Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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30 THE TARGET PAGEANT PEOPLE A PAGEANT. On Thursday, May eleventh, pupils of the Seventh Grade gave a pageant called “Sunshine and Shadow.” It was composed by Constance D’Arcy, Mackay, and was written for the Na- tional Child Labor Committee. The story begins by the appearance of Ellen and Jane, her nurse. El- len has a picture in her hand of a little girl in a North Carolina mill. She explains to Jane that someone sent it to her father from New York, and that it’s something about little girls working. Jane asks her to stay in the park while she does her work. Ellen remains and falls asleep. She dreams about the sunshine and shadow children. The first part of the dream is the appearance of Joy. She invites the sunshine children to come and dance with her. When they finish the dance, Play and Knowledge ap- pear. Knowledge explains about a golden key she is wearing, that opens any door in the halls of life, and that if the doors are hard to open Aspiration, her sister (who then appears on the stage), will come and help. The sunshine children begin to dance again but are interrupted by a band of tired and ragged children led by Jack and Jill and accompanied by Fatigue and Ignorance. These children work in factories and mills. Jack asks Knowledge to give them a chance, but as he is asking, Greed steps in and forbids more speaking. Greed defies all the good spirits, but finally Knowledge awakens Pub- lic Opinion, who calls in Legis- lation, and breaks the fetters that bind him. The moment Greed sees that Legislation is unbound from his fetters he flees with his two com- panions.

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THE TARGET 29 fiery and stormy temper. He was discharged after thirty-one days, so he joined the army. Mr. Augustus August was very much like his predecessor, only more so. But Mr. Year was so des- perately in need of a helper that he employed him. But when Miss September came and applied for a position, Mr. Year was so pleased with her appearance that he dis- charged Mr. August and gave Miss September the place. Miss September was very in- dustrious. She helped Mr. Year in balancing the grain accounts. She was forced to resign after a month of hard work so that she could go to school. Miss Octavia October was quite as industrious as Miss September. She was valuable in recording the apple crop reports. As the weather grew colder she left to go, south. Miss November was Mr. Year’s next employee. She was a fairly good worker, although she would rather be snow-balling than working in an office. While Miss November was still at work (she had been working twenty-nine days), a pretty young lady named Miss December applied for a position. Mr. Year discharged Miss November the next day and Miss December filled the vacancy. Mr. Year grew very fond of Miss December, so on the thirty-first day of her service he said to her, “Miss December, will you marry me?” “No,” said Miss December, “I can’t. My real name is Mrs. Michael- mas. I am married.” Air. Year nearly fell over, but he was not so easily daunted. “Well,” he said, “we can elope.” “No,” replied Mrs. Alichaelmas. She hesitated, and then added, “Yes I will; my husband left me on the twenty-fifth of this month, and as he shows no sign of returning, and I have to support myself, I will go with you.” So at midnight they eloped and early the next morning, when Father Time came to see about his rent, he found the office empty. So he put up his sign, as he had put it up many times before — For Sale, Rent or Lease Apply Father Time 20 Century Avenue, Eternity. DOUGLAS KING. FOOLED ONLY ONCE. Jenny was hurrying home from school. Sc had stayed and played after dismissal and it was growing dark. “Surely,” thought she, “it can not be very late.” No, it was clouds that were hiding the sun. But she knew well it would soon rain. And she had no umbrella! She knew no one who lived around this neighbor- hood. There was a “cross old lady,” as she thought, who lived in the lit- tle brown house she was passing, but she wouldn’t lend her an umbrella. At this moment it began to pour. What should she do? Suddenly she heard a voice calling, “Little girl, come here!” She looked around. It was her cross old lady! At first she hesitated but finally ran up on the porch. The next moment she found herself eating cookies with a glass of rich milk. “Thank you very much,” she said. “By the way it is April Fool’s Day, and I haven’t been fooled once. Yes I have, do you know by whom?” And when the little old lady shook her head, she said softly, “By you, be- cause I thought you were cross, and you’re — you’re lovely.” SYLVIA LELAND.

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THE TARGET When the shadow children find that they are free they join with the sun- shine children in the merry dance. Ellen wakes up and begs the audi- ence to help her make the dream come true. MARGARET KING. RASTUS AND THE GHOST. This is the story as it was told to us boys by Rastus, who trembled even to think of it. It seems that Rastus was coming home late at night from a “colored celebration.” He was riding the old horse he owned, along a very dark road, the only one he could take near his place. Rastus was thinking of the ghost stotries he had heard. All of a sudden his horse stopped and began to tremble. Rastus, very much frightened, looked about but could feel rather than see someone. The thing seemed to be holding the horse’s bridle and Rastus was dumb with fright. Then the horse was given a resounding whack from behind, and off he started, racing dawn the road at a gallop. At one of the horse’s lurches Rastus was sent flying into the air. He found his way home, how, he doesn’t know. His horse, he found eating in front of his shack. We could hardly keep from laugh- ing outright, for it was we who played the trick on Rastus. One of us stooped down and grabbed the bridle, and the other hit the horse in back. We hope Rastus won’t find out, for then we will no doubt have a long race up the road. EDWIN ISAACS. Francis Howe in H. 9 Algebra: “I saw a graph showing the amount of pig you could buy.” 31 TRADE- RATS. Among the gold fields of Nevada, two young enthusiastic miners were seeking their fortunes. They lived in a cabin situated over a shallow shaft, which they used as a cellar. Extending from the bottom of the shaft, about ten or fifteen feet into the earth, was a drift, which they had never taken the trouble to ex- plore. Each morning, when the miners went down into their improvised cel- lar to get eggs for breakfast, they were extremely perplexed at finding one or two missing. The peculiar fact about this was that for every egg gone, was found a small stick. Not only eggs disappeared, but knives, forks and teaspoons, as well. But always in place of the missing article was found— a stick. So numerous were the articles missing, and so mysterious seemed their disappearance, that finally one of the boys conceived the idea of ex- ploring the old drift. By the light of a candle he proceeded slowly and cautiously into its depths. On near- ing the end there was heard a scam- pering of many rats. To his utter amazement, there lay all the lost articles, without even an egg being broken. These rats proved to be trade-rats, a breed peculiar to the desert. They have a keen desire for accumulating and trading, always leaving some- thing in place of what they take, thereby deriving their name. VIRGINIA MITCHELL. Albert Becker to Mr. Hughson: “Have you any clamps to glue my top up with?” Mr. Hughson: busy.” “No, they are all