Spartanburg High School - Spartana Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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16 The Scribbler maka money, zat she is married and happy, but she luff to work. Zat Mary Williard and she make ze agreement zat if zey ever marry, zey will keepa on workin’, but zat Mary, when she marry, go backa on ze agreement. She live in a small town. She haff her home, her car, her husband. She so happy. She tella her zat ze tea room iss so nice, zat Doris use ze fly catcher zat Frank Hagood invented. Frank such a great inventor. He maka ze pompourdorine for ze hair. It maka it slick back. Frank use it himself. Ze laidies ver’ fond of Frank. He is ze Beau Brummel. She tella of ze people zat come to ze tea room. Theopa Turner comes ver’ often. She lika to eat. She iss a stenographer. She chew chewing gum while she typewrite. She always chew chewin’ gum. She inves’ her money in ze chewin’ gum factory. She hope to own one some day. Zen, zere is Austin Connors. He famous statesman. He maka many speeches. He so busy zat he need ze adviser. Verbie Hallman maka fine adviser—she so smart. She tella him everything to do, from ze girls he like to ze speeches he make. Zen, James West bringa his wife zere for dinner. His wife so nice. Ada lika her. She ver’ rich. She tippa Ada. James iss ze principal of ze school. He maka a fine one. He ver’ strict. Ze pupils is scared of him. Mary Johnson iss an old-maid hairdresser. She runna ze beauty parlor. She come ver’ often. With, comes ze old-maid school teacher. It iss Amilee Smith. She teacha ze science, ze mathematics. She ver’ fine teacher. Florella Alexander coma wi’ zem sometime, but she canna come so ver’ often. She iss married. She singa in ze church choir. Annie Bowen buya ze cakes, ze bread. She keepa house for ze busy mother of a family. She maka a good housekeeper. She haff such good things to eat. Margaret admire ver’ much ze lil’ cap and apron zat Ada wear. Ada say zat she buya it from Helen Wright and Helen Wilburn. Zey haff a famous dressmaking establishment. It iss called “Helen and Helen.” Ze people like zere clothes. Ada see ze dress on Lucy Creech, zeir model. She maka fine model. She luff to hold out her hands and show off ze clothes. Ada show Margaret a picture, an’ ask if she know who it iss. Margaret do not know,

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The Scribbler 15 ze laidee to marry him. Zey will elope! Ze two professors discuss ze news from zere porches. As zey go to zere classes, zey talk of other things—how zey will see ze famous Peyre Kennedy knock ze home run at ze ball game. He ver’ famou player. He play in ze big league. Zey discuss ze latest book, it iss written by Mamie Lou Brown. It iss ver’ romantic— ver’ full of luff. “Zen, ze news iss carried to ze busy office. It iss ze office of Margaret Law. She haf been married—one, two, three times! She now know so much about ze way to get husbands zat she decide she will help other women who do not seem to know how to get them. She conduct ze husband trunk—ah, zat iss not right—ze matrimonial bureau. She auso ver’ glad at ze news of ze paper. She zen open her other mail. It iss all ze same—much requests for husbands— much requests for wives. One of ze letters iss from Mr. Fish—I mean Mr. Bates. He wanta a wife. He wanta her quick. He know not how to get her. He haf already proposed to all ze women zat he knows, an’ zey do not want to marry. Margaret smile. She know why zey won’t marry him. He iss too changeable. He do not stick. He wuz zat way when he went to school. She will helpa him. She will tella him of his mistake. Margaret opens another letter. It iss from a person she do not know. He tella her of ver’ rich, ver’ beautiful, ver’ charming laidee zat he wanta marry. She iss of society. She iss Alice Crutchfield. She do not want to marry. She haff too good a time. She haf many beaus. Ze young man’s heart is broken—busted. He do not know what to do. Margaret do not either. She remember zat Alice always treat her sweethearts zat way. “It iss time for her lunch, but she haff no time to go to it. She go to ze tea room. It iss called ‘ze Doris Ballenger Tea Room.’ She did not know zat Doris haff a tea room, but zen she haff been away so long. She enter, an’ sit down. It ver’ nice tea room, but she shocked zat zere iss no waitress. She looka around for her, and see her at ze gentleman’s table. It iss Ada Childress! She no longer shocked. She remember how ver’ fond Ada iss of ze boys. Ada ver’ glad to see her. She tella her much news. She says zat Doris

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The Scribbler 17 but she see in ze corner, ‘Always Charles Gould.’ Ada say zat he iss ver’ famous movie star, zat all ze girls is crazy about him, and zat he sella his picture for twenty-five cents to zem. Ada haff zis one. Louise McMillan also haff one. She iss become ze professor at Wofford. She fond of ze boys. Ruth Sanders—she also haff one. She iss ze dashin’ young widow. Zat iss all ze news Ada knows. But she bringa Margaret a sandwich. It taste like ze sandwiches Doris used to bringa to school. It iss so good. Margaret zen leaves. She thinka, ‘O, what a gossip zat Ada iss!’ But she ver’ glad to hear ze news zat she tella her. “Zat afternoon, Margaret go to ze fair. She laff when looka at ze frolic. She ’member how she used to be so scared to ride on it. Now, it looka like ze flyin’ jenny to her. It iss so tame. Only ze babies ride on it. Ze other people whirl ’round ze air in ze aeroplanes. Somebody speaka to her. She recognize ze speaker. Zere iss no other like him. It iss Burette Tillinghast. He haff become ze Professor of English. He auso writa ze English grammar. He dedicate it to Mees Atkins, because she tella him zat he ought to write one when he grow up. He know so much more zan ze author of ze book he study know zat he dispute him often. Zat is why she tella him to write it. As Margaret go on, she hear a voice telling her zat ze Wild West Show ver’ fine. Ze voice sound familiar. It iss Garland Taylor’s. He convince Margaret zat ze show iss good, so she go in. Zere is many cow girls. Zere iss one wi’ black curls. It is Maud Duncan. Margaret not surprised when she remember zat Maud come from Texas and zat she ver’ fond of it. Maud ver’ bad, ver’ mischievous. When she recognize Maragaret, she leave the stage. She do not care whether she break up ze show or not. She tella Maragaret zat Ruth Gossett is auso in ze show, but zat she iss not zere this afternoon. Maud haff not married. She haf a farmer beau, whom she luff, but she will not marry because she iss scared she will get fat in ze country. She mus’ stay in ze city. But she will marry him soon. She will get ver’ fat auso. She will make a fine farmer’s wife. I see lil’ accident. It iss an automobile accident. Ze automobile iss a truck. Maud maka ze accident