Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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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

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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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PROP ll IQCY air by means of an open umbrella. NVhen he reached the gro-und, I asked him what he was trying to do. and he said he was trying to invent an automobile which would start by scratching a match along the front tire. The engine was not supposed to stop until the car returned to the same spot from which it started. Every time he tried out this new car he carried an umbrella so that he might reach the ground safely. I left Albert to his new auto and went my way. XVilfred justason, the Terrible Turkf' because he remained so long in the Congres- sional Library looking at the pictures, had of guide to these able to pick out a classes for a long been given the position pictures. He was now picture for the Senior time to come. He was a very quiet young man now. I think that he must have been crossed in love, because every once in a while one might hear him say, Uh Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe ! Carl Eaton was the football coach of the Yale bull-dogs, and he certainly had some team. He had them coached so well that no team in the whole U. S. would dare to play them. He himself could defeat the whole eleven dogs, but he and only he, knew how to do it. Carl also wrote a book on how to make love according to the 18th century idea. XY e all know that he had lots of practice in this kind of love making. Alex. Johnstone was the leader of a choir in a village back in the wilderness. Alex. had his singers coached finely, but they seemed to forget to hold on to the last beatg so Alex. himself sang this certain song and on the last note he went do-do-do so that the singers would hold the note three beats. This was a very good way to teach them. but when they came to sing the words to a hymn it was a different story. Alex. could be heard above the rest of the singers and so when they came to the line, Let all crea- tures bow, Alex. sang Let all creatures bow-wow-wow. It sounded great, just like a dog fight. Vvarren Vilhitcomb had suddenly become rich, consequently he did not have to work. He seemed to be slowly going insane. He hired Gertrude Hope, who had signed a life contract to play her violin all day, and make it sound like howling cats. She did this very well and so pleased XVarren. Every once in a while XVgarren would say: All the world's a rage, And the men and women simply crazy, They have their neckties and their hose, And they wear gaudy colors in their time, These being seven styles. First, Hartmann. growling and raging, fixing his fiashy tie, Then Ela. investing in firemen's socks, ljashful and blushing, trying to show his fiowing locks, Next, Ohnemus, wild and wooly, quick in matching, Seeking honor even in ladies' eye. Then McNeil, with long, large head, full of wise sayings. The sixth scene shifts into the lean and slippered pantaloon, Such as Griggs is wont to sport, XYith hat on side, groaning daily as the French comes on. Last scene of all, that ends this long eternal misery Is second childishness. As Cormey, squirming under teacher's eye Sans excuse, sans books. sans lessons, sans everything. And so YVhitcomb raves. VVhile walking along Main street I heard a person running behind me crying, Eureka! Eureka! I turned around and there saw john MacNeil running towards me. I feared. at first, that he might. be dressed as the man who first said Eureka, but he was not. I stopped him and asked him what he had found and he said, Come, Eureka, home, Eureka, with me, Eureka. So I went to his house with him. I guess his discovery must have affected his mind