Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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PROPHECY receive Towne's Pure Spring Water as long as Grace lived. Dorothy XVhitney was in full charge of the girls' gymnastic classes at the Free Reading Ro-om. She also taught the classes how to swim, she herself having crossed the continent giving exhibitions on high diving and swimming. She had made her reputation as a long distance swimmer by swimming across the Charles River in I5 minutes. Merton Frye was an organist in Grace Church in New York. Although he was not the head organist he had a chance to strike a note once in a while, but not very often. He was offered a permanent posi- tion and increase of salary over that which he received in IQI3 if he stayed and played the hymns in the XY. I-I. S. He refused this generous offer, however, although if he had accepted it he might have become a rich man on the salary he would have received. Lucy lYhite was touring the country as the world's greatest lady comedienne, al- though as I remember Lucy she was a nice, quiet, little girl. Her jokes and funny stories were all of her own making. Arthur Ela was auditor of the city of Sacramento, having been elected by the women of the city, who thought his voice the most even and sweetest they had ever heard. His campaign speeches were made before the womens clubs of that city. He also edited a newspaper in which he wrote articles on how to manage a theatre and also a number of arguments on why the United States should not intervene in Mexico. These were read by the President himself in order that he might receive some sound logic on the question. Grace Hicks was a missionary in China and was writing a book on Chinese customs. She was living and following the same cus- toms as the Chinese in order to make her book more true to life. I do not know whether she ate the same kind of food, but I hope she didn't. Because of her peculiar calling, she became a quiet little girl, never smiling at even the funniest joke. Edgarton Polly was a mechanical engi- neer and what he did not know about a chromoscylograph, the electrophorus, the ellipsograph, and metaphysics, was not worth knowing. For all this he could not take a bicycle apart, and then put it together again, without having some part of the bicy- cle left over. Leavita Kingsbury was Va dancing teacher with many pupils, the majority of whom were men. She herself gave solo dances before the crowned heads of Europe. I do not know with what these heads were crowned. I later learned from a newspaper reporter that Leavita knew one solo dance, which she danced before these crowned heads. XYhen she was in Spain, it was a Spanish dance: in Italy it was an Italian dance-and so on through all the countries. George Cormey was writing a book en- titled How to Study Poetryf' with chap- ters on allegory, force, etc. I-Ie was illus- trating the book with pictures which he him- self had drawn. These pictures were of a very general nature, including mostly heads of Gibson girls. He was also writing a book on solid geometry and the fourth dimension. George was some boy. Louise XVhitmore was teaching algebra in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, having received this position be- cause of her high standing in algebra in the VV. H. S. Blanche Childs was a dancing teacher, her specialty being the Highland Fling. She was giving exhibitions of this dance throughout the countries of Europe. How- ever, she avoided Scotland and all places where there was a large number of Scots. Raymond Mills was the famous editor of the Boston American comic section, hav- ing won this high position after a four year course at college and extra hard work after his college career. This high position was not the only thing he had Won. He had

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PROPHECY wonder if I would get any of this favored steak. Wlieii the dinner was ready, I no- ticed a large piece of steak on the table and I saw Miss Hopkins placing an extra large portion of it on my plate. She said, This steak is so tender that it will almost melt in your mouth. I had to pay a very high price for it at the market. What would she say if she knew that I had heard that little conversation of hers. Society leaders are not always truthful. Albert Geoffrion was the proprietor of a large dry goods store in the city of Bos- ton. He had a wooden leg now, because, he said, his foot was continually going to sleep, and he could not be bothered wasting time to wake it. up. Time is money nowa- days. Myrtle Wyman was manager of the womenls clothing department where Paris- ian gowns were sold. Every day when Myrtle appeared on the street she had on a different Parisian gown. Wfhether this was for advertisement or not I do not know. However, she was always in style. Emily Bassett was in charge of the demonstrating department and she was making a great suc- cess of this branch of the business. When I entered the store, she was demonstrating some new coffee grinder. One need not go near the table in order to hear her little voice, for one might stand on the street and even then hear very plainly. Chester Ashworth had followed four roads of life, all at the same time. He was a milkman from 4 a. m.-8 a. m., a teacher of stenography from 8 a. ITL-I p. m., and a baseball coach from I p. m.-6 p. m., and a pianist from 6 p.m.-IO p. m. Then, after IO p. m., he made up for the three meals he had missed. His milk route was the most extensive in the country, but he was a fast boy and did it all himself. He taught sten- ography in the W. H. S. His baseball coaching was on the Starfish Giants. His piano playing was practised at the Apol- larium Theatre. So Chester was a busy man and living a strenuous life. This theatre, at which Chester plays the piano, was managed by Mr. Hollis Vaughan, who, after graduating from the Scenic Temple College of Ushering, had taken a course at the Qrpheum College on the Art of Managing. After this he had undertaken the management of the Appoi- larium. He stages only Shakespearian plays, he himself taking the leading part, Marjorie McGahan taking the leading lady's role. She has made such a success in these plays that she had received large offers to appear in New York theatres. However, she had refused them because she would rather work for Hollis. I asked Hollis how he came to be a Shakespearian actor and this is how he answered me: I, together with 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear,' set out dur- ing the 'Tempest' to the Court of 'King Henry the VIII' On the 'Twelfth Night' we with the 'Merchant of Venice' and 'Two Gentlemen from Verona' arrived on the scene in time to see 'The Taming of the Shrewf W'hile at court 'Hamlet' told us of his 'Midsummer Nights Dream' and 'Julius Caesar! of his 'Love's Labours Lost.' 'Coriolanus' gave numerous points on act- ing, and so I became a Shakespearian actor. Now, as 'King john' says, 'You Can Take It' 'As You Like It' for 'All's Well That Ends Well.' H Olive Daley, alias Beatrice Fairflax, was writing articles for the Boston American magazine section. Her articles consisted chieiiy of poetry on the different seasons of the year, athletic stories and some hints on love and sentiment. Grace Towne was successfully carrying on the spring-water business and also the circulating library. There was no danger of Towne's spring running dry because Grace had discovered a way to prevent it from doing so. Every night she poured water, taken from a faucet in the house, down a hidden pipe which led to the source of the spring, and so people continued to

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PROPII ECY swum a race after Ruth and had finally landed in first place. Under his great lead- ership the pictures became more highly color-ed, the paper easier to tear, and so in these and many other ways the paper pros- pered. He had appointed Ira Ames the staff artist of his paper, 'and a very good artist Ira made. In one copy of this paper Ira drew a picture of a young man with a violin which was larger than the man him- self. The violinist would never have been able to put the violin under his chin because of its great size. The words under the pic- ture were: I-Cry a C M J-A-Mes 4 s J. Mills, in his editorial column, which measured one inch by o-ne inch wrote: Ye olde fashioned readers of the Boston American may be interested to know that Ira Ames drew this picture of himselff' Another little note which he crowded into his column was: Our esteemed fellow cit- izen, james Brown, Esq., will go to the hos- pital tomorrow to be operated upon for the removal of his appendix, by Dr. Marshall. He will leave a wife and two childrenf, Raymond must have been trying to ruin Dr. Marshalls practice. Caroline Grant and Hortense Thompson were famous Claribels. having attained this high honor by hard work in the W. H. S. They were travelling all over the world giving exhibitions at which they showed great speed in typewriting. They could both typewrite 758 words a minute. Hor- tense was a little faster than Carolyn, doing usually 758 words and one extra letter in the one minute. Roland Eaton was a farmer out in the back woods of Maine. He had discovered a fertilizer which made the soil so rich that crops could be raised in it at any time of the year. Many men had endeavo-red to find out the secret of this fertilizer, but Ro- land had his farm surrounded by armed men who prohibited every one from tres- passing. The Secretary of Agriculture of the U. S. tried to interview Roland and se- cure some of this fertilizer, but he was un- successful. Then the President of the U. S. came and endeavored to do the same thing, but Roland could not be interviewed, so no doubt the secret will die with Roland. Helen Bartel was a member of the stock company which was playing at the Boston Theatre. She took the heavy part of the play and carried it very well. Fred Ester- brooks, after long service in a book bindery, had found a way by which he might im- prove on the time in finishing a book. He invented a machine so complicated that one could not see how or where it started, that bound the books, while Fred sat back and smoked his pipe of clay. There was a large tube at one end in which he dumped a pile of books. After five minutes, these books would come out of the other end all sewed, covered, washed and ready to be sent away. This had been done wholly by the machine. See what a genius the class of 1913 had in its midst inthe form of a little, blushing, bashful boy! Florence Hession and Gladys Harvey were members of Congress, and very fiery members they made. They were called the Double H club. Wfhen the bill for uni- versal woman suffrage was brought into Congress, they supported it to the best of their ability, which was a great deal in the way of speech-making. Each one spoke two days and two nights on woman suf- frage, they would have kept on talking had not Congress given in to the proposition. These two quiet little girls have starved the mighty Congress into submission. Albert Kittredge was running a garage on Main street, and also sold motor cycles. etc. One day as I passed by his garage. I heard a loud noise and saw a grey streak fiy past. It stopped in the middle of the streetg then it went backwards at the same great speed. This was kept up for about five minutes, when, on one return trip, the auto exploded, and a minute later, Ikey was seen coming down slowly through the