Wallace School and Conservatory - Oor Ain Folk Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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' Jokes Mrs. Fairbanks: What are they playing now? Clara W.: Home Sweet Home. We have all known for some time that Miss Pratt ' s feelmgs are misplaced, so no one was surprised, when Margaret pinched her ear and she cried. Oh ! Be careful of my corns. Mrs. Fairbanks, (To English class studying term, genus, and differentia). Get a brick in the right family. What is a brick? Ann Hill: A stone grown up. Madame Scott: Velma, give me your paper. Velma: Which one? Madame: That dirty little one. Mrs. Fairbanks: What is the Rape of the Lock? Geneva: About a young fellow stealing a hair. Nelle (Studying Latin) What is, Man-of-War? Madam: Ahorse. Miss Gee to Velma: Take your foot off so I can see how sore it is. Mrs. Fairbanks: Marjorie, get your eyes out of the alley. Labelle: Frances, do you want me to play your wedding march? Frances: ' es, but what will you play? Isabelle: I will play, here comes the bride on the harp. Mrs. Fairbanks: Now these were the black knights and — Dot W. (Interrupting her): I thought all nights were black. Mr. Mitnitzky to Miss Lue: I saw an alligator in the lake this afternoon. Mable in a faint voice down the line; What is a water-gator? Freshmen — Emerald. Sophomores — Soapstone. Juniors — Grindstone. Seniors — Tombstone. Lueila K. : What is cooking? Madam: My husband. Mrs. Fairbanks: What is a trust bank? Ann Tilly: A bank that trusts the people. Physics class having an experiment on a photometer. Mrs. Merritt: This is the nicest experiment we have had yet. Ann Hill: Yes, there is more light on the subject. 54

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M OOR AIN FOLK Jokes Ann Tilly: What did you learn in school today? Marjone Lacey : I learned that the algebra problem? you worked for me last night, were wrong. Sara: You interest me strangely — as no man has ever before. Robert: You sprang that on me last night. Sara: Oh! Was that you. Miss Flanders (To her physiology class) : Now take the bandage and place the sore on your finger. Mrs. Fairbanks (whose ambition is to live near the reservoir) : I ' m going to live on the dam side or bust. Geneva to Ann Tilly: Were you saying something? Ann: Why I have been talking for half an hour. Geneva: Perhaps, but I don ' t believe you said anything. Elsie Ault was reading the history lesson aloud m class. She read, 1 hey passed through the Cucumber Gap. Naomi: Why was the maid so late this morning? Clara: Her mother was held ' up ' and knocked do n ' last night. Betty Boyd having failed to capture her favorite street car conductor after riding several times on his car, decided to try as the last resort to land him by accidentall]) catching her heel in the car track at the corner of State and High Streets. She succeeded. She stopped the traffic until he came to her rescue. Miss Lue in Latin class was discussing how certain English words came from the Latin words. They had been speaking of alere, when she asked : Where is the alimentary canal? A brilliant Senior answered, Down around Cuba some place, isn ' t it? Naomi Schremer: Let th e world slide, I ' ll not budge an inch. Donna Mayer: I am all the daughters of my father ' s house And all the brothers too. Jean Wilson : Life is as tedious as a twice told tale. Virgil Class: Let ' s talk of graves, worms, and epitaphs. To Audrey Knowlton : (The class poet) I would the gods had made thee poetical. Sara Watts: For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. Billie Ross: Jazz is going out. . 3

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