Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Raymond Miller has control of a railroad in the Chinese Empire. His wonderful ability for carrying on buisness will be self-evident when I tell you that he keeps the books for the com- pany, runs the engine, keeps the train in repairs, punches the tick- ets and looks after the small boys, whose minds so easily turn to jumping on trains. Minnie Boyce has become a noted opera singer. Her fame has spread even to the eastermost part of Wayne. She has stopped at the latter place several hundred consecutive nights, singing to the inmates of a large institution situated there. And before going on farther I must mention our dramatic company, of which Minnie is a member. Will Sherman is 1nanager-in- chief. Anna Lau writes all the songs and the singer, whom I mentioned before, puts them to music and sings them. Anna Holmes composes all the dramas played by the company. Bessie Saxton paints the scenery, while Clara Morgan, Lena Shaw and Alice LeFerge are the leading actresses, and they employ Anna Simons to expound some parts of the plays that are not easily understood by people not blest with an extensive education, and she also has to tell the audience when it is time tolaugh. V Alger Abel still resides in Ypsilanti in the capacity of Justice of the Peace. He l1as special jurisdiction over boys who throw stones, balls and other missiles onthe School ground. He is also often called upon to deal with people who walk across the front grass plot, and others who, when entering the School grounds with their bicycles, do not make use of the bridge at the south side, which was erected for their benefit. Anna Campbell has graduated from a college in China, where they learn to read laundry tickets. On her return, she, in company with several natives, also Mervin Green and Miss Witherspoon, will start a firm of their own. The Chinamen will wash and iron, Anna will have charge of the general busi- ness affairs, and Mervin wait on customers, but on account of his small stature he will stand behind the counter on a box. Miss Witherspoon will do up bundles and hand them to Mr. Green when customers call for them, since he will not dare to step down from his box lest they never ind him again.

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Glass Prophecy N ANCIENT times the people were ever in fear that they should bring down upon themselves the anger of the Gods. And so in every case they 'drst tried to 'rind out whether or not their under- taking Was pleasing to the deity to whom they were looking for success. And in case the Gods sanctioned it, then they carried out their plans. But if they showed signs of disapproval, then the project was given up. In our own age there exists a great tendency to fathom the futureg or, if I may use a more common phrase, the human race is ever on the alert to know its Enishf' Partly in order that we may not bring down the anger of the Gods by rashly entering that walk of life that now may seem most Bowery to us, and partly to gratify that prevalent desire to know ' 'our inish, I have of late spent considerable time in conversing with the Gods. And in case the future alloted to you is more brilliant than you ever aspired to, remember that your good luck is due to the Gods and not to me. In some years from now if you should ever take a walk down in the region of the equator, you would find Bernard Johnson there, engaged in the wholesome business of selling icicles. He is carrying on a very extensive and lucrative trade, and in order to cut down expensesL as soon as the dull season comes he starts out for the north pole with his wheelborrow, to get i11 his stock for the next season. Helen Gage has held several positions as school mam, but in each case the school-board has been obliged to ask her to resign because she played too much with the pupils. She was succeeded in her last school, which, by the way, was located not far from that region known as Tiinbuctoos by Bessie Emerick. And the board of education may rest assured that-it will never have to remove Miss Emerick for playing in school, as that is something very foreign to her.

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I must not neglect to mention our brave soldier boy, Her- bert Harper. His deeds of daring and bravery are told around many a Hreside. After a campaign he has been known to have the scalps of as many as fifteen mosquitoes on his belt. Audrid Harper and Nellie Smith are far-famed for their poetry, while May Reed and Edith Guerin are well-known novelists. Raymond Parsons is sole proprietor of a large hat factory. His great success is principally due to the fact that he holds a perpetual contract for supplying those Seniors who may need a hat larger than the ordinary. Cora Crego has luxuriantly indulged The sacred lowe o' weel-placed love, and as a result has entered that state known as matrimony. Clara Vorce has taken up tl1e same walk of life, while Anna Burkheiser and Lydia Koeder are doomed to con- template forever the shades and sunshine of life as old maids. Vera Geer is devoting all her time to missionary work, and Theodore Rohn is traveling with a circus company, which, when last heard of, was stranded on the Feejee islands. To sum all this up in a few Words. I may say that Fortune has certainly favored the members of our class. But in spite of all these pleasant surroundings, our memories often return to the days that passed so quickly and pleasantly while we were students in the Ypsilanti High School. s 3