Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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steeple of a great Cathedral. The machine being badly damaged fell to the ground, severely injuring a very wealthy woman, the wife of the greatest doctor In the west. The ambulance was at the spot almost before the aeroplane reached the ground. A nurse, meek in deportment and plainly dressed, for nurses cannot dress extravagantly, you know, stepped from the ambulance, and immediately recognizing the woman in the airship, went around to the rear of the car, put the receiver of the wireless telephone instrument to her ear and called for this wonderful doctor. He soon came and said to the nurse, “How is she, Myrtle?” Well, doctor, she is pretty badly hurt, but all she wants is to see you, come this way to her apartments.” The doctor went, and Nora upon seeing him, said, “O you don’t need to worry, Virgil, I’m all right.” The doctor in surprise that she could speak, dropped his case containing a bottle of liouid air which exploded. Just then I sat up, Miss Kreuger came into the room and ft',, You had better run along home now, Mary, it’s getting

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■ in. She saw the state of affairs, and, “Roscoe, why did you ever let Johnny in the glue pot,” she said; ‘‘Why, I couldn’t help it, Mae, don’t you see 1 was busy,” he answered. The picture now changed to a small country tow,n. It was a fair day and the circus tents were brilliant with flags and posters. I saw the interior of the side show tent and all the curious people in the side show. Very prominent among them I noticed the fat girl. She was most elegantly gowned in the very height of fashion. She had dark brown hair and brown eyes, she was very much like someone I knew. Then she walked across the platform. I knew that walk, but, no it couldn’t be. Then to her attendant she said, ‘‘Well, what in Sam Hill is that?” My suspicions were confirmed. It was Evelyn. Then taking the place of this fading picture I saw Mt. Hamilton and on its summit the great Lick Observatory. I saw myself going into this magnificient building, where I was met by a very enthusiasitc woman, who seemed to be one of the most important personages of this institution. She led me into the great room containing the telescope and bade me look through the 36 inch lense, asking me to see some of the wonders beyond our small sphere in the infinite vault of the heavens. I looked and saw a star which she had recently discovered. It was 4,274,-880, 221 and one-half miles from the earth, she said; also that it took four years, seven months for its light to reach us; that it was 4 hours, 20 minutes right asceniton and 4 0 degrees declination; and its orbit was eliptical and required 6,093 years to make one revolution. She also said that she had made all these calculations herself and that she thought it magnificient, wonderful, to be able to make such wonderful discoveries and calculations. The voice telling me this seemed familiar, although in the dark I could not see her face, but was greatly impressed with the power for mathematical conclusions hidden in the brain of this wonderful woman. As we were going out we came into a lighted hallway. I turned and saw her face, and lo, it was Casia Phelan. The picture vanished and in its place I saw a broad, green lawn with a tall square building standing in the center. On the lawn were many little children, mostly girls, and of all descriptions, dressed exactly alike in dark blue dresses and snowy white pinafores. It was an Orphan’s home. Then from the dcor of the house came a woman, the matron of the Orphan’s Home. She was a very sweet faced woman, dressed very plainly and her hair drawn back quite severely. She looked very serene and happy in the midst of her little charges, for Aida had not changed much. Again (the picture shifted to Rawlins, that great metropolis of the wefet. Over the city an airship was flying, returning from an extended trip to Europe. The pilot becoming careless hit the

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Breathes there a man with soul so dead,, Who never to himself hath said, When he aimed at a taek and missed the head, “Blankety, Blank, Blank, Blank.” Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said As he stubbed his toe against the bed: “All policemen have big feet.” There is a High School in our town Whose Seniors have won much renown, They often essayed Some wild escapade And the Faculty wore a perpetual frown. -----------had a little plan, Which was against the rule, She told it to her classmates And they gilded up the school. ---------- had a lizard She took to school one day, It nearly caused a panic. The results—we need not say. —x— When a Freshman doesn’t hear plainly the teacher’s question, he says in a subdued voice: “Pardon me, Teacher, but I did not understand your question.” The Sophomore says: “Will you please re- peat your question?” The Junior says: “What, Sir?” The Senior says: “Huh.”