West Plains High School - Zizzer Yearbook (West Plains, MO)

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VI LITERARY

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proofing, and there is absolutely no danger of the building igniting from this room. The second floor is reached by two flights of stairs, one at the south, the other at the north end of the building. These stairs will be of wood plastered with Portland cement. The landings will be of reinforced concrete. On the second floor will be live class rooms, the oiilce and the cloak rooms. The equipment of the building in general will be the very best. Slate b-lackboards will be used and a complete new set of desks and furniture will be installed. The interior will be modern in every detail. There will be no gymasiuin in the building, but this will probably be added later. The grounds will be improved and made very beautiful. All the buildings will be re- moved except the old library building. A walk will be made along Garfield avenue INSPECTING THE SCHOOL. There is only one flight of stairs to the second floor. Here there will be two class rooms and an auditorium. This auditorium will be one of the best features. It will be 38x56 feet, and will seat 300 people. It can be used for a study hall. The stage will he 10x37 feet, including two good dressing rooms. THE OLD AND THE NEXV. and a wide concrete walk leading to the front entrance. The campus in front will be sod- ded and laid out beautifully while the grounds ir the rear will be used for athletic fields for baseball, football, tennis and basket ball. In fact our school will be complete in every detail and the combination of our already eflicient faculty with this modern building will provide a school unequaled by any other in Southern Missouri.

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BECAUSE OF FASHION I say old man, who is this? inquired Ted one evening, as he held up a picture bc- fore me. My cousin Janet, I answered, scarcely looking up from my book, for I was busy cramming for the final exams. College was to close in a few short weeks and I hadn't much time to lose rummaging through desk drawers and mooning over family portraits and I told Ted as much to keep him quiet. The few weeks before commencement soon passed and all the fellows were laying plans for the summer. I approached Ted with this subject one afternoon as we walked from the baseball field to the dormitory, Ted, what are you going to do this sum- mer? I said. Don't know, Howard , he answered, nothing much until August. Dad needs me then but I haven't the faintest idea what I shall do before then. Now Ted isn't blessed with a family like my own, for his family consists of only Ted Maitland, Sr., and Ted Maitland Jr., so his va- cations are usually rather lonesome. But next day a letter from my father told me that there would be a swell time for both of us. This letter informed me that Dad had invest- ed in a new motor car and that since I had been so kind as to make a decent record in college that year I might run the car across country from the city to my home. Overjoy- ed I rushed into the room where Ted was sorting out his things preparing to pack, grabbed a pillow and soaked him in the head with it, that being the only efficient way to attract his attention when he is occupied. I say, cut it out, he roared, then seeing my radient face , what's up? Lots, for both of us, I said, you and I are to motor home in our new car. I've planned it all out. ,We can stop and rest whenever we get tired for I have relatives scattered all the way long. There's Uncle John, and Aunt Ruth, and Cousin Janet, and several others. I ran on. Ted began to show interest and soon was more eager than I. And so it happened that we started out the day after commencement with high spirits and camping outfits. One day, about a week later, I was wear- ing Ted's coat for mine didn't seem to be anywhere in sight and the evening was chilly as we sped along the road, when I discovered in the pocket a picture. Oh, ho, I thought Ted seems to he growing sentimental in the springtime. I drew out the picture and was surprised to see that it was the same that he had found in my desk some three weeks before. What in thunder did he take that for? I pondered, but next day a light dawned on me when Ted said, Say, Howard, I would like to meet that cousin Janet of yours. When shall we get there? Day after tomorrow I replied trying to be calm--and so Ted the practical, Ted the sober, Ted the athlete, who had never been known to look at a girl, was in love, was crazy about a mere pic-ture. The next time I had opportunity I got the picture and looked at it. Not so bad after all, I thought, Dreamy eyes, golden hair coiled low on her neck with little curly tendrils round her face. Any- body who didn't know might easily be toucu- ed. But oh, 1 could hardly contain myself when 1 watched Ted's apparent anxiety and I kept saying to myself, Just you wait till he sees her, Howard Curtis just you wait. Guess I'll have to let you take Janet out motoring since 5ou seem to be so crazy about her, I said in order to see how he would take it. Why how did you know that? he gave himself away in his surprise I didn't know, I just wanted to find out. Oh, well, old man, I' d just as soon you'd know. I guess you think I'm a big simp to be crazy about a picture. But my soul! such eyes and hair and besides how awfully stylish! He went on with his raptures, spieling off things I didn't know he had in his makeup. How do you know she's stylish? I in- quired, you couldn't see anything but her face and hair, That's just it Her hair 'the way it was fixed and all. He raved on in a manner that would make anybody sick, except a pair of newly weds on their honeymoon. That night as We lay beside the car sleep- ing I awoke and. thinking of Ted's love affair. broke into a roar of mirth. Ted, awakened by the noise which might have aroused 'the dead murmured drowisly, what did I say? Oh nothing, I merely sneezed , I lied and went to sleep again thinking of the morrow when Ted should meet his heart's desire. The morning dawned, bright and clear and was one like any mortal soul miglat wish to be his fateful day. I watched Ted don white flannels, a necktie a stickpin and var- icus other fancy fixin's, and brush his chest-