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

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22 THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. Vilhile engaged in an argument with Miss De Wfitt, Alfred '1oll's mind gave way, and he in- sisted that after death the soul took a Rockhill car. tranferred at Eighth Street and Grand Avenue and took a car to Fairmount Park. He raves about not being allowed to follow the same path, and in- sists that he is but a soul, with no chunky body attached. L33 Catherine Ware applied herself too closely to writing a great play. After the loss of her mind, she finished the play and made the heroine marry the villain and the hero become a hopeless drunkard. She is at present covering all the blackboards with a romantic drama about a Mormon farmer with forty-eight wives. Q Hazel Lorie became insane because no one would listen to her frantic descriptions of Europe. After six hours of careful description of the Tower of London, she discovered that forfive hours and hfty-nine minutes there had been nobody in the same room. She has just finished the fifty thou- sandth page of a description of a Paris paving' stone. S! The cell of Ernest Cox is well provided with graphophones, pianolas, guitars, violins, cornets, mandolins, bagpipes, hand-organs, accordions, etc.. which the Sanitarium warden starts playing everv morning at daybreak, while Ernest sings to their accompaniment the livelong day. -9. Clara Bastman became a lunatic over the prospect of winning the HERALD cover prize, and now sits in her cell drawing numerous designs and sees ten-dollar gold-pieces floating around in the atmosphere--all coming her way. te Paul Luther, although a little fellow, became a fanatic on pedestrianism, and his cell has been equipped with a tread-mill for his incessant walking. 4 .Nanna Clagett became pitifully insane over dramatic art, and sits in an ,easy-chair muttering dramatically Shakespearean verse. Her violent gesticulation has made her extremely weak. 4 Rae McMillan has a common trouble, auto- mania. He tried to run the Hbubblen through a Monday assembly and to kill the teachers but spare the pupils. He has been confined in the shoot the chutesn hre-escape, where he has hill-climbing contests between toy automobiles. A Helen Hetherington has a mania for wearing clothes-lots of them. Her deprivation early this year has caused a reaction during the early sum- mer. Nearly every day she may be seen passing the windows with seven dresses on, four or hve pairs of shoes, two hats on her head and several more hung in festoons from her shoulders. 4, Wheii Samuel Campbell heard the names of the three Campbellsn at Commencement, his over- worked nature gave way. He believed he was the animal his name signifies and began to eat the flowers on the ladies, hats, and even tried to go seven days without a drink. At present he wanders up and down the halls swinging his head from side to side, believing himself in a desolate desert. Qs Bessie Richards, after having adored one of the teachers for two years and being disappointed in the return of her love, at last took up German and has become melancholy over her failure to master the language. She now paces her cell re- peating eloquently, Ich liebe meine liebe l..ehrerin.,, Q Q- Norah Penn lost her reason after having tried in vain to defend herself against her ardent admirers in the bookkeeping class. She requires a constant attendant to tell her that she is alone and won't be bothered by uthose horrid boysf' Q. After eating a great deal of chili, Lawrence Spencer got cold feet and did not win the track meet. This drove poor Lawrence out of his senses. and now he insists that his room be kept at 100 degrees Centigrade. He will eat nothing but chili and red pepper, and keeps calling outfor fire waterfs 3 , Ruth Nlellen is an unusual case. She believes that she isnftg that she does not exist. If anyone contradicts her and says that they see her, she hides behind a match and insists that there is no such person as Ruth Mellen in the world, and that any- one who says there is deserves to be in a sanitarium. A Ayers Blochefs delusion is 'cross-country run- ning and jumping. After school he was discovered hurdling counters in a china store with rather dis- astrous results. He was arrested and sent to the Sanitarium for safe-keeping. All day long he jumps from seat to seat in the Study Hall and runs round and round the halls, struggling to pass imagi- nary opponents. P a chi. place arour lookii her si J seems he is Ple draw lunch the k J and they heart girls, separ C he is urer ancec his cr const P ego.' stage mary madlj I fever makii the i frantl ing i all oi refusi I and enoug to bu halls. Ame' holdi streai

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,4f3 .1-1. A -C-'M - -'L - --- --..-'..'... -, . -, , . A '-A' Y 150- - -'-'- - -- - -'--f Y - 24 'THE VVESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. Ella Buckley is known as Whispering Ella. She contracted the habit in High School, but dur- ing the few weeks before Commencement she made a sudden resolution to break herself of the habit, with the result that her brain gave way under the severe strain. NVith a string of beads in her hands, she paces her narrow cell, whispering as she slips each one. Q Ruby Hombs is kept in a straight-jacket most of the time. When she is not, she thinks she is playing Statue.', It is believed that, while try- ing to strike a very beautiful yet difficult attitude, she strained one of the cords in her neck, which unbalanced her mental elquilibrium. Ethel Mott and Ethel Addoms, while walking past the cemetery on their way home from school. late one night, thought they saw a ghost. The awful experience drove them insane, and they now pace wildly to and fro, holding a geometry before them as a shield and shrieking, Sacred to the memory off' and Here lies. ' S Poor Ethel Rose tried to forget her sojourn in Topeka and partially succeeded until, during the Commencement program, someone mentioned Pro- hibitionf' The awful word brought such dire remembrances to her mind that she was led from the stage a raving maniac. 3 Ina Kirkpatrick gave so much time to Latin that her mind became a blank on every other subject. She thinks she is a gladiator of Cmsaris time, and spends her spare moments trying to prick Mr. Snedeger with a javelin. 3 Hazel Partington was driven mad by the theft of her curls. Some envious person grabbed the Hf0re-mentioned treasures just before Commence- ment. When Hazel discovered her loss, she re- fused to go on the stage until some wood-shavings were given to her. When her diploma was handed to her, she took off a shaving and bestowed it on the donor of the diploma, saying, Let 's swap, sirf' S Fannie Spence imagines that she is literary edi- tor of Harperis, Scribnefs, Century, Colliefs, Ev- eryibndjs, and The Saturday Evening Post. She insists upon having her clothes trimmed with pen- points- and has to be forcibly restrained from drink- mg ink. This is the saddest case of a brilliant mind gone wrong in the whole Sanitarium. Abbie Johnson went insane while attempting to invent fifty-seven varieties of coiffures. She only accomplished forty-nine, and the disappointment overwhelmed her. S Helen Weber is afflicted by a religious mania. She prances up and down her cell, trying to dig her heels as far as possible into the concrete floor, and mutters texts solemnly. 'Q . Elsie Lambornis indulgence in the artful pow- der-rag has led to a pitiful hallucination. She thinks her nose is always shiny. To remedy this imaginary defect, the poor crazed child carries constantly with her a bag of flour and a bucket of whitewash. 3 The intense excitement of being on the stage at Commencement drove Genevieve Parker insane. She now believes she is a Spanish dancer and whirls incessantly upon the Assembly Hall stage, to the intense mortification of the religiously inclined inmates. Q Hazel Himes is one of the noisiest of the in- mates. Someone proved that she said three words in succession and the terrible truth drove her insane. Now she talks incessantly in a loud tone of voice, and almost drives the other lunatics crazy. 9. Gray Hodges became mentally deranged from overstudy. Miss De Nvitt, judging from his bril- liant recitations in English, feared a total break- down, and recommended a thorough rest for his overtaxed brain. -Q Albert Mott believes he is a tennis ball, and, as his chief delight is rolling down stairs, he has to be kept in a padded room. He has marked off a court on the floor with chalk, and jumps from one side of an imaginary net to the other, raising an awful racket. His favorite exclamation is, Love fifteen. ' 3 Loie Carnahan's mind has been permanently injured by finding that she can no longer have Miss Patrick's company to guide her footsteps, and her helpful hints as to how to really appreciate Vlfednesday afternoon matinees. The poor child is now confined in a room the walls of which are pa- pered with Miss Patrick's pictures and the mold- ings lined with directions which Miss Patrick gave her before she graduated. H g...'n::..1.1c:a4..i.Zzizs.zzaz.C4 nr:-fa1:,:ia:4:-.- mi 1Lil6!'l':4t6i eIi-,irlgfgf-jjj'Y'-'gggf- --2-. A .-...I ' 4' ' ' 'X - - - -.-.-.- M-, ,,,,, ,U v V - - . . . , I N- . . . . i f ,A .. '7 .:'L .-:zu-zvnwnn. .krew.m y3,4-aLla2L2I:1Qnxsr,'.e,.mm- ,,,, , , .,,.. -. , ,