Westville High School - Echo Yearbook (Westville, IN)

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IN LIGHTER VEIN The world is old, yet likes to laugh: New jokes are hard to find. A whole new editorial staff Can't tickle every mind. So if you meet some ancient joke, Decked out in modern guise, Don't frown and call the thing a fake, Just laugh, don't be too wise. much . Junior: I suppose it is because all green things need lots of water. Why are school teachers like Fords ? Because they give the most service for the least money. Prof.: Ernest, what is dust ? Ernest: Mud with the juice squeezed out. Pupil: I don't think I should have zero on this paper. Teacher: I don't either, but it was the lowest I could give you. Has absolute zero been found yet ? HYeS.!7 Where ? On my report card. When I go to heaven, I'm going to ask Shakespeare if he wrote those plays, said a literary woman. Maybe he won't be there, said her husband. Then you ask him, retorted the cruel one. Mr. Knoll: Excuse me, Harland. Harland: You're welcome. A teacher was instructing her pupils in the use of the hyphen. Among the examples was bird cage. Now Johnny, why do we put a hyphen in bird-cage? Johnny replied: It's for the bird to sit on. M. E. H. I wish you people would keep still when you want to say anything. Senior: Why do all the Freshies stand around the water fountain so -P

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Teacher: Give me a sentence illustrating the three tenses. William: Don't think of the future until the present is past. Vernon: Look out, Alice, Nat's eagle eye is upon thee. Teacher: When water changes to ice, what is the greatest change ? Pupil: The change in price. Teacher: Where is the Swanee River ? Pupil: Far, far away. Teacher: What is a kilometer ? Pupil: A hundred feet. Teacher: Oh, no, that would be a centipedef' There is meter in poetry, There is meter is tone, But the best place to meter is to meter alone. A school boy wrote an essay on cats. The chapter on breeds supplies the following information: Cats that's made for little boys and girls to maul and tease is called Maltese cats. Cats is known by their queer purrs. These are called Pursean cats. Cats with bad tempers is called Angorrie. Cats with deep feelins' is called Feline cats. Charlotte K.: Sit down, Walter. Kathryn: Say, who is the boss of him any way ? Prof. Qin funjz What time is it by your nose, Edward? Edward: Mine ain't running, is your's ?', Helen: Fm part Swiss. M. E. H.: I don't think so, Swiss are intelligent good looking people. Look here young man, said an old man with fire in his eyes. I have brought back this thermometer you have sold me. It ain't reliable at all. One time you look at it, it says one thing, and the next time it says another. Mr. Knoll: What is a demagogue? Ruth Kelly: A school teacher. Teacher: Why do leaves turn red in Autumn ? Pupil: They are blushing to think how green they were in the summer.