ' 1 ' ' S ' ' ,. c L- , mf A.. ' y ' '1 5 f -1 - 1 w 4 1 ' v 1 1 . . . . . . , . , - ' X ' 1 1 , a ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' s z ' v 1 ' 1 -1 . v l 1- v 1 ' 1 ' -1 -I Y: . . ., . . . . . . . ., . I . , 2 It . .S . y S . . S . I l ' .S 1 2 12 tvs 1 ls Aw A. 2 rv 1 Lf. ' . K. ' .' L. ' . ' ' ,. . ' 'ks 1 K. C. ' ' s ' ' .' ' . S , : . . stove immediately: otherwise he would have bad luck. Furthermore he never 1' K :xv .As V1 ' . A1 A- 1 , ',' z', ',.' . '. . 1 1 1 1 v ' y 1 L . 1 ' 1 . y 1 ' .4 1 vi 1 1 ,, ,, .Q . '. l . . . w . V. U i ki . A 1 . L z W 4 w 1 ff K ., . ' . 1 . ' . if Ik x . . 41 1 K. 2 1 1 1 A ' 4 1 ' ' ' ' 5 ' A - 1 v 1 ' . 1 ' 1 I v y 1 . . N A A. ' , . ks W . ' A, ' ' S' 7 . ' , - u n - ,, v, ' , . u ' , A . . , ' 'J' 1 . ' - ' y ' - I 1 K 1 , l ' Y

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