Santa Ana High School - Ariel Yearbook (Santa Ana, CA)

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SENIOR PROPHECY Items Taken From the Daily Prevaricator -News of the Week For the Busy Man ONDERFUL INVENTIONS-It has been many years it since a certain Luther Burbank made daisies intocrysanthemums, but Louis Robinson has U E Q1 since then accomplished a wonder which will soon make him world renowned: A turkey all AX made of second joints. ' , Bachelor Tax Bill-The bill to tax unmarried males of twenty-five years and over is trembling in the balance in the Senate. Miss Beulah Matthews is hurrying post haste to Washington to use her influence for its passage. It is said she wields a decided iniluence over certain Senators whose votes are needed. It is also rumored that she is personally interested in its passage. - Famous Authoress in Poverty-Harriet Barclay, a well-known American authoress, has been taken to the home for indigent authors, poets, etc., prematurely broken in health. For several years she is said to have lived on seven and one-half cents a day. Her best known books are, The Seamy Side of Life, Cram- ming, Woman's Rights and How to Get Them and She Stoops to Bow. Railroad to be Organized-Mr. Eugene Robinson, for years chief auditor of the Huntington system, has been engaged by the government at a princely salary, to provide a practicalsystem for running the railroads under government ownership. Although all passenger service is now handled by the Air Lines, yet an im- mense amount of freight is carried by railroads. School Teachers Meet-This past week, in Corona Del Mar, the National School Teachers' Association met in their annual convention. Many interesting papers were read, chief among

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PATSY 13 down at the breakfast table in a morbid state of mind. Suddenly I heard low barks and ominous growls, and, on going outside I saw Patsy and Deacon Brown's mastiif engaged in a deadly iight. The pup had been dragged into the yard and was whining piteously, while his mother was slowly, but surely being beaten by the mastiff. The piteous cries of the helpless pup urged me to rush into the midst of the Hght. Not a second was to be spared. With all the grim perseverence of her breed, Patsy had fought her best, but even the endurance of a bull-dog has a limit and by the time I had choked her antagonist into submis- sion, Patsy lay on the ground a bleeding, mutilated piece of flesh, with a broken leg. No longer did I think of her beauty or of winning her loveg but moved whollyiby pity, took her into' the house, cleansed her wounds and splinted her leg. For three weeks she was helpless, but the trouble she had given me was well repaid. Her eccentric nature was changed. All the loathing and fierce hate in which she had held human being was changed into boundless love for me. Never for a mo- ment does she leave meg when I am seated, she is, as you see, under my chairg at night she lies in my room, and all this faith- fulness and love is paid for with a kindly glance and a little food. 'clsnlt that so? he said stroking Patsy's head, and she answered by licking his fingers. - Siamley Visa! Here's to the boy with the peg-top trousers, Blucher shoes and noisy tie, Here's to the boy who likes rough houses, Jolly boy of Santa Ana High. -Exchange

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SENIOR PROPHECY 15 them being, Was Shakespeare or Was He Not, by Ethel Wright, and The Control of the Emotions, by Florence Doig. Head of Missionary Society-Miss Virginia Burns, for several years taking charge of the Head of the National Missionary So- ciety in Greece, has returned to America. Call to theWild-eSti11 urged by the' old time spirit of her youth of never having enough to do, Miss Larter has been inspired to make an extended trip into Iceland to hunt for the lost races. Startling Death-One of the strangest deaths occured recently when the former Miss Elva Uttley was killed by having a cake that she had just baked, thrown at her by her enraged husband. It is thought that she died without suffering. At the Auditorium-The Auditorium was crowded last even- ing to hear Rev. Jim Smart lecture on, How I Made the Can- nibals Tremblef' Judging from the volume of his voice and the depths from whence it came, we do not wonder that they trembled. Nurses for the Orient-Last Week the Hasty Sisters boarded an airship bound for the Chinese Republic. They are going by special request of the Chinese President to establish a Red Cross nursing system in the Chinese army. ' Dr. Schroeder Advises Against Classics- High School gradu- ates are not gifted with sufficient art to enable them to play the classics well. This was one of the statements of Dr. Lillie Schroeder, the distinguished professor of dramatic literature at the Wellesly College, in a lecture on The H. S. and the Drama. 'Way Down West,' 'Barbara Fetchit' or 'The County Boss,' would be far more suitable, declared this estiniable Professor. Art Colony-Miss Wells left today to join the Art Colony in the South Sea. This unique colony was founded by this talented lady and is the absolute art center of the world. ' Noted Woman Suffrage Leader-Miss Edna Foote 'stopped here a few hours on her way to South America where she is to open her next campaign. W0rld's Fair at Tokio in 1930-One of the most pleasing features on the Midway is to be in charge of Mr. Saito who