Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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Parke Freark A Iady's man. Harry Ehlert Picnic. .. A Friend of Shakespeare. Committccs: Class Dayg Farewell .Xfldressg Com- mittee: Commeliceincnt Prograiu. Milton Gaffney 'CX real atlllcti-. Athletic Editor of The CZ1lJltOllllE!j Foot-ball Team, '05, '06, ,07, 'o8g Captain '07, 'o8g .Xrrangemcut of Class Dance. , I

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THE CAIPITOLINE g page 9 know and did not recognize the bride until she winked at the minister when the groom kissed her. I Instantly I knew she was the former Miss Gladys Steere who had been unsuccessfully married twice before and was hoping since this was the third that it would bring good luck. As soon as the next picture opened, I recognized the lady as IMiss Emma Lasch and I was terribly shocked, for 'there sat an old class mate of mine who in those .days was extremely bashful, holding a gentleman's hand. However I presently saw my mistake for Miss Lasch' was simply following her trade oi- manicuring Hnger nails. She had opened up a Manicuring Parlor on the tenth fioor of the Leland Hotel buiding where she has for years carried on a successful business. Q The next picture showed a man of small stature seated before a desk heaped With papers and books. He was busily writing and seemed to be thinking very hard. From the work on his desk I figured out that he was rewriting, Webster's Dictionary, putting emphasis on such words ' as gabfest, bonchead, inshadecano, gabshover, beanery, etc.Q which Webster in his haste had overlooked. When the author raised his head from his Work, I perceived he was Professor Armin White, B.A. and L.L.D., of Harvard and graduate of the Springfield High School in the class of i09. I The following picture was indeed a surprise. Away up in the gsky, above the ocean, soared an airship, its only occupants being a man and a Woman. As the airship was focused nearer I became aware that the woman was an old class mate of mine, the former Miss Nellie Mahoney. Sheahad married a man of great mechanical genius whose fad was airships and at the time of the picture they were crossing the ocean to the old country for a short pleasure trip. Of course it took nerve, especially for a woman to make a trip of this kind, but any person who would dare toeeiger an English class of Miss Wilcox's without first prparing her lesson would certainly have the nerve to cross the ocean in an airship. The next picture showed a large platform, decorated with flags and bunting, on which a woman, whom I instantly recognized as the former Ruth WVilson, was speakng. Her audience consisted largely of women who clapped and yelled at intervals. But I could not imagine what her theme was until I spied a banner labeled Mrs. Ruth Wilson, Republican candidate for senator from Iowa. p In the last picture I recognized Luther Kennedy sawing away on his bass violin, among numerous other men playing on various instru- ments. In the midst of this picture there was a terrible explosion, the machine I was looking through was hurled into fragments and I fell to the ground. s I picked myself up, rubbed my eyes, looked around for the little old man, his strange machine and for Kennedy, but saw none of these, only my guide standing grinning at me with a smoking gun in his hand.