Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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WVATMC BELIEVE IT OR NOT l' june l9l3 the lawn mowers in Forest Park were condemned. At the suggestion of Dwight T. Davis, then park commissioner, thirty sheep were purchased and turned loose in Forest Park. Before being turned loose, the sheep were sheared and the profit from the sale of the wool was spent to buy eight more sheep. Mr. Davis expected the sheep to keep the grass short and believed uthat there would be no further use for the lawn mowers except around entrance gates. Star-Times Clipping of l9l3. Forest Park, containing l,380 acres, is the third largest park in America. Art Hill, the largest natural arphitheatre in the world, was the council grounds of the great Indian nations of the past. It can accommodate between 75,000 and l00,000 people. BONNIE LEE DE GONIA NIGHT Hazy moonlight-golden soft-- Paints a path across the lake. Tiny stars peep from aloft Down upon the sleeping brake. Far into the vault of night The wandering clouds haue flown- Billowing in trackless flight Into the great unknown. Crooning breezes kiss the trees- Green leaves tremble with delight- Night hawks call their rhapsodies That echo strangely in the night. -Lester Epstein Term 7 Q .N C. uf J Twenty-Hue

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WVAJSI on the way, be sure to keep your eyes open for a red-head, for we have to get a red hair somewhere. just as we were nearing the bird cage, jerry dashed off like a real sprinter. What's the big attraction? Walt asked Janet. Ml don't know.--Oh, yes, l do. lt's a red-head, replied Janet. ul-le's returning now at full speed. Must have good news. Whew, ejaculated Jerry when he had caught his breath. Well, l got the hair. l had an awful time talking her into giving it to me, but she did finally consent. just then we spied another group of our scavenger hunters, who were not so successful with their collection. We'd better hurry, anyway, urged Walt. We got our Capybara description from one of the zoo attendants. Upon checking up on our list, found that we had only two more things to get: colored water from the fountain and a spinning top from a Cracker jack box. We were rather tired at this stage of the game anyway, so we decided that some refreshments might renew our energy. First, we bought some soda, but we saved some of it for the fountain water, since the fountain wasn't running. Then we bought some Cracker jacks, hoping to get a spinning top in one of the boxes. First, janet opened her box. instead of a spinning top, her prize was a little tin bracelet that broke the first time she wore it. Walt opened his box next. How disgusting! A watch! Then l opened my box, and just imagine my thrill when I saw a little tin tank to be used when playing Hsoldieru. Well, ,Ierry's box was our last hope, for we needed just this one thing to complete our collection. We weren't superstitious, but, nevertheless, we held our thumbs while Jerry hastily opened the box. Oh, joyl There was a spinning top. Triumphant, we hurried back to the camping grounds where a welcome fire was crackling, for the air had begun to grow cool as the sun sank. After we had taken our fill of good things to eat, the scavenger collections were judged, and who do you think won? We did, by a spinning top and a pollywogl CAROLYN LORENZ MIDNIGHT Ghosls stalk the moor at midnight, The winds whine and twist over slushy, heathered earth after the rain. The lank hound bemoans the potential advent of the day, Fallen, monster irees lie upon the earth like naked, unburied corpses, While worms, devouring the flesh of the dead, grouel in the glory of the dirt. -Bob Lewis Term 2 Twenty-four

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Q A VERITABLE JEWEL BOX OMPARATIVELY few Saint Louisans have knowledge of and take advantage of what has been called the most charming single attrac- tion in the Saint Louis Park System, the Jewel Box, a greenhouse in Forest Park, located near Clayton Road and Oakland. It is open from the first Sunday in November to Mothers' Day in May, 8:00 A. M. to 5:00 P. M. daily. Here monthly floral displays attract as many as 250,000 visitors annually. There is an annual Christmas display with the dark green of priceless palms- seventy-five years old and without equal in the United States-contrasted with the bright red of poinsettias. Here at Easter time a magnificent cross of pure white lilies is displayed, while white doves flutter around a tinkling fountain. Other displays, those of chrysanthemums, of spring flowers, of cinerarias, are equally attractive. When this beauty spot was built and developed by John Moritz, over thirty years ago, it was called the Show House. It was after an incident that occurred in l925 that it came to be known as the Jewel Box. Mrs. Wilhelmina Becker was so impressed by the charm of the display as she entered that she exclaimed What a veritable jewel box! The phrase stuck, and soon the name Jewel Box was in common use. The Jewel Box has many ardent patrons. When the recent shift in party power in the city resulted in the dismissal of the head gardener at the Jewel Box, the change was deplored by many in editorials and newspaper articles. These flower lovers feared that the high quality of the floral displays would be impaired, that the high traditions of the Jewel Box would be lost, killed by party politics. Their fears have been proved groundless, for nothing has changed for the worse. Perhaps chiefly responsible for this beauty was Henry Ochs, the Horal artist who designed and constructed all shows in the Jewel Box until his death last winter. Mr. Ochs graduated from Shaw's Garden, the Shaw School of Botany, Washington University, and the Chicago School of Art, spending four years in each institution. After prospering for fourteen years in private floral business, designing many displays for leading florists here, he came to the Jewel Box in I 928. Unaffected by party changes, he considered himself above politics. It is hard to believe that such a small, shabby building can house such magnificent jewels. Along the outside walls there is a motley array of wheel- barrows, flower-pots, and old boards. Inside, the floor space measures only twenty-seven by ninety feet. All the props needed in displays were constructed by Henry Ochs in a nearby workshop from odds and ends. However, a new day seems to be dawning for the display house. A new and better Jewel Box is being planned. lt will be just north of the present one. According to present specifications, it is to be a modernistic Twenty-six