Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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THE CRIMSON RAMBLER 9 breezes on the hills, music, books, faithful friendships, wholesome labor, and honest love. Every life must have its sorrows and sunshine to bring true happiness. We must learn to meet both our sorrows and cares and bear them cheerfully, for no life can be wholly worth while that has not met both. Let us remember that: .- The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile, The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellowmen Will drive away the cloud of gloom and coax the sun again, lt's full of worth and gladness, too, with manly kindness bleut- It's worth a million dollars, and it d0esn't cost Z1 Celit. There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile, It always has the same good look-it's never out of style g- lt nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue, The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you. It pays a higher interest for it is merely lent- lt's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost a Cent. A smile comes very easy-you can wrinkle up with cheer A hundred times before you can squeeze out a soggy tear. lt ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug, And always leaves an echo that is very like a hug. So, smile away. Folks understand what by a smile is meant, It's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost a cent. PROPHECY EVELYN COLE Wearied with my daily routine of business life, I had resolved to have a vacation and come east for a time. Be- sides, in this month, the Maine State -Fair was to be held at Lewiston. I boarded the train and settled my- self comfortably for my long trip. As I neared Maine, a newsboy came through the train shouting, All about the Maine State Fair! Morning paper!

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8 THE CRIMSON RAMBLER Crimson Rambler stands as a proof of your devotion to the school. From tonight we, as alumni, pledge our loyal support in guarding the welfare of, and doing all we can to help Standish High School to become a bigger and better school. Faculty and School Board :-XNe bid you welcome tonight, hoping our pro- gram will express, in a measure, the appreciation in full for your unfa ling help and kind interest in our work. Schoolmates:-We welcome you as sharers in these exercises. VVe wish you the best of success in your remain- ing years at Standish High School. To all I can best express my feelings with the one word, Welcome MAKING OUR Llvss WoR'rH WHILE Everyone was meant to do some special thing. There is one thing which everyone can do better than an- other. The first thing which we must do to make our lives worth while then, is to find out what we were meant to do, what our life work shall be. After we have found this out, we should do everything we undertake to do thor- oughly. Work that is half done is better left alone. But if We do well everything that comes our way we will find that we will accomplish much, even though the progress may seem slow. Our yesterdays were once our to- morrows. When we think of the days that have gone by, our yesterdays, would we do things differently than we did do them, would we make use of the precious time which we wasted, would we set aright the little things which crouble our consciences? Many times we look back on our yesterdays and say, VVell, that's all over now, it doesn't matter, I did that yesterday, and yesterday is gone for- everf' But when we think of it, wasn't yesterday once our tomorrow, weren't we once looking forward to its coming with happy anticipation and making plans for it? And now that it has gone by We think of so many little things we might have done differently and so many little mistakes we made. Let us then, if We wish to make our lives worth while, do everything today as well as We can, to try is better than to fail without trying. Our failures, after we have tried, bring us under- standing, and help us build up our successes. When we have learned to keep our hands occupied we must train our minds to be alert. Reading and learn- ing will help to make our lives worth while and keep our minds alert to gen- eral knowledge. If everything which we have should be taken away, our clothes, riches, and other possessions, what we have truly learned can never be taken away. From everything which we read there is always some little thing which we learn. Learning not only makes our own lives worth while but will enable us to teach others and help to make other lives worth while. No life can be worth while without happiness. If we try to be contented with the things around us, we will gain happiness. Pleasures bring us happi- ness. The simple pleasures are best of all. The sweetest delights are to be found in the common possessions of mankind-the caress of the sun, tl'e

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10 THE CRIMSON RAMBLER Morning paper! As I had planned to go to this fair I bought a paper. On the first page I was much sur- prised to read the headlines STAND- ISH HIGH aga'nst E D W A R D LITTLE HIGH of Auburn. BIG FEATURE of afternoon of First Day. It had been twenty years since I had attended Standish High School but my interest was aroused at once. Imme- diately I decided to go to the fair, and afterward to spend a week visiting my old friends around Standish and vicin- ity. As I drew near the fair grounds my way was barred by a very large but quite good lookfng police-woman. After a great deal of waiting she al- lowed me to pass and I entered the grounds. At my left as I entered, I saw behind a large hot-dog counter a dark com- plexioned fellow that resembled Ken- neth Chaplin. As I was not sure it was he, I passed by and went to the ball game, and found that Standish had a very live team winning the game, 4-3. During the game my thoughts had wandered back to Standish H i gh School and the Class of 1925. Upon leaving the ball-grounds I saw the sign Fortune Telling-Revelations of the Past, Present, and Future-Ma- dame Veronica, Clairvoyant, andfI de- cided to see what she would have to say of the whereabouts of my former classmates. The woman who ushered me in was iall, dark, and slenderg she wore a veil over her face and spoke in a low voice. XVhen I told her what I wanted, she told me I would have to write the riamc of each one and she would tell all that would be revealed to her. She went into a trance after she looked at the first name, which was Kenneth Chaplin's. She said slowly, I see before me a large meat pack- ing house in the far west. The owner you passed as you entered the grounds. He is supervising a hot-dog booth on the grounds here, while enjoying the fqirf' I was right then. It was he I had seen. She continued, I see a large mansion now. It is the White House. A girl is sitting at a desk writing. She is Secretary to the 'President of the United States. She glances up and I behold Edna But- terf1eld. Before me now is a large hotel. Tables are beautifully set and table girls in white hurry in and out. In the kitchen is the chef, a tall husky fellow in white apron and cap. and wearing shell rimmed glasses. Hy the grin on his face I know it to be Owen Sanborn, a novelty among chefs, be- cause always sweet-tempered. VVho is this? Oh, the dainty lady of society, envied and Hattered by all, the belle of every gathering, the queen of every ball-Eva Gallant, your for- mer Class President. She, with four servants, resides in apartments, splen- didly furnished, in New York City. Now I see a large store. The name is printed in red and black letters that all may read, The New Rand Radio Store. Within are radios of every size and style and all parts of radios. Behind the counter is your old class- mate, VVarren Rand. I see now a large woman brandish- ing a billy. She is chief of police here