Sedgwick High School - Comet Yearbook (Sedgwick, ME)

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14 THE until eight? My, you must burn out a lot of kerosene! Oh, you have your house wired for electricity. Do the wires give as much light as lamps did? You don't have wires? VVhat is it, a wireless? Some one wants the line, I guess we'd better hang up. It seems as though I'd-just begun. Well, if the radio is good tonight, I'll call you up and let you listen. Yes, you can hear. Illl call up tonight. Good- bye. ' -H. A., '29, .. -T-0 i-1 A MUSIC PERIOD. I think we will take this period for music, Mr. Flye informs the de- lighted students. After some com- motion the students are arranged in various seats, altos in one row, sopranos in another. Meanwhile, Mr. Flye has been putting a staff on the board and writing in a scale. Miss Brown, what is the signa- ture of this scale? Mr. Flye is be- ginning the drill. B flat, answers' Miss Brown, promptly. McOarthy? One flat, answers John, some- what doubtfully. Right The11 in what key is this written, Miss Ferguson? Key of F, replies Miss Fergu- son, after some hesitation, during which whispered sounds of F-F- F are heard all over the room. After a little more drill Mr. Flye sounds a note on the piano. Now give do. A rather feeble response. Good big do. A much louder tone is the encouraging result. All right. Then pointing to the staff on the blackboard, Sing, COMET Do-re -mi- fa-sol-sol-fa-mi- re - do, sings the school joyfully. Again, requests the teacher, and again the school sings up to sol and down to do. After this demonstration, Mr. Flye says nothing, but walks to the piano, sounds do, and looks at his charges with a very expressive face. After the general exclamation of surprise, he explains, You see you iiatted. Now give do. And again the school responds weakly, calling forth the usual exclamation, O, a good big do After the students have sung up and down the scale a number of times, Mr. Flye begins pointing to the notes in irregular order. After a particularly harsh note is heard, he sighs deeply and sounds the note on the piano. A group of girls seems to find something irresistibly funny in the discovery that they have been the correct 'pitch is start anew. girls are very sure which note Mr. Flye 17' . wrong. Again given and they Some of the that they know is going to point at next, but pride gets a fall when they confidently soar to sol when the note designated is mi. Some are singing mi on the pitch of sol. The effect is disheartening and calls forth a corresponding lecture, after which they wait very cautiously to be sure on just which note the pointer will fall. After many dis- cordant tones, Mr. Flye's supply of courage is exhausted. He erases the staff, he writes a new one, placing on its lines and spaces an easier scale. Now give do! very pa- tiently Only one voice is heard, and that on a pitch far from correct. The process of sounding the note on

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THE COMET 13 i11g, this time, with less impatience, for we knew that we should soon see him for the last time. The crowd spread along the beach, waiting for him to hop off. When the tide was nearly at its lowest point, the State police rode up and down the beach, pushing back the crowd, which surged forward again as soon as the motorcycles passed. Suddenly the silver-colored mono- plane was wheeled out into the open. How bright it looked with the sun shining on it! After a short time Lindbergh climbed up to his seat and an attempt was made to whirl the propeller. But what was the trouble? It didn't whirl! Then Lindbergh jumped out, gave the propeller a little twist, a turn, and - there it goes! Now it is running along the beach. See! it is rising, rising! The people are cheering, waving. See! Lind- bergh waves! He flies out over the crowd, out over a little steamer which is blowing. There he goes, almost up sideways, not straight up in the air. Here he comes back over the crowd again. Once more he waves. How perfectly at home he seems! A bit more stunt flying, and away he goes -off to Portland. Good-bye and good luck, Lindbergh! -M. L. C., '28, . 0-Li ONE SIDE OF A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION. Hello! Is this you, Cora? No, I didn't ring four, I rang twelve. Hello. Cora? Yes, I rang two or three times. What? Your cow is sick? I'm sorry. What is the mat- ter? Have you had the doctor yet? Hello, -hello -Q What is the mat- ter with this line? Why, your voice sounds a long way off. What say? Yes, sl1e walks to school, it is quite a distance but she doesn't mind it. When is your brother coming? Some one told me he was coming tomor- row to stay a mo11th. What? His tooth bothers him? Is that why he is coming? Yes, I understand, you said nervous breakdown. Oh, I for- got to say that a social is to be held at the K., of P. hall tonight fring- ring-ringj . IVhy do folks always want this li11e when I am talking to you? We never talk long at a time. What is that terrible noise? The telephone never works well whe11 we try to talk, I'm going to call up the operator when I get through talking with you. What? A rat ran off with all your little chickens? Oh, excuse me, I can 't hear very well today. It was a cat in- stead of a rat. Have you heard one of the new radios yet? Yes, Hiram went down to Ralph Buck's yester- day and brought one home, and we've got it set up. All I could hear last night was a hive of bees and some- thing called static. NVell, they said last night was a bad night, but they always have some excuse if they want to sell something. Just before I called you up I said to myself, 'I'll turn one of the knobs,' and, my, what a noise! A woman was singing and she sounded just like a sereech-owl. What's that? You'd like to have a radio? Well, I'll let you have this one. Did you say your husband doesn't like them? Well, I don't much blame him. Hiram wants to keep this one, but I'm afraid it will keep him up late nights. What, you don't go to bed

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THE COMET' 15 the piano is repeated. After a steady drill of ten minutes over only four notes, the students are trained to give any note on true pitch, but by this time the period is over. Now our time is up, we've spent the whole period on live notes. What shall I conclude? That you don't want to do this? Exactly. And the students go back to their seats, sad- der and wiser for the music period. -M. L. C., '28. 0-l VICTROLA VS. RADIO. Mr. Hatch leaned back in his arm- chair, a look of disgust on his face. Really, Mary, you must admit that the victrola has its advantages. Well, I suppose so, but I don't think of any at present. Enumerate them, please. My victrola will play anything for me at any time. It is better to listen to well-chosen records than to such a program as we had on the radio tonight, isn't it? That cer- tainly was awful, made up entirely of jazz and silly jokes, and there was so much static I could hardly hear enough to form a connected idea. Oh, dad! T'onight's program wasn't a fair example of what this radio can do. There is rarely any static, the program tonight wasn't all jazz and foolish jokes, but, as you said, the static prevented our get- ting the complete thought. Well, a victrola is never bothered by static, is it? No-o, but - Point number one in favor of the victrola! Then I don 't have to wait for a certain hour to hear a program, which perhaps I wo11't like after I've waited. If I feel like jazz, or sacred music, or comic selections, I can have them, at any hour. Isn't that an ad- vantage? Why, yes, I suppose so, ac- knowledged Mary. Point number two for the vic- trola, remarked her father, sitting up and warming to his subject. Moreover, if I hear a selection that I like, I can buy it and have it ready to be played at any time. On your radio, however, if you happen to hear a song that you like very much, the 11ame of which you do not know, you cannot buy it or request that it be' sung again? If you do know the name you may buy the song, but, at that, you ,lose the voice of the singer. Isn't record buying another point for my machine? 1 Yes, but I- That's three points I've proved, he observed with satisfaction. Now, do I ever have to wait to have the batteries charged in my victrola? Or do I have to wait fifteen or twenty minutes for static to clear up before I can get what I want? Do I? No, of course not. Then that's two more points - I have five now. If I took time to give serious thought to the question I could doubtless think of many more. But that's five, just off- hand. And the old gentleman leaned back in his armchair, Well pleased with himself for having van- quished his daughter. Very well, but you haven 't looked at the question from my view-point yet, retorted Mary, sitting up, her eyes flashing, not in anger but in love of argument. I admit that all these characteristics are advantages, .but