Spencer High School - Spencerian Yearbook (Spencer, IN)

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1926 SPENCERIAN 23 Z Tut: Say, folks, there's one person I'm very anxious to know about. Do you happen to have any news of Leona Ferguson? Were she and Ralph married? We expected it right after graduation, you know. Jack: Strange things do happen sometimes donchaknow? As you say we all thought they'd soon be out on Rattlesnake contentedly raising pigs and chickens. But no, I was talking to a fellow the other day who knows Ralph very intimately, and he told me about their whole affair. It seems the two had a grand row on that dav of all days, their wedding day over the age-old question as to who should be head of the house and the parson had to go back home without a marriage fee. Ralph claimed he was the rightful head of the house, and I don't say he was wrong, and Leona vowed arild Eileclared she was. They couldn't agree, so they agreed to disagree, eh w a . Frances: That's right. But neither of them has ever married. Tut: Still, true to their first love, I suppose. I'll wager Ralph dons his Sunday suit every Saturday night, and armed with a bunch of posies and a box of Rexall chocolates, goes down to lay siege to his lady-love. But I'll bet it's all in vain. They're both too stubborn to give in, and before the evening's over they're probably iighting worse than cats and dogs. Frances: I hope it all comes out all right some time for them. My! Jack! Fm glad we never have any trouble like that. CLooks across smilingly at ack. Jack: So'm I. You make a jolly good little boss, Frank. Tut: By the way, have you heard about Thelma Britton. lJack and Frances shake their heads.J She vamped Herbert Lockwood and they are so happy together. Herbert is really perfectly devoted to his beloved Thelma, and does nothing all day long but make things pleasant for her. Jack: Say, doncha remember how Bernice Ooley and Josephine Rundell used to kid themselves about going to be old maids? Tut: Yes, I do, Bernice and Jo were such friends. Now they are living in luxury in wonderful apartments in New York. Frances: You don't say so. I was wondering the other day if Jo ever married Rupert. Tut: No, she never did. You know they used to laugh about her name meaning Egyptian dancer? Well, after she finished four years at In- diana University, she suddenly became very graceful, and now is the most distinguished dancer in New York. Jack: Well, well: And how about Bernice Ooley. Tut: Bernice has made her fortune bv inventing a steam-engine with a carburetor and efficiency 100 per cent. She's in line for the Nobel prize. Jack: Ha! Ha! How we teased those girls about a carburetor on a steam engine when we took Physics. Frances: And she never married? Tut: No. They say she is engaged to a Count and will not tell his name. Frances: What a mysterious affair! Jack: Have we forgotten anybody? Let me see. QPauses a moment.J Why, we left out Cheese Raper, eh what? mnvmTufmmHm AAf' Love is like thc measles-you have to have it.

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1926 SPENCERIAN 22 53 11111111 fFrances and Jack gaze at each other in wonder and surprise.J lMark sings.J Frances: Well, did you ever. To think you tuned in, and as luck would have it got Mark. So he married Virginia. That's the greatest surprise yet. But she fairly worshipped him in high school. Jack: Say, Frank, it's mighty queer how many of the old class of '26 we've accidentally run into today, donchaknow? Have you stopped to think? Wonder what's become of the rest of 'em. It's strange what thoughts a fellow does have-just sitting here reminiscing. fDoor-bell rings, Frances, goes to the door, and ushers in Hop Sing, a Chinese laundry-man.J Hop Sing: Hop Sing bringee home the laundree. Sorry so late. Them classy boys they florglot it. They maka me slick. Frances looks at the laundryman fixedly for a few minutes, then cries out excitedly: Why Tut! Tut Noel! It's you! tShe grabs his hand, and pumps it madly. Jack gazes in dumbfoundedj You were Hop Sing in the opera, Once in a Blue Moon, and now are you really a Chinaman? Tut: Didn't know whether you would recognize your old friend or not. It's been ages since I have seen you. Frances: I didn't know you at first because you seem so much like a Chinaman. Tut: Oh, I'm the manager of a big laundry, and mingling with so many Chinamen, one naturally takes up their ways. Nearly everybody thinks I'm the real thing. Frances: I suppose you're still an old bachelor? Tut Cemphaticallyb : Well, I should say not! I've got a peach of a wife. Mary and I've been married five years. Jack Un surpriseb Mary! Tut: Yes, Mary, Mary Hardin. Surely you haven't forgotten her. QRe- lapses into broken Englishj She velly good cook. Cookee Hop Sing rice, Chop Suey. Yum yum. fSmacks his lips.J Frances: Will Wonders ever cease! Nothing can surprise me now. Jack: Say, Tut, do you remember that Chinese song you sang in the opera we gave when we graduated. Sing it for us, won't you? Tut: Sure Mike. fSings Chinese song.J Jack: You know. Tut, it's funny but Frank and I happened to run across so many of our old classmates today. I wonder what has happened to the rest of them. Let's sit down and just talk over old times. Tut: I'm with you. fThey sit before the fire.J Frances: My, my, such a lot has happened the last ten years. Have you any first-hand knowledge of any of the old bunch, Tut? Tut: Mary had a letter from Elma Dillon yesterday. She's the Dean of Women at Romona College, and is making a big success there. We asked her to come over this summer and spend a month With us. Frances: Fine. We'll all have to have a house party. Elma will enjoy the East. Every fool has his day.

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rf 4 J 1926 SPENCERIAN 24 Frances: O yes. The last I knew anything about Cheese he was wildly in love with Mary Eakin. They had a big quarrel but after they made up they were better friends than ever. Why, Cheese was worse than Mary's lamb in the Mother Goose rhymes. Everywhere that Mary went, Cheese was sure to go. Tut: Well, you'll be surprised then. Cheese waited patiently for Mary, but she suddenly jilted him and ran away with Ed Davidson. Frances fsympatheticallyj: Poor Cheese. Tut: And then do you know he went into a decline. His beauty faded, and it seemed as though he would die of a broken heart. To hasten on his premature death he tried to take rat poison twice. It wouldn't kill him, and he gave it up as a bad job. To forget his grief he has gone to the North Pole as an explorer. Jack: Quite sensible, donchaknow. Frances: This chat tonight has made me homesick to see all the kids of the old class. I'd just love to talk to them all again. Jack: Donchaknow, I have a jolly good idea! Frances: Oh, Jack, what is it? Jack: Let's have a class reunion, eh what? Tut: Velly good! I'll be general information manager and let every one know. Frances Cexcitedlyj : Yes, and I'll write a letter to Dump. Tut: Well, Hop Sing go. I know all the classmates will like our plan. tHe shakes hands with Frances and Jack.J Frances: Oh, I am sure they will. Jack: Goodby old chap, drop in any time. Tut: Yes, velly good. fExits.J CJack and Frances walk to the fireplace and stand arm in arm gazing at the glowing embers. Jack breaks the silence.J Jack: Rawther strange how things turned out, eh what? Frances: Can you imagine it? Some of them have become famous, others have become wealthy and most of them are happy, but Clooking at Jackl : Jack they can't be happier than we, can they? Jack: I should say not and-fthe clock strikes twelve.J Oh, here it is twelve o'clock. We must go to bed right away. I want to play a few holes of golf in the morning. You don't know what a golf player I am since I've been abroad. Frances: Well, let's do go to bed. I must write Dump in the morning, so that the letter will be off on the first mail that leaves Boston. BERNICE OOLEY. JOSEPHINE RUNDELL. 18. Sleep is a stimulant to dreams.