Westport High School - Herald Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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14 THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. fifteen years old. Every rain-storm saw him swimming and every hail-storm saw him hail- ing a policeman. He wants to learn geometry and chemistry, as he intends to go to the North Pole in an airship in 1929. Mary Mildred Hyre, born December 2, 1887, in Lexington, Illinois, and she then- well, her life was a blank until she entered Long school and attended there until ten years of a.gc. Another blank, and she entered Westport High School as a Freshman in 1900, and-that 's all, a very capable young lady and always attended to her motheris callers. One day she dismissed an especially persistent one with the wo-rds: 'fMamma. is out for sure this time, Mrs. Smithf' Olifford Bradley Smith Q Oh, wondrons name lj was born at HlCli1113H,S Will, Missouri 5 rebellious temperament. A cow kicked Smith, Sr., some ten feet, little Smith laughed and re- ceived severe punishment. Made highest rec- ord of Freshies-fi. c., played on the gridiron. Has been a president of the Olionians. He is nothing happened after that. a jolly 'fhas been. Seriously fno one takes Eunice Beard 3 born in St. Louis. She was him soj, he has hosts of friends. t ll I' ' X 'll' h e .11 1 i llama Q li... wifi as y siiuuiwreav. s Ig W i ' -fqzr mlxll ell' N' I A 'J ,, 'll 'llllllull III L lllllllllll I 'Ill I' .42 T352 1? 3 lim if ii im ...ig il n il CI llln l mu m ' :j2, Ii !il Ill g INQUIRY FOR INFORMATION. Every man, as far as he has wisdom, is curi- ous. His. curiosity may extend to the concerns of other men, in all classes, both above and be- low him: the way they live, the thoughts they think, and the de-sires they have. The wider a ma.n's contact with the life of his time and his study o-f it, the greater and more productive is the man's mind. The more he lives within him- self, for himself, theless joy he gets out of life, the more narrow-minded he becomes, and the more selfish he is. A restricted view of life be- longs more, as a rule, to the villager, for his horizon is limited and his knowledge necessar- ily narrowed. He accepts village standards as possessing the authority of universal standards, and he thinks and works on a small scale. To think and a.ct largely, to mingle with the world, to come in contact with many kinds of men-- these are the first considerations in the study of mankind. A man learns much from his own time and race and from his relatio-ns with other men, but his greatest gain is the power to- appro- pria.te the results obta.ined to his own best ad- vantage. The instinctive grasping after knowl- edge is common to everyone and has been from the beginning of the life of the world, and in- formation will not be lacking to the one who has imagination to conceive, curiosity to ask, will to have and inclination to seek. A person lacking inclination is hopelessly exiled in this world of information-seeking peo- ple. Even a desire to acquire knowledge is al- ways productive of fairly good results, if not of total success, but inclination without will is perfectly useless. Where there is no will, the way is generally wanting also. Without deter- mination, there is no getting at the heart of knowledge. One may ask for information, but if one does not have the energy to further his inquiry vigorously, his questions fall lifeless,

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I f f .312 aye ff 40 e f Z ,. W? a is an Z4 f ffl! ' ff .7 Z J.. Vu ' ,, Wxfa ,Wff. 1 Wkfz A., yn A., i ' 'V ,i X MWA THE lVlCS'l'POR'l' HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. 13 team. She has decided to accept as her husband a human manf' Jessie Pearce Cheatham was born in War- rensburg, Mo., in 18845. She was guarded, pom- meled, bumped, and tyrannized over in turn by three older sisters, and ran wild in the country with the chickens, calves, dogs, colts and sun- dry other animals. She boasts that she has passed thirty-Eve times and tlunked once, and received one A from Mr. Green-something of which she is very proud. Catherine Norine O7Brien, born in Sedalia. Mo., October, 1887. Her infancy was remark- able in that she was ust like other children, her chief amusement being dolls. We wonder if this has now given way to joy in dolis. Her late unpleasantness was the dissection of the cat in physiology. Has been a. Clionian, but will now join the Humane Society. Bessie S. Fife 3 born in Glendale, Kentucky, March 22, 1886, where she lived quietly until she entered school. Her vacations were spent on ranches, learning to be a cowboy and also helping to build a church. She spends her time practicing for entertainments, preparing Jones' Prose, or trying to stuff the little Sophomores with rhetoric or American literature. Charles Wolf was born in Glen Kentucky, in 1886 , herded grasshoppers until three years old. He entered Westport High School as a Freshie September 15, 1900, drank out of the fire bucket and entered the o-rchestra. Begin- ning to think of future life, he learned to play 'iYankee Doodlef' looked wise and imagined the teachers thought him so. He has done noth- ing this year, for the Seniors are too young to do anything without the advice of the Faculty. Amy Meyer was born in West-po-rt in some remote period and ran od eight miles to church at the age of two months. She was fastened to a chair by a. mischievous Sophomore and was not able to rise when called upon by Miss Wat- son. She was lectured by one of the teachers for studying on Sunday. Alvin J. Lorie was born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1886. Won great fame at Central, faint rumors of which have reached Westport High KF- 1 School. The source of his few freckles can be accounted for by that summer spent down in the sand-hills of New Mexico? He can play ball and work the teachers. Yelle Elizabeth Sumerwell was born in Cass County, Missouri, in 18813. Her infant life, it seems, was a continual string of exciting adven- tures. Her school life was uneventful, and not until her Senior year did this personage reach the climax by impersonating '4Aunty Dolefulw in the Senior entcrtaimnent. Dorothy Partington. lt is a very significant fact that Miss Fartington was very fond of cutting upw in her infancy, at one time cut- ting up her whole apron fo-r doll-rags, whip- ping followed. We cannot help wondering whethe-r such a treatment might not prove ef- fective at present-but then she is a Senior. However, she got along perfectly natural-liken in Westport High School until she came to geometry and physics. Frances Kizzie Johnson, this prodigy, when about one year old, had her finger choppedclear in two. When preparing for her famous career in Westport High School, she first attended Allen school and afterward Hyde Park, until almost twelve years of age. She oined the Cli- onian Society and delighted in wearing the colors. y Myrtle Ducret first saw light in the Union Cemetery of this city. During her infancy she 'flielpedv her father by pulling up his plants for weeds, and taking care of the baby, which consisted in dropping him upon every possible occasion. She played basket-ball with her fin- ger-nails and elbows as safeguards. The third year she entered an essay contest which she didnit win. She wants to be a designer, archi- tect, and author. 'That,s all. Anna Hamilton 3. born on the Cannibal Is- lands, A. D.-maybe 5 she is not sure, delighted in making mud-pies and pinching the cat'sitail. llows and rows of the most luscious chocolate cakes were consumed daily. Now a graduate of Westport High School. - Raymond Marran was born in New York City, 1886. He went to school by himself when -F ,iv- v,,..vP' Lg? -Jr!-tx i. 4 ,Hx . ' -4 ' ' ' fr

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ttended smissed words: lmithf, indro-us ssouri, Smith, ind re- st rec- idiron. He is e takes other Lppro- st ad- :newl- from 1d in- e who 1' ask, :lessly 5 P90' is al- f not vill is l, the leter- ,rt of 1, but rr his Feless, , THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. 15 unanswered. A man may ask for at definite piece of information, time after time, and still receive no satisfactory reply, but the o11ly way ever to succeed in his purpose is to ask and to keep on asking until he is answered. If untir- ingly he keeps on seeking, seeking for the an- swers to his questions, sooner or later all his queries will be satisfied, all his desires for knowledge gratified. Some questions seem destined never to be answered, but the zeal for information carries people on still to ask them. Philosophers are always devising theories of those evanescent questions: what are we? whence came we? whither are we going? and, although in the past no success has attended the efforts of these greatly learned men to discover the solutions to these great puzzles of life, still they are striv- ing and searching a11d hoping for the unravel- ing of the wonderful mystery. Manps curiosity is alwa.ys urging him to grasp after that which is ever beyond him, and l1is intere.st is only increased when just as he seems to have at- tained to a ta.ngible proof of some baffling prob- lem, it resolves itself into intangibility again and passes on as tantalizingly out of reach as before 5 but his pursuit of it is never-ending- his interest in it never lessens. His imagina- tion still leads him to believe that somewhere, sometime, he will be successful. The imagination is the kaleidoscope of the intellect. lt is ever presenting pictures which move and change as if endowed with life. These mind pictures arouse the man to action and infiame his interest in the acquisition of information. The creative power in a manps brain at once responds to tl1e workings of the imagination and then all the wonderful powers of an intellect are revealed and the world mar- vels at the depths of the mind of a human being. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties ra The source of a manps thoughts is always a cause of wonder even to the man himself, and although scientists have been seeking to dis- cover the magic of the workings of the mind. that instrument of the soul still hides its secret effectually, and if that secret ever be revealed, Nature will whisper it to the one whom she has endowed with fitting characteristics to receive it and use it. For every person in this world there is some knowledge, which belongs exclusively to him, and if a man dismisses everything from his mind and turns a receptive ,mood toward the information in the universe, that which is right- fully his will come to him and supply his needs. Then, after he has attained to all the knowl- edge which is his very own, he can start anew and absorb part at least of all the surplus infor- mation which is going to waste for the need of someonei to possess it. One may ask, Where is this information? It is everywhere-in the ele- ments, in the works of men, in their writings and sayings. Emerson says that everyone he meets is his master in some point, and he learns that one thing of him. It is possible to make this information one's own and to use it in the most beneficent way. Knowledge may be ab- sorbed by eve-ryone who cares to take the trou- ble to submit to the discipline it involves. Shakespeare read in such a way as to incorpo- rate into himself the knowledge acquired and to actually possess it, and as proof of his suc- cess he has left to the world literary works that will live forever. From books, then, one can gather and pos- sess unbounded knowledge. From books po-wer is transmitted to individuals and wonderful are the results. Hamilton Mabie says from Plato one gets ar certain liberation of the imagina- tion, a certain widening of experience, a cer- tain ripening of the mindf' To some people a book is an entrance into a real living world, and for the time being they live in the world which the printed page has crea.ted for them, and they gather to themselves the information contained within its covers as easily and as naturally as they would pluck flowers from a bush in their path. But to others the book is only a jumble of words or sentences, interesting, perhaps, for the moment, but leaving no impression wha.t- ever. The information which they might have gained is all lost to them. To such people the