William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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' - Emrga ' ' friilfp V W . e I ,.,.i.l-- MONDAY, APRIL 6'rH.-This has been an eventful day for me. It has been the first for several weeks that I have not been proscribed in the his- tory class. Proscribed'7 is a word that can be understood in this connection onlv by the weak brethren and sisters of our English history class, and since that does not include many others than myself, I shall explain. First imagine the class going to the recitation room with that same resigned look that Chris- tians are said to have had when going to persecution. Then, imagine seated before them, a being whose brain is the never exhausted source of a fountain of history that pours forth its contents from the eyes and mouth, but never very long from the latter without being shaped into the form of a question. It is While this question is being moulded that a strange look of horror settles down on a great many faces in the class. It is then, for the first time since the open- ing of the recitation, that a familiar looking little green backed note book is noticed, as this historical being sits and chews its corner. But who will be the victim of that question? What! Yes, she has said, Minnie The inevi- table I don't known follows, as does also the VV-e l-l. - - Agnes from the front part of the room. Agnes is the Achilles of our class, but we are jealous- ly hoping that some day an arrow will strike the heel. Meanwhile the little green note book has been taken down and something written in it. I suspect if you should send a little elf up to examine this little book he would come back with a report that the book had a death smell and that the name f4Minnie was Written there with a good sized period twhose face was not blackj placed after it. Yes, THIS is prescription, for she has murdered, or at least stunted the growth of, a poor helpless little grade. Since our grades are such a large part of us I say that I have been proscribed. But what is that melodious sound I hear? Is it Beethoven's The Moonlight Sonata? Is it one of Chopin'sidreamy little airs? No, it is just the bell. MINNIE OWL. ef This afternoon I was thinking about my trip out 'West, and my thoughts went to the mountains-especially the one I climbed. I remember that I stood near the base of the mountain, and thought-how stupendous it was and felt how insignificant I was. But how changed was this feeling when I had reached the summit of the mountain. I looked down upon the great valley below, and because my position was elevated, and because I had, at one glance, a great stretch of scenery before me-I felt bigge1', now that I was not on a level with it, but so very much higher that it could scarcely see me. While I was in the reminiscent mood, other thoughts were suggested to nie. I pictured

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I ll THE GLEAVI. ll of things ineffable, he does not ask for rest, but supplicates for a longer life in which to work and grow. In whatever realms one moves, he sees names ahead beckoning him forward. 'The enthusiasm of work is intensified by the he1'oes that have lifted history out of the valley of the Nile and the plains of Babylon and replanted it on the mountains and rivers of America. lt is stim- ulated by those artists that have transiigured mounds and massive temples into Parthenon and cathedral. The names of Angelo, Raphael, Beethoven, Fry and Nightingale admit of no repose to a living soul. For, what a man has been, a man can be, yea, moregwhat all men have been, one man can bc. The living, burning desire of the soul to be all comprehensive, keeps the world's brain in everlasting motion. Living and working were wedded in the Garden of Eden. They cannot be divorced. If one must work in order to live, then what is one's best equipment? Into whatever kind of world your lot may fall, if it is in any sense God's world, there are some things that should not fail to count in favor of their possessors. If the heart is welded to truth, justice, right and duty, these rich properties should be the means of high living and sweet enjoy- ments. Some things are necessary to manhood and Womanhood. Loyalty to God, loyalty to man, loyalty to self, receive their inspiration from on high. These are essentials. A human character built on less cannot stand, and will fall beneath the measure of its own true greatness. These are coins which have the stamp of heaven on them and will pass current in any world, just so it is God's world. The key-words to success are honesty, bravery, simplicity, truthfulness and patience. Let these be in you and abound, and the class of 1904 will have something which the world needs, and which it cannot afford to do without, and may it at last receive the crown that belong to faithful souls. GEO. S. BRYANT. p Quin In he Itraniiful in C9121 Agn. HERE a1'e two kinds of beauty, both beginning in youth. The first and I highest beauty is that of characterg when young, if one is kind and dutiful, that beauty will stay with him always, and if practiced it will bring the soft and beautiful expression, which will stay with one not only unto death. but be remembered ever afterward. The second, or lower beauty is the beauty of form, as in the first part of Sellas' lifeg though beautiful in form, she was selfish and did not have the expression that a noble character produces. If you wish to keep the beauty of youth in old age. you must do things for others. This is also illustrated in Sellas, character. She spent her youth in selfishness, but after the loss of her magic slippers and her mother, she spent one night in solemn prayer, after which she awakened to a new life of generosity and love. By doing things for others she kept her beauty in old age. BABY OWL. 3 . 1 4 1 r 1 4 4 5 .' i i v 1 t -L..w.v,. . .grass-.r fa 'Z --ra. lm...1., ll 2' 5 1 .

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THE GLEAVI thls old mountaln as the f,l1mCUllDl9S nea1 WVl11Cl1 we are always standlng How small and weak we feel befole we tly to master these d1HicuIt1es, but when we have surmounted them how much st1 ongex we feel than when we are standlnv neal by contemplatmg then stlengthl I th1nk 1f we 1eal1zed what lt meant to leach the Summlt of thls sort of mountaln we should nevel pass one by w1th out cllmblnfr to lts top FRANCEb OWL As 1 Slt hole th1s aftel noon and thlnk of the lessons to plepale fo1 to mouow, the ghosts of Judge Pyncheon and Napoleon seem to attl act my attentlon, and the vallables, constants and l1m1ts axe all 1n a heap, unt1l I hardly know whether Napoleon IS s1tt1ng 1n the fatal chau 1n the P5 ncheon pallol or Judge Pyncheon flglltlllg at Waterloo F01 fear of gettlng the man Whose gleatness IS sald to have been llke that of a UDIVGI se confused wlth the man s1tt1n9g IU the a1 rn chan I shall close thls and ploceed to study MAMMA OWL FRIDAY APRIL 10 1903 I felt a 1el1ef th1s mo1n1n,q when I thought that thls was F1 lday but when MISS McDonald announced a test fo1 Monday, I WISIIGLI It were Tuesday How I do dread tests' I know I shall dream of thls one I went home aftel school and Ofot my prose for Monday 'Ihen I else was not so ha1d but befole I tmlshed the second I felt that Heller would lather have dled wlthout fame than to have h1s beautlful Imp1omptu so mlselably lendexed I am sure that Flances never leaves he1 most dlflioult p16C0 to be p1 2101210661 the day before he1 lesson The th11d I played vel y well and I declded to play 1t hlst fo1 my teacher and perhaps he would not ask fo1 the othels I emex fred fr om the pa1lo1 feelmg that a walk would 1ef1esh me, and now slnce 1 have wutten my LIIELIY for to clay, I w1ll call mv llttle blothex to walk wlth me LEWISE OWL ThlS aftel noon I was at home alone f01 a sholt tune I had locked all the doo1 s, and had just gone up stan s, when I heard some one t1y1ng to play on the p1ano F01 a moment I was so f1 lghtened that I hardly knew what to do but soon declded to sneak down stuns and take a glance 1nto the sxttmfr loom I was gleatly astonlshed to hnd my cat walklng up and down on the piano keys, seemlngly enjoymg the muslc The cat always llkes to be 1n the house near someone I suppose he was lonesome, and thlnklng that no one was at home, thought he would entel tam h1mself by playmg a select1on on the plano LOUISE OWL . ' 13 ' v I ' . . I h I . . , I , I I I - ca ' ' . . A ' ' w . ' , , , ,' I 1' ' ' - 4 ' -H 'Q - . O 5 Q '- l I . . Q . A , . g . . ' . 65 . ' I . h . . went to the parlor to practice, for tomorrow is my lesson day. The Hrst exer- ' I , I . ' I . ' ' ' 1 ' . 77 ' . n 1 - 1 5 1 v v . u ' ' I , - 1 1 ' . , . ' ' ' ' , ' z- , . l . I . , - I w ' '