Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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PROPU ECN' hetter, engineer, llogan ,1e11s1111, 1vas just putting 11111 the lights. r1111CCl2Il'1i116SS sent tl1e 10111 l'Cl11Zl111ll1Q' s110etat111's ll111'1'j'l11Q' out past 1110. lQUl1li2ll1C11. w11l1 a 111112111 grin 1111 l1is 12100, a 1111111110 girl 1111 11is 211111, and a 11a1111 ri11g 1111 111s 1:1llg'Cl'l1ll1'1'1C11 past. 1 saw hlargaret XYl1itte11111re a11d 11er hus- band, 1111 11110 1 knew, a111l Klarion 11111110 gm 11y. Say, B1211'11111,H 1 CZ111C1lZl11t'1'l1C1'.nNYZl.l11 a r111e 11111111-7' They st111111e11, all tl1ree, and a1ter a 11rie1 01111s11ltati1111 they said, Yes 1 1121111111 expected all 111 1110111. hut 1 XVHS1111 phased. 111116 tw11 girls sat witl1 1110 1vl1il0 Mr. -1 was 1111r111l110e1l 1171 him hut l l1av0 1lll'Q'1111C11 tl1e 11211110 n11w, rode 1111 1110 running llflilllil. 1 11.111111 the Klr. and Mrs. 11111110 tirst, not heeause 1 wanted a longer ride XYl1l1 1N1.211'1Ol1, 11111 heeause 1 knew 1 s1111ul11' l1ave 11110. 1 got 11110 all right. 11111-g-211-Q1 111111 1110 a street in XYay- lan11 tl1at sl10 l1X'C11 1111. 11 was a new 0110 111 me, 11111 Marion volunteerecl 111 tell me 1110 way. 1 l1ave a suspicion that Marion liked 1110 ride 1111111e11s0ly. S110 took n1e over 21131111.11 15 1111l0s 01 road and used up t1vo hours 111 time 10 get to wl1at 1 knew as 1Vaylan1l Center. As we 1011, 1 saw that Marion looked 1111g1rrie1l. 1 guessed 1110 0a11se, but 1 C11C1l1UE say anything ahout it. Later Marion 'El1OllQ'l1'E 01 it. Charles Olney, she said, we ha1'en't g-111 a chaperone. 1'm going haek 10 Mar- gare1's 10 stay. 1 1112131 l1ave heen very rude, hut we 111611111 go l1aek. Gladys Hartley lives 110ar here. 1 suggested. 110 llllgllt get her. 11711113113 11111 sense. 13111 1 Cl1Ill1g'Cf1 1110 suhjeet. Are you thirsty? 1 am, and 1 drew up at a dark tea T1'-0111. All gone 10 11011, 1 guess, 1 said to h121l'lHl1, hut 1'll try a11d see 11 1 Can wake s111110111.11ly. 1 gave the brass knoeker an awful whaek. .X 111gl1t-0211111011 l1C21l1,Dl'O11'llClCfl 1171111 an upstairs w111111111'. XX'l1:1t is it F :1 meek 1111100 asked. There was s11111etl1111g stra11gely 1a1ni- liar 111 the 1a0e a1111ve. 111116 hair was 0111'- ere11. Can we get SUl11C1l111lQ' 111 1l1'1I11i l10re ? 1 asked, l1ZlX'l11Q'S1ClJ11Cll 1111111 the piazza to get a elear view 111 1110 speaker a11111v0. The head 1l1sa1111eare1l a111l a1ter a few 111i1111t0s' wait Nellie slaekson served 118 with 100 011111 Russian tea. R1Y,11 was 11e- llclflllg. 1 drank two glasses a11d Xlarion, Xxlllfl 112111 11111 taken a sh11wer hath as 1 had, ll1'2111lf three. Nellie 1l11111't reeognize us. 1 11i1111't wa11t her 111, 1 passed Mari- 1111 1111.21.51 11lYXV11C. This was true 111 a 1vay. F110 11311 been 1111 11110 1111111110 111 a 111ay 111100. 11111 that l1a1l 110011 years ago. 11111 111011 Nellie 111111111 know the differ- e110e. B1Z11'1Hll tinished l1er three glasses 110111re 1 linished my two and sl1e went 111111: 111 the ear. 1 111110111011 as soon as 1 11a1l 1111111 the hostess. The ride was now 11101-0 e11m1orta11le 111 t11at there was 61111L1Q'l1 1'UUl'11. The stars were 0111 and R121l'1t'1l1 111111111 111a11y 01 1110111 tl1at we knew. 1 l1a11 111 100k a110a1l and 1101 up, so 1 saw 111.1110 011 1110111 at all. 11111011 we got al1110s1 into 1Ves10n, we 0a1ne 111.11111 a sa1l sigl1t. Two atitomohiles smashed 11110 kindling lay hy the road, witl1 a p11l1e0ma11 g11ar1l1ng them. 1 ::111111101l a111l asked 111111 1110011111110 01 any 110111. No, 110 said, 111111156 that had been l1urt l1a1l already 11een taken 111 XN121111'lZllH.H 11110 1vas 11, anyway? 1112111011 asked him. 110 111111111 know exactly and 110 spun 1i111t a lung story. 111 hri01, Carl El- lis a111l Martin lflurekes a111l a fellow 1110 girls ealled li1l11111ly, 11111 111110111 the hoys ealled Cliff 31111 who 110 guessed owned the ear, 11a11 110011 traveling 1110 Primrose 11a1l1way. or 11et1er, 1110 X1'est0n road, 1111111 110111 100 11111011 speed a111l 100 11111011 girls, Miss Stankard, Miss Keaney and

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A PROPHECY VYhere's Catherine Eaton? It-I was going to say ain't, but I remembered a balling out a schoolniate of mine got once for, saying that- It isn't natural to see you without her. . Oh, said Kazy, she moved VVest. Out in Minnesota, somewhere near Anna Olson, on a large wheat farm. lVe had ,a little tiff before she left, so she won't write to me. Consequently I clon't know a thing about her except -and then Kazy told me more about Miss Eaton than I know about my best friend. As we were walking up the stairs to the hall above the orchestra began to play the processional. The Seniors were coming up the stairs behind us. The seats were all full on both sides of us, so Miss Rogers and I led the Senior class down the center aisle. Uur only escape was through the small door on the side ofthe platform. TVe went in. It was very hot in the little room and besides the room was occupied. Corn- well, the soloist, Turner of the School Committee and Decker, who used to lead the devotional part of the exercses, were sitting there studying their notes, I guess. In fact I'm sure they were, for they re- ferred to them continuously during the ex- ercise, at least Decker did. Spurgeon thinks that some ministers would make good martyrs they are so dry they would burn well. I heard it said that Decker was so dry that he even absorbed the per- spiration of his audience. I didn't hear him myself. I was so hot that instead of staying upstairs, I went down into the boys' gym and took a shower bath. I didn't see Podgy graduate at all. I could have stayed under that shower all night, but when I heard the clapping I knew that the longest- part of the graduation was over. So when the grand finale began, I was just as cool and slick as could be, standing in the door, watching the vari- ous types that passed. I really pitied some of them, their wilted collars and bored ex- pressions. There were a great many that came in autos and one person in an aeroplane, a girl, or rather a woman. I was standing near Edith Daniell, who was talking to Mildred Neil. lYho's that with the funny looking rig getting into the aeroplane ? I asked her. Miss Edith gave the person a bored sidewise look and gave me what I call the Carmen shrug. Search nie, she said. So I stepped over to where IXIrs. fused to be KIcQueenl and Elsie Irwin were talking together. XYho's the bird woman F I asked them. It is Miss Leger, they whispered. She does that just to show off. Ever since school she's been doing reckless stunts. Not for the movies, either, but just to attract attention. I thanked them for their answers and went nearer the machine. It was a very modern type and I saw that it had a XVare automatic ecjuilibrator, I was wondering if the inventor of this device was Robert IVare. I think now that it was. I have heard him invent pronunciations of words in English and he was handy in physics. I am strongly of the opinion that it was the child of his brain. I slipped under a stay closely at the engine. to look more Look out, shrieked Alice Manning, who happened to be at the wheel of a speedy roadster near- by. TVith a terrible roar the blame thing started, knocking me tlat on my back in the school yard. Fortunately there were very few remaining who saw my discont- hture. I was just dirty, not hurt. Now my interest in the aeroplane was just an excuse to wait around there. The truth is, I wanted to take a certain some- one home. I won't say who, but I guess during my investigation and fall that someone got past me. However, I couldnt let a little thing like that bother me, so I went inside the building. The janitor, or

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! PROPHECY Miss IXIcGoldrick, to be definite, had un- consciously smashed into the rear of Natalie Thompson's car with the unfor- tunate result that Natalie could get noth- ing but inisurance, if there was any from what was left. No one was killed, but Ellis, who was the worst of the lot, had broken his arm and nose. XVelI, said Marion, if we can't be of any use here, let's not stay. The rest of the way she made me go very slowly and extremely carefully. I don't know whether she was afraid of my getting spree like from the Russian tea or not. At any rate, I went slow to please her. just as we got to the Stony Ilrook sta- tion we met Mary Gately and Illennid Concannon walking towards XVeston. Marion explained to me that Iilennid was the Helen Holmes of the Stony Brook station tIIlennid liked Iirook stations. I guessl and that she lived in Weston with Mary, who keeps a big boarding house. Marion didnt live upon .Xsh street as I thought. She had moved to the Hines Block, a line, tall apartment house, built by the departed husband of Gertrude Hines. but named for that short little person herself. It was so late by that time that I did not remain long. As soon as she went in I left. Xlihen I got home, I found the house locked up. I naturally had no key, being home only on a visit and I hated to wake the folks. I tried every window in the downstairs floor, and the front, back and cellar doors, but to no avail. From my bedroom window a drapery waved tantalizingly out at me. There was a light in Georgie I7lagg's house across the street so I went over there, not to stay all night, but to borrow a ladder. It was a double house and I did not know whether George lived at the door to the left or the right. I rang the bell on the left and waited five min- utes. Nobody came. I rang the right and waited two minutes. A woman opened the door. Georges wifef' I thought, but I wasn't sure. for she opened the door only a little way. It was Doris Stanley. I Good morning, Doris, I said. It was two minutes last one. Does George 5 Iflagg live in this house? Yes, she said, but Mr. Iflagg is not at home. - IYhen will your husband be back ? I asked. She stiffened right up. You have made a mistake, Sir, she said. and closed the door in my face. I lit a match and looked for the name plate. There was none. I read the one on the right. Mr. George Flagg. I rang his bell again, but no one answered. No use to try further I thought to myself. So I curled up on the auto seat. and I slept for ten minutes. Night Pa- trolman Healey had the beat that took in our street. XN'hen I came to, a black bearded rufhan was shaking me nearly out of the ear. Come on: none of your resistance, he was saying. You're a healthy looking specimen. I don't think. I made Frank out in spite of the bristles. ISIIIZIIICV, Doc F I asked. Doc became apologetic at once. Honest, Charlie. he said, I thought you were drunk. XYhat are you sleeping out like this for? Necessity, I replied. I can't get in and I don't want to wake the folks. Do you know where I can borrow a ladder? Man alivef, he said, don't stay out here all night. Go over to the station and they will give you a cot. I started my car and was about to leave when the auto truck of the Electric Light Co. stopped at the street light in front of the house. Clarkson was the driver of it and he lent me a ladder. .Xt exactly one seventeen I pulled up the cov-