Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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PROPHECY is different from the regular clique: he touches before he cures like the mighty kings of yore. Duffy, on account of his failing eyesight, had been compelled to re- tire from active big-league service, but, un- able to resist the lure of the big game, he invested his carefully saved earnings, and for tl1e seventh consecutive year had suc- ceeded in bringing the pennant to Boston and had entered as many victorious teams in world's championship series. Ile was a decided success as a big-league magnate, with a decided attraction for the stars. Vlfondering at the boy with the wheel-bar- row who dogged Duffy's footsteps and gasping at his prodigous diamond, I com- mented on its great size and necessary weight. Yes,,' he replied, but the sun makes it light and I have this wheel-barrow for dark days. But, say, yo-u ought to see llarold Eaton! Pa had gone into the restaurant business, and, of course, allotted one to himself. Be- sides taking up policing as a past-time, he became famous as the tennis champion of the United States. I was, indeed, surprised at the success of one, Carl Emerson. He had successfully combined the ministry with the shoe business, and had acquired an en- viable reputation by the invention and manufacture of a simple little device for saving soles. VVhen I saw him, he was rapidly increasing his reputation and his wealth, both of which he squandered so recklessly back in the High School. But our poet one turned out to be a taxidermist. In the year of our Lord IQ25, George Herbert Everett, .Ir.,entered the em- ploy of the Scenic Play House Company and took up the work of dressing bears. Three years later his wife, Laura Stewart. obtained a divorce from him on account of his familiarity with the stars, and the judge only growled, I thought so, when Bert named his astronomy teacher. In remorse Bert resigned his munilicent position, and after two years of endeavoring to survive by his piscatorial attainments, he accepted the position of janitor at the La Flagg semi- nary for girls, where Fred was making a great success, due, no doubt, to his close observation of girl-kind while still a youth. llc was ably assisted by H. Fleming, as spiritual adviser, who said that his greatest difficulty was in trying aeronautsg Herby French took great pains in the instruction of the art of distinct articulation and ven- triloquism, although he did at times serve as assistant to Hazel Sherman, athletic trainer. XVinifred Cushing took up the art of teaching and imparting real knowledge of geometry, but to this day she has never been able to iind her hgure on the black- board, although she stoutly asserts that it is not a scalene triangle. Laura Fisher and XX'inifred Douglas vied with each other in the most modern methods of teaching Ger- man: and the better to accomplish this end, they even adopted the native costume, which, to say the least, had a very pic- turesque eifect. Canoeing and automobil- ing were taught by a Miss Howe. Although Roberta johnson was without an equal as a linguist, she was much better known as the inventor of the Library-bureau and the in- come derived from the royalties on this in- vention she gave to the school. Fred, the founder, was ably assisted in his multi- farious and imposing duties by his wife, Edith Wfallis, and by the timely suggestions of his copper-friend, Carl Richards. The institution had been considerably benehted of late by the magnificent gift of a good old kind-hearted widow, by name Marion Ilenry, who especially desired that it be used in the study of small fruits, a subject which she herself had found so congenial. But of all the scholars the Wfaltham High School or Amherst College ever tzzrzzcd out, few are more prosperous than Harold Kaler. From a lowly citizen and a football manager, Kaler developed intoran upright and respected citizen. On account ofhis pre-eminence and standing in the pursuit

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PROPHECY Josephine Pelkey played second bass, Mil- dred Harvey, the cymbolsg Lucy Buker, the piccolog Kathryn Havey, the cornetg and Myra Morris and Signa Ridstrom, the ket- tle drums. Ora Govc was drum major. Shortly behind these came the rubber-band. They were mounted on a high wagon and consisted of Gertrude Butterfield, who played the clarinet, Bertha McKenna, the harmonicag Helen Dougherty, the cymbals, and Mary McDonough, the geometry ex- pert, who played the triangles. Every lit- tle while along the route Beatrice Green- leaf mounted a soap box and rooted for woman's rights. Drowning her humble efforts, Bessie Strom shouted through a megaphone: Don't forget the big base- ball game Saturday afternoon at 3.30, Bloomer Girls vs. Athletics. Batteries for today-WILI4 BE: Flossie May Maenche and Edith Eliva Marguerite Kristenson: for the Athletics, Wfilliam Edward Duffy and Tris Speaker. The procession was brought to a close by the shrieks of a noisy steam organ, steered and guided by Helen Bernice Adams. Lost in fond reveries, with my mind's eye I traced the course of the ark, how it had fondly settled on the summit of Mount Prospect and then gracefully slid down into its present cozy nest. It was still there, and I even found the very place, and I even fitted my envied relic into its former posi- tion. The wind and weather had changed the hole but little and it litted the chink to perfection. Mindful of the sanctifying touch of the patriarch Noah, I kissed it in superstitious awe, when a husky looking buzz wagon slid into place alo-ngside of me and a man-shaped creature rushed into the store nearby, muttering something about death and taxis, while I recognized the fea- tures of Stick Day and Charlie Janes in the laughing inmates. Of course, we scraped, salaamed, and grinned, and then my class- mates rushed out, thumped me on the shoulders, about crushed by hands, and did about everything customary to start the flow of conversation, which, of course, was not as hard as it looked among such long-parted friends. Charlie, I learned, had gone through Harvard in two years, receiving magna cum laude in Latin and in Alge- bra. He then completed his education at Heidelberg University, Germany, where he broke the world's record in both the hun- dred and the hammer-throw on the same day. Besides tutoring wayward students in French, he was conducting joy-rides to Castle Square. Slats had acquired world- wide fame as head of the Belmont Detec- tive Agency through his skilful manage- ment of a murder mystery. Cobb, the big fellow who had rushed past me so im- politely, they said, had tired of football and baseball and had gone back to E. S. Ball, and was still quite a favorite with the candy case. Coming out of the store, I espied va prosperous looking young citizen whose carefree, smiling countenance brightened if not cheered me. All of us must have our ups and downs, but he asserts that he got the latter with his name only. Nat Downs it is-by baptism Nathaniel Edward -still the same old tish, although now the proud possessor of knowledge bearing on the locality of Medford Hills, and even yet he is looking for some honest and upright citizen to present him with that VV which he says he earned, although he declares that it is like striking a XV on an upright piano. In imminent peril of my life, I crossed the rustling Charles by way of Moody street suspension bridge, so-called from the state of mind of those going over or under, and from the rapidity with which repairs are conducted upon it. Scarcely had I put it a stone's throw behind my back when I had the pleasure of meeting and conversing with Messrs. Duffy and Morrisey, the latter plus an M. D. Bianca says that Henry couldn't make an ink-well: but, ah! the little town bows in reverence to our Henry, for Henry

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PROPHECY of agricultural learning, he was duly in- stalled under the seventh consulship of Marcus Xtellus as a farmer of the public revenue. His knowledge on this subject was exhaustive and he displayed remark- able skill and ingenuity in the art of graft- ing. What surprised me most, however, was Kaler's personal appearance. It was reported that none of the city's resources were going to QWaist!j, but, gorry, Kaler was! As I entered his offlce a most cor- pulent affair strutted over to me and, had it not been for the outstretched hand, I would never have called it Kaler. Shaking hands seemd like engulfing the said mem- ber in pillows. He said, Sit! I did-he didn't: he rolled back onto a chair, and half a dozen waist-coat buttons played pit- a-pat on the ceiling. My, he was fat! If it had not been for the traditional cordiality of the stout man, my call would have been anything but pleasant. As it was, I almost choked when he suggested that we both descend in the same elevator-together-at once. Of course, I feigned elevator-sick- ness, and, as he could not follow, clattered down the stairs alone. In the door-way I passed Dorothy Allen, clad in the garb of chief of the fire department. She had lessened the number of fires in the shopping district ninety percent by the prohibition of tire-sales, and had once gone to a fire so quickly in her new automobile that before she go-t there, she met herself coming home. VVith her was Hattie Louise Taylor, who, besides enjoying the honors mentioned above, was drawing her salary as a draw- ing teacher. She was a great success as a drawing teacher. She drew crowds from all over the United States, and it was said that she had tearlessly refused thirty suit- ors in one day. It was hinted that the Six Little Brothers, Taylors, were the only ones who could suit her. You may try to be familiar with the different Stiles in automobiles, but there is one with which you can't. Then, again, all the world seems familiar with Marguerite and her petite machinist, Irene Hoyt. Mar- guerite holds the world's record for the two-twenty in an automobile. She com- pleted her education as a coed at Tufts, where she became known as the greatest protrayer of Shakespeare's woman char- acters since Eve. She had played before all the crowned heads of Europe, and while in German playing Romeo and Juliet, in the balcony scene, the scenery for some un- known reason broke down, causing Mar- guerite severe injuries. Irene surprised her many friends by becoming a militant suf- fragette and was elected first woman Mayor of South NValtham. Her reign, like that of Augustus, was very beneficial because of the many wise laws instituted by her, among which was the law regulating divorce, the ground work was given her by Mrs. Reade. But God-ber praised! We almost forgot you! She says she didn't find Wil-ard, so we suppose he found her easy, and we found Willard as thegrey-bearded patriarch of a flourishing little Latin colony on Spring street, a street always in favor with the .Rowe-mans. But Willard was especially famous as the inventor and builder of Rowe-boats, and as the founder of a row- ing school in Auburndale. And their fame was as a match in ex- treme darkness which lights up a solitary face. Walter Randles was as a fixed star in a clouded heaven which seems charmed against the obstruction of a dusky cloud. For years the world throbbed under the blows of Walter E. Randles, paper-weight champion of the United States. Cf course, this fame was in part due, no doubt, to the faithful work of his trainor, Henry Reed, founder of the Horrible Logic School, which taught the sailors how to make watches. He acted in the capacity of trainor and manager, being an expert in owedsl' But of all our number, one only has risen