R J Reynolds High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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40 THE BLACK AND GOLD. quence 5 for While his be-tter-half, Cornelia Taylor, Was flaunt- ing the banners, he Was at home cooking dinner. The picture of a little Inn in California, With the quaint inscription, For Single Ladies Only, attracted my atten- tion. Standing in the door of the Inn Were the proprietresses, Mary Jones and Ethel Grubbs. They seemed to be thriving and prosperous. They were talking with a stout, haughty looking lady, Who was Waiting for her automobile to turn 5 the noted Novelist, Audrey Ellis. Audrey's best bo-ok, as I read below, For Love's Sweet Sake, had run through its fifth edition Within the past year. The next bit of interest Was that Mary Grogan had success- fully cultivated her vo-cal chords, and was novv as s-oul-thrill- ing singer. Large audiences were Wont to assemble for the express purpose of hearing her -sing, for she could Warble like a bird, at one time 'bringing a flo-od of tears to the eyes of her hearers, or making them burst into an uproar of laughteiz The next page Was entirely devoted to the advertisement of the great bargains to be had at the gre-atest barbain store in the city, that of the prosperous merchant, Moses Shapiro. These bargains Were 'being offered in honor of the tenth an- niversary of this successful business house. ' As I next learned Irene Morris and Sadie Green were run- ning a hair dressing establishment in Norfolk, handling With the greatest skill and artistic care the latest styles of head dress, While Mary Sledge and Gorrell Matlock, recently grad- uated from St. Leo's Hospital in the same city, were itene-rating through the country, administering to the si-ck, free of charge, and giving particular attention to male patients. Jessie James was the next person I recognized in my b-0-ok of visions. What more appropriate than that she should be the happy Wife of a Texas Cowboy? But think of Sudie By- erly posing as a fortune-teller! I could hardly believe my eyes, when I read that quiet, gentle 'Sudie Was the World7s Great Clairvoyant. But the Wonders grew. As I turned to

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THE BLACK AND GCLD. 39 mortgage, and ofere-d to sell the home at public auction. When the energetic little auctioneer began the s-ale, a 'deep voice sud- denly bid highest, and the property wa.s bought and presented to the thankful old maids by a bachelor who had the reputa- tion of being mighty in heart a.s well as pocketbook, David Crawford. With eyes full of tears, the next. page carried me to a more joyful scene. A beautiful church wedding was soon to be celebrated in New York, and the bride and groom-to-be were none but my old friends, Fay Naylor and Velsor Langley. On the next page, I learned the interesting news that Donna Henry had gone as a missionary to China, and th-at Harry Dalton, the silver tongued orator of High School Days, had just been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey and was soon to sail with his fair bride, Margaret Gray. Next was the life-sized picture of Ernest Hedgecock, chief of professional ballplayers, the pride of VVinstfon-Sialem. He was ahead of Ty Cobb himself, and every -small boy longed to possess his picture, which was obtained from smoking tobacco packages. As I turned the next page, the flaming letters of Martin and Mill-oway's Great Circus caught my eye. Slowly a gre-at tent came into my view, where all the wonders of the world were being exhibited. Among them the famous lady, bare-back rider, Mary Horton, and the professi-onal lion-tamer, Percy Garner, attracted the most attention. It was a scene in New York that next caught my attention. Thousands of women were par-ading the streets under flaming banners proclaimiing, Woman's Rights and Suffrage forever! to my horror, I recognized two of my class-mates leading the procession, Grace Bynum and May Norman. On the next page, I learned that it was owing to the fiery speeche-s of that ardent womanfs Rights advocate, the Honor- able Luther Ferrell, th-at these girls had become co-nverfted to the movement. But alas, as I read further down tlhe page, I learned that poor Luther wa-s already repenting his elo-

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THE BLACK AND GULD. 41 the neXt page, a Vision of loveliness burst upon my eyes, and I beheld Essie Wilkinson, the belle of the ball room. This page was blank, but as I looked, a field scene gradually came before my views. Then suddenly -a great shadow fell upon the picture, and lowoking up, I saw an aeroplane soaring above the field. As it came down lower, I discovered a bright red -spot hanging over the axirship. I was greatly -alarmed, tihinking perhaps it was on fire. But just then I heard -a fami- liar voice from the clouds exclaim, U 'Fessor, h-ow d-oes this thing work, anyhow? I immediately spotted the red ball as nothing else in the world but the head of my old school- mate, Arthur Hauser. An explanation of this was given below. My old teacher, Mr. L. Lea White, had recently won his fame by inventing the only aeroplane in the world run by an electrical current. His faithful followers, Arthur Hauser, was now junior partner of the airship, and his highest ambition was to be just like his H 'Fessorf' But what of myself? With trembling hand, I turned to the last page, and behold--only a blank! VVith a crash the book fell to the floor. Tip-tap, sounded the gentle rain, write, write, it seemed to say, and with the visions fresh in my mind, I wrote as record- ed in the book of my dreams.