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

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She dyed her hair green and wears a blue and lilac dress to harmonize. She raves because she cannot change the color of her eyes to pink. Q Alma Stringer was one of the latest and most desperate victims who succumbed to the infiuence of high school life. While taking a vocal course under Mrs. Hedges, she lost her mind in attempt- to place her tones in the correct location. 3 Wedding-bells and disappointment in love was the combination that drove Margaret Anderson in- sane. The marriage of two other Seniors weighs so on her mind that every time she hears the dinner- bell she imagines that it is playing the Lohengrin', Xvedding March. She has had her cell fitted up with secret passages, in which she can hide when the jailer brings her dinner. Q Mabel Garrett imagines she is nine feet tallz and, in continual fear of bumping her head, she has insisted upon having the ceiling of her cell raised ten feet. Even now, when it is about fifteen feet out of reach, she has had it padded doubly thick. Q Trying to keep up with the latest fashions of Argentine drove the unfortunate Louise Bannister crazy. Now she is in the remotest cell in the Sani- tarium, making clothes for a pug dog, which she has taken with her as a companion. She insists upon running the sewing machine at midnight by X-ray light. Q When she heard of the loss of her Senior essaY 'in the fire, Jessie Eyman received a severe chill. which mentally unbalanced her. Now she sits in an asbestos-lined cell, Wrapped in blankets and furs, with the thermometer at IOO degrees Fahrenheit. The Latin sentence read as follows: Lupa ad vagitum occurrit, lingua infantis lambit, mat- remque se gessitf' This is the way it was rendered bv a slightly excited Freshman: HA wolf ran up and licked the children like a mother. IMPRESSIONS. The sound of bells, wild and alarming, clang- ing fiercely out upon the windy night! The cry of voices as firemen hurried to and fro, adjusting ladders and lifting the long, snake-like hose! Men, women, and children huddled together on every corner and doorstepg their expressions telling of the half-conscious state of mind! Women with straight and stringy locks -of hair straggling carelessly from beneath shawls and caps: men with coat-collars turned up about their throats, and children gazing with sleepy yet excited eyes at the sight across the way. The school-house, wrapped in a coat of scarlet flames, first lapping hungrily about the Laboratory windows, then growing Wilder and wilder, climb- ing higher and higher, up, up, up, consuming every- thing within its path and reaching out its furious tongues until it touched the roof, then leaping with demonlike fury far up into the heavens till it met the dark night sky-and sending continually up- ward myriads and myriads of tiny sparks, appear- ing to be stars let loose. Soaring and sailing, up- ward and outward, vanishing at last to give way to a myriad more. At the highest windows, perched upon the top- most rungs of toppling ladders, firemen fought vain- ly to extinguish the Hames. The bottles of chemicals in the Laboratory went to their doom with a sound like the crashing of thunder. The numberless fish in their gold and silver gowns swam wildly about the aquarium. As the light of the clambering Hames grew brighter and brighter, the beautiful creatures sank away from the intense heat, down to the cooler waters be- neath the rocks-but even there the water became warmer and warmer until at last it boiled and bubbled-the Hoor beneath the glass house gave Way and the whole thing crashed downward-all but the little gold and silver creatures, who were lifted up and wafted heavenward by a great, kind, gust of wind-that carried them up among the sparks-indistinguishably like them-until they too mingled with the stars in the infinite. The graduates of past years leaned from their places to speak to friends and called each other's names in piteous tones as the fury of flames came closer and closer--then softly they bade each other good-bve and cried again to those up and down the hall and stairway. Oh, the horrible sensation! those Hames leaping and crawling about them, and the horror of seeing the friends near them go crash-