Plainville High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Plainville, KS)

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TO THE CLASS OF 1914. As school life's receding sunset fadesg And its night descends, For you I watch the gathering shade Life's duties will stealthly invade, When school life ends. I,ife's world is drawing close to thee, With every breath. Q Life's joys untold: no respite knows Yet will thou shrink from the world's grim grasp, With fear of death. The curtain falls on school's last scene, The end is near, And as you face life's somber screen May the fleeting school days as they intervene Not disappear. And as a panoramic scroll The past unreels, The laughing past, beyond control Well written as a parchment roll It's tale reveals. You stand before the great wide world, A solemn fact, These days, the seeds of efforts sown Your school years now fully grown Will not retract. No tears, no joys can erase the past, School is finished nowg And all that's done is welded fast, Through all eternity to last As school time joy. And as 1 think the matter o'er, Not pensive or sad, There are no short comings I deplore, The fruit, which your school life has bore Is not so bad. What e'er life holds for thee in store, May you calmly face, And as the knights in days of yore Faults and imperfections did abhore, You, truth embrace. Oh! Class of nineteen one and four, No fear for thee I hold, Life's battles thou wilt enter in Just as thou didst school life begin, Fine, happy and bold, But what of the school that cradled thee, Remember it long with thy praise, Remember its sorrows, griefs and joys, As it will remember its girls and boys And cherish your High School days. -SUPT. H. J. BROWN.

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ETHELYN WEAVERLING Curly locks-brown eyes and bright, Always k ' wor s hard, but her hearts ever light, Winsome and modest, steadfast and true- For teacher or housewife, we're sure she'1l do. L ! 1 1 L ENORE McfCLAY- Hear the story of Lenora, How she quietly and unhurriedly Does her daily work unruffled, Yet behind her smiles and kindness And her calm and gentle manner, Is a spirit not undaunted To accomplish what she wishes. Qi

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SENIOR CLASS PROPH ESY. During the Summer of 1990 while spending my vacation in traveling through Italy, the good fortune of visiting the world's most famous art museum which was situated at Venice, fell to my lot. After registering, etc., a guide di- rected me through the entire building, giving me a brief history of each and every object there. Completing our general inspection of the main room, my guide turned to me and said: I have one more room to 'show you, in which we keep the statutes of a few of the most famous people the world has ever known. No doubt you have heard of the seventeen young Amer- icans who graduated from the P. H. S. in the year 1914, all of whom became famous in a few short years. Beyond these doors are their statutes. Let us enterf' As -we entered the room a feeling of awe stole over me to think that such a humble person as I would be permitted to gaze upon the features of such won- derful personages. Then I became aware that the guide was speaking. This, said he, is the statute of Le- nora McClay. Her predominant char- acteristics while at school were her win- someness and modesty. These two traits clung to her through life with a tenacious grip, but above all was her ability, as a musician, to win the honor and applause of the world at large. One night, when before a great audience she sang and played that touching little bal- lad, Roy's Wife of Adelwallah, I Long to Re, that night her name was placed on the list of the world's famous peo- ple. My guide was already striding to the next statute and hard as it was to tear myself away, I knew I must and with one lingering look, I too walked on. Here we have, explained the guide, the model of him, who though a con- stant tease and mischief, yet with these characteristics he has all the others, which go to make up a thorough gentle- man. As an all around man, no one in all the ages can compare to him: a violin- ist of rare talent, a bright studentg a splendid actor: the star right end of the 1913 football squad: a heart breaker among the girls, and a business man, all combined in the one whom the world over is known as George Spell- man. The next figure was that of Fannie Frisbie and the following sketch was given by the guide to me. More famous by far Than a clown with his joke, ls the girl who can make biscuits Over which you don't choke. She was the teacher of the Domestic Science Class of the Smith school ever since she left P. H. S. in '14 and the lit- tle sketch as quoted above is a brief summary upon which her fame rests. Before a beautiful molded figure we at length stoppedg my guide in a voice of awe then spoke the following to ine: The image of her, who though not a citizen of Plainville, yet attained to fame's rank is now before you. She was a perfect Latin dictionary, never was she known to go to a Vergil class with- out lier lesson, Providence for this rea- son alone marked her as famous, but that which placed her still nearer the top round of the ladder 01' Fame was her ability as an actress. Her name even surpassed that of Sarah Bernhardt, who for years held first place in the lists of actresses. You ask me if Eula Tucker was single? Foolish question! for even in her last year at P. H. S. she had a Groom. But there are many more statues equally as famous so let's hasten on. This is Ethelyn Weaverlingf' the guide informed me as I stood gazing at a beautiful figure, 'Ashe who by her bash- ful meditative manner won the respect and admiration of all her schoolmates, just as she won the love of the public. And most wonderful of all nature's freaks, was the fact that this lady taught school all the days of her lifeg refused to support a husband, and above all re- tained her good looks even until old maidismfl fThink you not that she de- serves her place?J f'The next figure is of one who has won the applause of thousands through that magnetic thing known as voice. Edna Benedict, after finishing her work at P. H. S. decided that her life could best be given to aid suffering humanity, through her voice. She was accepted as a Reeder by the Lyceum Lecture Bureau, and the first reading she gave, which was before an audience of ten thousand was entitled, When I was Single. And from that day to this no name has ranked higher in the castle of fame than the little girl's whom the P. H. S. stud- ents knew as Ted, But my guide is fairly pulling me along so I must leave that image and view the others. That is the statute of Mildred Mar- tin, he said, fthe greatest vocalist known for ages. Have you never heard