Tuscola High School - Tuscolian Yearbook (Tuscola, IL)

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THE TUSCOLIAN 15 Who’s Rita (Continued from page 13) seven. Then he waved, smiled, and was gone. All afternoon Rita roamed about the house. “I don’t see why I couldn’t go to school to say goodbye to the kids,” Rita muttered sullenly. “No need getting sentimental because your’re leaving for the winter,” her aunt snapped. “You’re not leaving this house. Understand?” and she went out and slammed the door. “Humph!” remarked Rita to herself, as she paced the floor. “She won’t feel so gay tonight.” Suppertime came at last. As seven o’clock drew nearer, Rita became more nervous. After supper they changed to their traveling clothes. With all her faults, Miss Cora Tythe dressed well. “The train leaves at 7:45. We’ll leave at 7:15,” she remarked as Rita came down dressed for the trip At five minutes of seven someone knocked at the door. Miss Tythe frowned impatiently, but stepped forward to open it. In came Mr. Lyman, Ross, and Officer Kinney, the policeman. Miss Tythe put her hand to her head and muttered a low cry that sounded like, “It’s all over.” “Now what does this mean?” sternly demanded Officer Kinney, before she had gotten her breath. “Mr. Lyman explained the situation to me and it sounded like a crazy idea of his, but this puts a different light on the matter. Is this girl really your niece ?” “Why of course she is!” Miss Tythe answered in a dignified voice. “How dare you insinuate that she isn’t.” “There's no use for you to argue all this out,” Rita remarked coolly. “I’ve something here that will settle the argument.” She reached into her pocket and drew out a letter, yellow with age. It was postmarked Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 6, 1917. Rita unfolded the letter and handed it to Mr. Lyman. No one paid any attention to “Miss Tythe” who sat bolt upright on the couch as if turned to stone. Officer Kinney and looked over Mr. Lyman’s shoulder as he read it aloud as follows: Los Angeles, Calif., September 6, 1817 Hortense: I have the girl. Will bring her to you on Tuesday. Name is Ruth. Won’t have much trouble with her. Have place pick-out in East at Archdale, Vt. Pleasant place. They won’t be apt to search there, until Tuesday. Jim. When Mr. Lyman paused, the perspiration was standing on his forehead. He looked from Ross to Rita and from Rita to Ross. Then he said in a queer, shaky voice, “So Marie was right! Our daughter!” Suddenly “Miss Tythe” began to laugh a shrill, hysterical laugh. All turned to her in amazement. When she got her breath, she said in a strange voice. “Well, we got our revenge. That’s all we wanted so we’re willing to suffer.” Then she began laughing again. “But Dad, who is this woman?” Ross asked with a bewildered frown on his face. “She is an ancient enemy of mine, son,” Mr. Lyman remarked with a weary smile, “but I never dreamed she would go to such lengths to get revenge. She and her husband were down and out. They applied to me for help while I was chairman of the organized charities in Los Angeles. I gave them help several times, but he was such a worthless scamp, they were always destitute. One time while they were down and out their daughter took ill and died. They blamed it on me for some reason or other. This was their way of getting revenge.” Mr. Lyman passed a hand over his eyes and sighed as he finished. “But Dad,” Ross persisted, “why didn’t you follow them up if you suspected them ?” “I did, my boy. I did everything in the world to find them but they were gone completely. At the time people said it was the “perfect crime”. I never told your mother I suspected them. She was so broken up we left town immediately and traveled in Europe for a while.” Just then Rita cried out. They all looked and there lay “Miss Tythe” in a crumpled heap on the cot. “Call a doctor, quick!” ordered Mr. Lyman. Ross did so and soon Dr. Wakely was there and took charge of the woman. “She’s just received a severe shock and her heart’s gone bad. She’ll be all right soon.” He stepped to the telephone and called an ambulance. When it arrived he took her to the hospital, accompanied by Officer Kinney, who was to arrest her as soon as she recovered. “Why, just after you left at noon, I went out in the hall and saw Aunt Cora, I mean —her—going down the steps with a box of waste paper. Then I noticed a letter lying on the floor. It looked so old I thought maybe it was one of her love-letters so I picked it up and read it. As soon as I saw what it was I decided to keep it and let you accuse her, to (Continued on page 17)

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11 “Palmer dear, Palmer dear, where have you been? “I’ve been on Pembroke to visit a queen.” “Palmer dear, Palmer dear, what did you there?” “None of your business.” Little Miss Chapman went to the cupboard To get her poor Billy a bone. But when she got there the cupboard was bare So for supper young Billy went home. Hickory Dickory Dare Whitey Baker ran up the stair Three steps at a time He thought it was fine But Wulliman was there. Mable and Irene went to the office, John and Dean stayed at home, Ruth and Don were on flunker’s list, In detention there was a groan; But the good little Freshman cried Tee-Hee-Hee, all the way home. Mister Wulliman has lost his list, And can’t tell where to find it. Leave it alone and we’ll go home, Don’t worry; we won’t mind it. DID YOU KNOW? That Dean Rice has gone to sleep so many times in the Study Hall that he thinks the bell is an alarm clock? That mumps are contagious, that a kiss will carry the germ, and that Elizabeth N. and Weldon 0. had the mumps at the same time? That Mellroy Ross, during his birthday party, while trying to find something about which to laugh, was told to think of Ruth. “No,” he said. “I can’t do that; our affair is too serious?” That certain Junior boys thoroughly enjoy going with Freshman girls, even if they do write Bedtime stories about them? That there is no use in studying because: “The more you study, the more you know The more you know, the more you forget The more you forget, the less you know. So why study ? The less you study, the less you know. The less you know, the less you forget. The less you forget, the more you know. So why study ? “Words brought me here,” said the prisoner. And the judge made them into a sentence. THE TUSCOLIAN Storekeeper: “This ten-cent piece doesn’t ring good.” Harold Reed: “What do you want for a dime, a set of chimes?” Miss Sluss: “How is it that you haven’t made more progress? At your age I could read fluently.” Harold Todd: “Probably you had a better teacher than I.” Paul Snider: “I gave our sick pig some sugar.” Dola O’Neal: “What did you do that for?” Paul: “To make it well. Haven’t you heard of sugar-cured hams ?” Dorothy Brown: “Elinor, why hasn’t Mr. Wulliman much hair?” Elinor: “Because he thinks so much.” Dorothy: “Why have you so much?” Elinor: “Because—go away and don’t ask such silly questions.” Quite matchless are her dark brown i-i-i-i-s She talks with perfect e-e-e-e-s But when I tell her she is y-y-y-y-s She says I am a t-t-t-t-s. Link B.: “Do you think it’s unlucky to be married on Friday?” Richard: “Why would Friday be an ex- -eption ?” OlIR SCRAPBOOK The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, Had better be careful or they Will get up too early, and little Jack Frost Will pinch them for getting too gay. the king's hell (Continued from page 9) “Very true, and most admirably expressed,” said the King. “My Juniors, what is your royal pleasure?” “Your Royal Highness,” returned James and Harrison Ro-mine, in perfect unison, “we suggest a half-holiday for all.” “Yea, yea,” uttered the Juniors in one accord, and the King in his most benign manner said, “It shall even be so.”

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16 THE TUSCOLIAN Dr R. E. Burns Licensed Dr. George H. Fuller CHIROPRACTOR Over State Bank First National Bank Building Phone 140 Tuscola, Illinois Tuscola, Illinois If You have Shoe Woes — Bring Them to Joe Modern Shoe Service J. W. I)e ROSA Quality Materials Modern Machinery Tuscola, Illinois STRAND THEATRE Sunday and Monday, Jan. 25-26 Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 27-28 WHEELER and WOOLSEY “HOOK, LINE and SINKER ’ Boy Friend Comedy: Paramount “Blood and Thunder” Late News 10c and 50c GRACE MOORE in “A LADY’S MORALS” Comedy 10c and 85c Thursday and Friday, Jan. 29-30 10c and 30c Chas. Farrell and Janet Gaynor “THE MAN WHO CAME BACK” DENTIST Dr. C. L. Hine Stacy’s Drug Store X-Ray Tuscola, Illinois Tuscola, Illinois