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<strong>The</strong><br />
Wearily Amos Lee :<br />
creek and washed it thorc<br />
passed over the edge ami<br />
ined the residue, turning,<br />
escape him. But again t<br />
emptying it out, Lee rose<br />
his arms.<br />
"Guess that's enougl<br />
get home if I don't start<br />
Yet it was not for 1<br />
mark the day in Amos I<br />
his life had been unsucc<br />
unworthy and a mine tl<br />
himself again at the foo<br />
"With his wife and<br />
in the heart of the moi<br />
that part of California v<br />
ure. Day after clay as a<br />
almost endless forests ai<br />
where rushed ice-cold st<br />
stubbornly refused to di:<br />
As he neared home<br />
with wondrous reds an<<br />
made his home. <strong>The</strong> f<br />
bald mesa there rose a s<br />
with the sunset's glory,<br />
the sun. While Lee i<br />
great golden eagle flew<br />
• boughs. "Guardian," Ji<br />
the tree "Sunset Pine."
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"<strong>The</strong> Eagle of Sunset Pine"<br />
AII.EEN* MYLAND, June <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Wearily Amos Lee refilled his pan with earth from the margin of the<br />
creek and washed it thoroughly, shaking the mixture so that the light particles<br />
passed over the edge and the gravel sank to the bottom. Carefully he examined<br />
the residue, turning it this way and that, lest any trace of gold should<br />
escape him. But again the pan contained only bits of rock and sediment, and<br />
emptying it out, Lee rose from where he knelt beside the stream and stretched<br />
his arms.<br />
"Guess that's enough for to-day," he muttered. "It'll be dark before I<br />
get home if I don't start now. Another day gone and nothing to show for it!"<br />
Yet it was not for lack of energy or courage that there was nothing to<br />
mark the day in Amos Lee's calendar. Both the ventures that had occupied<br />
his life had been unsuccessful through no fault of his; a partner had proved<br />
unworthy and a mine that at first gave promise, had failed. So Lee found<br />
himself again at the foot of the ladder.<br />
With his wife and daughter he had taken possession of a small cabin<br />
in the heart of the mountains that rise in long, irregular ranges through<br />
that part of California where some genius once buried a great golden treasure.<br />
Day after day as a prospector he tramped over the mountains, through<br />
almost endless forests and down the canons, deep riven into the mountains,<br />
where rushed ice-cold streams. But three years had passed, and Earth had<br />
stubbornly refused to disclose to Lee the fortune he so perseveringly sought.<br />
As he neared home the sun was setting, and the western sky glowed<br />
with wondrous reds and yellows above the mountain on whose slope Lee<br />
rp.ade his home. <strong>The</strong> forest ended, abruptly near the summit, and on the<br />
bald mesa there rose a solitary giant pine tree, whose branches were tipped<br />
with the sunset's glory, and whose straight form was silhouetted against<br />
the sun. While Lee noted the usual, though always beautiful scene, a<br />
great golden eagle flew toward the pine and settled clown in its topmost<br />
• boughs. "Guardian," Junietta called him. And how fitly she had named<br />
the tree "Sunset Pine."<br />
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Lee smiled as he thought of his daughter. What a quaint little thing<br />
she was, naming each tree, bird or beast as it caught her fancy. <strong>The</strong>re she<br />
was now, coming down the trail to meet him—his baby siii!,-.clespite her,<br />
sixteen yearsi Her hair was black, so black that it had blue shades in it,<br />
and her blue' eyes shone like star's." Her rosy cheeks knew neither tan nor<br />
freckles, and she carelessly swung her sunbonnet by its strings. She carried 1<br />
a great spray of azalea blossoms, which she waved in greeting to her father.<br />
"Aren't they beautiful?" she called. "I've waited so long for them to<br />
bloom. Don't you just love them, Dad—and pink ones, too!"<br />
"I certainly do," answered Lee. kissing her. "Where do they grow?"<br />
"Up toward Sunset Pine," responded Junietta, slipping her arm through<br />
her father's. "<strong>The</strong>re's a great bush of them—oh. Dad"—interrupting herself<br />
—"the eagle's eggs have hatched, I'm sure. Guardian and his wife keep<br />
flying around the tree, and going off for food."<br />
Together they walked up the trail, Junietta chattering about the occurrences<br />
of the day, unimportant little details, but Amos Lee loved to hear<br />
them, as Junietta well knew. She dearly loved her surroundings and the<br />
lonely mountain life was no deprivation to her. Save for a few mountaineers<br />
their nearest neighbors were at Broken Hill, a mining town several<br />
miles distant.<br />
All through June and July Junietta watched the eagles in Sunset Pine,<br />
as she had done for two summers past. <strong>The</strong> young birds grew large and<br />
strong and sometimes she could sec them perched on the edge of the nest,<br />
a structure of sticks, lined with grass and leafy twigs. So the summer<br />
rolled by, but Amos Lee, for all his earnest prospecting, found no signs of<br />
the mine he sought. Sometimes when working along the streams and up<br />
through the gulches he. would pan out a few nuggets of considerable size,<br />
and then his hopes rose high, but often for clays his labor went unrewarded.<br />
In early August two young San Franciscans, Ansel Girvin and Philip<br />
Scott, appeared in Broken Hill. <strong>The</strong>y were riding through the mountains<br />
on a hunting trip. It was a way that they enjoyed spending their vacations,<br />
and every summer found them riding through some part of California where<br />
game was plentiful. As they nearccl Broken Hill. Scott suggested that they<br />
leave their horses in the town and spend the next clay fishing.<br />
"Crawford said that the trout he caught last summer in Yarrow Creek<br />
were the best he'd ever gotten," he explained.<br />
"Just a fish story," observed Girvin discouragingly. He was not nearly<br />
so-enthusiastic over fishing as Scott, and regarded the scheme as a day<br />
wasted. '<br />
"I don't think so," protested Scott. "Anyhow, I'd like to get a lick at<br />
them. I'll tell you! I'll fish and you hunt. <strong>The</strong>re's plenty of game around<br />
here—anyway, if you haven't anything to show by the end of the day, there'll<br />
be my fish."<br />
"Oh, yes., your fish!" laughed Girvin, good-naturedly. "All right Phil,<br />
your motion is carried. And here's Broken Hill. What holes these mining<br />
towns are, anyway!"<br />
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her. From where she stood she could look into the valley below and beyond to<br />
the mountains that rose eastward, in tier upon tier.<br />
A short distance away Guardian was circling around. He would pause,<br />
dip downward and then, with a sudden movement of his powerful wings, soar<br />
upward and again circle about in his graceful flight. "He must be getting dinner<br />
for the family," thought Junietta, as she stood, a picturesque little figure in<br />
a pink gingham frock, clinging to the limb of the azalea, the fragrant petals<br />
still covering her black hair.<br />
Suddenly a shot rang out. terrifyingly near. Junietta saw Guardian struggle<br />
for life an instant, then plunge downward. She stood for a moment in<br />
horror, then ran toward the spot where she had seen him fall.<br />
Girvin was standing beside the fallen bird, ejecting the spent cartridge<br />
from his rifle. <strong>The</strong> joy of killing that had flamed up so ardently had died<br />
down—to be sure, this was only a bird, but what a noble one it had been and<br />
of what use was it to him now? As he looked at the eagle where it lay with<br />
its wings widespread and its yellow-feathered neck thrown back, he heard fcot-<br />
. steps rapidly approaching and looked to see who was coming.<br />
A girl, little more than a child, to whose black hair clung azalea petals, and<br />
whose eyes were darkening with anger—this was not what Girvin had expected<br />
to see. He turned toward her hesitatingly.<br />
"You've shot Guardian!" she cried, her voice trembling with anger. ''My<br />
Guardian! Oh, how cruel you are!''<br />
She knelt beside Guardian and gently raised his head. His left wing<br />
fell back, disclosing a torn wound. Tears rolled down her checks as she<br />
looked at it.<br />
"Oh, what will his family do without him?" she mourned. "Now there<br />
won't be any Guardian to come to the Sunset Pine next year. Why did you<br />
shoot him? Oh, what a wicked thing you have done!"<br />
Girvin did not know what to say. Several emotions possessed him—<br />
embarrassment at having a stranger (and a very pretty one) crying because<br />
he had shot an eagle; anger at being censured for the natural action of a<br />
hunter; remorse, because he knew that the girl was right, there had been<br />
no need of shooting the bird.<br />
"I am very sorry," he said, finally. "I saw the bird and fired at him.<br />
I hadn't the vaguest thought of the consequences—I only wanted to kill him.<br />
so I did. But I am heartily ashamed of myself. You believe me, don't<br />
you?"<br />
"Yes," Junietta answered, looking up, "but that doesn't make 'Guardian'<br />
alive again.' ' .<br />
"I know it doesn't; I only wish it did. If I had a shovel I'd bury him<br />
here where he's fallen beside the stream."<br />
"If you'll come with me we'll get one." Junietta laid the bird's head on<br />
the ground and stood up. "My home isn't far from here, and we'll give<br />
'Guardian' a proper funeral."<br />
She led the way down to the Lee cabin, and brought a shovel from a<br />
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they had left "Guardian" lying. j<br />
A short distance from the creek Girvin dug the grave. Several rocks<br />
resisted his shovel, and he pried them up, throwing them carelessly aside.<br />
When the grave was deep enough they laid "Guardian" in it, Junietta smoothing<br />
his rumpled brown plumage as best she could. Silently she watched<br />
Girvin shoveling the earth over the dead eagle. Suddenly her attention<br />
was attracted to the rocks that Girvin had displaced, and stooping, she<br />
picked up a piece and examined it curiously, as she had often done specimens<br />
brought home by her father. She gave a quick little exclamation.<br />
"What is it?" Girvin asked, looking up from his work: "is it a piece<br />
of ore?"<br />
"I think so," Junietta answered. "Look at the flecks of gold all over it!<br />
It's far richer than the specimens'that Dad has shown me. Perhaps there<br />
is more of it. Oil, do you think we have discovered a rich vein? Dad has<br />
looked for one so long."<br />
Together they bent over the rocks, Ansel as interested as the girl.<br />
Each upturned fragment showed the same glittering particles. Taking the<br />
best specimens they returned to the Lee cabin. Amos Lee came home early<br />
that day and as he neared the cabin he was met by a very excited girl and<br />
an equally so young man, while his wife was scarcely less interested. With<br />
trembling fingers he examined the bits of rock and tested them.<br />
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Now up in the mountains some little distance beyond Broken Hill another<br />
mine is being operated, that pays many thousands yearly. Its owners<br />
are Amos Lee and Ansel Girvin. and its name is the Golden Eagle.<br />
Of Stonewall Jackson, the strong, courageous, right-loving Confederate, we'<br />
have this story: It was during the Civil War, Jackson was leading his army in<br />
the battle of Antietam when suddenly he saw enc of his men about'to fire upon<br />
a young soldier on. the other side of the creek. Immediately he cried: "Stop!<br />
Lower your gun. I have watched that boy all day. He is too brave to be killed."<br />
Thus was William McKinley, at seventeen years of age, saved to become twice<br />
President of the United States and die by the assassin's bullets. So, we see, that<br />
to Jackson, known as the favorite son of the god Jason, another quality belongs—<br />
the capacity for appreciating soldierly qualities in an enemy as well as in a friend.
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<strong>The</strong> Aviation Meet<br />
A. J. WiLLARn, '11. L. H. S. Reporter.<br />
Did you see the aeroplanes? No! Well, you certainly missed a great<br />
sight. What did they do? Why, they did anything and everything. Everything<br />
was ready for the flights. <strong>The</strong> grandstands were crowded with joy-mad,<br />
pleasure-seeking people, the mechanicians on the field were enthusiastically putting<br />
the finishing touches to their machines, and last of all, but not least, the<br />
aviators themselves were bubbling over with joy at the thought of being the first<br />
man-birds to fly over our city.<br />
James Radley, the English birdman, was the first aviator to leave the field.<br />
In a Bleriot monoplane, making a short running start and ascending quickly to<br />
a height of a little more than two hundred feet, he circled the grandstand and,<br />
heading his machine toward the city of the Golden Gate, he was soon lost to sight.<br />
As he and his machine became a constantly diminishing object, the people in the<br />
grandstands and automobile paddocks turned their attention to a group of four<br />
aviators all in the air at the same time. Each was vainly endeavoring to outdo<br />
the other in performing a series of geometric evolutions. This quartet was<br />
composed of Parmalee, Ely, Brookins and Willard.<br />
In the meantime, Radley, so to speak, was having the time of his life.<br />
Steering his machine over the salt marshes of the lower bay, he was soon sailingover<br />
the battleships at anchor in the harbor. In and out, maneuvering his machine<br />
with perfect grace, he mystified both officers and men. Neatly clearing<br />
the forward bridge of a passing ferry boat, he circled Goat Island and headed<br />
for the Ferry building. Having" looked at the time on the clock in the tower,<br />
he soon landed again at Tanforan on terra firma, in all, being gone thirty-four<br />
minutes.<br />
When he had told his story to his French rival, the latter, in good nature,<br />
.was heard to say, "Well, 1 know I can do better than that." So saying, he<br />
tuned up his Antoinette and, having made a few graceful flights, set oft" at a<br />
rapid pace toward Golden Gate Park and the ocean. He followed the course<br />
of the main drive and sailing at a height of two hundred feet, he passed over the<br />
beach and Cliff House. Here he deviated from his course, turning eastward and<br />
passing over the Presidio, and was soon opposite Alcatraz. From here he continued<br />
on to the Ferry and thence clown the waterfront to the field.<br />
<strong>The</strong> spectacular flights of these two man-birds was one of the greatest<br />
achievements in the career of both men. With the graceful confidence of waterbirds,<br />
these monoplanes circled and whirled, dipped and rose, now almost skimming<br />
the crisping waves, and again soaring high above them. <strong>The</strong> splendid<br />
weather was all that one could desire. It was Aviation dc Luxe.<br />
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To a Violet<br />
<strong>The</strong> violet was a lovely flower,<br />
In beauty sweet and fair,<br />
It grew beside a running brook,<br />
And-left its fragrance there.<br />
It loved to watch the sparkling stream,<br />
To hear its bubbling song,<br />
To see it flash between the green,<br />
And the white foam race along.<br />
It heard the song of love and truth<br />
Given to us by Christ.<br />
It longed to serve with its simple heart<br />
And to keep its Maker's tryst.<br />
It grew, and bloomed, a purple queen,<br />
A monarch of a day.<br />
And then, the fairest of the flowers,<br />
It pined and drooped away.<br />
Is any life, how great or small,<br />
Counted as waste or loss,<br />
If its sweetness brightens a struggling soul,<br />
And helps to bear its cross ?<br />
If not, sweet flower, your life, so meek,<br />
Has not been lived in vain,<br />
For you have taught me, too, to serve—<br />
<strong>The</strong> highest to attain.<br />
For not abroad, in distant lands,<br />
Is service always due,<br />
But right here, now, by God's own help,<br />
A lesson I'll learn from you.<br />
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A True Nobleman<br />
Practically every European country boasts its noblemen, yet how few of<br />
f'tiie many are deserving of the title, in its higher sense! America considers<br />
herself fortunate in having no such class distinction, but, although we do not<br />
ordinarily regard them as such, she has nevertheless produced several true<br />
noblemen. Far higher than those of birth are the requirements for our peerage;<br />
they are essentially personal honor and merit, with lofty character, worthy<br />
of and commanding the respect and praise of a most critical world.<br />
Perhaps the first of America's noblemen was George Washington . if equally<br />
high rank was Abraham Lincoln. Scattered through our histon s pages, we<br />
discover several other true nobles, while some few, hidden from the public eye.<br />
may never have been discovered at all.<br />
It is especially fitting that, at this season of the year, we look back upon<br />
the life of one of the noblest and truest of America's sens, a life which began<br />
in this very month of January, 1S07, the life of Robert Edward Lee, commandcrin-chief<br />
of the "Armies of the Confederacy" during the Civil War. P>ecause<br />
for four short years of his sixty-three. Lee fought in opposition to the Union,<br />
and because his armies were defeated, is no reason that we should to-day lose<br />
sight of one of the grandest characters man ever possessed.<br />
Descendant of an honored family, of Revolutionary fame, Robert Lee upheld<br />
its credit in his every action. From earliest boyhood, devotion to religion<br />
was his guiding star—duty, the keynote of his life, so many times struck loud<br />
and long in apparent discord with his wishes. Purity, sincerity, gentleness, but<br />
strong determination, characterize every period of an exceptionally active career.<br />
When quite a boy, Lee's life became devoid of its dearest pleasures, as to<br />
his lot fell the management of the family affairs. General Henry Lee, the<br />
father, had died when Robert was eleven years old; his oldest brother was at.<br />
Cambridge, the other in the navy; his oldest sister was delicate, the younger,<br />
too young to manage a household, while the mother was an invalid. All the<br />
duties of a husband, father, son and brother were carried out by the boy. with<br />
his characteristic firmness and good judgment.<br />
At the age of eighteen Lee entered West Point. He became, a great favorite<br />
among cadets, professors and officers alike, and graduatd second in an unusually<br />
brilliant class. June 30, 1831, Lee married Mary Randolph Custis. granddaughter<br />
of Washington. From this time until the Civil War. the old Custis<br />
mansion, Arlington, on the Potomac, was the home of Lee and his family.<br />
<strong>The</strong> period shortly before his marriage begins Lee's career as a soldier.<br />
He was then an officer in the United States army. For several years he served<br />
here and there, along the frontiers. At the outbreak of the Mexican War. Lee<br />
was sent out with General Winfield Scott, whose favorite soldier he soon be-<br />
. came. It is even said that General Scott intended to recommend him as his<br />
successor in chief command of the United States army. <strong>The</strong>n, suddenly, came<br />
the dread Civil War. At the time Lee was a colonel in the army, with 'a char-<br />
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acter and reputation which were sure to win for him the highest honors. Some<br />
believe that the Government proposed him to command the Union armies. But<br />
rejecting whatever proposals were made, rejecting even his estates, and leaving<br />
his dear ones, he returned to share the fate of Virginia, his native State. General<br />
Scott was deeply grieved at this loss, but firmly believed that Lee had<br />
acted thus purely from a sense of duty, as was in reality the case. Virginia<br />
at once gave to Lee the command of her army, and later, in 1862, he was made<br />
commander-in-chief of the "Armies of the Confederacy." <strong>The</strong> confidence thus<br />
reposed in him remained to the end. <strong>The</strong> South had recognized its greatest<br />
soldier—one of the greatest the world has ever known.<br />
Robert E. Lee possessed every requisite of a true soldier. He was brave,<br />
wise, skillful, patient and unyielding, gentle and just, beloved by his soldiers<br />
as no other General has ever been. In Europe Lee was considered the most<br />
humane of soldiers; "the peer, if not the superior of any soldier of ancient or<br />
modern times." A London paper declared that England herself had "never<br />
produced a nobler soldier, gentleman and Christian, than Robert E. Lee."<br />
When the last hope had faded, Lee accepted the fate of the South' with<br />
solemn dignity, laying down his arms forever. It was not long, however, before<br />
Lee was called to serve his beloved Virginia in peace. On August 4, 1865. he<br />
was unanimously elected president of Washington College, at Lexington, Virginia.<br />
Ably fitted for such a position, through years of deep study, and his<br />
ever-ready good judgment, Lee assumed this office. A hard task lay before<br />
him. which he completed with credit to himself and the college. His ability is<br />
seen by the results. "He found the college practically bankrupt, disorganized,<br />
deserted; he left it rich, strong and crowded with students."<br />
Finally, after years of activity in war and peace. Lee's health failed. Travel<br />
at first proved effective, but en Oct. <strong>12</strong>, 1S70, he died of concussion of the<br />
brain, mourned by North and South alike.<br />
No more fitting praise of this great man could be found with which to sum<br />
up his life than the following, which appeared, at his death, in the New York<br />
"Citizen":<br />
"<strong>The</strong> highest head, the noblest and grandest diameter of our continent,<br />
the most conscientious, humane and faithful soldier, the most chivalrous gentleman<br />
in this world, the best, the most superb sample of the American warrior,<br />
has fallen like a mighty tree in the forest; and men wonder, after the first<br />
shock of the news, to find that there is such a gap, such a blank in the world."<br />
"What is there wanting to the fame of this illustrious American?"<br />
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By EARL N. STORY.<br />
<strong>The</strong> big bark Main slowly mounted the long, smooth Pacific swell, rolled<br />
over the top, slid off and plunged down into the trough below with a jerk which<br />
sent the heavy chain topsail sheets against the sides of the iron masts with a<br />
terrific clash, and caused the huge loose sails to flap against the backstays. For<br />
six days and six nights she lay out there on the deep blue Pacific, rolling, tossing,<br />
turning, without a puff of wind to fill the white loose sails and give her<br />
.steerage way to keep on her course. She seemed like a poor, lone, restless,<br />
sick gull riding the waves, struggling to keep its head out of water, as she lay<br />
there tossing and pitching.<br />
Life on board ship was a wretched existence, that is, for the crew anyway.<br />
<strong>The</strong> watch below could not sleep, the watch on deck was worn, the second mate<br />
cussed, the first mate sulked, the captain stormed, and last but not least the cookburned<br />
his fingers in the broth. <strong>The</strong>re were however, the names of two mischievous<br />
lads on the passenger list. <strong>The</strong>se two youthful funmakers, whose ravenous<br />
appetite for amusement was always unappeased, never ceased to furnish<br />
joy for the other six passengers, by playing all kinds of pranks upon<br />
every soul on shipboard, from the captain down to the ship's cat. Whenever<br />
the two ladies were tired of reading, or the four men were tired of playing<br />
whist, they would always look for George and Dick to liven them up.<br />
• It happened one day in Honolulu, before the voyage was begun, that Captain<br />
Bell, of the Main, encountered his old rival. Captain Nelson, of the barkentine<br />
Aberdeen. As their commands were both slated to sail from Honolulu<br />
to San Francisco on" the same da}', in the length of their conversation an argument<br />
grew out of the fact that both had boasted that his vessel was the fastest<br />
sailer. Captain Bell, of the Main, was an old New England skipper, and was<br />
known along the waterfront of 'Frisco as a sail-cracker. He knew the worth<br />
•.• of .his bark, the Main, and was willing to bet all his savings on his craft.<br />
Likewise Captain Nelson, an old grizzled Scandinavian seadog, thought just<br />
as well of his own ability and his little barkentine, the Aberdeen. Well, the<br />
bet was made, and a few days after that both vessels set sail from Honolulu for<br />
San Francisco. Both skippers crowded on all the canvas possible to push<br />
their vessels up into northern latitudes, so as to strike the northeast trades and<br />
have fair sailing to San Francisco.<br />
Aboard the Main all went well for awhile, then suddenly the wind died<br />
out and left her helpless. <strong>The</strong> two boys, George and Dick, having now exhausted<br />
their supply of pranks, were at a loss to know what to do next. Suddenly<br />
they remembered the old trick of stringing two goonies together, by having<br />
them swallow a piece of fat salt pork tied to the end of a string.' <strong>The</strong><br />
goonies, large sea-birds, are scavengers of the ocean and follow in the wake of<br />
ships, always ready to grab anything thrown overboard that looks like food.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two boys soon procured some pork from the cook, tied the pieces<br />
to the ends of a string, and then threw it overboard. It was not long before<br />
two unfortunate goonies had half swallowed the pork, and were chokin°- and<br />
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struggling, each trying to break away from the ether. It was of no use, however,<br />
for the string held them fast, and they were left behind fighting. This<br />
furnished great excitement for the boys and the rest of the passengers. In the<br />
middle of the affair Captain Bell appeared on deck. He. like all old seadogs,<br />
was superstitious, and believed that this would cause ill-luck. He flew into a<br />
rage, grabbed both the boys by their ears and, after slapping them severely, sent<br />
them down below into the cabin. He then turned upon the passengers and in<br />
the beautiful, highly polished language of the sea, accused them of causing the<br />
calm which now delayed them. <strong>The</strong> passengers only grinned, and Captain Hell<br />
at length, seeing that his lecture was in vain, went into his cabin.<br />
That evening a large school of sharks appeared alongside the ship. Once<br />
more there was great fun and excitement for the passengers and once more<br />
Captain Bell appeared on deck. This time he did not appear angry, as before,<br />
but seemed weary. He glanced at the sharks and exclaimed, "<strong>The</strong> hoodoo is<br />
with us for sure."<br />
<strong>The</strong> calm continued for six days and still no wind came. Likewise the<br />
sharks gamboled alongside. Finally, on the seventh day of the calm, the Captain<br />
suddenly appeared on deck with a loaded revolver in his hand. Passengers<br />
and crew were panic-stricken, for they thought the "'old man" had gone mad.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Captain walked to the rail, very slowly pointed his revolver down towards<br />
the water and fired two shots. <strong>The</strong> sea around the ship was soon colored red<br />
with blood. <strong>The</strong> passengers and crew now understood; the "old man" had<br />
killed a shark; as soon as the sea cleared, not one was to be seen. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
was, however, a lone pilot-fish, the companion of the dead shark cruising<br />
around looking for its friend. Captain Bell looked on and grinned. He took<br />
out a big plug of "Old Navy" and cut off a huge slice which he placed in his<br />
mouth. "Now we'll have wind," he exclaimed.<br />
That evening, just before sunset, small puffs of wind came from the southwest.<br />
It soon shifted around to the southeast and blew stronger and stronger.<br />
By twelve o'clock that night not a stitch of canvas was on the bark, except her<br />
topsails. Captain Bell paced the deck in his oilskins, humming merrily and talking<br />
to himself. "Ha, ha, ha!" he laughed. "Now I've got them passengers where<br />
I want 'em. Seasick in their bunks below. No more goonies, no more sharks<br />
and plenty of wind. I'll win my bet after all." All this was told confidently<br />
to himself, not even so the helmsman might hear it.<br />
Eight days after that event the big bark Main anchored safely in the Bay<br />
of San Francisco. But not too soon, for the mud hook was hardly down in<br />
the bottom when her rival, the Aberdeen, came sailing proudly through the<br />
Golden Gate with all sail set. Again Captain Bell chuckled, took a huge bite of<br />
tobacco, and waited patiently for his rival to come up to the ship. At length<br />
he made out Captain Nelson, pacing the deck, giving sailing orders to his men.<br />
Finally, when the Aberdeen was well abreast of the Main. Captain Bell sung<br />
out to his rival, "Did you see any sharks on the voyage up, Captain Nelson?"<br />
Captain Nelson heard and understood. He realized he had lost his bet and his<br />
reputation. He only muttered a reply to Captain Bell, and gave more orders<br />
to his men. Captain Bell again chuckled, shook his head and exclaimed: "<strong>The</strong>m<br />
there two kids weren't such bad youngsters after all."<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Spanish Play<br />
<strong>The</strong> entertainment given by the. Spanish Club • on December 7th and 8th<br />
certainly should mark the point in the life of that activity when its success was<br />
proved beyond further question. All the details of the performance went to<br />
prove the existence of a very genuine interest in Spanish literature, and, what<br />
is even more important, a conscientious enthusiasm for the success of the. club.<br />
A club that can give a production like "Despues de la Lluvia, el Sol" unquestionably<br />
has the proper spirit. ~'<br />
As we take up our iabors as critic, first of all. let us say a word in praise<br />
of the stage management. With the single fault that some of the audience was<br />
kept waiting half an hour outside the door, the performance went off on both<br />
days with a smoothness truly remarkable, considering how very scanty the<br />
facilities were.<br />
To take up the numbers on the program in order: the speeches by Mr.<br />
Morton and Mr. Rhodes were to the point and well appreciated: "Barcarole,"<br />
sung by the Girls' Glee Club on Wednesday, could never fail to be beautiful,<br />
but lack of sufficient preparation and the absence of the director were painfully<br />
obvious. "Estudiantina," sung on Thursday, was a great improvement, both<br />
on account of the presence of the director and because the popular old Spanish<br />
melody has always been a favorite with the Glee Club.<br />
Next came the reading of a story in Spanish, "Mi Mismo Nombre," by<br />
Miss Bartlett. A gentleman in the audience, well versed in the language, who<br />
has spent some time in Spanish-speakuig countries, remarked on the excellence<br />
of Miss Bartlett's accent.<br />
Miss Durbrow's selection from dear old Don Quixote was most enjoyable.<br />
It must be remembered, of course, that she had the advantage of reading in<br />
English, but she rendered the amtiiing story of the Adventure of the Windmills<br />
with a vivacity and clearness quite unusual.<br />
Now to come to the piece de resistance, the playlet, Despues de la Lluvia.<br />
el Sol." This dainty little one-act comedy has a decided advantage over many<br />
English sketches of the same type, in that its plot is coherent, hanging on a<br />
chain of circumstances, not remotely possible or absurd, but extremely probable.<br />
As an. argument of the plot was thoughtfully provided with the program,<br />
the critic will not explain further than to say that the circumstances mentioned<br />
above were, in this case, a young widow, very much bored by the rainy weather,<br />
hourly expecting an affiance whom she has never seen, a storm-bound wayfarer,<br />
and rumors of a ferocious bandit in the neighborhood. When one considers<br />
the poverty of properties, the slightness of the make-ups, and the inexperience<br />
of the actors, the excellence of the production was truly wonderful.<br />
<strong>The</strong> setting was well arranged, all the business cleverly done, parts almost perfectly<br />
learned, and the dialogue snappy and full of expression, but most important<br />
of all, the players showed a keen sense of the action of the story, handling<br />
the rising climax almost perfectly, and managed to create an atmosphere<br />
truly thrilling. In criticism we would say that none of the actors realized the<br />
necessity of gesticulating profusely whether there was any occasion for it or not,<br />
a point absolutely essential in the interpretation of Spanish character. <strong>The</strong><br />
accent of the aclors was uniformly good, but the gentleman mentioned above<br />
considered Anselmo's the best.<br />
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To take.up the actors severally; first and foremost comes the charming<br />
little leading lady, Miss Belle Meyer, as Matilda. Certainly Miss Meyer was every<br />
inch the seiiora, from her dainty, high-heeled slippers to the top of her carved<br />
tortoise-shell comb. <strong>The</strong> only detail at fault was that her fan was neglected<br />
almost entirely when it should have been fluttered and coquetted with every<br />
minute. Of Miss Meyer's acting there' is little to be said, save that it was<br />
delightfully clever and vivacious throughout, her interpretation of the capricious<br />
young widow's character being very interesting and consistent.<br />
Second comes the gallant hero, Carlos, played by Mr. Robert Undcrhill. While<br />
lacking in Miss Meyer's vivacity, Mr. Underbill was most satisfactory throughout.<br />
It must be remembered that the part of a hero is the most difficult of<br />
all for an inexperienced actor, but Mr. Undcrhill showed himself fully capable<br />
of carrying it through in a spirited and pleasing fashion. A touch of crayon<br />
about the eyes, with a black wig and mustache, and a score or so of cigarettes,<br />
would have helped the obviously Anglo-Saxon Mr. Underbill's interpretation<br />
wonderfully.<br />
<strong>The</strong> parts of Viclorina and Ansclmo did not give much opportunity for<br />
individual acting, except in the first dialogue, wbch, by the way, was exceedingly<br />
well done. Here Miss Page, who was excellently cast for the part of<br />
Victorina, was exceptionally good. • On Thursday she gave a very good effect<br />
of stupid deliberating when Matilde wishes Victorina to run after Ansclmo.<br />
This part was taken by the well-known enthusiast, Mr. Will Newbauer.<br />
We wish Mr. Newbauer's acting had been as good as his Spanish, in which case<br />
his interpretation would have left nothing to be desired. Ansclmo, it seems,<br />
was something of a wag, but, alas! never got any "laughs," because the audience<br />
could not understand his jokes. More gestures were needed throughout—a bowon<br />
entering his mistress' presence, great elocutionary effect in reading the verses,<br />
etc. Certainly, though, Ansclmo never failed to give the proper expression to a<br />
line, or to make his speech create the proper effect.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are three other people, at least, who, while not in the cast, deserve<br />
special mention in this article. First is Mr. Rhodes, the kind and enthusiastic<br />
coach, who has given so freely of his limited time and unlimited information<br />
to help make the production a success. <strong>The</strong>n there is the most capable stage<br />
manager, Miss Davies, of whom we can do no better than to quote Mr. Rhodes,<br />
who says, "<strong>The</strong> credit, if there is any, is entirely due to Miss Davies; she has<br />
been indefatigable." <strong>The</strong>re is certainly a great deal of credit, as anybody who<br />
witnessed the play must admit, and as we can easily believe Mr. Rhodes' statement,<br />
we will most willingly extend is to her, as deserving every bit there is to<br />
be found. As she claims that Mr. Mack formed a mor-t satisfactory assistant,<br />
faithful, willing and capable, the cycle of compliments is complete.<br />
<strong>The</strong> critic now lays clown her pen with a feeling, on the conclusion of this<br />
article, of having reviewed some very pleasant memories. If the critique has<br />
been made more elaborate and detailed than the slightuess of the production<br />
seems to warrant, we can only say in apology that our endeavor has been to<br />
show our appreciation of the compliment conferred upon us in being asked to<br />
write it, by giving the production all possible study and thought, and our only<br />
motive a keen interest in the work of the club and an earnest desire for its<br />
success. Here, then, is luck, and long life to the Spanish Club; may it always<br />
be able to give an entertainment as delightful as "Despues de la Lluvia, el Sol.''<br />
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Crossing the Snow—A True Story<br />
By W. F. CHENEY, JR., June '11.<br />
<strong>The</strong> quiet of little Lake Lucile was broken one summer noon by a party of<br />
boys halting on its shore for lunch. While some made camp and prepared the<br />
mid-day meal, the others went fishing for mountain trout. Among the latter<br />
was one boy who carried a dipnet. instead of a rod. He had never been in the<br />
mountains before arid he gazed with wonder at the snow which covered a steep<br />
slope opposite the camp. He and some other boys worked their way around<br />
towards this', and since there seemed to be no hope of catching any fish, they<br />
put their rods away and started across the slide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city boy went first with the little dipnet, and the others followed with<br />
their disjointed rods. As they proceeded they ascended the snow till they were<br />
about fifty feet above the lake and half way across. Just then one of the boys<br />
at camp called out over the water that lunch was ready. So the boys quickened<br />
their steps and the leader jabbed the handle of his dipnet into the snow to keep<br />
from slipping. It was lucky he did so, for a little further on one of his feet<br />
slipped, but the dipnet held and he regained his equilibrium with a shudder.<br />
He looked down the slippery slide to the cold water below, and saw that it was<br />
lined with big boulders, which evidently kept the snow from sliding into the<br />
lake. He remembered that he could not swim and jabbed the dipnet handle in<br />
deeper at every step. Soon he stuck it in so deep that he had to take both<br />
hands to get it out. That was a fatal mistake, for the net came with a jerk,<br />
which threw him over backwards, head first, clown the snowy slide.<br />
He closed his eyes and, in the brief second before he came to the rocks, he<br />
thought of his mother and wondered if he would be dashed to pieces or crippled<br />
for life on the jagged rocks, or drowned in the icy water. <strong>The</strong>n his head just<br />
missed a big boulder and his body scraped between it and a still bigger rock, to<br />
splash into the black water amid JUI avalanche of snow.<br />
To his great surprise he found he could touch bottom, so he stood up and<br />
gasped for breath. <strong>The</strong> other boys peered down the slide and asked him if he<br />
was killed. When they had received his answer in the negative, they retraced<br />
their steps in fear lest they might slip and meet a worse fate than a cold bath.<br />
After recovering his hat, which was floating nearby, our amateur snowslider<br />
waded on to the other side of the treacherous slope, clambered ashore, and<br />
went around towards the campfire and lunch. Before he got there he began<br />
to see the funny side of the affair, and when he reached the fire he explained<br />
to the curious crowd of boys how he had accidentally gone diving. <strong>The</strong>n the<br />
other ones who had seen the accident arrived and gave their version of the storv.<br />
Thus, did a certain <strong>Lowell</strong>ite have his first and worst experience on snow,<br />
and he never goes on that form of cold water now without dreading another<br />
slide.<br />
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CRITICISM<br />
To one who has approached the task of critic for THE LOWELL several<br />
times, as has your servant, comes the wonder if the criticism accomplishes<br />
any good or is merely a perfunctory effort to fill the usual one and a half<br />
pages devoted to such purposes. Will this one, if it were a creditable effort,<br />
be read at all or with profit by any one except a few of the writers of articles<br />
in the number criticized to see if their efforts seemed worth mentioning-?<br />
Especially does the criticism of an annual seem profitless when its successor does<br />
not appear for six months. Will any adequate criticism have effect upon the<br />
form and content of the next annual ?<br />
Personally, your critic is generally pleased, on the whole, with each number<br />
of THE LOWELL as it appears. He is pleased accordingly with this one. It<br />
bears evidence of much original inventive effort on the part of its young contributors<br />
and of much painstaking labor on the part of the staff to present a<br />
dignified journal that faithfully portrays the life and spirit of the school.<br />
While the portion devoted to the class of December '10 has several new<br />
features, there are several stereotyped parts that are getting shopworn—for<br />
instance, the pages given to the several class organizations, the diagrammed "We,<br />
Us and Co."<br />
<strong>The</strong> literary part in this annual seems to me unusually good, except for the<br />
want of an excellent poem. Special praise may be given to "A Christmas Surprise,"<br />
"Jimmic's Christinas Eve." and "Shoes." I also am pleased with the<br />
efforts in "<strong>The</strong> Modern Language Department." and want to call attention of<br />
our Latin and Greek students to the fact that a foreign language may be translated<br />
into good, smooth, idiomatic English without destroying the flavor of the<br />
original. "<strong>The</strong> Mission San Juan Bautista" is a good descriptive piece, told in<br />
a simple, unexaggerated and accurate way. <strong>The</strong> writer knows this from having<br />
lived in the shadow of this mission for two years.<br />
As to the pictures, one regrets that the faculty picture is not softened by<br />
the faces of some or all of our lady members, and particularly that the face of<br />
the lady to whom the book is dedicated does not appear in the dedication page.<br />
<strong>The</strong> very thoughtful suggestions of the Exchange Editor are worthy of<br />
careful consideration by former and future editors. While there is truth in his<br />
criticism that the school news is old before it appears in print, these pages are<br />
the only means by which this sort of school history is preserved.'<br />
I desire to give words of praise to our young editress for her very commendable<br />
success in remodeling the material as it was handed to her into presentable<br />
shape. Your critic had the opportunity to read both and knows the<br />
vast difference between the two. <strong>The</strong> task was a difficult one. Good wishes to<br />
the little lady and may she get all the good out of life that she deserves.<br />
For the next Annual, then, we recommend the following:<br />
Avoid all the old stereotyped forms in "class" matter.<br />
Print one first-rate poem.<br />
Get a complete faculty group.<br />
Make editorials practically critical of the school life.<br />
Work up the advertising matter.<br />
Don't caricature the yell leaders next time.<br />
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A Monthly, Published By the Students of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School<br />
EDITORIAL STAFF<br />
THORNTON E. GRIMES, "11, Editor<br />
Associates<br />
A1LEEN llYLAND, Ml OSGOOD MURDOCK. '11 EVELETH BROOKS, '11<br />
Assistants<br />
CHAS. E. STREET, JR.. '11 GLADYS PHELAN, '11 ALFRED MEYER, '11<br />
LOCAL EDITORS<br />
FRED KANT, '11. School Notes<br />
GARTH W. BOERICKE, '<strong>12</strong>, Exchanges<br />
RAMON POHLI. '09. Alumni<br />
EDWARD II. PARSONS, '11, Debate<br />
HARRIET BRADFORD, '11. Reading Club<br />
MYRTLE FRANZEN, '<strong>12</strong>, Girls' Glee Club<br />
\VM. RAINEY. '<strong>12</strong>. Boys' Glee Club<br />
BEATRICE BARTLETT, '11. Spanish Club<br />
LOUIS SLOSS, Ml, Boys' Athletics<br />
MARION ARENDT, Girls' Athletics<br />
JAMES RANSAHOFF, Joshes<br />
ART STAFF<br />
ERNEST SMITH, Ml ELMER WIZE, '<strong>12</strong><br />
LYMAN HEACOCK. Ml LOUIS LAMOUREUX. Ml<br />
BUSINESS STAFF<br />
ROBERT UNDERH ILL, Ml, Business Manager<br />
SHERWOOD CHAPMAN, Ml, Associate<br />
Assistants<br />
GEORGE E. GOODALL. Ml L. SANGUINETTI, Ml<br />
DAVID WOLF, M2 MISS T. SCMAERTZER, '<strong>12</strong><br />
Entered in the San Francisco Postofficc as Second Class Mail Matter<br />
Class of nineteen hundred and fourteen, Lowicr.r. greets you with a hearty<br />
welcome and a Happy New Year.<br />
Within the walls of this dear old school you will find power, which is<br />
knowledge, if you give a due and earnest consideration to your studies. Various<br />
organizations open wide their doors to you; namely, the Debating Society, the<br />
Reading Club, the Spanish Club and the Glee Clubs. <strong>The</strong>re is also the athletic<br />
field and the golden opportunity of writing for the school paper.<br />
Choose one of these—specialize—and stay with it.<br />
Let the prevailing element in all yiiur actions be fair and square. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
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TEEvLOTELL<br />
the period of your life at <strong>Lowell</strong> will have been well spent; and even iii the<br />
face of a series of defeats you and <strong>Lowell</strong> will come out victoriously. ;<br />
Maintain her high standard and your four years here will not have been<br />
in vain. <strong>The</strong>y will be as bright and prosperous as the present new year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> year nineteen hundred and eleven brings with it a change in oui?<br />
faculty. After four years of close companionship with a friend as well as<br />
teacher, we must part from one whose energy has been spent in the development<br />
of our minds and characters.<br />
What is <strong>Lowell</strong> High School's loss is the entire school department's gain...<br />
That thought alone reconciles us to your departure, Mr. Cloud.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Reading Club and the Debating Society have each felt the stirring effect<br />
of your labors. <strong>The</strong> great lesson in athletics has been one of "fair play" at all<br />
times. Manliness has become a watchword with us.<br />
Words fail to express our appreciation and regard for you. We hope that<br />
the New Year will bring you the great 'happiness and success that is your due.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new year introduces another Lowicu.. This magazine from its very<br />
beginning has attempted to follow the one definite policy outlined in its first publication.<br />
<strong>The</strong> principle laid clown by the first editor in eighteen hundred and<br />
ninety-eight was: "That the journal should be representative in its broadest<br />
sense." Now the question arises, "Is this Lowicu. going to carry out that<br />
policy?"<br />
If the paper does not maintain the established law, the editor, in most cases,<br />
is not at fault. It can easily be seen that the burden of blame falls upon the<br />
eight hundred enrolled students. It is your paper, you support it, and you make<br />
it representative or non-representative.<br />
How are the results desired to be obtained? Does the answer revert to<br />
that aged, time-worn, tiresome slogan sung by many editors, "Contribute! Contribute!<br />
Contribute!" or is the <strong>Lowell</strong> student so mercenary that "Prize Contests"<br />
alone can bring out his worth?<br />
If the editorial staff must descend and on bended knees beg your assistance<br />
; if the prize story contests must be used only as a means of getting material,<br />
tlien THE LOWELL does not represent the true work of the school. All<br />
efforts in behalf of this paper should be made spontaneously. This is not a<br />
trivial matter. It is most serious.<br />
<strong>The</strong> demand for material month in and month out should not go on.<br />
Everyone should realize without any explanation the value of writing.<br />
To become proficient in French, German, Spanish, Greek or Latin, we must<br />
first know our mother tongue. <strong>The</strong>refore, remembering that "practice makes<br />
perfect," should awaken the literary efforts of everyone in the school. Each<br />
class should have its story, essay writers, poets and artists. If such a happy<br />
state of affairs could be realized, then, and then only, would we have the ideal<br />
representative <strong>Lowell</strong> High School paper. While the new year is still with us,<br />
let us make this one of our resolutions; to go forward still further in attaining<br />
that coveted goal.<br />
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RAMON POHLI, '09; U. C, '14.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> lias always been well represented at both cf our institutions of<br />
academic learning, the University of California and the Leland Stanford Junior<br />
University. At the beginning of this new year, it is well that we look ever the<br />
record of last semester to sec where <strong>Lowell</strong>'s stars twinkled.<br />
At California, in the realm of debating, we were pre-eminent. Fred Shipper<br />
made both the Intercollegiate and the Carnot teams. But more than that, the<br />
entire Sophomore team was ours, being composed of Lyman Grimes, Louis Goodman<br />
and Leo Rabinowitz, while Milton A [arks took a place on the Freshman<br />
team. He was also elected president of the Freshman Debating Society. John<br />
Janney Miller, an erstwhile <strong>Lowell</strong>ite, was fortunate enough to win the International<br />
Peace Contest.<br />
Captains Charles Ostrom, Henry Morse, Monroe Jacobs and Lieutenant<br />
Delger Trowbridge of the University Cadets are all <strong>Lowell</strong> men. so we might well<br />
say that <strong>Lowell</strong> turns out good soldiers. Captain Jacobs also made the Phi Beta<br />
Kappa Honor Society.<br />
And now the girls must not be overlooked. Rose Gardner, a former editor<br />
of THE LOWELL, is president of the Associated Women Students of the U. C.<br />
Down at Palo Alto we do not hear so much of our graduates. Sherman<br />
Burns made the Freshman football squad. We are well represented by Willard<br />
Morton, Wendell Hammon, Charles St. Goar and Robert Ackcrman.<br />
Most of the members of the December, '10, Class who intend to enter college<br />
will not do so till next August. Three of them, however, will enter this month:<br />
Leo Meyer and Melville Nathan will register at U. C, while "Dick" Borough<br />
will enroll at Stanford.<br />
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G. \V. IJOEKICKE.<br />
It is very gratifying to have so many magazines in our Exchange Department,<br />
up to thirty schools being represented from every quarter of our country.<br />
We will try to meet a paper with a paper and to comment on these sent us to<br />
the l:cst of our poor ability; however, as our fellow exchange editors will admit,<br />
there is a limit^to the space allowed and the number of copies available. <strong>The</strong><br />
remarks and suggestions below are, needless to say, made in the best spirit,<br />
ami are drawn from the comparison of the papers in our exchange. We hope such<br />
action will prove a mutual benefit to us both.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Polytechnic Christmas number.—Your cover is effective, but the great<br />
number of full-page cartoons spoil the paper as a literary effort.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wilmerding Life.—<strong>The</strong> enclosed photograph, "A Scene in Tahiti," is<br />
well worth having. We suggest you illustrate the "Who's Who" column if<br />
they are your leading men. <strong>The</strong> material seems rather meager for a quarterly.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mission Xmas number contains many good stories. "Twenty-two's<br />
Luck" has been published in THE LOWELL by the same author.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Skirmisher, Burlingame, Cal.—Your cover is too sober for the contents.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sketch entitled "Did This Happen to You" is well written.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cogsivell, Cogswell High.—<strong>The</strong> cuts are excellent. We find, however,<br />
the literary material about one-third of what it should be.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sotoyoman, Healdsburg.—<strong>The</strong> quality of paper and printing in your<br />
magazine spoils an otherwise excellent journal. <strong>The</strong> exchanges arc especially<br />
good.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trident, Santa Cruz High.—We consider <strong>The</strong> Trident to be our best<br />
exchange this month. It is well arranged. <strong>The</strong> departments are all well written.<br />
<strong>The</strong> literary material is good.<br />
From far off Tennessee we have the Central Digest. This paper is in<br />
many respects the best magazine we have had. It is certainly the most advanced<br />
—as the name implies, it is a "Digest." It is void of cuts, except one, which looks<br />
lonely, and spoils the effect of the paper on the other hand. <strong>The</strong>re are two<br />
political articles of public interest, and two little stories which seem out of<br />
place. No, Central, you cannot be a high-school paper and a digest for current<br />
events at one and the same time.<br />
(Concluded on Page 23.)<br />
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Fuicn KANT.<br />
We arc very sorry that Mr. Cloud is leaving <strong>Lowell</strong>, but congratulate him<br />
on his new position as deputy superintendent of schools. We welcome Miss<br />
Duffy, who recently taught at the Polytechnic High School, and Mr. Rockhold.<br />
Great praise is due the officers and managers of last term's activities for<br />
the successful way they have carried on their duties.<br />
On December <strong>12</strong>th the final rally of the fall term was held. <strong>The</strong> rally was<br />
filled with the real <strong>Lowell</strong> spirit. President Street ended his term of office with<br />
a speech on working as a unit for the betterment of <strong>Lowell</strong>. '"That Neopolitan<br />
Duet." along with "Mr. Rhodes' funeral oration to Archie," followed by the<br />
. reading of "Archie's Will," afforded much fun. Block L's were awarded to<br />
Glen Hammond, Paul Lau, Fred Gans. Arnold Bowhay, Harold Potter and<br />
Charles Street for track.<br />
<strong>The</strong> absence of the members of the class of December 1910 is felt throughout<br />
the school. <strong>The</strong> good impression this class has left on the school will not<br />
soon pass away.<br />
On December 16th the graduation exercises took place. Every person present<br />
felt what it means to sever the ties which bind us to <strong>Lowell</strong>. <strong>The</strong> speaker<br />
of the clay was Dr. Meyer. His speech dealt with old <strong>Lowell</strong> days and the<br />
position of the graduates. <strong>The</strong> day proved very successful.<br />
On the evening of December 17th, the Senior dance took place at Commandery<br />
Hall: <strong>The</strong> evening was very enjoyable. <strong>The</strong> decorations and arrangements<br />
showed how faithfully the dance committee had worked.<br />
On December 5th the L..H. S. S. A. elections were held. <strong>The</strong> successful<br />
candidates were: President, Fred Maggs; vice-president, Miss Harriet Bradford<br />
; secretary, Harold Potter; first assistant treasurer, William Rainey: second<br />
assistant treasurer, Jack Tufts; third assistant, treasurer, Robert Underhill; editor,<br />
Thorton E. Grimes; debating representative, Fisher Buckingham: Girls' Glee<br />
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Glub representative, Miss Myrtle Franzeri; Boys' GleeClub representative, George<br />
GoodaM: Reading Club representative, Erwin Hirschfelder; track manager, Arnold<br />
Bowhay; football manager, James Ransohoff; girls' basketball manager,<br />
Ailecn Hyland; swimming manager, Andrew Carrigan. r '<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of June <strong>1911</strong> has now assumed the dignity of high seniors. This<br />
class has shown its fine spirit during its stay at <strong>Lowell</strong>. <strong>The</strong> present term will<br />
be a very active one for all of its members. <strong>The</strong> officers are: President, Arthur<br />
Marwedcl: vice-president, Miss Phelan; secretary, Frank Judis;'treasurer, L.<br />
Sanguinetti; sergeant-at-arms, Fitch Cheney.<br />
<strong>The</strong> results of the December <strong>1911</strong> elections are: President, Meadc: vicepresident.<br />
Miss Coe; secretary. Miss Blum: treasurer, Winters; class representative.<br />
Osgood Murdoch; sergeant-at-arms, Skinn •-.<br />
June 19<strong>12</strong> will be the first class to obtain the new permanent school pins.<br />
Elections will be soon held and an active term is looked forward to by them.<br />
<strong>The</strong> December 19<strong>12</strong> election returns are: President, Garth Loerickc; vicepresident,<br />
Janet King: secretary. Edward Con Ion; treasurer, Fred Gans; class<br />
representative, Miss <strong>The</strong>odora Schaertzer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of June 1913 have as this term's officers the following: President.<br />
Irving Stahl; vice-president. Miss Myrtle Fitchen; secretary, Vincent<br />
Quartararo; treasurer, Bevcrley Robinson; scrgeant-at-arms, Joseph Latz. This<br />
class held a dance at California Club Hall on the evening of December 16th.<br />
which brought great praise from all who attended. Keep on; you are doing well.<br />
December 1913 will be organized in the early part of January.<br />
(Continued from Page 21.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Acorn, Ogden, Utah.—'"<strong>The</strong> Flood" is a good plot, the suspense is<br />
cleverly sustained. <strong>The</strong> frontispiece drawing is hardly worth a full page, however.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Patrician" is a little paper of high standard. A few jokes and<br />
pictures would relieve the otherwise marked soberness of your magazine, however.<br />
Totem, Seattle.—We fail to see the advantage in the odd shape of your<br />
paper. It docs not leave proper room for photographs and gives the "Totem"<br />
a cramped appearance. You have no editorial staff printed.. Such modesty!<br />
Item, Pasadena.—A table of contents helps, also, we look in vain for exchanges.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Scout, Muskogee, Oklahoma.—"A Literary Romance" shows a wide<br />
knowledge of books and plays, and certainly is original. "Merry Xmas and<br />
Happy New. Year"—just six words—though a commendable wish, is hardly<br />
enough to grace an entire page.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lick Tiger for December is complete and interesting. <strong>The</strong> exchanges<br />
arc especially good. We think, however, that a play is hardly the thing to print<br />
in a school paper.<br />
We received and thank for their courtesy <strong>The</strong> Ritss, <strong>The</strong> Target, <strong>The</strong> Messenger,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Adjutant, <strong>The</strong> Cascade and <strong>The</strong> Calendar.<br />
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THE PERMANENT SCHOOL PIN."<br />
CHAS. E. STREET, JR., June '11.<br />
"'• Some time ago, perhaps a year, an idea originated in the mind oi v a certain<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>ite. This happy thought when placed in practical operation was destined<br />
to create new history for the school. Right iiere and now, it must be said that this<br />
new idea, in the shape of a permanent school pin—a pin that will be worn by<br />
every graduate or undergraduate of this school, irrespective of class organizations<br />
—has not only come to stay, but J:he purpose and design of the pin is one that<br />
will appeal to the sentiment of every one connected with <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
In the past it has been the custom, as we all know, for each class to appoint<br />
a committee to select a class emblem that is distinctive and original in design.<br />
Yet this originality is superficial, for it is only gained by purchasing a conglomerate<br />
mass of "bric-a-brac." Each class is deluded by the idea that its<br />
design surpasses all others, but the truth of the matter is just this: the manufacturer<br />
has merely added a new twist or turn to the make-up of the pin.<br />
It is an acknowledged fact that during the time a class is in school, the class<br />
emblem is recognized as belonging to a <strong>Lowell</strong>ite, but as soon as the wearer<br />
graduates, then the pin stands for practically nothing. We can easily see that a<br />
radical change was an absolute necessity. As a result, the class pin with its<br />
freakish distinctiveness was doomed to go. In its place we were to have a permanent<br />
design for a pin that typifies the life of the entire school. When this<br />
plan was presented to the executive committee it was thoroughly discussed and<br />
finally adopted unanimously. Following its adoption a committee was appointed<br />
to select a suitable design. Although this committee performed its duty faithfully,<br />
nevertheless a satisfactory design could not be procured.<br />
In the following semester a new committee was named for the purpose of<br />
continuing the work. At last the committee agreed upon a design, which has<br />
already been accepted. This committee is certainly deserving of generous praise<br />
for its untiring efforts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chosen design is rather plain yet there is an element of richness embodied<br />
in it. which appeals to the taste of the majority, as it is decidedly a<br />
representative emblem which stands for <strong>Lowell</strong>. .In order to convey this sentiment,<br />
a plain gold "L" is placed in the center of the pin. Lest the individuality<br />
of each class be entirely lost, the numerals of the various classes are engraved<br />
on the gold band which surrounds the gold "L." <strong>The</strong> first class that was<br />
eligible to purchase class pins eagerly seized the opportunity of adopting the new<br />
pin. An act of this nature proves conclusively that this class has a bounteous<br />
supply of what is known as "school spirit." <strong>The</strong> members cf this class stood<br />
ready to back up a much-needed reform, and consequently were enabled to<br />
advance the real spirit of <strong>Lowell</strong>, which is to choose carefully the right path,<br />
then follow it to the end. In other words, <strong>Lowell</strong> generally carries out the<br />
wisdom of the old saying, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."<br />
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DEBATE.<br />
EDWARD H. PARSOXS. '11.<br />
On December 13th the final interclass debate was held between the Seniors<br />
and the Sophomores. <strong>The</strong> question was, "Resolved. That the Fifteenth Amendment<br />
Should be Repealed." <strong>The</strong> Sophomores upheld the negative, while the<br />
Seniors defended the affirmative. <strong>The</strong> teams were: Messrs. Honigsberger.<br />
Rosenblatt and Zederman, representing 1913. and Miss Cans and Messrs. liarucli<br />
and Parsons the Seniors. <strong>The</strong> judges were Mr. Carey. Mr. Murdock. Mr.<br />
Buckingham.<br />
In giving the decision of the judges, Mr. Buckingham announced Miss Gans<br />
as best speaker. <strong>The</strong> Sophomores, however, won because they prepared the<br />
subject in a better fashion. <strong>The</strong> Sophomore class now holds the Interclass Debating<br />
Cup.<br />
<strong>The</strong> officers for the spring term of <strong>1911</strong> arc as follows: President, O. Murdock:<br />
vice-president, S. Rosenblatt; recording secretary. B. Rabinowitz; corresponding<br />
secretary, M. Rosenblatt.<br />
This society is beginning the new term with a determination on the part of<br />
every individual member to not only maintain the high standard which the<br />
society always holds, but to raise that standard to a still higher level.<br />
Join this society. <strong>Lowell</strong>ites, and the results of so doing shall be of untold<br />
value to you. Especially do we invite the members of the incoming class.<br />
READING CLUB.<br />
HARRIET BRADFORD, June '11.<br />
•\t its final meeting last term the Reading Club departed from its usual<br />
custom of presenting a complete play. Instead, the program given more nearly<br />
corresponded with the usual ones, being composed of short selections from wellknown<br />
authors. Miss Brooks recited "Mojcsky as Camille," by Bret Hartc.<br />
Miss Borough recited '-Othelkys Defense," from Shakespeare's play, •Othello,<br />
and Miss De Meyer read a short story. "Jericho Bob," by Anna King. After tins<br />
a dramatic version of chapters six and seven of George Eliofs '"Silas Marner<br />
was presented by eight boys of the class of December '10. <strong>The</strong> drama closed the<br />
program, which proved to have been heartily enjoyed by all present.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
A new term has begun, also a new year, and, while the club does not venture<br />
to make the resolution, it dees promise to try to make each future meeting as"<br />
interesting as its last, relying on the earnest work of the members for good<br />
results. On its officers, it knows it can depend. Mr. Kant is President; Miss<br />
Morse. Vice-president; Mr. Frolich, Secretary; Miss Brooks, Stage Manager;<br />
Mr. Schusslcr, Representative, and Miss Phelan, Librarian. Let the school<br />
judge for itself of the work of such officers, especially the third-year students,<br />
many of whom will fill the rolls of the Reading Club, we hope, for the next two<br />
years.<br />
SPANISH CLUB.<br />
BEATRICE BARTLETT, June '11.<br />
<strong>The</strong> regular programs of last term ended with the successful completion of<br />
"El Trovador." Miss Emma Ferguson as Dona Leonora died for at least five<br />
minutes, and Miss Virginia Davis as Azucena evaded the awful death of being<br />
burned at the stake by passing away on the couch. <strong>The</strong> successful candidates<br />
for next term arc:<br />
President Virginia Davis<br />
Vice-President Margery Durbrou<br />
Secretary Eva Coe<br />
Librarian Irving Slahl<br />
Stage Manager Leo Simon<br />
Assistant Stage Manager Will Ncwbauer<br />
<strong>The</strong> greatest feat yet accomplished by the Spanish Club was the final play,<br />
"Despues de la Lluvia, el Sol." Many thanks are given to the teachers who<br />
worked so hard for the success of this play. <strong>The</strong> club also wishes to thank the<br />
Girls' Glee Club and the others who helped to make the afternoon's program<br />
enjoyable. <strong>The</strong> players who rehearsed so faithfully and who rendered such a fine<br />
presentation of a play in a foreign language are:<br />
Carl °s Robert Underbill<br />
Anselmo Will Ncwbauer<br />
Doiia Matilde Belle Mever<br />
Victorina Elizabeth Page<br />
Neighbors Leo Simon><br />
George Montgomery. Envin Hirschfelder and Isidor Mayer<br />
Stage Manager Virginia Davics<br />
Assistant Stage Manager Gerstle Mack<br />
This is for the benefit of the Spanish pupils yet to be. It is recommended<br />
that all who wish to take advantage of the pleasure and profit offered by the<br />
Spanish Club should investigate the same at their earliest opportunity.<br />
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
MYRTLE FRANZEX, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Hail <strong>1911</strong>! A new year has begun, a new term has begun, and with<br />
it begins a new work and energy.<br />
In the past the Girls' Glee Club has always worked faithfully and sin-<br />
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cerely, giving a number of very successful concerts, but- now with-a new<br />
set of qtScers and more pretty songs, we hope to work even more industriousiyr<br />
even more loyally, for our school.<br />
At the^last regular meeting of the club in December, 1910, election of<br />
officers took place. <strong>The</strong> following are the successful candidates: President,<br />
Miss Florence Piper^; Secretary, Edith Griffin; Librarian, Anita Wales;<br />
Business Manager, Deborah Newman. At the semi-annual school election<br />
Myrtle Franzen was elected Representative.<br />
We cordially invite any girl in the school to join the club. It is always<br />
"better late than never," but especially you freshmen girls! When the<br />
notice is read by your class teacher that there will be a meeting of the<br />
Girls' Glee Club in Room 22, go there as quickly as you can, and yon will<br />
never regret it.<br />
We have a very faithful and patient instructor, who is desirous of helping<br />
all who join. You may not be able to sing or read music well, but don't<br />
let that hinder you, as those small difficulties may easily be overcome after<br />
your association with the club. You reap the benefits, you make acquaintances,<br />
develop your musical education, and yet you are doing something<br />
for <strong>Lowell</strong>. So, girls of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School, we extend this invitation to<br />
you; there is ever room for another in the Glee Club.<br />
BOYS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
WM. RAIXEV, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boys' Glee Club concert, which has come to be regarded as a semiannual<br />
affair, was held in the Study Hall on Friday afternoon, December 9.<br />
1910. It was well attended by the members of the school and the various<br />
numbers on the program were all enjoyed. <strong>The</strong> "Heidelberg" song from<br />
the "Prince of Pilsen"' and some of the corn-field medleys made decided "hits."<br />
while the augmented German band (imported), which serenaded the audience<br />
from the street with several pathetic little ballads, was appreciated by all.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members of the club wish to thank the school as a whole for the support<br />
rendered them in their efforts. <strong>The</strong>y also wish to thank the quartet from the<br />
Girls' Glee Club, which contributed a splendid number to the program.<br />
At the last meeting of December the election of officers for this term was<br />
held. <strong>The</strong> following were those chosen: President, James Rosenberg: Vice-<br />
President, Wm. Rainey; Secretary, Earl Esola; Business Manager, David Wolf;<br />
Librarian, Bernardt Fest. George. Goodall was elected by the school to represent<br />
the club in the Students' Association.<br />
This term the club is prepared to work hard and everything points to a very<br />
successful semester. We lose a few of our members by graduation and we expect<br />
a great deal of new material from the lower class men, particularly the freshmen.<br />
Just here, we wish to extend an invitation to all the entering students who feel<br />
at all inclined toward airing their vocal chords. Nor is the invitation open to<br />
freshmen alone. Every one who feels that he can well spare an hour a week to<br />
this pastime will find a place waiting for him whenever he wishes to join us.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is room for all, so come and join.<br />
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BASKETBALL.<br />
Now that school lias reopened again, the prospects for a championship team<br />
are exceedingly bright. All of the veterans arc back at school and under the<br />
able coaching of Mr. Carlson, the squad has been formed and practice games<br />
have been numerous.<br />
To enumerate the merits of the members of the team would be a difficult<br />
task, and as only a small space is allowed me. I will give only their most appreciative<br />
abilities.<br />
Captain Hainmon, cur veteran center, has those qualities in him which mark<br />
1iim a leader of men. Fast, aggressive and always guarding his opponent, he<br />
will be the mainstay of the team.<br />
"Dave" Butler, cf football fame, is to play one of the forward positions.<br />
Although this is his first season on the team, he has proven himself worthy of<br />
the honor bestowed on him, and under fire will never lose his head.<br />
Leland Leek, the other forward, is a veteran of last year's team. He has<br />
always proved himself a dangerous, slippery nian to his opponent, and we may<br />
look forward to him to do his best.<br />
Jack Tufts, another new man. will play one of the guard positions. He has<br />
shown up well in practice and can be depended on to do his utmost for the team.<br />
"Jimmy" Ransahoff, our veteran guard and manager, has all that a good<br />
player needs. Fast, strong and a dangerous man that he is at all times, he has<br />
certainly proved his worth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team has played many practice games. We have played two games<br />
with San Rafael High and have come out the victors in both. <strong>The</strong> boys journeyed<br />
clown to San Jose and on the latter's own court wrested victorv from<br />
them. Score, 26 to 23. Here's success to the team in the coming season.<br />
BASEBALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> season has started brilliantly. <strong>The</strong>re were four practices at Lobos<br />
Square during the first week of school. Rain somewhat impeded work the<br />
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next week, but there was one good practice: By the time THE LOWELL is our<br />
we will have secured the services of a coach for the season. Captain Street<br />
and the manager are making arrangements at this writing. We will have<br />
played Oakland High a practice game by the time you read this. We are scheduled<br />
to meet Lick on Washington's Birthday in an exhibition game. This will<br />
give us two chances to beat our old rivals during the season. <strong>The</strong> team will<br />
play Hitchcock on February 11th and other games are being arranged.<br />
Any boy who comes out to practice with a glove will be given a fair chance<br />
and a good time. <strong>The</strong> team is especially in need of extra pitchers and outfielders.<br />
If you've ever played ball at all and want a good time with a fine<br />
crowd of fellows, make yourself apparent at the next practice. Get your money's<br />
worth from the Students' Association.<br />
TRACK.<br />
Captain Street will have a very formidable contingent on hand when<br />
he calls for his first track turn-out. Among those who have already designated<br />
their intention of being on the squad are: Street, Van, Urban, Hammoii,<br />
I'owhay, Kant, Tufts, and Busey. Of these the first five are veterans,<br />
while a great deal of promising material seems to be evident among the<br />
lower classes.<br />
Girls' Athletics<br />
MARION ARENDT.<br />
GIRLS' TENNIS.<br />
Tt is only in our own glorious State that tennis could cut such a big figure<br />
in the mid-winter months. <strong>The</strong> tennis fans were at the Park courts every day<br />
of the Christmas vacation.<br />
Our practice bore good fruit, for we defeated the heretofore invincible<br />
Girls' High team. <strong>The</strong> results were as follows: In singles—Beatrice Gawnc<br />
defeated Bessie Haines, 3-6, 10-8, 6-3. As the score indicates, this match was<br />
very closely contested. Marion Arendt won from Rose Neuman, 6-2, 6-2. In<br />
doubles, <strong>Lowell</strong> was also victorious, 6-2, 6-3.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no doubt that the popularity of tennis, in the school, is greater<br />
than it ever has been. A number of girls have worked hard and faithfully<br />
during the past term, but we need more support. Come out every pleasant<br />
Saturday, girls. <strong>The</strong>re will be many rainy ones for matinees, etc.<br />
Let* me map out for you the work for this term. <strong>The</strong>re will be two tournaments,<br />
in which every girl in the school, that wishes, may enter. First, the<br />
intcrclass, then the tryout for the team to be entered in the A. A. L. Every<br />
girl that takes an interest will have a chance to play in these tournaments.<br />
GIRLS' BASKETBALL.<br />
"Oh! How exciting!" can truly be said of the game with San Jose. A<br />
double-header event, resulting in a double-header victory. Messrs. Stephens.<br />
Turker and Carlson helped to make the day enjoyable for all. Our girls out-<br />
(Conclucled on Page 31.)<br />
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JAMMS RANSAIIOI'T, Dec. '11.<br />
Mr. Wit—You should have seen the fight last night.<br />
E. Z.—What fight?<br />
Mr. Wit—Graphite.<br />
New Teacher in Geometry—What is the definition of a point?<br />
Miss Bright—A point is at the beginning and at the end of a thing.<br />
New Teacher—<strong>The</strong>n the beginning and end of this hour might be a point?<br />
Miss Bright (hesitatingly)—Well, it might be a period.<br />
<strong>The</strong> teacher asked an Italian boy to make a sentence, with "disarrange" in it.<br />
He said: "Me Ma, she gcta up in da morn, and lighten da fire. Da fire no burn<br />
and she-a-say, 'I like dis-a-range.' "—Ex.<br />
Mistress—More than anything else, 1 want a servant who has some refinement.<br />
Applicant—Yis, mum; but Oi'll be after chargin' yez more if Oi have to<br />
insthruct yez in the ways av sassiety.<br />
Light literature—Gas bills.<br />
HIS DINNER TOILET.<br />
Susanna—Won't you stop an' have a bite to cat wicl us, Br'er Slabsides,<br />
afore yo' go to town?<br />
Br'er Slabsides—I yaint 'zackly in dinnah dress, jus' now, Susanna; but<br />
if.yo' will wait until ah shed dis coat an' hat, n' roll up ma sleeves, I'll be<br />
ready to jine yuh.<br />
Mr. Smith (in Chemistry)—What is a compound?<br />
Miss B-nk-r—Something composed of several things.<br />
Mr. Smith—Give an example.<br />
•' Miss G-h-res (softly)—Hash.<br />
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FIL be deviled, said the ham;<br />
I'll be. switched,-said the train;<br />
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ril .be darned, said the sock; . .<br />
I'll be stumped, said the tree; .<br />
I'll be blowed, said the horn;<br />
I'll be hanged, said the picture;<br />
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I'll be dammed, said the stream.—Exch.<br />
Who is it? You may stand on your head, lie on the floor, hang on the<br />
chandelier, but don't lounge, against the desks.<br />
NOTE : A reward of Five Dollars will be paid for correct answer. All<br />
answers must be turned in to ''Brick" Van Vliet.<br />
1st Bo.—<strong>The</strong>y have no trees back there in Milwaukee.<br />
2nd Bo.—Why, how's that? That seems rather strange.<br />
1st Bo.—<strong>The</strong>y only have the Anhcuscr-Bnsch.<br />
(Continued from Page 29.)<br />
classed the San Jose team at every stage of the game', the final score being 27<br />
to 13. Lois dc Vilbiss is certainly a star player, making 25 out of the 27 points.<br />
Dorothy Reidy made the remaining two points by a clever field goal. <strong>The</strong> rest<br />
of the team played a consistent game throughout. <strong>The</strong> lineup was as fellows:<br />
Forwards, Lois de Vilbiss, Dorothy Reidy; guards, lla Young. Dc rothy Allen;<br />
centers, Mary Louise Bryant, Marguerite Yolkman, Hazel Breslauer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls have not been able to practice this term, as the yard was given<br />
up to the boys, by the generosity of the affable manager, Miss Hyland. <strong>The</strong>refore,<br />
we will have to put forth a double effort for the next few weeks. We<br />
want to see all the girls that can, come out every week for practice. <strong>The</strong>re arc<br />
surely more victories in store for us with the team in the experienced hands of<br />
Mr. Carlson as coach and Aileen Hyland as manager.<br />
Here's good luck to the team of<br />
<strong>1911</strong>.<br />
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She nodded her sweet permission.<br />
So they went to press and I rather<br />
guess<br />
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James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
To a true <strong>Lowell</strong>ite the name "<strong>Lowell</strong>" lias grown to have a peculiar meaning<br />
of its own. With it he associates all his high school interests, the student<br />
body and its activities, and the many things for which school lite stands. Hut<br />
he seldom thinks of the man for whom his school is named, of the life which<br />
that name represents. James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong> as a man was mie of such patriotic<br />
devotion, of such allegiance to right alone, that any institution may well lie proud<br />
to be called after him.<br />
It is interesting to note how the surroundings in which a child spends its<br />
early years often make such an impression on its young mind that the tastes and<br />
sometimes the character of the man are determined by them in later life. James<br />
Russell <strong>Lowell</strong>, born in this month of February, ninety-two yars ;ign. was<br />
brought up in the most ideal surroundings a child of a poetic temperament could<br />
be placed in. At "Elmwood." the old <strong>Lowell</strong> homestead, he became closdv in<br />
touch with nature and learned to love her with almost veneration. His sister,<br />
who was about ten years his senior, was his constant companion when he was a<br />
boy. It was her example which taught him to be gentle and forgiving in his<br />
nature: it was her love and care which tended to soften the high spirit which<br />
he inherited from his revolutionary ancestors. He learned many of the verses<br />
of Spenser by hearing his sister recite them.<br />
After <strong>Lowell</strong> had become a great poet he looked back upon hi-, childhood<br />
days with only the tenderest associations. Many of the most beautiful passages<br />
of his poetry are in description of his childhood home. <strong>The</strong> elms guarding the<br />
entrance, the vines trailing over the house, all are accorded mention in his<br />
descriptions.<br />
At an early age <strong>Lowell</strong> entered Harvard. Here he formed the circle of<br />
acquaintances which existed until his death. Such men as Longfellow and Emerson<br />
were his companions. It was at college that the boy started his career as a<br />
lecturer, poet, and editor.<br />
At Harvard he showed no surprising ability in his studies; in fact, it has<br />
been said of him that he read almost everything but what the faculty recommended.<br />
It is not unlikely that, if he had known that he himself would one day<br />
be a member of the faculty of the same university, he might have saved them<br />
from some of his boyish pranks.<br />
While in college <strong>Lowell</strong> received his first experience in the editorial line.<br />
As editor of the "Harvardiana" his career in the literary way began. In it he<br />
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published several small poems which caused him to be recognized by his classmates<br />
as a genius. In his senior year the honor of being selected as class poet<br />
was conferred upon him. Although crude in many respects, the genius of the<br />
poet was shown in the poem he wrote for his commencement clay.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> became generally known as a poet by the publication of the first of<br />
the "Biglow Papers." <strong>The</strong>se were exceedingly humorous productions, supposed<br />
to be written by an unknown Yankee in his dialect. <strong>The</strong>y were a witty take-off<br />
on the political situations of the day.<br />
It would be impossible to follow <strong>Lowell</strong> through the active part of his life.<br />
It would take a book to speak with justice of the various ways in which he<br />
figured as a public man. As a diplomat to Spain and England, as an editor, as<br />
an abolitionist, and as a professor in the university he served, as only a great<br />
man can serve, well. But as a public speaker <strong>Lowell</strong> deserves special notice.<br />
<strong>The</strong> custom of lecturing was a new one in New England at the time of his<br />
early manhood. <strong>The</strong> lectures were delivered under the auspices of the "lyceum<br />
committees." xii order to earn spending money while in college, <strong>Lowell</strong> volunteered<br />
to give several lectures. It is known that he asked if he might be given<br />
the sum of-five dollars for delivering a lecture.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>'s hearers were always very well paid for listening to his lectures.<br />
His subjects were either literary or critical. He continued active in public<br />
speaking until an old man.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> perhaps is the most versatile of all our American poets. As varied<br />
as the occupations of his life are the different classes of literature of which<br />
he was master. As a icritic his insight is keen and penetrating: ns a humorist<br />
he has few superiors, as shown by the "Biglow Papers." He is decidedly a<br />
nature poet. Is there any description of nature more beautiful than that in the<br />
"Vision of Sir Launfal"? <strong>Lowell</strong> is our Burns in respect to patriotic songs.<br />
His poems helped to lash the people of the North into zeal for the abolition<br />
of slavery.<br />
From comedy to pathos, from patriotism to criticism, this poet was able to<br />
turn in almost a minute. In the same year in which the "Biglow Papers" were<br />
published the "Vision of Sir Launfal" appeared. This by far is his masterpiece.<br />
His love for the romantic, his nature study, his deeply religious life, and his<br />
wonderful descriptive powers are shown here most strongly.<br />
Perhaps far above the man's work in quality shines the truest and brightest<br />
element of his life, his character. His loving and forgiving disposition, based<br />
upon a religious love for everything true and holy, leaves in itself a heritage to<br />
mankind which would cause him to be loved and esteemed by all. I sometimes<br />
like to imagine that <strong>Lowell</strong> himself, spiritually, went through the experience he<br />
ascribes to Sir Launfal, that he too came to know the true love of God by trial<br />
and suffering, that he found the Holy Grail in a merciful act to the poor.<br />
James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong> has been dead now for almost twenty years, but the<br />
sweet influence left by his life will never die, but will add just so much more<br />
to the great avalanche of love and truth which sweeps on through each generation<br />
and gathers only what good is contributed by each life. His life was one<br />
which must have realized the importance of little things. Although it was given<br />
him to do great things, he would have been no less great if tohis lot fell the<br />
little wearisome tasks of life, for a true, earnest nature will shine in the lowliest<br />
walk of life as well as in the highest. <strong>The</strong> little things are really the great<br />
ones, and the little ones sometimes count for more. AILEEN HAND, Dec '11.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Three Wise Men<br />
Winter is not pleasant anywhere in Dakota, and yet we had no complaint<br />
to make. As long as the storm roared without, our fire roared within. If<br />
there were dark clouds on the outside, there were more cheerful clouds—of<br />
tobacco—inside. Plenty to eat, plenty to drink. Plenty of books, warmth and<br />
friends. Yes, we had no kick to make. Let the old storm shake his locks;<br />
what cared we?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were four of us bunking together. I, the sheriff; a miner from the<br />
Black Hills, a hunter from the plains, and a youth. All three had come upon<br />
me at nightfall and had asked for shelter. And so there they were.<br />
<strong>The</strong> three sat around the fire, each busy with his thoughts, and T sat apart,<br />
watching them. <strong>The</strong> face of the miner was heavy and shaggy, the brow wrinkled,<br />
and a half-concealed sneer played around his lips. Now and then he<br />
would gaze for a long time at nothing, then, suddenly wrinkling his brow, he<br />
would smile—but such a smile. <strong>The</strong>re was no humor in it.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hunter's was open and free, bronzed and fearless. He sat gazing<br />
stolidly into a corner, and as I watched him. I saw the hands double up into<br />
knots, hard as Hint, his spine stiffen, and a glad, fierce look come into his eyes.<br />
FIc was hunting.<br />
But the most interesting was the youth. He had a complexion like a girl,<br />
soft and rosy, with deep blue eyes and golden hair. He, too, gazed into space,<br />
and every little while a soft light would come into his eyes and a smile curve<br />
upon his lips.<br />
I was host, but my guests were not congenial. Yet I couldn't blame them.<br />
Christmas comes but once a year, and they were going home. Were going?<br />
That is. if the storm had not stopped them. <strong>The</strong>refore it was for me to break<br />
the silence.<br />
I spoke suddenly. "What," said I, "is the mightiest thing in the world?"<br />
It was a question I had long puzzled over, and yet I had reached no conclusion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hunter raised his head and spoke. "Bravery." he said.<br />
I looked at the youth, and he blushed. "Love is mightiest," he answered,<br />
and blushed again.<br />
I looked at the miner, and he scowled. "Selfishness." he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n all looked back into the fire, but they did not look in the old way, for<br />
each was thinking of the same thing, and I knew that friendship had been born.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the miner spoke. "Yes, my friends." he said, "I have traveled far<br />
and traveled wide. And 1 have traveled with open eyes. In China, I did not<br />
see the Chinese buildings, but Chinese. In India, I did not see Hindu temples,<br />
but Hindus. In Europe, I saw Europeans. In America. Americans. I was<br />
not a traveler seeking to gratify curiosity. I was a student. I did not see<br />
countries, I saw men. I did not study countries. I studied men. And yet nowhere<br />
have I found a man. Everywhere I found selfishness.<br />
"He"—nodding to the hunter—"tells you bravery is mightiest. But is it?<br />
What is bravery? Is it not a form of selfishness? A man is brave when he<br />
defends his home from robbers, but does he not defend his life, his property?<br />
Does he drive out the burglar simply because he is brave, or is it to defend his<br />
own? Which is his incentive? Which call is the stronger?<br />
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"I once saw a man walking on a mountain with his loved one. He had<br />
just pledged his love and life for her. He,had said that he would die for her;<br />
that she was dearer than life itself. And he was sincere. Suddenly his chance<br />
came to prove it. A cougar sprang,-missed and crouched. Slowly, softly, he<br />
began to steal forward. <strong>The</strong> man stood before the girl, a revolver leveled.<br />
'Don't fear, Margaret,' he said, and pulled the trigger. He pulled again. No<br />
flash came. <strong>The</strong> pistol was unloaded. He pulled frantically; and with increasing<br />
terror. <strong>The</strong>n his face shrunk, and suddenly, heaving the pistol^ at the beast,<br />
he turned—and ran. Pie ran—and left his sweetheart; and she calling,<br />
'Frank! Frank!' What caused him to run? He was brave a second before.<br />
Yes, he was, but then his life was not in danger. Now it was, and he ran, and<br />
left his betrothed! Fear? Yes! And what is fear? Fear of self! Selfpreservation<br />
! <strong>The</strong> first law of Nature! Selfishness! And so, you see," he went<br />
on, in a lighter tone, "selfishness was stronger than both love and bravery."<br />
<strong>The</strong> youth looked up and said, "And Margaret?"<br />
"Oh," he said, "I killed the cougar. <strong>The</strong> girl was my niece, and I had<br />
followed to see that no harm befell. Why did ] follow? Fear! Selfishness<br />
again!" <strong>The</strong>n he gazed into the fire.<br />
We were all silent. Only the youth smiled. He was not convinced.<br />
<strong>The</strong> morning dawned, and there was a lull in the storm. That morning<br />
my question of the night before was answered.<br />
We were seated at breakfast, fighting off a chill. <strong>The</strong> fire had gone down<br />
during the night, and the winter cold had entered into the cabin. Xo one<br />
spoke. All was silence. In silence had we all looked to our horses, and now<br />
we ate in quiet.<br />
Suddenly the door flew open and an Indian stumbled in. half frozen. We<br />
poured hot coffee down his throat, rubbed his hands, and slapped his body.<br />
Presently he spoke in Sioux. But 1 did not understand, and I looked at my<br />
three guests.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hunter spoke. "His wife and babe left town for the reservation.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have not returned. He wants you to get them."<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sioux looked at me with great, beseeching eyes. I started for my<br />
horse, and just as I left the door I heard the hunter say. half to himself, "Brave<br />
man!" And the miner replied, "A fool! <strong>The</strong>y arc dead!"<br />
I returned for an extra blanket. 1 might need it. Most likely not, after a<br />
night of that kind of cold. My three friends were ready also.<br />
"Where are you going?" I asked. "<strong>The</strong> storm may commence again. I<br />
am able and fit." "And you?" asked the youth. ".I'm sheriff, you're not," I<br />
said, "it's my duty." "So is it mine, then," he answered, and went to get his<br />
horse. <strong>The</strong> others did the same, and we started out. Yet he did not explain<br />
what he meant by his reply.<br />
Everywhere was the evidence of the storm. <strong>The</strong> few trees were uprooted.<br />
<strong>The</strong> streams were flooded. But mostly it was cold. Cold, that came in gusts,<br />
and bit to the bone. Windy! Icy! Cold! You know what.<br />
"Where's the Sioux ?" It was the miner. <strong>The</strong> hunter spoke. "Home," he<br />
said, "warming out." "Yes," said the miner, "a brave man! Why isn't he with<br />
us?" And he sneered. "Poor fellow!" said the youth, "he was frozen." <strong>The</strong>n<br />
we rode on in silence.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
From the town to the reservation was twenty miles, a four hours' journey.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y had started at four, and the storm had come on at six. <strong>The</strong>refore, they<br />
were half way home.<br />
We went to that part of the road, but saw nothing. Snow was everywhere<br />
and nothing else. We traveled along- the road to the reservation, but they had<br />
seen nothing. We rode to the town, and they had seen nothing. We had done<br />
everything. What else could we do? <strong>The</strong> squaw was dead, and so was the<br />
babe. . . . We started home, empty handed.<br />
When a horse knows it is going home, it goes its quickest. Ours knew,<br />
and galloped: and as they galloped, they grew warm and went still faster. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
made no curves in their flight. Straight as a beeline.<br />
Suddenly my horse plunged into a drift, stumbled, tottered, half rose, and<br />
then fell. I arose from the snow and helped him up. Hut what had caused<br />
him to stumble? I looked around, expecting to sec a brush, but—T looked—<br />
stared—and then slowly raised my eyes and gazed at my friends. <strong>The</strong>y were<br />
staring also. <strong>The</strong>n one and all they slowly dismounted. Rapidly we dug away<br />
the snow, and there was our Indian—naked. Yes. naked! Not a stitch, not a<br />
rag! Naked as the day of her birth. And her clothes? Ah, my friend, there<br />
was the answer to my question. <strong>The</strong> clothes were wrapped around the infant,<br />
and the infant was clasped in her rigid arms.<br />
I tried to take the little bundle, but it would not yield. <strong>The</strong>n the miner<br />
took one arm, and I the other. Slowly but gently we forced hack the still. stilT<br />
arms: but ah, my friend, how tightly they clasped their burden. <strong>The</strong>y clasped<br />
it tighter than death itself; for love is stronger than death.<br />
Eagerly I opened the little parcel. A faint breath-cloud rose on the air,<br />
but yet, how faint! Still, it breathed, and breath meant life! fiently but<br />
briskly we rubbed its little brown body, and a faint glow responded. <strong>The</strong>n we<br />
mounted, the babe in the miner's arms. . . .<br />
I looked at the youth, and he was looking at the miner. <strong>The</strong>ir eyes met.<br />
and the youth pointed from the babe to the mother. "Love," he whispered.<br />
Only that one word, soft and slow. Yet why did we all blush?<br />
He took off his hat. We all did. even the miner. <strong>The</strong> youth spoke again,<br />
this time even lower than the first. ''Amor vincit oninia, etiam mortem," lie said.<br />
I knew not what he said, and yet I knew what he meant, for—that tone speaks<br />
all tongues. . . .<br />
"Hut why," said the miner, later, "were they so far off the road?"<br />
] looked at the hunter, and he said: "She was blind with snow, and traveled<br />
in circles."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a pause. "Yes." said the cynic, and his tone was thoughtfully<br />
solemn, "yes, I traveled in circles. T traveled with open eyes, yet 1 was blind.<br />
Looking only for selfishness, selfishness was all I saw!" And he sighed.<br />
"Love is mightiest," said the poet.<br />
We all nodded. E. A. FALCONI:K, Dec. '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>n to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,<br />
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;<br />
<strong>The</strong>n it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,<br />
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified." —J. R. L.<br />
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• ;•- : THE LOWELL<br />
A College Adventure<br />
"Oh," I-say Phil, can't you wait until to-morrow ? I swear I haven't got it<br />
now.. I'd give'it to you if I had. I'm just waiting for my monthly check from •<br />
dad, to pay up."<br />
"Yes, I know, that's always the way. You always say just wait until tomorrow.<br />
I think we'd better separate. We don't seem to hitch, so I guess you'd<br />
better pack up and clear out."<br />
<strong>The</strong> room signified college. <strong>The</strong> walls were gay with pennants and posters,<br />
and the two young fellows were certainly college men. It was a warm night<br />
and both had thrown off their coats. Even so they looked as though the heat<br />
had penetrated for both their faces were flushed.<br />
"If that's the way you feel about it I certainly shall get out. I'll go this<br />
very night and we'll settle up later. I never thought you could treat a fellow<br />
so unjustly, Phil."<br />
Phil Armstrong lay back in his chair without saying a word. His face<br />
grew sullen as he realized that he was not treating his old chum as fairly as he<br />
might. He had spoken hastily without thought of what he was saying. Jack<br />
moved about the room getting his belongings together.<br />
"Fire! Fire!" rang suddenly through the building. Phil leaped from his<br />
chair and eacli reached for his fevi 1 valuables and swiftly left the room.<br />
Quite a crowd had already gathered when they reached the ground, and<br />
a motley crowd it was. Boys in all stages of undress and a few already arrayed<br />
in delicately colored pajamas were talking excitedly. <strong>The</strong> fire, it seemed, had<br />
started in the rear of the house and had gotten well under way before it was<br />
discovered. It was now burning its way swiftly towards the front of the building.<br />
Two boys were dispatched to summon the volunteer fire department of<br />
the town a short distance away. Though there was no hope of getting the fire<br />
under control, the company had nets and ladders that might be needed.<br />
Before his companions could stop him Phil Armstrong was up the stairs of<br />
the burning building. He paid no attention to their shouts of warning but went<br />
straight on through the door.<br />
"I know who he's after," said one of the boys. "He's gone to wake Will<br />
Harker. He had a splitting headache this afternoon and the doctor gave him<br />
something to make him sleep. I'd forgotten every single word about him."<br />
From the hall Phil could see the flames through an open door. He groped<br />
his way to the stairs, almost blinded by the smoke, but determined to awaken<br />
Harker. He made his way up the stairs and had almost reached the top of the<br />
first flight when he tripped, staggered a step and fell, hitting his head against<br />
the hard oaken post at the top of the bannisters. <strong>The</strong> smoke and the fall had<br />
proved too much for him and he lay where he had fallen, perfectly still.<br />
Meanwhile the excitement outside had reached fever heat. A few minutes<br />
after the arrival of the fire company Will Marker, awakened by the noise, had<br />
appeared at the upper window. A net was quickly spread and fifty voices cried<br />
"Jump!" <strong>The</strong> boy hesitated a moment, drew back from the window, but reappeared<br />
in a moment, climbed to the window sill, and stood for a second as though<br />
nerving himself to the jump. A breathless moment more and he lay safe in the'<br />
net of his rescuers.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
During the excitement no one had thought of Phil. Now anxious inquiries<br />
came from every side. Jack Ainsworth did not stop to ask questions but made<br />
his way through the crowd and disappeared within the house. <strong>The</strong> smoke was<br />
growing constantly thicker and the flames were fast licking their way towards<br />
the stairs when Jack, almost stifled, started towards the upper floor. He fought<br />
his way through the smoke, not giving himself an instant to think of the danger<br />
he was in. Would he never reach the top of the stairs! Suddenly his foot hit<br />
against something soft. He stooped over and felt. It was the seemingly lifeless<br />
figure of a man. "Phil is the only fellow in the house so it must be he,"<br />
Jack said to himself as he lifted the dead weight in his arms. He turned and<br />
slowly descended the stairs, reaching the hall in safety where he discovered, to<br />
his horror, that the flames were almost upon him. Oh, how hot it was! A<br />
burning splinter fell on his thin cotton shirt and set it afire. His whole body<br />
seemed to be burning up, he felt his senses failing, but still he clung tightly to<br />
his burden. He realized vaguely that he must reach the door. He made his<br />
way towards it as quickly as he could.<br />
A great cheer rose from the crowd as he appeared in the doorway. He<br />
swayed and would have fallen if some of his friends had not rushed up to him.<br />
relieved him of his burden and smothered the flames from his burning shirt.<br />
A few days later Jack Ainsworth lay in the college infirmary and Phii was<br />
sitting by him.<br />
"Just let up on that, won't you, Phil? What did I do, anyhow? Aren't we<br />
in the same fix? You nearly died trying to save some one and so did I. so<br />
that's all there is to it. Don't say another word about it."<br />
"Mow are the burns,.Jack? When does the doctor thirl' ,,ou'll be able to<br />
bear your clothes?"<br />
"I'll be up in a couple of days, he thinks."<br />
"Hurry up about it, old chap. I wan't you to help me pick out some fixings<br />
for our new room. We'll make it the best one in the whole college."<br />
"But about the money "<br />
"Well, that's what I want you to let up about."<br />
MAUC.EUV DI'KIJROW, Dec. '11.<br />
"Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected." —J. R. L.<br />
" Be noble! and the nobleness that lies<br />
In other men, sleeping but never dead.<br />
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own." —J. R. L.<br />
"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,<br />
In the strife of.Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;<br />
Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering cacli the bloom or blight.<br />
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right;<br />
And the choice goes forever 'twixt that darkness and that light."<br />
—J. R. L.
THE LOWELL<br />
" <strong>Lowell</strong> and Democracy<br />
In 1880 we sent as American Ambassador to Spain, the man after whom<br />
our own clear school is named. This man was James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong>. Before<br />
going abroad and until he was transferred from :>Spain to England in 1883,<br />
Mr. <strong>Lowell</strong> was known only as a man of letters. Few, if any, knew of him as<br />
a diplomat. One result of this was that the London Spectator announced him<br />
on his arrival in England as "his Excellency, the Ambassador of American literature<br />
to the court of Shakespeare." <strong>The</strong>y did not know that though silent<br />
on the subject, <strong>Lowell</strong> had always been 1 a keen observer of politics.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> was representing a democracy in a foreign monarch}'. He believed<br />
in democracy with his whole heart and soul, and never failed to express clearly<br />
his '..vn unhampered opinion on matters relating to this and other subjects. It<br />
was during his five years of service in England that he delivered the address<br />
which made him famous. This address he named "Democracy."<br />
"Democracy"' so clearh expounds what true democracy is, that it is now<br />
taught in the public schools of this country. Moreover, it is taught in high<br />
schools and with the hope of giving to those who are tlie future leaders of our<br />
nation a better understanding of those underlying principles of government which<br />
our forefathers gave their lives to establish. It is taught with the hope that it<br />
will so acquaint the American youth with those noble principles for which we<br />
have always stood, that he will be fully able to live up to them throughout his<br />
whole private and public life.<br />
Democracy is merely a word, but a word with a world of meaning. That<br />
word, with its world of meaning, we young Americans should have ever before<br />
us in our social as well as our political ideas and practices. Indeed, it is necessary<br />
that we do this if the noble standard set by our heroic forefathers is to<br />
survive through the next generation. Surely James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong> believed<br />
that his follow countrymen at home were practicing, and would always practice,<br />
what he, their representative, was preaching.<br />
It is presumed that every American boy and girl is "proud" of the fact<br />
that he or she is an "American." I'.ut are we all Americans in the true sense<br />
of the word? In order to be a true American one should be a practical follower<br />
of Democracy. Note well the word "practical." for it carries great significance.<br />
Suppose there are those for whom our American ideas are not good enough.,<br />
who would ape the English or French aristocracy. What would vou. "true<br />
American citizen," think of such a person or class of persons? I do not know<br />
what the opinion of the reader may be. but the author has been laboring under<br />
the impression that we Americans have adopted a democratic form of government<br />
with the intention of departing from the "class" distinction of a bvgone age.<br />
James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong> must have thought so when he delivered that famous<br />
address in which, with his sincere and ringing voice, he drove home to those<br />
Englishmen assembled at I'.irmingham the prevailing principle of democracy<br />
that "a man's a man for a' that." I !c had no reason to believe that Americans<br />
would not always be true adherents of democracy. Neither have we, at the<br />
present time, any sensible reason to believe that it should be otherwise.<br />
Let us, "<strong>Lowell</strong>ites," do our share, at least, toward practicing the noble<br />
democratic ideas expressed by <strong>Lowell</strong>—that great American after whom we<br />
have seen Jit to name our school. 1M>\VAKI> II. PAKSOXS, |une '11.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Decay of Age<br />
Tlie sky was gray. <strong>The</strong> sands were gray. <strong>The</strong> same neutral tint seemed<br />
to spread itself everywhere, pervading the atmosphere. <strong>The</strong> fog hung low over<br />
the gray swells of the ocean waves, hiding the rocky headland that stretched far<br />
out into the ocean, sheltering the littie sandy beach.<br />
Old Aaron Darrows. standing in the door of the tiny gray-painted caijin.<br />
surrounded by. the grayish sea-nets and bleached rowboats. seemed part of the ,<br />
scene. <strong>The</strong>re was no breeze in the heavy fog-dank atmosphere to stir the long<br />
strings of gray-white hair which hung upon his shoulders, mingling with the<br />
strands of his beard, while his rude, baggy clothes hung clumsily about his lank,<br />
emaciated figuro which was ravaged by age.<br />
Aaron glancs.! out toward the open sea. but the scope of his view was cut<br />
off beyond the first few hundred yards. Only an outline of darker gray marked<br />
the ridge where the beetling headland rose so abruptly in some caprice of Nature,<br />
from just beside the low, long beach. <strong>The</strong> only «ound which met his ears was<br />
the swish and plash of the drowsy rolls as they beached themselves sleepily in<br />
little lines of white foam.<br />
Xow he glanced away from the waters, and let his eyes travel along the<br />
little expanse of road before it became blotted by the pall of fog. lie was unrewarded<br />
: there was no one coming either by land or sea.<br />
At last, slowly, with hesitating step and faltering gait, the old liK'ii descended<br />
the few steps of his cabin and started across the sands, tottering to<br />
where two boats stood high on their scaffoldings, protected as yet from the<br />
caresses of their mother-to-be, the sea. <strong>The</strong> one was higher, larger, more prepossessing<br />
in every way, exquisitely finished, seemingly light as air. It was<br />
the work of the master shipbuilder, the ideal child of his apt hands, his pride,<br />
the outcome of years of work, the perfection of his life. Old Aaron ran his<br />
hands lovingly, tenderly over the boat's slender sides, half crooning, half murmuring<br />
to himself, laying his cheek against the smooth boards. ;>.< though it<br />
were a live thing.<br />
It was the outcome of his skill, by which he was going to win the prize,<br />
the great prize offered by the lord of the shire, his highness the Duke of Cumberland.<br />
During the reign of tieorge IV it was necessary that the industries<br />
of the country should be enlarged, and it was by these contests that the lesser<br />
nobles encouraged their subjects.<br />
( )f course, there was not the slightest grain of doubt : n Aaron's mind as to<br />
who should win the prize, in fact, there seemed no doubt in any one's mind.<br />
Why. it was the only logical, the only possible thing, he argued, that he should<br />
be the chosen one. he. the recognized master of the t r ade. the one to whom the<br />
whole borough, the whole shire bowed. <strong>The</strong>re could be no doubt. <strong>The</strong> others<br />
had almost as little chance as his son. the boy Henjamin. of only twenty summers,<br />
whose work, the other ship, he wa- glancing at. Well, it did no harm<br />
fi.r the 110} to practice this way. Some day he would become ,-i master like his<br />
"III father, some day far off. but these were good enough for beginnings<br />
Aaron -.miled to himself. What »|iieer ideas the 11-iy had! To his old,<br />
once-formed. Maid principle-;, the new. advanced model of the l»>v seemed onlv<br />
a freak, the haubie of a baby mind., lie smiled, tolerantly again. lie wondered<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
what the judges could have thought of his son's boat when they inspected the<br />
offerings of the contestants!<br />
Suddenly his ruminations were interrupted. <strong>The</strong> sound which he had<br />
expected, a horse's hoof beats, became audible far along the road. He started<br />
forward, listening, his eyes expectant. Yes. it was as he had thought! <strong>The</strong><br />
only possible decision had been made. <strong>The</strong>y were bringing him the prize.<br />
A horseman loomed out of the fog. his horse covered with foam-flecks.<br />
He drew rein at the little cottage.<br />
"Darrows?" the man cried out. "Darrows?"<br />
<strong>The</strong> old Aaron tottered toward him as he dismounted, expectantly calling<br />
out, "Darrows! Yes, yes. 1 am Darrows! Yes, yes!"<br />
<strong>The</strong> horseman stepped forward.<br />
"I come from Whitehavcn, around the Heads—"<br />
Aaron interrupted him, tottering closer and stretching out his long, bony<br />
fingers. "Yes, yes! <strong>The</strong> prize, the prize! <strong>The</strong>y've given it!" he laughed in<br />
almost imbecile glee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> horseman had drawn a document from out his wallet and handed it<br />
to the old man with a tolerant smile.<br />
"You've guessed it." he said. "<strong>The</strong>y have awarded the prize and want<br />
him to bring the boat around to Whitehaven as soon as possible." <strong>The</strong>n, as an<br />
afterthought, he added. "You should be very proud of him."<br />
<strong>The</strong> old man chuckled with glee, not understanding the truth.<br />
''I am, 1 am! Come and see her!"<br />
"<strong>The</strong> whole shire will be the more surprised," said the man, as he followed<br />
Aaron across the sands, "on account of his youth. For my part I was<br />
very glad to see one so young and enterprising succeed. <strong>The</strong> authorities, too.<br />
in awarding him the prize seemed to recognize the newness and freshness of<br />
his ide "<br />
Suddenly he broke off. starting forward with outstretched arms. <strong>The</strong> old<br />
man reeled and fell back, the mirthsome chuckle dying away in a despairing<br />
groan, lie had. at last, realized the truth!<br />
A few hours later, when l'.enjamin, the son, returned, he found his father<br />
huddled together in one corner of the little cabin room, muttering to himself.<br />
Mis cheerful greeting was unanswered, the old man's only recognition of his<br />
presence being the pointing of one clawlike finger toward the paper lying open<br />
upon the rude table.<br />
l'.enjamin sprang toward it. devouring the contents with little cries and<br />
exclamations ot joy and rapture.<br />
"Oli. father, father! Think of if" ]n- cried dwfullv. "Isn't it too good<br />
to be true.- I can't believe my eye-."<br />
"Wi won it." <strong>The</strong> old Pian answered the only thought of his mind his<br />
very tone crying all .nil: "I envy 1 I envy! I envy !"<br />
I'.lit tile IH.V war too obsessed by his joy to notice.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y told me." th- ,,|,1 ,,,:m w:is ^.'^ing a.ain, hi, Vuici. (lrwirv alul<br />
...low. that they wanted it right away. that von had to bring it "round to<br />
Uh.tehaven to-mght or they wouldn't accept it. understand"'" '<br />
r.enjannn felt a chill run through hin frame<br />
"Hut father "<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
"All right." the old man said cruelly, "then lose it for all I care."'<br />
"But you don't seem to realize. <strong>The</strong>y surely couldn't have knowledge of<br />
what it would mean to beat 'round the heads on an evening like this."<br />
<strong>The</strong> old man egged him on, glorying underneath in the wrong he was<br />
wreaking.<br />
"So much the better. Maybe it'll be just as we'll that you don't go. I<br />
wouldn't want to see that prize in the hands of a—a coward!"<br />
<strong>The</strong> blow told.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy winced under the lash, and, suddenly straightening, he turned<br />
and left the room, his soul full to overflowing.<br />
Aaron had won.<br />
Xow he bent his car toward the door, listening acutely, straining every<br />
muscle for the sound, the demon of jealousy completely possessing his senses.<br />
Mis heart sang a song. Yes. there it was. <strong>The</strong> sound of the keel on the sands.<br />
A moment later he heard the plash of the boat breasting the waves.<br />
He sank back, laughing a loud, long, insane laugh.<br />
lie did not know how long he had lain thus, chicking and chattering gleefully<br />
to himself, as an imbecile would, delighting in his revenge, in the knowledge<br />
that the craft that had surpassed his own. his work of a life, would perish<br />
at its birth of recognition. Somehow the fact did not occur to his decadent<br />
brain, fevered by the realization that the zenith of his work was past, that a<br />
newer, stronger generation with fresh-flowing blood and new ideas would aiul<br />
was surpassing the old regime, his regime, did not occur, that this man whom<br />
he envied, the one who had surpassed him. was his son.<br />
He was still insanely gurgling to himself.<br />
Almost simultaneously with the sinking of the sun a breeze sprang up<br />
from oft' the sea, partially dispelling the fogs. With ITS advent the unfastened<br />
door of the little cottage silently opened ami its cool breath entered the room.<br />
It struck the old man's withered form, cooling his fevered brow and cooling<br />
his brain.<br />
Suddenly he sprang to iiis feet, his lips mute with despair, the deluge of<br />
realization flooding his brain. What had he done? What had he done? i fe<br />
was woefully sobered now. Alas, sobered with the realization of death. Me<br />
had murdered, murdered, and the victim was his own son.<br />
Me sank forward on his face, beating the ground with his clenched fists<br />
in the agony of despair, moaning, weeping. He was now conjuring up in his<br />
mind the awful, chilling picture of his son's body, painting in the awful, vivid<br />
colors of his diseased imagination, decayed by age. dwelling on each outline,<br />
each detail uncannily, morbidly torturing himself with the horrible thought of<br />
his crime. Xow he was ravingly following the little craft through the dense<br />
veil of the fog as it made toward the heads, lie could see with horror its<br />
progrcs ,Ui beyond the rocks, where it was being caught by the currents, the<br />
treacherous, sweeping currents. <strong>The</strong>n his son's agonized face loomed in his<br />
mind's eye. He could see the plugs, the work of his own fiendish hands,<br />
loosening at the exact place he had planned. <strong>The</strong> patent glue was melting,<br />
opening the now yawning bottom to the waves, lie followed frcnxiedly with<br />
his thoughts the despairing struggles of his son as the boat sank lower, filling,<br />
filling. Finally he sank over, clutching his beard with his clawlike fingers.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
rcndin"" it into shreds as the reinor.se overwhelmed him: the picture of the boy's<br />
blanched, horror-stricken face, sinking; beneath the waves, carried away down,<br />
down, underneath the swirls by the currents rushing round the heads. He<br />
sank back exhausted by the frenzied horror of his conscience •• nitten, overwrought<br />
si nil.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he lay calm and still, his brain refusing" to work further, only dimly<br />
conscious of the cool evening" breezes, blowing in through the open door. He<br />
lay thus with his eyes closed and there seemed no time for him, it might have<br />
been hours, vet again only minutes. However, after a time he began to realize<br />
that the breezes were cut > to my principles. I glorv<br />
In hevhf nothin' o' the son<br />
1 ain't a Wig. I ain't a Tory.<br />
I'm jest a candidate, in Miort:<br />
<strong>The</strong>t's fair an' sqinre an* parpendjder.<br />
I'm el the Public cares a fig<br />
I ii liev me an' thin in part irk i.<br />
Wy. I'm a kind of prri-wig."<br />
14<br />
—T. R. L<br />
—"P.iglow Papers.<br />
—"I'igVnv i 'npers,<br />
"Nine for Marstc<br />
•'Marston! Rah!<br />
"Hurrah! Wow!'<br />
"So long, fellows<br />
"Hope you win.'<br />
"We'll win, all n<br />
"Remember that<br />
Amid these shou<br />
tion of Hillcrcst, Ma<br />
•Marston High u<br />
relay race, which was(<br />
A beautiful cup was a<br />
were to race as the 1;<br />
each team had traint<br />
I Job Weavers hac<br />
man had always beau<br />
won he would get hi<br />
I Job was overjoy<br />
to think about it. I<br />
narrow margin, and<br />
sorts of visions passe<br />
<strong>The</strong> remainder<br />
of the car discussing<br />
"Steve," said Ar<br />
ters, the .captain and<br />
on which I want to a<br />
"All right." ansu<br />
Art spoke earnc<br />
suit Steve, for lie not<br />
"It's up to you u<br />
"All right," was<br />
Late that aftenv<br />
platform.<br />
"I'll walk tip to<br />
to you."<br />
"All right." said<br />
"You know Lestt<br />
"Yes." answered<br />
in less than 51 secon<br />
"<strong>The</strong> same." an<br />
under 54 seconds."<br />
"Well, what of<br />
"We have deeidt<br />
win this relav."
I.<br />
THE BOW ELL<br />
Bob's Last Opportunity<br />
"Nine for Marston, fellows, now make it strong."<br />
'•Marston! Rah! rah! rah ! rah! rah ! rah! rah ! rah! rah ! Marston !"<br />
•"Murrah! Wow!"<br />
"So long, fellows, good luck."<br />
"Hope you win."<br />
"We'll win, all right."<br />
"Remember that Billiken. Boh."<br />
Amid these shouts of encouragement the train pulled out of the small station<br />
uf llillcrcst, Massachusetts, for New Haven, Connecticut.<br />
Marston High was to meet its old rival Huutington in their fifth annual<br />
relay race, which was to decide the championship, as each school had won twice.<br />
A beautiful cup was also to be given to the champions. Marston and Huntington<br />
were to race as the last event of the great Harvard versus Yale dual meet, and<br />
each team had trained faithfully to win.<br />
Hob Weavers had tried for the past three years for the team, but some other<br />
man had always beaten him out. This year he had made the team, and if they<br />
won he would get his longed-for block M.<br />
I Sob was overjoyed at the prospect of running, and lie seated himself alone<br />
to think about it. He pictured himself tagged way behind and winning l,y a<br />
narrow margin, and then saw himself tagged way ahead and losing, and all<br />
sorts (if visions passed through his excited mind.<br />
<strong>The</strong> remainder of the team and their manager were sitting at the other end<br />
of the car discussing their chances.<br />
"Steve." said Art Comity, first lap man. addresMiig himself to Steve Fetters,<br />
the captain and fastest runner. "Step over here a moment. I have a plar.<br />
on which I want to ask your opinion."<br />
"All right," answered Steve, crossing the aisle. "Fire away."<br />
Art siwik-j earnestly to him for a minute or two. and his plan seemed to<br />
suit Steve, for he nodded his head accordingly.<br />
"It's up to you to break the news, Steve," said Art.<br />
"All right." was the response. "It will be hard but I'll do it."<br />
Late that afternoon they arrived at New Haven and alighted on the .station<br />
platform.<br />
"I'll walk up to the school with you." said Steve to Hob. "I want to speak<br />
to VOU."<br />
"All right." said Mob. expectantly, "proceed."<br />
"You know Lester Moore, don't you: y«u; know his reputation as a runner?"<br />
•^*es," answered Hob, "IK- is the fellow who has been making the quarter<br />
in less than 51 seconds repeatedly, isn't her"<br />
"<strong>The</strong> same." answered Steve, "Well, you know that you seldom make ir<br />
under 54 seconds."<br />
"Well, what of it?" sharply from Hob.<br />
"We have decided to let him run under your name, because we have to<br />
win this relay."<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
"Yes win by eliciting," exclaimed Bob, .flushing, and almost crying to see<br />
his hopes'vanishing, "That would be a fine thing for a Marston team, wouldn't<br />
it?"<br />
"Well, we have to do it, and we thought you would consent, as it is for<br />
Marston's good." „..,,.<br />
"Nothing false or sneaky is for Mansion's good, and III not consent to let<br />
him run under my name, even if he is bettor than I."<br />
"He'll run anyway, whether you .say so or not." said Steve, beginning to<br />
grow angry. 'Thafs'all. good-by," and he walked off in the opposite direction.<br />
. •<br />
"So that's his character," exclaimed Hon. gazing angrily after him. 'I<br />
thought more of him than that."<br />
Bob hurried to the room given to him during his stay at Vale. and. throwing<br />
himself down on his bed, he cried himself to sleep.<br />
Next afternoon Hob went to the meet, anyway, taking his suit with him.<br />
as he thought maybe Steve would feel sorry and change his mind, but lie was<br />
as firm as ever.<br />
Bob watched the events with little interest until the relay was announced.<br />
Just after the announcement there came a crash and a shout. Two runners<br />
had collided while warming up. I'-ob hurried to the scene of the excitement,<br />
and saw, to his joy. Lester .Moore. King on the track holding Ms ankle in his<br />
hands.<br />
"It's sprained pretty badly," exclaimed the surgeon, examining it, "Tt'll lay<br />
you up for a couple of weeks, at least."<br />
"Now Steve will want me to run." thought Mob. "but they lost me once,<br />
anil they won't get me to run again, especially with Steve on the team," and he<br />
hurried into the crowd.<br />
l!ut he was too late. Steve had spied him.<br />
"You are to run. Bob," called Steve, "hurry intr your suit."<br />
"I won't run, now." exclaimed Bob. angrily. "You seem to think that HI<br />
do whatever you .choose. No, youT iiave to find someone else to run for von."<br />
"1 don't ask you to run for me." cri'-d Steve in distress. "Run for Marston.<br />
It's our last chance for the cup."<br />
"Well, I'll run for Marston, but not for you."<br />
"All right, hurry man. You'll have to run last lap against their fastest man,<br />
who is also the fastest in the State."<br />
<strong>The</strong> course was two laps to the quarter. Finally, the starter's pistol broke<br />
the silence.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y arc olT!" cried the croud, excitedlv.<br />
Art Moore took the lead at the start, and kept it. ^iviinr Tom I'eters a good<br />
five yards' lead. Steve was afraid of IVters. Though -real in practice" he<br />
always lost his head in excitement and ran himself out before the race was half<br />
over. lie did the same then, running his head off the first lap and losing all the<br />
next, and tagging Steve about twenty yards behind. Slowly but surely Steve<br />
ate up the distance, until about a InindVed and lillv yards fro.,, the finish his<br />
shoe came off. Me grittily kept on. though the cinders hurt his foot and<br />
Hindered his progress, and tagged Hob without a -Ttin.<br />
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V..'-<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong>n began a race long remembered by ihc spectators. Bob started out<br />
with a sprint, then, coming to his senses he slowed down so as not to run himself<br />
out like Peters. Steve saw him slow down and groaned. "He is going to<br />
"dog it' and make the defeat more bitter, just to get even."<br />
But Bob had no such thought, and, at the end of the first lap he had decreased<br />
the lead by about eight yards.<br />
Tlie Huntington man gave a sudden spurt, trying to worry Bob, but Bob<br />
easily regained toe distance lost by the spurt. <strong>The</strong>n began his trial. He lengthened<br />
his stride and siowly gained on the Huntington mai.. Now but eight<br />
yards separated them, now five, now three, now two, now they arc even. Gasp!<br />
Gasp! Stride! Stride! His opponent seemed to have vanished into thin air, and<br />
the tape loomed up. Someone got in his way and he couldn't stop, so he fell into<br />
their arms. He was dizzy and tired. Why did they stop him? He could beat<br />
that fellow.<br />
"Did you win?" exclaimed Steve, "Well I guess you did."<br />
Bob could not forbear one more retort.<br />
'"You had Ixttcr get some one with a reputation to run for you after this,<br />
Steve."<br />
"Why, man," exclaimed Steve, "you have a big reputation now: you beat<br />
the fastest man in the State, and came within two seconds of the record; isn't<br />
that enough?" Enw.uin WACN'EU, June 1914.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re's one good thing to be said about my wooden new one,—<br />
<strong>The</strong> liquor can't git into it cz "t usect to in the true one;<br />
So it saves drink; an' then, besides, a feller couldn't beg<br />
A gretter blessin' than to hev one oilers sober peg;<br />
It's true a chap's in want 'r two fer lollerin' a drum<br />
I'.ut all the march I'm up to now is jest to Kingdom Come."<br />
—"P»iglo\v Papers.''<br />
I've bed some ribs broke,—six (I b'lieve)—I haint kep' no account on 'em;<br />
Wen pensions git to be the talk, I'll settle the amount on em.<br />
An" now I'm speakin' about ribs, it kin" o' brings to mind<br />
One thet I couldn't never break.—the one I lei" behind;<br />
l\f you should sec her. jest clear out the spout of your invention<br />
An' pour the longest sweetnin' in about an anooal pension.<br />
An' kin' o' hint (in case, you know, the critter should refuse to be<br />
Consoled) T ain't so 'xpensive now to keep ez win I used to be;<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's one arm less, ditto one eye. an' then the leg thel's wooden<br />
Can be took off an" sot away wenever ther's a puddin !"<br />
—"Iliglow Papers."<br />
Sunday school Superintendent—Who led the children if Israel into Canaan?<br />
Will one of the smaller boys answer?<br />
Xo reply.<br />
Supt. (somewhat sternlv)—Can no one tell? Little boy on that seat next to<br />
the aisle, who led the children of Israel into Canaan?<br />
Little Ho 1 ,- (badly frightened)—It wasn't me. I—I jest moved yere last<br />
week f'm Mizzoury.<br />
17<br />
1^ ?,"
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wreath<br />
San Sebastian is a small Mexican hamlet: it lies in a valley surrounded by<br />
mountains, the sides of which are green with verdure. Here and there one can<br />
distinguish the hut of a shepherd. -ive." -aid the i,,,.<br />
(<strong>The</strong> scene opcr<br />
is luxuriantly furnisl<br />
board, with decanter<br />
next the doorway, ><br />
servant of the old s<br />
the desk.")<br />
James (worried<br />
old master told me<br />
•Mippi.-r parties or ga<br />
i-avs he. "and, Jame.t<<br />
.ik that job I hu<br />
hearsal i>f our amat<br />
here it is half after t<br />
( Filler Kitridge<br />
eye.-, attired in full <<br />
a dark haired man o<br />
crush hat. James t;<br />
James—Aiiytbiu<br />
Kit ridge—Xo. I<br />
i F.xit lames.)<br />
Kilridge—Well.<br />
iivezing. I lave a d<br />
lohnson—Don't<br />
Kilridge (going<br />
J.—I'll have a h<br />
K.—All right ()<br />
I.— F.imugh : lill<br />
K. (banding Jol<br />
"in- dramatic efforts<br />
I.— \nd here's 1<br />
(I.am<br />
J. (selling glas<br />
d' > yi HI think the pla<br />
it il' we don't reheai<br />
hardly a person kno<br />
K.— \\ ell. I do l<br />
i!ie !asi part f the tl<br />
"f it 1 .i-nighl.<br />
J.—Thai's true.<br />
K—All right: b<br />
J.—Well, that's<br />
t'>\ Ive.<br />
ten.<br />
ix.—^"< >n may. b
THE LOWELL<br />
Love<br />
(A Playlet by RICHARD DERIIY. June '13.)<br />
(<strong>The</strong> scene opens in the ancestral home of the Kitridgcs, in New York;<br />
is luxuriantly furnished, a roll-top desk on one side of the ; .vooni, and a sideboard,<br />
with decanter and glasses on the other. A handsome lounge is placed<br />
next the doorway, with its heavy curtains of tapestrv. Tames, a family<br />
servant of the old school, with sidechops and evening clothes, is dusting off<br />
the desk.)<br />
James (worried)—I wonder when Master Aibert will be home. <strong>The</strong><br />
old master told me not to let him stay out late, when he went away, "no<br />
supper parties or gallivanting around until the early hours of the morning,"<br />
says he. "and. James, I look to you to carry out my orders." Well, when I<br />
took that job I little thought what I was in for. "Just going out to a rehearsal<br />
of our amateur theatricals,'' says Albert; "I'll be back early"; an'<br />
here it is half after twelve, and him not home yet. (Ring.) That's him now.<br />
( Kntcr Kitridge. a young man of about nineteen, light haired and blue<br />
eyes, attired in full dress with overcoat and crush hat, with Harry Johnson,<br />
a dark haired man of about thirty, also attired in r'ress clothes, overcoat and<br />
crush hat. James takes hats and coals.)<br />
James—Anything else, sir?<br />
Kitridgc—Xo. James; you may go.<br />
I Kxit James.)<br />
Kitridge—Well, it's good to get into a warm room again, that hall was<br />
freezing. Have a drink?<br />
Johnson—Don't care if I do, old man.<br />
Kilridge (going over to sideboard)—Cocktail or a tall one?<br />
J.— I'll have a highball if you don't mind.<br />
K.—All right (pouring)—Say when.<br />
I.—Kimugh : fill her up.<br />
K. (handing Johnson his and mixing one for himself)—Well, here's to<br />
"iir dramatic efforts.<br />
J.—And here's to our fellow dramatists.<br />
I Laugh and drink.)<br />
J. (setting glass on trav which .Kitridge puts on table)—Well, how<br />
do y..u think the play will come off; I hope it will be all right: but 1 doubt<br />
it if we don't rehearse more. Look, hc-re's the thing only a we«'k nit, am!<br />
hardly a person knows his lines.<br />
K.Well. I do think we could stand a little more rehearsing-, especially<br />
thi- l.-i-i part i.i* the third act between you and me: we certainly made a botch<br />
"i* it to-night.<br />
J. -That's true, but what's the mailer with running it off now'<br />
K--A11 right: but it's a little late.<br />
J. Well, that's waived. Tii-moiTow i» Sunday and we may sleep till<br />
ter.<br />
!\ inav.<br />
but I have to get up a; n'lie. Nave to go to church :i(<br />
19
THE LOWELL<br />
J.—Aha; who's the lady?<br />
K. (confusedly)—I didn't say anything about a lady, but as it happens,<br />
there is one.<br />
J.—Who?<br />
K.—You ought to know her, Edith.<br />
J. (frowning)—Edith who?<br />
K.—Edith Van Brewer. Who else would I be liable to take?<br />
j. (lightly)—Do you take her often?<br />
K.—Except when some other old fogey, whom she hates, takes her.<br />
T. (hardening his face)—So she hates me.<br />
K.—What, you?<br />
J.—Yes, 1 happen to be that same old fogey (kindly). Kit, I have a<br />
e nfession to make: it was because of this that I followed you here to-night.<br />
I know you love Edith, but I also know that you are barely nineteen, while<br />
she, though the same age. is as good as tin years your senior when it comes<br />
to marriage. Kit, I love her too. it is the only love that has ever come into<br />
my life, and I'm now an old man in comparison with yon, over thirty in<br />
fact, but age has in no way dulled the passions of my youth: 1 love her<br />
now as much as you, even more, being an older m;m and having reached theage<br />
of discretion.<br />
K. (lightly)—Why this burst of brotherly confidence' (Now hardening)—Harry,<br />
you are trying to make me give her up?<br />
J.—Xo, Kit, I am not: but she can't marry both of us. and. quoting the<br />
old saving, "all is fair in love or war," f am pleading mv own cause.<br />
K.—Well, I won't listen, and 1 will not give her up.<br />
J.—All right, then we'll go to her together and ask her to choose.<br />
K.—I beg your pardon; we'll do nothing of the kind.<br />
J.—What will we do?<br />
K.-—I'll tell you what we'll do. (Suddenly changing his manner") —<br />
We'll fight for her.<br />
J. (doubtinglv) —l!ut. Kit, that would hardly be lair: why I am twice<br />
your weight.<br />
K. (hotly)—I don't mean that way (crosses to desk). <strong>The</strong>re is a thing<br />
that puts all men. big or small, on o.pial terms. (Holds up revolver).<br />
J.—You mean<br />
K'.—Exactly. I mean that one of us will go because the other can't.<br />
.1.—localise he will be dead. (Horror struck)<br />
K.—Yes.<br />
.1. (pulling himself together)—Kit. this is foolishness<br />
K. < passionately )_Koo1ish,icss nothing. Would you have it* plav<br />
cards or run a foot race? If von love F.di.h as much as vnU profess whv<br />
haven t >-,.„ the courage to fi^t lor her? Courage, whv' vou haven't .he<br />
courage o| a yellow dog. • '<br />
J.— I'iit the consequences<br />
'^-—Damn the consequences—fi"lit von i-mvn-,1 ,.r rn -i i<br />
i ".-."i. }>>u (.OW.IKI, in | || snoot vou down<br />
where you stand; you maverick.<br />
J. (with heat)—l!e careful what you call me.<br />
20<br />
•»?*?••&<br />
K. (sneerit<br />
J. (determ<br />
K._Well,<br />
(Johnson i<br />
down at desk).<br />
J.—Oh, I<br />
human being, a<br />
(Lays face in r<br />
refuse you; a 1<br />
cept, what love<br />
tied down to a<br />
thing but his c<br />
can't resign no<br />
looks relieved).<br />
(Enter K.<br />
K.—Here I<br />
lire at the won<br />
J. (coolly)-<br />
(Take plac<br />
K.—Aim—<br />
(At the we<br />
falls. K. starts<br />
beside him).<br />
K. (shakiiij<br />
done?<br />
(Shakes hit<br />
K. (horrorlaw.<br />
Oh, God;<br />
chair, and abov<br />
(Picks up ]<br />
then at pistol.<br />
K. (to him<br />
in my own ham<br />
upon). fn Har<br />
(Reads) :<br />
"To police<br />
that I. despite<br />
"wing to late I:<br />
K.—And I<br />
( Enter Jam<br />
James— \\T<br />
sight of body).<br />
K. looking<br />
"ur part in the<br />
J. (arising)<br />
came in.
THE LOWELL<br />
o<br />
K. (snceringly)—Oh, excuse me, I mistook you for a man.<br />
J. (determinedly)—All right, my lad, I'll make you swallow that.<br />
K— Well, that's something like it; wait, I'll get another gun. (Exit).<br />
(Johnson walks, running his fingers through hrs hair. Finally he sits<br />
down at desk).<br />
J.—Oh, I can't. To think of going through life with the death of a<br />
human being, and that of one I love as a brother, hanging on my shoulder*).<br />
(Lays face in hands.) Harry Johnson, you're a fool. Suppose she were to<br />
refuse you; a life w r asted and a young OIK at that, even if she were to accept,<br />
what love could she have for you? A young girl full of life and spirit<br />
tied down to an old "fogey," who never goes out, thinks nothing of anything<br />
but his club, and lias as much romance as a wooden image. Hut I<br />
can't resign now: I would be branded as a coward. (Hand touches pen.<br />
looks relieved). I know (begins wri'hig busily). <strong>The</strong>re.<br />
(Enter Is. with revolvers).<br />
K.—Here (hands him one). Stand at opposite ends of the room, and<br />
fire at the word. <strong>The</strong>y're both in good working order, and well loaded.<br />
J. (coolly)—As you will.<br />
( Take places).<br />
Is.—Aim—(level weapons)—fire!<br />
(At the word fire J. fires in air: K. shoots him, and J. gives a cry and<br />
falls. K. stares forward, then realizing what he has clone, runs, and kneels<br />
beside him).<br />
Is. (shaking him)—Harry, Harry, old man, wake up. Oh, what have I<br />
done?<br />
(Shakes him again).<br />
Is. (horror-stricken)—Dead! And by my hand. A murderer before the<br />
law. Oh, God: I can't stand this: the trial, the conviction, the death in the<br />
chair, and above all the disgrace.<br />
(Picks up pistol, goes over to the desk, and sits down. Stares at body<br />
then at pistol. His face lights up, then takes on a determined look").<br />
K. (to himself)—I must; I can't stand the disgrace. A full confession<br />
in my own handwriting, and then—what's this? (Sees paper J. had written<br />
upon). In Harry's handwriting, too.<br />
(Reads;:<br />
"To police authorities, or whom it may concern:—I write this to say<br />
tliat I, despite all Albert Isitridge may say to the contrary, shot myself,<br />
owing to late business difficulties.<br />
"(Signed) Harold Johnson."<br />
•s'.—And I killed him. (Lays head on table).<br />
'Enter James, without coat and collar, very excited).<br />
James—What js it. Master Kitridge? I heard shots, and ("Catches<br />
sight of body). Master Albe.l! You—_<br />
Is. looking up. smiling)—All right. James. We were only rehearsing<br />
our part in the play ncxt week. Get up Harry, and we'll try it again.<br />
J. (arising)—My rights the curtain .she-.tlrl have fallen just as lames<br />
c: >me in. (Curtain).<br />
21
THE LOWEI.I. for January. <strong>1911</strong>, is thoroughly up-to-date as to its cover<br />
design, well arranged as to its contents, and carefully edited as to its material.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are no serious mistakes to point out. no ill-chosen policies to condemn,<br />
lie must indeed be a critic hard to please who does not at once pronounce favorable<br />
judgment upon the careful preparation and evident attention to details that<br />
have entered into the making of this number. I have read it from cover to cover,<br />
and with one exception have found every contribution interesting. <strong>The</strong> magazine<br />
is a good beginning for the new year, and a general suggestion to the<br />
Editor to maintain the high standard already set might, perhaps, be sufficient<br />
comment for this occasion.<br />
Nevertheless, having some further space at my command. I am moved to<br />
say a word or two in special comment upon some of the leading articles. "<strong>The</strong><br />
Eagle of Sunset Pine" calls for one suggestion. Would not the story be improved<br />
in point of unity if Ames Lee were given something more to do than<br />
merely to meet his daughter on his homeward way? <strong>The</strong> entire first page being<br />
devoted to him, one expects him to be a character of some importance in the<br />
plot. Yet after he has greeted his daughter with a kiss, he drops from view<br />
and the story moves on without him.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Superstitious Captain liell and the Hoodoo" is a good example of<br />
accuracy in detail worked out even more successfully than in the leading<br />
story. It is refreshing to come upon a composition set forth in words so<br />
accurately chosen and so perfectly put together. I propose the highest<br />
honors in the composition class for the writer.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Aviation Meet" is written with spirit and enthusiasm. I prefer<br />
the term b.rd-men of the newspaper writers to the "man-birds" of this article,<br />
but it may have been introduced for the sake of variety. Here as in<br />
many places throughout the number I have wished over and over again<br />
t at I could have had the opportunity of offering some suggestion on" the<br />
ho,ce of words and the structure of the sentences before the matter went<br />
into type Criticism m.ght do some good at that stage<br />
I he above remark applies with especial force to the pleasant verses ad-<br />
<strong>The</strong> Critic in
THE LOWELL<br />
dressed "To a Violet." in which Lam sure that a few retouches would have<br />
improved the lines.<br />
° "A True NobUman" is an example of the kind of writing that it should<br />
be the policy of THE LOWELL to encourage. Growing out of the persona!<br />
interests of the writer, closely associated with the school studies, it is a<br />
contribution that I,was worth while to write and worth while for all to read.<br />
I would suggest•'•that the writer supplement this with an account of Arlington,<br />
Lee's beautiful home.<br />
On the other hand, the two pages devoted to criticism of "<strong>The</strong> Spanish<br />
Play" are just about one and three-quarter pages wasted. This statement<br />
is made with no reference to the play itself, but altogether with reference<br />
to this manner of writing about it. It is not THE 'LOWELL'S business to burn<br />
incense to Vanity. All such efforts to throw bouquets to social favorites<br />
may well be left to the "Society" reporters of the daily papers.<br />
A fine spirit and a praiseworthy enthusiasm breathe through the editorials.<br />
promising 1 nobly for the conduct of the paper under the new regime.<br />
<strong>The</strong> editorial staff has grown into a lengthy list, in which it must be considered<br />
a high honor to have a place. But do. Mr. Editor, try to see that<br />
the names of all members of your editorial family are correctly spelled, as<br />
wel! as all proper names throughout the magazine. F. IT. C.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Critic in the Tanuarv issue of THE LOWELL was Mr. Morton.<br />
It was a Tennessee Methodist class leader who had before him a six months'<br />
probationer whom he was questioning for admission to all the privileges of the<br />
church.<br />
"Well. Sambo," said the class leader, "I hope you arc prepared to live a<br />
Christian life in accordance with your profession. Have you stolen any chickens<br />
during the last six months ?"<br />
"No. sah! I done stole no chickens."<br />
"Have you'stolen any turkeys or pigs?"<br />
Sambo looked grieved. "No, sah!"<br />
"I am very glad to hear this good report," continued the teacher, "and I<br />
trust you will continue it." .. ; :,<br />
After church Sambo hurried home, with his wife, who had overheard the<br />
catechizing. When they were fairly out of everybody's hearing he drew a long<br />
breath of relief an
A Monthly, Published By the Students of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School<br />
EDITORIAL STAFF<br />
THORNTON E. GRIMES, '11, Editor<br />
Associates<br />
AILEEN HYLAND, '11 OSGOOD MURDOCK, '11 EVELETH BROOKS, '11<br />
Assistants<br />
CHAS. E. STREET, JR., Ml GLADYS PIIELAN, - 11 ALFRED MEYER, '11<br />
LOCAL EDITORS<br />
FRED KANT, '11, School Notes<br />
GARTH VV. BOERICKE, '<strong>12</strong>, Exchanges<br />
RAMON POHLI, '09, Alumni<br />
EDWARD H. PARSONS, '11, Debate<br />
HARRIET BRADFORD, '11. Reading Club<br />
MYRTLE FRANZEN, '<strong>12</strong>, Girls' Glee Club<br />
WM. RA1NEY, '<strong>12</strong>, Boys' Glee Club<br />
BEATRICE BARTLETT, '11, Spanish Club<br />
LOUIS SLOSS, '11, Boys' Athletics<br />
ERNEST SMITH, '11<br />
LYMAN HEACOCK, '11<br />
GEORGE E. GOODALL. '11<br />
DAVID WOLF, '<strong>12</strong><br />
ART STAFF<br />
BUSINESS STAFF<br />
ELMER WIZE, "<strong>12</strong><br />
LOUIS LAMOUREUX, '11<br />
ROBERT UNDERBILL, '11, Business Manager<br />
SHERWOOD CHAPMAN, '11, Associate<br />
Assistants<br />
L. SANGUINETTI, '11<br />
MISS T. SCHAERTZER, '<strong>12</strong><br />
Entered in the San Francisco Postoflicc as Second Class Mail Matter<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Of all the months, February has been more than blessed in her quota of<br />
great men. She gave to the world such spirits as Napoleon, Darwin, Greelevj<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>, Longfellow, Washington and Lincoln. In various ways she has been<br />
represented: in literature, in statesmanship, in science, in war; in fact, her banner<br />
is a record one. Our Lincoln and our Washington—the one the lovable nature,<br />
the other the just—stand shoulders' above the rest. As we look back upon them<br />
from time to time, our admiration continually grows, our ideals soar higher and<br />
higher. <strong>The</strong>se men "toiled much, endured much, fulfilled much," and so it is<br />
that they stand forth as examples to the human race. Time can never be illspent<br />
in reviewing the lives of these men who served the nation.<br />
During the month of February, we also celebrate the birth of a noble woman<br />
—Susan 13. Anthony, the woman suffragist, whose life work has clone much for<br />
the present generation. It has awakened, in part, the men of to-day to the<br />
realization that the franchise is a jewel, something to be prized. Who knows<br />
but the great progressive movement that is sweeping the country may have<br />
begun in her animated, inspiring labors.<br />
Surely the month of February, with all its heroes, is an inspiration.<br />
Although the school department has provided four ashbarrels for the use<br />
or the pupils at the lunch hour, to a visitor it would appear they were seldom<br />
used; by the scattering of waste papers, lunch refuse, boxes, etc. Is it that<br />
you are a member of the "Chance Club." trusting to your sure aim to find the<br />
ash-can? Is is through mere wantonness, that the yard is in such a state?<br />
Here is an opportunity to show school spirit. "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."<br />
<strong>The</strong> next number of THE LOWELL is the "Girls" Edition." Miss Harriet<br />
Bradford and Miss Aileen Hyland are Editor and Business Manager respectively.<br />
So get that story, essay, poem and joke, the ad from the grocer, for<br />
the girls' magazine. We prophesy the papers will go like hot cakes, so be on<br />
hand to buy early.<br />
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I 7 KKI> KANT.<br />
Throughout the month of January the class organizations and the .school<br />
activities have been strenuously working to make this term a record one.<br />
<strong>The</strong> opening rally was held on January 16. President Maggs asked that all<br />
unite in supporting the school activities. His remarks were followed by speeches<br />
from the managers of school athletics. Captain Street spoke on Baseball. Miss de<br />
Vilbiss on Girls' Basketball. Ernest Smith on Swimming. Track by Harold Potter,<br />
Debating by Alfred Meyer. Glenn Hammond on I Joys' I'.asketball. <strong>The</strong>n Yell<br />
Leader 1 Ieacock followed with a few choice remarks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> whole school feels deer- sympathy for Miss Hodgkinson on account of<br />
the death of her sister.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Freshman Rally took place on January 22. This year's entering class<br />
are exceptional in the way they have entered into the <strong>Lowell</strong> spirit. A hearty<br />
welcome was extended to them by President Maggs. Alfred Meyer then spoke<br />
on the aims and purposes of the L. If. S. A. Vice-president Harriet Bradford<br />
addressed the incoming girls on girls' activities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Senior Class is to give a reception to the beginners on the tenth of<br />
February, which promises to be a very enjoyable affair. This will give the<br />
Frcshics a chance to mingle with, and take an example from their elders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Executive Committee has elected Mr. Xourse to the position of Faculty<br />
Representative, ex-President Charles Street A. A. L. Representative, and Osgood<br />
Murdock to the office of Uaseball Manager in place of Harold Potter, resigned.<br />
James RansohofF was elected Basketball Manager in place of Glenn Hammond,<br />
resigned. <strong>The</strong> spring estimates granted by the Executive Committee are as follows<br />
:<br />
Girls' Glee Club, $30: Girls' liasketball. $77.35; Girls' Tennis. $
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<strong>The</strong> Class of Dec. <strong>1911</strong> is .eagerly awaiting the report of its entertainment<br />
committee. This class made a fine showing last term. It will not be forgotten<br />
during its recovery to a good financial standing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '<strong>12</strong> Class has the following officers for this term: President, Byron<br />
Jackson; Vice-President, Miss Keeling; Secretary, Miss Musick; Scrgeantat-Arms,<br />
Frank Urban.<br />
This class started the term with a successful dance at Arts and Crafts hall<br />
on January 21. <strong>The</strong> dance committee consisted of the Misses Roth and Sullivan,<br />
and the Messrs. Wolf and Rainey.<br />
Dec. '<strong>12</strong> is preparing to give a dance at Arts and Crafts hall at an early<br />
date. <strong>The</strong> class is showing very good spirit.<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '13 Class is planning to give a boat ride or some other social<br />
function toward the end of this term.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Class of Dec. '13 has been organized by President Maggs. <strong>The</strong> officers<br />
elected were: President, David Butler; Vice-President, Helen A'cmlt; Secretary,<br />
Louis Less; Treasurer, Bennct Golcher; Scrgeant-at-Arms, Charles Hubbell;<br />
Class Representative, ??<br />
Two sober-minded Seniors were greatly surprised the other day by seeing<br />
Mr. Longley doing a war dance about bis stove. On seeking the cause they<br />
noticed a newspaper on a nearby desk. This laid the mystery bare. <strong>The</strong> contract<br />
for the iron work on the new <strong>Lowell</strong>.High School has been let Needless<br />
to say, they also joined him in a joyful dance.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Yell Contest"<br />
A committee consisting of Mr. J. V. Noursc. Jack Tufts and Robert M.<br />
Underbill, has been appointed to secure some new yells for <strong>Lowell</strong>. <strong>The</strong> committee<br />
offers as prizes for the three best yells: 1st prize, $2.50; 2nd prize, a season<br />
baseball ticket; 3rd prize, a free subscription for the remaining editions of<br />
THE LOWELL for this term. <strong>The</strong> contest will close at <strong>12</strong> o'clock on March<br />
1, <strong>1911</strong>, so hand your yell to one of the above committee before that tiiiic. <strong>The</strong><br />
only restriction in the contest is that there must be at least three acceptable yells<br />
or the prize will be withheld. All yells turned in shall become the property<br />
of the student body.<br />
Young Housekeeper (timidly)—Isn't fourteen cents rather high for a turkey?<br />
I am quite sure the price across the way is only thirteen.<br />
Butcher—With the feet on?<br />
Young Housekeeper—N-no. I think the feet are cut off.<br />
Butcher (with a superior smile)—! thought so. When we sell a turkey,<br />
ma'am, we sell it feet and all.<br />
C. E. Street, Jr.—We're going to give two dances, a boat ride ami a picnic!<br />
Isn't that great, Evelcth?<br />
No answer from Miss Brooks<br />
C. E. S.—Say yes, Eveleth, please say yes!<br />
E. Brooks—Oh, Mr. Street this is so sudden.<br />
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January lias brought to us an excellent set of journals; few have started the<br />
new year with erroneous ideas—and, on the whole this month has brought forth<br />
an unusual amount of good literary effort, for which we congratulate the hardworked<br />
and heroic editors of our various exchanges.<br />
We shall begin with the delinquent Xmas numbers:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Searchlight, from San Rafael High, is one of the few papers which<br />
deserves great praise for its literary department. "<strong>The</strong> District Attorney" is too<br />
long to be effective, however.<br />
Guard and Tackle, Stockton High.—A serial ought not take the place of<br />
individual short stories, as is the case in your Athletic number.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Napannec, Napa High.—<strong>The</strong> literary department is good. We notice<br />
the absence of photographs, however, and your various departments are too<br />
cramped to carry out the annual effect, and represent a general history of the<br />
term's work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Commercial, Commercial High, has put out an excellent "Annual" for<br />
1910. "<strong>The</strong> Unknown Case" is an unusual and fascinating story.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is but one criticism for <strong>The</strong> Oracle, from Woodland High: A department<br />
of "Current Events" is not desirable in a high school paper. We can<br />
read outside news in outside periodicals.<br />
For an exceptionally large staff, the Sacramento Rcxneiv makes but a poor<br />
showing. Lessen your staff and work together. <strong>The</strong> Exchanges deserve praise.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Russ, San Diego, Cal.—Your editorials cover too much literary space.<br />
<strong>The</strong> stories on "Ghosts" are fine—remind us a bit of the late Mark Twain.<br />
El Gabilan, Salinas, Cal., publishes a very interesting article on the home<br />
"Sardine Industry."<br />
Canary and Blue, from Allentown, Pa.—Your January number must be a<br />
burglar's edition. Your three prize stories are all lurid with safe-crackers and<br />
holdups. A book review seems out of place in a high school paper.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Magpie, from Clinton High, N. Y., seems to be truly representative<br />
of its school. However, the editor should not take the first pages of your paper<br />
for his editorials.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Oak, Visalia, Cal.—Try to improve your cuts. "A Camp Fire Tale"<br />
is poor on account of its exaggerated dialect and lack of climax.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mansanita, Palo Alto, has a praiseworthy literary department. "Tommy's<br />
Revenge" is the best love story we have come across.<br />
Whims, Broadway High, Seattle, has sent us a very neat Xmas edition.<br />
You could with profit, however, cut out two or three of your many departments.<br />
We acknowledge and thank the following: <strong>The</strong> Daily California/!, <strong>The</strong> Daily<br />
Palo Alto, <strong>The</strong> Porcupine, <strong>The</strong> Wildcat, <strong>The</strong> Cascade.<br />
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RAMON POHLI, '09; U. C. '14.<br />
This month will witness the third event in the history of the Alumni<br />
Association. Plans are being made and cards are out for an elaborate dance<br />
to be held Thursday evening, February twenty-third in the ballroom of the<br />
Hotel St. Francis. This dance promises to be one of the most brilliant spots<br />
in the long career of the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School. It will be more than a dance,<br />
it will be a reunion of loyal <strong>Lowell</strong>ites. <strong>Lowell</strong>ites of all ages, creed and<br />
walks of life. Merchants, lawyers, doctors and men of affairs will recall<br />
the good old days when they were students at the Sutter-street school. And<br />
there will be some there who knew the old circular stairs on Powell street.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members of the Class of Seventy-five will rub shoulders with the sweet<br />
sixteens of the graduating class. Old football men will tell stories of days<br />
gone by, palmy days for them and their dear old school. Everybody will<br />
feel proud of his fellows, good cheer will be the spirit of the gathering, and<br />
each alumni's heart will throb with the thought that he was once part and<br />
parcel of old <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Alumni Association is glad to count among its most enthusiastic<br />
members the loyal little band of the Class of 77. Last month this class<br />
held its thirty-third annual banquet. Among those present were men of<br />
prominence in the business world: Dr. Washington Dodge, Henry S. Manheim,<br />
Louis Strauss, Win. Greenebaum, Edward A. Schmitt, Fred Baruch,<br />
Daniel Suter, Henry M. Bloch and Frank Widber. This good old class is<br />
making plans to attend the dance in a body.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Board of Directors of the association gave a wedding supper to one<br />
of its members not long ago. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Belvel were the guests.<br />
Around the table were Messrs. Crittenden, Cloud, Dc Mamiel, McRae, Mrs.<br />
Jordan and the Misses Coffey, Duden, Kreutzmann and Owens. T-> Will<br />
McRae, the energetic Secretary-Treasurer of the association, was due the<br />
success of the evening.<br />
Don't forget that the <strong>Lowell</strong> High Alumni Association will realize one<br />
of the purposes of its organization in the dance and reunion on February<br />
twenty-third. Be there!<br />
A prominent San Josean reached the 3rd street depot of the Southern Pacific<br />
in an inebriated condition and asked for "a first class ticket, please."<br />
"Where do you want to go?" said the ticket clerk somewhat pointedly.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a pause, while the inebriated one muggily reflected and then he<br />
blandly and politely asked:<br />
"What trains have you?"<br />
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lumwKi) [-1. PARSONS. June '11.<br />
We do not boast of what we have done in the past, nor do we preach of<br />
what we are going to do in the future. We simply show what we arc (loin?<br />
"now." Following is an illustration of what this society accomplishes each<br />
and every month of its existence:<br />
On Jantiarv 14. the second team debate between Humboldt and T.owcll<br />
took place. <strong>The</strong> question was: •'Resolved. That Conservation of Natural<br />
Resources Should be Regulated by State Government." <strong>Lowell</strong> had the affirmative<br />
and was represented by Mr. Meyer. Mr. Rabinowitz and Mr. Murdock.<br />
Humboldt spoke on the negative and was represented by Miss Barnett.<br />
Mr. Hanson and Mr. Postcl. <strong>The</strong> judges, who were Judge Graham,<br />
Judge Dunne, and Mr. Harrison, gave the decision to "'<strong>Lowell</strong>."<br />
On January 20 an impromptu debate was held. <strong>The</strong> question was:<br />
'•Resolved. That High Schools of San Francisco Should Adopt a Course of<br />
Military Training." Messrs. Fest, Stahl and L. Rosenblatt spoke on the affirmative<br />
and won the debate. <strong>The</strong> losing side, or negative, was composed<br />
of Messrs. Goeppart. Calder. M. Rosenblatt and Madden.<br />
On January 27 a debate was held, the question being: "Resolved, That<br />
Boycotting Should be Discontinued by the Labor Unions." On the affirmative<br />
were Messrs. Ouartararo and Zedennan; on the negative were Messrs.<br />
Stahl and Honigsbcrger. <strong>The</strong> affirmative won the debate.<br />
On February 3, a debate was held on the question: "Resolved. That<br />
ihe United States Should Guarantee Neutrality of the Panama Canal Zone."<br />
Oil the affirmative were Messrs. Storey and Somers: on the negative were<br />
Messrs. Smith and Rosenthal. <strong>The</strong> affirmative won the debate and Mr.<br />
Storey was announced the best speaker.<br />
February 10 is the date set for the first team tryout. Many excellent<br />
speakers have announced their intention of trying out. and the team picked<br />
should be capable of sweeping everything before it.<br />
This society has now over one hundred members. To say that we are<br />
prospering would be putting it far too mildly. Yet, we most cordially invite<br />
new membership. \Ve are especially desirous of the membership of<br />
more of the "fair sex." which is rather poorly represented in this society at<br />
present. Boys and girls alike will find a grand opportunity here of acquiring<br />
the power of speaking before an audience and a knowledge of manj' subjects<br />
of present day interest.<br />
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READING CLUB.<br />
HARRIET BRADFORD, June '11.<br />
Four regular meetings of the Reading Club were held during the month<br />
of January. <strong>The</strong> first of these meetings was devoted to Eugene Field. <strong>The</strong><br />
selections read were "<strong>The</strong> Coming of the Prince" and "Margaret—A Pearl."<br />
both of which are prose; also two poems, "Our Lady of the Mine" and " \<br />
Little Peach."<br />
Edgar Allen Poe was the writer from whose works a short but interesting<br />
program was selected, for the second meeting. A gruesome story,<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Black Cat," was read; Mr. Grimes recited '"<strong>The</strong> Raven." Before the<br />
meeting adjourned Miss Weigle, our faculty representative for this term,<br />
made a few remarks which contained valuable suggestions. In accordance<br />
with one of these suggestions, the executive committee of the club lias decided<br />
to present to each member partaking in a program, a written criticism<br />
of his or her reading. This is intended as a help to the members, and<br />
should not be otherwise considered.<br />
For the third meeting our stage manager chose the first two acts of<br />
"David Garrick," by T. W. Robertson. <strong>The</strong> cast was as follows: David<br />
Garrick, Fred Kant; Mr. Smith, Edward Parsons: Mr. Brown, Sanford<br />
Stein: Simon Ingot. Alfred Meyer; Thomas. Byron Jackson: Squire Chivy.<br />
James Ransohoff; Mr. Jones, David Wolf: Araminta Brown, Miss De<br />
Meyer: Mrs. Smith, Miss Bunker; Ada. Miss Hand.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was an unusually large attendance at the fourth meeting, as the<br />
members were all eager to see the last act of "David Garrick." <strong>The</strong> program<br />
opened with the reading of "<strong>The</strong> Death of Little Nell" from "<strong>The</strong><br />
Old Curiosity Shop," by Charles Dickens. Following this. Miss Bartlett and<br />
Miss Morse, as "Scrooge" and "Marley," respectively, gave the meeting of<br />
Scrooge with Marley's ghost, from Dickens' "Christmas Carol." <strong>The</strong> last<br />
act of "David Garrick" closed the program.<br />
Thus far. officers and members arc pleased with the work of the club,<br />
and consider themselves most fortunate in their choice of stage manager,<br />
who makes possible the good results.<br />
SPANISH CLUB NOTES.<br />
<strong>The</strong> programs of the first meetings of the new term were interesting<br />
Spanish stories read in both Spanish and English.<br />
On January 10, <strong>1911</strong>, the selections were:<br />
Selection from "Gil Bias" • BcIlc Meyer<br />
"Una Equivocacion"<br />
On January 17 the program was:<br />
Pauline Picard<br />
"Bucna Gana"" • Leo Simon<br />
"La Buenaventura"<br />
On January 24 we heard:<br />
Irving Stahl and Margery Durbrow<br />
"El Durmilon," a poem • Lolita Bodwell<br />
"En tiempo del rey que rabio" Camilla Cole<br />
"La Curacion de la locura" Camilla Cole<br />
"El metodo Ollendorrf"<br />
Doris McLoughlin<br />
"El Crime de la Calle de la Perseguida" Emma Hymson<br />
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"La Fuente de la Juventud" Walter Ferguson<br />
<strong>The</strong> stories were instructive and were enjoyed by all who heard them.<br />
A comedy in one act entitled "No" was rendered in Spanish on February<br />
2. <strong>The</strong> cast was as follows:<br />
Dona Trinidad Virginia Davies<br />
Don Luis, su esposo Leo Simon<br />
Don Roberto, un medico .' George Montgomery<br />
Dona Beatrix, su esposa Eva Coe<br />
<strong>The</strong> production was very realistic. Miss Coe played her part as the<br />
contrary wife with vivacious spirit. Even those uninitiated into the secrets<br />
of the Spanish language could follow the plot with ease. <strong>The</strong> play will<br />
be given in English at the next meeting.<br />
BEATRICE BARTLETT. Tune '11.<br />
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
MYRTLE FRANZEN, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Girls' Glee Club is once more safely launched on the second month<br />
of the term. By the time this information comes out in the next LOWELL<br />
the school will be able to judge for itself the splendid work which the club<br />
is doing.<br />
First, we wish to extend a few words of regret for the loss of Mr. Pasmore,<br />
who has been more than a prop to us, helping the club out of many<br />
difficulties. We extend, however, the kindest welcome to Mrs. Dcane. who<br />
has already won a warm place in our hearts by her enthusiastic interest in<br />
our work.<br />
A grievous fault in the club is the absence of its higher classmen.<br />
Where are the Senior and Junior girls? Have you forgotten us with a lack<br />
of interest? Girls, we need you! It is for you to help the beginners along,<br />
to keep up the good name of the club and to be examples for the lower<br />
classes. We would be very glad to have you with us again, and if you do<br />
come back you will be amply rewarded by your own satisfaction. Get your<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> spirit together again and rejoin the Girls' Glee Club!<br />
Quite a number of Freshman girls have entered their names with the<br />
Secretary, but we still hope for more as we desire "quantity" as well as<br />
"quality." Better join now, girls! Membership entries close after the second<br />
month and besides "Something is coming!"<br />
In accordance with the new constitution, a Vice-President was elected.<br />
<strong>The</strong> successful young lady was Miss Gertrude Vizzard.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club is being carried on in a much larger scale than ever before, and<br />
we are expected to co-operate with some of the other high schools. In conclusion,<br />
let me beg each girl to come to each meeting, as nothing is so destructive<br />
to an organization as the absence of its members from the meetings.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are trees in California so tall that it takes two men and a boy to look<br />
to the top of them'. One looks till he gets tired, and another commences where<br />
he left off.<br />
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Four league g<br />
press. <strong>The</strong> first<br />
gle, 29-31. Sacrc<br />
took a brace and c<br />
with Commercial,<br />
be overcome. Sco<br />
cussful. We beat<br />
Butler threw well<br />
rush, being ahead<br />
in the second and<br />
but much improve<br />
a good, steady g;<br />
well, but is handi<br />
follows: Forward<br />
Fujita, Leek and<br />
Owing to the<br />
twenty-two in nun<br />
Oregon and Sant;<br />
given several has<br />
<strong>The</strong> following ga<br />
Feb. 11; Lick. Fc<br />
Those on the<br />
Gillespie, Goeppc<br />
Montgomery. E.<br />
Smith, Wilkins, a<br />
at least go far to 1<br />
<strong>The</strong> intcrclass<br />
system. <strong>The</strong> next<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>, Santa R<<br />
March. <strong>The</strong> A. /<br />
Interscholastic for<br />
•here will be a di<br />
<strong>The</strong> relay te<br />
and Urban,took s<br />
3. Those out foi<br />
and Keith, the dis<br />
Jump. <strong>The</strong> worsi<br />
about coming out<br />
Our prospect:<br />
back at school, <<br />
Smith the dashes<br />
*iH fill out the r,<br />
should make good<br />
meets have been
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Athletics<br />
Four league games will have been played by the time the paper goes to<br />
press. <strong>The</strong> first game with Sacred Heart was lost after a hard struggle,<br />
29-31. Sacred Heart had a big lead in the first half, but the boys<br />
took a brace and came within an ace of tying the score. <strong>The</strong> next game was<br />
with Commercial, the team again allowing their opponents too big a lead to<br />
be overcome. Score, 31-37. In our third game, with Lick, the team was succussful.<br />
We beat our old rivals 38-31, clearly demonstrating our superiority.<br />
Butler threw well from the foul line. In the Poly game we started with a<br />
rush, being ahead at the end of the first half. <strong>The</strong> team weakened a little<br />
in the second and lost, 25-44. <strong>The</strong> team, on the whole, has played fairly well,<br />
but much improvement may be looked for in the future. Leek has played<br />
a good, steady game, especially at guard. Hirschfelder has played very<br />
well, but is handicapped by his lack of weight. <strong>The</strong> line-up has been as<br />
follows: Forwards, Leek, Hirschfelder and Butler; center, Hammon; guards,<br />
Fujita, Leek and Ransohoff.<br />
BASEBALL.<br />
Owing to the weather, little practice was possible, but a fine squad,<br />
twenty-two in number, turned out <strong>The</strong> services of "Kelly," who is a former<br />
Oregon and Santa Clara coach, have been secured for the team. He has<br />
given several baseball talks and certainly has made a hit with the team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following games have been arranged: Alameda, Feb. 8; Hitchcoci-,<br />
Feb. 11; Lick, Feb. 22; San Rafael, March 1; Berkeley, March 8.<br />
Those on the squad are A. Aronson, H. Aronson, Busey, Foster, Franks,<br />
Gillespie, Goeppert, Hicks, Hockstadter, Marwedel, McKay, Moissant,<br />
Montgomery, E. Olsen, S. Olsen, Reimer, Robinson, Rock, E. Smith, R.<br />
Smith, Wilkins, and Captain Street. With these candidates <strong>Lowell</strong> should<br />
at least go far toward winning the sub-league.<br />
TRACK.<br />
<strong>The</strong> interclass will probably take place on February 18 under the weight<br />
system. <strong>The</strong> next contest will be a three school meet at Santa Rosa between<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>, Santa Rosa and Healdsburg. This will be about the middle of<br />
March. <strong>The</strong> A. A. L. Sub-league is scheduled for March 25. <strong>The</strong> Stanford<br />
Interscholastic for April 8, and the California for April 28-29. Besides these<br />
there will be a dual meet with Lick early in May.<br />
<strong>The</strong> relay team, consisting of Bowhay, Hammon, Lau, Keith, Street<br />
and Urban, took second place in the Olympic Indoor Meet, held on February<br />
3. Those out for the team are Street and Lau for the sprints, Hammon<br />
and Keith, the distances; Urban and Bowhay, the relay, and Ganz, the high<br />
jump. <strong>The</strong> worst hole on the team is in the quarter, but don't be bashful<br />
about coining out for anything you like.<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
Our prospects this season look very bright as all of last year's team are<br />
back at school. Captain Jones and Busey will swim the middle distances,<br />
Smith the dashes and 880, while Heacock, Lindgren, Goeppert and Bissinger<br />
will fill out the relay. <strong>The</strong> most promising of the new men is Lewis, who<br />
. should make good in the 440 or 880. <strong>The</strong> season will be very active as dual<br />
meets have been arranged with Lick, Mission, Cogswell and San Jose.<br />
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v:« This sport r lias ( just been introduced at <strong>Lowell</strong>, but is rapidly gaining<br />
•in••popularity/-- Almost twenty are put for the team. <strong>The</strong> most prominent<br />
candidates for the different positions are: Forwards, Jones, Heacock, Lewis<br />
and Lindgren; guards, Code, Derby, Pressley and McKay; center, E. Smith;<br />
half-back, Goeppert, Van Vlict and Ehrman.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
All of last year's team are again at school with the addition of "Bill"<br />
Johnston, who holds the Pacific Coast junior title. He and "Shrimp"<br />
Strachan should win the Stanford Intcrscholastic tournament for <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
This is to be held at the same time as the track meet, while the Academic<br />
will probably be the second week in April.<br />
BOYS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
Rehearsals have begun! <strong>The</strong> club has plunged into the work before it<br />
with a surprising vigor. We are going to make things iiunv this term, but<br />
the more members we have, the more we can do. Every editor of this department<br />
has harped on the necessity of more members, until the statement<br />
is becoming monotonous, nevertheless we are still pounding in the same old<br />
slogan. If seems to the writer that if the fellows of the school realized the<br />
benefits to be derived from this organization, they would not hesitate to join.<br />
Everyone should have a certain knowledge of music, and here one may obtain<br />
it without the drudgery usually encountered in obtaining this knowledge.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Coys' Glee Club is not organized to make musicians of the members,<br />
but simply to enable them to enjoy themselves by singing in unison.<br />
An excellent, good or even fair voice is not always necessary in order to<br />
become a member. No matter how weak or poor one's voice may be, if he<br />
can keep on the key, and if his motives are sincere, we have a place for him<br />
in the club.<br />
Mr. Zederman was elected Secretary, to fill the office left vacant by the<br />
departure of "Chief" Esola.<br />
A new constitution has just been drawn up. and is now before the Executive<br />
Committee for final ratification. Under this code of laws the rule providing<br />
that "members shall be dropped from the roll after three consecutive<br />
absences," will be more strongly enforced than ever before. Members must<br />
be regular in attendance if the club is to succeed.<br />
Remember, that just as much as athletics, debating or literary work, the<br />
Glee Club opens a channel through which you may serve <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br />
In the rush and hurry of this modern material world we are altogether too<br />
apt to forget that we have a higher nature, the development of which is of supreme<br />
importance. This fact is remembered by all truly great men and women;<br />
it is expounded by many of them—conspicuous among these the poets and<br />
poetesses. Were it not for them our forget fulness might become chronic: we<br />
might fail to see the great truths of life, which, leading us from the common<br />
dust towards the stars, ennoble and develop our characters. Among those<br />
whose poetry has influenced our modern day is Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the<br />
greatest woman poet that England has produced.<br />
She was born in London on the 6th day of March. 1806. the eldest<br />
of a family of eleven, of whom she alone showed any literary aptitude.<br />
When she was still an infant her father purchased the beautiful estate of Hope<br />
End in Herefordshire among the Malvern Hills, where the family remained until<br />
Elizabeth was twenty years old. Her early education, except that which,<br />
through her own efforts, she obtained from books, was meagre. Later, under the<br />
guidance of a blind tutor. Hugh Stuart Boyd, whose name she always warmly<br />
cherished, she studied the ancient poets and acquired a profound knowledge of<br />
Greek, and a considerable knowledge of Latin. Not only did she study the<br />
ancient languages, but mastered, with ease, many of the modern European<br />
tongues. While still young, she showed a remarkable literary talent, and wrote<br />
a number of minor poems: at the age of seventeen, a didactic poem. "Essay<br />
on Mind," which, however, she regretted later.<br />
Elizabeth Barrett had a very fragile constitution and for this reason was compelled<br />
to be out of doors as much as possible. It was her custom to spend hours<br />
roaming about the fields, either on foot or on horseback. When about fifteen she<br />
received an injury to her spine, as a result of her impatient attempt to saddle her<br />
horse unaided. While convalescing after this accident, she developed a malady<br />
which made her an invalid for the rest of her life. Two years later, when one<br />
of her brothers was drowned, she received a shock that greatly injured her already<br />
weakened health.<br />
Although Miss Barrett always possessed a very ncble character, it is from<br />
this time on that we see the full beauty of it. She who had received so much<br />
joy from her frequent rambles in the open fields and meadows, where she
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loved to be alone with nature, was now deprived of this. In spite of it all,<br />
she did not become discouraged or ill-tempered, but became more hopeful<br />
and optimistic than ever. With the greatest patience she bravely bore up<br />
through all her suffering and, as the gold is refined and separated from the<br />
dross by the purging fires, so her character was purified and made brighter<br />
than ever before. Deprived of one of the chief joys of her life, she devoted herself<br />
with double energy to her books and, from this time on, wrote her greatest<br />
works. Her father, who always encouraged her efforts, acting as critic, and<br />
for some time as her public also, first succeeded in placing her works before the<br />
world. In 1826. the "Essay on Mind," with fourteen "occasional" pieces, was<br />
brought out. Seven years later was produced her translation of "Prometheus'"<br />
of Aeschylus and several minor pieces. It was not until the production of "<strong>The</strong><br />
Seraphim and Other Poems," however, that we see a glimpse of the genius that<br />
afterwards produced the tender and beautiful "Sonnets from the Portuguese''<br />
and that romance of the common-place, "'Aurora Leigh."<br />
In 1848 among a collection of poems dedicated to her father, published in<br />
two volumes,- there appeared the "Drama of Exile," "<strong>The</strong> Dead Pan," "<strong>The</strong><br />
Vision of Poets," and "Lady GeraldincV Courtship." the last of which attracted<br />
the attention of Robert Browning, an even more famous artist than herself.<br />
This was the beginning of a friendship which shortly led to their marriage.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y immediately left for Italy, where Mrs. Browning spent the greater<br />
part of the rest of her life. While in Florence, she and her husband occupied<br />
the famous Casa Guidi, on the outer wall of which is a tablet to her memory,<br />
inserted there by her Italian admirers. While she spent much of her<br />
time in Italy she nevertheless made frequent trips to Paris and to her old home<br />
in England. It was in England that she finished her largest work, "Aurora<br />
Leigh." dedicating it to her cousin and friend, John Kenyon. with whom she<br />
was staying.<br />
Although Robert Browning and his wife were producing works simultaneously,<br />
it was a rule, seldom broken by him and but once by her, not to show<br />
to one another what they had written. <strong>The</strong> one occasion on which Mrs. Browning<br />
broke this rule was when, shortly after their marriage, she presented her<br />
husband with that unique collection of poems called "Sonnets from the Portuguese."<br />
Robert Browning declared them to be "the finest sonnets written in any<br />
language since Shakespeare." and although not originally written for publication,<br />
he at last persuaded her to permit it.<br />
At the age of fifty-five, after one of the attacks of bronchitis to which she<br />
was subject, Elizabeth Barrett Browning passed away in the Casa Guidi. Florence,<br />
in the year 1861.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fortitude and splendid optimism displayed throughout her whole life<br />
may be fittingly compared with that shown by Robert Louis Stevenson. Her<br />
works glow with the strength and beauty of her character, the ideals which<br />
she cherished, her sympathy with humanity, her high moral purpose and<br />
above all her deeply religious instincts,—her firm and unwavering faith in God.<br />
We have here, truly, a brilliant example cf the developing influence of adversity<br />
upon a character essentially noble.<br />
Let usapprecia<br />
and her works. Tl<br />
understood from the
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Let us appreciate the message she has given to the world, both in<br />
and hex works. <strong>The</strong> seriousness with which she took her mission can<br />
understood from the following passionate utterance of<br />
"THE SOUL'S EXPRESSION."<br />
With stammering lips and insufficient sound<br />
I strive and struggle to deliver right<br />
That music of my nature, day and night<br />
With dream and thought and feeling interwound.<br />
And inly answering all the senses round<br />
With octaves of a mystic depth and height<br />
Which step out grandly to the infinite<br />
From the dark edges of the sensual ground.<br />
This song of soul 1 struggle to outbear<br />
Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole,<br />
And utter all myself into the air:<br />
But if I did it,—as the thunder roll<br />
Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there,<br />
Before that dread apocalypse of soul.<br />
E. M., June<br />
"Truth is fair: should we forego it?<br />
Can we sigh right for a wrong?<br />
God himself is the best Poet.<br />
And the real is His song. •<br />
Sing His truth out fair and full,<br />
And secure His beautiful.<br />
Let Pan be dead.<br />
Truth is large. Our aspiration<br />
Scarce embraces half we be.<br />
Shame, to stand in His creation,<br />
And doubt Truth's sufficiency!—<br />
To think God's song unexcelling<br />
<strong>The</strong> poor talcs of our own telling—<br />
When Pan is dead."<br />
MRS. E. P>.<br />
her life<br />
well be<br />
'11.<br />
—"Dead Pan."
is:<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
All on Account of a Game<br />
By G. P., Dec.'11.<br />
It was the last game of the season between Dick's school and that of the<br />
neighboring town of R- . <strong>The</strong> all-important clay came, likewise sister Kate's<br />
letter. It was one of 'her weeklies, full of girlish nonsense and sisterly advice,<br />
the latter seldom noted and certainly never taken. Of course, Kate was a good<br />
sister. Now and then, when Dick's allowance ran short, she was the best of<br />
sisters, but who would bother about a sister's letter on a momentous day like<br />
this?<br />
<strong>The</strong> game came off splendidly and Dick, wild with enthusiasm over the result,<br />
went back to his lodgings on a run. Tie had previously arranged to go<br />
home the following day, but as many of the boys were leaving on the evening<br />
train, he decided to go with them. This move on his part necessitated hurried<br />
packing but it enabled him to go with the boys.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hilarity of Dick and his fellow classmates came finally to an end with<br />
the arrival of the train at the little, sleepy town of M . A five minutes' walk<br />
brought Dick to his father's house. Silence reigned: the rooms on the ground<br />
floor were dark, which meant that the family had already retired, quite unconscious<br />
of the surprise awaiting them on the morrow.<br />
Naturally. Dick was somewhat disappointed at this state of affairs but he<br />
forgot it all in a moment. He knew just what his next step would be.—the<br />
little stairway in the rear. How many times, coming home from some late adventure,<br />
had he stolen up these very stairs? Stealthily he opened the door with<br />
the key he carried with him and placed his foot on the first step. Though he<br />
endeavored to make as little noise as possible, it seemed to him that the stairs<br />
creaked with extraordinary noise, at least enough to wake up everybody within.<br />
But he finally reached his room without disturbing the sleeping family. Striking<br />
a light, he noticed by the state of disorder about him that housecleaning was in<br />
progress. Still, contrary to his usual custom, he made no remonstrance, but prepared<br />
to retire.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next morning he was awakened by a slamming of doors, footsteps along<br />
the hall, voices downstairs, and other signs of morning bustle. Some one passed<br />
his door speaking, and, which was rather surprising, in strange tones. Dick<br />
lay in his bed wondering if he were dreaming, when, in a flash, the truth<br />
dawned on him,—there was company, of course. But when an infant's shrill<br />
voice was heard from below, he jumped up in dismay. "It's Aunt Mary and<br />
that kid of hers.- just my luck! I don't see why Kate couldn't let a fel "<br />
At this point he remembered His sister's letter. With little search he brought<br />
it to light and eagerly read it. In the center of the page stood out a sentence,<br />
which no repeated reading on Dick's part could change,—"I must tell you, Dick,<br />
that mother at last made up her mind to rent the place furnished and Tuesday<br />
we moved into the Brownell house across-.the way. 1 '<br />
Dick did not read further. He knew, by the date of the letter, that the<br />
family were already almost a week in the new quarters,—and he—but why did<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
things turn out as they did? He said what one can never write, but what imagination<br />
can always supply, as he realized what a predicament he had fallen into.<br />
• With nervous haste he started dressing.<br />
"I have to get but of this place mighty soon," he muttered, excitedly jumping<br />
about in the vain attempt to get his clothes on the faster. He thought of<br />
the back stairs but the worst part of that means of escape was the hall.' ; If he<br />
could pass that safely his chances would be fair enough. <strong>The</strong>n there was the<br />
roof which sloped down from his window. One was as bad as the other, in his<br />
opinion. But ho time was given for deliberation for at that moment the swish<br />
of skirts was heard from the hallway, and with some inward feeling that the<br />
steps without were headed for his door, Dick, grabbing his remaining clothes,<br />
headed too,—but for the window.<br />
In his haste he nearly slipped, headlong, down the steep incline of the roof.<br />
He really was kept busy for a few seconds, steadying himself. He looked down<br />
at the clothes he was carrying and wished he could go back to at least finish<br />
dressing but even that was denied him. <strong>The</strong>re was nothing else to do but to<br />
keep on in the direction he was going. This he did, making his way down as<br />
best he could, in the meanwhile casting agonized glances about him. fearful that<br />
someone was looking on. But at this hour of the morning,—seven o'clock.—<br />
very few were out in the yards, and those who were, were intent on their<br />
work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fates, however, were unkind that morning, for just when Dick was preparing<br />
to jump to the ground, the back door across the way opened and<br />
Kate, herself, appeared in the doorway. It seemed to Dick that she had purposely<br />
come out to see him in hi." plight for she saw him immediately. If the<br />
time, the place, and the boy had been other than they were, perhaps the sight<br />
would not lr.-'ve been so interesting.<br />
Dick desperately sprang down from the roof, fearing now that his misfortune<br />
could not be kept from the public as long as Kate knew about it. She had<br />
a way of laughing that Dick found infectious when she laughed at other people,<br />
but not so when it was directed as it; was now, to himself.<br />
Kate regretted that she hadn't a kodak with her to take a snapshot. Still<br />
she threatened to tell not only.the family but all the neighborhood as well. For<br />
a time Dick suffered. Wasn't it bad enough to live through the experience<br />
without having it told to others ? But later his sister took pity on him, as sisters<br />
do after a while, and kept the occurrence to herself after all.<br />
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St. Peter yawned lustily as he took ivis halo from off the hat rack just<br />
j, inside the golden gates. It was growing late, and the benevolent old gentle-<br />
> ! man had had no sleep for many hours, due to the fact that there had been<br />
such a number of arrivals from Earth.<br />
A thunderous knock from without the portals caused him to hurriedly grasp<br />
his great key and place it in the lock. <strong>The</strong> shining gateway slowly creaked<br />
back on its hinges, revealing to heavenly view a stout livtle man, fussily wiping<br />
his eye-glasses, meanwhile regarding his surroundings curiously.<br />
"My! I can hardly get my breath!" panted the'newcomer. "I came so<br />
fast." '<br />
"Well, who are you?" inquired St. I'eter, in a bored tone. He was tired of<br />
his job.<br />
"T am a lawyer," answered the little man.<br />
"Enough! This is the wrong place. You can't get into Heaven on a technicality;"<br />
and the keeper of the Gates excitedly made as if he would close them.<br />
"Wait, wait!" cried the little man. in thunderous tones. "1 am honest, I tell<br />
you. I am honest!"<br />
But his appeal fell upon deaf ears. <strong>The</strong> gates were closed in his face. What-..<br />
was the poor soul to do? He gazed despondently down the long milky way.<br />
Suddenly his face brightened at sight of an approaching figure in the distance.<br />
When within earshot, our friend cried in delighted surprise. "What, Slouie<br />
Loss! Is that you ?"<br />
"It certainly is. How'd you get here?" <strong>The</strong> newcomer leaned against the<br />
gates, puffing madly.<br />
"Well. I like that!" replied the other. "As if you didn't know me to be<br />
honest. St. Peter won't let me in though. Perhaps he doesn't know that I<br />
was murdered"— in a whisper.<br />
"Murdered!" Slouie Loss started dramatically. "Why. Malfrcd. what for?"<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y killed me because I asked too many questions. What'd you die of?"<br />
"t died of three amendments in the oral composition. 1 was employed as<br />
a hammer thrower by the Gavel Club. Dr. Hussler tried to save my life but<br />
I was beyond all help."<br />
"Well of all things!" exclaimed Malfred. "Here comes Sherman Hussler<br />
now."<br />
<strong>The</strong> two souls turned, and there before them stood that person, with a<br />
black eye and his arm in a sling.<br />
"Hello." cried he. "Why are you standing out here in the cold? Gee,<br />
these San Francisco trades come sweeping up the Milky Way and nearly<br />
freeze a poor soul. I ran all the way. Only stopped down at the corner to<br />
buy a daily 'Styx.' By the by. Crouton Thimes. our old friend, is selling<br />
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them. He's the editor, you know!" Shennnn drew a newspaper from his<br />
pocket and commenced perusing the society column.<br />
•'Where did you blow from, friend?" inquired Malfred.<br />
"Straight from the physics lab. <strong>The</strong>re was an explosion which sent me like<br />
a rocket straight up here.—Look, kind souls, here it gives the names of many<br />
of our June''11 friends, as visiting Heaven."<br />
"I don't care anything about that," said Malfred, very discontentedly. "All<br />
I'm worrying about is how I'm going to word my appeal."<br />
At this critical moment two haloed heads made their appearance over the<br />
wall. Only the influence of gravity kept the saintly circle of one of these<br />
cherubs on his harvard cut. because of its great height.<br />
"What is the cause of this unseemly disturbance of the heavenly peace? I<br />
cawn't allow it, dontcherknow!" said the owner of aforesaid haircut, in sepulchral<br />
tones. !<br />
"Wouldn't that give you Fitz!" cried Slouie.<br />
"If it isn't Cheney," added Sherman excitedly.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other cherub, who was a lady with pale hair and a Spanish accent, now<br />
spoke in dulcet tones.<br />
''Buenos dias, Senors. Really I'd be quite frightened if I wasn't Ebenezcr<br />
Scrooge, and ghost-proof."<br />
"Fear not, fair damsel. I will protect you," said the wide-eyed Cheney.<br />
(He was head of the heavenly police brigade.)<br />
"Pooh." sneered Malfred. "That's easy enough to say when you're at the<br />
top of the wall and we're way down here."<br />
St. Cheney, however, took no notice of this malicious speech, but merely<br />
replied, "Kind souls, I will return good for evil, and will send up a prayer<br />
that you get within." (Attitude of virtue.)<br />
Malfred snorted.<br />
Just then a scowling face poked its nose through the bars of the gate.<br />
"You can't come in. you can't come in. <strong>The</strong>re's a meeting of the Spanish<br />
Club going on."<br />
P.ut the three disconsolates paid no heed to this remark, because their attention<br />
was held by Slouie Loss's shriek of joy. He had been closely examining<br />
(a la Sherlock Gook), the gate.<br />
"Ha, I have it," he cried, slapping his noble brow in fiendish glee. "Here's<br />
a bell!"<br />
He pressed an electric button, whereat thunder and lightning were evident<br />
on Earth. Behind the scenes, however, the ear-splitting claps issued from<br />
the brazen throat of Marley's ghost. <strong>The</strong> forked flashes shot from the glittering<br />
orbs of Keel Frant-ic. (At that moment in his capacity of managing (?)<br />
the Reading Club, he was bringing his eye-batteries into active exercise, while<br />
hotly discussing the final play with his compatriots.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> storm grew. <strong>The</strong> wind whistled and the rain fell. <strong>The</strong> three poor<br />
outcasts huddled together in mute despair. Finally a tremendous gust from<br />
the San Francisco mountains swept them off their feet and over the wall. At<br />
last Paradise was gained!<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
m <strong>The</strong> Legend of Chateau Ambrose<br />
<strong>The</strong> bells in the village down stream were calling the people to vespers as<br />
I turned to take a last look at the spot where I had spent such a pleasant<br />
afternoon. <strong>The</strong>re is nothing I enjoy so much as digging up old romances<br />
and as many cling to the French Chateaux as the sweet roses that cluster upon<br />
the lady's tower of Cheateau Ambrose, and drop their pink petals in the<br />
shadowy water below.<br />
Twilight had already dimmed the valley and the glow of the sunset was fading<br />
above the hill beyond the chateau. High up in the tower there was already<br />
a square of light which penetrated the rapidly gathering darkness, losing shape<br />
in the swirling water. I could hear the dip of the oars as the boatman who<br />
had brought me across rowed back to the castle. Soon followed a rattle of<br />
chains as he moored the boat; to a ring in the moss-grown wall, and then the<br />
sound of his feet as he ascended the steep, narrow stairway, dcep-carven in<br />
the stone. Next a slam of the oaken door, then silence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gray walls of the chateau had overhung the river Suisse ever since the<br />
days of Henry IV. It had been built by a certain Comte d'Ambrose as a<br />
resort of the King, and the royal chair had been shown me by Henri, the old<br />
care-taker.—a chair carved most fantastically, and overhung by a scarlet canopy,<br />
like a huge, inverted poppy. <strong>The</strong> massive keep was the oldest part of the<br />
castle, for certain parts were the addition of the young Count William, the<br />
present owner, who had come there to live with his pretty American wife.<br />
<strong>The</strong> garden with its hermit's but, the grotto and winding maze-like paths<br />
fascinated me. and for a long time f wandered about in the shade of ihe<br />
acacias and laurestines that swayed slowly in the river-breeze, shedding their<br />
heavy sweetness. <strong>The</strong>n Henri took me inside, to the red and gold drawing<br />
rooms, with their curiously-carven furniture, deep-toned organ and paintings<br />
that were growing dim with. age.<br />
One portrait especially attracted me. that of a young girl. She wore a pearlgray<br />
gown, shaded with pink: her soft brown curls fell over her shoulders,<br />
framing her delicate face, whose lips were parted, and whose eyes were strained<br />
as though she were listening intently. One hand was raised to part the deep<br />
red curtains against which her slender form was outlined. I asked Henri her<br />
name, and what part she had played in the chateau's history. Mis answer delighted<br />
me beyond measure.<br />
"Can it be possible," lie said "that Mademoiselle has not heard of Giovanna?<br />
Her history is well known throughout the country, and I would be glad to tell<br />
it to Mademoiselle."<br />
So saying, he led me into a small room divided zvcm the drawi.ig-room by<br />
red curtains. <strong>The</strong> lattice was flung open, and I leaned out over the broad<br />
sill. <strong>The</strong>re was an easy drop to the top of the wall, and from there a rusted<br />
iron ladder descended to the river. Henri drew up a deep arm-chair for me.<br />
and seating- himself upon a stool with curiously carved and twisted legs, began<br />
his story.<br />
"It was in the days of Louis the Fourteenth. Mademoiselle, that Giovanna<br />
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was a favorite at court. She had a charm about her that fascinated everyone;,<br />
and she was much sought in marriage, particularly by Count Reynaud d'Alembert.<br />
But Giovanna had no taste for the vanities of the court, so she accepted<br />
the hand of the young Marquis Boyard d'Ambrose. It was to this chateau<br />
that they came after the wedding, and the days were links in a chain of<br />
pleasures,—dancing, banquets and boar hunts in the surrounding forest.<br />
Reynaud was exceedingly bitter and determined to revenge himself upon<br />
Boyard. Ah, Mademoiselle, that was a strange man! He loved Giovanna<br />
truly, but was used to having his own way. Would he not have shown his<br />
love by permitting her to live happily with Boyard ? Instead, he caused the<br />
tragedy which cast a gloom over so many hearts.<br />
"Now it chanced that a certain German nobleman, Prince Rudolf von Hohenstaufen,<br />
was visiting the king and was accompanying him on a tour through<br />
northern France. As the Chateau Ambrose lay on their route the king planned<br />
a short sojourn there as the guest of Giovanna and Boyard.<br />
"'It was now that Reynaud had a chance to revenge himself. With<br />
Satan's own craft lie succeeded in implicating Boyard in a plot to assassinate<br />
the Prince as a secret enemy of France. He laid the plot by letters<br />
between Boyard and himself and succeeded, upon his arrival at the castle, in<br />
getting possession of the letters that he had written Boyard. which he saved<br />
as evidence against him. <strong>The</strong> murder was arranged for the third evening of<br />
their stay. <strong>The</strong> Prince was to meet Boyard in this room. Mademoiselle,<br />
nominally to converse upon matters of government, and here he was to be<br />
stabbed. As soon as the Prince was outlined against the curtain. Boyard was to<br />
strike. <strong>The</strong> body was later to be found so crashed by a fall from a window<br />
on the fourth story that the knife-wound would never be noticed.<br />
"Giovanna had known nothing of the plot—how should she? Nevertheless<br />
she soon realized that Boyard was not his usual careless, cheerful self.<br />
<strong>The</strong> third day, by the slightest chance, she overheard a few words between<br />
Reynaud and Boyard that told her all. Yet she had no chance to speak to<br />
Boyard, to dissuade him. That night the feast was unusually gay. <strong>The</strong> long<br />
hall was decked with greens, and boars' heads and roasted peacocks loaded<br />
the table, brilliant with its flaming candles. Even the Prince made himself<br />
extremely agreeable, contrary to his usual custom. But Giovanna thought the<br />
feast would never end.<br />
"It was far into the night before the party broke up. Giovanna nervously<br />
waited in the drawing-room until she was sure that Boyard was in the little<br />
room appointed for the murder. When she could wait no longer, she hesitatingly<br />
went toward the curtains that separated the two rooms.<br />
"Meanwhile Bcvard had been passing a very anxious quarter of an hour.<br />
Me knew that he was about to do a terrible deed, nevertheless Reynaud had<br />
succeeded in impressing him with the fact that it was for the good of France.<br />
So, boyishly forgetting consequences in a spirit of patriotism, he had consented<br />
to aid Reynaud in his plot. How could lie incur any danger when Reynand's<br />
cleverness had thought of the slightest complication and accordingly schemed<br />
to avoid it?<br />
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at the red curtain and as the outline of a human form appeared against it<br />
•he_ sprang and thrust his knife into the body up to the hilt. He drew it back'<br />
• .dripping with blood, and heard the body fall in the other room Timidly he<br />
parted the curtains and at what he saw became as one in a trance He stood<br />
there minute after minute, staring down at the dead Giovanna, lying prostrate<br />
one arm thrown back and her pale gray gown dyed with blood. <strong>The</strong> lifeless<br />
girl, the well-mgh lifeless boy-this was the scene that the Prince found when<br />
he came. <strong>The</strong>re is little more, Mademoiselle. Boyard was convicted of murder<br />
and executed A month later Reynaud. tortured by remorse, died by his<br />
tort tot ?. iat '"? e . 8to y° f Gi ° Will Mademoiselle-return<br />
to the village? It is growing late."<br />
Henri rose and held aside the curtains for me to pass. As I went through<br />
the drawmg-room I paused again before the picture of Giovanna. How y<br />
she was to have met such a fate! How childlike she looked as she stood S<br />
Mow came the portrait to be painted?" I asked Henri<br />
"It was painted from a miniature. <strong>The</strong> pose is quite imagined "<br />
He guided mc to where the boat was fastened and we rowed awav from the<br />
chateau where such a tragedy had occurred. *<br />
«- CARLOTTA SAWYEK. June '13.<br />
"1 mind me in the day* departed<br />
How often underneath the sun<br />
With childish bounds I used to run<br />
To a garden long deserted.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> beds and walks were vanish"d quite:<br />
And whercsoe'er had struck the spade.<br />
<strong>The</strong> greenest grasses Nature laid<br />
To sanctify her right.<br />
I call'd the place my wilderness;<br />
For no one enter'd there but 1.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheep look'd in, the grass to espy.<br />
And pass'd it ne'ertheless."<br />
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MRS. E. B. BROWNING.<br />
—"Deserted Garden."<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
When Mother Was Away<br />
"Mother's gone to the country for two weeks! Won't we have a jolly time!<br />
O, won't we have a jolly time!" Thus sang three sisters and a brother as<br />
they took in the theater by way of introducing their new regime; but such joy<br />
is not the atmosphere of this little tale.<br />
Monday: 7:30 ,\. M. (<strong>The</strong> morning after):—Brother, half-dressed, knocks<br />
frantically at the door of the girls' room. "Say! don't I eat this morning?<br />
Half an hour to get to work. Quick 1 " He reaches his own room again by<br />
broad jumps. After much talk and complaining the martyred one of the<br />
sisters gets up. (<strong>The</strong>re always is a martyr among sisters.) Wondering at the<br />
intricacies of kitchen utensils and plunging beyond the vistaed jams and jellies<br />
on pantry shelves, she unearths enough material for a breakfast, a good breakfast—what<br />
there was of it. <strong>The</strong> other two sisters didn't get any at all. Well,<br />
it was their own fault: they wouldn't get up. With Brother off to work, the<br />
three girls have a worse time getting themselves off to school.<br />
6 p. M.—Dinner. Brother declares that this business of fighting over who<br />
is to get up in the morning won't do. He makes the following appointments:<br />
the oldest sister is to get breakfast and dinner: the other two are to do the<br />
dishes and help with the meals. He is to pose a.s critic!<br />
Tuesday:—<strong>The</strong> appointed one is up betimes and breakfast is prepared for<br />
two. <strong>The</strong> other two sisters protest and declare they will have something. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
do. Result: both have to stay an hour after school for tardiness. Half<br />
afraid, they enter the house, expecting to be severely scolded for not being<br />
home sooner. Confusion! <strong>The</strong> head housekeeper herself is not home! At<br />
last, however, the mistress appears, showing her feelings in her face. "<strong>The</strong>re!<br />
I was copying a recipe for banana layer cake during History, and I had to<br />
stay after school. That's what I get for trying to help along the meals."<br />
Brother comes home for dinner, during which there is general uproar. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
a great calm ensues, so profound that the two younger sisters don't wash the<br />
dishes.<br />
Wednesday: Hooray! Breakfast in sight! Yes, there is a bowl of mush<br />
on the table. No cream! Foiled again. How can a fellow cat mush without<br />
cream ?<br />
Thursday. Friday:—<strong>The</strong> same story with little variation.<br />
Saturday:—As usual, the breakfast is typical of the cook's accomplishments.<br />
No further explanation is needed. Let's sec! This is the day the back porch<br />
has to be swept and the laundry sent off. All arc willing to rule and not oneis<br />
willing to be ruled. Result: at 2 p. M.. nothing is done. <strong>The</strong> laundry man<br />
rings the bell. Eddies, whirlpools, adverse currents prevail as the now industrious<br />
three throw hastily gathered articles at the submissive wage-earner.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same disturbed sea-surface continues until merciful night over-shadows it.<br />
Sunday:—All are up at once. One.sister storms around locking for her<br />
brush and comb. Brother complains; his collars weren't sent to the lamulry.<br />
<strong>The</strong> whole household gets to church, each member without his or her temper,<br />
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respectivety, but each finds it somewhere in the sermon. <strong>The</strong> sisters return<br />
home. Brother goes out for the afternoon. Later he rings up, "Bringing a<br />
friend to dinner." <strong>The</strong> housekeepers are in a furor. <strong>The</strong> youngest sister is<br />
despatched to get a cream layer cake. She runs all the way and is met again<br />
at the door by expectant sisters. <strong>The</strong> box is opened. Problem! Is the change<br />
a chemical or physical one? Sister's defense: "You : told me to hurry and I<br />
ran as fast as I could." Prostration for the space of a breath, then feverish<br />
excitement and hurry as dinner is prepared and^at last served. <strong>The</strong>re was a<br />
great deal of it such as it was. 9 :C0 P. M. Sunday is safely bridged.<br />
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:—<strong>The</strong> same program with<br />
a few extras. For example:—Once the key is forgotten—but that experience<br />
is common to all. Once, Oh once! the middle sister takes a notion to do<br />
some washing. <strong>The</strong> phone rings. <strong>The</strong> same sister runs to answer, leaving the<br />
water running in the tubs. Result: flood!<br />
Saturday:—<strong>The</strong> laundry is returned: the lost brush and comb are with it.<br />
much the worse for being laundered. Strange! how they ever became mixed<br />
with the wash! Evening meal of beans. "Oh. well! Cheer up. Ma's ccming<br />
home tonight." "What did you say?" "Hooray! hooray!" All—"Won't we<br />
have a jolly time! Oh won't we have a j°'ly time."<br />
<strong>The</strong> experience is real, for I am one of the sisters.<br />
M. r..\uiE.u\ Tune '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Revenge<br />
Among the hills of the Coast Range about ten miles f v om San Luis Obispo,<br />
lay the Tiber oil wells. <strong>The</strong>y were fast becoming the most valuable of all the<br />
oil fields of that part of the country. In the middle of the tract was a little<br />
farm owned and inhabited by a half-breed—Jose Vidal. with his wife and<br />
daughter, Juanita, a beautiful girl, about eighteen years of age. possessing many<br />
of the traits of her. Indian ancestors, the most noticeable of these—her lust<br />
for revenge.<br />
Early one morning she came running into the house with the exciting news<br />
that there was a band of nviii in their field making preparations for drilling.<br />
Her father sprang up quickly and with flashing eyes left the house. Vidal<br />
found that the men were only doing as their boss. Charles Archer, a voung<br />
oil king residing in San Luis Obispo. had told them. Archer claimed that he had<br />
bought the land, and even showed the deed. Of course Vidal had nothing to<br />
show for his claim to the land, so he was harshly told to "git." Late that<br />
day he and his family left their home and moved to the outskirts of San Luis<br />
Obispo, where they took possession of an old, deserted shanty. Vidal, who<br />
was never very industrious, now earned but a scant living. Mis daughter<br />
Juanita. brooded incessantly over the wrong done them and endlessly<br />
schemed to devise some means of revenge. One night after Juanita had re<br />
turned from a long walk, she sat on the floor before the blazing logs and told<br />
her parents her plans—plans for the destruction of Charles Archer. When<br />
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she had told them, her father warned her to be careful but made no further -'•*?<br />
objection.<br />
On the Tiber oil tract lay a lake of oil. <strong>The</strong> country was sloping and ;i dam<br />
on one side prevented the oil from running all over the surrounding country.<br />
Near this place was a thicket of tree? and sage brush in which were many<br />
quail and cottontail.<br />
One morning Archer tramped leisurely along with his gun on his shoulder<br />
looking for something to shoot, but he met with no success. When he was<br />
about a mile away from the lake he heard a rustling in the bushes but he could<br />
see no game; nor did he sec a girl high above him on the bluff, with eyes full of<br />
hate. It was Tuanita. As soon as he resumed his march, she ran quickly in the<br />
direction of the lake.<br />
Archer walked along hurriedly, for it was nearly time to begin work. Suddenly<br />
he heard a low rumble but the wind was howling through the trees, and<br />
he thought nothing of it. He had gone but a short ways further, when he<br />
paused and listened closely. "What could it be." thought he for the rumbling<br />
grew louder and louder. All of a sudden the truth dawned upon him. It<br />
was the dam.—opened. His face turned white, and he ran wildly, unconscious<br />
of what he was doing. <strong>The</strong> oil slowly caught up to him. It rose higher and<br />
higher—and Juanita was avenged.<br />
HKI.KX MrsiCK, Tune '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
"If I were thou. O butterfly,<br />
And poised my purple wing to spy<br />
<strong>The</strong> sweetest flowers that live and die,<br />
I would not waste my strength on those<br />
As thou,—for summer has a close.<br />
And pansies bloom not in the snows."<br />
MRS. E. B. BROWNMXG.<br />
—"Wisdom Unapplied."<br />
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<strong>The</strong> little farmin<br />
near the coast. O<br />
;\nd on the side opp<br />
It happened one<br />
the custom there tc<br />
was now in progre<br />
suspended from va<br />
from the damp ear<br />
hill reaching almos<br />
<strong>The</strong> happy peop!<br />
making merry. Tl<br />
either too feeble or<br />
hardly bigger than<br />
the side hill ovcrloi<br />
very much respect*<br />
his age. He sat ii<br />
vana." His legs \<br />
other, with the tips<br />
certain point. This<br />
His thoughts, wh<br />
earth had been sha<br />
back and fortli witl<br />
Tonabi's face show<br />
villagers. To be «<br />
quakes were not ui<br />
arose quickly to his<br />
the village and rio<br />
them that the wat<<br />
beyond the ordinar<br />
wave caused by tli<br />
land, demolishing (<br />
disappeared within<br />
a torch in his hand<br />
his progress! He<br />
dying people. At<br />
thought, set them oi<br />
higher. <strong>The</strong> peopli<br />
on fire, and that br<br />
and child rushed tc<br />
to the ground witl<br />
thunder, turned th<<br />
foam even came t(<br />
safety, and realized
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THE LOWELL<br />
An Incident of Ancient Japan<br />
<strong>The</strong> little farming district of Nobiri in Japan is a flat marshy land situated<br />
near tjie^coast. On one side a low, rolling hill partly shelters the rice fields,<br />
'anil on the siri? opposite, is a long smooth beach.<br />
It happened one season that the harvest was particularly good. As it was<br />
the custom there "to hold a festival when the rice was gathered, a brilliant one<br />
was now in progress. All the rice had been collected in sheaves, which were<br />
suspended from various small frameworks to protect the heads of the grain<br />
from the damp earth. - <strong>The</strong>se frameworks had been placed up" the .side of the<br />
hill reaching almost to the summit.<br />
<strong>The</strong> happy people were all assembled in the tiny, gayly decorated village,<br />
making merry. <strong>The</strong> only inhabitant not celebrating was old Tonabi. who was<br />
either too feeble or too tired to attend the fete. His quaint, picturesque house,<br />
hardly bigger than a packing box, was built among the vines and flowers on<br />
the side hill overlooking the rice fields, the beach, and the ocean. Tonabi was<br />
very much respected by the simple villagers on account of his wisdom and<br />
his age. He sat in front of his house that day meditating perhaps, on "Xirvana."<br />
His legs were folded under him, his hands were laid one upon the<br />
other, with the tips of his thumbs just touching, and his eyes were fixed on a<br />
certain point. This was the position of the body for perfect concentration.<br />
His thoughts, which were not easily disturbed, were suddenly interrupted. <strong>The</strong><br />
earth had been shaking gently for about a minute, and now was being jerked<br />
back and forth with great violence. Although the shock lasted several seconds.<br />
Tonabi's face showed no emotion as he raised his calm eyes and regarded the<br />
villagers. To be sure they had been frightened for the moment, but earthquakes<br />
were not uncommon in Japan. Tonabi then glanced at the ocean and<br />
arose quickly to his feet. <strong>The</strong> people could not see the ocean, as the level of<br />
the village and rice fields was below that of the beach. How could he tell<br />
them that the water was receding steadily and forming in a long, low wall<br />
beyond the ordinary breaker line? In a moment it would be too late. <strong>The</strong><br />
wave caused by the earthquake would pause a second, then crash over the<br />
land, demolishing everything in the peaceful vailcy. For an instant Tonabi<br />
disappeared within his house, and then ran madly up the side of the hill, with<br />
a torch in his hand. Oh. how weak his old body seemed to be. and how slow<br />
his progress! He fancied he could hear the awful roar, and the screams of<br />
dying people. At last he gained the end of the rice sheaves, and quick as<br />
thought, set them on fire. <strong>The</strong> blaze, fed by the dry grass, mounted higher and<br />
higher. <strong>The</strong> people saw it and cried out to one another that the crop was<br />
on fire, and that brave Tonabi was trying to put it out. livery man, woman<br />
and child rushed to his aid. <strong>The</strong>y reached the summit, just as Tonabi sank<br />
to the ground with exhaustion. <strong>The</strong> tidal wave broke with the sound of<br />
thunder, turned the valley into a heaving chaos, and it was said thai the<br />
foam even came to the top of the mountain, just as everyone had gained<br />
safety, and realized how Tonabi had saved them. ANON.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Senior Auction<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seniors were having a meeting-injGrace 'Douglas's room. Several plans<br />
had been suggested for raising-moneysfor their last college dance, which; of<br />
course, was to be a grand affair. Finally"Helen Wells, their president, came<br />
forth with a scheme. "Til tell you, girls, why not have an auction. Everyone<br />
can contribute something which she either dees not wish to cirry home or with<br />
which her generous nature decides she may part." Helen's plan won.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next evening the parlor presented a remarkable appearance. <strong>The</strong><br />
Seniors had donated articles of furniture and clothing. <strong>The</strong>re were sofa pillows<br />
in abundance, showing the wear and tear of four years' u rat'e: there<br />
were sofa covers, pieces of bric-a-brac, pictures, wearing apparel, chairs, a<br />
desk and costumes which had been used by members of the English Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> auction was scheduled for eight o'clock. Near the appointed time the<br />
girls began to straggle in. Helen, as class president, was the auctioneer. <strong>The</strong><br />
evening promised 10 be a funny one. for Helen's wit stood her in good stead.<br />
She made a rostrum of a centre table and was herself mounted or the arm<br />
of a chair. She began by offering for sale a tennis racket that had been contributed<br />
by Betsy Hall.<br />
"Ladies and" with a sweeping bow to Professor Scott who had come to th
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as she was called because she delighted most in biology. <strong>The</strong> bidders<br />
did not respond to this. Finally Professor Scott came forward and took them<br />
at five dollars. c> •-,_•>:<br />
Only one article now remained—a pencil sketch of College Hall by Nan<br />
Gnfford. This Helen tried to bid for herself.<br />
"'<strong>The</strong> auctioneer can't bid," protested one.<br />
"Iiid-for me, Grace," Helen requested.<br />
"Twenty-five cents," that young lady promptly responded.<br />
"She'll break you, Helen,'- called another.<br />
"Thirty,'" from a voice in the corner.<br />
"I ifty." shouted Grace.<br />
"College Hall going for fifty cents to Helen Wells then," cried the auctioneer.<br />
With hurrahs and shouts the last article went down. Three cheers were<br />
given for the dance fund and one for the auctioneer. <strong>The</strong>y had raised over<br />
one hundred dollars and all the girls looked forward to a splendid dance on<br />
l/ieir last night at college. So laughing' and chattering they made their way<br />
to their rooms.<br />
HEI.AU JONES, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
"I dwell amid the city.<br />
And hear the flow of souls in act and speech.<br />
For pomp or trade, for merry-make or folly.<br />
I hear the confluence and sum of each,<br />
And that is melancholy!—<br />
Thy voice is a complaint, O crowned city,<br />
<strong>The</strong> blue sky covering thee like God's great pity."<br />
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MRS. E. B. BROWXIXO.<br />
—'"Soul's Traveling."
P'<br />
<strong>The</strong> Freshman Reception<br />
GLADYS A. PHEI.AN. June '11;<br />
A little girl who had just entered the school, said to me one day, "My, but<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> is awful until you get used to it. isn't it?" Her remark set me thinking.<br />
Several people in our class had already been discussing the advisability of some<br />
kind of a welcome to our incoming freshmen: something, a little more cordial<br />
than an editorial in Tin-: LOWKI.I.. headed "Advice to Freshmen." which. .! remember,<br />
was the only greeting extended to us.<br />
You see. entering high school is to many people like leaving a party of gay<br />
friends on a well-known road, to follow out a strange path by one's self, among<br />
crowds of people who seem to be sufficient unto themselves. Some of us leave<br />
behind our best chums, girls and boys who have grown up with us from primary<br />
school. Our friends who come in with us meet, perhaps, more congenial spirits<br />
in the new environment, and forget our old comradeship.<br />
Knowing this, and remembering the fear and trembling accompanying the<br />
presenting of our first stories to the editor of Tin-: LOWKI.I.. or our first appearance<br />
in the Debating Society, that haven of wandering freshmen, the idea of<br />
trying to make the way a little easier for somebody else grew in our minds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class, however, seemed to shrink from assuming the responsibility of<br />
initiating so radical a step. <strong>The</strong> matter was therefore referred to the Executive<br />
Committee. Under its auspices, with the consent, of course, of the faculty, the<br />
Class of June '11 was asked to receive the freshmen at an informal reception<br />
in the name of the school.<br />
And what fun it was! Although, perhaps, everybody did not find' his right<br />
partner for refreshments, or talk on exactly the prescribed topic (considering<br />
that the eleventh one was "Xew Uleas." who can blame him?) still the wild<br />
rush in search of the person whose number corresponded to yours, resulted-in an<br />
atmosphere of frank good-fellowship and democracy. Several members of the<br />
faculty were kind enough to come to help us carry on our duties as hosts. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
know that we appreciate their efforts, no matter how crudely our gratitude may<br />
have been expressed.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, during the pauses in the babble of conversation, the Boy?' Glee Club<br />
and the Reading Club furnished several entertaining numbers.<br />
Indeed, everything was good (including the lemonade i. lint the people<br />
were the best of all. If all those freshmen can only live up to the ideals they<br />
expressed that day on "<strong>Lowell</strong> Spirit." what fine, true <strong>Lowell</strong>ites they will be!<br />
As President Marwedel graciously assured them, they "may be almost as good<br />
as June 'I 1 , by the time they graduate." Consider that great inducement to good<br />
behavior. Freshmen!<br />
However, we think February seventeenth was something more than a great<br />
social success. May we not hope that it has ushered in a new era at school of<br />
franker comradeship, of freer democracy among the students? Of course, the<br />
(, Concluded on I 'age 23.)<br />
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<strong>The</strong> February issue of THE LOWKI.I. is a very creditable effort. It compares<br />
favorably with some college publications, and praise is due to the editors for<br />
the judgment they have shown in selecting and arranging, and to the contributors<br />
for the really good quality of the material they have submitted.<br />
With two exceptions the contributions are commendable. <strong>The</strong> playlet, in<br />
my opinion, would better have been omitted—it i- quite below the level of the<br />
rest—and the biography of James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong>, a subject very well chosen for<br />
the February number, should have been more carefully handled. Otherwise. [<br />
repeat, the contributions are commendable.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fiction particularly is better than that which high school journals ordinarily<br />
offer. "<strong>The</strong> Three Wise Men" k a well-written story. <strong>The</strong> theme is not<br />
strikingly original, but it is developed pleasingly and with an absence of wordiness<br />
and pretension unusual in a young writer. "<strong>The</strong> Decay of Age"—I do not<br />
think the name sufficiently suggestive of the subject matter—1\; also a good story,<br />
but it does not equal "<strong>The</strong> Three Wise Men" in the virtue of simplicity. "A<br />
College Adventure" and "Mob's Last Opportunity" are both wholesome bits,<br />
neatly executed: "<strong>The</strong> Wreath" is an excellent piece of pithy, interesting narrative.<br />
<strong>The</strong> idea of filling the spaces between articles with quotations from <strong>Lowell</strong>'s<br />
writings instead of with crude jokes, was a bright, sensible one. It seems to me<br />
that so good an idea might well have been carried further and the space given<br />
over to Kxchangc notes might have been better utilized for one of <strong>Lowell</strong>'s<br />
poems r an extract from one of his splendid addresses. <strong>The</strong> reader.-, of Tin-:<br />
LOWKI.I. do not see the papers mentioned in the 'Exchange and cannot possibly<br />
lie interested in criticisms upon them, but they could be interested and greatly<br />
benefited by a short, well-selected extract from some great classic printed in that<br />
space every month.<br />
It is rather a pitv that there is no verse in this number: still, no verse is<br />
preferable to poor verse. Tt is also a pity that there is not a stronger dash of<br />
humor in the book: but there again it is better to have little humor than, striving<br />
after it. to attain only the imitation, the cheap, laugh-getting sort of thing that<br />
mars so many school publications.<br />
Xo one with common sense looks for brilliancy and full-blown genius in a<br />
high school monthly, and to pretend that either is to be found in any measure<br />
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FRANCES BELL. <strong>12</strong><br />
THE LOWELL<br />
A monthly, published by the students of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
EDITORIAL STAFF.<br />
Editor.<br />
HARRIET BRADI ORD. '11.<br />
Associates.<br />
GLADYS PHELAX. 11 EVEI.ETH BROOKS. '11<br />
Assistants.<br />
GERTRUDE PORWAXCHER. '11<br />
Departments.<br />
CORIN'N'E CROXISE. '<strong>12</strong>. School Xou-s.<br />
ESTO BROUGHTON. '11. Exchanges.<br />
BARBARA XACHTRIEB. "07. Alumnae.<br />
SELMA GEBALLE. '<strong>12</strong>. Debate.<br />
EVALYX WAGEXER, '11, Reading Club.<br />
FLORENCE PIPER. '<strong>12</strong>. Girls 1 Glee Club.<br />
KATHRYX KXOVYLES. '11, Boys' Glee Club.<br />
BEATRICE BART LETT, '11. Spanish Club.<br />
HELEN ARENDT. '13. Girls' Athletics.<br />
GEXEVIEVE GEHRES. '11. Boys' Athletics.<br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER. '<strong>12</strong>. Jokes.<br />
CARLOTTA SAWYER. '13<br />
ART STAFF. MAXUEL1TA DE VILBISS. '13<br />
BUSINESS STAFF.<br />
Business Manager.<br />
AILEEX HYLAXD. '11.<br />
Assistants.<br />
LOIS DE VILBISS. Ml THELMA GLEESON. Ml<br />
MARION AREN'DT. Ml ELIZABETH RUGGI.ES. '13<br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
.Entered in the San Francisco Postoflice as Second Class Mail Matter.<br />
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Girls! Let me ask you one question. Do you think that we <strong>Lowell</strong>ites<br />
show the proper consideration cither 1;for our teachers.or for our fellow students?<br />
We must work with the Faculty and the Students' Association to make <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
the school it ought to be. I am well aware of the fact that the fault need not<br />
be laid entirely at the door of the girls, but if we set the example perhaps the<br />
boys will follow.<br />
Consideration of others is not difficult to cultivate nor is any great exertion<br />
required to practise it. Yet if every <strong>Lowell</strong>ite will cultivate it. and will practice<br />
it. wonders will be worked in the life of the school. In this crowded building<br />
of ours there are many opportunities of showing such a spirit. (For. indeed,<br />
thought fulness of those who work with us to keep <strong>Lowell</strong> at its best is but another<br />
phase of that "<strong>Lowell</strong> spirit" of which we arc all so proud.) How much<br />
wider the narrow- stairways will seem if no one lingers half-way up to block a<br />
hundred below! How tidy we can keep the halls and dressing rooms if we will<br />
hang up the hat we knock down, and if the owners of "unhangable" hats will<br />
devise some means of suspending them! Instead of carrying on an incessant<br />
conversation in the study hall while some overworked senior delves in physics<br />
or while some ambitious scrub vainly tries to grow to "amo. amare. amavi. amatum."<br />
don't you think we might learn something ourselves by a little application?<br />
1'ut more than all, if we should really try to lighten the cares of our<br />
faculty by obeying a few of their rules, I venture to say that troubled looks<br />
and sighs of despair will vanish from teachers and students alike. <strong>The</strong>n will<br />
true "Lowel. 1 spirit" be manifested in the daily life of every <strong>Lowell</strong>ite.<br />
Every true <strong>Lowell</strong>ite wishes his school to rank first in the state. Vet<br />
every time a <strong>Lowell</strong>ite arrives at school at 9:01 n. in. or 1:16 p. m.. he or she<br />
lowers the standing of <strong>Lowell</strong> among the schools of the state. Moral: don't be<br />
late.<br />
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old order of things is slow of change. Yet. perhaps, in the future, one will<br />
feel himself a part of <strong>Lowell</strong> as soon as he enters; perhaps he will not have<br />
to wait until graduation to say, ''Dear old <strong>Lowell</strong>! How much she has given<br />
us all!"<br />
(Continued from Page 21.)<br />
in THE LOWELL were hypocrisy. Still, we who are interested in the school and<br />
its paper need not be sparing of our enthusiasm if every month brings forth<br />
an issue as good as February's. We can be well satisfied if the same high tone<br />
continues to prevail, if the same level of dignity and intelligence is maintained.<br />
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CUUIXXK CUOXISK. June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
On Saturday evening, February eighteenth, the Senior Class held a dance<br />
at California Club Hall. This was their first affair this term and was thoroughly<br />
enjoyed hy all attending it. <strong>The</strong> members of the committee responsible for the<br />
success of the evening were Cienevieve Genres. Alfaretta l.iunker. Arthur Marwedel<br />
and Charles Street. <strong>The</strong> patrons and patronesses were Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Crofts. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes. Mis> Duffy and Mr. Stephens.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Senior reception to the entering class of December '14 was held in the<br />
Study Hall after school on February seventeenth. <strong>The</strong> Freshmen were received<br />
by the Seniors and were entertained by a program. Misses Marie Louise I.Jryant<br />
and Pe Meyer gave recitations, the Hoys' Glee Club sang two selections, then<br />
progressive conversation was the order of the program. Subjects had been<br />
printed on the cards, and partners were taken to talk them over. Lemonade<br />
and cake were served by Harold Potter and Charles Street. This reception is a<br />
new custom in <strong>Lowell</strong> and a very successful one, if we may judge by this first<br />
attempt. Those who managed it were Misses Weigle, Ailcen Hviand. Harriet<br />
I'.radford. Gladys I'helan and Messrs. Fred Maggs, Arthur Marwedel. Fred Kant<br />
and James Rosenberg. Let us hope this reception, as a welcome from the eldest<br />
class to the youngest, will become a regular institution.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Class of June '13 is arranging for its class pins, the members having<br />
a choice of an enameled or plain L in the reguiar school pin design, so another<br />
class will soon be wearing the pin chosen by the school.<br />
Saturday evening. February twenty-fifth, saw the celebration by June '<strong>12</strong><br />
in the Young Women's Christian Association Hall on O'Farrell street. This<br />
enterprising class departed from the usual custom of dances, and gave a combination<br />
dance and party. <strong>The</strong> "party" was supplied by games. Although the attendance<br />
was not large, the members of the class and their guests report<br />
a very enjoyable time. <strong>The</strong> dance wa< under the management of a commit'ec<br />
composed of the Misses Elfrida Svenberg. Anita Sullivan and Helen Mttsick;<br />
also Baltzer Peterson and Homer Sussdorf.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> Alumni Association gave its dance at the St. Francis on the<br />
twenty-third of February. Many former students of <strong>Lowell</strong> met at this reunion<br />
and the dancing was continued until a late hour. Some of the patronesses were<br />
Mrs. Morton. Miss Cox. Mrs. Geballe and Mrs. Delvel.<br />
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ESTO I'.uoi.'nii'i'oN, June 11.<br />
Girls' IH^h Journal:—<strong>The</strong> cuts display true art. the numerous photographs<br />
betray vanity. Seek sincerity rather than sentiment in your writings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Herald, from Kansas City, Mo., is the best exchange this month. Some<br />
are good in one department, some in another, but <strong>The</strong> Herald is a splendid allround<br />
paper. Its literary quality is high, and the illustrated stories a novelty.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Item, of Pasadena, has developed an exchange department, although<br />
it is tantalizingly brief.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Adjutant, of -\lt. Tamalpais Military Academy, we wish to compliment<br />
upon its new book form. Success be with you.<br />
Guard and Tackle. Stockton:—Do not let the editor try to be editor and<br />
track team promoter at one and the same time. If your school spirit is deplorable<br />
do not advertise it in the editorial.<br />
Calendar. Central High. Buffalo:—Do you think your colleagues worthy<br />
of an exchange department?<br />
ll'hims. Broadway High. Seattle:— Poetry, is..visually a high school journal's<br />
weak point. <strong>The</strong> poem. "Abraham Lincoin." is a rare exception. We<br />
congratulate you on your poet, Olmstead.<br />
77a- Acorn. Weber Academy. Ogden:—Your editorial is truly philosophical.<br />
<strong>The</strong> exchange is a mere catalogue.<br />
Blue and White, Sacred Heart College:—Where are your literary geniuses<br />
and artists? Your paper is as sombre as a text book.<br />
Review. Sacramento:—<strong>The</strong> story. "Nerve." shows exceptional ability. Who<br />
would ever suppose from your dainty cover that the editor used slang!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Echo, of Santa Rosa, has a particularly appropriate poem, "California<br />
Victorious." <strong>The</strong> editorial should lie something more than a prayer for support,<br />
however.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Franklin, from Cincinnati. O.. should print fewer jokes, or else use<br />
some of its surplus imagination in originating them. Its literary material is<br />
good. • '" :<br />
Aegis, Oakland High:—"His Nerve" is a vivid story of unusual merit.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Kastham Case" story loses caste by being a copyist in style. <strong>The</strong> cartoons<br />
are not in the best taste.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Soioyoman. from Hcaldsburg. is a paper bristling with school spirit.<br />
It is evidently a representative paper and well supported. <strong>The</strong> literary style is<br />
free and unhampered by stereotyped forms. Your cuts are good, but are spoilt<br />
by your paper.<br />
(Concluded on Page 29.)<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Debate<br />
SELMA GEBALLE, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
As this is the Girls' Edition of THE LOWELL,-it will surely not be out of<br />
place to begin with a word or two about the girls. At the beginning of this<br />
term there were very few girls in the Debating Society, although debating is<br />
an activity which may just as well be entered by the girls as the boys. Now<br />
the roll boasts of several girls' names, but there is room for more.<br />
February tenth the first team tryout was held.. <strong>The</strong> question was—"Resolved,<br />
That a Public Utilities Commission, on the New York Plan, Should Be<br />
Adopted by the State of California." <strong>The</strong>re were many participants and the<br />
debate was an exciting one. Those who favored the affirmative were Messrs.<br />
Rabinowitz, J. Fortgang. Honigsbcrger, Rainey, Scalione and Fest. <strong>The</strong> negative<br />
was upheld by Messrs. M. Rosenblatt, A. Meyer. Murdock and Parsons.<br />
<strong>The</strong> judges were Mr. Cloud, Mr. Shipper and Mr. Stephens. After long deliberation<br />
they announced the team as follows: Air. Rabinowitz. Mr. Meyer,<br />
Mr. Rosenblatt and Mr. Honigsbcrger alternate.<br />
February twenty-fourth there were two debates. <strong>The</strong> first question, "Resolved,<br />
That California Should Be Divided Tnto Two States" was hotly contested.<br />
Mr. Stein and Mr. Cheney spoke on the affirmative. On the negative were<br />
Messrs. Hirschfelder and Cardinalli. <strong>The</strong> decision was given to the negative.<br />
Mr. Cardinalli was chosen best speaker. <strong>The</strong> second question was "Resolved.<br />
That the Jury System Should Be Abolished." On the affirmative were Messrs.<br />
Fleischer and Jackson. <strong>The</strong> negative was represented by Messrs. Harris and<br />
Schwartz. <strong>The</strong> affirmative won. Mr. Harris was best speaker.<br />
San Jose won the semi-finals in the Debating League, and thereby becomes<br />
the challenger of <strong>Lowell</strong>. Our team is a fine one, and, with the support of the<br />
school should win the cup for the third time. <strong>The</strong> final debate will take place<br />
in May. We wish the team all success.<br />
We cordially invite everyone to spend some Friday afternoon in the Debating<br />
Society. You will come again.<br />
Reading Club<br />
EVALYN WAGENER. June '11.<br />
Only two regular meetings of the Reading Club were held during February.<br />
<strong>The</strong> month was a short one and besides, the holiday in honor of Washington's<br />
Birthday prevented the third meeting of the club.<br />
On' February eighth a well attended meeting was held in Room 16. <strong>The</strong><br />
first number of the program was selected to commemorate Lincoln's Birthday.<br />
"Lincoln: <strong>The</strong> Man." by Edward Markham was read by Mr. Rainey. Following<br />
that were read two of Charles Dickens' "Sketches by Boz." <strong>The</strong> first. "<strong>The</strong><br />
Mistaken Milliner," was read by Miss Higgins. and the "Dancing Academy, by<br />
Miss Schaertzer. <strong>The</strong> program ended with an extract from the "Birds' Christmas<br />
Carol." by Kate Douglas Wiggin, read by Miss Franzen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mcetino- held on February fifteenth was devoted to Bret Marte's works.<br />
Mr. Carrigan read "<strong>The</strong> Secret of Sobriente's Well," Miss Lowinsky, "Waiting<br />
for the Ship." Miss Frankel read one of the dialect poems called "<strong>The</strong> Spelling<br />
Bee at Angel's."<br />
<strong>The</strong> Reading Club assisted in the entertainment of the guests at the Freshman<br />
Reception. ^Miss De Meyer and Miss Bryant both recited poems.<br />
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Spanish Club -<br />
BEATBICE BARTMHT, June '11. • '•'-•<br />
<strong>The</strong> meetings in February were well attended and much interest was<br />
shown in the programs. Those who took part in the plays rehearsed faithfully,<br />
and the productions were therefore very good.<br />
February seventh, the one-act play "Xo" was read in English with the<br />
following cast:<br />
Dona Trinidad Virginia Davies<br />
Don Luis, her husband Leo Simon<br />
Don Robert I ^ ^ J George Montgomery<br />
Dona ficatriz I<br />
February<br />
first act was ^e n in a<br />
Indalccio. a Wealthy<br />
rH u *»<br />
ff' " la » ncr ''>• the foUowin^ cast:<br />
Carlos, his nephew Irvin<br />
Don Salurio. village doctor.<br />
U ' iU "rarted.<br />
Stall!<br />
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Don Hc-.mogenes g Zaragiieta aragiieta •[ [ mn,\,-i " i . H<br />
^ona Dl Dolores, the farmer^ ^ " "<br />
n l a n d Calder<br />
IC '" ICr "enry ..ever<br />
Maruja. her niece Klfzabeth Page<br />
^erico. a servant :..:... ' ^atriee Bartlett<br />
•\nil)rosio. a hack-driver. Wilfred Ferguson<br />
Dona Jilasa. a gossip F'hvin I lirschfelder<br />
Pio, her son "'' ' Doris McLaughlin<br />
February twenty-eighth the comVrlv '••-/' " ' •'<br />
D:m:i same cast. <strong>The</strong> production' ut " f ^ " ^<br />
-^'cErven<br />
' was c «>""««ecl bv the<br />
. <strong>The</strong> club wishes to ban. Mr cf J '<br />
'» eritic«inff ,he progra am ^<br />
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Girls' Glee Club<br />
en : lllc f;;,.,.- (,kQ<br />
, - -in.(_- v_m ) :,. .„, - e iuerary . line. |!ut " music must not he<br />
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•shows eighty-one members T|,i • '^ I>nnci|)aI ^ ^ > . Our roll-book<br />
°f this number almost f,,.,,.,.,:..,'. a K °°' 1 reco Tl,i<br />
almost t«,,-thir,U ,„" «l. considering the fact that..<br />
and seem to take an inte t „ , "^ ! -'resh.nen have<br />
d SCfl<br />
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PJ«.ve members, we are snrrv^Lv n 7 T^ r °" iS "° W d ° SCfl to P«»"<br />
tlH a X bllt th<br />
»«t term. ' " - ' ^ girls interested must follow us up<br />
f<br />
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• * ^ our ,eal work, we are progressing rapidly under our new leader.<br />
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TH.E LOWELL<br />
Mrs. Dcanc. who does her bivst to help the girls. We have taken up several<br />
new choruses which we plan to sing in a concert to be' given some time in the<br />
near future. A new feature of the club is its four accompanists instead of one.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls chosen for this work are the Misses Frieda Kruse, Pearl Katzenstein,<br />
Alberta Chess, and Ethel Johnson.<br />
Boys' Glee Club<br />
KATIIRYN KXOWI.ES, June '11.<br />
As enough was said in the previous LOWELL regarding the need of more<br />
members. I shall not bore my readers with the same story. Yet ] will say this<br />
one thing, that membership for the I'.oys" Glee Clr.b will close very soon, so all<br />
those who can. should join the club right away. When you hear of the big<br />
things the club is going to do this term, you will be sorry that you are not a<br />
member, and hence cannot take part in this most enjoyable work. Under the<br />
direction of Mr. Smith, its most efficient leader, the club has proven and will<br />
unquestionably continue to prove, a success.<br />
Messrs. Wolf, Kainey and Green assisted in the Lincoln Day program.<br />
Also, at the Freshman Reception, given by the Seniors on February seventeenth,<br />
several of the Glee Club boys sang, much to the delight of all present. A rumor<br />
has been spread that a quartette from the club intends to take part in a concert<br />
by ihe Girls' Glee Club on March seventeenth. <strong>The</strong> boys are busily preparing<br />
for a concert about the middle of May. Don't forget these delightful events,<br />
schoolmates. Me sure to attend all the concerts during the term, for they will<br />
be worth vonr while. I assure vou.<br />
(Continued from I'age 25.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Patrician, Columbus. O.:—If you must put "ads" on your front page,<br />
do not begin with an undertaking establishment.<br />
We acknowledge the receipt of the following: <strong>The</strong> Old Pain. <strong>The</strong> Daily<br />
Califoniian. <strong>The</strong> Daily Palo Alia, and <strong>The</strong> Cascade.<br />
<strong>The</strong> exchanges afford a paper an opportunity of broadening its outlook, of<br />
seeing its defects and correcting them. Most of the papers have been a credit<br />
to their schools. We have gotten a great deal of pleasure as well as information<br />
from them. May we add two general admonitions: Editors, try to keep petty<br />
dissensions out of your paper, and abandon some of the old jokes lie fore they<br />
are worn threadbare.<br />
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Girls' Athletics<br />
KELKX AREXDT, '13.<br />
BASKETBALL.<br />
As each basketball season goes by, every girl who has participated in<br />
it feels that the <strong>Lowell</strong> girls have gone just one step higher. This season<br />
the team has shown up well and in both games the <strong>Lowell</strong> girls showed their<br />
opponents their superiority with the basketball. <strong>The</strong> team has been fortunate<br />
enough to havo retained the services of Miss Dc Vilbiss and Miss<br />
Bryant again this season. Miss De Yilbiss's clever goal tossing has won<br />
many a game for <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
On February eighteenth, a return game was played with San Jose on<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>'s Court, the score being fifteen to thirteen in <strong>Lowell</strong>'s favor. February<br />
twenty-second the girls played a close game with Cogswell. When the<br />
time ended the score stood twenty-five to twenty-five: a few minutes was<br />
then added and Cogswell threw a goal, making the score twenty-seven to<br />
twenty-five in their favor.<br />
We intend to have interclass basketball but that is impossible unless the<br />
girls will try out for their class teams. Girls! show up for practice even if<br />
you do not make the team. Come for the fun of it.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls interested in tennis held a meeting on February fifteenth. Miss<br />
Arendt acted as chairman. Mr. Stephens. Mr. Koch, Miss Hand and Miss<br />
I'ndcrhi'l spoke to the girls on tennis. <strong>The</strong> attendance was large and g.eat<br />
enthusiasm was shown.<br />
<strong>The</strong> interclass series will open in the middle of March. From all prospects,<br />
it promises to be an interesting season. Now girls, come out to practice.<br />
See if you can bring your class to the front. If you can't play tennis,<br />
come out anyway. Someone will show you how. Get up your <strong>Lowell</strong> spirit!<br />
Do something for your school!<br />
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<strong>The</strong> basketball seast 1<br />
met with good luck, altli<br />
year of such training tlV<br />
m> m"s game at center ha<br />
sci great things arc expc<br />
throughout. He is the I<br />
rapidly gained in skill. .<br />
increase of weight and s<br />
llutlcr's shooting fouls vl<br />
rivaled onlv bv that of Li<br />
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<strong>The</strong> baseball season<br />
Captain Street should es<br />
ary twenty-second camq<br />
Alameda. but with little<br />
Mr. Kelly for a coach.<br />
Great excitement w^<br />
the interclass. Mr. Koc<br />
wore very uncertain. T<br />
mures third and Seniors<br />
luuiors.<br />
<strong>The</strong> swimming tean<br />
which took place on Fell<br />
exhibition of skill. <strong>The</strong><br />
Ernie Smith. A great \<br />
and was second in the I
THE LOWELL<br />
,> Boys' Athletics<br />
GEXEVIEVE GEM RES, June '11. ' . .. .<br />
BASKETBALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> basketball season has nearly reached completion. <strong>The</strong> team has not<br />
met with good luck, although the training has been excellent. Af:cr another<br />
year of such training the boys will be fitted for a successful season. lfammon's<br />
game at center has been steady. He has a few more terms at <strong>Lowell</strong>,<br />
so great things are expected of him. Leek at guard played excellent games<br />
throughout. He is the best all-round player on the team. Hirschfeldcr has<br />
rapidly gained in skill. He also will be with us for some time yet. With<br />
increase of weight and size he will be ranked among the best of the players.<br />
Muller's shooting fouls was a feature of the games. Fujita's guarding was<br />
rivaled only by that of Leek.<br />
EASEBALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> baseball season has started in earnest, with a large squad from which<br />
Captain Street should expect good results. <strong>The</strong> Lick-<strong>Lowell</strong> game on February<br />
twenty-second came off splendidly. February twenty-fifth <strong>Lowell</strong> played<br />
Alamcda, but with little success. <strong>The</strong> team is? extremely fortunate in having<br />
Mr. Kelly for a coach.<br />
TRACK.<br />
Great excitement was prevalent in the school during the weeks preceding<br />
the interclass. Mr. Koch's class was a dark horse all along and the results<br />
were very uncertain. <strong>The</strong> Freshmen won, the Juniors came second. Sophomores<br />
third and Seniors last. <strong>The</strong> unlimited class events were won by the<br />
Juniors.<br />
SWIMMING. j<br />
<strong>The</strong> swimming team is doing fine work, as was shown by the interclass<br />
which took place on February twentieth at Lurline Baths. <strong>The</strong> meet was an<br />
exhibition of skill. <strong>The</strong> star performers of the day were Captain Jones and<br />
Ernie Smith. A great addition to the team is Lewis, who won the quarter<br />
and was second in the fifty.<br />
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TllK(l|)()K.\ ScilAliUTZICK, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Harold came home one cl.'iy with his clothes full of holes.<br />
"What has happened to you?" exclaimed his mother.<br />
"Oh, we've been playing shop ever since school was out."<br />
"Shop?" echoed the mother.<br />
"Yes, we opened a grocery and everybody was something." Harold explained,<br />
"and I was the cheese."<br />
<strong>The</strong> class was having a drill in comparison of adjectives. Little Ciarence<br />
Hastings, whose family had had numerous bereavements, was told to go to<br />
the hoard and parse the word "sick." After a moment's hesitation Clarence<br />
scrawled—sick, "wuss." dead.<br />
"I see a big airship caught fire to-day."<br />
"Did it burn up?"<br />
"Xo. down."<br />
"When will there be twenty-five letters in the alphabet?"<br />
"When u and i are one."<br />
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Mr. Wallace, furrier, announces that he will make up capes, muffs, etc..<br />
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Wanted—A room for two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty<br />
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Wanted—An experienced nurse for a bottled baby.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Newest Stratagem.<br />
Wild Duck—Xow. fellers, make a noise like a gasoline motor, and those<br />
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Chemist—What kir<br />
Small Uov—No, it<br />
"! am a candidate<br />
"I!ut my parents i<br />
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Senior Girls talki<br />
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Small Boy—I-want a box of pills, please.<br />
Chemist—What kind, my boy? Anti-bilious?<br />
Small Boy—No, it's Uncle, sir.<br />
Modern Method.<br />
"I am a candidate for your hand."<br />
"But my parents have endorsed another young man."<br />
"All right, I'll' run as insurgent."—Houston Chronicle.<br />
Shooting for the Young Idea.<br />
Mr. Cr--ts (to the father of one of our scrubs)—Our leaching' embraces<br />
algebra, geometry, trigonometry<br />
' Father—Ah! plenty o' that there triggenometry. lie ain't much of a<br />
shot vet.<br />
In Civics.<br />
Mr. Cl k—What is the classification of terms in the State Senate?<br />
Miss Wh--t--v r—Oh. half the Senators expire every two years.<br />
Special Attraction—1 :30—2:15 p- m. daily. Mr. Sh--ld--n will lead a<br />
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A young lady coming out of a room with a young man. just after finishing<br />
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and kiss me."<br />
In Biology.<br />
Mr. C.—Who knows what a skeleton is?<br />
No answer.<br />
Mr. C.—If you can't answer such a simple question it means "D" for<br />
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Someone (trying to save the day)—I Junes with the people off.<br />
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Vol.. XVII. SAX FRAXCISCO. APRIL. l'Ml. No. 4.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Revolt of Alicia<br />
From the tip-top of his eight years' seniority. Laurence Gordon gaze I<br />
with frank disapproval at his sister across the small library table.<br />
<strong>The</strong> look she returned was both serious and defiant. She had just announced<br />
her intention of entering the world of journalism and something in<br />
her gray eyes forbade his laughing at her.<br />
"1 tell you. Alicia, it's nothing but spring fever. 1 had it every March<br />
when I was your age." lie confessed paternally.<br />
"Not this time. Laurie." she answered. "You don't understand. I wain<br />
to get out into the world of men and women who are doing things. 1 must<br />
express myself somehow, just as you do. It's, in me. Some women can<br />
express themselves in roast beef and doilies. I can't."<br />
"And what does mother say about it?"<br />
"She will consent if you do." assured the girl. "Now you are going u><br />
give me a place on your paper. If I couldn't write cleverer stuff than<br />
some of that in your subsidized journal, brother mine. I would 'go off some<br />
place and gently expire." She rose from her scat and stood in front oT him<br />
teasingly. "Remember, my dear, that 1 stood just as much chance of inheriting<br />
some of my father's ability as you did."<br />
I !ut Laurence refused to be teased. "<strong>The</strong> newspaper world is no place<br />
for a woman, even a clever one." he persisted. "1 alway.-, thought you so<br />
contented. Allie."<br />
She shook her head. "Not lately. This afternoon I was at Mrs. .Saunders".<br />
You know her. <strong>The</strong>re were twelve ladies, eight male persons and<br />
one man present. It almost stifled me. One just grins and grins at idiotic<br />
nothings until one's face begins to assume what Emerson calls 'the gentlest<br />
asinine expression.' My face actually hurt when I came away and relaxed<br />
it.<br />
"Here's due notice. Laurie. 1 am tired of getting a good time out of<br />
life and giving absolutely nothing in return. I have been a parasite of the<br />
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the attempt." She dropped' a kiss laughingly on his forehead and started<br />
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"Say, Allie," he called before she went out, "who was the one.man at<br />
Mrs. .Saunders',"to-day?"<br />
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"A lion who refused to roar. Grant Hudson, the author." <strong>The</strong> door<br />
closed too quickly for her to see the slow smile that spread itself over Gordon's<br />
face.<br />
Not even to herself did Alicia confess how much she had been piqued<br />
by the occurrences of the afternoon. In fact, she hardly knew what had<br />
come over her. Alone, she reviewed the whole scene and something much<br />
like indignation rose within her. For months she had longed to meet Grant<br />
Hudson and to tell him how his books had stirred her; how the simple,<br />
elemental truths that he wrote had grasped something hidden deep in her<br />
nature and had filled her with unformed desires.<br />
She did not know how Mrs. Saunders had captured him for her gathering,<br />
but he had been present, a tall, keen-eyed, gray-haired man, watching<br />
the people about him with a look half cynical and half amused. Mrs. Saunders.<br />
after persistently attempting and failing to make him talk about himself,<br />
had turned him over to the tender mercies of her fluffy-haired daughter,<br />
who had kept assuring him with the widest of baby stares, that it must<br />
be grand to be an author and that she thought his last book adorable.<br />
After a while, when he stood alone. Alicia had gone to him and had<br />
tried to tell him of her appreciation, but he had regarded her with the same<br />
look that he had given Rita Saunders. as if he expected that she, too, had<br />
come to gush about his "Story of Joseph Dale." He had persistently<br />
piloted the conversation into the shallow waters of social affairs, with an<br />
irony and quiet sarcasm that had angered and humiliated her. Never before<br />
had she realized how absurd an able-bodied man looks, balancing tea-cups<br />
and small talk. She had felt an unwarranted desire for the open air and had<br />
taken her leave at an early hour.<br />
In his capacity as city editor of the "World." Laurence Gordon made up<br />
his mind not to spare his sister in the work that she wished to do. It was<br />
as a "cub" that she started at the bottom of the ladder and with abundant<br />
good nature skirmished about the city for the scrap bits of news that fell to<br />
her lot. -<br />
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For the first time since she had played basketball at high school Alicia<br />
went home at night physically weary. She was beginning early to feel the<br />
truth of her brother's remark, that newspaper work was no joke.<br />
After three months of scrap work, she was given charge of the Personal<br />
Queries column, during the vacation of its manager, a task not much to her<br />
liking. When there appeared upon her desk such letters as "Dear Betty<br />
Bristol: I am a young man of nineteen, much in love with a young lady<br />
two years my junior. My parents object to our marriage, etc. etc.." signed,<br />
4<br />
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"Lovelorn." 5<br />
by the good i<br />
for everythin<br />
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were sitting<br />
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"Lovelorn." she would promptly prescribe a hardwood hairbrush, to te wielded<br />
by the good right hand of '•Lovelorn" pcre. She found herself in daily demand<br />
for everything from freckle lotions to love potions, and at the end of the two<br />
weeks felt thoroughly at war with that portion of society which takes its advice<br />
from tlie family newspaper.<br />
It was after Alicia had been on the "World" staff .about six months that<br />
her brother made an announcement which set her heart a-fluttering. <strong>The</strong>y,<br />
were sitting at a hurried supper in a little restaurant near the press offices. x ><br />
A new play was to have its initial performance that night and the ''World's"<br />
chief dramatic critic had suddenly and thoughtlessly taken ill.<br />
"Thomas is oft" to the Colonial—musical comedy, Davis to that Art<br />
jinks and Miss Kieth to the Charity Ball. <strong>The</strong> whole crowd arc placed for<br />
to-night." grumbled Gordon. "Blamed inconvenient. We must have some<br />
competent critic there."<br />
Alicia leaned across the table eagerly.<br />
"Laurie, don't think that I am the most conceited minx alive, but please<br />
let me go. It's Hudson's play and I understand him. Please." as he raised<br />
a protesting hand. "Listen, if I don't make good on this I'll give up the<br />
work for good."<br />
"But. Allie. no one knows you ''<br />
"<strong>The</strong>n it's about time that they do. Laurie, give me this chance."<br />
"I'll be accused of partiality." he warned.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y know you too well," she answered. "I'll get the story in by<br />
twelve. 1 am too excited for dessert. It's almost eight now. Come on to<br />
the door with me." And Gordon felt his protesting self being hurried firmly<br />
toward the Majestic playhouse. • _<br />
Z> * * * * * * * * * * *<br />
On the following morning Grant Hudson scanned the papers eagerly<br />
for the reports of his new play. He knew, before he opened the sheets, that<br />
it would not be understood. He knew that they would never comprehend his<br />
plain story of a plain man. And he was right.<br />
<strong>The</strong> "Sun" critic, in glowing metaphors, had proclaimed "<strong>The</strong> Spinners"<br />
the greatest symbolical play of the age, when anything like symbolism had<br />
been far from the playright's mind.<br />
<strong>The</strong> "Enquirer" had pronounced it "prosaic, mystic and lacking in action."<br />
To the iovial critic of the "Herald" it was a great play, greatly played,<br />
but no food for "the tired business man," and Hudson swore softly under<br />
his breath at the tired business man as a critic.<br />
He opened the /"World" with a hopeless air. "More rot, I suppose." he<br />
muttered. 't<br />
His eyes paused at the heading and then wandered down the column.<br />
So some one had understood. Some one had felt with him the slavery of the<br />
expressionless Hie.'the ^tragedy of monotony, .of. the common, unheroic and<br />
in<br />
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Minbeautiful stoicism of scented bud that may not open its petals to the sun.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> tragedy^of monotony," he had expressed it well. No—it was not he—<br />
it was she. Alicia Gordon—who was she? Gordon—the name was familiar<br />
to him, but he knew that he had not seen it in print before.<br />
Suddenlv he remembered and his face grew red with embarrassment.<br />
"Ruth." he said to his wife as she entered the room and stood beside him.<br />
"I am a fool. All who dwell in Philistia aren't Philistines." In answer to her<br />
look of inquiry he handed her the paper. "As usual, you were right, my dear.<br />
It has taken a woman to understand "<strong>The</strong> Spinners.' Furthermore. I owe<br />
some one an apology."<br />
Five minutes later he was on his way to the World Building .and the<br />
office of the dramatic critic. LILLIAN BISHOP. Ex-June. '11.<br />
<strong>The</strong> WrecK of the Columbia<br />
About four years ago, my mother, brother and self took a trip to Portland.<br />
We certainly were unfortunate in selecting that trip, as we met with<br />
a most awful catastrophe.<br />
At seven minutes past eleven, a. m.. the Columbia whistled, and our voyage<br />
of three days, as we thought, had begun. All was calm and we enjoyed<br />
a pleasant day walking around and spying objects on the shore. At supper<br />
time every one was clown to the tables, eating heartily and passing jokes.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n we gathered in the saloon and enjoyed a couple of hours of music before<br />
retiring.<br />
<strong>The</strong> night was clear up till nine, but then a fog which rose and fell came<br />
gliding upon us. but fearing nothing we closed our eyes and soon were in the<br />
land of slumber. A few minutes before twelve o'clock I woke up. and was<br />
listening to the whistles, when all of a sudden there was an awful grinding<br />
and scraping noise, accompanied with a shake, and I said:<br />
"What's that—an earthquake?"<br />
"Xo: don't you know where you are? You are on the boat," answered<br />
my mother.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n my brother jumped out of his upper berth and looked out to see<br />
what was the matter. All was in confusion, people screaming, and I saw two<br />
men jump overboard. T cannot explain the awful sensation that passed over<br />
me. Everything crowded into my mind. I thought of my father at home<br />
alone, but in some way it gave me fresh courage.<br />
. We proceeded to dress but did not get very far when the boat listed to<br />
starboard about forty-five degrees. My brother then put on our life preservers<br />
and we had to crawl out of the stateroom to the deck, upon which the<br />
water was fast coming from the bow. This created new terror. <strong>The</strong>n we heard<br />
the captain calling out from the hurricane deck: -<br />
"Come upon the hurricane deck all who can: it is the captain who is<br />
speaking."<br />
' My. brother boosted me up the stanchion and the captain assisted me<br />
the rest of the way. A man came running up to the captain (Captain Dorn)<br />
and offered hi<br />
man stared at<br />
who quickly u<br />
"Xo. Whi<br />
Whitney<br />
deck clinging<br />
<strong>The</strong> bow<br />
other actor in.<br />
floating about<br />
Alter an<br />
slii >t under l.ik<br />
down T went,<br />
my right arm,<br />
conscious. VV<br />
her mother an<br />
tauce 1 starte<br />
itself to the s<br />
said :<br />
"I'.e calm.<br />
I did my<br />
stan I succeed<br />
in. but Mr. Mi<br />
We rowe<<br />
the night. I ,<br />
morning the st<br />
My broth<br />
was badly bur<br />
<strong>The</strong> cause<br />
that explains t<br />
Xow. wh\<br />
and it ha* nc<br />
more. I 've gc<br />
smallpox mak<br />
—of fishing.<br />
My. but<br />
engine. Won<br />
him sweat.<br />
"Wish I could<br />
nothing.<br />
Wonder<br />
well, it's won<br />
it great here,<br />
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and offered him a life preserver, but he calmly pressed it from him. <strong>The</strong><br />
man stared at him in astonishment, then gave it to the first mate, Whitney,<br />
who quickly took it, but Dorn turned on him with a cold aspect and said:<br />
"Xo. Whitney, no!" '<br />
Whitney obeyed. <strong>The</strong> last F saw of them they-were'walking up the<br />
deck clinging to one another. ' ' • .<br />
<strong>The</strong> bow was under and just the stern loomed out of the water. <strong>The</strong><br />
other actor in the collision lay crippled at some distance, its cargo of lumber<br />
floating about her.<br />
After an awful hissing and puffing the Columbia jerked forward and<br />
shot under like a flash. 1 tried to free myself from the suction but in vain;<br />
down I went. As I was drawing myself to the- surface something fell into<br />
my right arm. which I drew up with me, and found that it was a girl unconscious.<br />
When she regained consciousness she told me that she had lost<br />
her mother and begged'.me not to let go of her. Seeing a boat in the distance<br />
I started to swim for it. but something grabbed my feet and drew<br />
itself to the surface. It was a man! Putting his arm around my neck he<br />
said:<br />
"lie calm, mother dear, be calm and say your prayers."<br />
I did my best to release myself from him, but in vain. Making another<br />
start I succeeded in bringing all three of us to rescue. Erfie was taken right<br />
in. but Mr. Man and I had to hang on till I complained.<br />
We rowed around the San Pedro, which had not yet sunk, the rest of<br />
the night. 1 located my mother and brother by calling. At six the next<br />
morning the steamer Geo. W. Elder picked us up. and took us on to Portland.<br />
My brother was badly hurt endeavoring to save my mother, who also<br />
was badly hurt, having a gaiih on her head exposing the skull.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cause of the collision is centered on the drunkenness of the crew, and<br />
that explains the reason of Captain Dorn giving up his life. E. A. J.<br />
Spring Fever<br />
E. A. FALCONER. Dec. '<strong>12</strong>.,<br />
Xow. why is. and what is. Spring Fever? It's of no use, for one thing,<br />
and it has no excuse for being, for another. Hut still it is. And what's<br />
more. T've got it. It's different from most fevers—take smallpox now—<br />
smallpox makes you see things, but spring fever only makes you think things<br />
—of fishing, and loafing, and water.<br />
My. but it's hot out. <strong>The</strong>re goes Fatty Wilson, puffing like a steam<br />
engine. Wonder where he's going? Ha! Ha! poor old Wilson, just look at<br />
him sweat. Poor old Fatty! Oh. T know now. he's headed for the bay.<br />
Wish I could swim. Gee. but it's great to loaf. Xo school, no work, no<br />
nothing.<br />
Wonder what ma'll say when she finds that wood isn't chopped. Oh.<br />
well, it's worth it—and who'd work on a day like this. Not me. Say, isn't<br />
it great here. Xice big willow, cool shade, brook, and everything. Wonder<br />
if I'd get a cold sittin' here. I wonder. Don't it just seem that you could<br />
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look up through those leaves and see little Cupids sittin' in the clouds: little<br />
fat fellows—roly-poly bnes. But there.aren't any. Those are just clouds.<br />
What's the matter, Jack, old dog. Here, sir, you old fool, don't shake<br />
that mud on me. Stop it'! Now get out of that pool, you hear me! All,<br />
now. Good old Jack, good boy. Hot. isn't it? Water nice, boy? Yes.<br />
Wish I could lie in that mud. Say. isn't this grass green, though, and those<br />
trees. Isn't this soft, Jack, old boy—no work to do, nothing to worry about—<br />
what about that wood-pile, though?<br />
Great place to loaf, isn't it. Jack. Wish I was a dog. Xothin" to do<br />
but chase cats and have fun. But I'm not a dog. Wonder how Perkins'<br />
nose is now. He called me a dog, but I don't stand for that talk, not even<br />
in fun. No. sir. Not from anyone. Perkins is too fresh, anyway. Whew,<br />
it's hot!<br />
Say, isn't that a nice sound though. Little way up there's a tiny waterfall,<br />
and it just keeps a-goin' "Tinkle, tink, tinkle," just as nice and satisfied,<br />
and it's cool. too. Nice big green ferns over it, and dark, smooth logs.<br />
Wind's pretty, eh, Jack? Comes through these leaves just as nice and free<br />
and easy, singing its little song, and then passing on. Fine, isn't it?<br />
Gee. it's good to be alive. "What is so rare as a day in June." says the<br />
poet. That rhymer didn't live in California. He lived in \"ew York. It's<br />
loo hot in June here. "What is so great as a day in April. Birds singin' sweet<br />
midst the leaves of the maple." Now, that's good. April and maple. Now,<br />
that doesn't rhyme. Should be mapril. Mapril? Oh, call "mapril" poetic<br />
license. Sounds like dog license, hey Jack? Where's yours? Lost your<br />
collar again, huh? Another bone and a half gone.<br />
Here comes Will Thompson, going to the bay, too. Gee, Will's a good<br />
fellow! "Hello. Will, where you goin'? Fatty just went down. I'd go too,<br />
only I can't swim. Well, yes. I could lie in the briny deep and soak, but<br />
what about sunburn? No, I thank you! No wading for me. Water is nice,<br />
isn't it. Will—nice and cool and wet. Like to feel it sticking to your ribs and<br />
feeling—how do you express it—oh, just wet, don't you? But it is fine, isn't<br />
it? Bet your life!<br />
Gee, I'd like to swim. Go out to the baths, quoth you. Say. do you<br />
know I never thought of that. Now let's see—a dime for carfare, and a<br />
quarter to get in. What's that? Me an adult! Thirty-five cents! For one<br />
little swim! Why, I'm only sixteen, and an adult is twenty-one. <strong>The</strong> nerve<br />
uf them! <strong>The</strong>y want to get rich too quick! <strong>The</strong>y don't get any extra dime<br />
out of me. I wonder if they think I'll drink the water. Gee. I'd like to go<br />
• awfully, Will, but the honest truth is. all I've got in the world is thirty-five<br />
cents. And the sun's so mighty hot, and there's nothin' to do but lie here<br />
and see the grass grow, and look on Fatty Wilson about to soak himself and—<br />
what's that you say? You'll put up a dime? Good old Bill! Pretty steep<br />
hill, eh Bill? Sweatin"? So am I. But think of that water!<br />
Wish this car would go faster, eh. Bill? Don't you wish we had an<br />
auto? .<br />
Pretty cool, eh, bo! <strong>The</strong>re, now. Splash me, huh!<br />
8<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sheriff's Resignation<br />
H. LIVINGSTON, Room 2.<br />
A shimmer of heat rose from the scorching sand, and the blistering sun<br />
beat upon the back of the traveler, headed west, for it was not yet noon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> squeaking stirrup leather chafed raspingly against the cowboy's<br />
bootleg in the monotony of the horse's pace, while slung holster and feltcovered<br />
canteen thumped at intervals on the rider's thigh:<br />
<strong>The</strong> horseman wore a gray flannel shirt, with two buttons open at the<br />
throat, and sleeves rolled to the elbow, revealing a thick chest and forearms,<br />
deeply browned and sinewy. His left arm swung loose and swayed with<br />
the horse's step: his right arm crooked well up. guided the loose hanging<br />
reins. Occasionally, at a stumble of the animal, the rider would jerk him<br />
up. and his mind be somewhat shaken from the thoughts which seemed to<br />
absorb him.<br />
As noon-day passed and as one spot looked like another, the rider grunted<br />
a halt and swung himself heavily from the saddle. Stepping stiffly, he walked<br />
lo his pack-horse and unfastened two feed bags. Into each of these he<br />
poured a measure of corn, and then slipped them over the horses' noses.<br />
<strong>The</strong> horses crunched away instinctively but with little zest.<br />
Having attended to the wants of his animals the rider took some food<br />
from a saddle bag and munched it, washing the dry stuff down with drinks<br />
from his canteen.<br />
While eating he muttered to himself. " 'Twon't be long. He's tiring.<br />
Mis fires arc closer together and you'll get him yet. You've got the necessary<br />
toys, remember."<br />
He reached to a hip pocket and drew out a pair of gleaming handcuffs.<br />
After glancing at them, he returned them to his pocket with a grunt, then<br />
mounting, he resumed his ride.<br />
All this while lay before him the sharp cuts of two horses' hoofs, one<br />
unshod, showing up clear on the powdered dust.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n little by little the character of the country changed. Boulders<br />
strewed the path, and the easy roll of the prairie gave way to sharp angled<br />
cuts, and the mounting crags of the Rockies' foothills.<br />
"Huh!" exclaimed the pursuer. "His mount's cast a shoe. Hello, what's<br />
this?" He dismounted for a further inspection. "O-ho, my friend. Traded<br />
horses, have you? On the unshod pack horse now. This thing is getting<br />
simpler every minute. Y'know, a pony sure needs shoes in this kind of<br />
country."<br />
As he rode along he came upon a frying pan, provisions and other things,<br />
evidently thrown away, and this caused him much satisfaction.<br />
"So! Taken to the hills', eh? Short provisions and a gameless country.<br />
It's getting easier all the time, but a little more care is necessary."<br />
<strong>The</strong> man rode rapidly along, in an attitude of expectation. Suddenly<br />
coming upon a small level, he saw a man about two hundred yards ahead.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rider dismounted quickly, and with the skill and cunning of an expe-<br />
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rienced woodsman, he worked along, until he was directly behind, and some<br />
distance above the fugitive.<br />
Below him on the slope crouched the fugitive. Surprised at the quiet<br />
attitude of his pursuer, he was craning his neck over a boulder to get a<br />
glimpse of him.<br />
To the cMck of a carbine rang out the command from above:<br />
"Unsling that belt: down that rifle, and step ten paces away from<br />
them!"<br />
A quick glance over the shoulder into the black eye of the carbine required<br />
no further comment.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fugitive laid down his rifle, unbuckled his cartridge belt and stepped<br />
off the required distance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> captor approached, keeping his man as well covered as possible<br />
while groping his way on the steep incline. A stone started from its bed.<br />
Another one joined it. Down came the slide upon the victim. But he saw<br />
little menace in this turn of affairs: rather the opposite. <strong>The</strong> captor could<br />
not check his descent: he would sweep past, and the position would be<br />
reversed.<br />
But the captor saw the small avalanche, and flinging away his rifle he<br />
whirled his captive into the slide by a double arm grip. Together they rolled,<br />
and together they went over the cliff, a twenty-foot drop.<br />
<strong>The</strong> captive lay underneath, and was motionless. A ragged cut on the<br />
forehead told the story. <strong>The</strong> captor struggled up and felt the wounded<br />
man's heart.<br />
"Still thumping!" he grunted.<br />
He unpacked the horses and made preparations for an encampment.<br />
Five days saw no change in the delirium of the wounded man. On the<br />
third dav there had come a remarkable sentence into the wounded man's<br />
ramblings. It ran:<br />
"Only Jim knew that tackle, for 1 taught it to him."<br />
<strong>The</strong> rough nurse looked closer at the young man. and his attentions<br />
took on even greater kindness.<br />
On the fifth day sanity returned to the captive's eyes. Slowly realization<br />
stole its way back.<br />
"So you got me at last?"<br />
"Yes." answered the other.<br />
"I'm glad of it. I was getting tired. When do you propose to start<br />
, backv?" He put the question with little interest.<br />
"We'll see. First. I've a little yarn to spin."<br />
<strong>The</strong> captive could not mask interest in this strange announcement.<br />
"I'm listening." he said.<br />
"Two boys went to colle'ge together, and later fell in love with the<br />
same girl," the narrator began.<br />
"Decidedly novel." grunted the wounded man. "Which got her?"<br />
"Neither!"<br />
"A little out of the ordinary. Well?"<br />
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the West for s<br />
<strong>The</strong> quicke<br />
rose to his elbc<br />
"Jim Brow<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheriff<br />
"Jim." said<br />
did. 1 just wai<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheriff<br />
"He turned<br />
self and interfc-i<br />
been fleeing sin<br />
" But you<br />
"Yes. Jim:<br />
it all."<br />
"True." ant<br />
"Well," sai<br />
"What?" s<br />
"It's your (i<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheriff 1<br />
cuffs. <strong>The</strong>n ho,<br />
" I've resigr<br />
All of whic<br />
A small lx<br />
refused on the<br />
all over heaven<br />
"Votes for<br />
In F.umpe to-d<br />
"Whv not<br />
Mabel—W<br />
Hazel—Tli<br />
Mabel—H
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r o<br />
" \nother man took her from them. One of them has been forgetting in<br />
the ^'e^t for some years. He is a sheriff now." '<br />
<strong>The</strong> quickening of real life came to the effort of the hurt man. as he<br />
ros.e to his elbow and sought the other's face.<br />
"Jim I.rown!"' he cried.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheriff bowed. "'Your turn. Dick." he said.<br />
"lirn." said the younger man, "I wasn't strong enough to leave as you<br />
did. I just wanted to be near for I deeply loved her."<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheriff kicked an ember. <strong>The</strong> other continued:<br />
"He turned to abusing her. I saw him strike her once. I showed myself<br />
and interfered. He turned on me with a weapon and 1 shot him! I've<br />
been fleeing since, until you caught me."<br />
"Hut you killed him in self-defense?"<br />
"Yes. lim: but I could not. bring her into the trial—the publicity of<br />
it all." '.•••<br />
"True." answered the sheriff.<br />
"Well," said the captive, "do we start back to-morrow?"<br />
"What?" snapped the sheriff.<br />
"It's your duty, isn't it?"<br />
<strong>The</strong> sheriff reached into his hip pocket and produced the gleaming handcuffs.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he whirled them far out on the sands of the eastward trail. .<br />
"I've resigned, Dick," he said.<br />
All of which may explain why the sheriff never reported.<br />
A small boy had .'.been naughty, and when told to ask forgiveness he<br />
refused on the ground that God would tell Mrs. God and then it would be<br />
all over heaven.—Ex.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mean Thing.<br />
"Votes for women!" shrieked the suffragette. "That's what we_.v;ant!<br />
In F.uro|)e to-day women are harnessed to plows! Votes for women:'<br />
"Why not oats for women?" suggested the mere male creaturb "T £x.<br />
Time.<br />
Mabel—What's the pistol shot for?<br />
Hazel—<strong>The</strong> end of the first half.<br />
Mabel—How many halves do they play?—Ex.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Sih Jones' New MilKing Machine<br />
CM AS. C. SCAUONE, June '11.<br />
That farm over tiiere, with a big white barn, belongs to the Joneses! <strong>The</strong><br />
Joneses were new in the community ami although neighbors, were quite<br />
strangers to us. However vve soon learned the name of the second son, Sih,<br />
from the manner the folks had of calling him.<br />
"Sih! Sih! Sih!" could be heard from morning till night. Sometimes<br />
it was the stern voice of Mr. Jones, sometimes it was Mrs. Jones or the hiredman,<br />
but Sih was always the object of their calls. <strong>The</strong> name Sih could no<br />
longer be pronounced without provoking laughter, although we found out<br />
that he was a pretty good sort of a boy.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y ought to tie a rope around his neck."' the hired man would say,<br />
or "Sih's lost again," just as at sundown old Mr. Jones would roar out,<br />
"Gol-darn ye, Sih, you come right along and help us milk."<br />
<strong>The</strong> Joneses kept about twenty cows. To milk from seven to ten cows<br />
is the most disagreeable job on a farm. This had to be done morning and<br />
evening. What more, Mr. Jones and the hired man were the only ones to do<br />
it. Many times they would be delayed in the fields and then it was Sih<br />
who had to help out. This deprived him of most all his holidays and visits.<br />
One day while driving to town I met Ed, Sih's brother. I asked Ed<br />
if he wanted a ride, as is customary among country folks, to which he readily<br />
assented.<br />
"What is Sih doing now-a-days," T asked Ed, still having the shouts of<br />
old Mr. Jones ringing in my ears.<br />
Ed gave a grunt. I had asked him some displeasing question. "Sih's<br />
no good," he replied laconically. '""-<br />
"Why, I thought Sih was a pretty good boy," I remarked.<br />
'"Used to be," he replied, after riding a distance, "but he's been up in<br />
the hayloft all spring."<br />
"What's he doing up there." 1 inquired.<br />
Ed hesitated a long time. He disliked to talk on this ticklish point in<br />
family affairs. "Oh, he's trying to make something," he replied at last.<br />
Trying to make something in that old hayloft. <strong>The</strong>se two answers<br />
raised my curiosity to the highest pitch. What in the world was he trying<br />
to make in that old hayloft? My own experiences desisted me from making<br />
further inquiries. 1 remembered how I had tried to make a steam engine<br />
that would run. I had experimented in the woodshed in fancied secrecy,<br />
when in reality there were more than a dozen boys watching me through<br />
the cracks. <strong>The</strong>y annoyed me for years afterwards. To a boy it is the most<br />
cutting thing to be joshed for trying to make something.<br />
One day while hunting in the pasture near Jones' loft a peculiar sight<br />
mingled with my curiosity stopped me. <strong>The</strong>re was Sih standing on a rock with<br />
<strong>12</strong><br />
a halter in hi<br />
After satisfyii<br />
grazing near<br />
next ran into<br />
box with legs<br />
some potatoe;<br />
eating he bro<br />
It was not til<br />
cow's body tli<br />
"So!" I t<br />
make."<br />
"Now bo<br />
ing the mach<br />
taking one las<br />
ing a crank,<br />
failure. He \<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re, 1<br />
are a-going t(<br />
peating with<br />
"Easy, m<br />
He tunic<br />
whirr. <strong>The</strong> <<br />
Something w<br />
"So boss,<br />
She gave a jv<br />
vat rattle. S<br />
jectionable, s<<br />
"So! So!<br />
ly frightened,<br />
machine from<br />
away, carryir<br />
wheel and tor<br />
<strong>The</strong> terrified<br />
over the stone;<br />
<strong>The</strong> who<br />
all his hope of<br />
An Amcr<br />
grandeur of t<br />
"Great si<br />
"Gad, he<br />
stood near b)
a halter in his hand carefully looking around to; see if lie could seeVanypiie.<br />
After satisfying himself; that no one was arouhdfhecaught one; of' thY cows<br />
grazing near by, put the halter on her head and hitched her to a tree. He<br />
next ran into the barn and returned with an affair that looked like a meal<br />
box with legs. He first wanted to get the cow in good humor. He gave her<br />
some potatoes and sleeked her coat very gently. While the cow was busy<br />
eating he brought forward his mysterious machine and pushed it under her.<br />
It was not till he had raised a broad belt and buckled it tightly about the<br />
cow's bod)' that I could imagine what he was going to do.<br />
"So!" I thought, "a cow-milking machine, that's what Sih is trying to<br />
make."<br />
"Now bossy! Good bossy! You shan't be hurt," he continued, adjusting<br />
the machine. After he was satisfied that everything was all right and<br />
taking one last look to see if the coast was clear, he began very slowly turning<br />
a crank. This was a great moment for Sih. To him it was success or<br />
failure. He was trembling with nervousness.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re, bossy! <strong>The</strong>re, bossy! You aren't a-going to get hurt, you<br />
are a-going to get milked like this every night and morning," he kept on repeating<br />
with a reassuring voice.<br />
''Easy, now boss! easy! that won't hurt. So! So!"<br />
Me turned the crank very slowly. I could hear cog wheels begin to<br />
whirr. <strong>The</strong> cow heard them, too. She stopped eating and looked around.<br />
Something was annoying her.<br />
"So bossy! So bossy!" Sih kept pleading. Hut bossy would not "so."<br />
She gave a jump. Her foot caught the leg of the machine and made the tin<br />
vat rattle. She jumped sideways and backwards. She felt something objectionable,<br />
something heavy about her.<br />
"So! So!! Behave yourself," commanded Sih. <strong>The</strong> cow. now thoroughly<br />
frightened, made an effort to free herself. Sih was trying to unbuckle the<br />
machine from her. <strong>The</strong> next moment the hitching rope broke and she dashed<br />
away, carrying the machine after her. At last she put one foot in the fly<br />
wheel and tore the machine all to pieces. Cog-wheels rolled about the grass.<br />
<strong>The</strong> terrified cow, with the crumpled tin vat still attached to her, rattling<br />
over the stones, tore off at top speed. All this time Sih was looking on benumbed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> whole affair was probably laughable, but to him it was all his work,<br />
all his hope of glory and success, shattered in one minute.<br />
Well Traveled.<br />
An American tourist on the summit of Mt. Vesuvius was appalled at the<br />
grandeur of the sight.<br />
"Great snakes!" he exclaimed. "It reminds me of Hades."<br />
"Gad. how you Americans do travel!" replied an English friend who<br />
stood near by.—Ex.<br />
13
<strong>The</strong> attractive appearance of the girls' edition of the Lowicu.. the pleasing<br />
cover design, and the general note of simplicity and straightforwardness make a<br />
very favorable impression. <strong>The</strong> selection of Elizabeth Uarrett Urowning as the<br />
subject for the leading article and the numerous quotations that follow lend the<br />
paper a unity of purpose that particularly deserves favorable comment.<br />
Unusual care has been shewn by the editors in general supervision and in<br />
proofreading: accordingly it is clearly unnecessary to call attention to the one<br />
or two slight errors, which the critic, after diligent search, contrived to discover.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fiction is not particularly noteworthy, although the number of short<br />
stories adds interest and is in keeping with an issue in the middle of the term,<br />
when more elaborate work is naturally saved for the coming annual. Of the<br />
contributions. "Paradise Gained"' beyond question deserves first mention. It is<br />
so truly humorous, so skilfully handled, so free from the slightest suspicion- of<br />
malice that it leaves little to he desired. "<strong>The</strong> Legend of Chateau Ambrose"<br />
shows considerable promise—the general atmosphere and setting is sustained<br />
throughout, while the character of the old guide is well outlined. However,<br />
there seems to be an unhappy fondness for the grewsome details of the story's<br />
threefold catastrophe. This tendency is more evident, with less excuse, in the<br />
story called "Revenge." and as the critic reads on and sees, in the story that follows,<br />
the floods rising about a village in Japan lie fears even a worse fate for<br />
the unsuspecting inhabitants, until the author by a skilful turn saves them<br />
every one.<br />
<strong>The</strong> editorials are direct and sincere. <strong>The</strong> jokes are better than those<br />
usually found, and the little jingle. "If." has quite a pleasant ring.<br />
<strong>The</strong> number of advertisements speaks remarkably well for the business<br />
ability of the girls, and. better still, there is a considerable sum stored away in<br />
the treasurer's vaults against a possible rainy day.<br />
Girls! Our congratulations. . L. H. S.<br />
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A Mod<br />
A ILK EN HYLANj<br />
CM AS. E. STREI<br />
1-kKD KANT, '111<br />
GARTH W. j<br />
RAMON<br />
EDW.J<br />
ERNEST SMITIll<br />
LY.MAX,<br />
VIXCEXT MEAL<br />
DAVID<br />
Entered ir
A Monthly, Published By the Students of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School<br />
EDITORIAL STAFF<br />
THORNTON E.- GRIMES, "11, Editcx-<br />
Associates<br />
A1LEEN HYLAND, "11 OSGOOD MURDOCK, Ml EVELKTH BROOKS. Ml<br />
Assistants<br />
CHAS. E. STREET, JR.. '11 GLADYS PHELAN, Ml AL1-RED MEYER, '11<br />
LOCAL EDITORS<br />
FRED KANT, '11, School Notes<br />
GARTH W. BOERICKE, '<strong>12</strong>, Exchanges<br />
RAMON POHLI. '09, Alumni<br />
EDWARD H. PARSONS, '11, Debate<br />
HARRIET BRADFORD, '11. Reading Club<br />
MYRTLE FRANZEN, '<strong>12</strong>, Girls' Glee Club<br />
\VM. RA1NEY, '<strong>12</strong>, Boys' Glee Club<br />
BEATRICE BARTLETT, Ml, Spanish Club<br />
LOUIS SLOSS, Ml, Boys' Athletics<br />
ART STAFF<br />
ERNEST SMITH Ml ELMER W ISr.. 1-<br />
LYMAN HEACOCK. Ml LOUIS I.AMOREUX. Ml<br />
VINCENT MEAD. Ml<br />
DAVID WOLF, M2<br />
BUSINESS STAFF<br />
ROBERT UNDERHILL, Ml, Business Manager<br />
SHERWOOD CHAPMAN, Ml, Associate<br />
Assistants<br />
L. SANGUINETTI, Ml<br />
MISS T. SCHAERTZER, M2<br />
Entered in the San Francisco Postofficc as Second Class Mail Matter<br />
15
THE LOWELL f<br />
u , Editorials! What! Is it to be school spirit ? Yes, gentle reader, for a few<br />
moments we feel it our duty to respect that aged custom of doffing the hat to the<br />
.editor's standby, school spirit. Really to spurn this worthy subject would leave<br />
our repertoire incomplete,—a crime irreconcilable. ; However, leaving all levity<br />
3sidc and looking at the subject in a thoughtful way, the very word in itself<br />
representing the breath, the life of whatever it may be, warrants,continual attention.<br />
That, at least, is our view of the matter. •<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>^'school spirit, the real <strong>Lowell</strong> breath of life embodying all that is<br />
noble and uplifting, we are proud to say this year as ever lias run strongly and<br />
healthfully in the veins of all her athletic teams. Her long line of defeats on the<br />
gridiron, on the basketball court, en the diamond, mingling here and there with<br />
a lone victory, has put her teams through the severest tests. That they have<br />
come out though defeated more times than victorious with an enviable record,<br />
because unscathed and not besmirched by any unsportsmanlike conduct speaks<br />
well for her team representatives.<br />
<strong>The</strong> spirit of the athlete has been strong and healthy, but the attitude of<br />
the students has been anything but invigorating. <strong>The</strong> real <strong>Lowell</strong> breath of life<br />
so fresh in our athletes is dying out in our every day student. In its place<br />
a false doctrine has sprung into being. <strong>The</strong> admired youth is no longer the<br />
hard, the diligent worker. <strong>The</strong> "man of the hour" has become the leader in the<br />
social whirl. Frequently the earnest athlete, the trying student, is made to bear the<br />
brunt of rebuke. Such a condition is degrading. Like the house built upon the<br />
sand, this continued must result disastrously.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se two conditions, existing features of our school, one the enervating<br />
spirit, the other the decaying arc bound to conflict. Remembering <strong>Lowell</strong>'s past<br />
history let the loyal, wholesome attitude toward school life prevail. Make the<br />
same thriving condition of athletics a part of the entire school's life. Let <strong>Lowell</strong>'s<br />
name continue as ever, supreme in the State.<br />
A rumor for the last few days has been going the rounds that the powers<br />
that be are thinking of providing our noon time stamping grounds with an ash<br />
barrel. That such a receptacle is greatly needed is a fact well known to all of<br />
us. Of course, as soon as one appears, the question will arise. How are we to<br />
keep it? Shall we chain it to a post, appoint a custodian, or stand guard mount?<br />
\Yhate\v may be dene the <strong>Lowell</strong> stalwarts will keep it. Above all things<br />
let us see the abstract become concrete and the daily prayer of many granted.<br />
Congratulations are in order for the splendid LOWKLI. published by the<br />
girls. That their paper was up to date was particularly appreciated by the<br />
noble- scions of Adam that barely "Gained Paradise." Truly they would have<br />
appreciated it the more if the gentle prophetess had revealed her identity. However,<br />
brace up. boys, there's a chance for all of us and three bully ones for<br />
the girls' edition.<br />
16<br />
,_:'-uitf~L£<br />
Next en<br />
one it will be,<br />
•i' class having it<br />
Contest" with<br />
written legibly<br />
than twenty-m<br />
take the prize.<br />
Are these<br />
praise or set<br />
hymning and ^<br />
of His graciou<br />
not sing the hjj<br />
Great is (!<br />
withal:<br />
Great is G<br />
ing and digest<br />
Thu:- shou<br />
hymn of all:<br />
Great is (i<br />
and duly to us<br />
What thesome<br />
one to ii<br />
What else can<br />
ingale. I shot<br />
should do afl<<br />
being. I must<br />
my post as loi<br />
join in this se
THE LOWELL<br />
Nc.\t en the calendar is the Annual. This is the final effort and a great<br />
one it will be. with your aid. <strong>The</strong> generous support given the LOWELL with every<br />
class having its writers is a good omen for the annual. A "Poem and'Story<br />
Contest" with three prizes of $5, $3, $1, is to be held. AH articles should be<br />
written legibly, preferably typewritten, on one side of the paper, with no more<br />
than twenty-five hundred words, and be .in by April 27th. Let us see a poem<br />
take the prize. Here is ycur opportunity.<br />
Are these the only works of Providence in us? What words suffice to<br />
praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease<br />
hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly and in secret, and telling<br />
of His gracious gifts? Whether digging or ploughing or eating, should we<br />
not sing the hymn to God:<br />
Great is God, for that He has given us such instruments to till the ground<br />
withal:<br />
Great is God, lor that He has given us hands and the power of swallowing<br />
and digesting; of unconsciously growing and breathing while we sleep!<br />
Thus should we ever have sung. Yea. and this, the grandest and divinest<br />
hymn of all:<br />
Great is God. for that He hath given us a mind to apprehend these things,<br />
and duly to use them !<br />
What then, seeing that most of you are blinded, should there not be<br />
some one to fill this place, and sign the hymn of God on behalf of all men?<br />
What else can I that am old and lame do but sing to God? Were I a nightingale.<br />
1 should do after the manner of a nightingale: were I a swan. I<br />
should dp after the manner of a swan: but now. since 1 am a reasonable<br />
being, 1 must sing to God—that is my work: I do it. nor will 1 desert this<br />
my post as long as it is granted me to hold it: and upon-you. too. I call to<br />
join in this self-same hymn.—From the Golden Sayings of Epictetus.<br />
,.F. M.<br />
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GARTH I.'OICKICKE.<br />
77/i* Spectrum for March is a well-balanced and interesting paper. Tioth<br />
stories and poems are above criticism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cardinal, from Portland, Ore., also takes a high place in our exchange<br />
list. This is a new exchange, and we like the spirit and quality of its material.<br />
<strong>The</strong> merits or failings of each exchange in the Item is a stanza of poetry.<br />
This makes a most readable column cut of material which is generally of no<br />
interest to the casual reader.<br />
Cascade, Seattle.—A joke at the bottom of a religious editorial is very<br />
poor taste.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wild Cat, from Pasadena, is our best exchange this month, and has<br />
shown a world of improvement over the last issue. <strong>The</strong> whole literary department,<br />
especially the first story, deserves the highest praise.<br />
77/c Polytechnic, from Los Angeles High, is complete and interesting, though<br />
scarcely representative or artistic. This little paper measures but 6x5 inches.<br />
77/c Kodak.—Your paper seems two large for the material. <strong>The</strong> arrangement<br />
is poor. Three or four good stories and poems are needed to give character<br />
to a paper. Much space is wasted.<br />
77/c Janus.—Editorials, staff and your business manager's notice should not<br />
come on the first page. <strong>The</strong> price of your magazine is far too high. Get the<br />
business staff to work.<br />
Central Digest. Chattanooga. Tcnn.—"A Tragedy of the Northwest" has in<br />
it the true ring of the wilderness. What is the object of dividing your jokes<br />
into two separate headings? "Hash" seems to us a senseless heading for jokes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Oracle (Jan. and Feb.)—"A Trip Through 1'rittany" is one of the<br />
best narratives we have read. Serials, running from one issue to another, are<br />
not the right thing tor a high-school paper.<br />
(Continued on Page 21.)<br />
IS<br />
w^-W^ r '^<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> has<br />
who was there.<br />
1 should take u<br />
(I mean rave !<br />
but I haven't tli<br />
was a liberal s|><br />
levee of note an'<br />
big family gallic<br />
excellent time,<br />
lielvel. Manhein:<br />
well into the m<<br />
ballroom.<br />
Stanford anl<br />
All that remain:-<br />
<strong>The</strong> track meet \j<br />
this. <strong>The</strong>n canu!<br />
Shipper, a menil<br />
Uicky man. He j<br />
'" debating whii<br />
I'erkelcyitvs cap!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Criterin<br />
••M>nl Sth at the<br />
'Rudolph Drcsel.<br />
"eth Perkins. R:,<br />
Several of the t\<br />
till the wee sma
RAMON POMI.I. W: U. C "14.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> has held its first Alumni dance. Was it a success? Ask anyone<br />
win) was there. It certainly was a genial crowd that gathered. I suppose<br />
I should take upon myself the duty of society editor and proceed to discourse<br />
(1 mean rave) over the various hobbles, lingeries, crapes and non-hobbles,<br />
but 1 haven't, the heart. <strong>The</strong> younger folk were in predominance, yet there<br />
was a liberal sprinkling '" old "grails." Mr. Morton and Mr. Cloud held a<br />
levee of note and were centers of gravity during the evening. It was like a<br />
big family gathering and everyone expressed themselves as having had an<br />
excellent time. <strong>The</strong> patronesses were: Mesdames Morton. Kroutzmann,<br />
I'.elvel. Mruiheim. Jordan. Ceballe and the Misses Cox and Kownu-.n. It was<br />
well into the morning of February 24th before the last of the dancers left the<br />
ballroom.<br />
Stanford and California have about run the gamut of their spring rivalries.<br />
All that remains is the inter-collegiate debate, which takes place next week.<br />
<strong>The</strong> track meet was first on the program and the Clue and Gold team carried<br />
this. <strong>The</strong>n came the Carnot debate, which California also won: Frederick<br />
Shipper, a member of last year's victorious intcr-collegiatc team, was the<br />
lucky man. lie graduated from <strong>Lowell</strong> in 1908 and made an excellent record<br />
in debating while there. <strong>The</strong> baseball scries has just been played and the<br />
I'erkeleyitvs captured this by winning the first two games.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Critcrinns. an organization of the class of l'JOD. held a reunion on<br />
April 8th at the home of Mr. Leslie Cupples. Those present were Messrs.<br />
Rudolph Dresel. Lyman Grimes. Edward Harrison. Gerald Hermann. Kenneth<br />
Perkins. Ralph Rooney. Cyril Quill. James Underbill and Ramon Pohli.<br />
Several of the fellows grew reminiscent and kept the gathering in laughter<br />
till the wee sma' hours.<br />
19
ichodl<br />
FRED K.\XT.<br />
^y<br />
<strong>The</strong> social life of <strong>Lowell</strong> lias settled clown to its annual rest during the<br />
season of Lent. <strong>The</strong> time has been busily spent, however, by great activity<br />
in athletic and club circles.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members of the school along with their friends enjoyed a lecture on<br />
the evening of March 10th. <strong>The</strong> speaker, Mr. Charles Wesley Reed, spoke<br />
on the Yosemite Valley and Hetch Hereby regions. <strong>The</strong> lecture was accompanied<br />
by some beautiful views, which were appreciated by all.<br />
On the lftth of March an entertainment was held in the study hall for<br />
the purpose of making up the deficit in last term's LOWELL. <strong>The</strong> program<br />
was contributed to by members of the Girls' and Boys' Glee Clubs,<br />
and the Reading Club. <strong>The</strong> program was as follows: Song by the Boys'<br />
Glee Club; recitation by Miss <strong>The</strong>odora Schaertzer: song by the Girls' Glee<br />
Club: recitation by Miss Marie Louise Bryant; a small play entitled "Mistress<br />
Penelope," by the members of the Reading Club. <strong>The</strong> whole affair was<br />
fully enjoyed by a large audience. It proved very successful, both as an<br />
entertainment and financially.<br />
A rally was held on March 17th for the coming events in swimming,<br />
baseball and track. President Maggs opened the rally with a few remarks<br />
on true <strong>Lowell</strong> spirit. <strong>The</strong>n Leslie Henry. Jim Ransohoff. Coach Kelly.<br />
Charley Street and Mr. Rhodes aroused great enthusiasm by their speeches.<br />
Music and fun were afforded by "That Xeopolitan Duo." consisting of Dave<br />
Butler and Harold Potter.<br />
On the winning of the swimming championship of the Academic Athletic<br />
League block "L's" were granted to Ernest Smith. Charles Lindgren.<br />
Lewis, Goeppert, Clinton Jcncs and James Ransahoff.<br />
On the resignation of Jack Tufts from the office of second assistant<br />
treasurer the Executive Committee appointed Vincent Meadc to that position.<br />
2f;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Execut<br />
ditions of the'.s^<br />
the school prem<br />
A committe<br />
Stanford on the<br />
<strong>The</strong> class o<br />
tion season. T!<br />
time.<br />
December<br />
class on April /<br />
lint! Boat Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Decem<br />
Club. It has eli<br />
a class paper w<br />
be a record-bre% Mant0<br />
fi "d it out, ]
^ THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Executive Committee has taken up the matter of improving the conditions<br />
of the student body. It will endeavor to improve the appearance of<br />
the school premises by working through the students.<br />
A committee has been appointed to make arrangements for a picnic to<br />
Stanford on the day of the championship debate. ;<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of June <strong>1911</strong> is actively preparing a program for the. graduation<br />
season. <strong>The</strong> class is considering man}' plains for a record graduation<br />
time.<br />
::<br />
December '11 is to give an informal reception and dance to the senior<br />
class on April 7th. <strong>The</strong> affair is to be held in the large hall of the South<br />
End Boat Club. <strong>The</strong> clf.ss is looking forward to a very enjoyable time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> December '<strong>12</strong> class is to have a dance on April 22d at California<br />
Club. It has elected Miss Helen Wood class secretary. This class publishes<br />
a class paper which is very creditable. At the present rate this class will<br />
be a record-breaker.<br />
(Continued from Page 18.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Messenger.—We think your paper would have a neater appearance<br />
hcth inside and out if it were a more convenient size.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wilmcrding Life.—"When the East Meet the West" is the best piece<br />
of work in the paper. Articles by the faculty do not take the place of work by<br />
the students themselves, however.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Che/, Fresno, Cal — For a love story "Dolly" is well handled and reads<br />
smoothly. <strong>The</strong> jokes are good. "A Valentine Tragedy" does not seem to us<br />
worthy of publication.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Patrician, from Columbus. O.. maintains a high literary standard. Considering<br />
the principals in which it is gotten up. we have no criticism to offer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cogswell.—"A Man's Worth" is original and true to life. School<br />
Notes arc also well edited.<br />
We acknowledge and thank the Daily Califoniian and the Daily Pah Alto,<br />
also the Pelican.<br />
Small Man (after heated argument)—I have a good mind to hit you.<br />
I'.ig Man—Little fellow, if you ever did hit me, and I should happen<br />
to find it out. I'd mash vou.<br />
21
Debate<br />
Ei;\v.\ui) II. PARSONS, June '11.<br />
Among the debates held during the past month have been the following:<br />
Resolved, That ':he pay-as-you-enter ears will be a benefit to the citizens<br />
of San Francisco. On the affirmative were Messrs. Caldcr and W'asciwitz.<br />
and on the negative were Messrs. Shapiro and Cardinalli and Miss Svenberg.<br />
<strong>The</strong> negative was awarded the decision and Miss Svenberg was judged best<br />
speaker.<br />
Resolved. That disfranehisement of native-born Chinese is un-American<br />
and unconstitutional. On the affirmative were Messrs. Lucas and Harrison.<br />
On the negative were Messrs. S. Rosenblatt and Shapiro. <strong>The</strong> affirmative<br />
was awarded the decision and Mr. Shapiro was judged best speaker.<br />
Resolved, That the Chinese Exclusion Act should be so amended as to<br />
include Japanese. On the affirmative were Messrs. Honigsberger, Rosenblatt<br />
and Fortgang. and Miss Colctt. On the negative were Messrs. Stein.<br />
Kant, Jackson and Wolfe. <strong>The</strong> affirmative was awarded the decision and<br />
Mr. Rosenblatt was judged best speaker.<br />
<strong>The</strong> question for the big team debate is. Resolved, That three-fourths<br />
of a jury should be competent to render a decision in criminal cases.<br />
We are all looking forward to our third and final victory over our old<br />
rival—San Jose. Messrs. Rabinowitz. M. Rosenblatt and Meyer, the men<br />
who are to represent <strong>Lowell</strong> and who are going to give to <strong>Lowell</strong>, to keen<br />
forever, the Leland Stanford Junior cup. are working industriously under<br />
the able coaching of our old, untiring and faithful friend. Mr. Cloud. All<br />
that.we have accomplished in recent years and all that we hope to accomplish<br />
this year, we owe to him.<br />
In many ways, debating is similar to athletics. It is true that we have<br />
a team we are sure will win. but. like a football or baseball team, nothing<br />
is so vital as encouragement. <strong>The</strong> source of encouragement must be a rooting<br />
section, and our rooting section at Palo Alto on the evening of April 22.<br />
<strong>1911</strong>, should be the entire student body of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School. Remember.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>ites. the M<br />
cup forever! Lo\<br />
must be the fight<br />
i-up. fcr which n<br />
is going to go eit<br />
to help make it c<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Re<br />
perhaps because<br />
"Freedom."' by J;i<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Elf and tl<br />
Head" (Arabian)<br />
<strong>The</strong> second<br />
Garnett Holmes,<br />
of this term. M :<br />
the judges.<br />
<strong>The</strong> third pr<br />
and "Mandalay"<br />
the Whale Got I<br />
Robert Loui:<br />
program. Two |<br />
<strong>The</strong>se were folio<br />
the checkered life<br />
members greatly<br />
excellent reading<br />
At the last n<br />
Fenniniorc Coopi<br />
mo," by Joac|uiu<br />
Besides its a<br />
enterprising as ti<br />
Mr- Charles VVesl<br />
^'osemite and He<br />
<strong>The</strong> club rej<br />
as stage m<br />
bers nevertheless<br />
successor.<br />
Strenuous rel<br />
nation for our cc<br />
the beginning of<br />
S°'ng on.<br />
T "e club ha
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>itcs. the school that wins the Stanford -cup three times keeps the<br />
enp forever! <strong>Lowell</strong> has won it twice and San Jose has'won it twice. This •<br />
must be the fight of our lives, for on the evening of April 22nd the Stanford<br />
cup., for which numerous schools all over the State have fought for years,<br />
is going to go cither to San Jose or to <strong>Lowell</strong>. Tt is up to you, <strong>Lowell</strong>ites.<br />
to help make it come jto <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
Reading Club<br />
HARRIET BRADFORD. June '11.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Reading Club meeting in March was especially interesting,<br />
perhaps because of the novelty of the program. With the exception of<br />
"Freedom," by James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong>, the selections read were translations—<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Elf and the Pose" (Danish), by Mans Anderson; "<strong>The</strong> Enchanted<br />
Head" (Arabian): "<strong>The</strong> Story of the Yara" (Brazilian).<br />
<strong>The</strong> second meeting was devoted to the tryout for "Chattanooga." by<br />
Garnett Holmes, the play which the club has decided to present at the end<br />
of this term. Miss Weigle, Mr. Morton, Mr. Cloud and Mr. Holmes were<br />
the judges.<br />
<strong>The</strong> third program was devoted to Rudyard Kipling. "Gungha Dhin"<br />
and "Mandalay" were read: also "Mow the Armadilloes Began," and "Mow<br />
the Whale Got His Throat."<br />
Robert Louis Stevenson's works furnished the material for the fourth<br />
program. Two poems. "Christmas at Sea" and "Tropic Rain," were read.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se were followed by "A Lodging for the Night," a story woven about<br />
the checkered life of that most interesting vagabond, Francois Villon. Tbe<br />
members greatly enjoyed this number, probably as much because of the<br />
excellent reading as because of the subject matter.<br />
At the last meeting this month a selection from "<strong>The</strong> Pilot." by James<br />
Fennimorc Cooper, was read: following that a poem, "<strong>The</strong> Defense of Alamo."<br />
by Joaquin Miller.<br />
Besides its activity at school this month the Reading Club has been so<br />
enterprising as to have given, under its auspices, an instructive lecture by<br />
Mr. Charles Wesley Reed, at Girls High School. Mr. Reed spoke on the<br />
Vosemite and Hctch Hetchy Valleys.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club regrets that Miss Brooks finds it impossible to continue her<br />
office as stage manager. In heartily thanking her for her work, the members<br />
nevertheless as heartily join in welcoming Miss Phclan as her able<br />
successor.<br />
Girls' Glee Club<br />
Strenuous rehearsals have been held each Monday in room 22 in preparation<br />
for our coming concert. Xo new members have been admitted since<br />
the beginning of March, as they would only interfere in the practice now<br />
going on.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club has been in demand at the various social functions of the<br />
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school, contributing numbers both at the Lincoln Day exercises and the<br />
entertainment in the hall on March 17th.<br />
On Saturday, March 25th, Mrs. Deane very kindly invited the girls to<br />
her home, and though not all the girls came, still the afternoon was a perfect<br />
success. A few very delightful songs were rendered by Mrs. Deane, and<br />
after a good'earnest rehearsal of our own songs,:'delicious refreshments were<br />
served. That rehearsal was certainly a great step in assisting the presentation<br />
of our concert this April.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program which has been arranged for this affair is indeed quite<br />
varied, and we can assure you of a very enjoyable afternoon if you attend<br />
that Girls' Glee Club concert.<br />
Spanish Club Notes<br />
BEATRICE BAUTLETT, June '11.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spanish Club has devoted its first three meetings of March to a<br />
comedy entitled "Lo Postivo." <strong>The</strong> play was very interesting and amusing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cast was:<br />
Don Pablo Leo Simon<br />
Cecilia, his daughter Debora Newman<br />
<strong>The</strong> Marquis Bertram Arendt<br />
Rafael Frank Fortgang<br />
On March 21st the third act was given with Irving Stahl as <strong>The</strong> Marquis<br />
and Arthur Tellefson as Rafael, the ether characters being the same.<br />
On March 28th four stories were translated from Spanish.<br />
"En Posde la Suerte". Concha Torres<br />
"Casilda" Esto Broughton<br />
"Kosimay Kenko" Belle Meyer<br />
"'Carlitos" Margery Durbrou<br />
<strong>The</strong> cast for the final play has been chosen and is working hard. <strong>The</strong><br />
production will be good and will rival our great success of last term.<br />
Boys' Glee Club<br />
On March 16, at the entertainment given in the hall, the Boys' Glee Club,<br />
represented by an octette, furnished several numbers on the program.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys have also been asked to sing at the Girls' Glee Club Concert<br />
during the early part of this month. But the great event of the term as far<br />
as the boys are concerned is the concert which is to take place early in May.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bovs intend to make this concert the best that they have ever attempted.<br />
<strong>The</strong>v have been practicing for it since the beginning of the term, and a new<br />
collection of rousing good songs will be given. <strong>The</strong> members are anxious to<br />
make this event a financial success to the school, but they need the assistance<br />
of every member of the student body. If you are not a Glee Club member,<br />
you can at least spend ten cents for this concert, and the boys assure you<br />
that you will not begrudge the sum.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re i<br />
past month,<br />
several tour<br />
On Apr<br />
and for the<br />
interclass is<br />
ing their tn<br />
their names<br />
girls by the<br />
All girl<br />
courts early<br />
<strong>The</strong> to<br />
brighter oui<br />
As usui<br />
leated St. h<br />
Forwards,<br />
llla »", Mari<br />
Et »el John.<br />
;i majority<br />
"rapidly imp<br />
<strong>The</strong> tei<br />
Hayw;<br />
come oi't ;<br />
Come out<br />
clas s spirit.
TENNIS.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is not much to say concerning activity in this sport during the<br />
past month, except that the girls have been practicing in preparation for the<br />
several tournaments, which will take place in April and May.<br />
On April 10th we will play a return match with the Girls' High team,<br />
and for the following week we have a challenge from Oakland High. <strong>The</strong><br />
interclass is scheduled for April 16th and the class managers are now having<br />
their tryouts. <strong>The</strong> winners of this tournament will be the first to have<br />
their names inscribed on a beautiful silver cup, generously presented to the<br />
girls by the class organizations.<br />
All girls who wish to learn how to play should come out to the park<br />
courts early on Saturday mornings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tennis club is in a flourishing condition, and we now have a<br />
brighter outlook for carrying off honors in the A. A. L. than ever before.<br />
BASKETBALL.<br />
As usual our girls carried all before them when on March 30th they defeated<br />
St. Rose convent by a score of 22 to 8. <strong>The</strong> line-up was as follows:<br />
Forwards. Lois de Vilbiss and Dorothy Riedy; centers, Margaret Yolkmanii.<br />
.Marie Louise Bryant and Hazel Breslauer; guards, Claire Evans and<br />
Ethel Johnson. Lois de Vilbiss played up to her usual standard, throwing<br />
a majority of the goals. Dorothy Riedy also showed up very well anil is<br />
rapidly improving her game.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team will be very busy in the future as they intend to play Modesto<br />
and Haywards. An interclass will also be held if enough girls will only<br />
come out and try to make their class teams. More players are needed.<br />
Come out to practice, girls, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and show some<br />
class spirit.<br />
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Boys' Athletics<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
In the language of the bard, Ransohofl". "We have regained our birthright."<br />
<strong>The</strong> team got nineteen points and tile meet, being aided and abetted<br />
by a fine <strong>Lowell</strong> crowd which lined the tank. Our nearest competitor was<br />
Cogswell, with seventeen points. Smith was the star, breaking the record<br />
in the 880. winning the 100 and swimming the last lap on the winning relay<br />
team. Captain Jones had been sick two days before the meet, but besides<br />
the relay, he swam a plucky race in the 220. getting third place. Lewis, the<br />
new quarter man. lived up to his reputation by getting second iii his race<br />
and swimming a fast relay lap. <strong>The</strong> other relay men were Lindgren, Goeppert<br />
and Raiisohoff. <strong>The</strong> whole team worked hard and certainly deserve<br />
their L's. which they will get at the final rally.<br />
BASEBALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first game of the Subleague was with Wilmerding. It was a hard<br />
fought contest, in which the team fully earned their victory. fi-S. Street<br />
pitched a fine game, holding the blue and gold down to five scattered hits.<br />
<strong>The</strong> line-up was Street, pitcher: E. Smith, catcher: Hockstadter. first: Robinson,<br />
second: Montgomery, shortstop: Hicks, third, and Riemer, Gillespie and<br />
R. Smith, in the outfield.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next game was with Sacred Heart. <strong>The</strong> team played loosely in the<br />
first inning, which, combined with several hits, gave Sacred Heart five runs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team outplayed their opponents after this, but the lead proved too great<br />
to be overcome. Sacred Heart winning 6-3. Street pitched a fine game,<br />
except for the first inning.<br />
i..;.... " TRACK.<br />
Only a small team was entered in the Subleague. and the results were<br />
as good as could be expected. <strong>Lowell</strong> got eighteen points, taking fifth<br />
26<br />
£&«&,>-:<br />
place in the r<br />
pound class, n<br />
ting third pla<<br />
ter. This bo><br />
points were '<br />
Street. Urban,<br />
mar made the<br />
<strong>The</strong> tryoi<br />
resulted in th<br />
and Levinson<br />
the paper is i><br />
ship for Low<br />
She laid t<br />
no sigh, force<br />
Suddenly a c<br />
shriek: then :<br />
gutteral muni<br />
place. TO-IIK<br />
A little 1).<br />
could complei<br />
inquired:<br />
"Have yc<br />
"Ves, sir,<br />
"Where is<br />
"Father s<br />
* r o in and out<br />
'^csjiise n<br />
'Millionaire<br />
"T ordcrei<br />
" f must hi<br />
"<strong>The</strong>n I ,
place in the _,.._._ ^<br />
pound class, making six^poin;^%;Url)an]jran; ajhe^cjy race;in Jl _^<br />
tiiTsr third place.' Spencer annexed the^samevndsitib'h^iri : ltlie ? <strong>12</strong>0Ttf6iiri(l: ; 'quarl?->v.-;^';ter:<br />
This boy rail a beautiful; race and'isi certainly -a- c6meru TK^ otlier sjx;<br />
points were won by the relay, which took seconds place. ^ <strong>The</strong>• team^was: ^<br />
Street. Urban. Lau. Keith, Herrick. and Lilienthal. <strong>The</strong>^first four ancl'ITam^i- '<br />
mar made the Stanford Interscholastic relay 2 team,..with 1-Ierrick as substitute.<br />
-*• TENNIS. • .- -..'• _; ; " :: .'-' '•.~^-v^<br />
<strong>The</strong> tryouts for the Stanford Interscholastic team have been held, and<br />
resulted in the choice of two teams: Johnston and Strachan, and Greenberg<br />
and Levinson. <strong>The</strong> first two will also play in the singles. By the time<br />
the paper is issued we hope that this team will have won another championship<br />
for <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
She laid the still white form beside those which had gone before; no sob,<br />
no sigh, forced its way from her heart, throbbing as though it would burst.<br />
Suddenly a cry broke the stillness of the place—one single heartrending<br />
shriek: then silence: another cry. more silence: then all silence but for a<br />
guttcral murmur, which seemed to well up from her very soul. She left the<br />
place. To-morrow she will return to lay another egg.<br />
A little boy was entertaining the minister the other day until his mother<br />
could complete her toilet. <strong>The</strong> minister, to make congenial conversation,<br />
inquired:<br />
"Have you a dog?"'<br />
"Yes. sir. a dachshund." replied the lad. :<br />
"Where is he?" asked the dominie, knowing the way to a boy's heart.<br />
"Father sends him away for the winter. Me says it takes him so long to<br />
go in and cut the door, he cools the whole house off."—kx.<br />
Dcf-pise not f^e day of small things. Atack properly placed may cause<br />
a millionaire to sit up and take notice.—Ex.<br />
I ordered three eggs. Where is the other oner'<br />
I must have mislaid it."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n I don't want it."—Ex.<br />
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I'.urkc, Member Parliament. 1722—<strong>The</strong> fleets could only go to the verge<br />
of the sea. but to the shore.<br />
Street, School L'.oy, 1910—Aw, I've seen many a schooner cross the bar.<br />
Miss Diiffv. Member of the Faculty—Whv, Charles—I'm shocked.<br />
Mr. I'erham—What kind of a line is that. Smith?<br />
E. Smith (just finishing a baseball cartoon)—Eli—it's a short stop line-<br />
Smith (still fussed)—Well, there is an explanation point after it.<br />
Sanguinetti, our literal Garibaldi, in Latin: "Aeneas moved deeply—let a<br />
tear drop on his cheek."<br />
According to Mr. Morton's translation of Cicero: A man whose deeds he<br />
might glorify, and whose audience he could gain.<br />
According to Miss Reed: A man whose deeds and ears he could find.<br />
Touching.<br />
Fitter—Why do you call him a "close" friend? You don't go with him<br />
much.<br />
Patter—I know that: but 1 tried to borrow a dollar from him and he<br />
wouldn't come through.—Ex.<br />
Mr. P-rh-m—Where does Macbeth kill the king?<br />
S-y-e—On page 85.<br />
Mr. P-rh-m—Good-bv.<br />
In English—Administer means to carry out.<br />
Capt. Potter—Ma! Men;;:!, administer the garbage!—Exch.<br />
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Conductor—Far'<br />
Absent-niindeil<br />
Conductor—Nic 1<br />
, Absent-miiuied<br />
Ikey—Fader, v.<br />
Father—Wearin<br />
Xo. Mr. LongU'<br />
did not die a natural<br />
Act I m yillai<br />
jumps in and drink<br />
Act II—Villain<br />
'Curtain.)<br />
C Hoftivian (w<br />
your ink—well?<br />
c —Vdo-cissii<br />
— lubet.
^ ^f|<br />
'": '- '•' f ? '•- : 'f t \.^ /'.:•• ' : '' ;:i: ':'-v-l"'' V; ; ; ^:-§?^<br />
In Washington. ' r .<br />
Conductor—Fare, please, v. ; ;<br />
Absent-minded Senator—Kb\v much?<br />
Conductors-Nickel, sir. .? \\ "<br />
Absent-minded Senator—D'ye think I'm giving my vote away?—Ex.<br />
Denned.<br />
Ikey—Fader, what's "superfluous"?<br />
Father—Wearing a necktie ven you've jjnt a beard. Ikey. Ex.<br />
In History.<br />
Xo. Mr. Longley. says our erstwhile Garibaldi, L. Sang. Martin Luther<br />
did not die a natural death. He suffered an excommunication of a bull.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Coming Play.<br />
Act I (a villain, girl, dog. river)—Villain throws girl in river. Dog<br />
jumps in and drinks it up. Saves girl's l ; fe.<br />
Act II—Villain tries to escape. Dog coughs up river. Villain drowns.<br />
(Curtain, i<br />
In the Hall.<br />
C. Hoffman (walking up to Miss Baird)—Good morning. Carlctta. Is<br />
your ink—well?<br />
He—Velo-cissime?<br />
She—Tubet<br />
A dizzy old boozer from Gaul<br />
Went home in the rain from a bawl.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n like a good fellow<br />
Put to bed his umbrella,<br />
While he stood up in the hall.—Ex.<br />
In Latin.<br />
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VGLlilME SEVENTEEN, NO.<br />
THE LOWELl<br />
CLASS OF JUNE <strong>1911</strong><br />
LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL<br />
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MR. F. II. CI. 1<br />
MR. FRANCIS<br />
MISS DUFFY<br />
MR. J. P. KOI<br />
MISS M. M. 0<br />
MR. HUDSON<br />
MR. J. J. SCII^<br />
MR. J. A. LO:<br />
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MR. C. L. C.\<br />
MR. ROCKIIr<br />
MISS Iil.Slli<br />
MR. FRANKI.<br />
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MR. F. B. TL<br />
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MR. F. H. CLARK Mead of History Department<br />
MR. FRANCIS E. CROFTS Ik-ad of Mathematics Department<br />
MISS DUFFY Head of English Department<br />
MR. J. P. NOURSE Head of Classical Language Department<br />
MISS M. M. COX Head of Modern Language Department<br />
MR. HUDSON" SHELDON" Head of Science Department<br />
MR. J. J. SCHM1T Head of Drawing Department<br />
M R. J. A. LONGLEY History<br />
MISS ELSIE A. WE1GLE History<br />
MR. C. L. CARLSOX Mathematics<br />
MR. ROCKHOLD Mathematics<br />
M ISS ELSI E BOWMAN Mathematics<br />
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MISS C. CROX1SE English<br />
MR. F. B. TUCKER ., Classical Languages<br />
MR. L. H. STEPHENS Classical Languages<br />
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§i<br />
One day in August, 1907. official birth was given to the Class of June "11<br />
by a newspaper item, stating that "the opening of the fall term was the occasion<br />
of the usual transfer jf students from grammar to high schools. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High reports an extraordinarily large freshman class." Of the ambitions,<br />
hopes, fears, of the individuals forming this class nothing was said.<br />
Yet most of us. as we went up the unfamiliar steps on that first day, had<br />
?ome very strong, if slightly indefinite ambitions. Each one had firmly decided<br />
that he would be the marvel of the Faculty and the hero of his fellow students:<br />
in what particular line he intended to revolutionize existing conditions,<br />
few could have told you.<br />
With its diploma and its faith in its own destiny. June '11 entered <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
It must be confessed that the aforesaid faith was dimmed a little before each<br />
thoroughly lonesome little freshman had written his name five times on as<br />
many slips of paper, had been conducted from one room in mother, only to<br />
return to his original starting place, and had finally inscribed the family history<br />
of the last five or six generations on a curious bit of pasteboard, designated<br />
an "enrollment card."<br />
Kven the joy of buying brand new. very learned-looking books failed to<br />
utterly banish the strange, home-sick feeling. We visited our old school that<br />
afternoon, where our sense of importance revived.<br />
In a few days we were acquainted with one another, at least with those<br />
in our own room. We had, as yet, no "class spirit" outside of our particular<br />
class-room. Once having made new friends, we felt that we were part of<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>. We joined the Students' Association. We bought tickets to baseball<br />
games.<br />
So our first term passed, in adjusting ourselves to new conditions, with<br />
a gradual fading of our high hopes. Now we were "High!" interested in<br />
displaying superior knowledge to our juniors.<br />
A new development took place, astonishing our teachers. We began<br />
to "cut" recitations, to be sent out of classes. We had conceived the idea<br />
that it was manly to break rules made for the common benefit. It took many<br />
a hard lesson to convince some of us that it is childish and sillv. P.v the<br />
j!<br />
time we haj<br />
out of the<br />
With tl<br />
between G|<br />
trembling<br />
and prcscn|<br />
question.<br />
When<br />
department<br />
were certa :<br />
myself tha<br />
putablc"—'<br />
<strong>The</strong> t<<br />
spread HkJ<br />
stayed aftcl<br />
august I'l-ej<br />
A new]<br />
forfeited itJ<br />
approved nj<br />
what we ni<br />
opportunity<br />
ni/.ed the y<br />
i-lders' pen<br />
It was<br />
gether wit<br />
social adve<br />
ming meet<br />
natural dej<br />
Anyon<br />
can under-<br />
"arrived."<br />
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he has fini:<br />
portant f"i<br />
eligi 1 '" t<br />
])eO|)ic wer<br />
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gotten. C)<br />
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tutional in<br />
sume dire<br />
of our go\<br />
taking can<br />
of Order."<br />
appeal to •<br />
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time we had learned this; in'greater or less degree, another class had passed<br />
out of the big doors. We w
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wrote for THE LOWELL, or sturdily "Resolved, That a certain law passed by<br />
our representatives in Congress is un-American, unconstitutional, and'generally<br />
obnoxious."<br />
<strong>The</strong> Junior year ended in a grand burst of oratory at a class meeting at<br />
which a new president was elected. . '.Ve were Seniors!<br />
We began our last year with the settled resolve that we must "do something<br />
different." <strong>The</strong> honor of the class depended, in our minds, upon our<br />
accomplishing something original. In the intervals of studying hard, attending<br />
to our respective offices, and indulging in mild dissipations, this main<br />
idea was ever present. In vain, it seemed, did we seek inspiration. At last,<br />
a bright thought! Let us give Dec. '10 a party.<br />
Under the exciting influence of this surprise, the term drew rapidly to a<br />
close. Before we realized it, we were "High Seniors."<br />
I low strange it seemed to really be the highest class in the school! Why,<br />
it couldn't be possible that we were even now going to our last Rugby game,<br />
hearing our last concert, as <strong>Lowell</strong> students!<br />
Anxious to convince ourselves that such war. indeed the case, we set<br />
another new precedent—linn of welcoming the freshmen to the "Sutter<br />
Street institution," as they call our school in the newspapers. This was a<br />
great success, if we do say so ourselves, "as shouldn't."<br />
<strong>The</strong> last term is going fast. Engaged in a mad pursuit of the elusive<br />
"recs." we still fail to realize how close the goal looms before us. Even the<br />
protracted, spirited arguments regarding the Senior Dance seem strangely<br />
impersonal.<br />
I'ut some day an old friend regards us with amazed eyes. "To think."<br />
he gasps, "of that child "nulwitiii" from high school! Why, I can remember<br />
when he was. etc., etc." <strong>The</strong> enormity of it comes over tis. Why, we arc<br />
going to graduate, to leave it all, work, friends, teachers! We feel now, with<br />
a strange sinking of our hearts how very little we have accomplished of all<br />
our ambitious dreaming. An earnest, fatherly, speech froiu a faculty friend<br />
reveals to us how meager has been our return to <strong>Lowell</strong> for all she has so<br />
lavishly given to us. With a strange mixture of humiliation at this thought,<br />
and pride that we have been judged worthy to receive at the hands of our<br />
alir.a mater, joy and sorrow, we receive our diplomas. We are Alumni!<br />
G. A. P.. [une '11.<br />
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At last,<br />
'11.
Great Rush to the Old Country.<br />
Lucrative offers have been rife the<br />
past month for German colonists to<br />
invade Ireland. Dutch Cramer, the<br />
Great Hop merchant of the age is to<br />
establish a colony in Ireland .and cinch<br />
his hold on the market.<br />
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On hearing this, Ray Greenberg was<br />
heard to remark: ''Aw, it's not hot<br />
enough for hops over there."<br />
Whereupon the live Dutchman rose<br />
to the occasion and replied: "Well,<br />
the Dutch will make it hot enough over<br />
there to make the hops grow."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a scramble of threats from<br />
both sides, but as yet, J. Costcllo, the<br />
kid promoter, has not raised a sufficient<br />
purse to cause their ire to bring results.<br />
It is believed that before the week is<br />
over "<strong>The</strong> Conic in As You Pay Club"<br />
with Sang, and Call at the head will<br />
furnish funds on interest. If such happens.<br />
"Deak" Parsons, in his latest address,<br />
declared that the "Peoples' Defender,"<br />
Frank Cadinali will put an end<br />
to the jrame of fisticuffs. However,<br />
here's hoping thai the budding promoter<br />
will catch this match, as the<br />
sports aver it will be a live one.<br />
Please mention "<strong>The</strong> Clarion" when<br />
corresponding with advertisers.<br />
SIGHTS ABOUT TOWN.<br />
At the dog show the other evening<br />
Miss E. Bull and I. Morse led Trixy,<br />
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the dachshund, into the ring. It took<br />
the judges but a few seconds to decide<br />
that the dog was a beauty. No doubt<br />
the chaperons practiced their wiles<br />
upon them as attendant-led dogs were<br />
quickly disqualified. ' About the ring<br />
enjoying the evening noise were some<br />
dog lovers in Miss Isabelle de Meyer,<br />
Juanita Van .Meter, Kathryn Knowles<br />
and a few others. To-night the show<br />
closes, so all dogs should be on hand<br />
by 7:30 p. m. If Trixy behaves as<br />
she did last night, ''<strong>The</strong> Clarion" ventures<br />
to say she will win the blue ribbon.<br />
Here's luck to you, Miss Bull and<br />
Miss Morse.<br />
SPEED MANIAC SENT TO JAIL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> terrible bitumen burner "Puggy"<br />
Lingrcn was sent to the hen coop<br />
at Inglesidc, for twenty-five days. He<br />
was caught going up the Sutler street<br />
hill at the rate of 90 miles per hour.<br />
All the lives of the little children attending<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School were<br />
jeopardized. While in the cooler he<br />
was entertained by the other famous<br />
"Pug" (not brothers, etc.) Jack Johnson.<br />
"Sanguinctti the class sensation<br />
Is the smartest boy in creation.<br />
A fine voice he owns and he makes<br />
no bones<br />
About standing up for his nation."<br />
.is<br />
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Baron Rosenberg Indulges in Combat.<br />
A queer scene took place the other<br />
evening near Lotta's Fountain. Earl<br />
Story, otherwise known as "Gorilla<br />
Pete" of the "Horse Marines," had<br />
just landed from a long voyage.<br />
As the old sea-dog bow-legged it up<br />
Market street, he kept a weather eye<br />
open for any of his old timers. On<br />
nearing the Fount, he met the aforesaid<br />
Karon Rosenberg. He was so excited<br />
at seeing him that he pinched "Algy"<br />
right on the arm. At this reception,<br />
the I'.aron ogled "Pete." then screamed<br />
and turned pale with anger. With fire<br />
in his eye, Algy whipped out his Chan<br />
tecler bodkin and thrice, yea thrice ran<br />
his amorous friend clean through.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n as a last stroke, he drew with<br />
words on his tongue, a bottle from his<br />
rear pocket and sprinkled four drops or<br />
more of hai r tonic in Pete's face. This<br />
•lone, he tied and hid in the shadow of<br />
a lamp-post.<br />
"Gorilla Pete" was dumfounded.<br />
N'mi-plussed was no name for it. He<br />
shook his topsails, stuck out his flying<br />
jih and at any moment our reporter<br />
says he might have picked up the sidewalk.<br />
Finally he hustled for "Rosy."<br />
Finding him at last, with one shriek<br />
"Algy" landed in Lotta's Fountain.<br />
Quite satisfied, "Goril" stroller! hap-<br />
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pily up the street. He was not hindered<br />
or accosted by anyone because<br />
Dame Rumor passed about the fearful<br />
assault the Baron had enacted. As the<br />
Honorable A. Rosenberg stepped drip-;<br />
ping from the tank, before the vast<br />
assemblage gathered around/ lie swore<br />
revenge would be his.<br />
This morning we are in receipt of a<br />
notice:<br />
Wanted:—One sea-dog known as<br />
"Gorilla Pete," to arrange for a duel.<br />
We herein gratu-choice of weapons to<br />
the desired party; either by telephone<br />
or with sharpened toothpicks. Beware<br />
of him of Lotta's Fountain.<br />
(Signed) Baron Al. G. Rosenberg.<br />
MAN IN FRENZY ATTEMPTS TO<br />
END LIFE.<br />
A certain man who is accustomed to<br />
carry a sack of sen-sen, a box of talcum<br />
powder and a box of rouge, also some<br />
•n^lexion powders in his right hand<br />
pocket, lost its entire contents an .'I in<br />
his rage, attempted to end his life by<br />
eating the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School Reading<br />
Club minute book. He was found<br />
choking in his room by his landlady,<br />
who said his name was "Frolich."<br />
Ah. Walter! how could you, the secret's<br />
out.<br />
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GRAND WATER CARNIVAL.<br />
All the ducks are preparing diligently<br />
for the opening of the new <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
Baths. One Geo. Genres promises that<br />
the evening will be highly enjoyable as<br />
she has an interesting program.<br />
Among the entertainers of the evening<br />
we find Leroy Baird, the world-famous<br />
water dog, who will bask for a few<br />
moments in the spot light. Appearing<br />
soon after will be D. Reynolds, the<br />
diving Venus whose picture appears<br />
with this article. Manageress Gehres<br />
states that as an added attraction Isy<br />
Mahier will close the evening with his<br />
world-famed selections. We would<br />
like to state right here that there are<br />
some letters in Box A of "<strong>The</strong> Clarion"<br />
for the suffragette H. Bradford. Please<br />
call and procure contents; otherwise<br />
all letters will be confiscated after an<br />
hour holdover. We are not sure whether<br />
it is a match or not. Call and see.<br />
REMINISCENCINGS OF A BUG.<br />
It is better to borrow a sheet of binder<br />
paper than to buy a tablet.<br />
Study—but don't be a dig.<br />
Funny when a teacher says "Boys<br />
rise," the girls rise also.<br />
. Pony something, every other fellow<br />
has.<br />
A bluff is better than two D's—take<br />
a chance.<br />
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How popular a reading club member<br />
becomes when the club play is to be<br />
given.<br />
Women's equal rights are being realized<br />
at <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
Fellows—When a girl says to your<br />
face "You're awfully nice," forget it.<br />
Life's too short.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fellow who says I can't—will<br />
never graduate.<br />
Cheer up. fellows—school's over.<br />
ABSOLUTELY THE LAST<br />
APPEARANCE.<br />
Charles E. Junior is billed to appear<br />
this afternoon at the Ball Park for an<br />
hour or so prior to his departure for<br />
the world's series. He stated to our<br />
zoological reporter that besides doing<br />
a little fungo hitting he might indulge<br />
in some windmill play. If such takes<br />
place the fans arc ;;ure of their money's<br />
worth. It was witl: some difficulty<br />
that our staff artist obtained the following<br />
sketch of the gentleman, as he<br />
was preparing one of his bean bah .<br />
However, remember the Clarion is always<br />
endeavoring to give her customers<br />
the best she can. Tins will be<br />
the windup of Cha.s. E. Junior in characteristic<br />
poses by this paper.<br />
"CLA|<br />
(H. S. aj<br />
slagging it.|<br />
mean dance<br />
girls surroi|<br />
<strong>The</strong> lone<br />
scatter cohc<br />
dance.)<br />
Music—<br />
H. S—Is<br />
faretta?<br />
A. B.—A<br />
IT. S.—Y<<br />
Xo answc<br />
Meanwhil<br />
Music—1.<br />
II. S. (g<br />
us sit in th<<br />
A. B—A<br />
In meant<br />
J. L. (ha,<br />
one)—Don'<br />
alvn? I<br />
"E. VY. («lJ<br />
jeet.<br />
J. L. _(ex.<br />
lady fair)—<br />
proposal to<br />
E. W. (q<br />
sorry, but I'<br />
J.'L. (ner<br />
ice cream—<br />
E. W.—O<br />
J. L. (pee\<br />
next summe<br />
(Later sta<br />
"T'd like t<<br />
Meanwhih<br />
H. S. (un|<br />
ling (quite •<br />
this great<br />
branches be?<br />
—I swear by<br />
never loved 1<br />
A. B. (smi<br />
say such apj<br />
is a chestnul<br />
H. S. (wr.
"CLASS GIVES DANCE."<br />
Act I—<strong>The</strong> Last.<br />
(H. S. and J. L. march into hall,<br />
stagging it. Both got bill of fares,—I<br />
mean dance cards. At right a bevy of<br />
girls surrounded by <strong>Lowell</strong> cohorts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lone ones rush quickly to bevy,<br />
scatter cohort and take partners for-lst<br />
dance.)<br />
Music—Di. di dum, di, di, dum.<br />
IT. S—Isn't it grand this eve, Alfaretta?<br />
A. L!.—A nice night, yes.<br />
11. S.—Yes. 'tis quite clear outside.<br />
Xo answer.<br />
Meanwhile silent struggle.<br />
Music—Di, di, dum, di, di, dum.<br />
IT. S. (greatly charmed)—Alfie. let<br />
us sit in the garden under the trees.<br />
A. P>.—All right if it isn't too cold.<br />
In meantime:<br />
J. L. (bashful boy entranced by fair<br />
one)—Don't you enjoy French, Evnlyn?<br />
E. \V. ("demurely)—It is a nice subject.<br />
J. L. (excited by di, di, dum and<br />
lady fair)—I would like to make a<br />
proposal to you<br />
E. \V. (quite aghast)—I'm awfully<br />
sorry, but I'm<br />
J. L. (nervous)—That we get some<br />
ice cream<br />
E. W.—Oh. T'd be delighted—<br />
J. L. (peevish)—Some warm evening<br />
next summer.<br />
(Later starts again):<br />
"I'd like to make a—a pro "<br />
Meanwhile:<br />
IT. S. (under tree on bench)—Darling<br />
(quite rapturously) I swear by<br />
this great tree, whose spreading<br />
branches bear witness to my sincerity<br />
—I swear by this great tree that I have<br />
never loved before.<br />
A. P.. (smiling faintly)—You always<br />
say such appropriate things. IT. This<br />
is a chestnut tree.<br />
IT. S. (wrathy leaves suddenly and<br />
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meets J. L. in hall, also wrathy and<br />
departing from fair one.)<br />
J. L.—Gee, I'm in love.<br />
IT. S. (meanly)—If you're in love,<br />
why the deuce don't you tell her so?<br />
J. L.—Well, I was all ready to-night<br />
to get clown on my knees and have it<br />
all over with, but just then my heart<br />
beat it. <strong>The</strong>n I thought there was no<br />
use.<br />
IT. S. (sick and disgusted)—Oh,<br />
come on.<br />
(P.oth drop dance cards, jump on car<br />
and rush home without word.)<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were two men, Kant and Grimes,<br />
Who were always behind the Times;<br />
<strong>The</strong>y reached the theater late<br />
lint ere they had sate<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were soaked from the gallery with<br />
limes.<br />
A MUSICAL WONDER.<br />
Among the best ten sellers of last<br />
week was Mayer's Masterpiece "Wriggle<br />
little worms Wriggle." <strong>The</strong> composer<br />
did not specify what kind of<br />
worms, but evidently meant hookworms.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy prodigy is now working<br />
on a delightful little ditty, entitled<br />
''What makes you scratch v.Tien the<br />
fleas Bite."<br />
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A DAY IN THE JUNGLES.<br />
Yah! ha! yawned Scalione, King of<br />
Beasts, as he stretched his huge carcass<br />
and rang the bell for his maid, "Cherrycolored"<br />
J. Rosenberg to help him with<br />
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his toilet. <strong>The</strong> old . King was soon<br />
ready for his breakfast, which was<br />
served by the Chocolate-colored monkey<br />
Baird, who persistently put catsup in<br />
his highness" tea. which annoyed his<br />
highness very much, while "Screech-<br />
Owl" Jacobs sat on the back of his<br />
chair yelling in most unearthly tones.<br />
"We're friends, Friends."<br />
After breakfast his majesty went to<br />
visit his live slock, which was in charge<br />
of "Doughnut-faced" Meyer, the<br />
"French-Swede." imported especially<br />
to sit in a box.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first was "Giraffed-necked"<br />
Hoffman, who seemed to enjoy grazing<br />
off the hair of ''.Moon-faced" Cheney,<br />
another imported specimen, whose<br />
duty was to supply old "Giraffe" with<br />
food.<br />
Old "Giraffe" being a foxy guy, could<br />
scarce forebear to nip two or three bites<br />
from "Doughnut-faced" Meyer's crop<br />
which was of a different species, but a<br />
mixture now and then was very palatable.<br />
Next was "Truck-horse" Cattcll and<br />
"Slow-freight" Schussler, in the same<br />
pen. "Oh!" chuckled his nibs, "won't<br />
they be a fhie meal."<br />
"Spicier" Greenberg was in his nest<br />
sleeping as usual. While "Algernon"<br />
Costello, the court flea, waxed wise in<br />
knowledge, he was used by the chocolate-colored<br />
one, also by his nibs, whenever<br />
each of them felt drowsy, but as<br />
they never got drowsy, "Algernon" had<br />
yet his first function to perform.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rest of the day was spent in<br />
being amused by "Daisy-eyed" Street,<br />
the child phenomonon. Daisy-eyed would<br />
slip 'em over for the King-, who was immensly<br />
amused.<br />
After a large repast, Scalione, King<br />
of Beasts, was put to bed by the trusty<br />
"Cherry-colored" one, and lulled to<br />
sleep, to the melodious strains of the<br />
"Grizzly Bear," for such a one is he—<br />
A I'.ear Cat.<br />
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TO-NIGHT ! ! TO-NIGHT ! !<br />
ED. PARSONS and his STROLLING<br />
PLAYERS in<br />
"EAST LYNNE."<br />
11. D. Meyer—"<strong>The</strong> Frenchman's<br />
darling."<br />
1 know a young lady named Rose<br />
Who always will walk on her toes;<br />
She wears all her shoes through,<br />
Now what, pray, will she do?<br />
1 think she should wear iron hose.<br />
PEOPLE'S :<br />
"STARTLIN<br />
"Another '<br />
Court conver<br />
portly fish mag<br />
still on the wit<br />
was an inspirin<br />
chair Ida Page<br />
strong woman,<br />
Jay Rosenberg<br />
week's record.-*,<br />
were out in fo<br />
jury, it mighi<br />
since Orler. T<br />
representative<br />
len sat like tin<br />
in the midst <br />
law, "Deak." i<br />
As the Justi<br />
resume the oil<br />
ripe tomato w<br />
head. Tnstant<br />
audience rose-<br />
Cries of "G:i<br />
wall to wall,<br />
hand of the la<br />
the culprit. .<br />
from his scat<br />
cage "A la C<br />
Garibaldi of tl<br />
upon the air.
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PEOPLE'S RIGHTS DEFENDED.<br />
"STARTLING REVELATION."<br />
"Another Trust Is Undone."<br />
Court convened this a. m. with the<br />
pnrtly fish magnate Lawrence Taussi«y<br />
still on the witness stand. <strong>The</strong> scene<br />
was an inspiring one. In the Justice's<br />
chair Ida Page of old renown as the<br />
strong woman, was wielding the gavel,<br />
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Jay Rosenberg was dissecting the<br />
week's records, while the suffragettes<br />
were out in force to sec the women's<br />
jury. H might as well be called that<br />
since Orlcn Thompson was the sole<br />
representative of the sturdy sex. Orlen<br />
sat like i'(:•'• heart of a marguerite<br />
in the midst of clf:ven petals. Pacing<br />
the region of the prosecuting attorney<br />
from east to west was that scion of the<br />
law. "Peak." Parsons.<br />
As the Justice called the meeting to<br />
resume the old business of the day, a<br />
ripe tomato whizzed by L. Taussig's<br />
head. Instantly a suffragette in the<br />
audience rose and crowed, "Huzzah.'"<br />
Cries of "Garibaldi" reechoed from<br />
wall to wall. Suddenly the mighty<br />
hand of the law weighed heavily upon<br />
the culprit. As "Peak." led the man<br />
from his seal and placed him in the<br />
cage "A la Camorra" more cries of<br />
Garibaldi of the Fishermen's L'nion fell<br />
upon the air. His club was out in full<br />
force. Fish Taussig twitched uneasily<br />
in his seat while Justice Page<br />
was clearing for action. A speedy<br />
search of the room was immediately<br />
ordered and Fitz Cheney found sufficient<br />
for a young vegetable garden.<br />
Gradually law and order was regained<br />
and the witness gradually resumed his<br />
natural hue of a young beet.<br />
<strong>The</strong> spectators maintained great<br />
silence. Sanguinetti was suddenly<br />
seen to reach for his hip pocket. Another<br />
tomato was about to find a<br />
better mark this time when the Justice<br />
wielded her gavel and Sang, "Rocked in<br />
the cradle of the deep." No further<br />
interruptions occurcd.<br />
Each question of the pros, attorney,<br />
F. Cardinalli was skilfully parried by<br />
the magnate. At this moment Cardinali,<br />
with his accustomed brilliant<br />
stvle, changed tactics and completely<br />
routed the defendant. His question<br />
was: "What have you discovered<br />
about this Hay's fish ?"<br />
<strong>The</strong> magnate must reply and did so<br />
as follows:<br />
"People and magistrate of this State,<br />
the fish of San Francisco May are suffering<br />
from a complaint called the<br />
hookworm." <strong>The</strong> die was cast. Mis<br />
day had gone.<br />
F. Cardinali beaming brightly announced<br />
that the prosecution passed<br />
the case up to the jury and at present<br />
thr verc'xt is pending.<br />
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HOTEIz-IvSWS.<br />
"Pay-as-you-enter" SaViguinetti, the<br />
Ligurian duke, has just returned from<br />
his sojourn underneath the Anheuser-<br />
Busch, where he has built many castles<br />
(in the air) ?.<br />
PEPITA THE FORTUNE TELLER.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dark-eyed gypsy puliod down<br />
the shutters of her little booth in the<br />
Rue Fillmore with a feeling of satisfaction.<br />
Ft had been a busy day for<br />
her. Her powers of prophecy (and<br />
imagination) had been severely taxed<br />
and she needed rest!<br />
Work had begun at an early hour<br />
that morning and had continued<br />
throughout the day. <strong>The</strong> clock had<br />
hardly struck eight when the mysterious<br />
curtains of Pepita's shop had been<br />
parted and a blooming youth with<br />
heavenly eyes., cherry lips, hair and<br />
carriage very erect, entered.<br />
"You must first cross my palm with<br />
silver," remarked the gypsy, carefully<br />
studying the lovely visage before her,<br />
with its saintly "Daniel in the lions'<br />
den" expression.<br />
"Oh!" the dear child's face flushed<br />
with embarassment. "my mama never<br />
allows me to carry on my person any<br />
United States currency, because she"s<br />
so afraid I might buy another comb<br />
and brush. F:ut here, you can have my<br />
scarf pin. I'm so anxious to have my<br />
fate told that I can hardly wait." <strong>The</strong><br />
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trusting youth handed over his bit of<br />
jewelry, giving a little jump of anticipation.<br />
"I see no noble future for you," said<br />
Pepita, scanning a faint line on his<br />
rosy-leafed palm. (How he blushed<br />
when she held his hand.) "You are to<br />
be a janitor! You will spend your time<br />
in oiling doors!"<br />
<strong>The</strong> awful verdict fell upon the<br />
cherub's ears like a thunder clap. He<br />
jumped to his feet and rushed from the<br />
shop crying, "Ah, Woe! This is what<br />
1 get for going out without a chaperon<br />
!"<br />
Meantime Pepita laughed softly. She<br />
had his scarf pin! Her amused<br />
thoughts were interrupted by the entrance<br />
of a short young girl with golden<br />
"woolly" hair and a melancholy<br />
mouth. She wore a gray sweater coat<br />
and a collar which caressed her ears.<br />
She seated herself opposite to the fortune-teller.<br />
"I sec in your hand," said the latter,<br />
"a dark young lady with ruby foam<br />
teeth, who is your crony. You sometimes<br />
quarrel with her. In anger she<br />
is like Mr. Vesuvius and you like<br />
Greenland's icy mountains.<br />
"Some day you and this other young<br />
person (she is shorter than you and her<br />
initials arc D. R.), will go into partnership<br />
for the millinery business. You<br />
will become famous. <strong>The</strong> Evalina hats<br />
will become very<br />
cook and washervvc<br />
After the depart<br />
tomcr. in strode a<br />
remarkable jaw am<br />
wish to be an or<br />
sweet voice; "will<br />
to be?"<br />
"You will be a<br />
swered Pepita.<br />
forth your ideas fnj<br />
will always be a<br />
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At the conclusio<br />
gypsy pointed her<br />
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takes the very hear<br />
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Enter a young hi<br />
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tired gratefully.<br />
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THE CLARION<br />
will become very well known. Every<br />
cook and washerwoman will wear one."<br />
After the departure of this fair customer,<br />
in strode a young man with a<br />
remarkable jaw and a poetic brow. "I<br />
wisb to be an orator," he said in a<br />
sweet voice; "will you tell me if it is<br />
to be?"<br />
"You will be a parson," at first answered<br />
Pepita. "You will thunder<br />
forth your ideas from the pulpit. You<br />
will always be a strong advocate of<br />
woman's suffrage. You will later become<br />
a farmer. You will gain the appellation<br />
of 'Old Man of the Mountain.'<br />
"<br />
At the conclusion of her speech, the<br />
gypsy pointed her finger dramatically<br />
towards the door and cried: "And<br />
now you can go! You can go, if it<br />
takes the very heart out of me breast!"<br />
And he went, with dragging footsteps.<br />
For half an hour there was quiet in<br />
the little shop. Pepita refreshed herself<br />
witli an enchilada and root beer.<br />
Presently a high voice called from<br />
without, "This is the place, my dear."<br />
Enter a young lady with blooming<br />
complexion and a fixed s*are, shadowed<br />
by a blonde young man wearing eye<br />
glasses.<br />
"Only one at a time, if you please,"<br />
smiled the gypsy. <strong>The</strong> young man retired<br />
gratefully.<br />
"Young lad)-, you have a taste for<br />
theatricals and will one day own a fivecent<br />
vaudeville house, of which you<br />
will be sole manager. A young blonde<br />
man will be employed as a spear carrier<br />
in a Roman mob scene. You will<br />
fall in love with this young man. Later<br />
you will wed and you will be the boss<br />
of the roost."<br />
"1 guess," said the young lady, rising,<br />
"that it will be unnecessary to<br />
tell yonder young gentleman's fortune,<br />
because from what you tell me his fate<br />
seems to be so linked with mine !" She<br />
left the shop with the blonde young<br />
man, of course.<br />
With this the day was drawing to<br />
a close. Pepita heaved a sigh, fanned<br />
herself, then rose with a smile and<br />
locked the door.<br />
E.X.T.R.A.!.!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Parsons have found that they<br />
Kant Bull Lucey to Read the Story,<br />
that the babbling Brooks tell as they<br />
pass by the Meni Graves and Hawthorne<br />
hedges where sings the Hyland<br />
Thrush.<br />
Sh! Don't tell this secret for it will<br />
Leek out on Page Street near the coal<br />
Bunker.<br />
19<br />
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"Do you like codfish balls?"<br />
"Don't know, never went to one."<br />
—Ex.<br />
AH
THE POET'S ROLL.<br />
Ed. Parsons—"He was not merely a<br />
chip of the old block, but the old block<br />
.itself."<br />
John Jacobs—"A ver}' unclubable<br />
man."<br />
Grcenberg—"<strong>The</strong> schoolboy with his<br />
satchel in his hand whistling aloud to<br />
bear his courage up."<br />
Harriett—"Her modest looks the cottage<br />
might adorn. Sweet as the primrose<br />
peeps beneath tiie thorn."'<br />
F. L. Cardinali—"When the briskminor<br />
pants for twenty-one."<br />
Chas. Lindgren—"Friend Charles,<br />
thou didst outrun the constable at last."<br />
A. Bunker.—"And touched by her<br />
fair tendance gladlier grew."<br />
A. Hyland—"And when once the<br />
young heart of a maiden is stolen,<br />
the maiden itself will come after it<br />
soon."<br />
A. Meyer—"<strong>The</strong> landlord's laugh<br />
was ready chorus."<br />
E. Wagener—"Her feet beneath her<br />
petticoat, like little mice stole in and<br />
out."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's Cheney so young and so fair,<br />
With blue eyes and bright auburn hair;<br />
But sad to relate he met with his fate<br />
When he tasted a ripe Bartlett pear.<br />
THE CLARION<br />
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devils.<br />
Messrs. Hoffman and Baird, late of<br />
the Orpheum (nigger-heaven), are to<br />
give a novel performance in the art of<br />
juggling at Scalione's <strong>The</strong>ater.<br />
Mr. ".Mercury" Hoffman will also<br />
pose as George Washington, Napoleon<br />
and all the rest of the noted family.<br />
Mr. "Hiram" Baird will conclude the<br />
performance with a few choice jokes<br />
guaranteed to put the audience asleep.<br />
<strong>The</strong> show will be found extremely enjoyable,<br />
as the manager will not refund<br />
any admissions.<br />
THE CLARION<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '11 party attending the<br />
senior reception was afraid to come<br />
home alone in the dark. <strong>The</strong>y obtained<br />
the services of the eminent<br />
guide. 1 (erman "Hercules" Schusslcr to<br />
pilot them through the lower region of<br />
Van Xe;* Aveune. <strong>The</strong> scout in his<br />
nervousness (caused by landing on his<br />
brain pan from a trapeze') displayed a<br />
gun that lacked wheels of being a cannon.<br />
In his mouth he carried a dagger<br />
that would have done credit to a hash<br />
foundry. Much to the regret of the<br />
party concerned, no savages put in an<br />
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CLARION'S BABY PAGE<br />
"Some Articles Received"<br />
THE BUTTER AND THE BREAD. Mr. Ant. "I say, Mr. Grasshopper,<br />
"My dear Mr. Butter will yoi: please that 1 can run as fast as you do,"<br />
tell me your history?" said a loaf of saicl Mr - Aitbread.<br />
"Yes," said the Butter, I will "Well, we won't have a fight about<br />
tell you as much as I remember. First it, let's have a race," said Grasshopper.<br />
some men put me into a pail and left Mr. Bee will start us, and Mr. Snake<br />
me there for a few days, then I was will be at the river, and see who wins."<br />
put in a big round thing what they call<br />
One. two, three! start. Mr. Grassa<br />
churn. Oh. how painful it "was! hopper was so far ahead and poor Mr.<br />
When they took me out I was stiff Ant was nearly sick trying to get<br />
and hard. <strong>The</strong>y then made me into ahead of him.<br />
a square and here I am," said the "Mr. Grasshopper won the race,"<br />
Butter. "And now Mr. Bread i said Mr. Snake.<br />
would like the pleasure of hearing<br />
about you," said the Butter. 'T don't<br />
remember very much," said the Bread,<br />
"but I will tell you as much as I remember.<br />
I was squashed and pounded<br />
and what agony I went through, but<br />
now I am happy and gay. I was put<br />
in a grocery store. Mrs. Jones rang<br />
up and said she wanted some flour.<br />
I was picked out and was sent to SPECIAL FEATURE!<br />
her. She gave me to the cook and she<br />
GRAND BABY CONTEST!<br />
was told to make bread out of me.<br />
Mary put me into a big pan, put a GUESS WHO'S WHO.<br />
cake of yeast in some warm water and<br />
then put it on me. She put some salt SEND ALL ANSWERS TO<br />
on me and then she beat me as hard<br />
as she could, put the lid over me, stood CLARION HEADQUARTERS.<br />
me by the stove and let me rise over<br />
night. In the morning she put me in<br />
GET A LONG<br />
the stove and baked me and here I am<br />
VACATION<br />
with you."<br />
IN A FEW MINUTES.<br />
MR. GRASSHOPPER AND MR.<br />
ANT.<br />
"Hello," Mr. Ant, "don't you wish<br />
you could hop and jump as I do?" said<br />
Mr. Grasshopper.<br />
"Well, don't think for a minute.<br />
you're the only one that can run," said<br />
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My dreams are coming fast and many<br />
And when it's not of Rex and Jenny<br />
It's all about that trip to heaven<br />
I took in search of nineteen 'Icven.<br />
At first to me my work seemed futile<br />
For there I found not a single pupil.<br />
Cept'n the lean. long, lanky fan<br />
Clarence I loffmauio, Pete's right hand man.<br />
HI.<br />
At last my wi>h the Saint fulfilled<br />
lint first did ask. "Where are you billed?"<br />
"To Hades hie we. post haste if you pleasr."<br />
Which quickly brought from Tele a sneeze.<br />
"Ho, ho give my regards to Lucifer Red,<br />
Show him these passports right from my head."<br />
With that Guck and I the limited took'<br />
And soon in Hades were nabbed with a it.ink.<br />
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•A TRIP THROUGH HADES."<br />
It's when dear Pete is feeling boggy<br />
And the sight of the keyhole's a little foggy<br />
That lloff arises, shakes his limbs.<br />
Fondles his brow, then uses his glims.<br />
With serious mien and nary a fall<br />
<strong>The</strong> dear old "fio" looks over the wall.<br />
So >vhen of J'ete I asked his leave<br />
It's no small wonder that he grieved.<br />
II.<br />
IV.<br />
"Out with the passports. Guck." cried I.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> barbs stick me, quick "fore I die."<br />
And stuck right tight like a cork in my throat<br />
I was scrappin' a lump as big as a boat.<br />
For Lucifer Red was holdin" a coal,<br />
A-burning in me a mighty big hole.<br />
At sight of the camps, books, coals and all<br />
'Were quickly removed and dropped with a fall.<br />
And who do you s'pose was incendiary Red"'<br />
'Twas Schuss. indeed, with the mechanical head.<br />
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V.<br />
Right on we pushed thro' thick a<br />
With a pretty good guide as big<br />
And soon we saw this little tootli<br />
To be none other than Walter Fr<br />
"What have we here?" Guck aski<br />
"It looks to me like the whole fa:<br />
All nineteen 'leven is in here str<br />
"Surely." said I. "something is u<br />
VJI.<br />
Leaving the realm of friend Meyc<br />
Strange to say the weather was co<br />
On our left in a pool like Tanta<br />
Was friend Pomp Cheney forevc<br />
And over his head like a knife in<br />
Stood a sleek Giraffe with a mild<br />
And ever anon for a choice lock !i<br />
And take off a bunch as big as a p
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V.<br />
Right on we pushed thro" thick and thin<br />
With :i pretty good guide as big as a pin<br />
And soon we saw this little toothpick<br />
To be none other than Walter Frolich.<br />
"What have we here?" Guck asked of me.<br />
"Ft looks to me like the whole family.<br />
All nineteen 'leveii is in here strong."<br />
"Surely." said I. "something is wrong."<br />
VII.<br />
Leaving the realm of friend Meyer ol old<br />
Strange to say the weather was cold.<br />
On our left in a pool like Tantalus nodding<br />
Was friend l'omp Cheney forever a-bobbing.<br />
And over his head like a knife in the air<br />
Stood a sleek Giraffe with a mild gay stare<br />
And ever anon for a choice lock he'd reach<br />
And take off a bunch as big as a peach.<br />
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VI.<br />
Ajnan like Sisyphus on a hill so high<br />
Was hopelessly toiling with many a sigh<br />
A shovin' and pushin' and totin" a boulder<br />
That looked indeed like a fat little Soldier.<br />
This circular rock, this round, puffy ball<br />
Hissed by like a wasp in its cavernous fall.<br />
And just as it struck on a jagged reef<br />
in one mighty voice: "Ye call me chief."<br />
VIII.<br />
A brow on the peak of a great iceberg<br />
Was reducing a dummy into an erg.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dummy has a teacher's look.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Brow seeing us gave the dummy the hook.<br />
Across the way in a warmer region<br />
Is Beebe Fowler of the Queener's legion.<br />
Along the line in formal array<br />
Two are crying: "Come in when you pay."<br />
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We leave the home of the collator<br />
To get away for somethin' better.<br />
<strong>The</strong> echoing canyons are set in moti.w<br />
From: "Roll on thou deep and dark !»ue oshun."<br />
We see the demon Oikawa<br />
Reciting to friend Hazel Brelauer.<br />
Aiitl then V. R. a maiden fair<br />
Fred.Maggs bespeaks: "What a crown of hair."<br />
XI.<br />
She speaks: "Woman's Ideas of Man"<br />
<strong>The</strong> shades for milts around all ran.<br />
Right at her side is Pars the Deacon<br />
Forever a talkin' of a political mectii:g.<br />
And then in a moment all in a row<br />
•We see the ones that passed below.<br />
X.<br />
<strong>The</strong> farther we go the more we see<br />
'Tis sad indeed. "O woe is inc."<br />
For on the Styx all in a line<br />
Is nineteen 'leven on a sign.<br />
Guck lets out an earthly wail<br />
And keclcrl but for a demon's tail.<br />
Higher, higher than the rest<br />
Is Stella Knne faring the West.<br />
XII.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was everyone of them under the sun<br />
And the worst of it; to them it was fun.<br />
Windmill Street was starting a game<br />
iAnd fanning old Sate who's not so tame.<br />
<strong>The</strong> auto bugs were all in a ball<br />
For Lindgrcn was struck by Lily-Thai.<br />
Right in a Barber chair was Sloss<br />
Having his curls all fixed to the floss.<br />
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Close by was Kant with Bai<br />
Putting Scaly into some bai<br />
•\s he screamed Duke Sangii<br />
Spoke to Card on the price<br />
We saw indeed as the moon<br />
Freddy running to Lovers' 1<br />
At every step we'd meet a f<br />
So fear was ours at every li<br />
For lo. perchance some otlu<br />
Our eyes might cross doing<br />
CLARION CONTRI1<br />
Hveleth Brooks.<br />
Clarence Hoffman.<br />
Alfaretta Bunker.<br />
I.eroy Baird.<br />
John Jacobs.<br />
Chas. C. Scalione.<br />
Chas. E. Street, Jr.<br />
Jas. Rosenberg.
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Close by was Kant with Baird the wags<br />
Putting Scaly into some bags.<br />
As ho screamed Duke Sanguinetti<br />
Spoke to Card on the price of spaghetti.<br />
We saw indeed as the moon did wane<br />
Freddy running to Lovers' Lane.<br />
At every step we'd meet a friend<br />
So fear was ours at every bend,<br />
For lo. perchance some other beauty<br />
Our eyes might cross doing its duty.<br />
CLARION CONTRIBUTORS.<br />
Evelcth Brooks.<br />
Clarence Hoffman.<br />
Alfaretta Bunker.<br />
I.eroy Baird.<br />
John Jacobs.<br />
Chas. C. Scalionc.<br />
Chas. E. Street, Jr.<br />
Jas. Rosenberg.<br />
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XiV.<br />
We stopped: to my head the thought did rise<br />
How did MofT get up in the skies?<br />
Oh. why is it that these are here<br />
And the old Bear Cat was 'way up there.<br />
My curiosity was so great<br />
That I to IIoff the quest, did break<br />
'•Oh, Peter Saint did me kidnap,"<br />
As he smiled and slapped me on the back.<br />
With that my mind was all at rest<br />
And I breathed a breath right out of the west.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n I stretched quite hard and scratched my head<br />
For I was home and out of bed.<br />
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ANSWERS TO BABY CONTEST.<br />
1 Alfred Meyer.<br />
2 Evalyn Wagner.<br />
3 Chas. Scalione.<br />
4 Alfaretta Bunker.<br />
5 Hermann Schusslcr.<br />
6 Genevieve Gehres.<br />
7 Chas. Street.<br />
8 Evelcth Brooks.<br />
9 Luigi Sanguinetti.
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Rosenberg and Oikawa—Gold dust<br />
twins.<br />
F. Kant: Oldest son of Can't family.<br />
Beloved son of Papa Can't and<br />
Mama Can't. Brother of Mr. T Can't<br />
and Miss U Can't. Grieved by the<br />
Can't dog.<br />
C. ^calione: Take two to-night and<br />
two in the morning with a bucket of<br />
water, catch as catch catsup Cor catch<br />
as catch-can.)<br />
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"Little Eva" Frolich crossing the<br />
ice followed by his two nigger-babies<br />
in Act 3. Chattanooga.<br />
W. F. Cheney and his fourth dimension<br />
haircut.<br />
"Father Abraham" Hoffman: All<br />
the nice boys love the girls.<br />
Taussig: Who played in the orchestra<br />
until the director found out what<br />
was the matter with the orchestra.<br />
Yours trulv.<br />
BEHIND THE SCENES.<br />
1 was met at the stage door of the<br />
Mission High School Auditorium by<br />
Garnet Holme, the playwright and<br />
coach of "Chattanooga/' Saturday afternoon.<br />
He bade me wait a minute,<br />
on returning, he informed me that Miss<br />
Brooks was ready to see me. At last<br />
I was to have the opportunity of meeting<br />
that charming young ladv.<br />
I was taken to her dressing.^rgfjiu,<br />
where we were formally introduced by.<br />
Mr. Holme. In her sweet way, she<br />
waved her hand to a trunk for vne to<br />
be seated while she retired to another.<br />
She began talking to me in a most<br />
friendly manner and really, I found her<br />
quite fascinating. Finally getting down<br />
to facts, I approached her with the<br />
main subject.<br />
"How do you like the play." T asked<br />
in gentle tones.<br />
"Ugh," she cried turning away in<br />
disgust, "1 hate it."<br />
Xonplused in this sad beginning. I<br />
asked her again, this time she was more<br />
cordial—"I wish I had a villainous part<br />
where 1 might kill and make trouble<br />
for everybody, then make a dramatic<br />
exit. In this play 1 have to be so good,<br />
it annoys me: everything is so slow."<br />
"I see. Miss Brooks, you are a little<br />
inclined to be an actress," said I: that<br />
tipped her off. She broke in to a dramatic<br />
passion. "Oh! I love it. Mr.<br />
: 1 love the glare of the<br />
footlights: the smell of the grease<br />
paint: the applause of the audience.<br />
Oh. 1 love it."<br />
"<strong>The</strong>n you will be an actress, no<br />
doubt." I encouraged.<br />
"Yes." she said, "my ambition for a<br />
long time has been directed toward the<br />
stage, and T hope some clay to be a<br />
full-fledged actress."<br />
At this moment Garnet Holme entered,<br />
his thumbs in life; shoulder pits.<br />
Taking his place near the wash basin,<br />
lie said with a knowing smile, "you will<br />
be a star some clay, maybe."<br />
"Xow. Mr. Holme." she said, pleadingly.<br />
But he only laughed.<br />
"Sh !" she whispered, "\ oughtn't to<br />
let the secret out, but"—she hesitated<br />
—"Oh well what's the use. Miss Mac-<br />
Gowen is writing a play for me. "Ten<br />
Drops of Blood' or '<strong>The</strong> Butcher Bov's<br />
Revenge." a regular bl<br />
one. then you'll see m<<br />
a villainous pose whicr<br />
of her.<br />
She was then called<br />
boy. announcing her<br />
second act. I could<br />
"Goodby." She tittei<br />
the door behind her<br />
rustle of silks.<br />
"Talk about villainy<br />
said I lolme. with a<br />
emotional parts, wh\<br />
much emotion as a pi<br />
fEnglish stuff)." he ej<br />
me goixl-bv. He kno<br />
fcq?<br />
I here was a young la<br />
^ li" was very fond ol<br />
She ate all in the stor<br />
And now there's no mi<br />
So she's gone back to
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Revenge." a regular blood and thunder<br />
one. thtii you'll see me," and'she .made<br />
a villainous pose which is characteristic<br />
of her.<br />
She was then called away by the call<br />
boy. announcing her entrance to the<br />
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second act. I could learn no more.<br />
"Good-by." She tittered as she closed<br />
the door behind her, with a saucy<br />
rustle of silks. ,'/<br />
"Talk about villainy, she's all right."<br />
Take me home for<br />
I used to be $6.21.<br />
$10.90<br />
said Holme, with a smile, "but her<br />
emotional parts, why she hasn't as N'ow I'm yours for S3.39<br />
much emotion as a pot of marmalade<br />
(English stuff)." he ejected as he bade<br />
Xew Stock Since Last Week.<br />
me gnod-bv. He knows.<br />
BISSINGER & JOHNNY JACOBS.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a young lady named Gen.;';<br />
W h>< was very fond of Sen Sen : , ,<br />
She ate all in the .store<br />
And now there's no more.<br />
So she's gone back to Spearmint again.<br />
Flashy Up-to-date Clothing Store.<br />
CHENEY & ROSENBERG<br />
Latest Styles in Hair Dressing and<br />
Shampooing.<br />
Can make the hair stand erect with-<br />
out a rat. Come in and see us.<br />
PARSONS AND THE CHATTANOOGANS.
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THE LOWELL<br />
Amiel *<br />
As the door opened, letting in the cold air from without, a boy entered<br />
the room.<br />
<strong>The</strong>-Padrone scowled, and uttered an oath.<br />
Amid, the little Italian street musician, was a small lad, very thin and<br />
pinched. Me was naturally handsome, but hunger and privation had done<br />
their work. A mop of curly blac v hair crowned his head. Long, dark, curling<br />
lashes fringed a pair of large, black eyes, their size greatly accentuated by<br />
the exceeding pallor oi his face. His tattered garments barely clung to him.<br />
In his hands, blue with cold, he clutched a dilapidated violin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Padrone's scowl deepened when he saw who it was. He fairly yelled<br />
at the trembling figure as Amid cowered against the wall, evidently aware of<br />
what was to follow.<br />
"Well, come here. Afraid of this?" he sneered, shaking his fist in the<br />
face of the lad, who had advanced, and was standing before him. "Speak up,<br />
dummy: hand over," he commanded, and he held out his hand, a threat in<br />
voice and eyes.<br />
"Signor." Amiel replied, concealing his fiddle behind him. and slowly<br />
drawing a very few. small coins from his pocket. "Signor, I did my best. It<br />
was cold, the people, they will not listen, they—"<br />
A hairy fist knocked him flat on the lloor.<br />
"You !" the infuriated man swore.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy raised his eyes in mute appeal to the figure towering above him.<br />
"A whole day's work." he thundered, "for a few paltry cents. I'll break<br />
your old fiddle over your brainless head. You'll sell papers or black boots.<br />
Go to bed, you young dog."<br />
lie accented his words with several vigorous kicks, then turned to greet<br />
a newcomer. <strong>The</strong> poor boy dragged, himself to a heap of straw in the corner,<br />
and, utterly exhausted, cast himself down, bruised and sore.<br />
"Quit your blubbering." silenced him.<br />
<strong>The</strong> room in which this scene took place was large, square, and stoveless.<br />
1 he cracked, broken windows kept the room at freezing temperature. <strong>The</strong><br />
snow had blown • in upon the straw pallets, which lined the walls, on which<br />
were stretched the forms of boys, all more or less in the same condition as<br />
the little Italian. At on« end of the room a number of boys were gathered<br />
about a table on which rested a few loaves of dry bread. A lad. somewhat<br />
older than the rest, presided over it. This was Signor Rosaia's lodging-house<br />
for homeless boys, notorious for the harsh, cruel, and grasping, utterly heartless<br />
character of ils owner and his treatment of the boys. Supposedly, the<br />
newsboys, bootblacks, street musicians, any of the street gamins without<br />
homes, received lodging and a dry crust, in return for the money they earned<br />
during the day. [n fact, they were his slaves.<br />
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Signer Rossi, on '.<br />
the care of his suppo:<br />
rooming-house in.that'<br />
the funeral Amiel rec<br />
fiddle, all he owned it<br />
boat for America. Oi<br />
lie was soon disiliusi*<br />
found a stern., cruel m<br />
work all the time. R<<br />
the lad. for he knew tli<br />
his power.<br />
l ; or sonic time Ai<br />
into a heavy sleep. ]•',<br />
awakened him. He ar<br />
under his arm. and mil<br />
snow and the cold, ai<br />
again and again. But<br />
once was he rewarded,<br />
he >iooi! there, fearing<br />
brought back.<br />
At last, about t\\;<br />
1' >< Iging-hi itise. Almos<br />
stumbled into the roo<br />
boy had gone to bed s,<br />
Amiel. in silent tc<br />
hand. <strong>The</strong> Padrone s:<br />
and his hand shook wii<br />
and shirt, and catchim<br />
stroke Amiel screamed,<br />
to do more than moan<br />
other boys sat up in ho<br />
lasv. he stopped, and At<br />
great purple welts stai<br />
peased. saw the lad's '<br />
with an oath, broke it (<br />
fearful oath sent the tc<br />
light.<br />
All through the ni;<br />
a smile of peace and co<br />
the friendless boy for t<br />
found rest and friends.<br />
It had been a dull<br />
comparing notes. "I ha<br />
"You beat me, am<br />
the third one was from
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THE LOWELL<br />
Signor Rossi, on liis death-bed, had commended his only son, Amiel. to<br />
the care of his-supposed friend, Signor Rosaia, who, as understood, kept a<br />
rooming-house in that great, wonderful city, Xew York. And so, when after<br />
the funeral Amiel received a letter bidding him come, he took his beloved<br />
fiddle, all he owned in the world, beside his passage over, and boarded the<br />
boat f< ir America. One rainy morning he landed in the city of his dreams.<br />
Me was soon disillusioned. Instead of the kind friend he had expected, he<br />
found a stern, cruel master, who tyrannized over him and compelled him to<br />
work all the time. Rosaia, no doubt, vented a great deal of his spleen upon<br />
the lad. for he knew that he had no friends to aid him, and he was entirelv in<br />
his power.<br />
Fur some time Amiel tossed and turned on his pallet, but he finally fell<br />
into ;i heavy sleep. Early the next morning ihe harsh voice of the Padrone<br />
awakened him. lie arose, and. though it was scarcely light, tucked his violin<br />
umk'r his arm, and munching a dry crust, departed. All day he stood in the<br />
snow and the cold, and with benumbed fingers played his stock of tunes<br />
again and again, lint all passed him by. It was too cold to stop. Only<br />
once was he rewarded, and then it was with a lonely dime. Till late at night<br />
he siocnl there, fearing to return with such a small sum. less than he had ever<br />
brought hack.<br />
Ai last, about twelve o'clock, the half-frozen lad started back to the<br />
lodging-house. Almost dead with fear and cold, he pushed open the door and<br />
stumbled into the room. Nearly every one had returned. More than one<br />
boy had gone to bed supperless, while some bore large welts on their backs.<br />
Amiel. in silent terror, held out the ten-cent piece in his trembling little<br />
hand. <strong>The</strong> Padrone said nothing, but his breath came fast, his eyes blazed,<br />
and his hand shook with anger. Grasping the lad firmly, he tore oft' his coat<br />
and shirt, and catching up the lash laid it on the boy's back. At the first<br />
stroke Amiel screamed, but the beating continued and he soon grew too weak<br />
to do more than moan. L'p and down, up and down flashed the lash. <strong>The</strong><br />
other boys sat up in horror. Never had they seen the Padrone so angry. At<br />
last lie stopped, and Amiel sank to the floor, his poor little back bleeding, the<br />
great -purple wells standing out on it. <strong>The</strong> Padrone, his wrath still unappeased.<br />
saw the lad's violin, which lay on the floor. Me caught it up. and<br />
with an oath, broke it over the unconscious boy's head. <strong>The</strong>n he turned. A<br />
fearful oath sent the terrified boys back to their pallets, lie turned out the<br />
light.<br />
All through the night Amiel lay on the floor, quiet and still, on his face<br />
a smile .if peace and contentment. Signor Rosaia h.ul vented his wrath upon<br />
the friendless boy for the last time. Amiel was beyond his power. He had<br />
found rest and friends. AI. G. MCCI.OIV.IIKV. June "13.<br />
His Best Order.<br />
It had been a dull season, and ihe two young traveling salesmen were<br />
comparing notes. "I had just five good orders in the month of July." said one.<br />
"You beat me, anyway." said his friend. "I got only three orders, and<br />
the third one was from the firm, telling me to come home.''<br />
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A Slip in Time and A Dip in Tide<br />
GARTH W. BOERIKE, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> long span of the P. & R. bridge over Soda Bay lay blistering in the<br />
heat of an August day. It was very hot: the full appreciation of this fact can<br />
best he had by putting 1 ourselves alongside of the two men wlio were plodding<br />
from tie to tie toward the tunnel end of the trestle. Both were of middle age<br />
and rather portly, indeed it was on account of this unfortunate fact that they<br />
were now walking instead of riding, for, after consulting the specialists of New<br />
York about their unusual circumference, one had been bold enough to suggest<br />
with a great deal of common sense, that they walk it off. This, the boon companions<br />
had proceeded to do with diligence, and this afternoon on their daily walk<br />
the trestle was taken, shorter by four miles, and therefore the preferred on a hot<br />
day.<br />
To be sure there was some danger in crossing railroad bridges, especially<br />
a long one, but Mr. Dutrout reflected that variety is the spice of life am! it is<br />
best to be philosophical.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were over half the bridge when Mr. Dutrout broke the silence.<br />
"Pretty deep, eh, Trcnter?"<br />
"I should say about 30 feet," replied the other with a glance at the placid<br />
waters beneath him.<br />
"And if a train should come," suggested Dutrout, glancing at his companion<br />
out of the corner of his eye.<br />
"Mr. Trcnter reached for his wallet and produced a time table. ".\"o danger,<br />
no train comes by here until about 4:45, it's only quarter past that now."<br />
In spite of tin's assurance it was noticeable that the two worthies increased<br />
their pace and gazed rather anxiously ahead at the little black hole in front of<br />
them, which marked the south opening of the Cornell funnel, a few hundred yards<br />
in front.<br />
"I say, Mac," said Dutrout suddenly, "suppose your watch is wrong?"<br />
A disdainful grunt followed this observation, and they relapsed into silence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> black depth of the tunnel ahead grew rounder and bigger, the hill loomed<br />
large before them. It has been said that they were silent,—'tis true they were<br />
very silent, but this did not hinder their advancement—Air. Trcnter took long<br />
steps, Mr. Dutrout came along in a half-trot: a scant 200 yards further and—<br />
<strong>The</strong>y heard a noise. It grew heavier, louder, a rumbling, thundering, sullen<br />
roar—from the mouth of the tunnel!<br />
<strong>The</strong> train! <strong>The</strong>y stood spellbound. <strong>The</strong>ir brains went cold and their legs<br />
refused to move. <strong>The</strong> train!<br />
It was Trenter who broke the statuesque pose into which the two had fallen<br />
by yelling most unpoctically for Dutrout to "get under," but that gentleman didn't<br />
exactly comprehend and remained watching in helpless amazement the actions of<br />
his partner. <strong>The</strong> partner did not stop to watch the effect, or rather the ineffect<br />
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of his .words, foi<br />
the bridge and w<br />
It "was too 1;<br />
Even as he tried<br />
shooting toward i<br />
Well was it f<br />
ure to see the wa;<br />
the airbrakes with<br />
under the fearful<br />
a complete stop t<br />
sizzling. It certa<br />
as they picked tin<br />
fusion until as noi<br />
man made a rush<br />
After the wor<br />
of an engineer, fi<br />
denly jumped to '.<br />
train!"<br />
At this astoni<br />
one else, a passen.t<br />
one was under the<br />
certainly was no d<br />
concerned was spn<br />
Trenter had gone<br />
there he hung 15<br />
11 is speech covere<br />
very original and<br />
lapses into profani<br />
to cry for the trait<br />
Two more nei<br />
and yet another ti<br />
car. Could Mr. T<br />
out,—the people ah<br />
lace and everybody<br />
"Stick to it, a<br />
"We'll heave \<br />
"<strong>The</strong>ir bringiti<br />
Now that the<br />
Mr. Trenter's desp<br />
most varied and ex<br />
looked like a pinwl<br />
his hundred and se<<br />
of agony. He lookc<br />
a splash he would n<br />
with a drop of twei<br />
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of his words, for he had already succeeded in lowering himself by the side of<br />
the bridge and was hanging from one of the ties.<br />
It was too late when Dutrout grasped the meaning of the other's actions.<br />
Even as he tried to imitate Trenter the engine burst from the opening and came<br />
shooting toward him.<br />
Well was it for him that No. 55 had Jim Brady to drive her,—it was a pleasure<br />
to sec the way in which he threw off steam with his left hand and jammed on<br />
the airbrakes with his right in almost the same motion. <strong>The</strong> whole train screamed<br />
under the fearful strain, the wheel base shuddered and groaned but 55 came to<br />
a complete stop ten feet from the prostrate pilgrim. <strong>The</strong> brakes were actually<br />
sizzling. It certainly was a masterful stop—but the passengers didn't think so<br />
as they picked themselves off the floor. All was scuffle and screaming and confusion<br />
until as nothing special happened in the way of falling into the bay, every<br />
man made a rush for the doors and the women for the windows.<br />
After the worthy Dutrout had been sufficiently revived by the combined forces<br />
of an engineer, fireman, expressman and two sympathetic passengers, he suddenly<br />
jumped to his feet, gazed wildly about and gasped out, "lie's under the<br />
train!"<br />
At this astonishing disclosure, while everybody was gazing mutely at everyone<br />
else, a passenger came running up am! informed the gaping circle that someone<br />
was under the trestle. Instantly all made a rush for the spot indicated. Here<br />
certainly was no doubt as to the truth of the statement, for the unfortunate party<br />
concerned was sparing neither breath nor energy in making himself known. For<br />
Trenter had gone down so far that it was impossible for him to get up again—<br />
there he hung 15 feet above the water and yelling for someone to pull him up.<br />
Mis speech covered a variety of expletives from the Eighth language and some<br />
very original and forcible ones from his own, with alternate yells of "help" and<br />
lapses into profanity again. <strong>The</strong> women began to weep hysterically and the men<br />
to cry for the train to go on.<br />
Two more nerve-racking minutes were consumed in accomplishing this feat<br />
and yet another two before the expressman pulled a rope out of the baggage<br />
car. Could Mr. Trenter hang on ? ' It was positively marvelous how he did hold<br />
out.—the people almost fancied they could see the perspiration streaming down his.<br />
face and everybody kept encouraging him.<br />
"Stick to it, old fossil."<br />
"We'll heave ye out!"<br />
"<strong>The</strong>ir bringing a derrick!"<br />
Now that the real danger was over the crowd saw the comical side. In<br />
Mr. Trenter's desperate efforts to get up he was going through a course of the<br />
most varied and extraordinary gymnastics—his feet churned the air so fast they<br />
looked like a pinwheel. Flesh and blood could not stand it longer and already<br />
his hundred and seventy-five' pounds had rested on his arms during four minutes<br />
of agony. He looked downward at the smooth water and actually thought of what<br />
a splash he would make; could he swim ? yes a very little with water wings,—but<br />
with a drop of twenty feet! •<br />
"Hey there now—grab it!" <strong>The</strong> order came from above, and he saw a rope<br />
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swing toward him. To do this he would have to take a flying drop at the rope,<br />
if he'niissed—the water. A chorus of disappointed remarks greeted his indecision,<br />
and -someone asked him if lie wanted an elevator. He keyed himself for a final<br />
effort as the rope swung toward him for the second time, the crowd above held<br />
their breath—nearer—nearer—NOW!<br />
lie let go and lurched forward, the crowd shouted as he and the rope came<br />
together—but parted with mutual regret. Trenter shooting downward in perfect<br />
diving position, found himself in the bosom of Soda Bay.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plunge sent up a shower of spray and the people sent down a shower<br />
of comments, all of which our worthy friend did not know or in any way care<br />
about as hi-; best energies were required to get to the surface again. We tremble<br />
t think i>f him in those dark regions—what he did.—though it is probable (he<br />
fieing a religious man), that a short prayer, no doubt needed, was said for the<br />
>alvation nf his soul, and also (being an excitable one), a good deal of salt water<br />
was taken down, no doubt unneeded. So having gone through some more equally<br />
interesting and alarming experiences and exercises, he finally arrived on the surface<br />
and beheld the towering trestle, the eager crowd, and lastly, oh joy! a<br />
dangling rope wiChin a ?ew feet.<br />
And now our story draweth to a close. Our hero after a last brave struggle<br />
reached the rope—strong hands are above, and he is being siowlv towed to shore,<br />
the crowd cheering, forming a triumph fill procession shoreward. Let us drop<br />
the curtain on the joyful scene, for it has occurred to the author that this is a<br />
must touching and altogether fitting point at which to end this tragic tale. True,<br />
it has nu climax but after all we could not think of drowning our friend Trenter<br />
(who never harmed a llv) for the mere sake of a picturesque ending.—oh dear,<br />
no—therefore we urge you to accept the foregoing.<br />
Like Good Indians.<br />
When 1'rofcssor Wendell of Harvard entered upon his Sabbatical year,<br />
he remained in Cambridge some weeks after his leave of absence began and<br />
persisted in taking part in the departmental meeting. <strong>The</strong> head of the department<br />
protested.<br />
"Sir," he said, "you are officially absent. You are non est."<br />
"Oh. very well." replied Professor Wendell, "a non esc man is the noblest<br />
work of God."—Success.<br />
A member of Congress was very much impressed with the dignity of his<br />
position ami it was always on his mind.<br />
< )ne night his wife awakened him and said. "John, there are burglars in<br />
the house."<br />
"^ ou must be mistaken, my dear." be answered, there may be a few in the<br />
Senate but in the House, •ih. n! no! no! Preposterous."<br />
When I promisi<br />
the interesting" parts<br />
would actually be m<br />
account of some of<br />
We reached Mi<br />
hours before we wei<br />
little boy next door,<br />
officers, unable to w«<br />
in the quarantine do<br />
and breakfasted, and<br />
us. Among them, sc<br />
father of "Brick" T<br />
governor's palace, ai<br />
I'Yver of the navy, a<br />
A girl friend, m<br />
me to stay with her<br />
could, she took me i<br />
riage—through the rl<br />
" Picturesque" is<br />
it. for it is so truly<br />
century world, of an<br />
and sunshine, pirates<br />
rounds the city, wit<br />
"Walled City" there<br />
Spanish architecture,<br />
bullock-carts, laden v<br />
are a kind of water<br />
water longer than a<br />
"ever a native. Arc<br />
tip back at an impossi<br />
•'is Philippine "cochet<br />
nobody cares for time<br />
pass native women ir<br />
with a wide, flaring<br />
"panuloii" of piiia, th<br />
delicate shades, with<br />
reaching almost to tin:<br />
rosaries hanging fron<br />
dark-eyed girls take si<br />
or again a frowning
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THE LOWELL<br />
A Letter From a <strong>Lowell</strong>ite<br />
Fort Mills, Corregidor Island. Manila, P. I.<br />
When I promised to write this article I hoped to find time to copy some of<br />
the interesting parts of the diary I kept on board the transport, but I believe it<br />
would actually be more interesting to readers of THE LOWELL were I to give an<br />
account of some of my experiences and impressions since arriving.<br />
We reached Manila early in the morning—just at dawn, in fact—several<br />
hours before we were expected. 1 was awakened by the stentorian shouts of a<br />
little boy next door. ''Mamma! mamma! papa's come!" for it seemed that two<br />
officers, unable to wait to sec their families, had got themselves smuggled aboard<br />
in the quarantine doctor's launch. We were in dock by the time I had dressed<br />
and breakfasted, and our friends in Manila were streaming on board to welcome<br />
us. Among them, some Loweliites may be interested to learn, was Captain Tobin,<br />
father of "Crick" Tobin, formerly of June '11. This reminds me that at the<br />
Gr ."cruor's palace, at Guam, I met Engracia Critchcr Fryer, wife of Lieutenant<br />
Fryer of the navy, a San Francisco girl and an old <strong>Lowell</strong>ite.<br />
A girl friend, now married in the th infantry, stationed at Manila, asked<br />
me to stay with her a few da3 - s. so after disposing of customs officers as best we<br />
could, she took me off in her victoria—in Manila every one has to keep a carriage—through<br />
the mos ; ; fascinating old Spanish town imaginable.<br />
"Picturesque" is a word that is bound to be overworked if 1 try to describe<br />
it. for it is so truly a picture placed in the midsl of our lntmirum. twentiethcentury<br />
world, of another life and other days—a life of romance, troubadours<br />
and sunshine, pirates and bloodshed. A charming old crumbling gray wail surrounds<br />
the city, with buttresses and old-fashioned brass cannon—-within the<br />
"Walled City" there is a labyrinth of dark, iicirrow streets with stucco houses of<br />
Spanish architecture, almost meeting overhead. Through them w'nd the native<br />
l)ti 1 lock-carts, laden with fruit or vegetables, drawn by carabaos. <strong>The</strong>se animals<br />
arc a kind of water buffalo, very fierce ami powerful, which, if they go without<br />
water longer than a certain time, will become "loco" and attack white men. but<br />
never a native. Around corners dash "calesas"—little two-wheeled cabs that<br />
tip back at an impossible angle when you get into them—at breakneck'speed, and<br />
as Philippine "cocheros" are notoriously bad drivers, tie-ups are frequent, but<br />
nobody cares for time here, so the waits are infinite. Along the narrow sidewalks<br />
pass native women in their gay, picturesque costume, a skirt of brilliant calico<br />
with a wide, daring train, usually tucked up for convenience, a little jacket or<br />
"paiuilon" of piiia. the sheer, stiff fabric woven from the pineapple fiber, of more<br />
delicate shades, with flaring sleeves, and the "panuelo." a high, stiff kerchief<br />
reaching 1 almost to the.-hack of the head: then priests in flowing white robes, with<br />
rosaries hanging from their waists. Sometimes we pass a convent, where little<br />
dark-eyed girls take surreptitious peeps over the balcony into the forbidden world,<br />
or again a frowning old fortress or the sinister-icoking walls of a monastery.
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through whose doors those who enter never pass again. It is all very quaint and<br />
medieval.<br />
Well, just as I was beginning to think 1 might be the prima donna of an<br />
opera and that the soldiers' chorus would enter on the left through the beautiful<br />
old gate in the wall while the peasants retired on the right shaking castanets, I<br />
wasiuulely brought back to earth by the sudden stopping of the victoria and the<br />
announcement in "pidgin" Spanish by the cochero that we could go no further, or<br />
at least only "poco poco," as a tire had come off. My friend replied in pidgin<br />
English that we must drive to a repair shop, after which followed a long discussion<br />
in which neither seemed to have the slightest idea what the other was talking<br />
about. At last we managed to get to the repair shop, where there was more discussing<br />
and gesticulating and interpreting, mostly to the effect that the proprietor<br />
would be delighted to do the job for about twice its value, and finally it was<br />
decided that we had best postpone the repairs and order a calcsa, in which we<br />
made the best of our way home.<br />
I had a charming- visit in my friend's little bungalow in the cool suburb of<br />
Malate. making there my first acquaintance with the rigid routine of Manila social<br />
life. Breakfast at seven, then the carnage for shopping and marketing while it<br />
is still cool, reading, visiting, sewing and "bridge" till lunch, followed immediately<br />
by the siesta till about four, then bathing, dressing and driving on the Luneta till<br />
dinner at seven or eight, after which th-rc is usually a card party or a dance. Of<br />
course, the men have military duties the best part of the day.<br />
Like most people, I believe, I was a little disappointed in the Lnncta, which<br />
I had imagined to be a beautiful drive along the water front. In reality it is<br />
simply a rather bare plaza wtih a band stand in the middle, where the justly<br />
famous Philippine Constabulary Band holds forth at sunset, endinf each concert<br />
with the "Star-spangled Banner." <strong>The</strong> scene itself is, however, very pretty, the<br />
long rows of carriages driving slowly around and around, or drawn up to the<br />
•curb for the occupants to listen, while officers canter along on horseback, or pace<br />
slowly beside the ladies' victorias, and the natives in the reds, blues, yellows and<br />
greens of which they are so fond, walk and chatter on the green sward, as the<br />
sunset glow deepens over the magnificent blue bay. followd by the short dusk and<br />
the marvelous moonlight.<br />
For beauty of mountain and sky and water this place rivals San Francisco.<br />
<strong>The</strong> island on which we live is five hundred feet high and seven miles long, a high,<br />
narrow ridge of rock shaped like some tremendous prehistoric tadpole, lying<br />
directly across the mouth of the bay and separating it into "Boca Chica" and<br />
"Boca Grande," or big and little mouths. Dewey sailed in between a much<br />
smaller island and the mainland on the south, avoiding the main channel which<br />
he thought might be covered by Spanish guns. It was, but the old Spanish<br />
colonel refused to shoot, declaring that the fleet were "No los Americanos, solamentc<br />
commcrciantes." <strong>The</strong> native lighthouse keeper on Cahallo Island, a very<br />
superior man, can tell all about it, though I did not have much chance to talk to<br />
him when I went over there the other evening on a picnic.<br />
We went in a "banca" or native canoe, a dugout hollowed from a single log,<br />
with wide bamboo outriggers which prevent it from tipping over. It is propelled<br />
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by broad-bladed oars<br />
when running before<br />
to have mastered the<br />
the sail and the little<br />
Ancient Mariner." ]<br />
cence flew out like fai<br />
of the lighthouse kec<br />
them are stocky and<br />
Spanish and English<br />
Tagalog (accent on<br />
Manila for three ye;<br />
obliged him to come<br />
love song and "Sobre<br />
work with increased t<br />
have not very sweet'<br />
As we were abot<br />
thought was a bundle<br />
daughter, a dark-eyet<br />
advances save to clut<br />
father only smiled nu<br />
a fonder or prouder c<br />
people as a woman 1<br />
to keep from starvin<br />
and ignorance of the l<br />
not progressed beyonc<br />
all peoples seem to be<br />
I have written a<br />
mentioned a tenth of<br />
you the legend about<br />
witli best wishes to a<br />
A priest in the p<br />
bewitching nun in a c<br />
but alas! the town jt<br />
placed them to starve<br />
"El I'raiie" and "La<br />
named for the other<br />
Carabao," the ox, and<br />
Mary refused tc<br />
if she did not want C<br />
"What is the u.<<br />
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by broad-bladed oars or by a square sail—the latter, of course, can only be used<br />
{( when running before the wind; the natives are excellent sailors, but seem not<br />
, to have mastered the scienceyof tacking. Coming home by moonlight we used<br />
the sail and the little banca flew along like the shadow-ship in the "Rime of the<br />
Ancient Mariner." If we dipped our hands in the water, sparks of phoshorescence<br />
flew out like fairy jewels. Our skipper seemed a very fine fellow, a brother<br />
of the lighthouse keeper, handsome, tall and well built for a Filipino—most of<br />
them are stocky and undersized, though strong—and very intelligent, speaking<br />
Spanish and English quite fluently, besides his native dialects of Viscayan and<br />
Tagalog (accent on the penult). He said he had been to the "Collegio" at<br />
Manila for three years, and would have gone six but his father died, which<br />
obliged him to come home and help support the family. Me sang us a Spanish<br />
love song and "Sobre las Olas" with no little expression, and the men bent to their<br />
work with increased enthusiasm. <strong>The</strong> people are passionately fond of music, but<br />
have not very sweet voices.<br />
As we were about to push off, lie dropped something in the stern, which I<br />
thought was a bundle, till, looking again, I discovered it to be his three-year-old<br />
daughter, a dark-eyed little creature, shy as a rabbit, who took no notice of our<br />
advances save to clutch in one tiny brown fist a piece of chocolate fudge. Her<br />
father only smiled modestly when I said she was '"nuiy bonita." but I never saw<br />
a fonder or prouder one, I think. It seemed hard to believe he was of the same<br />
people as a woman I read of the other day, who killed and ate her own baby<br />
to keep from starving, but when you consider the overwhelming wretchedness<br />
and ignorance of the masses, especially in the '"southern" islands, where they have<br />
not progressed beyond semi-barbarism, and that the fishcr-folk and sailors among<br />
all peoples seem to be the noblest class, it is not so incomprehensible.<br />
I have written a true traveler's letter, rambling and scrappy, but I have not<br />
mentioned a tenth of the interesting things that happen every day. I shall tell<br />
you the legend about this group of islands with their odd names, and then close<br />
with best wishes to all good <strong>Lowell</strong>ites.<br />
A priest in the province of Mariveles. to the north of us, fell in love with a<br />
bewitching nun in a convent near by. <strong>The</strong> pair decided to elope on a native ox,<br />
but alas! the town justice pursued and overtook them on his swift horse, and<br />
placed them to starve to death on the islands which bear their respective names,<br />
"El Fraile" and "La Monja," the priest and the nun. <strong>The</strong> other islands are<br />
named for the other characters in the plot, viz: "El Caballo." the horse; "El<br />
Carabao," the ox, and "El Corrcgidor," the justice.<br />
MARJORIK C. RI.XK.MAX, Dec. '10.<br />
Mary refused to say her prayers one night and her mother asked her<br />
if she did not want God to take care of her:<br />
"What is the use? He will be looking out for Francis anyway, so he<br />
might as well have an eye on me."<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
"(Editor's Note.—This poem was taken from a former <strong>Lowell</strong>. One of our critics<br />
.-j has said that it was worthy of a place in Harper's Magazine.)<br />
Qu' Appelle<br />
.She had said gently in my eager ear—<br />
When Indian summer smiles with dusky lip,<br />
Come to the lakes, f will be first to hear<br />
<strong>The</strong> welcome music of thy paddle dip.<br />
I will he first to lay in thine, my hand.<br />
To whisper words of greeting', on the shore,<br />
And when thoti wouldst return to thine own land<br />
I'll come with thce. thy wife for evermore.<br />
Not yet a leaf had fallen, not a tone<br />
Of fro.st upon the plain, ere I set forth<br />
Impatient to possess her as my own.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fairest of all maidens of the north.<br />
I rested not at even or at dawn.<br />
I'.ut journeyed all the dark and daylight through—<br />
L'ntil I reached the lakes, and hurrying on,<br />
1 launched upon their bosom my canoe.<br />
] rested then, and drifting, dreamed the more<br />
Of all the happiness I was to claim—<br />
When suddenly from out the shadowed shore<br />
1 heard a voice speak tenderly my name.<br />
"Who calls?" I questioned; no reply, and long<br />
I stilled my paddle-blade and listened. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
Above the night wind's melancholy song<br />
I heard distinctly ihat strange voice again.<br />
A woman's voice, that through the twilight came<br />
As from a phantom of the past 'twas wrung.<br />
I leaned and listened. Yes. she spoke mv name.<br />
Anu then I answered in the quaint French tongue.<br />
••Qu 1 Appell.;? On' Appelle?" No answer, and the night<br />
Seemed stiller for the sound, till round me fell<br />
<strong>The</strong> far off echoes from the far off height<br />
"Oil 1 Appelle?" my voice came back. "On" Appelle? Qu' Appelle?"<br />
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This and no.'inore;<br />
I shuddered as tl<br />
And like a pallid s<br />
<strong>The</strong> moon arosi<br />
1 dare not linger o<br />
My boat I beachc<br />
I heard the wail of<br />
I saw the death t<br />
A storm of bitter si<br />
About my heart,<br />
Till through my any<br />
And said, "Twice<br />
I .started up, and be<br />
Asked when did h<br />
"She called thy nam<br />
"As o'er the dist:<br />
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Wasn't ti,al son]e ytl.u.ao.f<br />
lasl ""'vcling. Oh.'pa. wir<br />
.lacks voice brok • ?•• a<br />
frc,<br />
_Shoui after shout went up ;<br />
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»to hijcaml position to aw;<br />
"She's mine pa. and n,<br />
\ iijr blast from a horn b<br />
"Pen exhausts. An e<br />
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,,.., ' :i '' * 1 " aw liis father phi<br />
' ••••' i ••vi-..- the matter? Wa<br />
CtlC>l '"'•""I the race? No ii<br />
Mart and no one was .<br />
livcr s<br />
y eco.ul counted<br />
d across the track out<br />
txcit<br />
«»y to a strange man.<br />
Where's Pete, father?<br />
IJe<br />
received no answer,
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THE LOWELL<br />
This-and no more; I called aloud until<br />
1 sluuldered as the gloom of night increased,<br />
And like a pallid spectre wan and chill,<br />
<strong>The</strong> moon arose in silence from the cast.<br />
I dare not linger on the moment when<br />
My boat I beached beside her tepee door<br />
1 heard the wail of women and of men;<br />
I saw the death fires lighted on the shore.<br />
A storm of bitter sorrow beat and broke<br />
About my heart, and life shut out its light:<br />
Till through my anguish some one gently spoke,<br />
And said, "Twice did she call for thee last night."<br />
1 started up, and bending o'er my dead.<br />
Asked when did her sweet lips in silence close.—<br />
"She called thy name—then passed away." they said,<br />
"As o'er the distant hills the moon arose."<br />
JacR's First Race<br />
L*.\.\ fiu.cimsT, ex-'ll.<br />
"Look, pa. they are taking her out of the pit now. Isn't she a beauty!<br />
Wasn't that some go-wagon? When Pete gets the wheel you'll see some<br />
fast traveling. Oh, pa. why can't I drive her? Why wouldn't von let me?"<br />
Jack's voice broke as a fresh shout came from ihc crowd surrounding" him.<br />
Shout after shout went up as each long, low, sputtering speed dragon swung<br />
into line and position to await its driver.<br />
"She's mine. pa. and no one knows how to handle her as I can. I "<br />
A lo.;g blast from a horn broke out. foiioweci ijyihe sputtering staccato roar<br />
of the open exhausts. An excited voice called his father.<br />
"Mr. Connor, Mr. Connor! Where's your driver? Tn five minutes the<br />
race is on."<br />
Jack saw his father plunge through the crowd and out into the open.<br />
What was the matter? Was Pcve hurt? Was his famous old Simplex canceled<br />
from the race? Xo, it would run. if he must drive himself. Soon it<br />
must start and no one was near it but the mechanic, who was already in his<br />
seat. Every second counted. With a bound he cleared the pit fence and<br />
hurried across the track out on the boulevard. <strong>The</strong>re was his father talking<br />
excitedly to a strange man.<br />
"Where's Pete, father? What's happened? Can't our Simplex run?"<br />
Me received no answer, but heard his father's quick exclamation to his<br />
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companion, "<strong>The</strong>n it's off, though I would rather give my right hand than<br />
sec it off the course." . , '."'""""<br />
"Off the course: no, indeed," Jack thought. ' That car is going to run,<br />
•rid win too" It took him a second to reach the line of cars In two<br />
minutes his car was rated to start. Would he be able to get off on time?<br />
<strong>The</strong> mechanic saw him coming and was in his place.<br />
••Three—two—one." Crack. He was in his seat, and with the roar of<br />
a battery of gatling-guns his big car made the best get-away of.the day. A<br />
moment'later'he took'thc first f "n. passed his father, who stood horror-stricken,<br />
and Hashed out into the open. With a roar the big six National passed<br />
him. <strong>The</strong> Pope came up dangerously close, but with the throttle advanced<br />
and the little hand on the speedometer creeping higher and higher<br />
it was soon lost in a cloud of dust. Why was the National so fast? Only<br />
ve ,-esterdav he had made bettor time. Still his speed was faster every minute.<br />
Yes. the Simplex was gaining.<br />
Suddenly Death Curve arose in view before him. He had not thought<br />
it so near. Could he .md the National pass it together? No! one would<br />
surely go over the bank. <strong>The</strong>y passed it. both speeding like mad. <strong>The</strong><br />
National is stil! ahead, lie fore the turn is half over both big engines are<br />
wide open again. A loud report, and the National swerves sidewise and<br />
crashes through the fence with a blowout, jack turned quickly to the right.<br />
His ear swerves to the embankment, then out into the road. <strong>The</strong>n for a<br />
moment lie is lost in a cloud of dust and white smoke in a cut of the course.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tlasli of his great motor is seen between the trees as it climbs the hill<br />
and finally disappears beyond the turn at the crest.<br />
"National out of race. Simplex ahead." the megaphone boy called out<br />
from his stand.<br />
"Pope gaining. Simplex running wild."<br />
Mr. Connor paced up and down, hardly daring to listen, as the boy<br />
called out the winning motors. Was the boy mistaken—had the Simplex<br />
gone through the fence instead of the National?<br />
"Here they come." A white cloud of smoke arose from down the track<br />
and out of it sped a black motor.<br />
"Pope ahead. Simplex coming fast." and the megaphone boy leaped from<br />
his stand down into the crowd below, yelling lustily. <strong>The</strong> crowd was going<br />
wild. One little Frenchman leaped on the fence, screaming curses at the<br />
Pope. All his money was on the Simplex.<br />
"Simplex gaining." Down the long course they came. <strong>The</strong>y skid on<br />
the turn, but both rush along doing their utmost. Along the turn the Simplex<br />
gains, but the Pope comes up abreast.<br />
Jack hears the wild cheers of the crowd, and with a phenomenal burst<br />
of speed he passes the last turn, a length ahead. A great cry went up, and<br />
doing ninety miles an hour, he passes the judges' stand a winner.<br />
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Romance<br />
<strong>The</strong> warm, bright<br />
sheltered mountain lal<br />
kiss, vvere changed to<br />
beautiful cloud was bJ<br />
seemed almost as thou|<br />
blue home. But each<br />
and so each clay she gij<br />
She led a happy,<br />
breeze, she looked do\i<br />
She saw mankind in jo><br />
otis pursuit of happinei<br />
their babes, shepherds t|<br />
All those sights and ma<br />
on her way. She was]<br />
motionless above deser<br />
inland seas and quiet I)]<br />
mountain peaks. All<br />
delicate snowy beauty i<br />
One day, as the w<<br />
she espied in the blue<br />
rapidly, and soon Cirra<br />
some. Her dainty litlll<br />
with all his brightest r|<br />
such was the name of tl<br />
no longer hastened on<br />
which Cirra chose. Ani<br />
So they drifted for'<br />
follower. When he dr.<br />
and draw away from hit<br />
courtship, for he caught<br />
to him from a safe dista<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir happiness, ho<br />
day of intense heat am<br />
almost stationary, an u<br />
swiftly it approached!<br />
roaring, but Cirra and J<br />
fearful path. Cumulus,!<br />
himself, thundered at till<br />
blast all their hopes, as .<br />
At this, she turned with]<br />
'ate, for the storm cloud<br />
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TlIvE LOWELL<br />
Romance of the Clouds—A Summer Idyl *<br />
VIRGINIA DAVJBS, June '11.<br />
<strong>The</strong> warm, bright rays of the sun gently kissed the placid surface of the<br />
sheltered mountain lake and many drops of water, fascinated by the warm<br />
kiss, were changed to a delicate mist aiid rose slowly upward. That day a<br />
beautiful cloud was born, at first so small and white and delicate that it<br />
seemed almost as though she might be lost in the vastness of her beautiful<br />
blue home. Hut each day the lakes and streams sent to her added strength,<br />
and so each day she grew more and more beautiful.<br />
She led a happy, care-free life. Carried along by the gentle summer<br />
breeze, she looked down on the world beneath and saw wonderful things.<br />
She saw mankind in joy and in grief, she saw careless childhood in its boisterous<br />
pursuit of happiness, lovers strolling in the meadow, mothers caressing<br />
their babes, shepherds tending their Hocks in the peace and quiet of the green.<br />
All these sights and many mere little Cirra gazed upon as she floated gently<br />
on her way. She was carried over quiet lakes and rushing streams, hung<br />
motionless above deserts and dense, dark forests: she was swept over vast<br />
inland seas and quiet bays; she hovered over rolling prairies and kissed the<br />
mountain peaks. All the while she grew more beautiful, and at last her<br />
delicate snowy beauty blossomed into perfection.<br />
One day. as the west wind was lazily wafting her over a tropical land,<br />
she espied in the blue far to the north a splendid, big cloud. He drew near<br />
rapidly, and *oon Cirra could see how well formed he was and how handsome.<br />
Her dainty little heart fluttered and the sun seemed to glorify her<br />
with all his brightest rays, so that her beauty was dazzling. Nimbus, for<br />
such was the name of the handsome stranger, struck with her rare loveliness,<br />
no longer hastened on his way but, enchanted, slowly followed' the path<br />
which Cirra chose. And she, seeing the power of her beauty, was glad.<br />
So they drifted for days, Cirra always leading and Nimbus her devoted<br />
follower. When he drew too near, she would saucily toss her dainty head<br />
and draw away from him. But he, nothing daunted, continued to pursue his<br />
courtship, for he caught many of the shy, encouraging glances which she sent<br />
to him from a safe distance.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir happiness, however, was not to continue uninterrupted for, after a<br />
day of intense heat and ominous silence, during which they had remained<br />
almost stationary, an ugly black cloud was sighted on the horizon. How<br />
swiftly it approached! It came closer and closer with a might)- rushing and<br />
roaring, but Cirra and Nimbus, becalmed, were powerless to move from its<br />
fearful path. Cumulus, for it was no other than the powerful storm king<br />
himself, thundered at them that he had heard of their romance and would<br />
Wast all their hopes, as he intended to take the fair Cirra for his own bride.<br />
At this, she turned with a cry of dimny to fly to Nimbus. But she was too<br />
late, for the storm cloud at this moment reached them and the gale swept her<br />
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from the .safety which she sought in the protecting arms of Nimbus. She was<br />
borne fast and far by the strength of the storm. She wept and pleaded with<br />
Cumulus to allow her to return to her lover, but all her pleadings were in<br />
vain. <strong>The</strong> violence of the storm did not abate and Cirra was ever carried<br />
swiftly on. Cumulus hoped that when she had become worn and weary, she<br />
would in despair consent to be his bride.<br />
After the storm had carried her through a vast deal of space.-she suddenly<br />
noticed a slight abatement in its fury. For (and now we reach the<br />
secret of the villain's undoing) Cumulus, in his anger, had forgotten that his<br />
madness would soon spend his own strength. Sucii. indeed, was what happened.<br />
Gradually, ever so gradually, the storm spent itself, and soon Cirra<br />
found herself floating along on a light breeze.<br />
Meanwhile. Nimbus bad not been idle, lie called to his aid the mighty<br />
East Wind. who. although he is supposed to be a very ill-natured fellow, has<br />
the best of heart.-, under his rough exterior, and by him was borne speedily<br />
away in search of Cirra. <strong>The</strong>y hastened on and on, but still no sign of the<br />
storm king and his fair captive.<br />
Just when Nimbus, certain that all his fears had been realized, was about<br />
to give up the search, lie saw a lair, white cloud in the distance which he<br />
instantly recognized as his love. <strong>The</strong> East Wind c|uickened its speed and<br />
soon the noble cloud was at the side of his loved one. who was overji.ved to<br />
be so soon reunited with him. <strong>The</strong> heavens were radiant after the breaking<br />
of the storm. <strong>The</strong> sun once more shone in all his glory and seemed to shed<br />
his softest light upon the two clouds as he sank slowlv in the west.<br />
Gorilla Pete's Last Voyage<br />
In a little room which was scarcely large enough for a man to turn around<br />
in. seated on a rough board bench, was lames I IowanU-otherwise known as<br />
Jimmy, ordinary seaman. <strong>The</strong> pale, sickly rays from the flickering Hame of<br />
the swinging sea lamp hardly illuminated his features as he sat sharpening a<br />
huge sheath-knife on an oil-stone which be held firmly on the bench. Every<br />
now and then he tested the edge of the knife to see if his work was well done:<br />
but it evidently did not suit him. \)r he always returned to his task grinding<br />
more torcibly than before, in a narrow bunk opposite him his shipmate.<br />
Andrew \\ catlierwix. lay fast asleep, lie must have been dreaming of happier<br />
days, for a smile played about his lips, and from time to time he uttered<br />
meaningless expressions of joy.<br />
I-or a while the one slept: the other continued his work. Eventually the<br />
man in the bunk snorted, stretched 0111 his arms, raised up his bead and looked<br />
at his partner on the bench.<br />
For heaven sakes. Jimmy, what are you doing up? Don't you get<br />
enough pulling ami hauling 0:1 deck, without staying up in your waich below?"<br />
he questioned.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other made no rcplv.<br />
"Gee. I was just dreaming of home." he continued, aiter a pause. "Gosh.<br />
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I wish I was back! What a;i<br />
tub. rolling and plunging off (<br />
"Aw, shut up!" the othe<br />
thin'. Gosh, man, we're out h<br />
Swim ashore?" ..;"• v :"^-•<br />
"Xo. I guess not, Jimmy:<br />
netting sick of this hard treati<br />
:<br />
winter, let alone having that I<br />
mate."<br />
At the mention of the nan<br />
and for some time looked strai<br />
"Andrew," he said, slowb<br />
vovage. If he's not dead by an<br />
of that black devil long enou<br />
longer." Ffe stopped short, to<br />
to roll a cigarette. <strong>The</strong> confes<br />
his shipmate for some time, bt<br />
speech it came to him like a fl;<br />
grinding a sheath-knife in his \<br />
ing. Me bounded out of his bu<br />
"Jimmy, you're not going<br />
slowly.<br />
"Yes." replied the other fir<br />
Xow he's goin' to kingdom con'<br />
Jimmy lit his cigarette an<br />
shipmate eyed him for a few mi<br />
"You know the law extend*<br />
"(>li. hang the law," inter<br />
down here in these black waters<br />
Gorilla possesses enough of it,<br />
stopped ami drew in a few more<br />
Jimmy started to dress to ><br />
lowed. At last his shipmate th<br />
it on the floor and continued:<br />
"This here Gorilia Pete's gr<br />
once heard it told in a sailor boa<br />
two men dead who were at wo<br />
that?" he asked.<br />
" ( >h. it's not what he's done<br />
jail for life."<br />
"Well, what's the difference?<br />
and feeling- nf the edge. "I've a<br />
ways."<br />
Another long period of silenci<br />
deeply.<br />
*•' i ' !'•- blackest scoundrel
Righty—<br />
(ofthe<br />
! *jj<br />
about<br />
lich lie<br />
k\ and<br />
l\ed to<br />
luking<br />
shed<br />
own as"<br />
ame of<br />
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I wish I was back! What a difference in being home and out here on an old<br />
tub. rolling and plunging off Cape Horn."<br />
"Aw. shut up!" the other interrupted. "Ycr always dreamin' of somethin'.<br />
Gosh. man. we're out here. What in the devil we goiif to do 'bout it?<br />
Swim ashore?"<br />
"\o. I guess not. Jimmy: not in this freezing weather, anyway. But I'm<br />
getting *i«-"k ol * this ' lar( ' treatment. Cape Horn is bad enough in the dead of<br />
winter. let alone having that black devil of a Gorilla Pete aboard for second<br />
mate."<br />
At the mention of the name of Gorilla Pete, the other man stopped short<br />
aiwl f'»r ^une time looked straight into the eyes of his shipmate.<br />
"Andrew," he said, slowly, after some time, "this is Gorilla Pete's last<br />
vciya.ye. li" he's not dead by another watch I'm a goniicr. I've stood the abuse<br />
of that Mack devil long enough. You'll not be troubled with him much<br />
longer." He stopped short, took out a bag of tobacco and paper and started<br />
to roll ;i cigarette. <strong>The</strong> confession was loo sudden for the comprehension of<br />
his shipmate for some time, but when lie did understand the purport of his<br />
speech it came to him like a Hash. <strong>The</strong>n lie understood why his partner sat<br />
grinding a sheath-knife in his watch below, when he should have been sleeping.<br />
Hi- hounded out of his bunk and grabbed him by the arm.<br />
"Jimmy, you're not going to murder that man. are you?" he questioned<br />
slowlv.<br />
"Ye.-." replied the other firmly. "He has sailed these seas long enough.<br />
Now he'.- yoin' to kingdom come."<br />
Jimmy lit his cigarette and puffed out white volumes of smoke. His<br />
shipmate eyed him for a few moments. <strong>The</strong>n he continued:<br />
"You know the law extends "<br />
"i >h. hang the law." interrupted the other, angrily. "<strong>The</strong>re's no law<br />
down here in these black waters but a man's strength. And. lord knows, the<br />
Ciorilla possesses enough of it. too. 1'itt I'll get him yet. You'll see." He<br />
stopped and drew in a few more mouthfuls of tobacco smoke.<br />
Jimmy started to dress to go on deck. For some moments silence followed.<br />
At last his shipmate threw away the butt of his cigarette, stamped<br />
it on the iloor and continued:<br />
"This here Gorilla Pete's got a black record. Old Tom told me that he<br />
once heard it told in a sailor bonrding-house in "Frisco that Gorilla Pete shot<br />
two men dead who were at work on the yard-arm. What do ye think of<br />
that?" he asked.<br />
"' >h. it's not what he's done: it's what you'll get. Yer liable to land in<br />
jail for life."<br />
"Well, what's the difference?" the other replied, taking up the knife again<br />
and feeling of the edge. "I've alwavs had a damned hard time uv it. anyways."<br />
Another long period of silence followed, l.oth men seemed to be thinking<br />
deeply.<br />
'.'f all the blackest scoundrels of bucko-mates that ever sailed the seas.<br />
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Gorilla Pete was the worst. His name suited him well, for he certainly looked<br />
like a gorilla. He was about five feet four inches tall, but possessed the<br />
strength of an ox. IIis long, hairy arms dangled at his sides, nearly reaching<br />
his knees. His face was covered with a thick growth of short, black, wiry<br />
whiskers. In their midst two rows of pearly white ~teeth appeared, which<br />
were always showing, for Gorilla Pete carried a savage grin continually. His<br />
ears were adorned with car-rings of a peculiar Oriental fashion. Such was<br />
this tyrant.<br />
Two 'Jays out from San Francisco was sufficient for him to tame the crew,<br />
and that was saying a great deal, for men were scarce along the water-front,<br />
and as a result the "Dauntless"' had a had set aboard. Gorilia Pete had one<br />
good quality—he was a seaman, every inch of him. This appeared to please<br />
the captain, for that person seemed to resign his command in favor of his<br />
second mate and retired to his cabin in a drunken stupor. <strong>The</strong> mate was an<br />
old man and was troubled with rheumatism. Gorilla Pete had little trouble<br />
to scare him. the only other superior officer except the captain. Consequently<br />
lie worked the crew like a band of slaves on a Virginia tobacco plantation,<br />
l'ut seamen are hardy and can stand considerable abuse. However, now that<br />
the ship was off Cape Horn, the crisis was just about reached. Mutiny was<br />
stirring in the foreclastle and murder in the boys' room,<br />
limmy broke the silence.<br />
"Andrew." lie said, '"this may be our last watch together, for you know<br />
the strength of that fiend. I just wanted to tell you a little bit about my life.<br />
You don't object, do you?"<br />
"Xo. certainly not." answered the other. "I've always been curious to<br />
know more about you."<br />
Jimmy rolled another cigarette. After lighting it he continued:<br />
"You see. Andrew, I've always had a hard time of it. T haven't had the<br />
advantages like you have, for my parents were always poor, and I had to<br />
work hard to help support them. Well. I managed well until the death of my<br />
mother. That completely broke my heart." He paused for some time, took<br />
out a little wooden box from the shelf over his bunk, and after fingering in it<br />
for some time pulled out a little picture.<br />
"This was her." lie continued, handing over the picture to his shipmate<br />
'"lietter woman never lived."<br />
His partner studied the picture for some time, and then handed it back<br />
to the owner.<br />
"Honest-looking face," he responded.<br />
"\cs," continued the other, putting the picture away carefully. "Well,<br />
after she died I fell in with a bad bunch. Finally I went broke. One day I<br />
met a fellow who belonged to a set of yeggs. He introduced me to a few of<br />
'em later, and it was not long before I was plying their trade on the street.<br />
We worked together in pairs. All went well for nearly a year and we didn't<br />
get pinched. <strong>The</strong>n one day a fly cop nabbed one of the bunch, and he<br />
squealed on us. <strong>The</strong>y rounded us up into the pen. Well, our trial was set<br />
and we were up for hearing. <strong>The</strong> rest of the gang got six; months, but I put<br />
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promising to ship for<br />
moments before goin^<br />
breakin' rock any old _<br />
revenge, Andrew—you!<br />
'bout it, will you?" I<br />
•'No, never," answ|<br />
"All right. Andre\<br />
just then there vvi.<br />
a bang. Johanson,a Sj<br />
"Aye come on you]<br />
entered and stood for<br />
"Mow's the weathe<br />
"Oil. Gott, man, it<br />
<strong>The</strong> two boys star<br />
way to the forecastle t<br />
watch went on deck,<br />
his way along the rollii<br />
"Remember, Andre<br />
"Yes,"' he shouted .<br />
Jimmy relieved th,<br />
plunged over the rollii;<br />
Gorilla Pete came up on<br />
glancing at the compasj<br />
he leaned against the b<br />
Jimmy now made ready<br />
on the handle of the<br />
failed him at the critic;<br />
up the sleeping mate a<br />
mind he steadied the w<br />
like a tiger, grabbed hisi<br />
into the darkness below,<br />
leaned over the rail a i<br />
realized what he had d<br />
resounded. He poised<br />
waters below.<br />
It did not take the I<br />
wildly. <strong>The</strong>y called the!<br />
search was made for the!<br />
about again and headed .<br />
A little entry in tin<br />
appeared as follows:<br />
'Lost overboard at s<br />
as'Gorilla Pete'; James<br />
Gorilla Pete had ma<br />
finish it. That<br />
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.up a good spiel to the judge about my good behavior-and he let me go by<br />
promising to ship for a trip to sea. So here I am." He paused for a few<br />
moments before going on. At legnth he continued. "But, say. give me<br />
breakin' rock any old time to this. Yes, sir, any time. Rut I'm goin' to get<br />
revenge. Andrew—you'll see. But, say, whatever comes up, don't say nothiir<br />
"bout it. will you?"<br />
"Xo. never." answered the other. "On my word of honor:"<br />
"All right, Andrew," he continued. "It's not my fault."<br />
Just then there was heard a heavy rap on the door, and it slid back with<br />
a bang. Juhanson. a Swede, one of the A. P>s.. entered.<br />
"Aye come mi you fellers. It bane one bell. Time to go on deck." He<br />
entered and stood for some minutes in his dripping oilskins.<br />
"I low's the weather on deck?" Jimmy questioned.<br />
"(Hi. (iott, man, it bane bad all watch," he answered.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two buys started to put on their oilskins, and Johanson went on his<br />
way tu the forecastle to call the A. Bs. Eight bells finally sounded and the<br />
watch went t>n deck. Jimmy proceeded aft to go to the wheel. As he made<br />
his way along the rolling deck he shouted back to his shipmate:<br />
"Remember. Andrew, whatever happens keep mum. : '<br />
"Yes." he shouted back.<br />
Jimmy relieved the man at the wheel. <strong>The</strong> "Dauntless" reared mi'!<br />
plunged over the rolling seas, and the task of steering was a difficult one.<br />
Gorilla I'ete came up on the deck and started pacing up and down, occasionally<br />
glancing at the compass. After a short time the wind died down a little and<br />
he leaned against the backstays., sleepily. It was not long before he dozed.<br />
Jimmy now made ready to strike his victim. Again and again he put his hand<br />
on the handle of the knife and made ready, but his heart always<br />
lailed him at the critical moment. Suddenly the idea came to him to pick<br />
up the sleeping mate and throw him overboard bodily. With this idea in<br />
mind he steadied the wheel and then made ready. He darted at his victim<br />
like a tiger, grabbed him by the legs, held him over the rail and let. him drop<br />
into the darkness below. <strong>The</strong>re was a pitiful yell and then a splash. Jimmy<br />
leaned over the rail a moment, gazing in the wake of the ship. <strong>The</strong>n he<br />
realized what he ! ad done: the pitiful cry echoed in his ears: the splash<br />
resounded. He poised his body, made a leap over the rat! into the black<br />
waters below.<br />
It did :iot take the watch long to find out that the ship was steering<br />
wildly. <strong>The</strong>y called the captain, and he quickly had the ship put about. A<br />
search was made for the twe men. but all in vain. Finally the ship was put<br />
about again and headed on her long voyage to New York.<br />
A little entry in the log-book was all that ever told of the affair. It<br />
appeared as follows:<br />
"Lost overboard at sea. off Cape Horn, Manuel Silva, second mate, known<br />
as 'Gorilla Pete"; James Howard, ship's boy."<br />
Gorilla Pete had made his last voyage, but it took another man's life to<br />
finish it. That part was never known except by one man, Andrew<br />
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<strong>The</strong> History of the Aeroplane<br />
<strong>The</strong> conquest of the air was not won by a mere accident of invention.<br />
Long before man had learned to fly, the science of aviation had to be created<br />
by investigation and experiment. <strong>The</strong> exact nature of the invisible air currents<br />
and the actions of planes and wings were to be learned before the<br />
delicate mechanism of the modern aeroplane was possible.<br />
When one looks back upon the rapidity with which the industry has<br />
grown, we wonder how long ago man began experimenting. <strong>The</strong> ancient<br />
Greeks spun wonderful tales of the mythical Icarus and his flight to<br />
the sun and back again. <strong>The</strong> first really practical aviator seems to have<br />
been a Greek named Aehytas. and we are told he invented a dove of wood<br />
propelled by heated air. <strong>The</strong>re is also another ancient record of a brass fly<br />
which made a shun flight, so that we may be sure that even the ancient<br />
Greeks had their own ideas about hcavier-than-air machines.<br />
As far as we mav judge from these quaint old records the ancient aviators<br />
attempted to fly with wings which they flapped about them in imitation of<br />
birds. About the year 67 A. D.. an aviator named "Simon the Magician"<br />
made a public flight before a Roman crowd. <strong>The</strong> end of the account, which<br />
sounds very plausible indeed, is that he fell to the ground and was crushed<br />
to death. This seems to have been the tirst aeronautical smash upon record.<br />
If we may trust the rude folklore of the Middle Ages, the glider form of<br />
airship, which anticipated the modern aeroplane, was used with some success<br />
a thousand years ago. An inventor named Oliver built a glider and<br />
soared for 370 feet, which seems to be a very creditable record. A hundred<br />
years later a Saracen attempted to tly in the satre wav and was killed by a<br />
fall. Among all these early experiments of the fifteenth ccntii/y, the best<br />
record of an actual flight was made by P.alitta Dante, a brother of the great<br />
Italian poet. In 1456. Dante lleiv in a glider of his own construction for<br />
more than «S00 feet at Perugia in Italy, and a few years later he succeeded in<br />
living in the same glider over Lake Trasiniene. <strong>The</strong> Wright brothers while<br />
perfecting their machines seldom reached this length for a glide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> opening of the twentieth century tound the world well prepared for<br />
the actual conquest of the air. It had taken centuries of failure to teach man<br />
that he could not fly by flapping his wings like the birds, but the idea was at<br />
last abandoned. <strong>The</strong> marvelous development of modern mechanics, especially<br />
the building of light and efficient motors, was also of great importance.<br />
It is claimed by some scientists that the theorv, and largelv the form.<br />
• >f the modern successful aeroplane was first suggested by an English aviator<br />
as early as 17 ( >6. Fifty years later, when the steam engine had been highly<br />
developed, a flying machine was actually built by two engineers, llensen and<br />
Stringfellow. on the models of the Englishman. Sir George Cayley. This<br />
early aeroplane was of the monoplane type, made of oiled silk stretched over<br />
a frame of bamboo. A car to carry a steam engine, and presumably the passengers,<br />
was hung below this plane. <strong>The</strong> motive power was supplied by<br />
two motors in the rear. <strong>The</strong> aeroplane carried a fan-shaped tail with a rudder<br />
for steering it sidewise. placed beneath. <strong>The</strong> model flew for a short distance,<br />
but proved unstable.<br />
For a time it was believed that Hiram S. Maxim would be the first to<br />
construct a flying machine which would actually fly. An elaborate apparatus<br />
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was first constructed like a revolving derrick, to test accurately the lifting<br />
powers of aeroplanes of various sizes and shapes flying at different angles,<br />
as well as the propelling force of many kinds of screws. <strong>The</strong> horizontal arm<br />
of this machine was 30 feet 9 inches long, so that it described a circle of 200<br />
feet in circumference. <strong>The</strong> arm was driven by an engine at high speed. <strong>The</strong><br />
various aeroplane forms to be tested were attached to the extreme end of<br />
this arm. and driven by propellers of all shapes and sizes, exactly as they<br />
would be in actual flight.<br />
A large aeroplane was finally built in 1893. It weighed 7500 pounds,<br />
measured 104 feet in width, and was driven by a 360 horse-power engine.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main plane was almost square in shape, while stability planes extended out<br />
from the sides. A series of four narrow planes, one above another, were<br />
carried below on either side. <strong>The</strong> machinery for driving was carred far below<br />
the main plane. <strong>The</strong> two large propellers were placed in the stern. <strong>The</strong><br />
aeroplane was run along a double-tracked railroad 1800 feet in length, to gather<br />
sufficient momentum to cause it to rise. When it was finally sent down the<br />
track at a good clip, the front wheels did actually rise a trifle, but it immediately<br />
came down with a bad smash.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wright brothers brought to their work a genius for invention, and.<br />
making irw use of former investigations and experiments, finally succeeded in<br />
building a heavier-than-air machine which would actually fly. <strong>The</strong>y did not<br />
begin their experiments until the summer of 1S96. <strong>The</strong>y first prepared themselves<br />
by reading the literature of the day on aeronautics, making themselves<br />
familiar with the result> of all the experimental work of the aviators—Langley,<br />
C.'hanute. Mouillard. and many others. <strong>The</strong> Wrights thought that the first thing<br />
to be solved was to build aeroplanes which would fly and that it would be foolish<br />
to waste time ami money building delicate and costlv machinery to operate them.<br />
1'hey first took up the problems of the glider, but soon discarded the various<br />
forms then used fur experiments.<br />
I'he Wrights first began their active experiments at the close of October,<br />
1'XJO. at Kitty Hawk. N'orth Carolina. <strong>The</strong> machine was designed as a kite.<br />
to be flown with a man aboard, in winds of small velocity. <strong>The</strong> machine of<br />
I'M was built with the shape of surface used by Lilienthal, that is. curved from<br />
mini to rear, with a slight curvature of its cord, but about 165 square feet in<br />
area, a size much larger than Cbanute had deemed safe. <strong>The</strong> experiments of<br />
tin's year were far frr.m encouraging. In September and October, 1902, nearly<br />
"tie thousand flights were made by the brothers, several of which covered distances<br />
over 600 feet. <strong>The</strong> first flights with the power machine were made on<br />
the l/'th of December, 1003. <strong>The</strong> Hig-lit lasted only twelve seconds, but it was.<br />
nevertheless, the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a<br />
man had raised itself by its own power into the air in free flight. <strong>The</strong> second<br />
and third flights were a little longer and the fourth lasted fifty-nine seconds,<br />
covering a distance of S53 feet over the ground against a twenty-mile wind. <strong>The</strong><br />
Wrights, having once built a practical flyer, they spent the years 1906 and 1907<br />
in constructing new machines which would meet the requirements of a contract<br />
with the United States Government to furnish a flier capable of carrying two<br />
men and .sufficient fuel supplies for a flight of <strong>12</strong>5 miles, with a speed'of forty<br />
miles nn hour.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wright machine was not only the first power airship to fly and carry a<br />
man aloft, but. for all its rivals, it still rides the unstable air currents more<br />
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horse-power, the airs<br />
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aviation, was Voisir<br />
Wrights or 1590 poi<br />
favorable conditions,<br />
propeller, which is si<br />
motor, an eight-cylin<<br />
lutions per minte. 'J<br />
which are considered<br />
swiftest of all aerop<br />
American inventors,<br />
biplane, built by an /<br />
one ton, or more thai<br />
While the biplan<br />
the monoplane exact<br />
being a much lighter<br />
any multiplane model<br />
<strong>The</strong> first monop<br />
ventor had worked wi<br />
in 1906. and, beginnii<br />
<strong>The</strong> machine in which<br />
remarkable cross-coun<br />
about 5C0 pounds. 1<br />
and one near the rear<br />
hour clip. <strong>The</strong> heav:<br />
toinette model, which<br />
dragon-fly and has prc<br />
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Within a few months,<br />
longest time. <strong>The</strong> spc<br />
that now it is a popu<br />
control of their machi<br />
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steadily than any other. <strong>The</strong> planes measure forty feet from tip to tip, six and<br />
a half feet across, and arc spaced six feet apart. <strong>The</strong> area of the wings or<br />
supporting surfaces is 540 feet,'/which is considerably more than in most air<br />
craft. <strong>The</strong> machine complete, with any passenger or pilot, weighs 880 pounds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two propellers measure eight feet in diameter and turn at the rate of 450<br />
revolutions a minute. Equipped with a four-cylinder engine of from 25 to 30<br />
horse-power, the airship has a speed of forty miles an hour.<br />
In the summer of 1904, the boys of Paris were greatly interested in watching<br />
a curious giant kite in flight over the river Seine. <strong>The</strong> man who flew it was in<br />
a motor boat below and he tinkered with the rope and changed the wings about<br />
until it flew. <strong>The</strong> man with the kite, who soon became famous in the world of<br />
aviation, was Voisin. <strong>The</strong> Voisin model weighs 300 pounds more thnn the<br />
Wrights or 1590 pounds. It has a speed of thirty-eight miles an hour under<br />
favorable conditions. Another point of difference from the Wright model is the<br />
propeller, which is single and measure* seven feet six inches in diameter. <strong>The</strong><br />
motor, an eight-cylinder Antoinette, usually gives fifty horse-power at 1100 revolutions<br />
per miute. <strong>The</strong> Wright Brothers, by the way. make their own motors,<br />
which are considered highly inferior to the French motors. <strong>The</strong> smallest and<br />
swiftest of all aeroplanes is the Curtiss-Hcrring model, named after its two<br />
American inventors. <strong>The</strong> largest and by far the heaviest aeroplane is the Cody<br />
biplane, built by an American inventor who lives in England. It weighs nearly<br />
• me tun. or more than 1S00 pounds, and measures fifty-two feet across.<br />
While the biplane borrows the general principles of flight from the birds,<br />
the monoplane exactly reproduces their form and movement. This machine,<br />
being a much lighter and less complicated car. i< therefore cheaper to build than<br />
any multiplane model.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first monoplane to make an extended flight was the nicriot. Its inventor<br />
had worked with Yoisin in the experiments above the river Seine at Paris<br />
in l'JfM'i. and. beginning with short flights of only a few yards, worked his way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> machine in which he crossed the English Channel in 1909, and made several<br />
remarkable cross-country flights, was his eleventh model. This monoplane weighs<br />
about 500 pounds. <strong>The</strong> machine is mounted on three wheels, two.at the front<br />
and one near the rear, just forward of the rudder. It travels at a forty-mile an<br />
hour dip. <strong>The</strong> heaviest and largest of the monoplanes at present is the Antoinette<br />
model, which is the invention of M. Lasseur. Jt looks like a great<br />
dragon-fly and has proven very steady when in flight, fn some of the Antoinette<br />
models the wings arc set in the form of a broad, dihedral angle. <strong>The</strong> model ha:risen<br />
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At the completion of the Civil War in the United States. Italy was crossing<br />
arms with Austria for the possession of the territory in the vicinity of<br />
the city of Venice.<br />
At that time 1 held the position of quartermaster on the Italian frigate<br />
•'Formidabile" was a part stood on guard at the entrance of the harbor of<br />
feet in length, having three tiers of guns, three masts, full rigged, and a large<br />
funnel. Her keel was laid at Toulon on the southern coast of France. She<br />
was manned by seven hundred men and officers and carried fifty-five cannon.<br />
One early June morning in the year 1S66. the squadron of which the<br />
"Formidable" was a part stood on guard at the entrance of the harbor of<br />
Lissa. the principal city of the island of the saii.j name. Lissa is situated on<br />
the Dalmatian coast in the Adriatic Sea. opposite the Italian coast. As dawn<br />
arose from the slumbering city, the while abodes shone forth in splendor<br />
and were reflected upon the still Adriatic.<br />
In the meantime we were given orders by the commanding ship to enter<br />
the port, prepare for battle and fire upon the forts at the west side, with the<br />
greatest camion against destroying property and life in the city proper.<br />
Soon the ship was rolling with excitement, orders, the rattling of chains, the<br />
squeaking of the rigging. Kach man was stationed at his place with a bottle<br />
of water on one side and a jug of rum on the other, as was the custom at<br />
that lime in the navy. We slowly entered port, prepared for the conflict.<br />
My position was between the spar and the main decks, handing up the shot<br />
and powder.<br />
As soon as we were seen by the enemy they fired upon us, their first shot<br />
striking our mizzen-mast and killing five men and two officers. <strong>The</strong>ir shots<br />
increased rapidly, and soon the decks were covered with wounded men. My<br />
work had been changed, for 1 was now acting as a nurse. At about ten<br />
o'clock, by a well-directed broadside, the main portion of the fort was blown<br />
up. which gave a greater impetus to our men.<br />
lly this hour at least one-half of our tars were disabled. Officers, firemen,<br />
pantrymen and all who were able were called upon to man the guns.<br />
I wo oi the masts had been shot away, the mainmast and the mizzen-mast.<br />
<strong>The</strong> funnel was entirely reduced to a heap of scrap iron. <strong>The</strong> battle was<br />
kept on. however, with a greater loss to the enemy. l!y coincidence one of<br />
our stray shots struck the steeple of the cathedral, which falling, fell upon a<br />
regiment of soldiers rushing to the aid of their weary compatriots, killing<br />
their commander outright.<br />
I he battle now had been raging for nine hours. <strong>The</strong> men were beginning<br />
to fall trom exhaustion. <strong>The</strong> fire from the fort began to slow down.<br />
ISy three o'clock one of the enemy's shells, having exploded among the debris,<br />
set our ship afire.<br />
lo save ourselves from surrendering, we decided to escape, and in doing<br />
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so, instead of hauling the anchor aboard, we cut the chain and left it. Getting<br />
beyond the firing line, we soon had th^ blaze under control, and when everything<br />
was in good order we turned our prow toward Trieste.<br />
It was later ascertained that one thousand seven hundred shots had<br />
struck the ship, a great number of which did very little injury. Five hundred<br />
of the men were either killed or wounded. Many were not injured by shots<br />
but by falling timbers and riggings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> anchor and chain which were left behind in the Bay of Lissa were<br />
later discovered and placed in a square of the city of Lissa to commemorate<br />
the event, and it still rests there to this day.<br />
In spite of our misfortune, when we arrived at our native shores we were<br />
greeted with great applause and rejoicing, for that battle can be called one<br />
of the few victories of the Italians on the r.ca. <strong>The</strong> land forces of Italy met<br />
with greater success.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ausirians in the battle with us lost four times our number.<br />
L. S.. June '11.<br />
A Runaway Cannon<br />
(Translated from Victor Marie Hugo.)<br />
A terrible accident had happened. One of the earronades of the battery,<br />
a twenty-four pounder, had gotten loose. This is perhaps one of the most<br />
terrible of ocean accidents. Nothing more frightful could happen to a vessel<br />
in open sea under full sail.<br />
A gun that breaks its moorings suddenly is transformed from a machine<br />
to ri monster. <strong>The</strong> mass turns upon its wheels, has the rapid movements of<br />
;i ball; rolls with the rolling, pitches with the pitching, goes, comes, pauses,<br />
seems to meditate: resumes its course, rushes along the ship from end to end<br />
like an arrow, circles about, springs aside, rears, breaks, kills, exterminates.<br />
It is a batteiing-ram which assaults a wall at its own caprice. Moreover, the<br />
ram is metal, the wall wood. It is the entrance of matter into liberty. One<br />
might say that this eternal slave avenges itself. It seems as if the power of<br />
evil hidden in what we call inanimate objects finds a vent and bursts suddenly<br />
out. <strong>The</strong> mad mass has the bounds of a panther, the weight of an<br />
elephant, the agility of a mouse, the obstinacy of the ON. the unexpectedness<br />
of the surge, the rapidity of lightning, the deafness of a tomb. It weighs<br />
ten thousand pounds, still it rebounds like a child's ball, its (light is a wide<br />
whirl .•ibruptlv cut at right angles. What is to be done? How to end it?<br />
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes, a wind falls, a broken mast is replaced,<br />
a leak is stopped, a fire dies out, but limv to control this enormous brute of<br />
bronze? In what way can it be attacked?<br />
You can make a mastiff iiear reason, astound a bull, fascinate a boa.<br />
frighten a tiger, soften a lion, but there is no resource with that monster, a<br />
camion let loose. You cannot kill it.—it is dead: at the same time it lives.<br />
It lives with a sinister life bestowed upon it by infinity.<br />
<strong>The</strong> planks beneath it give way. It is moved by the ship, which is<br />
moved by the sea and wind. <strong>The</strong> destroyer is a plaything, the ship, the<br />
waves, the blasts, all aid it: hence its frightful vitality. I low to assail this<br />
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fury of complication? How to fetter this monstrous mechanism lor wrecking<br />
a ship? How to foresee its comings and goings, its stops, its shocks?<br />
Any one of these blovs upon the sides may stave out the vessel. How<br />
divine its awful gyrations? One has to deal with a projectile whiclithinks,<br />
seems to possess ideas and which changes its direction at each instant. How<br />
to stop the course of something which must be avoided? <strong>The</strong> horrible cannon<br />
flings itself about, advances, recoils, strikes to the right, strikes to the<br />
left, flees, passes, disconcerts, ambushes, breaks clown obstacles, crushes men<br />
like flies. <strong>The</strong> great danger of the situation is in the mobility of its base.<br />
At the moment when the lashings gave way. the gunners were in the<br />
battery, some in groups, others standing alone, occupied with such duties as<br />
sailors perform in the expectation of the command U: clear for action. <strong>The</strong><br />
carronade. hurled forward bv the pitching, dashed into this knot of men,<br />
crushed four at the first blow: then, shot back and flung out anew by the<br />
rolling, it cut in two a fifth poor devil, glanced oil' to the larboard side, struck<br />
a piece of battery with such force- as to unship it. <strong>The</strong>n rose the cry of<br />
distress which had been heard. <strong>The</strong> men rushed toward the ladder. <strong>The</strong><br />
gun-deck emptied in a twinkling of an eye. <strong>The</strong> enormous cannon was left<br />
alone. She was given up to herself, her own mistress and mistress of the<br />
vessel. She could do what she wished. <strong>The</strong> whole crew, accustomed to<br />
laugh in battle, trembled now. To describe the universal terror would be<br />
impossible.<br />
Suddenly into the midst of this sort of inaccessible circus where the<br />
escaped camion leaped and bounded, there sprang a man with an iron bar<br />
in his hand. It was the author of this catastrophe, the gunner whose culpable<br />
negligence had caused the accident. Having been the means of bringing<br />
about the misfortune, he desired to repair it. lie caught up a handspike<br />
in one list, a tiller-rope with a slipping noose in the other, and jumped down<br />
into the gun-deck. Thus a strange combat began—a titanic battle—the<br />
struggle of the gun against the gunner, a battle between matter and intelligence:<br />
a duel between the inanimate and human.<br />
I lie man. posted in an angle, the bar and rope in his two fists, backed<br />
against one of the sides, settled firmly on his legs as on two pillars of steel:<br />
livid, calm, tragic, glued to the floor, as it were, he awaited for the cannon<br />
to pass near him. <strong>The</strong> gunner knew his piece and it seemed to him that she<br />
must recognize her master. He had lived a long while with her. How many<br />
times had he thrust his hands between her jaws. It was his tame monster.<br />
He began to address it as if h were his dog.<br />
"Conic." said lie. Perhaps he loved it.<br />
He seemed 10 wish that it would turn toward him.<br />
Hut to come toward him would be to spring on him. <strong>The</strong>n he would be<br />
lost. How to avoid its crush? That was the question. All stared in<br />
stupefied silence.<br />
Not a breast respired freely except perchance that of the old man who<br />
alone stood on the deck with the two combatants, a stern second.<br />
At the instant when, accepting this awful hand-to-hand contest, the<br />
gunner approached to challenge the cannon, some chance fluctuation of the<br />
waves kept it for a moment immovable, as if suddenly stupefied.<br />
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as a lever, rocl<br />
like a falling<br />
passed the slij<br />
overthrown ml<br />
It was enl<br />
mastodon; the!
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THE LOWELL<br />
•'Come on!" the man said to it. It scorned to listen.<br />
Suddenly ir darted upon him. <strong>The</strong> gunner avoided the shock.<br />
<strong>The</strong> strugg'e began.—struggle unheard of. <strong>The</strong> fragile matching itself<br />
against the invulnerable. <strong>The</strong> thing of flesh attacking the brazen brute. On<br />
the otic side a blind force, on the other a soul <strong>The</strong> whole took place in half<br />
light. It was like the indistinct vision of a miracle. : -<br />
A soul.—strange thins': bin you would have said the cannon had one.<br />
ton,—;i sou! filled with rage and hatred. <strong>The</strong> blindness appeared to have<br />
eyes. <strong>The</strong> monster wa-? watching the man. <strong>The</strong>re was. one might have<br />
fancied *o at least, something cunning in this mass. It also chose its moment.<br />
It became a gigantic insect of metal, having, or at least seeming to<br />
have, the will of a demon. Sometimes this colossal grasshopper would strike<br />
the low ceiling of the gun-deck, then fall back on its four wheels like a tiger<br />
upon its four claws and dart arcw upon the man. Me. supple,—agile,—alert.<br />
—would glide away like ;i snake from the reach of those lightning-like movements.<br />
He escaped, but the blows fell on the vessel and continued the havoc.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man fought. Sometimes even it was the man who attacked the<br />
cannon, lie crept along the side, bar and rope in hand, and the cannon had<br />
the air of understanding and tied as if it perceived a snare. <strong>The</strong> man pursued<br />
it. formidable, fearless.<br />
Such a duel could not last long. <strong>The</strong> gun. as if in a fury, broke a earronade<br />
to the larboard: then, seized anew by the invisible siing which held<br />
it. was flung toward the starboard toward the man. who escaped. Three<br />
carronades gave way under the blows of the gun: then, as if blind, unconscinus<br />
of what it was doing, it turned its back on the man. rolled from stern<br />
to ijnw, bruising the stern and making a breach in the plankings of the prow.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gunner had taken refuge at the foot of the stairs, a few steps from Ihe<br />
old man who was watching.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gunner held his handspike at rest. <strong>The</strong> cannon seemed to perceive<br />
him. and. without taking the trouble to turn itself, backed upon him with the<br />
quickness of an ax-stroke. <strong>The</strong> gunner, if driven back against the side, was<br />
lost. <strong>The</strong> crew uttered a simultaneous cry.<br />
Hut the old passenger, till now immovable, made a spring more rapid<br />
than all these wild whirls, lie seized a bale of false assignats and at the risk<br />
of being crushed, succeeded in flinging it between the wheels of the carronade.<br />
<strong>The</strong> maneuver, decisive and dangerous, could not have been executed<br />
with more adroitness and precision by a man trained to all the exercises<br />
set down in Durosel's "Manual of Sea Gunnery."<br />
This had the effect of a plug. A pebble may stop a log. a branch turn<br />
an avalanche. <strong>The</strong> carronade stumbled. <strong>The</strong> gunner in his turn, seizing<br />
this terrible chance, plunged his iron bar between the spokes of one of the<br />
hind wheels. <strong>The</strong> cannon stopped. It staggered. <strong>The</strong> man. using the bar<br />
as a lever, rocked it to and fro. <strong>The</strong> heavy mass turned over with a clang,<br />
like a falling bell, and the gunner, dripping with sweat, rushed headlong and<br />
passed the slipping noose of the tiller-rope a. ut the bronze neck of the<br />
i iverthrown monster.<br />
It was ended. <strong>The</strong> man had conquered. <strong>The</strong> ant had subdued the<br />
mastodon: the pigmy had taken the thunderbolt prisoner.<br />
CII.XS. C. Sc.u.mxi-:. '11.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
At Twelve o'CIocK<br />
SYLVIA KEMPTO.W June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
A high wind rustled through the almost leafless branches of the trees<br />
along a Ionelv mad; low mutters of thunder and occasional flashes of lightning<br />
presaged the coming of a storm, but despite this unfavorable weather<br />
on a night in late October in the year 1776, a traveler was abroad. This lone<br />
traveler was an officer in Washington's army, Lieutenant Russell. As a spy<br />
ho had just completed a report on the condition and plans of Cornwallis'<br />
army, which he" was now hast<
THE LOWELL<br />
"Tn faith, 'tis good to be inside this blustery night," the older one. a large,<br />
red-faced man, cried. "Hurry, girl, and bring us something to eat and to drink.<br />
Mo! here is our worthy host. How do you happen to be up so late, my man ?" he<br />
ended, suspiciously.<br />
".Sir. some late travelers, soldiers like yourselves, stopped late at mv inn<br />
and have been gone but a short time. I have many soldier guests since Lord<br />
Cornwall's captured this region. Alas, a poor man like myself gets little rest from<br />
you soldiers." he replied, ending with a complaining tone.<br />
This answer satisfied the soldiers, especially since Katrina entered at this<br />
moment with their supper, thus diverting them from the landlord who seized the<br />
opportunity to slip out and bring the lieutenant's horse to the door.<br />
As Katrina set the food on the table the younger officer spoke for the first<br />
time.<br />
"We!!, my pretty maid," he said affably, "are you loyal to old England or a<br />
sauev rebel ?"<br />
"I am a rebel as you're pleased to call it,"' she replied proudly, "and you'll<br />
find few women in the colonies who are not."<br />
"Kaith, the women of the colonies are hot-tempered. Tf the men were as<br />
spirited we would soon be defeated." remarked the older officer jokingly.<br />
"Never fear. You'll have cause to fear them yet," cried Katrina holly.<br />
"If I can escape injury from your eyes 1 need not fear the men." said the<br />
younger officer, then turning to his companion. "We must learn more about that<br />
road before us. Can you tell us. girl, if this road follows the river?"<br />
"What, are you riding that way to-night, of all nights?" she exclaimed. " 'Tis<br />
more than many men would do. You are brave men to ride by the witches' bog<br />
this night."<br />
"Why. what is that? Think you to frighten us with a granny's ghost story?"<br />
one asked .'cornfully. "But tell us. anyway."<br />
" 'Tis said that years ago," she explained in awe, "a late traveler, riding down<br />
this n.ad on a stormy night like this saw the witches and ghosts holding revels in<br />
the bog. <strong>The</strong>y caught him spying on .them and he has ne'er been seen since." Mer<br />
voice sank lower and above it could be heard the wailing of the wind outside.<br />
"1'iiit on this night every year at twelve o'clock ht rides down that hill and at the<br />
bottom disappears as when the witches caught him. You could not hire a man for<br />
love nor money to go that road to-iiight."<br />
<strong>The</strong> night was suitable for ghost stories. <strong>The</strong> few candles in the room cast<br />
grotesque shadows on the walls. <strong>The</strong> wind howled In the chimney and the<br />
thunder rolled. Though the soldiers seemed even less inclined to ride on that<br />
night than before the story, they scoffed.<br />
"Nonsense, go away with your witch stories: you see two ride that way<br />
to-night." cried one officer.<br />
Katrina gave an awed look at them as she left the room with her tray. When<br />
SIK- wa< gone the red-faced man glanced at the clock then at his companion.<br />
"I'ifteen minuter, to twelve." he remarked, "get out your maps and correct<br />
that mistake before we go. and take your time. If we M>end some time here we<br />
won't reach that bog at twelve." Me laughed uneasily.<br />
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"Oh. ho. so that's what's bothering him," thought the other to himself. Me<br />
himself was not anxious to leave either. <strong>The</strong> witch story had affected him also.<br />
Russell, from his hiding place, saw them spread out the maps on the table.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se maps would be invaluable to Cornwallis, showing the country and fortifications<br />
as they did. Me resolved to get possession of them and foil Cornwallis.<br />
His pistol was in his pocket but he decided not to use it until absolutely necessary<br />
a- it contained but oitc shot, which being discharged he would be at their mercy<br />
while reloading. He must find some way to surprise them, secure the papers and<br />
escape without using his gun. Groping in his pockets his finger touched his snuffbox.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> very thing." he said to himself.<br />
Taking a large handful he lunched the inside spring of the door. It swung<br />
>low]y outward, creaking sligh'.Iv, biw the soldiers' backs were to the door of the<br />
closet -ii thinking the sound caused by the wind they did not notice it. Russell<br />
stepped noisclc-sly from hi- hiding place and creeping slowly up behind the men<br />
was at their back before they discovered liiin. <strong>The</strong>y sprang to their feet. I'.eforc<br />
either could draw pistol, however, a quantity of the snuff had been thrown in<br />
their faces.<br />
Sneeze followed sneeze in inexpressible rapidity. Tears ran down their<br />
cheeks and not a word could thev utter. Before they could sufficiently recover to<br />
run in the barn, mount and follow. Russell was far ahead.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir lii.r>es were still fresh but even so the lieutenant could easily have outdistanced<br />
them, init the mail was treacherous and his horse slipped, hurting its<br />
foot, ilui.s making swift riding impossible. When he reached the top of the hill<br />
leading to the witches' bog his pursuers were not far behind. As he rode down<br />
the hill he faintly heard above the noise of the wind the strokes of twelve begin<br />
from a church tower in a village not far away. Twelve o'clock at the witches'<br />
bog!<br />
lie knew the country well for he had lived near this place as a bov. On<br />
the right side of the road was a rocky cliff about twenty feel high in which was<br />
a crevice concealed by bushes, known only to a few. which led to a large cave<br />
inside. ( )n the left was a dark bog bordered by forest, an uninviting spot at its<br />
best but now at midnight in a storm uncanny to the most courageous.<br />
<strong>The</strong> soldiers were at the top of the hill. "<strong>The</strong>re he is. lie can't escape." yelled<br />
one as a flash of lightning showed the !.' "iteiiant at the foot of the hill. Suddenly<br />
the hoof-beats of the lieutenant's horse ceased. <strong>The</strong> next lighlnirg flash revealed<br />
neither horse nor rider, but on one side of the road a seemingly impenetrable<br />
dill, on the other an empty bog. As the soldiers drew up near the foot of the<br />
hill the last .stroke of twelve was borne to their ears.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were brave men usually but this supernatural disappearance at the time<br />
and place emphasized in Katrina's story -truck their hearts cold with fear. As<br />
they paused there uncertainly several bats swooped out from the side of the cliff<br />
right in their faces. Terrified, they turned their horses and fled swiftly back to<br />
the pleasant inn.<br />
After their hoof-beats died away Rtisseli emerged from the cave in the cliff<br />
and rode swiftly toward headquarters which he reached before morning. By<br />
his seizing the maps Cornwall^ was unable to attack immediately, thus giving<br />
General Washington time to retreat to Xew lersev.<br />
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THE.LOWELL<br />
"What now is bud will soon be leaf;<br />
<strong>The</strong> blue eggs in the robin's nest<br />
Will soon have wings and beak and breast<br />
And flutter and fly away."'<br />
So goes the world. We in our little sphere of high school life<br />
have watched and waited for graduation. To-day it is ours. Soon it will<br />
be over. Xow comes the parting of the ways: some to enter the great<br />
world about us. others, the smaller world of college life. It does not matter<br />
where we go. there will be heard the fluttering of our wings; but the<br />
flying. Ah! <strong>The</strong>re's the question.<br />
Have we in our four years of training real!}' grown? Has our work<br />
along whatever line it may have been, given us the strength to face the<br />
more difficult tasks of the future? <strong>The</strong> text-books, the studying alone, have<br />
not been sufficient in themselves. <strong>The</strong>y have been of prime importance,<br />
however, as a means to the desired end—growth. <strong>The</strong> clubs, the students"<br />
association, the athletics, likewise, have been but a means to this desired end.<br />
If our participation in the various school activities has tired us with<br />
energy. giVcu us some ability and inoculated in us a strong sense of responsibility,<br />
then our four years of training have spelt growth. If it has opened<br />
our eyes more to the things about us, if it has stimulated \is with a live<br />
interest in one another, then we have profited and attained some breadth<br />
in our schooling. It has been said, that "<strong>The</strong> best we can do for one another<br />
i.» to exchange our thoughts freely: and that, after all, is but little."<br />
In passing we cannot leave without paying a parting tribute to those,<br />
whose efforts have been centered ii? our progress. To the teachers, enough<br />
cannot be said, except that it is our earnest wish, that the fruits of their<br />
labors inav be great and abundant.<br />
A SUGGESTION.<br />
Xow that the <strong>Lowell</strong> has decided upon a school pin, would it not be<br />
advisable to have a standard cover design for the school paper? This plan<br />
if adopted would mean the saving of many dollars and in addition would<br />
lend a sense of.dignity and permanence to the school journal.<br />
During the past term the school has responded well to the
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FRED KANT.<br />
With the close of the spring term of 1011 the hiills of <strong>Lowell</strong> saw their las!<br />
of tlie members f the June <strong>1911</strong> Class. During its four years' stay at <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
this class ha* gradually built up for itself a reputation of having held up to its<br />
greatest height the standard of consilient work and good fellowship. This has<br />
always been the pride of <strong>Lowell</strong>'s graduating classes. It is with a desire to prove<br />
to the world the great benefit they have received from <strong>Lowell</strong> that they have<br />
broken the ties which shall always be very dear to them.<br />
'•Senior Day" exercises were held in the study hall. <strong>The</strong>y were attended by<br />
the friends of the graduating class. <strong>The</strong> program was as follows: Address to<br />
the |iinc l'Ml Class. Mr. I*. 11. Clark: address. John Partridge, a prominent<br />
attorney, as well as a former <strong>Lowell</strong> teacher: salutatory. Miss Phelan, vice-president:<br />
valedictory. Louis Sloss: presentation of diplomas. Mr. Morton.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Senior Dance was held on June 2 at the Scottish Rite Temple. <strong>The</strong><br />
attendance was large, and the dance was enjoyed by all. <strong>The</strong> great success of the<br />
fiance was due to the work of the committee consisting of the Misses Wagner.<br />
C.ehres and Highland and the Messrs. Street and Kant.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class meeting of lune <strong>1911</strong>. on the twenty-ninth of April was enjoyed<br />
by ail. A talk was given to the members by Mr. Crofts. His general topic was<br />
the results of an education in teaching people to know how to work. It was<br />
decided to dedicate Tin-: LOWKI.I. Ax.vtwi. to Mr. Clark.<br />
<strong>The</strong> "Final Rally" was held on May 18th. Great enthusiasm was raised by<br />
the speakers. <strong>The</strong> program was as follows: An address by President Maggs of<br />
appreciation for the fine spirit shown during his term in office. Leo Mycr then<br />
spoke and was received with cheers. Mr. Morton gave a short address. President<br />
Maggs then presented the l'.lock "LV to the members or the winning teams.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members of the winning teams were as follows: <strong>The</strong> swimming team. Captain<br />
Jones. Charles Lindgren. James Ransohoff. Frnest Smith. Lewis and Goeppert;<br />
the tennis team. James Strachan and William Johnston : the debating team.<br />
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Alfred Myer, Bert<br />
successful ever hel<<br />
On Friday, M<br />
large and appreciati<br />
on the part of the<br />
Club were Mrs. 1!<br />
Reusdi, and an oct<<br />
<strong>The</strong> Students'<br />
term. It consists<br />
Misses Wagener, P<br />
<strong>The</strong> Class of D<br />
at the South End I<br />
water's edge. <strong>The</strong><br />
Great praise is due<br />
Miss Grace Adams<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '<strong>12</strong> C<br />
Although there wer<br />
was pleasantly spent<br />
Tile California<br />
by the December '1<br />
ing souvenirs. <strong>The</strong><br />
Edwin iJussey, Edit<br />
'"he June '13 C<br />
successful.<br />
<strong>The</strong> long dorm<br />
revived at <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
"ing of the term<br />
president and Harr<br />
up the constitution<br />
school through the<br />
to the committee<br />
chosen to meet J.ierl<br />
Herrington, Harris<br />
Hoericke being absc<br />
Farrel of Berkeley,<br />
drew with Steiiiegg<br />
score two to two<br />
Herkeley winning,<br />
boast of a long line<br />
m Jacobs and Presi
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THE LOWELL<br />
Alfred Myer. Bert Rabinowilz and Rosenblatt. <strong>The</strong> rail)' was one of the most<br />
successful ever held.<br />
On Friday. May 28. the Girls" Glee Club gave their concert in the hall. A<br />
large and appreciative audience listened to the result of several months' hard work<br />
on the part of the girls. Those who contributed to the program, besides the Glee<br />
Club were .Mrs. Deane, the directress, the Misses Mollingsworth, Dolan and<br />
Reuseh. and an octette from the Boys' Glee Club. /•'<br />
<strong>The</strong> Students' Affairs Committee was appointed by Mr. Morton lor this<br />
term. It consists of Messrs. Grimes. Street, Maggs. Sloss, Murdock and the<br />
Misses Wagcner, Phelan, Morse and Highland.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Class of December <strong>1911</strong> gave a party in honor of the High Senior Class<br />
at the South End I'oat Club. <strong>The</strong> clubhouse is a delightful one, situated at the<br />
water's edge. <strong>The</strong> hall was large and very prettily decorated in red and white.<br />
(ireat praise is due to two people who worked hard for the success of the evening.<br />
Miss Grace Adams and Vincent Mcadc. <strong>The</strong> evening was spent in dancing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '<strong>12</strong> Class held a very enjoyable picnic at Muir Woods on May 1.<br />
Although there were not a great many there everybody had a fine time. <strong>The</strong> flay<br />
was pleasantly spent in playing games, lunching and searching for their chaperons.<br />
<strong>The</strong> California Club hall was the scene of an extremely successful dance given<br />
by (he December "<strong>12</strong> Class. <strong>The</strong> programs were different and will prove pleasir.g<br />
souvenirs. <strong>The</strong> dance committee consisted of David Zellerbach, Dick Smith,<br />
Edwin Bussey. Edith Griffin. Helen Wood.<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '13 Class is holding a boat ride, which it is assured, will be very<br />
successful.<br />
CHESS CLUB.<br />
<strong>The</strong> long dormant interest in the royal game of chess has been recently<br />
revived at <strong>Lowell</strong> by the reorganization of the Chess Club. At the beginning<br />
of the term a meeting was held. Officers were elected, Cheney as<br />
pre.-iden'. and Harrison as secretary. A committee was. appointed to draw<br />
up the constitution and an attempt was made to secure the support of the<br />
school through the executive committee. Here the club failed, admittance<br />
to the committee being refused. In spite of this, however, a team was<br />
chosen to meet Berkeley High in a tournament, consisting of four members:<br />
rierringinii, Harrison, Cheney, and Boericke. <strong>The</strong> match was held, but<br />
Moericke being absent, we lost by a score of four to two. Cheney drew with<br />
Farrel of Berkeley, Herrington won from Anthony of Berkeley, Harrison<br />
drew with Steinegger of Berkeley and lost Boericke's game. <strong>The</strong>n with the<br />
score two to two a consultation game was held to count for two points.<br />
Berkeley winning. We hope next time we report that we will be able to<br />
boast of a long line of victories. This term we lose two good chess players<br />
in Jacobs and President Cheney.<br />
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After receiving magazines from almost every high scliool in the State and<br />
many outside of it. during tlie past term, coming in contact with the best, with<br />
the worM. small or large, we venture to set down a few points from our observance<br />
that go t make up the successful high school paper.<br />
Kirst and foremost, it must be representative—of the students, by the students.<br />
Debates by the faculty, outsiders or even alumni should not appear excel)!<br />
in the way of criticism—and that doesn't make very interesting reading. <strong>The</strong><br />
paper ought to be a power in the school, besides a pleasure: support must be<br />
had and the only wav to do this is to adapt the magazine in size, price and publication<br />
to the -chool it represents. Along this line we notice that much more is<br />
spent mi the appearance than necessary. Cover, paper, cuts—this is well enough,<br />
but do you realize that this is the most superficial part of the paper, and our<br />
attention passes on ;md slays with the contents or reading matter. A monthly<br />
paper does in it have to be elaborate in this respect: it is only the "annual" that<br />
ought to be a pride to the lithographer as well as to the editor.<br />
And now to more personal remarks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> .lyrirold, from Ynlo County. California, devotes itself exclusively to the<br />
good brown soil. \ot being much of ;m agriculturist we don't venture to<br />
c-'ticise.<br />
We consider Whims, from llrondway High. Seattle, to be a representative<br />
paper. Support and spirit relied in its well-gotten up pages. Only your literary<br />
department is poor.<br />
I'liie Breezes, from Kl Dor:-.do County, sends us a good annual. <strong>The</strong> stories<br />
are typical and the literary is backed tip by a good review of the term's work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Trident is not up to standard. <strong>The</strong>re is a lack of material, a general<br />
"slump." <strong>The</strong> text seems unnecessarily large—a waste of space.<br />
Reriew. Sacramento High.—<strong>The</strong> drawing in front has not much significance<br />
or talent. Why should the article on Mr. Roosevelt come under "School<br />
Notes"? <strong>The</strong> literary is good.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Liilcmliir.—"I'.inl Migrations" is interesting and instructive, but is it<br />
by a student ?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crimson.—<strong>The</strong> stories in the March issue lack character. <strong>The</strong>y are too<br />
short. We read the first annual stories in your paper. "<strong>The</strong> Exchange" is a<br />
cracker-jack joke department.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Russ. San Diego High—Your "Dippy Xv.mber" we accept for its facevalue.<br />
Nothing like being original.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Matiromi.—"An Adventure" begins well but it is too short for a double<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Oak^-Tlie O.;Jfl<br />
to the extent of having<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls' issue of<br />
a good baseball story, freJ<br />
About a month befti<br />
that it would be a good t|<br />
conlingly notices were<br />
an orchestra to meet a<br />
desired but it was cnot<br />
It is not easy to st<br />
members have never pla<br />
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trouble required to obt;<br />
from the Student Body,<br />
organization of the asso<br />
by an assessment of th<<br />
members. Miss Dolan<br />
chestra owes her many<br />
After having gotten]<br />
of rehearsals. I do not<br />
a very good showing of<br />
in the school.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra consis<br />
'cellos, viola, drum, conii<br />
larger number would nol<br />
for organizing an orclies<br />
itself, assist at concerts o<br />
Reading Club. Several<br />
two of the first violins,<br />
from outside the school,<br />
continue at all and I sin<br />
will avail himself, or hers<br />
sides aiding a proper sch<br />
It is certainly odd<br />
sonic eight hundred stu<<br />
vision in which we ough,<br />
standpoint of members, tl<br />
Next term the orchc<br />
official organization of L<<br />
is a sufficient number in<br />
the first meeting next ter<br />
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climax. "A Merry Xmas" is a pleasing story, and the jokes have a sparkle to<br />
them.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Oak.—<strong>The</strong> Oak is another representative paper—by the students, even<br />
to the extent of having its own printing' press. Congratulations.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> girls' issue of <strong>The</strong> Tiger has sonic good material. "<strong>The</strong> Nugget" is<br />
a good baseball story, free from the tin hero effect. <strong>The</strong> art staff does good work.<br />
THE ORCHESTRA.<br />
About a month before the Reading Club play, certain people got the idea<br />
that it would be a good thing to have music between the acts of the play. Accordingly<br />
notices were sent around, requesting those interested in forming<br />
;ui orchestra t meet after school. <strong>The</strong> result was not all that could be<br />
desired but it was enough for a beginning.<br />
It is nut easy to start orchestra work when the greater number of the<br />
members have never played in an orchestra, as there is a great difference between<br />
solo and ensemble playing. Also there was quite a little time and<br />
trouble required to obtain the music. Financial aid could not be expected<br />
from tlie Student liody, because the orchestra has not yet become an official<br />
organization of the association. Finally, money for the music was obtained<br />
by an a.-sessment of the orchestra members and donations by Reading Club<br />
members. Miss Dolan had alreadv kindly consented to lead us, and the orchestra<br />
owes her many thanks for her careful and patient work.<br />
After having gotten everything started, it was plain sailing, with plenty<br />
of rehearsals. 1 do not doubt but that on the night of the play we will make<br />
a very good showing of wh.it can be done in a short time from material found<br />
in the school.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra consists, at present, of four first violins, three seconds, two<br />
'cellos, viola, drum, cornet, flute and clarinet. It is evident that a somewhat<br />
larger number would not be amiss. This will, however, make a fine nucleus<br />
for organizing an orchestra which can remain as a fixture and give concerts<br />
itself, assist at concerts of the two Glee Clubs, and play intermissions for the<br />
Reading Club. Several members graduate this term, including the nola and<br />
two of the first violins. (At least they hope to!) <strong>The</strong> 'cellos were borrowed<br />
lroin outside the school, so it will be necessary to have a few new recruits to<br />
continue at all and 1 sincerely hope that anyone who plays any instrument<br />
will avail himself, or herself, of this opportunity to get orchestra practice, besides<br />
aiding a proper school spirit.<br />
It is certainly odd if there is not enough talent in <strong>Lowell</strong> High, with<br />
some eight hundred students, to maintain a permanent orchestra. <strong>The</strong> division<br />
in which we ought to be the strongest, brass and drum, is, from the<br />
standpoint of members, the weakest.<br />
Xext term the orchestra ought to make a constitution and become an<br />
official organization of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School. This can only be done if there<br />
is a sufficient '.lumber in the orchestra, so everybody who can play, come to<br />
the first meeting next term.<br />
Do not wait to be coaxed. Perhaps you are not a virtuoso. You don't<br />
need to be. <strong>The</strong> music we play is all reasonably easy. You will never know<br />
whether you can play well enough or not until you have tried.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> SCCMIHI ;innual met-thi.!^ of the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School Alumni Association<br />
wa« ln-lil in Knhler & Chase Hall on April 24th. Retiring President Crittenclen<br />
gave :i brief resume of t!ie work accomplished (hiring 1 the past year. Colonel<br />
Harris UVinstnek was then introduced to the gathering. <strong>The</strong> Colonel gave a<br />
nict-i interesting heart-to-heart talk on his travels through India, punctuating<br />
hi- remarks with many humorous personal incidents.<br />
!"hi- election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in the election of:<br />
President. < leo. K. I'.elvel. l l >00: Vice-! 'resident, Miss Emma Duden. 1905; Secretary-Treasurer.<br />
William (iarvin. 1907: Hoard of Directors. Henry S. Manheim.<br />
1S77: Aaron L. Spiro. 1900: .1. .Marion Read. 1908; Will D. McRac. 1909.<br />
and Mi>s Jessie W. Harris. 1910. I'resident-elect l.elvel then gave a short talk<br />
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MAISY l.r>I"ISK P.ltVANT Buskutbull<br />
MAI11ON AIlKNI>T Tennlii<br />
CIIAItl.KS I-:. STKKKT. .Ill Track<br />
HAKi MJi i'DTTKU Track, Football, Swimming<br />
iM.IN'TON Ji'iXKS Swimming<br />
.1AMKS KANSOIIi>FV Swimmlnu<br />
I.YMA N 11ICACOCIC Football. Swimming<br />
TI1OUNTON i:. CltlMKS Debate, Football. Swimming<br />
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FIIKIilCIJIC MACCS Football<br />
\VM. SOMMHISS Track<br />
VI IAS. I.INL'UKKN Swimming<br />
1CKNHST SMITH Swimming<br />
CLASS OF 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
JOHN STRACIIAN Tennis<br />
I.I.OYD GOICPPKRT Swimming<br />
A I1XUI.I • I'.O\VI IA Y Track<br />
\VM. JOHNSTON Tennis<br />
I'AIM. I.Af Track<br />
Ol.K.NX 11AM.MON Track<br />
FRK1J r.AXS Track<br />
H. ItAHINOW1TZ Debate<br />
M. ROSKXISI.ATT Debate<br />
CLASS OF 1913.<br />
W1I. M ETZKX Football<br />
RICHARD DKRHY Swimming<br />
DAVID BfTLICIt Football<br />
CLASS OF 1914.<br />
HYDE J.EW1S Swimmlne<br />
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WINGED L AND SCROLL SOCIETY. •<br />
<strong>The</strong> Winged L and Scroll Society was organized in May, 1905. <strong>The</strong><br />
leading spirit in establishing such a society was Cedric Cerf, '05.<br />
<strong>The</strong> society was first known as the Honor Society of the <strong>Lowell</strong> High<br />
Schi-M.>l. but in January, 1907. the name was changed to the Winged L and<br />
Scroll Society. <strong>The</strong> charter members are 1-1. W. Johnson, J. A. Roncovieri,<br />
11. Long. I'.Vollak. II. II. Maundrell. W. Leib and Tom Lainc.<br />
<strong>The</strong> purpose of the society is to promote good, clean activities in the<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Shield and L Society was organized in December 1909 bv the<br />
Winged L and Scroll Society. <strong>The</strong> girls' organization wa to ha •<br />
San,c purpose as the boys-to work for the best interests of <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
Members of <strong>1911</strong> Class.<br />
Gladys Phelan.<br />
Evalyn Wagener.<br />
Esto Broughton.<br />
Virginia Davies.<br />
Eveleth Brooks.<br />
Aileen Hand.<br />
Aileen Hyland.<br />
Members of 19<strong>12</strong> Class.<br />
<strong>The</strong>odora Schaertzer.<br />
^fyrtle Franzen.<br />
Honorary Member.<br />
Miss Elsie A. WeiVle.<br />
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At a regular meeting of the Debating Society thirteen delegates wore<br />
elected t represent <strong>Lowell</strong> at the annual convention of the Debating League<br />
nf California. Of these, only seven attended the convention. .Mr. Fest was<br />
the <strong>Lowell</strong> candidate for president of the league ai the election, held at the<br />
convention at Martinez, April 2°. 1 *> 11. Mr. Cunningham of Martinez was<br />
elected I" that office. Mr. Ilonigsburgcr represented <strong>Lowell</strong> in the individual<br />
debate, held at the convention. This debate was won by the gentleman from<br />
San Jose.<br />
If one should have happened to be walkingabo-.it 1 lie- campus at Stanford<br />
I'liiversity late in the afternoon of April 22. 1011. he would have seen here,<br />
there and everywhere boys and girl with S. J. II. S. bands on their arms.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, if by any chance he should be so fortunate, be might nave met one or<br />
twn fellows with a red necktie on a white shirt. For this was on the eve of<br />
the great debate between San Jose rind <strong>Lowell</strong>, for the final ownership of the<br />
Leland Stanford Jr. cup. If a rooting section counts for much, it certainly<br />
looked bad for <strong>Lowell</strong>. Five minutes before the opening of the debate, the<br />
assembly hall at Stanford presented a (|tieer scene. Xearly the entire lower<br />
flour was occupied by San Jose rooters, with their faces smiling and confident.<br />
In a remote corner at the extreme right of the balcony, and huddled, in a little<br />
gn.up. were the <strong>Lowell</strong> rooters, their faces not lacking confidence, but grim<br />
and determined. On the stage were seated ten people. At a table at the right<br />
were seated Messrs. Coyle, Oppcnheimer and Tliggins. At the right center<br />
and slightly in the background were seated side by side the alternate for San<br />
Jose and D. llonigsburger. the alternate for <strong>Lowell</strong>. At the left center were<br />
seated side by side. Mr. Reedy, president of the Debating League of California,<br />
and Mr. Ci. A. Diiz. president of the Student Body of Stanford University.<br />
This last gentleman acted as chairman of the debate. At the left of<br />
the stage, seated at a second table were Messrs. M. Rosenblatt. Bert. v.<br />
Kabinowitz ami A. Meyer. <strong>The</strong> judges were Professor A. M. Cathcart, Profess,<br />
.r J. \V. P.inghani. and Mr. Leslie Craven, members of the Law Department<br />
of Stanford fniversity <strong>The</strong> chairman opened the meeting and announced<br />
the question to be Resolved: "That three-fourths of a jury should be<br />
competent to render a verdict in all criminal cases."<br />
<strong>The</strong> affirmative argument was opened by Albert Coyle of San Jose. M.<br />
Rosenblatt of <strong>Lowell</strong> followed, opening the negative argument. While Coyle<br />
spoke fairly well. Rosenblatt spoke much better and put up a much stronger<br />
argument. Oppcnheimer then continued the argument for the affirmative.<br />
Oppcnheimer had a better delivery and put up a better argument than Coyle,<br />
but he in turn was completely eclipsed in both dcliverv and argument by<br />
Rabinowitz. <strong>The</strong> affirmative argument was closed by I'reston Higgins of<br />
San Jose. This gentleman was certainly a splendid speaker and he put up a<br />
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fine argument. <strong>The</strong> cheers of the San Jose rooters rent the air, both at the<br />
beginning and conclusion of his argument. <strong>The</strong>y looked up at us in the<br />
balcony and grinned triumphantly. Alfred Meyer of <strong>Lowell</strong> followed to<br />
close the argument for the negative. As Meyer progressed in his speech,<br />
the faces of the San Jose rooters began to sober and those of the small<br />
but gallant band of <strong>Lowell</strong>ites to smile. Strong as was the argument<br />
by Preston Higgins, it was torn into shreds by Alfred Jifrytr. By wit<br />
and weighty proof. Meyer completely riddled the entire affirmative argument.<br />
Higgins followed with a seven minutes' refutation. Here the San<br />
Jose people had a faint ray of hope left, but Higgins' refutation was principally<br />
a repetition of his former speech. <strong>The</strong> result was that Meyer's speech<br />
was still ringing in the ears of the audience when Higgins had finished his<br />
refutation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chairman then announced the decision of the judges. One of the<br />
judges decided for San lose, but the other two decided for <strong>Lowell</strong>. <strong>The</strong><br />
chairman then presented the cup to the victors—the members of the <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
team.<br />
It may be interesting to the reader to know the history of this cup. <strong>The</strong><br />
Stanford Debating cup was presented to the Debating League of California by<br />
the Student l!ody of Stanford University in 1900. <strong>The</strong> cup has been contested<br />
for each year by the school which won it the preceding year and the school<br />
which has made the highest score in the tournament of the League. <strong>The</strong><br />
cup should become the property of the school which should first win it three<br />
times: and as each of the contesting schools bad won it twice, the debate on<br />
Saturday evening. April 22, <strong>1911</strong>, determined the permanent possession of the<br />
Stanford Debating cup. <strong>The</strong> following schools have held the cup:<br />
1901—llumbnldt Evening High School. 1902—Lodi High School. 1903—<br />
Alamcda I ligh School. l ( '0-(—Commercial Evening High School. 1905—San<br />
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HARRIET ISRADFOKD, June <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Faster vacation deprived the Reading 1 Club of two meeting's during<br />
April. From that time until May fifth the officers and members were so busy<br />
preparing for the final play that regular work was unavoidably neglected.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re wore, therefore, but two meetings last month. For the first of these.<br />
April fifth, a program of three selections had been prepared,—one. ""Absalom"<br />
from the P.ook of Samuel, followed by two of Tennyson's beautiful short<br />
pnem.-. "<strong>The</strong> I'.ugle Song" and "Sir Galahad." April twenty-sixth the other<br />
meeting was held. <strong>The</strong> club was much amused by "A Piece of Red Calico"<br />
by Frank R. Stockton, and "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow." by Jerome Is.<br />
Jerome. "William Crown of Oregon'" by Joaquin Miller was read in eonclu-ii'ii<br />
'>i the program.<br />
THE FINAL PLAY.<br />
<strong>The</strong> expectation with which the whole school has looked forward during<br />
the last month or so to the Reading Club plav is now replaced bv a sense<br />
01 great satisfaction. <strong>The</strong> play was a success. That was the hope of all.—<br />
actors and audience alike.—and it has been gratified.<br />
W hen Salomy Jane's melodious voice first readied the audience that<br />
Friday night, who could not immediately predict success to "Chattanooga"?<br />
I'lien. when Dolora entered so simply, so confident of her lines, and so well<br />
fitted for her part, surely there could be no doubt. I'm "still the wonder<br />
gri-"" when two little ladies in real "hoop" skirts made their appearance<br />
tlinmgh a ivry narrow doorway. <strong>The</strong>y actually sat down. too. without difficulty.<br />
From that moment everyone breathed easily. If girls of to-day could<br />
manage "hoop" skirts of the Civil War period, surely no one need fear stage<br />
• right or anything else for the other members of the cast. And so "Chattanooga"<br />
began.<br />
I he atmosphere of war times was well sustained by the boys in their<br />
soldiers' parts, and they presented us with a pleasing variety of emotions.<br />
From our sympathy for Captain Seacrest and our fear for Champ we are suddenly<br />
turned away into laughter over the vicissitudes of the "moonstruck"<br />
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Captain Scott, the henpecked existeiice of poor Polk Spivcy, and—the brogue<br />
of Dr. O'Rourke.<br />
No <strong>Lowell</strong>ite needs to be told the story. Every <strong>Lowell</strong>ite saw and<br />
heard it for himself, which is far better. If he saw the many bits of humor<br />
in acting and speaking, if he saw the pathos of the real situation, not to<br />
speak of each little romance by itself, surely he is judge enough to know that<br />
all these scenes were well presented when we consider that our "stars" have<br />
been shining but two short months.<br />
Why was the play a success? Why, in the opinion of many, was it the<br />
greatest success of any plav the Reading Club has ever given? This is due<br />
to a variety of causes.<br />
First of all, those who took part exhibited a degree of enthusiasm which<br />
could only lead to good results, when combined with hard work at many<br />
long rehearsals, under a very competent coach. We do not need to tell our.<br />
"stars" that their efforts were appreciated. <strong>The</strong>y knew that the fifth of May<br />
when a continued applause first echoed through the Mission High School<br />
Auditorium. <strong>The</strong>y knew it. too, when masses of flowers were taken to the<br />
stage after each performance. And they wili always remember the hearty<br />
welcome they received that next Monday morning at school.<br />
Secondly, the facilities offered for the production were much better than<br />
ever before. <strong>The</strong> stage was large enough: the scenery was well chosen and<br />
well arranged: the costumes would delight the heart of any Confederate<br />
veteran.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra receives last but very honorable niciiion. <strong>The</strong> Reading<br />
Club marvels how it ever got along without it. A crown of laurels to the<br />
organizer and high praise to every musician.<br />
One more final play has passed, the fifth in the history of <strong>Lowell</strong>. Succeeding<br />
classes, in their choice of Reading Club officers, have a reputation<br />
to uphold. It is sure to be upheld, for such is the spirit of <strong>Lowell</strong>. Hut in<br />
the face of difficulties, perhaps they may more bravely press on if their<br />
watchword is "Chattanooga.—June <strong>1911</strong>.'' H. B. June <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Modern Italian Version.<br />
A school-teacher in the Italian quarter of Chicago had been telling her<br />
pupils certain of the fables of .Ksop. and of these the story of the fox and<br />
the grapes seemed especially to appeal to one little dusky son of Italy.<br />
I'.v a stroke of luck the teacher was enabled to hear the lad give his<br />
version to a lad in another class.<br />
Tn a delicious dialect the boy recounted the fable pretty much as it is<br />
written until he reached the climax, which he rendered thus:<br />
"Den de olda tox he say. "I thinka da grape no good, anahow. I guess I<br />
go getta de banan'.' "<br />
A Deadly Weapon.<br />
Artist (to friend)—Yes, I use the palette-knife a good deal. Knocked<br />
a child's head off in the morning and sold it in the afternoon." (Nervous old<br />
gentleman gets out hurriedly at next stop.)—M. A. P.<br />
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It has hccn our custom tn give in the "Annual." for the benefit of the<br />
loworclassnioii. a paragraph concerning the purpose and requirements of the<br />
Spanish Clul). All students who have had six months of Spanish are eligible<br />
for membership. <strong>The</strong> purpose is to further the members' knowledge and enjoyment<br />
of Spanish literature.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members have witnessed during the last month very interesting programs.<br />
On April 4 a selection from the Mexican play "Carlotta" was given.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cast consisted of—Xapolemi 111. Emperor of France. Will Xcwbauer*<br />
Victor, his secretary. Wilfred Ferguson; Marshal liazaine, Leo Simon: Count<br />
Von Ostoin. Dana McF.wcn: Empress Eugenic, Heat rice l.artlett: Mine, de<br />
Mettormush. Olive Wood: the Austrian Minister. Erwin Hirschfelder: the<br />
T.elgian Minister. Arthur TclleiVen: F.mpress Carlotta of Mexico, ttertha<br />
Rowon : Josefaile Varela. Gertrude Vizzard: Archduke Charles, brother-in<br />
law of Carlotta. John Skinner.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program was rendered in both English and Spanish.<br />
On April 25 the program consisted of stories. "Mujeres y bacas" and<br />
"Oberliencia al piede la Letra" by Lolita liodwell, "Una Obligacion." by Leo<br />
Simon and "Lo(|iie es Imaginacion" by Hester Mathews. On May 2 Act I of<br />
"El Si do las Xinas" was given. <strong>The</strong> cast was "Don Diego," a capitalist, Isidor<br />
Mayor: "Don Carlos." his nephew. Will Xcwbauer: "Calamocha," his servant,<br />
Leo Simon; "Dona Irene." a scheming widow, Virginia Davies; "Dona Francesca."<br />
her daughter. I'.elle Meyer: "Rita." Francesca's friend, Anita Sullivan:<br />
"Simon." a servant. Irving Stahl. <strong>The</strong> play will be finished at the following<br />
meetings.<br />
Mr. Rhodes and Miss Duffy are our honorary members and we greatly<br />
appreciate their kindly interest in the club.<br />
For our final play, which is to take place near the end of this term is<br />
"El Indiano." <strong>The</strong> chosen cast is El Marques del Chopo. Leo Simon, '<strong>12</strong>;<br />
La Marquesa del Chopo. lielle Meyer. '10: Achilles, su hijo. Irving Stahl. '13;<br />
Lola, su hija. Deborah Xewman. '10: Don Prospero, Will Xcwbauer, "10: Victor,<br />
Dana McEwen. '<strong>12</strong>: Calisto. un Criado. John Skinner. '11: stage manager,<br />
Doris MacLaughlin. "<strong>12</strong>: assistant stage manager. Bertha Rowen, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> closing of<br />
Hoys' Glee Club,<br />
ganized. Two year 1 ?<br />
to predict its future<br />
watchword of this<br />
that the club has nol<br />
say that the organic<br />
become more populJ<br />
activities at <strong>Lowell</strong>.|<br />
than ever before,<br />
we hope, made Lo\j<br />
done this, if the sc|<br />
ever so little, the<br />
On April 28th<br />
Goodall, Becker, Ra<br />
the Girls' Glee Clul:<br />
On May 27th o\<br />
crowning event of<br />
you will be well rcj<br />
We wish here<br />
not do this simply 1]<br />
to him, and we w<<br />
realize the time anl<br />
kind. <strong>The</strong> greatesl<br />
Smith.<br />
And now in lay<br />
Glee Club as much!
<strong>The</strong> dosing of this term marks the second milestone in the career of the<br />
I Joys' Cik-e Club. Two years have passed since the Glee Club was first organized.<br />
Two years ago the club was an experiment, a venture: no one dared<br />
to predict its future. To-iiay it is one of <strong>Lowell</strong>'s leading activities. <strong>The</strong><br />
watchword of this period has been "Progress." Is there anyone who can say<br />
that the club has not advanced during these years? Ts there anyone who can<br />
say that the organization has not. been a success? Each term the club has<br />
Secomc more popular, and each term it lias contributed a larger part to the<br />
activities at <strong>Lowell</strong>, until this term it has participated in more entertainments<br />
than ever before. <strong>The</strong> Boys' Glee Club has certainly progressed, and it has,<br />
we hope, made <strong>Lowell</strong> just a little *uit better than it was before. If it has<br />
done this, if the school has been advanced because of the Glee Club, be it<br />
ever so little, the organization has accomplished its purpose.<br />
< )n April 28th an octette composed of Messrs. Tellcfscn. Schusster, Wolf,<br />
Goodall. Meeker. Rainey, Zederman and Smith rendered several selections at<br />
the Girls' Glee Club concert.<br />
On May 27th our own concert will have been held. Of course, this is the<br />
crowning event of the term as far as the Boys' Glee Club is concerned, and<br />
you will be well repaid by attending it.<br />
We wish here to extend our thanks to Mr. Smith, our director. We do<br />
not do this simply because it is customary to do so, but we are truly grateful<br />
to him. and we want him to know it. It is impossible for an outsider to<br />
realize the time and energy that is required to drill an organization of this<br />
kind. <strong>The</strong> greatest part of the credit for the club's success is due to Mr.<br />
Smith.<br />
And now in laying down our pen we can do no more than wish - ihe Boys'<br />
Glee Club as much success in the future, as it has had during this 'last term.<br />
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GIRLS' GLEE CLUB
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MYKTI.K I'KANZKX. lime '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Girls" Glee Club gave a concert in the Study Hall on I'riciay afternoon,<br />
April 28. Considering the troubles and misfortunes in rehearsing with which<br />
the club this term has had to contend, the concert came off quite successfully.<br />
While the audience was sufficiently large to fill tin; seats of the hall, still we<br />
would like to have seen the standing room occupied.<br />
Aside from the choral numbers, there were other specialties, among which<br />
our instructress. Mrs. Dean, took ihc lead. Her interpretation of a certain story<br />
put into music and her impersonation of a i-Vench prima donna, singing and<br />
playing at once the "Miserere" from "II Trovati-re." was delightful.<br />
Miss I lollingsworth amused the audience with some pleasing recitations.<br />
Misses Dolan and Rcusch sang duets and the quartet from the Boys' Glee Club<br />
certainly drove the spectators into a wild storm of applause.<br />
<strong>The</strong> closing song of the club, "Carmena," was a decided hit. <strong>The</strong> song was<br />
greatly improved by castanets and tambourines, the lively swing of these making<br />
our friends fairly want to dance.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club is anxiously looking forward to an outing at Yerba Buena Island,<br />
where it has been invited to give a concert and participate in an all-round good<br />
time.<br />
At present it is the lower classes who arc most enthusiastic about the work<br />
of the club, and we appreciate their faithful attendance. We hope that the membership<br />
will increase with the next term, as we have great ambitions in view.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club wishes to bid the girls who leave us this term a fond farewell, and<br />
we hope that the good times which they have had during their association with<br />
the club will always remain pleasant memories to them.<br />
He—I asked my girl if I could see her home.<br />
Him—What did she say?<br />
He—Yes, if I got up on a high building.— P. Tiger.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lexicon of Sport—Pa. what is a football coach?<br />
2—An ambulance, I suppose.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
During the past term <strong>Lowell</strong> has turned out teams of which we may well<br />
be proud. Not only the successful, victorious men- who worked with might<br />
and main for the!-'uirtls they won. but also those who worked just as faithfully<br />
only to meet with a scries of defeats.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> turned the tables upon her opponents this year and showed that<br />
she was still supreme in the two sports which for a iong time had been<br />
conceded to her without question. Both in the academic swimming meet<br />
and in the Stanford into scholastic tennis tournament the loyal rooters for<br />
the red and white were able to watcli their team come "to the front and stay<br />
there.<br />
A fine thing this year has been the attendance at nearly all the games.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were, of course, a few notable exceptions, but in the main we were<br />
able to drown the opposing rooters at our pleasure.<br />
Another feature of the past season with us has been the excellent management<br />
of all the athletic teams. <strong>The</strong> manager's position seems an e.isy one<br />
but it really means hard work for which the school should be thankful to<br />
those who have carried it to a successful termination.<br />
In one respect, however, some of the teams representing <strong>Lowell</strong> have not<br />
come «.ip lo the standard which the school should demand. Every man on<br />
each team has honestly done his best on the day. or days, of competition.<br />
Unfortunately this does not in all cases extend to the months of training<br />
preparatory to the actual contest. This was. however, by no means the rule,<br />
so that every <strong>Lowell</strong>ite may look upon the teams as having represented the<br />
school in the best possible way, by doing their very best in the right direction.<br />
Those who have won their block letters this year are the members of<br />
the swimming and tennis teams. Smith, Lewis, Jones, Goeppert, Lindgrcn,<br />
Ransohoff, Strachan and Johnston will all have made their hesitating but sincere<br />
speeches at the final rally by the time you read this.<br />
<strong>The</strong> entire athletic season this year has set a task for the teams to come.<br />
That task is to keep up or better the standard set by this year's work and<br />
so give <strong>Lowell</strong> what is her right, an endless chain of teams, managers, and<br />
rooters who all join in working to their utmost abilities, striving to attain<br />
the coveted goal and never shrinking from the straight path.<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
A victorious team is always given credit for having earned their victory<br />
by hard work. In this case the hard work was really clone. <strong>The</strong> season was<br />
started with an interciass. <strong>The</strong> Seniors made up for their poor showing on<br />
the track by taking the meet, mostly due, it must be said, to the stellar work<br />
of Erny Smith. Not a dual meet could be obtained throughout the entire<br />
term, a case of "'cold feet' seeming to have affected the entire list of possible<br />
opponents.<br />
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water-polo helpinj<br />
meet, the Y. Mr<br />
and here the relaj<br />
very keen, and the<br />
and the substitutej<br />
Three days<br />
was laid up in ba<br />
nouncement that<br />
gone round to thj<br />
honors, and by<br />
Y. M. C. A. buil<br />
bristled with "Tol<br />
sec the crowd Hi<br />
E, Rah, Rah! ^<br />
and not one of the<br />
the meet by brinj<br />
Pulling ahead at<br />
saved himself for!<br />
was Lewis. Oppl<br />
mer from Cogsw|<br />
start and never<br />
second over the<br />
but as the tank<br />
made. <strong>The</strong> plucll<br />
two-twenty. He<br />
of Cogswell, but<br />
collapsed, taking<br />
third place, the u<br />
less academic ch<<br />
performance in t<br />
tanee, holding hi<br />
good margin. 'lT<br />
onds, but the tanj<br />
of this race made<br />
that the nervous<br />
a small lead on<br />
feet either way,!<br />
could see the ^<br />
and when Erny<br />
tank and pulled<br />
before joining it<br />
victory plain to t<br />
had no relation<br />
Ransohoff, Goep;
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> team was in the water clay after clay during the whole season,<br />
water-polo helping materially in the training. Towards the date of the<br />
meet, the Y. M. C. A. tank was secured for practice by Manager Carrigan,<br />
and here the relay tryouts were held. <strong>The</strong> competition for the relay was<br />
very keen, and there was little to choose between the slower men on the team<br />
and the substitutes.<br />
Three clays before the meet Captain Jones contracted a bad cold and<br />
was laid up in bed. Our prospects were a little dimmed, but with the announcement<br />
that he would swim, they loomed up bright as ever. Word had<br />
gone round to the graduates that <strong>Lowell</strong> was going to win back her old<br />
honors, and by eight o'clock on the evening of the meet the hall of the<br />
Y. M. C. A. building began filling with young men, whose conversation<br />
bristled with "Tom Laines" and "Ruethers." It did a <strong>Lowell</strong> man good to<br />
see the crowri lining the tank completely on one side break out into an<br />
E, Rah. Rah! when the hundred-yard men lined up on the edge of the tank,<br />
and not one of the red and white rooters doubted that Erny Smith would start<br />
Ihe meet by bringing five points to <strong>Lowell</strong>. <strong>The</strong>ir expectations were fulPHsd.<br />
Pulling ahead at every stroke, Smith eased up in the last twenty yards and<br />
saved himself for his next race. Our man in the next race, the four-forty,<br />
was Lewis. Opposed to him was Johnson, the redoubtable one-legged swimmer<br />
from Cogswell. <strong>The</strong> green and black suit went into the lead at the<br />
start and never was headed. Lewis swam a fine race and finished a good<br />
second over the rest of the field. <strong>The</strong> time of this race broke the record,<br />
but as the tank was shorter, no comparison between the two races can be<br />
made. <strong>The</strong> pluckiest race of the meet was swum by Captain Jones in the<br />
two-twenty, lie forged ahead at the start, showing his class over Gilbert,<br />
vi Cogswell, but the pace was too much for his weak condition, and he<br />
collapsed, taking third place by a gritty finish. Mad a Cogswell man taken<br />
third place, the meet would have been tied, and <strong>Lowell</strong> would have held one<br />
less academic championship. Smith came back in the 880 and repeated his<br />
performance in the hundred. "Erny" swam easily and well the whole distance,<br />
holding his early lead and beating Johnson, who won the 440, by a<br />
good margin. <strong>The</strong> record held by Laine was broken by more than 10 seconds,<br />
but the tank may again have helped to cut down the time. <strong>The</strong> result<br />
of this race made the score tie at fourteen between <strong>Lowell</strong> and Cogswell, so<br />
lhat the nervous tension at the start of the relay was enormous. We gained<br />
a small lead on the first lap, and held it with changes of no more than two<br />
feet either way, until the race was won. Each lap the frenzied rooters<br />
could see the Cogswell man jump before our man got in his first stroke,<br />
and when Erny Smith, swimming the last lap for us, hit the end of the<br />
tank and pulled himself out of the water, every one heaved a sigh of relief<br />
before joining in the tremendous cheer which made the red and white's<br />
victory plain to the outsiders. As the distance of the laps was new, the time<br />
had no relation to any previous relay. Besides Smith, Jones and Lewis,<br />
Ransohoff, Goeppert and Lindgren get L's for the relay. About the relay,<br />
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no one can justly say that one lap was faster than another; the team seemed<br />
perfect and without a slow man.<br />
Nothing but victory seems possible next year for <strong>Lowell</strong>. Two of the<br />
relay men are lost, but the main part of the team is left to win the fall A. A. L.<br />
for the red and white.<br />
Captain Jones will be at school another term, and will probably again<br />
swim the two-twenty. Leaving out accidents, there is no reason why this<br />
race should not be ours.<br />
Smith will swim the hundred again, but most likely the quarter instead<br />
of the half, so as to get a chance at the record. He is looked upon as a second<br />
Tom Laine, and is easily the star of the high-school swimmers.<br />
Lewis should do just as well in the half as the four-forty, and we lookto<br />
him to better, or at least equal, his performance this year.<br />
Lindgren we lose by graduation. He is a fast relay man, and would<br />
probably have made good in the short swims.<br />
Ransohoff may be depended upon to swim the .same consistent relay<br />
lap he has for three years, and should help <strong>Lowell</strong> win this race.<br />
Goeppert, we are sorry to say, leaves us for West Point. May he do<br />
as well in the armv as he lias in the tank.<br />
Event.<br />
50 yards...<br />
100 yards...<br />
220 yards...<br />
440 yards...<br />
880 yards...<br />
Relay<br />
Smith (4)<br />
Jones (3)<br />
Jones (3)<br />
Lewis (1><br />
Smith (4)<br />
Seniors<br />
Results of the Interclass.<br />
First. Second. Third.<br />
Lewis (1)<br />
Ransohoff (4)<br />
Goodall (4)<br />
Ransohoff (4)<br />
Presley (2)<br />
Freshmen<br />
Transaction Followed.<br />
Ehrnian (3)<br />
Bissinger (3)<br />
Winter (4)<br />
Presley (2)<br />
Bissinger (3)<br />
Juniors<br />
Totals<br />
Points.<br />
2 3<br />
0 1<br />
0 6<br />
0 S<br />
1 0<br />
3 1<br />
0 1<br />
Vera (eight years old)—What does transatlantic mean, mother?<br />
"Across the Atlantic, of course: but you mustn't bother me."<br />
Vera—Does "trans" always mean across?<br />
Mother—I suppose it docs. Now, if you don't stop bothering me with<br />
your questions I shall send you right to bed.<br />
Vera (after a few minutes' silence)—<strong>The</strong>n docs transparent mean a cross<br />
parent?—Ideas.<br />
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BASEBALL.<br />
Another baseball season has come to an end, and the <strong>1911</strong> team has<br />
passed from a state of fiction and conjecture lo become a matter of epic and<br />
history. <strong>Lowell</strong> did not win the championship because she did not have a<br />
championship team. But, speaking very generally, she boasted of an aggregation<br />
above the average of high school teams. <strong>The</strong> year's work was not in<br />
vain, if only the gain by the players themselves be considered.<br />
During the fall practice season several decided gains were made. Decisive<br />
victories were scored over Wilmerding. Cogswell (twice), and Napa.<br />
while Berkeley won an exciting eleven-inning contest by one run. An interclass<br />
scries helped to bring out material and kept interest at a high pitch.<br />
Several members of the regular team-to-be "came out" when such future<br />
jewels as Hochstadter. Robinson and Stan. Olsen first scintillated. On the<br />
whole, last fall was a very creditable and fruitful practice season—thanks<br />
to the management and energy of Manager Harold Potter and Captain<br />
Charley Street.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new term opened famously. A practice on the first day of school<br />
started the ball hounding, and frequent "workouts" followed during the first<br />
few weeks. Tom Kelly was selected as coach and this choice proved to be<br />
a most lnckv one. Permanent practice grounds at the Presidio were secured.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n nearly a solid month of rain followed. P>ctwccn torrents and once<br />
in a while happened such practice games as those with Santa Clara, Palo<br />
Alto, Alameda (twice) and Lick. Brevity of space prevents any remark on<br />
these except that they served as good experience to members of a team that<br />
was slow in rounding into shape. In the few weeks before the first league<br />
game invaluable practice came to the team as a result of almost daily games<br />
with such ''Phoenix." or "Yannigans." or "Insurrectos"' as chanced to appear.<br />
Many thanks are certainly due to the past and present <strong>Lowell</strong>ites who unselfishly<br />
sacrificed their afternoons that the Regulars might have practice.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are few squads that have the advantage of practice with another team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first game was with Wilmerding. Charley Street, our captain<br />
and heaver, won the game by his pitching, although he received fairly good<br />
support from his teammates. Flood for Wilmerding was hit quite freely.<br />
Next came the Sacred Heart struggle. We had hoped to beat the former<br />
champions. <strong>The</strong> same Chas. Street was overmuch cool in the first round and<br />
allowed five runs. Alter this he settled down to beautiful pitching, but the<br />
lead was too great to be overcome. <strong>The</strong> final score was 6-3. <strong>The</strong> team played<br />
a gr
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THE LOWELL c<br />
in the sub-league As a captain lie has a tendency to become nervous and<br />
protest the plays of his teammates rather than those of his opponents or the<br />
decisions of the umpire.<br />
Earny Smith has been a faithful and efficient catcher. His arm is "fair<br />
enough," but Earnv needs to learn to study the batter and to make his head<br />
win the game. He remains with us.<br />
Jack Hochstadter at first played a hearty, though hardly graceful game.<br />
He was in the game with plenty of spirit and was always ready to learn.<br />
Jack is not a "demon on the bases" and his sliding was disastrous.<br />
Robinson on second base improved in playing very decidedly during the<br />
season. With a little more practice at the position he should prove a blessing<br />
in 19<strong>12</strong>. When batting he takes a very pretty swing.<br />
In Montgomery at short the team has a player absolutely fearless and<br />
ready to do his share of the fielding, lie is comparatively new at the gam',<br />
and bv next year he should be a pillar of strength at the bat and on the<br />
field. *<br />
Third baseman Harold Hicks is a neat, consistent player who says little<br />
and always does his share. This is his first year with the team, and he will<br />
probably help in the pitching next season. He would do well to show a<br />
little more ginger and life in his playing.<br />
"Dutch"' Riemer in left field did some sensational gardening. He is a<br />
little weak at the bat. and displays niore or less "bone" in bascrunning. He<br />
was a valuable man to the teaci, however. He will be among the graduates.<br />
Dick Smith played consistently in the field, and also pitched in several<br />
practice games. He is a good batsman, but must train himself to work with<br />
and for his team and not to be stubborn in regarding suggestions of coach<br />
and captain.<br />
Fred Gillespic found a moment now and then between business engagements<br />
to grace the outfield. He is an erratic fielder and hitter, but at times<br />
did some very good work. His hitting was often a feature.<br />
Stan Olsen. the tenth member, would have played regularly had he come<br />
nearer to filling a suit, lie is to be commended for his faithfulness. <strong>The</strong>re's<br />
another day to-morrow. Stan.<br />
Amweg and Aronson. although excellent ball players, arc not studiously<br />
inclined. <strong>The</strong>y helped in the practice games.<br />
Others wito came out and helped the team in practice were Moissant, E.<br />
Olsen. Sullivan. Sloss. Potter, A. Aronson, Vecki, Wilkins, Marwedel, Mc-<br />
Kay. Foster. Rock, ttusey. Hawks, Murphy.<br />
And now we have the season of 19<strong>12</strong> to iook forward to. Let us make<br />
it a winning year. We have the men. We have the spirit. We hope that<br />
a competent manager will be elected. Much depends on the business side. We<br />
have heard objections from various sources that too small a proportion of the<br />
school is benefited by baseball. Very true. Let us change the condition.<br />
Out of a school of 500 boys there should be 50 or 1T0 out for baseball. <strong>The</strong><br />
school supplies the outfit. You pay for it with your dues. Now get the return.<br />
Come out in the fall. Have some clean sport after school's trials. Mix<br />
with your fellow classmen. <strong>The</strong> team will be better for it, but, better than<br />
that, you will be a bigger, lr.o.e powerful man for the experience.<br />
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This season ha<br />
time, and not yet 1<br />
be run off. <strong>The</strong> fii<br />
duty of every loyal<br />
will be defeated. ]<br />
that the rooting sec<br />
Besides this meet,<br />
and certainly desei<br />
<strong>The</strong> first even<br />
<strong>The</strong> team entered<br />
was the only niemt<br />
pressed Lick hard<br />
other men were U<br />
<strong>The</strong> interclass<br />
under the weight<br />
the lack of rooters<br />
tory is a little dimr<br />
in the limited weij<br />
and Seniors third ;<br />
Event.<br />
50 yards<br />
220 yards<br />
Uroacl jump....<br />
440-yil. relay.. .<br />
75 yards<br />
440 yards<br />
High jump.. ..<br />
880-yd. relay<br />
50 yards<br />
100 yahds<br />
220 yards<br />
440 yards<br />
880 vards<br />
Mile<br />
<strong>12</strong>0 hurdles<br />
Low hurdles<br />
880 relay<br />
Shot put<br />
High jump<br />
P.road jump<br />
Hammer throw.<br />
Pole vault<br />
Total Points ..<br />
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TRACK.<br />
This season has proved an unusually long one, opening before the general<br />
time, and not yet having been brought to a close. <strong>The</strong>re are two meets yet to<br />
be run off. <strong>The</strong> first of these is our annual dual meet with Lick. This it is the<br />
duty of every loyal <strong>Lowell</strong>ite to attend, especially as it is very possible that we<br />
will be defeated. By the time this comes before you it is to be earnestly hoped<br />
that the rooting section will have helped win another victory from our old rivals.<br />
Besides this meet, there will be a trip for those few who have trained faithfully<br />
and certainly descive a recompense.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first event of the season was the Olympic Indoor High School relay.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team entered was inexperienced but gritty and full of fight. Captain Street<br />
was the only member who had ever run a relay lap, but in spite of this the team<br />
pressed Lick hard for first honors, beating out Mission and Sacred Heart. <strong>The</strong><br />
other men were Urban, Cowhay. Keith and Lau.<br />
<strong>The</strong> interclass was run off on February 25th at the Stadium. It was held<br />
under the weight system and proved a great success. <strong>The</strong> only drawback was<br />
the lack of rooters for the different classes. <strong>The</strong> Freshmen won, but their victory<br />
is a little dimmed by the fact that they made a great majority of their points<br />
in the limited weight events. <strong>The</strong> Juniors were a close second with the Sophs<br />
and .Seniors third and fourth respectively. <strong>The</strong> results were as follows:<br />
100-lb. Class.<br />
i I I 1 Time<br />
1-lvv-Mt. ! First. I Second. I Third. I<br />
or<br />
I Distance<br />
50 y.-trd* I K;,tz (1) llawkes (1) Borchcrs (V, 6'/-."<br />
220 yards | I-Iawkes (1) Johns (1) Borchers (H 27"<br />
Ilroad jump j llawkes (1) Wagner (1) Enos (1)<br />
16 ft.<br />
440-yd. relay j 1st year 2nd year 1st year<br />
56"<br />
<strong>12</strong>0-lb. Class.<br />
75 yards Colestock (1) Oigawa (4) Spencer (1)<br />
440 yards Spencer (1) Oigawa (4) Gug'hime (3)<br />
lli«li jr.mp IHWlder (1) Hawkes (1) Wagener (1) 4 ft. 6 ins.<br />
SSO-yd relay | 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 1' 56"<br />
Unlimited.<br />
50 eards Lau (3) Noonan (1) Urban (3)<br />
6"<br />
100 yahds La a (3) Urban (3) Xoonan (1) 11"<br />
220 yards Urban (3) Lau (3) Noonan (1) 24%"<br />
440 yards Urban (3) Keith (2) Lau (3)<br />
57%"<br />
SK) yards | Keith (2) Collum (3) Kneas (3) 2' 30"<br />
Mile |Calder (3) Cutter (1) Appleneld (1) & 40%"<br />
<strong>12</strong>) hurdles j Lamareux (3) RansohofT (4) Lilienthal (4) 19%"<br />
Low hurdles.. .. Lamareux (3) Ransohoff (4) Lilienthal (4) 14%"<br />
SSO relay 3rd 1st year 2nd year<br />
year<br />
1' S3%"<br />
Shot put D'nklesp'l (3) Conrado (1) Ransohoff (4) 34 ft. 11 ins.<br />
1 ligh jump RansohofT (4)<br />
Ganz (3) 5 ft.<br />
(• (Tie)<br />
Lilienthal (4)<br />
Broad jump Squires (2) Ransohoff (4) Herrick (1) 17 ft. 11 ins.<br />
Hammer throw..j Ransohoff (4) Wolf (1) D'nklesp'l (3) 78 ft. 4 ins.<br />
I'oie vault i Lamareux (3)|Squires (2) Montgy (3) 8 ft. 2 ins.<br />
Points.<br />
9 0 0<br />
9 0 0<br />
9 0 0<br />
<strong>12</strong> 6 0<br />
6 0 0<br />
5 0 1<br />
4 5 0<br />
10 6 2<br />
3 0 6<br />
11 00 8<br />
8<br />
0 3 6<br />
0 5 4<br />
4 0 5<br />
0 0 5<br />
0 0 5<br />
6 2 10<br />
3 0 51<br />
0 0<br />
1 5 0<br />
3 0 1<br />
0 3 6<br />
Total Points I 86 | 35 | 73 | 31<br />
THE S. F. SUBLEAGUE MEET.<br />
Only a small team was entered, but all that could be expected was done.<br />
Sixteen points were annexed, giving us fifth place in the meet. <strong>The</strong> largest<br />
po>nt winner was Katz, who ran the dashes in the hundred-pound class. He<br />
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deserves much credit for the showing he made, taking second in both the<br />
fifty and two-twenty-yard dashes. <strong>Lowell</strong> took third place in both the<br />
<strong>12</strong>0-pound and unlimited four-forty-yard dashes. In the first Spencer ran a<br />
heady race, and had hard luck in being nosed out in his fight for second.<br />
Urban ran his usual consistent quarter in the unlimited, bringing us two<br />
more points with his third place. With all consideration for Urban it may<br />
be said here that a little headwork could have gained him second place.<br />
<strong>The</strong> remaining six points were gathered by the relay team, whose work was<br />
a credit to the school. <strong>The</strong> first four runners kept the lead for <strong>Lowell</strong>, but<br />
on the fifth lap Holman of Lick passed our man Lilicnthal, who put up a<br />
fine fight for a man new to sprinting and relay laps. <strong>The</strong> last stretch was<br />
run l)v Herrick, who made a good second, maintaining our long lead over the<br />
third team. <strong>The</strong> first four men were Street, Lau, Urban and Keith. This<br />
last man had hard luck, getting fifth place in both the quarter and half mile.<br />
STANFORD INTERSCHOLASTIC MEET.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> entered only a relay team in this meet, and although they did<br />
their best, they were outclassed, not placing. Lau and Urban ran beautiful<br />
laps, showing themselves worthy of a place on any high school relay team<br />
and keeping LoweM in second place while they ran. <strong>The</strong> other relay men<br />
were Captain Street. Keith and Mammon.<br />
For the first time in many years, a <strong>Lowell</strong> team was not entered in the<br />
Academic meet. This was owing mainly to scholarship difficulties. Urban<br />
and Lamareux represented the school on the entry list, but failed to make<br />
a showing.<br />
In looking over our chances for next year it seems well to see what<br />
veterans we will have at school.<br />
Captain Street we lose through graduation. Tie has always been a hard<br />
worker and the team will miss him.<br />
Lau, who will probably be next year's captain, should make good in the<br />
sprints and relay. His worst enemy on the track is his scholarship.<br />
Urban is probably the fastest relay man at <strong>Lowell</strong>. He should make<br />
his L next season in the quarter or two-twenty.<br />
Keith will also run the quarter next year. More confidence and ginger<br />
would be valuable assets to him. and he also needs a little more application<br />
in the class-room.<br />
Hammon, who once showed great promise in the distances, has not been<br />
up t form this season. Hard work and training should put him once more<br />
at the front of the local half milers.<br />
Our point winners in the weight classes, Katz and Spencer, will both<br />
be available next spring.<br />
With these men and such others as Ganz, Squires, Reamer, Somers, Herrick<br />
and Collum. <strong>Lowell</strong> should go far toward winning the coming A. A. L.<br />
meet. We have captured this meet on both of the occasions on which it has<br />
been held, and it would be a fine thing to continue a line of such victories.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main necessities of next season's track team will be more encouragement<br />
from the school, and a great deal more work in school as well as on the<br />
track.<br />
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TENNIS.<br />
This was one of our star sports for the season, which was one of the<br />
most successful in the history of <strong>Lowell</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Stanford interscholastic, our<br />
most important tournament, was won by our team in both the singles and<br />
the doubles. Strachan was the star of the meet, playing consistently throughout<br />
the tournament, and winning- from two such players as Fottrel and Hitrd.<br />
Fottrel was the winner of last year's tournament and a big surprise was<br />
sprung upon all of the critics of the game when Strachan beat him easily.<br />
Score, 6-3, 6-0. <strong>The</strong> finals was a different affair. going the full limit of five<br />
long sets. Johnny's opponent. Third of Throop Institute, had the reputation<br />
of being the best junior player on the coast, but was defeated after a hard<br />
and cleanly-fought match. Score. 7-5. Z-b, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.<br />
Strachan and Johnston played the doubles and once more brought the red<br />
and white to the fore. <strong>The</strong>y played well throughout the tournament, easily<br />
outclassing their opponents until the final match. Here <strong>Lowell</strong> again met the<br />
last year's champions from St. Ignatius and sent them down to defeat in<br />
three straight sets. Score, f>-3. S-6, Ct-2. <strong>The</strong> team had prepared ronscienciously<br />
for this tournament and deserve great credit for their work in bringing<br />
both titles to <strong>Lowell</strong>, we hope, to remain here.<br />
Our next and last tournament this season is the Academic, to be played<br />
on May 20. Although Johnston, who won the tournament last year, is ineligible<br />
under the six months' rule. <strong>Lowell</strong>'s chances are bright. Although<br />
we have no player of equal ability, there are several, such as Grecnberg, Bull,<br />
Lcvinson. Stass and Detrich. who can be relied upon to fill in.<br />
In a practice meet with Palo .Alto, our team. Grecnberg and Sloss, won<br />
by a score of two matches to one. Other such practice meets have been<br />
arranged.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be the usual interclass t'.ie latter part of this month and we<br />
hope for a large entry list. <strong>The</strong>re are a.great many fellows at school who<br />
are capable of putting up a good game, and their duty is to start to build<br />
up future <strong>Lowell</strong> teams.<br />
As far as next year goes, we should repeat the victories of this season, as<br />
both Johnston and Strachan will be here next year. Let us only hope that<br />
the future teams will keep <strong>Lowell</strong> in the place she has regained, at the<br />
head of the high school tennis tournaments.<br />
GIRLS' BASKETBALL.<br />
With the completion of this term, the girls may boast of victory for every<br />
game they have played, and hope for victory in the several games which they intend<br />
to play with St. Rose Academy. Girls' High. Berkeley High, and possibly<br />
Sacramento High. <strong>The</strong> girls will also play in an interclass contest. Much credit<br />
for this successful season is due to the captain, manager and coach. <strong>The</strong> latter<br />
has taught the girls many new tricks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> loss of four of the best players. Mary Louise Bryant, Lois de Vilbiss,<br />
Clair Evans and Hazel I'.reslauer, will be much lamented by the team. But with<br />
Dorothy Riedy. Margaret Volkman. Martha -McCloughry. Ethel Johnson and<br />
for a nucleus, a strong new team will surely be formed. <strong>The</strong> girls of <strong>1911</strong> are<br />
certainly leaving som«> worthy successors, and will watch with interest the record<br />
they will make in the future.<br />
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BASKETBALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> season has not been very successful for this team, but still they have a<br />
record of many hard, clean fights, with a few well-earned victories. Besides the<br />
league gnnies. there were four practice matches played. In the first of these the<br />
team went to San Rafael and defeated the high school team of that town by<br />
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AuE<br />
She Knew.<br />
Demist (to old lady who wants tooth pulled)—Do you want gas, madam?<br />
Old Lady—Well, I should say so. I don't propose to stay in the dark<br />
with von or anv other man.<br />
"'riie complaint of the farmer is proverbial." said a gentleman recently.<br />
"'()ne farmer was showing me the result of fine growing weather and superior<br />
skill in cultivating when I said to him :<br />
" "Well, you ought to lie satisfied with such crops as these <strong>The</strong>re is certainly<br />
nothing lacking. You have no cause for complaint this year."<br />
"'<strong>The</strong> old farmer scratched his head and stood in a meditative mood for a<br />
moment, then hesitatingly replied. 'Well, you know, such crops as these is<br />
pesky hard on the soil.' "<br />
<strong>The</strong> Girl (rather weary at 11:30 p. m.)—I don't understand a thing<br />
about baseball.<br />
I he I lean—Let me explain it to you.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Girl—Very well: just give me an illustration of a home run.—Ex.<br />
"Say. mamma." said Johnny. "I think our iceman is awfully nice."<br />
"\\ hy?" asked mamma.<br />
"Well." said Johnnie, "he just dropped a gre-a-t big piece of ice on his<br />
toes, and he never got mad, but just sat down on the gutter and talked to<br />
God."<br />
"My lord the carriage waits without."<br />
"Without what, base varlet. without what?"<br />
"Without the horses, mv lord, it is the automobile."<br />
Clever, Isn't It?<br />
What would you make of the following:<br />
That that is is that that is not is not is not that it it is.<br />
This shows the importance of punctuation, for. behold, how simple the<br />
whole thing becomes when properly punctuated. Here it is:<br />
That that is. is: that that is not. is not. Is not that it? It is.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Real Question.<br />
Little Bessjc—Mama, how'll I know when I'm naughty?<br />
Mother—YJur conscience will tell you, dear.<br />
Little Bessie—I don't care about what it tells me—will it tell you?<br />
"Red" Van V'lict, while trying to do an algebra "Quadratic" at the board,<br />
kicked the coal shovel.<br />
Mr. Crofts (bearing that never-fading smile)—Here, Van Vliet, why didn't<br />
you kick that harder? If you want to make more noise, why don't you give the<br />
wall a good strong rap with your head?<br />
Voice from corner of the room—lie would set the whole school on fire if<br />
he did.<br />
"And so you say, Mr. Johnson, that all the people on the ship were perishing<br />
of hunger, and yet you were eating fried eggs. How do you account for<br />
that ?"<br />
"Oh. the ship lay two. and I got one."<br />
Familv I'hvsician—Well. I congratulate you.<br />
Patient (excitedly)—1 will recover?<br />
I". I'.—Xot exactly, but—well, after consultation we find that your disease<br />
is entirely novel, and if the autopsy should demonstrate that fact we have<br />
decided to name it after you.<br />
Registrar of Voters—I low old are you. madam?<br />
Ancient Female—I have seen nineteen summers.<br />
Registrar—l£r—urn! How long have you been blind?<br />
Minister (at baptismal font)—Name, please.<br />
Mother (baby born abroad) — Philip Ferdinand Chesterfield Randolph y<br />
Livingstone.<br />
Minister (aside to assistant)—Mr. Keeler. a little more water, please.<br />
Sure of That.<br />
"I can'i tell von," smiled Hicks, "who my best man friend is, but I can<br />
tell you who my bosom girl friend is. v<br />
"Ah? And who is that?" asked Jones.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> laundry girl who docs my shirts."<br />
When you think it over History is rather a sad subject, nc-.;"'v everyone<br />
you have studied about has died.<br />
Mr. Carey—What is the office of the gastric juice?<br />
Ehrman—<strong>The</strong> stomach.—Excellent.<br />
Never look a gift watch in the works.—Ex.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
I-Ierc lies the body of Susan Lowder,<br />
Who burst while drinking seidlitz powder;<br />
Called from this world to her heavenly rest,<br />
She should have waited till it effervesced.<br />
In Trig-., after loitering over a problem for about half an hour, Fl sh - - r<br />
failed.<br />
Mr. C s. approaching the board and looking over the steps the above<br />
bright ( ?) pupil attempted, declared in good humor. "That's all right<br />
Fl sh - - r. You're harmless. Your knowledge won't hurt anybody."<br />
Satisfaction.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> most amusing story of an American in France that I ever heard,"'<br />
said a recently appointed attache to the French Embassy: "is this."<br />
"'A well-known French actor became involved in a discussion with an<br />
American, grew heated, drew his card from his pocket, threw it on the table<br />
with a tragic air. and stalked out.<br />
" '<strong>The</strong> American regarded the card for some moments, then took out his<br />
fountain pen. wrote "Admit bearer" above the engraved line, and went off to<br />
the theater.'"—llrooklyn Life.<br />
"Only good-looking people are to read this."<br />
"X7[ _ •p."ll|0.1U(KT OS 0(| llip[UOA\ J,,<br />
She sat on the steps at eventide<br />
Enjoying 1 the bracing air.<br />
lie came and asked, "May I sit by your side?"<br />
She gave him a vacant stair.—Ex.<br />
Customer—You don't seem very quick at figures, my boy!<br />
High Four English.<br />
Miss Duffy—What is the theme of Burke"s Conciliation?<br />
Ogawa (pupil)—That we must fight for peace.<br />
Miss Duffy—Ogawa! Ogr.wa! You must mean kill me. but spare my life.<br />
He—You are the breath of life to me.<br />
She—<strong>The</strong>n why don't you hold your breath awhile?—Ex.<br />
Applicant—Have you an opening for me?<br />
Manager—Yes. behind you. close it when you go out.—Ex.<br />
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Old Lady (to fa<br />
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Old Lady—For,<br />
Farmer—Yes'm.<br />
Miss Duffy—Wh<br />
Chas. Scalione—<br />
Miss Duffy—Thi<br />
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Schlonie Loss—C<br />
Father—Yes, my<br />
1'ercival—How a<br />
Teacher—Who \\<br />
Pupil—Noah, he<br />
A fond mother i<br />
quake, sent her two S<br />
later she received a<br />
away your boys."<br />
Lady—Why do<br />
Tramp—Well, IT<br />
mother used to make<br />
Pastor (from pi<br />
savages of Africa,<br />
dropped into the pla<br />
Mr. Rhodes (to<br />
Richardson—I d<br />
Mr. Rhodes Cpr<br />
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Richardson—"W<br />
Mr. Rhodes—Cc<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
"Well, Frank," said Dan, turning to the waiter at his elbow, who was as<br />
good a listener as he was a waiter, "what kind of game do you like best?"<br />
"Well. Massa Powers, to tell you the trufe, almost any kind of game-'11<br />
suit me, but what I likes best is an American eagle sewed on a silver dollar."<br />
vou.<br />
Old Lady (to farmer who is loading a box of fertilizer)—What is that?<br />
Fanner—Fertilizer.<br />
Old Lady—For the land's sake.<br />
Fanner—Ycs'm.—Ex.<br />
Miss Duffy—What are you doing this week. Scalione?<br />
Chas. Scalione—I'm rehearsing for Chattanooga.<br />
Miss Duffy—This week let it be Chattanooga, but next week I'll Chattanooga<br />
Sehlonie Loss—George F.liot looks like a woman, doesn't he?<br />
Father—Yes. my son ; you must always begin at the bottom to learn anything.<br />
I'ercival—How about swimming, dad?—Ex.<br />
Teacher—Who was the first electrician?<br />
Pupil—Xoah. he made the ark light on Mt. Ararat.—Ex.<br />
A fond mother in S. F.. hearing that there was going to be another earthquake,<br />
sent her two sons away to a friend's house in the country. A few days<br />
later she received a telegram saying. "Send along your earthquake and take<br />
away vour bo vs."<br />
Lady—Why do you give me this bit of paper?<br />
Tramp—Well, nadam, I dot.r't like to criticize, but your soap is not like<br />
mother used to make and hero is her recipe.<br />
Pastor (from pulpit)—<strong>The</strong> collection we took up for to-day is for the<br />
savages of Africa. <strong>The</strong> trouser buttons which some of the brethren have<br />
dropped into the plate are consequently useless.<br />
Mr. Rhodes (to Latin scholar)—Richardson decline vis.<br />
Richardson—I don't know the dative singular, sir.<br />
Mr. Rhodes (prompting scholar)—Oh. yes you do, what did the little<br />
piggie say?<br />
Richardson—"We."<br />
Mr. Rhodes—Correct.—that word "we" puts me in mind of my youngest<br />
son. <strong>The</strong> first word he learned to sav was "we."<br />
Wild Duck—Now. then, fellers, make a ncise like a gasolene motor, and<br />
those fool hunters will think we're aeroplanes!—Puck.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Some Mathematical Equations.<br />
(Boys+block L)-fD's=Some of our track men.<br />
Man—common scnsc=onc in an insane liospital.<br />
family<br />
Common factor of Neptune. Gibson, and Atlanta is Ea-r-ny S-m-th<br />
Dcmnsthenes—mathematical skill=our "<strong>Lowell</strong>" editor.<br />
1<br />
— =one drowned.<br />
Reciprocal of boat<br />
If any one has any question on the above equation?, ask from Mr. A<br />
' Gy O. M.<br />
Van Vliet—I'm trying my best to get ahead,<br />
"llabe" M.—Well, heaven knows vou need one.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Only One Lacking.<br />
"Why are you so sure there is no such thing as a fourth dimension?"<br />
"iiecause," replied the discouraged fat man. "if there was I'd have it."—<br />
Ladies' 1 lonie |ournal.<br />
No Risk.<br />
"Susannah." asked the preacher, when it came her turn to answer the<br />
usual question in such cases, "do you take this man to be your wedded husband,<br />
for better or for worse "<br />
"Jes" as he is. pahson," she interrupted, "jes' as he is. Ef he gits any<br />
bettah Ah'll know de good Lawd's gwine to take "im; an' cf he gets any<br />
wiisscr, w'y. Ah'll tend to 'im myself."—Youth's Companion. —<br />
Mr. Sheldon—What is a vacuum?<br />
Sternshal—A—a—a something that one cleans with.<br />
Suburban Resident—It's simply grand to wake up in the morning and<br />
hear the leaves whispering outside your window.<br />
City Man—It's all right to hear the leaves whispering, but I could never<br />
stand hearing the grass mown !—Ex.<br />
lie—Are you fond of animals?<br />
She—Are you fishing for a compliment?—Ex.<br />
Teacher—Some of the boys who were my best pupils last year are turning<br />
out to be regular loafers.<br />
Pupil—Curses! Discovered!—Ex.<br />
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"Brown's an ingenious fellow."<br />
"What's he doing' now?"<br />
"Teaching silk-worms to sing cocoon songs."—Ex.<br />
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Mr. Clark (approaching Murdock, in the yard, who had been ejected by<br />
A. J. C. from oral conip)—Well, Master Murdock, where should you be this<br />
period?<br />
Mr. Clark—Arc you out here by Mr. Cloud's permission?<br />
Oozy M.—No. by his request.<br />
"So you dined at the way station—what did you have for dinner? 1 '<br />
"Twenty minutes."<br />
Census Taker—Mow many children have you?<br />
Citizen—Three.<br />
Census Taker—Altogether?<br />
Citizen—N'o: one at a time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lecturer raised his voice with emphatic confidence. ''1 venture to<br />
assert," he said, "thai there isn't a man in the audience who has done anything<br />
to prevent the destruction of our forests."<br />
A modest-looking man in the hack of the hall stood up. "I—er—I've<br />
shot woodpeckers." he said.—K.x.<br />
Professor in Physics—You don't know anything. I know 100 times<br />
as much as you.<br />
Pupil—Well. 100 times 0 is 0—Ex.<br />
Me was very bashful and she tried to make it easy for him. <strong>The</strong>y were<br />
driving along the seashore and she became silent for a time.<br />
"What's the matter?"' he asked.<br />
"Oh. f feel blue." she replied. "Nobody loves me. and my hands are<br />
cold."<br />
"Von should not say that," was his word of consolation, '"for God loves<br />
you. and your mother loves you. and you can sit on your hands."—Success.<br />
"I hear you have a little sister at your house." said a Chicago grocer to<br />
a little boy the other day.<br />
"Yes. sir," said Johnny.<br />
"'Oti you like that?" was asked.<br />
"I wish it was a boy," said Johnny, "so I could play mibs with him. an'<br />
baseball, an" tag, an' all those things when he got bigger."<br />
"Well," said the storekeeper, "why don't you exchange your little sister<br />
for a boy ?"<br />
Johnny reflected for a moment: then lie said, rather sorrowfully: "We<br />
can't now It's too late. We've used her four days."<br />
<strong>12</strong>S<br />
We cannc<br />
and thanks for]<br />
it has been thiij<br />
mention are:<br />
jorie Ruckman<br />
<strong>The</strong> Commerci<br />
<strong>The</strong> James M.'<br />
work in printi<br />
On
venture<br />
[is done,any-<br />
Wo cannot close witliout a lew words of appreciation<br />
and thanks for all who have helped to make THE LOWEI.-. what<br />
it has been this term. Uesides the staff those deserving special<br />
mention are: Mr. Altman. for his kind assistance; Miss Marjorie<br />
Uttckman, for her letter from Manila; H. Pierre Smith:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Commercial Art and Engraving- Co., and last but not least,<br />
<strong>The</strong> James U. Harry Co.. who for so long have done such good<br />
work in printing THE LDWEI.I..<br />
ERRATUM.<br />
On page 81, line IS. for inoculated read inculcated.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> "rising young men" are wearing<br />
our clothes!<br />
We're not satisfied with just "skimming<br />
along" or "drifting" in the<br />
Young Men's Department.<br />
We're always going up higher—<br />
on a plane by ourselves.<br />
Young men are the keenest observers<br />
of style and fashion. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
know "what's what" and want it "just<br />
That's the very reason this store<br />
; .s so popular with them.<br />
Years of study has perfected this<br />
important department of our business<br />
—to-day we please the most critical<br />
Perfection gives satisfaction.<br />
Hastings Clothing Co<br />
POST AXD GRANT AVE.<br />
130<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Skating<br />
219-223<br />
We Invite I\<br />
THE BES1<br />
<strong>The</strong> easy, all-by<br />
taking with the!<br />
carry a complctl<br />
Kodak City goodl<br />
J.<br />
Photogr<br />
2207 FIL|<br />
Phone West 6347
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THE LOWELL<br />
DREAMLAND SKATING RINK<br />
Sutter and Steiner Streets<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Skating Club Meets Here Every<br />
Mondav Afternoon—Conic Once and Sec<br />
CMAS. GOLDBERG. Manager<br />
RADKE & CO.<br />
219-223 POST ST., NR. GRANT AVE.<br />
If 7 Invite Inspection<br />
Latest Novelties shown in STERLING<br />
SILVER WEDDING GIFTS, DIA-<br />
MONDS and JEWELRY :: Trophies,<br />
Class Pins, Silverware and Jewelry<br />
made to order from original designs<br />
THE BEST RECREATION<br />
KODAK<br />
IS • '<br />
<strong>The</strong> easy, all-by-daylight way of picture<br />
taking with the bother lclt out. \M<br />
carry a complete line of Kodaks ami<br />
Kodak Citv goods. :: ::<br />
J. F. KINMAN<br />
Photographic Materials<br />
2207 FILLMORE STREET<br />
San Francisco<br />
Phone West 6347<br />
131<br />
Orders promptly<br />
delivered<br />
JOHN A. PAXTON<br />
CIGAR AND NEWS DEALER<br />
Your favorite smoke<br />
always on hand<br />
Subscriptions taken<br />
for all magazines<br />
S.W. Cor. California and Divisadero Sts.
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rhoncs: West 2026 Home S 31S1<br />
£. M. BRANSFORD<br />
Stationery, Periodicals,<br />
Post Cards,<br />
Printing<br />
1986 Suttcr Street Near Fillmore<br />
H. LONDONER & CO.<br />
W VIVIIMAKKUS AM, JKWT.LKKS<br />
3333 SACRAMENTO STREET<br />
Near Presidio Avenue<br />
K\|"-n W.ilih. l"n-iwlt I'lt.i-k :niil<br />
riiinu- t'lm-k ri-|>:;iriiii;. A : l u..rk<br />
i;i:;ir:i!'tiT(| fur cm-- yiar.<br />
Ui :itv «.• 1 >>^itIvr "in i.nr Silveru.ui-<br />
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A Full Line'of' :<br />
Overcoats, "<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Telephones<br />
Park 6380 and 6381<br />
J2380<br />
James H. Barry<br />
Company<br />
THE STAR PRESS<br />
Printers and<br />
Publishers<br />
Printing of Evevy Kind<br />
1<strong>12</strong>2-24 Mission St.<br />
133<br />
San Francisco<br />
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Stamp Collecting<br />
If you arc interested in Stump ColleetiiiK<br />
or Philately, 'he most in-tructive anil<br />
faseinatinf,' of all hobbies, call and see<br />
my lari;e variety of Sets. Packets :nnl<br />
Single Stamp-. Stamp Alhunis, lalalo.uiie-<br />
and Philatelic Accessories.<br />
Stamps liout;lit, .-•i]ati Francisco.<br />
Orders Promptly Attended To<br />
Aloha<br />
CANDIES, ICE CREAM, SHER-<br />
BETS, WATER ICES<br />
Our Specialty Is Victoria Chocolates<br />
1744 PILLMORE STREET<br />
Phone West 6514 San Francisco, Cal.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Demand<br />
For a HEALD EDUCATION<br />
has made it necessary for<br />
HEALD'S BUSINESS COLLEGE<br />
To More Than Double Its Space<br />
For the Fall Enrollment<br />
CfOur telephone is ringing hourly for office help that<br />
can ''make good," and the popularity of a HEALD<br />
EDUCATION is increasing.<br />
€^ Eleven other schools on the Coast under the Heald<br />
management.<br />
tflCall, write or phone, and we will send our catalogue<br />
by return mail.<br />
COMMERCIAL - SHORTHAND<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
42s MCALLISTER STREET<br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
SIXTEENTH AND SAN PABLO<br />
OAKLAND<br />
135<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
WORTHY OF SPECIAL NOTICE<br />
AltlC OVW<br />
$20.00 Suits and<br />
Overcoats<br />
Made to Order<br />
You'll l'ay $.10.1 X)-$.l 5.00 Klscwhcrc<br />
TRY ONE<br />
NEUHAUS ® CO., TAILORS<br />
506 Market Street San Francisco<br />
Home Phone C 3726<br />
Best<br />
$2.50 Hat<br />
Made<br />
KAISER'S CANDY STORE<br />
West 8335<br />
California and Divisadero<br />
Tin' iiana- MEUSSDORFFER is i lints what Sterling<br />
is tu Silver—<br />
A Guarantee of Quality<br />
PROM<br />
NEUSSDORFFER<br />
824 MARKET ST.<br />
1361 FILLMORE ST.<br />
\\\- haw L-I ivcrcd the heads nf Three (Jenerationsi.i-irs<br />
O)\I-:R VOURS<br />
WE 'ii'i not print this I k. BUT \v.- IM-IJ.-V<br />
it ;i «imt| IHIVI-I tisiii^' nit*ilium.<br />
Foster & ten Bosch<br />
BOOKBINDERS ENGRAVERS<br />
PRINTERS<br />
342-348 Howard St., San Francisco<br />
Telephones:<br />
Keirny 1727<br />
Home J 1373<br />
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I'liiinni-i'i'lii! I'rii'.u-K In<br />
All Us l:ran«l..-s.<br />
Ti-li-pliiin
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stablished<br />
1849<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
SPALDING<br />
Official National League"<br />
... Ball...<br />
(KOK. I*. S. Tut. Otllce)<br />
CORK CENTER<br />
Official Ball of the Game for Over Thirty Years<br />
This halt has llu> Spaiilini: "Patenti'il" i.'mk<br />
IVnler and is maili* tliruiiKhoiii In the lirst<br />
]HISS1IIIall USIMI in Chiiniplonsiilp Kaims<br />
s!nri* tliat tlini'.<br />
Ailnptt'il liy l'iuilli' ('nast I.I>III;II>! mill N'nitli-<br />
WWUTII l,ca|-iii'. 1'SIMI fycluslvily liy all (.'nlli'Ki's<br />
anil rnlvrrsiiivs on raritic I'nast.<br />
A. G. SPALDING & BROS.<br />
ATHLETIC OUTFITTERS<br />
158 Geary Street - - - - San Francisco<br />
BELLEVUE HOTEL<br />
A Quiet, Refined House<br />
. . .OF . . .<br />
Unusual Excellence<br />
\V. E. ZANDKU - - - - -Manager<br />
:WvK>-*«--»-'-^<br />
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WieniawsKi's Gymnasium<br />
and<br />
Open-Air Handball Court<br />
Medical Gymnastics and<br />
Physical Training for<br />
1.ailics, Gentlemen and<br />
Children.<br />
Fencing — Boxing -- Basket Ball<br />
3259 CI.AY STRICT<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
TOOLS, SHOP SUPPLIES<br />
COPPER, BRASS, STEEL, ALUMINUM<br />
Art and Crafts Tools<br />
and Materials<br />
C. W. MARWEDEL<br />
76-80 First Street San Francisco<br />
Kilw. C. Cassiily Ceo. \V. Frank. '04<br />
THE FRANK PRINTING<br />
COMPANY<br />
lo.Vi POST STKF.KT<br />
.War (lough San Francisco<br />
!i Teacher—What docs "trickling" mean?<br />
Student—Running slowly.<br />
Teacher—And what is an anecdote?<br />
Student-—A short, runny tale.<br />
Teacher—Now give a sentence containing both words.<br />
Student—I saw a dog trickling down the street with a iin can tied to<br />
his anecdote.<br />
"SPKND VOUU VACATION"<br />
At Camp McCoy<br />
Annul',' tin- r.i-.iiuii'iil Ri-ilwcurU nf l-'lim drove. Operated by the<br />
I'.iiy^' nivi-inii. San l ; r:iiH-iM - o VHIIIIK Men's Christi:m Association.<br />
Junr t2th to July 10th<br />
Cost (or Entire Period. $15.00<br />
BOATING. ATHLETICS, AQUATICS, FISHING,<br />
CAMPFIRE STUNTS, Etc.<br />
Fnr furt!n*r information, s»;o<br />
liAYXIONU O. HANSON. Hoys" Work Iihvctor<br />
138
MNTING<br />
San Francisco •<br />
can<br />
tied to<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
Commercial Art Go.<br />
HAS MADE ALL THE ENGRAVINGS<br />
AND LINE CUTS USED BY "THE<br />
LOWELL" THIS TERM.<br />
"THE LOWELL" HIGHLY REC-<br />
OMMENDS THEIR EXCELLENT<br />
WORK TO ALL ITS HIGH SCHOOL<br />
EXCHANGES.<br />
ROBERT M. UNDERHILL,<br />
BUSINESS MANAGER<br />
139<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Raymond Coaching School<br />
ELEVENTH YEAR<br />
Mission High School, San Francisco.<br />
I am pleased to Inform you that one of our students who was very deficient in English<br />
owes it to the work done for him in your school, that he is able to graduate. <strong>The</strong> head of<br />
our English Department says that Ills advancement under your Instruction was most marked,<br />
and that his progress Inspired him with the confidence that he previously lacked.<br />
J. O'CONNOR, Principal.<br />
Ten Years' Experience in Coaching<br />
High School Students<br />
Telephone West 2751 2659 CALIFORNIA STREET<br />
BONBONNIERE<br />
French Candies<br />
iCK l/KKAM :: I.L'XC! I MS RRSKRYKD<br />
All tin.' IUJLJII School Hooks Solrl<br />
West 7218 KII;IIT ( M'l'osrn-: Tin-: SCHOOL<br />
I'.KI.MMNT MARKKT Phone West 247<br />
J. CABOSSEL<br />
1V;IVI- in<br />
BEEF, .MUTTON, VEAL<br />
LAMB and PORK<br />
l-\ni.-v l.anl,-,i Ki|.-ls nf |!,...f,<br />
1S - ' '• '•'••. iilways mi li.-in.l.<br />
140<br />
2324 Fillmore Street<br />
i.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> !:|<br />
SHORTll<br />
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SALES1'<br />
<strong>The</strong><br />
life \\|<br />
Master ti<br />
Take-<br />
CA1J
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*NIA STREET<br />
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SCHOOL<br />
Street<br />
j.<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
What Are You Going to Do<br />
When You Graduate?<br />
LET TS SHOW YOU HOW TO P.ECOME A PROSPEROUS<br />
AND SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT<br />
Till- M< iDI-.KN IT-TO-DATE I'.USIXESS COLLEGE<br />
CATERING TO Till-: I'.P.ST d ASS Or STUDENTS<br />
SUCCESS WINNERS<br />
ELLIS BOOKKEEPING—<br />
<strong>The</strong> laboratory method of learning bookkeeping. Results, expert<br />
hue ikkcepers. Thorough preparation.<br />
SHORTHAND—<br />
('iwgii Shorthand—the fastest, easiest learned. <strong>The</strong> best results.<br />
SALESMANSHIP AND ADVERTISING—<br />
<strong>The</strong> character building—the business building—preparation for<br />
life work.<br />
Master tlu-e and Your success is certain and sure.<br />
CALL—Let us talk matter- over.<br />
'OS MARKET STREET<br />
e tin- I'.kv.itnr II. K. COX, President<br />
141<br />
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Phone Franklin 2146<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
H. PIERRE SMITH<br />
Photographer<br />
Special Rates Given<br />
to Students<br />
1117 GEARY STREET Between Van Ness Avenue<br />
and Franklin Street<br />
142<br />
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<strong>The</strong> most up-to-d<br />
( Suit<br />
Spring Styles now<br />
CLASSY DA]<br />
Some of the people da<br />
Some of the people (j<br />
It is said where Merzt<br />
All of the people daij<br />
Merz<br />
Music Q. Am<br />
Bands - Crchesti<br />
3534 TWEJj<br />
Mission 4008 Mil<br />
Phone Douglas 3W<br />
Da<br />
SAN FRANCISC<br />
Phone Douglas 5<br />
41-43 STOCI
THE LOWELL<br />
Kelleher &<br />
<strong>The</strong> Irish Tailors<br />
710 Market Street, above Kearny<br />
POPULAR PRICES<br />
<strong>The</strong> most up-to-date tailoring establishment in San Francisco, with its<br />
modern workshop attached.<br />
Suits to order $25.00 and upwards<br />
Spring Styles now ready for your inspection. College Cut a specialty.<br />
CLASSY DANCE MUSIC<br />
Some of the people dance some of the time;<br />
Sonic of the people dance all of the time.<br />
Il is said where Merzfoacli's Orchestra plays<br />
All of the people dance all of the time.<br />
Merzbach<br />
Music & Amusement Co.<br />
Bands - Orchestras - Entertainers<br />
3534 TWENTIETH ST.<br />
Mission 400S Mission 1005 U 3535<br />
Phone Douglas 3840<br />
PATRONIZE<br />
LOWELL<br />
ADVERTISERS<br />
Davis Schonwasser Co.<br />
Ladies', Children's and Infants'<br />
Wearing Apparel<br />
X. E. COR. SUTTER AND GRANT AVE.<br />
SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA<br />
Phone Douglas 5719 Home C 5704<br />
Hellwig's<br />
CAFE, BAKERY AND RESTAURANT<br />
A Select Cafe for Ladies and Gentlemen<br />
41-43 STOCKTON STREET Between Market and O'Farrell<br />
Try Our Toasted English Muffins<br />
143<br />
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WHY THE JUVENILE!<br />
BECAUSE we arc exclusive dressers of young men who want<br />
to look young. BECAUSE you can't duplicate our clothes in<br />
'...without vest. Be Sure to See Us!<br />
FROM THE COLLEGE DEPARTMENT<br />
Style Originators to College Fellows<br />
130 Grant Ave.<br />
EXCLUSIVE DRESSERS OF YOUNG MEN<br />
144
Vol. XVDT SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 4, <strong>1911</strong> No.fr<br />
BIGGEST RALLY TO-DAY.<br />
Entire Student Body Will Attend.<br />
When the be'il rings to-day at 2:15<br />
it will not mean one more period of<br />
ordinary school. Every single <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
student is going to mount to the top<br />
floor anil learn how to behave and feel<br />
at a n-al <strong>Lowell</strong> Rally. During the<br />
last few terms these assemblies have<br />
been attended half-heartedly until we<br />
venture to say that there are some<br />
pitiable students here who have never<br />
frequented a <strong>Lowell</strong> rally. This is unhealthy.<br />
You know it.<br />
To-day, through the energy and<br />
spirit of President Smith, eight hundred<br />
will join in the Hrockity-brock.<br />
Students will be allowed to choose between<br />
the rally and their regular sixth<br />
period recitation. Rooms 14 and 15<br />
will be .-'pened into the Hall. <strong>The</strong> girls<br />
will sit down and the boys will stand<br />
up am! yell! <strong>The</strong> program will only<br />
take 45 minutes, but they will be 45<br />
golden minutes. We will have a chance<br />
to see wiiat a <strong>Lowell</strong> rally can be. <strong>The</strong><br />
red-letter program follows:<br />
1. Appropriate Song's .<br />
'..Hoys' Glee Club<br />
2. Opening Address<br />
President Ernest Smith<br />
3. Swim riling Prospects<br />
Captain James Kansohoff<br />
4. <strong>The</strong> Coming Rugby Season<br />
Capt. Amy Ifeacock<br />
5. Sports Leslie Henry. 190f><br />
6. Conclusion and l.rockity-brock.<br />
. Note—Students will report to rooms<br />
after the railv for dismissal.<br />
OUR NEW TEACHERS.<br />
Mr. James Erward Rogers comes to<br />
us from Chico High School, where he<br />
was the head of the history department.<br />
At Chico he was the teacher of<br />
oral English as well. Mr. Rogers is a<br />
graduate of the University of California,<br />
class of 1908. where he was enrolled<br />
in the.College of Social Sciences.<br />
At the University, Mr. Rogers took an<br />
active part in such activities as debating,<br />
light dramatics, and chess. To<br />
many of the <strong>Lowell</strong> students he is<br />
known for bis connection with the<br />
Columbia Park Hoys" Club. He was<br />
one of the leaders in this organization.<br />
He has worked with boys on Telegraph<br />
Hill, where he organized the<br />
Neighborhood Club for boys. We are<br />
very glad to have Mr. Rogers in our<br />
faculty and wish him success in his<br />
work here.<br />
Mr. F. E. Pfarrigan is a graduate of<br />
the University of Wisconsin, later having<br />
attained a higher degree from the<br />
University of Chicago. He taught \ery<br />
successfully in the high school at Portland.<br />
Ore., as head of the science department,<br />
lie later acted as principal<br />
of one of that city's large grammar<br />
schools. He is actively interested in<br />
athletics and has been a member of<br />
the famous Multnomah Athletic Club<br />
of Portland. We sincerely greet him<br />
at <strong>Lowell</strong> and hope that he will find it<br />
possible to help in athletic work here.
II >'ll -i<br />
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THE NEWEST LOWELL.<br />
So much has been said of "THE NEW<br />
LOWEIX" of late that the topic is hardly<br />
suggestive. But we have ventured to<br />
change the ironbound form of THE LOW-<br />
ELL this term with the hope that in future<br />
the improvement may be continued<br />
until the paper is the most important of<br />
the school's organized activities. In the<br />
past we have endured a monthly publication<br />
whose literary value has been almost<br />
invariably low and whose active news has<br />
been notoriously stale and uninteresting.<br />
It has been a creation of magnificent<br />
color effects and second-hand enlightenment.<br />
We feel that a high school paper<br />
supported by the Associated Students<br />
should mean more to the Students' Association.<br />
It should cither be avowedly<br />
the organ of the English Department to<br />
do justice to that body, or it should exist<br />
to further the student activities and<br />
school life by devoting itself primarily<br />
to this mission.<br />
It is to accomplish this last named<br />
result that the present LOWELL staff takes<br />
up its duties. <strong>The</strong> paper has shed its<br />
lovely cover. It has become slightly reduced<br />
in bulk. It will be issued every<br />
two weeks throughout the term. <strong>The</strong><br />
price will be reduced to five cents the<br />
copy. First attention will be given to<br />
live and interesting school news. Really<br />
worthy literary accomplishments will be<br />
welcomed and included as always. <strong>The</strong>n,<br />
when the term comes to an end, we will<br />
issue an annual that will surprise the<br />
most skeptical. THE LOWELL in its<br />
changed form has taken a new lease on<br />
life. We ask your co-operation and approval.<br />
Tt is your paper in name. Make<br />
it yours by right of deed. Comments or<br />
suggestions will always be welcomed by<br />
the management. Let's have a truly successful<br />
paper and a truly great school for<br />
our term at least.<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
FRESHMAN RALLY.<br />
One hundred: entering Freshmen<br />
gathered in the Study Hall on Monday<br />
afternoon for their first lesson in <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
spirit. <strong>The</strong> class is a large one and<br />
on this occasion showed an enthusiastic<br />
and close attention to the program.<br />
President Smith opened the meeting<br />
with a greeting and exhortation to the<br />
assembled scrubs. James Ransohoff,<br />
captain of the swimming team, next<br />
spoke with a plea for athletics and<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> activity. Miss Aileen Hand,<br />
our vice-president, then addressed especially<br />
the girls. Mr. Rhodes followed<br />
with an explanation of the school's<br />
treasury system. Orations followed<br />
from Mr. Koch and Milton Marks,<br />
1910. An aggregation of inquisitive<br />
rooters furnished specimen yells in the<br />
corner. But where were the rest of<br />
the exposition graduates?<br />
JACK TUFTS RETURNS.<br />
We are pleased to welcome Jack<br />
Tufts, last year's football captain, back<br />
to school. He tried work for a while,<br />
but decided to again return to thirty<br />
hours a week at <strong>Lowell</strong>. He will be<br />
a pillar of strength on the football<br />
team and his influence will probably be<br />
felt in other fields of activity. But<br />
remember the class rooms, John.<br />
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ON BEING I<br />
On returning to I<br />
find two hundred ver<br />
among us. <strong>The</strong>y; a<br />
crop of scrubs.- ^T<br />
due the time honon<br />
LOWELL. Highschoi<br />
your late grammar s<br />
be painted the sam<br />
have the chance-to<br />
pier or very much<br />
very much wiser or<br />
telligent, indeed dec<br />
tant or conspicuous<br />
you ever were befc<br />
open. How are ry<br />
all-important time?'<br />
gin to form plans<br />
. First of all ma<br />
friends of the facjult!<br />
truest, wisest, best<br />
have at school. TI|<br />
THE LOWELL After this get;;all the friends you can<br />
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in Tlle11 and<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School. Fowler.) <strong>The</strong>;e can be nothing better<br />
for you than/knowing'your classmates<br />
OSGOOD M S S ^ K Editor 7 l aH T ^-tes'and if may not<br />
ROBT. M. UNDERBILL. '11... .Associate clania & e theni irreparably to know you.<br />
^?'r i?\^' M K v'n <strong>12</strong> - Organizations After determining' with whom you are<br />
VINCENT MEAD. •liy////.SchoTNo°tcs to bc - >' ou wil1 filld two ver - v tempting<br />
JAMES RANSOHOFF, '11 Athletics paths: one the sunny, carefree, extrava-<br />
ROY VA¥vL?E^^f:/"::::^!jote S , & nt > Iax course ° f absoI « te indifference,<br />
CORINNE CRONISE, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes the other the chill, angular, narrow way<br />
ELMER \\MSE!^<strong>12</strong> E :.! <strong>12</strong> '.::V.:. EXCl .Arfi C st Of strict behavior and Puritanic con-<br />
ERNEST SMITH. '11 Artist science. Take neither way. Practice<br />
iMVin \vn. B r Si -n SS St D ffi - „ walking the fence between the two.<br />
I/AVII) WOM-. <strong>12</strong> Business Manager TT ° , , , . , .<br />
SANI'ORI) STEIN, '<strong>12</strong> Associate Have a good old time, get your share of<br />
"' ARE T'I-IEODORA SCHAERTZER/<strong>12</strong> j ° y ; ^ haVC , * ^ .^"eral principle<br />
F. BUCKINGHAM, '11 anc ' policy and let it guide you in scorn<br />
of consequence." You will be respected<br />
ON BEING FRESHMEN. for it.<br />
On returning to school, as usual we Last of all do something for <strong>Lowell</strong>,<br />
find two hundred very small green things No normal person can afford to devote<br />
among us. <strong>The</strong>y are our semi-annual himself entirely to himself. Be somecrop<br />
of scrubs. To you, Freshmen, is thing to the community, the school at<br />
due the time honored greeting of THE large. We have basketball, swimming,<br />
LOWELL. High school differs vastly from tennis, debating, and singing, for both<br />
your late grammar school, though it may our little boys and girls. We also mainbe<br />
painted the same color. You now tain football, baseball, track, and chess,<br />
have the chance to be very much hap- for the sterner sex. THE LOWELL itself<br />
pier or very much more disconsolate, is run by the students for the students,<br />
very much wiser or very much less in- It expects and welcomes contributions<br />
telligcnt. indeed decidedly more impor- from young and oV Every one of the<br />
tant or conspicuously less noticed than above mentioned is just as anxious to<br />
you ever were before. Four years lie have new life as you are to join in them,<br />
open. How are you going to use this So do your pleasant duty and start right<br />
all-important time? You'll have to be- by entering into the school's student life,<br />
gin to form plans and ideals. By adding these sage admonitions to<br />
First of all make friends. Make your present stock of infallible philosofriends<br />
of the faculty. <strong>The</strong>y will be the phy. you need have no fear of going astruest,<br />
wisest, best friends you'll ever tray. Stay consistently with the work<br />
have at school. <strong>The</strong>n cultivate the ac- and be not discouraged by setbacks,<br />
cjuaintance of several advanced and om- Don't leave for Girls' High or Mission<br />
niscent upper classmen, preferably Se- when you get your first D. May your<br />
niors. <strong>The</strong>se are always handy and. four years be pleasant, and may the restrange<br />
as it may seem, there are some .suiting harvest of intelligence be great,<br />
very noble souls who are not Freshmen. Godspeed, June 1915.<br />
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SCHOOL DIRECTORY.<br />
Freshmen must.* use—Upper Classmen<br />
may use.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School Students' Association.<br />
Ernest Smith—President.<br />
Mi--s Ailcen Hand—Vice-President.<br />
Robert M. Underbill—Secretary.<br />
Tliaddeus 1-1. Rhodes—Treasurer.<br />
Arnold How-hay—First Ass't Treas.<br />
Vincent Mead—Athletic Treasurer.<br />
David Wolf— Business Mgr. "<strong>The</strong><br />
Lmvell."<br />
Executive Committee meets Thursday<br />
at <strong>12</strong>:15 p. m.. in Room 7. Visitors<br />
welcome.<br />
Debating Society.<br />
Meets Friday afternoon in Room S.<br />
Everybody invited. New members<br />
wanted.<br />
S. Rosenblatt—President.<br />
M. Rosenblatt—Secretary.<br />
Reading Club.<br />
Fur Juniors and Seniors only, meets<br />
Wednesday afternoon in Room 22.<br />
Robert M. Underbill—President.<br />
David Wolf—Secretary.<br />
U< imer Sitssclorff—Stage Manager.<br />
Sailor—Just at that moment my<br />
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he knew how to swim.<br />
Boys' Glee Club.<br />
Meets Thursday afternoon in Room<br />
22. New members welcome.<br />
Ceo. Goodall—President.<br />
E. Rosenthal—Secreiary.<br />
Mr. T. A. Smith—Director.<br />
Girls' Glee Club.<br />
Meets Monday afternoon in Room<br />
22. Freshmen girls especially invited.<br />
Myrtle Franzen—President.<br />
Hester Mathews—Secretary.<br />
Florence Piper—Business Manager.<br />
Spanish Ciub.<br />
For Juniors and Seniors taking<br />
Spanish. Meets Tuesday afternoon in<br />
Room 22.<br />
Leo Simon—President.<br />
Anita Sullivan—Secretary.<br />
Hert Arendt—Stage Manager. "<br />
A Truthful Boy.<br />
Jack's Mamma—'"<strong>The</strong>re;were three<br />
slices of cake in the cupboard, Jack,<br />
and now there are only two. How<br />
does that happen?"<br />
Jack—"It was so dark in there. I<br />
did not see the other two.*'<br />
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"•Fourth of July; p:<br />
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number of otherb<br />
Among tb.ose f<br />
N. E. A. at, the<br />
Lloyd Sawyer, '1<br />
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and Albert.Bull,,'!<br />
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ado" Hammer, .'14<br />
lors' (?) camp at<br />
the valley baseball<br />
Other Loweliite<br />
Dwight Jones,: '1<br />
Tommy Benson,<br />
Meyer, '11. . '<br />
Norma Ward,'1<br />
mountains" on hf ••<br />
Ramon. '^<br />
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eral weeks away al<br />
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give Private 1<br />
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sons Tuesday<br />
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THE, MONTH WITH LOWELL'S<br />
FOUR HUNDRED.<br />
During tlic weeks of vacation,<br />
cllites spread from the-city in all directions.<br />
In fact, we find on personal inquiry<br />
that few regions of the State<br />
escaped the loyal wearers of "roughneck"<br />
sweaters and "middy" blouses.<br />
At Inverness. Arthur Marwardel, '11,<br />
spent a pleasant month, serving on the<br />
Fourth of July Committee. Say, Duke,<br />
why did they have a basketball game?<br />
Manager David Wolf. '<strong>12</strong>, spent several<br />
weeks in the sun-kissed south. Me<br />
is still apparently sane.<br />
Fisher Ituckinghain, '11, strolled over<br />
the hills from Tahoe to Yosemite with a<br />
numlier of other ballroo'm athletes.<br />
Among those floor-walking for the<br />
X. I'*. A. at the Ferry building were<br />
Lloyd Sawyer, "<strong>12</strong>. Homer Sussdorff.<br />
"<strong>12</strong>." David Wolf. '<strong>12</strong>. Win. Rainey. '<strong>12</strong>,<br />
and Albert Hull. "13.<br />
"My Hero" McCloskey. June '10,<br />
"Flapjack" Murdoek. "11. and "Desperado"<br />
Hammer, '14. maintained a bachelors"<br />
(?) camp at Yosemite. Mac was<br />
the valley baseball star.<br />
Other Lowcllites at Yosemite were<br />
Dwight Jones. '13. Helen Hunt. "14,<br />
Tommy lien son. "13. and "Frenchy"<br />
Meyer! '11.<br />
Xorma Ward, '14. was a "'maid of the<br />
mountains" on her uncle's ranch at San<br />
Ramon.<br />
I'rexy Ernest Smith, '11. whiled several<br />
weeks away at Lake Tahoe. It's at<br />
l-.-ast healthv to follow the water.<br />
'. Si I "i.<br />
THE LOWELL 5-<br />
DANCING<br />
Mira .Thomas, ex-'13. managed ,to<br />
raise a coat of sunburn on the beachesnear<br />
Los Angeles. She claims, however; "<br />
that Los Angeles people cannot danced<br />
Others on and: near the big lake's<br />
shores were Carlotta Sawyer.'13. Frances.<br />
Hell. '13. Chas. Ehrman. '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Dorothy Bevans, '<strong>12</strong>. has returned<br />
very happy from two months in and<br />
about San Diego. By the time THE<br />
LOWELL is out she will probably have<br />
found a class teacher.<br />
Ida Blum, '11, claims to have enjoyed<br />
motoring at Tracy.<br />
Eva Coe, '11. was nearly lost among<br />
the tallest blades at Grass Valley.<br />
Dutch Reimer. "11, and Meal Pressley,<br />
'13. camped at Guernewood Park with<br />
a "browning" effect.<br />
Corinnc Cronise. '<strong>12</strong>. passed part of<br />
a rather tragic vacation on a ranch near<br />
San Rafael.<br />
Bert Frohman, '11. and "Teddy"<br />
Schaertzer. '<strong>12</strong>. remained in their respective<br />
summer villas at Ross Valley.<br />
Florence Livingston. '14. is back at<br />
school. She spent the summer at Sacramento<br />
in aid of the cause until the Legislature<br />
adjourned.<br />
Among the "shady nooks" and "refreshments"<br />
at Monte Rio were found<br />
Vincent Mead, '11, Amy Heacock. '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Grace Adams, '11, Lcland- and George<br />
Leek. '11.<br />
Among the bean eaters with Mr. Koch<br />
in the high Sierras \VCTC Jackson Crook;,<br />
"13. Wilson Meyer, '14. Fred Kissinger.<br />
'13. Edwin Fiild, '<strong>12</strong>. and Fred Ganz.<br />
'<strong>12</strong>. ^'<br />
^ and Mrs. Hinman<br />
give Private- Lessons in all branches of Dancing at their home. 1350 Mc-<br />
Allister Street, near Steiner. Both Phones. West 6308 or S 3072. Class Ics-<br />
.-oiis Tuesday evening at California Club Hall. 1750 Clay Street, near Polk.<br />
I'upils entering the class are given their first lesson in private. This is the<br />
oldest first-class School 01 Dancing in San Francisco.<br />
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Jim Ransohoff, '11, and Red Van<br />
Vlict. '<strong>12</strong>, amused themselves and the<br />
guests at Rowardennan. It seems to<br />
have given "Brick" all sorts of inspiration<br />
for the swimming relay.<br />
Even Gilroy felt the influence of the<br />
oldest high school. Geo. Montgomery,<br />
'<strong>12</strong>, Bessie Short, '<strong>12</strong>, and Lester KilgarifF.<br />
"<strong>12</strong>. passing the summer in the<br />
surrounding country.<br />
Gertrude Jessup, '<strong>12</strong>, spent some time<br />
at Stockton. She seems to have heen<br />
entirely cured and is now perfectly normal.<br />
Miss Ruby Jewell. '11, shone at Lake<br />
Alta.<br />
Albert Dull. '13. like Napoleon, went<br />
to St. Helena.<br />
"Willie" Raincy. '<strong>12</strong>. was ever near<br />
the Angels at Camp Meeker. Charley<br />
Heacocks. '14, also was there.<br />
Santa Cruz enticed the following into<br />
danger: Robt. Underbill. '!'„ Bill Johnson.<br />
'13. Beatrice Downing. '14. and<br />
Sherwood Chapman, '11.<br />
Hester Mathews, "11. and little sister<br />
Eleanor, '14. claim to have spent a very<br />
pleas-ant Bohemian summer at Carmel.<br />
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SCHOOL NOTES.<br />
At this early date in the Fall term of<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> very little has appeared to be<br />
put forth in this column. l\<br />
<strong>The</strong> exams are over and to those-*<br />
who passed them we extend our-congratulations,<br />
while to those/^ that<br />
flunked our sympathy. /•<br />
We should all unite in^ extending<br />
our heartiest congratulations to Marie<br />
Nowlan in the extensive rebuilding of<br />
the Donbonniere. With such strongly<br />
reinforced tables, chairs, I venture to<br />
say, are unnecessary. Needless to say<br />
they will last for some time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of December, <strong>1911</strong>, have<br />
taken upon themselves the long sought<br />
for title of High Seniors. This term<br />
they will endeavor to support this to<br />
the utmost of their ability. At the<br />
close of last term they elected the following<br />
officers to guide the destiny of<br />
their last term at <strong>Lowell</strong>: President.<br />
James Ransohoff; Vice-President, Miss •<br />
Waibel: Secretary, Miss Eva Coe:<br />
Treasurer, Fisher Buckingham; and<br />
Sergeant-at-Arms, Arthur Olsen. •<br />
Although June, <strong>1911</strong>, is no longer<br />
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with us, the ;m<br />
dance at Scottisl<br />
<strong>The</strong> affair was<br />
every detail.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of I<br />
reached the sta<br />
This is an e'rite<br />
though it is too<br />
definite progran<br />
in store for al<br />
President, Bert<br />
dent. Miss Schrr<br />
Griffin: Treasi<br />
Class Rep., "Tq<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of<br />
low juniors, mi<br />
lowing officers<br />
ests for the cor<br />
Mr. Black; Vic<br />
yer; Treasurer,<br />
tary, Miss Mc<<br />
Arms. Mr. Her<br />
tive. E. Hirschf<br />
<strong>The</strong> resignati<br />
the football ma<br />
with regrets by<br />
tee. Bob -Untie<br />
the vacancy. 5<br />
James Ransc<br />
L. representatii<br />
Miss Weigle<br />
representative<br />
mittee.<br />
Congratulate<br />
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of last term's<br />
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fr<br />
with us. the memories of their final<br />
dance at Scottish Rite Hall still linger.<br />
<strong>The</strong> affair was a grand success in<br />
every detail.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of December '<strong>12</strong> have now<br />
reached the standing of high junior.<br />
This is an enterprising class and although<br />
it is too early in the term for a<br />
definite program they have a surprise<br />
in store for all. <strong>The</strong>ir officers are:<br />
President. Bert Thomas: Vice-President.<br />
Miss Schmitman : Secretary. Miss<br />
Griffin: Treasurer, S. Diisenbury;<br />
Class Rep.. "Teddy" Schaertzer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of June "13. who are now<br />
low junior*, met and elected the following<br />
officers to further their interests<br />
for the coming term: President,<br />
Mr. Illack: Vice-President, Miss Sawyer:<br />
Treasurer. Mr. Livingston; Secretary.<br />
Mis< McCloughry: Sergeant-at-<br />
Arms. Mr. Herrick: Class Representa^<br />
live. E. I lirschfclder.<br />
<strong>The</strong> resignation of Ernie Smith from<br />
the football managership was accepted<br />
with regrets by the Executive Committee.<br />
I'.oh Underbill was elected to fill<br />
the vacancy. Success to you. Bob.<br />
James Ransohoff was elected A. A.<br />
L. representative for the coming term.<br />
Miss W'cigle was reelected faculty<br />
representative on the Executive Committee.<br />
Congratulations were voted to Robt.<br />
Underbill for bis clever management<br />
of last term's <strong>Lowell</strong>. He came out<br />
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debt. Good work, Bob. .<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of June '<strong>12</strong> can now proudly<br />
boast of the title of ''Seniors" and<br />
the}' surely give promise of filling the<br />
gap left by the June'll class. At a meeting<br />
last Tuesday, the class selected its<br />
officers for the ensuing term as follows:<br />
President, George Montgomery; Vice-<br />
President, Esther Roth: Secretary. Sylvia<br />
Kempton; Treasurer, Frank Urban<br />
: Class Representative. Byron<br />
Jackson: Sergeant-at-Anns, B. Chas.<br />
Ehrman. With this corps of able officers<br />
the class will make its senior<br />
year one long to be remembered.<br />
An enthusiastic football rally was<br />
held Tuesday in Room 21. Good spirit<br />
was shown and stirring speeches from<br />
Jack Tufts, Captain Hcacock. Jimmie<br />
Ransohoff and Mgr. Underbill were<br />
well received. It is certainly great<br />
that the football team has begun so<br />
early to be first. Now, keep it up.<br />
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ORGANIZATIONS.<br />
'flic Debating Society lias already<br />
commenced its work for the term. On<br />
Friday, July 28th. the first meeting- was<br />
held in Room 8. Mr. Cloud. Mr. Clark<br />
and Mr. Rogers addressed the Society.<br />
On August 11th, the try-out for the<br />
first team will be held by the Debating<br />
Society in the Hall. <strong>The</strong> question<br />
which has been chosen by the committee<br />
reads: '"Resolved, that the national<br />
government of the United States<br />
should be reorganized by the adoption<br />
of the English system of a responsible<br />
ministry." <strong>The</strong>re will be four contestants<br />
and two alternates chosen for the<br />
team. <strong>The</strong>se will be divided into two<br />
teams, one taking the affirmative and<br />
the other the negative. <strong>The</strong>se two<br />
teams will then meet two teams from<br />
the contesting school and will endeavor<br />
to win a few more championships<br />
for I.owell.<br />
An octette from the Hoys' Glee Club<br />
will render several selections at the<br />
Rig Rally on Friday afternoon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> Orchestra, which was so<br />
successful last term, will reorganize<br />
shortly.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chess Club meets every Monday<br />
in Room n. <strong>The</strong> club has elected'<br />
Fitzhugh Cheney as President, and G.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bonbonniere<br />
French Candies<br />
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Harrison as Secretary. A lournament<br />
will be started next week. <strong>The</strong> club<br />
is endeavoring just at present to arrange<br />
some match games with Berkeley<br />
High. •<br />
Reading Club.<br />
At the first meeting this term the<br />
vacancies in membership were' filled.<br />
Now is the time for the new members<br />
to show their spirit by uniting heartily<br />
with the officers in making this-semester<br />
the most successful in the history<br />
of the club.<br />
Spanish Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> program for the cominer term<br />
of the Spanish Club promises to be of<br />
interest to the members. Several of<br />
the best plays are to be presented soon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club is soon to begin working'<br />
upon a second production of '"Despues<br />
de la I.luvia el Sol."<br />
Girls' Glee Club.<br />
A cordial invitation is extended by<br />
the Girls' Glee Club to all Freshmen<br />
and newcomers in the school to attendthe<br />
meetings on Mondays. <strong>The</strong> membership<br />
of the club is closed after a<br />
limited time, so now is your chance<br />
to join and "do something for <strong>Lowell</strong>."-<br />
<strong>The</strong> upper classmen are also urged to<br />
come and see what the club can do<br />
for them.<br />
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"Well, how<br />
this year?"<br />
So spoke Car.<br />
question was<br />
was better, hi<br />
carried corivic<br />
the best .fight<br />
for years," he<br />
remains with<br />
and work."<br />
could promise<br />
gridiron, he s<br />
dition. If the<br />
numbers, so 1<br />
for the variot<br />
you we will<br />
itcs. it's up toj<br />
his promise!<br />
ought not toj<br />
"spirit" here.J<br />
consider mysej<br />
If you wish<br />
chance we hi<br />
practice recoj<br />
who is conccl<br />
best teams in<br />
game is no sir<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> did.<br />
Among the<br />
term are the<br />
can be relied<br />
clean scrap to I<br />
cock. Jack Tu!<br />
sohoff, TeesoJ<br />
twelve others,<br />
A word to 'jl<br />
men to come]<br />
team, for sev<<br />
big-team men<br />
tions and to<br />
tice. <strong>The</strong>re v<br />
games- this, U<br />
in with a sna|<br />
for <strong>Lowell</strong>.
THE LOWELL<br />
FOOTBALL.<br />
"Well, how do we figure in Rugby<br />
this year?" "We're going to win!!"<br />
So spoke Captain Heacoek when this<br />
question was asked him. And what<br />
was better, he spoke it in a tone that<br />
carried conviction with it. "We've got<br />
the best fighting chance we have had<br />
lor years." lie continued, "and it only<br />
remains with the bunch to come out<br />
aiul work." When 1 asked him if he<br />
could promise <strong>Lowell</strong> a victory on the<br />
gridiron, he said, "Yes. upon one condition.<br />
If the fellows will turn out in<br />
numbers, so that there is competition<br />
for the various positions, I'll promise<br />
you we will win." So fellow <strong>Lowell</strong>ites.<br />
it's uj) to you to make "Amy"' keep<br />
his promise! Get out and root!! It<br />
ought not to he necessary to preach<br />
"spirit" here, and besides I do not<br />
consider myself able to give a sermon.<br />
If you wish to know how good a<br />
chance we have, look at the spring<br />
practice record, [folding Oakland,<br />
who is conceded to have one of the<br />
best teams in the State, down to a "0"'<br />
game is no small feat and that is what<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> did.<br />
Among the veterans to he back this<br />
term are the following, all of whom<br />
can be relied upon to put up a hard,<br />
clean scrap to the finish: Captain Hcacock.<br />
Jack Tufts. Micks. Metson. RaiisoholT.<br />
Teeso, llrown and about ten or<br />
twelve others.<br />
A word to the Freshmen! We need<br />
men to come out and make a second<br />
team, for several reasons: to give the<br />
big-team men a scrap for their positions<br />
and to give the big team practice.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re will be plenty of practice<br />
games this term so. Freshmen, start<br />
in with a snap and do what you can<br />
for <strong>Lowell</strong>. Practice will start in a<br />
few weeks now, so allof you fellows<br />
that weigh 130 pounds come out. show<br />
what you are made of and give Captain'<br />
Heacoek a good support.<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is not much that need be said<br />
about swimming, as I think that I take<br />
no chances in promising you another<br />
champion team. .We are going to win<br />
the Academic this year as surely as<br />
I get three meals a day and that is<br />
pretty surely. I am not over-confident<br />
but I do know a bunch of fast fish<br />
when I see them, and will be very -<br />
much disappointed if the team does not<br />
win the same brilliant victory it did<br />
last time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> reports that have been coming<br />
in are the most favorable. Among the<br />
veterans that are back are Smith,<br />
Lewis. Heacoek and Captain Ransohoff.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are thus six possible<br />
places on the team, fellows, so everyone<br />
of you, no matter how big you<br />
are. if you can float, come out. Anyone<br />
who gets on the team this term will<br />
get a block "L" without any doubt, so<br />
if you want the coveted emblem come<br />
out and work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Academic will not occur for<br />
quite a time, but a squad will be picked<br />
for practice at the Y. M. C. A. tank<br />
about a month before it. Any who<br />
wish to be put on the squad will kindly<br />
hand their names to either Goodall or<br />
Ransohoff immediately.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
At the end of last term the Girls'<br />
Tennis Club held a meeting at which<br />
the officers for this term were elected.<br />
Ethel Rawles was elected president,<br />
and Carlotta Sawyer, secretary.<br />
<strong>The</strong> interclass this year promises to<br />
be very interesting,- for there is a new<br />
cup to be awarded to the winning team.<br />
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Louis Less? Yes, there is standing<br />
room in th<br />
Some Fortgangs and a Dinkelspiel<br />
are now enrolled at College—"Puckets'<br />
Dancing." <strong>The</strong>ir college yell is<br />
"Virginia, Reel."<br />
In High I English.<br />
Miss Duffy—When does Hecate<br />
practice her arts?<br />
B. Chas. E.—On dark nights when<br />
the sun is not shining.<br />
Miss Duffy—'"Please answer quickly,<br />
Towne, I am in a hurry!"<br />
A. Walcott Towne (not so very<br />
hast% - )—"Weren't you rather foolish<br />
to call on me then?"<br />
A Born Pessimist.<br />
Kind Gentleman—"What's the baby<br />
crying about, little boy?"<br />
Brother—"I dunno; 'e's always crying.<br />
I never came acrost anyone what<br />
looks on the dark side of things the<br />
wav 'e does."<br />
Despairing<br />
wantedybu to condense •yjour : 'knowt|<br />
edge. Ransohoff, if your knowleclgeiof-<br />
Burke's Life were condensed, it'wbuldbe<br />
invisible to the naked eye." ? o-^fc<br />
Mr. Clark—"What party ifayore<br />
complete freedom for slaves fromjt'<br />
start?"<br />
Intellectual Editor—"<strong>The</strong> Prohibitionists."<br />
W. Newbatir has entered upon his<br />
Fifth Post Graduate course at <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
He has amassed a total of 84 units.<br />
Only 64 are required for junior standing<br />
at U. C. If Will takes two more<br />
P. G.'s he will graduate from college'<br />
while still ?t <strong>Lowell</strong>. Stick to it,<br />
'Bauer!<br />
Old Mother Hubbard<br />
Went to the cupboard -.-=;<br />
To help herself to a bone;<br />
But when she got there,<br />
<strong>The</strong> cupboard was bare,<br />
So the little dog, thinking it high time<br />
to reciprocate dug up a bone<br />
that he had buried a year or so<br />
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"At the same time. sir. that that dead<br />
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TWELFTH YEAR<br />
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Dear Mr. Raymond:—I wish to express to you and your daughter my appreciation<br />
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CAR TICKETS<br />
HERE4<br />
Through the per<br />
thought fulness of q<br />
Rhodes, the annoya<br />
the railroad officesbe<br />
eliminated in th<br />
always a long line<br />
• Turk ancl Fillmoro<br />
the window is ur<br />
This has proved a ^<br />
on the girls. Mr..<br />
personal interest<br />
purely for the convl<br />
eling contingent, h<br />
ments with the<br />
whereby he will b<br />
selling the half fan<br />
do away with tli<br />
blanks. Every' das<br />
o'clock, car hooks<br />
those eligible at tl<br />
fifty cents. We o<br />
extreme conveniem<br />
tion will not be a<br />
thanks is certainlv<br />
We were much c<br />
°f a false impressioj<br />
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CAR TICKETS AT SCHOOL<br />
HEREAFTER.<br />
Through llie persistent energy and<br />
thought fulness of our good friend Mr.<br />
Rhodes, the annoyance of migrating to<br />
the railroad offices for car tickets will<br />
be eliminated in the future. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
always a lung line at the window at<br />
Turk and Fillmorc streets, and often<br />
the window is unexpectedly closed.<br />
This has proved a hardship, especially<br />
on the girls. .Mr. Rhodes, having no<br />
personal interest in the matter, and<br />
purely for the convenience of our traveling<br />
contingent, has made arrangements<br />
with the L'nited Railroads<br />
whereby he will be special agent in<br />
selling the half fare books. This will<br />
II. s<br />
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"Well," she began, "my. brother had<br />
among his slaves a large burly negro<br />
who stood at least six feet three in<br />
height. He was the most vicious looking<br />
of all the slaves, but, as he was a<br />
good worker, lie was allowed to remain<br />
around the house.<br />
"Now Joe. as he was called, delighted<br />
in tyrannizing over the weaker slaves,<br />
and whenever opposed, flew into such<br />
paroxysms of rage that he was dangerous.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a mild little old man<br />
whose cabin was next to Joe's quarters.<br />
Ever since he had come to the plantation.<br />
Joe had disliked this man particularly,<br />
and had often been heard denouncing<br />
him.<br />
"One day my brother left me all alone<br />
in the house while he went to a neighboring<br />
plantation for the day. Some of the<br />
negroes had been working in the front<br />
yard where 1 could see them from the<br />
window.<br />
"I had been sewing in the sitting<br />
room for an hour or so when a confusion<br />
of shouting' attracted my attention<br />
to the slaves. <strong>The</strong>y were gathered in a<br />
circle, shouting and grinning with hideous<br />
enjoyment. For a moment I could<br />
not discern the cause of the excitement.<br />
Horror of horrors! What was that?<br />
Was that Black Joe choking the old man<br />
he disliked ? I almost fainted from terror.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was that enormous negro on<br />
top of the old slave, while he slowly<br />
forced die breath from his body with his<br />
monstrous hands. And the others were<br />
actually enjoying this spectacle!<br />
"For but a brief moment I hesitated.<br />
T realized that to expose myself unprotected<br />
to that, howling body of negroes<br />
would be madness. <strong>The</strong>n I remembered.<br />
1 slipped into my brother's room and took<br />
his pistol from his trunk. I had never<br />
handled firearms and how to use the pistol<br />
was an unexplored mystery to me.<br />
'weapon :an _ „.<br />
porch overlooking the ;yafd. rFralse'd<br />
the barrel, and waited. -*^ 'r0;x, ; i? ; Sy';-; ;£<<br />
"'Lor', see Miss Lou!' cried Q<br />
the spectators. .. • 'C.:^^<br />
"<strong>The</strong> sight of their mistress inffsucfr^<br />
position caused an' immediate effect uppn<br />
the dependents. <strong>The</strong>y cringed beforethe<br />
righteous anger and horror which "must<br />
have shown on my face.<br />
'"Yes. you do see Miss Lou,' I'said:<br />
T.Iack Joe. if you don't release that man,<br />
I'll shoot.'<br />
"Black Joe was as afraid of firearms<br />
as myself. He dropped his victim and<br />
with a wild whoop fled to the swamp in<br />
back of the cotton fields.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> men who had witnessed the scene<br />
were heartily ashamed of themselves.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were as energetic in restoring the<br />
unconscious man to life as they had been<br />
before in cheering on the murderer.-<br />
"Satisfied that Black Joe would no<br />
longer be heard from, I returned the<br />
pistol to its place and sent for my broth-<br />
, er. When he heard the story he went<br />
and got the weapon. He stood before<br />
me as he examined it. and then he smiled<br />
dryly. <strong>The</strong> pistol was unloaded."<br />
A..H., Dec. '11.<br />
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: : ' senior class for the<br />
school at large. It<br />
hce force nor is.it<br />
!t is a display of th<br />
: c 'ass to lend the ai<br />
V " the moral and physi<br />
:;• school. <strong>The</strong> conim<br />
,;\tK)ns of its oWh<br />
j,.However all recon
THE LOWELL<br />
i-A bi-weekly issued by the students of the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
Editorial Staff.<br />
OSGOOD MURDOCK. Ml Editor<br />
ROBT. M. U.VDERHILL. Ml... .Associate<br />
\VM. RAI.VEV. '<strong>12</strong> Organizntions<br />
AII.EEN HAN'T). Ml Organizations<br />
VINCENT MEAD. Ml School 'Notes<br />
JAMES RANSOIIOI-T. Ml Athletics<br />
ELIZABETH RUGGI.ES, '13.. ..Athletics<br />
ROWAN VLIET, M2 Jokes<br />
CORINNE CRO.VISE. '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
GARTH BOERICKE. M2 Exchanges<br />
ELMER WISE. M2 Artist<br />
ERNEST SMITH. Ml Artist<br />
Business Staff.<br />
DAVID WO !.!•'. '<strong>12</strong>.... Business Manager<br />
SANFORD STEI.V. M2 Associate<br />
B. ARENDT. M.1<br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER, '<strong>12</strong><br />
F. BUCKINGHAM, '11<br />
THE STUDENT AFFAIRS COM-<br />
MITTEE.<br />
This newest and most rich in possibilities<br />
of <strong>Lowell</strong>'s institutions is least<br />
understood. <strong>The</strong> movement was organized<br />
by Mr. Morton during last term<br />
and even the committee itself was somewhat<br />
hazy as to its excuse for existence.<br />
But as the novelty wore off. the opening<br />
for and the duty of such a commission<br />
necame more distinct until now it prom-<br />
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CRITICISM.<br />
<strong>The</strong> "Newest <strong>Lowell</strong>" certainlyshows<br />
the devastating hand of the<br />
iconoclast. It remains to be seen<br />
whether your editor's powers are constructive<br />
as well as destructive. <strong>The</strong><br />
first issue came out so soon after the<br />
beginning of the term that there is<br />
some excuse for lack of school news.<br />
Xone of the school activities had started,<br />
the various societies had had no<br />
meetings. Even the school notables<br />
were still busy with their programs.<br />
More could have been made of vacation<br />
notes, however, and we could<br />
have been given information of tilings<br />
as well as of persons. <strong>The</strong> editorial<br />
seemed to us to lack in dignity.<br />
"Scrubs" may well appear in the "Locals."<br />
but, to our mind, the editor<br />
should, in his editorials, set the standard<br />
of literary merit for the school,<br />
lie should not descend to slang or vulgarisms.<br />
Merc his dignity and poise<br />
should appear pre-eminently. He<br />
should command the respect of every<br />
student.<br />
Since this is the first issue, your<br />
critic's concern has been more with<br />
the plan than with the results. <strong>The</strong><br />
editorial problem lias always been a<br />
very serious one. Two difficulties<br />
seemed insurmountable. <strong>The</strong> first was<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
a lack of<br />
in to allow of any corisiderablelpii<br />
tion, and the editor was compelleds<br />
cudgel his own already exhauSt
EXCHANGES.<br />
THE L<br />
Showing to lack of space, a detailed<br />
criticism of exchanges will be discontinued<br />
in these columns. We will still<br />
I*, continue to exchange papers with our<br />
contemporaries, however. For this<br />
purpose we retain our exchange editor.<br />
He may make what correspond-<br />
: ing criticism he wishes.—Ed.<br />
It has come to us that we owe our<br />
exchanges an apology regarding the<br />
distribution of the June ''Annuals."<br />
Tlie>c were in such demand that it<br />
was impossible to reserve a respectable<br />
supply for outside consumption.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following papers have been received<br />
during the month:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sotovoman, Healdsburg, Cal.;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spectrum. Portland, Ore.; <strong>The</strong><br />
Totem. Portland. Ore.: <strong>The</strong> Oak, Visalia.<br />
Cal.: <strong>The</strong> Oak. Berkeley, Cal.;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Owl. Fresno. Cal.; <strong>The</strong> Pleiades.<br />
F'.iIIenon, Cal.: Canary and Blue,<br />
Allentown. Pa.: <strong>The</strong> Echo: <strong>The</strong><br />
Patrician. Columbus. Ohio: <strong>The</strong> Cascade.<br />
Seattle: <strong>The</strong> Torquiz: <strong>The</strong> Far<br />
Darter: <strong>The</strong> Echo. Santa Rosa: <strong>The</strong><br />
Russ. San Diego High; <strong>The</strong> Trident,<br />
Santa Cruz: <strong>The</strong> Herald, Wesport<br />
School. Kansas City. Mo.: <strong>The</strong> Blue<br />
and ("'.old. Santa Barbara, Cal.; <strong>The</strong><br />
Hex. Woodland, Cal.: "Ye Sarum<br />
Hook." Salisbury School, Conn.; <strong>The</strong><br />
"Mission. City: Wild Cat. Pasadena,<br />
Cal.<br />
DANCING<br />
;-ar>^;^.;'V7 -,..;.;. ;.r:..v^,-.-, ;••. •;.;••. ••;-:-'fe ! -:^a-.y.--.-.<br />
y _ ORGANIZATIONS^ • *<br />
<strong>The</strong> try-out for the Debating Team<br />
was held last Friday -in the Hall..<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were two teams selected of t\yo'<br />
members each. <strong>The</strong> affirmative team<br />
is composed of Bert Rabinowitz and<br />
S. Rosenblatt with G. Harrison as alternate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> negative team is M. Re-.'.<br />
senblatt and P. Wascerwitz with J'."!<br />
Zederman as alternate. <strong>The</strong> judges<br />
of the contest were Mr. Cloud, Mr.<br />
Clark and Fred Shipper.<br />
Great interest has been shown in<br />
the programs at the last two meetings<br />
of the club. <strong>The</strong> stage manager, Mr.<br />
Sussdorff, has shown good taste in the<br />
selection of the readings. One meeting<br />
was given over to two of the<br />
"Twice fold Tales'' of Nathaniel<br />
Hawthorne, the other to Thackeray<br />
and Dickens.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls are much enthused over<br />
the return of their former director.<br />
Mr. Pasmore.<br />
<strong>The</strong> meetings of the only "language"<br />
club at <strong>Lowell</strong> have been conducted<br />
as usual. So far readings only have<br />
been given by . the members. <strong>The</strong><br />
Spanish Club needs new workers.<br />
Where are all the third year Spanish<br />
pupils? Here is your chance to show<br />
your spirit, Juniors! Come and help<br />
make this term a success.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Hinman<br />
give Private L"ssons in all branches of Dancing at their home, 1350 Mc-<br />
Allister Street, near Steincr. Both Phones, West 6308 or S 3072. Class lessons<br />
Tuesday evening at California Club Hall. 1750 Clay Street, near Polk.<br />
Pupils entering the class are given their first lesson in private. This is the<br />
oldest first-class School of Dancing in San Francisco.<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
bill
£M&W&E£}$<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong>; Orchestrahas obtained<br />
; service? of Mr. Jujian Cohri as<br />
director. 'Rehearsals will begin immediately.<br />
.,.•••-•<br />
<strong>The</strong> stage srianager of the Reading<br />
Club is preparing to present a play<br />
within a week or so. <strong>The</strong> "Melting<br />
Pot" by Israel Zangwill is to be the<br />
play. Last Wednesday a Napoleon<br />
program was presented. "A Day Out<br />
West." "A Day in the Ghetto," and<br />
"A Day of Things Oriental" will be<br />
presented in the near future.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boys' Glee Club is holding regular<br />
weekly rehearsals under the direction<br />
of Mr. Smith. Just at present they<br />
are in need of a pianist, and a try-out of<br />
applicants will be held at the next<br />
meeting.<br />
An interesting discussion of the subject<br />
"Arbitration of Questions cf National<br />
Honor" will take place at the<br />
Debating Society this afternoon.<br />
PHOXI-j WEST 5625<br />
F. WICHMAN<br />
2037 FILLMORE STREET<br />
J. \V. TRASK B. A. SCHMIDT<br />
Telephones: Market 3964 and 3965<br />
Schmidt & Trask<br />
GROCERS<br />
SCHOOL NOTES; ;<br />
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\Ve are very sorry'to liear of theill- S j"><br />
ness of bur new physics instructor,^ ;<br />
Mr. Harrigan. It is certainly un- ^<br />
lucky, coming so soon after his; inVV<br />
troduction to the school. Mr. Jensen y.;<br />
is very pleasantly filling the difficulty<br />
vacancy. He recently participated :*iti<br />
a nerve-racking game of hand-ball with<br />
Mr. Koch and two other gentlemen in<br />
the yard at noon. We should welcome<br />
his as a regular faculty member. ~~<br />
Many of Sutter street's noblest have<br />
been struggling with college examinations<br />
during the last week or two.<br />
We have the fullest confidence that we<br />
will have the pleasure of welcoming<br />
most of them humbly back to <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
for more prep.<br />
At a meeting of the class of-December<br />
'11 the standing committees<br />
were appointed by President Ransohoff.<br />
<strong>The</strong> entertainment committee<br />
consists of Miss Grace Adams, Bob<br />
Underbill, and Vincent Mead.<br />
On Monday last the Low Seniors<br />
met and installed their new officers.<br />
We manufacture the best quality of<br />
Fine Candies, Ice Creams and Ices, and<br />
also supply family trade at short notice.<br />
ARMY AND NAVY<br />
COACHING SCHOOL -<br />
Fifteen boys for West Point<br />
and Annapolis the past year.<br />
High Schools and Universities<br />
J. M. PREEMAN<br />
SAX FRAXCISCO<br />
3055 CALIFORNIA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
ip|aiipointed at 'airfeic<br />
fe5: -' •'••'••• '• Committ<br />
i^febriduct the serni^annv<br />
$J^|-iception<br />
be held a week i.-...-.yr--<br />
<strong>The</strong> estimates for;'|Ke|c<br />
-have been determinediindj<br />
the committee. <strong>The</strong>;ifina|<br />
income is $480.00 and.^^e<br />
not exceed •'•'^rfn^iUn<br />
amount goes to<br />
ing allowed. <strong>The</strong> "Girls'<br />
comes next with'$100.06;<br />
Mr. Morton has ruled:<br />
shall cross.to the storei't<br />
during school hours. _^hi£<br />
.ilege that was abused.-by 1<br />
THE<br />
:. :•'''', .':.".'C '
' ••- •. (i'r-.r, •.-••;' rfi ^? -H<br />
I to give a bbatride ; <strong>The</strong> class decided<br />
|j In a'recent pamphlet publish^ by " I,'<br />
in the near future:,<br />
but the exact date";'the; faculty, s^ral-^w^TCgula^kms;*# fe<br />
was not set. • / "•••••"••'-"•' •"•'•- >^•'-•••'• ^ir.imW^.,1' ^ H e f & ^ ^ ^ n ^ ' m n r ^ ^ " '<br />
7 areimpbsedJ<br />
A committee consisting of. Messrs. : nie ?tings in *..*. ^,i..^, .vU
THE LOWELL<br />
Jinny CAtfSo^oFF cepr M'S<br />
HEORT IN TM£ jS/WiV»<br />
FO(<br />
Well, fellow?<br />
again and it's ii]<br />
once to get out<br />
letic Grounds;<br />
Heacock calls.,<br />
until to-morrow<br />
sonally asked if<br />
as to come but<br />
away. Start in"<br />
Remember it's y<br />
Don't make it l<br />
or Tufts to get<br />
kick about the !<br />
If you haven'<br />
will you be wl<br />
leave by requesi<br />
You will neve<br />
to win a footb<br />
this year. <strong>The</strong><br />
you have a fell<br />
knows what he<br />
Coach Mulcahy.<br />
a better coach i<br />
ter where you :<br />
anil show that<br />
stuff in .you. !<br />
can come back,;<br />
SW<br />
Swimming pi<br />
class this yea<br />
slangy but"it. ex<br />
just as well as I<br />
New material .<br />
up, and materii<br />
kind that goes<br />
termination tolutely<br />
no kick<br />
swimming is c<br />
Nothing defi<br />
as far as .the i<br />
but it will mo:<br />
couple of weet<br />
Remember J:li
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fife;.'<br />
FOOTBALL.. c -<br />
Well, fellows! the season is dpen<br />
again and it's up to" you to start in at<br />
once to get out to the Presidio Athletic<br />
Grounds, every time Captain' 1<br />
Heacock calls practice. Don't wait<br />
until to-morrow, or until you are per-'<br />
sonally asked if you would be so kind<br />
as to come out; but come out right<br />
away. Start in the term with a snap!-<br />
Remember it's your duty to the school.<br />
Don't make it necessary for Heacock<br />
or Tufts to get up at every rally and<br />
kick about the showing!!<br />
If you haven't energy now, what<br />
will you be when you graduate or<br />
leave by request?<br />
Von will never have a better chance<br />
to win a football championship lhan<br />
this year. <strong>The</strong> material is here and<br />
you have a fellow to coach 3 r ou that<br />
knows what he's about. I refer to<br />
Coach Mulcahy. You will never have<br />
a better coach in high school, no matter<br />
where you go, so fellows, get out<br />
and show that you have the right<br />
stuff in you. Show 'em that <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
can come back and we will win!<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
Swimming prospects are all to the<br />
class this year. That may sound<br />
•••slangy but it expresses my sentiments,<br />
just as well as Burke could express his.<br />
Xew material is constantly showing<br />
up. and material of the best sort, the<br />
kind that goes after a thing with .determination<br />
to win. <strong>The</strong>re ij^absohitely<br />
no kick to register as far as<br />
swimming is concerned.<br />
Xothing definite has been decided<br />
as far as the inter-class is concerned<br />
but it will most likely come off in a<br />
couple of weeks.<br />
Remember there are six places to be<br />
filled bnJ.he big teaitfahd thebest ni^n^ ^j<br />
are going^ to get them. -Everyone.wJll^-K'<br />
•be given a fairdeal so the least yciu °<br />
can do is to try. ' . • t -:-.: '<br />
. . .- ^BASEBALL. . r"; : v''^l<br />
<strong>The</strong> basebali^seaS^r.^hegan a weeic J .<br />
ago Tuesday witlva- fine practit^giine'^ r<br />
with the ever faithful Alumni. About<br />
thirty men came out to the park and<br />
Captain Montgomery's only worry was<br />
how to use all the material. <strong>The</strong> game<br />
proved very close and the Regulars<br />
finally won by a 6-3 score. <strong>The</strong> features<br />
were the hitting of Hicks and; Sullivan<br />
and the headwork of Quill. <strong>The</strong><br />
line-up follows:<br />
Regulars. Position. Alumni.<br />
Marwedel Pitcher Street<br />
Smith Catcher Butler<br />
Tissot First Foster<br />
Sullivan Second QuiH<br />
Hicks Third Lyng<br />
Montgomery.. Short ... .McCloskey<br />
Vecki Right : Johnson<br />
McGuiness.... Center Gordon<br />
Olsen ......... Left ...... Borchers<br />
TENNIS.<br />
i On Tuesday, August 8th, the Gids'<br />
Tennis Club held its first meeting fpr<br />
the term. Quite a number of Freshmen<br />
attended. Miss Weigje was present<br />
and gave the girls some very good<br />
advice. From the way the girls are<br />
starting to" practice, the outlook for a<br />
successful term is a bright one.<br />
GIRLS' BASKETBALL.<br />
Girls' Basketball practice has started<br />
and the girls seem to be very enthusiastic.<br />
As only a few of the last year's<br />
team are left, we need.new material,<br />
and hope that the Freshmen girls who<br />
have played on grammar school teams<br />
will try out for the class teams if not<br />
for the big team. _ •-<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying
WONDER.<br />
After pursuing his studies for but<br />
three years at <strong>Lowell</strong>, B. Chas. Ehrman<br />
has gone to U. C.—to take the<br />
exes.<br />
NO, IT IS A MISTAKE.<br />
Fort—Whose funeral is that?<br />
Gang—That is Mrs. Jones' funeral,<br />
Fort, dear.<br />
Fort—Oh! did she die?<br />
Gang—No. She is giving one.<br />
W. C. T. U.<br />
Dinkel—Do you drink any more?<br />
Spil—Xo, just about the same<br />
amount.<br />
THE LITTLE THINGS.<br />
Preacher—It is always little things<br />
that bother us.<br />
Rounder—Sure. It is easier to find<br />
the house than the keyhole.—Ex.<br />
HURRAY!<br />
Ambitious Author—Ten dollars for<br />
my story. Murray! Hurray!<br />
1 Surprised—Who bought it?<br />
Author — <strong>The</strong> express company.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y lost it.<br />
A bnok at the board is worth two<br />
prompters on the bench.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Most Complete Line of<br />
Athletic and Outing Goods<br />
Ever shown on the Pacific Const.<br />
Ladles' Outing Suits In a variety<br />
of patterns that are priced to sell—<br />
nnd made to last.<br />
THE ELLERY ARMS CO.<br />
Little Willie, sad to telLf<br />
Didn't learn his lessons well,<br />
So a billet-doux his teacher<br />
But "Billie don't" was .in" her<br />
Phones: Park 5163<br />
48-52 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO<br />
Home S4270<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
Student (reading from<br />
board)—"Reception for the parents of -<br />
LI pupils, from three to five."- Three<br />
to five, gee, some of them get hereyoung,<br />
nowadays.<br />
Nelly (just home from boardingschool)—Oh.<br />
see the little leaflet floating<br />
in the breeze, down the streamlet<br />
on the wavelet.<br />
Urother—Strikes me you'd better go<br />
out in the back-yardlet and soak your<br />
headlet under the pumplet.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Scotchman (proud of his family)—You<br />
don't know who I am—I'm<br />
a Macintosh.<br />
Cabby (quarrelsome)—I don't give<br />
a hang whether you're a mackintosh<br />
or an umbrella, I want my money.<br />
GREAT.<br />
Fierce Debater—Blow, wind!<br />
Little Child—Oh! Mother! It's doing<br />
it.<br />
THE ASBURY HEIGHTS<br />
ADVANCE<br />
H. C. HINDS, Proprietor<br />
Does 1 all the good printing for<br />
all the schools. You have seen<br />
our work, and when you want<br />
Printing<br />
1st us give you figures on it.<br />
1672 HAIGHT ST.<br />
We are glad<br />
a former track<br />
<strong>The</strong>-f<br />
Frer<br />
ICE CREAk%<br />
RIGHT<br />
M<br />
1<br />
Tele<br />
'•JOPI<br />
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Pi
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THE LOWELL II<br />
Telephones: Franklin 818*arid 819 Home C3.03.5<br />
GALLI & GALli<br />
CHOICE FRUITS<br />
a VEGETABLES<br />
Grand Western Market 1422 and 1444 Polk Street, San Francisco, Cal.<br />
GOLCHER BROS.<br />
MANUFACTURE<br />
BASEBALL AND BASKET BALL<br />
TracK and Gym. Supplies<br />
510<br />
MARKET STREET<br />
San Francisco<br />
We are glad to welcome Oliver Field, a year of hardship and trial in Ketchia<br />
former track star, back to school after kan, Alaska. No, he is not yet wealthy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bonbonniere<br />
French Candies<br />
ICE CREAM :: LUXCHES RESERVED<br />
Telephone West 7218<br />
RIGHT OPPOSITE THE SCHOOL<br />
CLASSY DANCE MUSIC<br />
Some of the people dance some of the<br />
time; some of the people dance all of<br />
the lime. It is said where Merzbach's<br />
Orchestra plays, all of the people<br />
dance all of the time.<br />
Merzbach<br />
Music a Amusement Co.<br />
Bands - Orchestras - Entertainers<br />
3534 TWENTIETH STREET<br />
Mission 4008 Mission 1006 SI 3535<br />
TOOLS, SHOP SUPPLIES<br />
COPPER, BRASS, STEEL/ALUMINUM<br />
Art and Crafts Tools<br />
1 and Materials<br />
C. W. MARWEBEL<br />
76-80 First Street - - ~ • San Francisco<br />
Mention.;TKfcLpwelLWhen ^Buying<br />
-£l<br />
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THE L0 WE L L<br />
Frozen Dam ties<br />
We are prepared to furnish Frozen Puddings of<br />
all kinds: Frappes. Mousses. Parfaits of all flavors:<br />
Ice Cream and Water Ices, and Sherbets of<br />
all kinds in hulk or brick form : Individual forms<br />
Kaiser's<br />
2816 California Street<br />
Phones: West 8.135<br />
S 203 7 AT DIVISADERO STREET<br />
Mr. Clark—What did that explorer anything, he just left it there and went<br />
do in America? home.<br />
Simon—Whv—wliv he didn't do<br />
L. SKOLL<br />
DRESS SUIT<br />
RENTAL<br />
PARLORS<br />
Full . Dress Suits,<br />
Tuxedos and Prince<br />
Alberts rented for all<br />
occasions.<br />
A Full Line of<br />
Modern Clothing<br />
and Overcoats.<br />
Phone - Kearny 2280<br />
Home Phone • C 6323<br />
305 Kearny Street :: San Francisco<br />
Corner Bush<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
meant: pw<br />
Through<br />
Mr. Rhodes<br />
from the Bo<br />
Wei<br />
on ocul<br />
We<br />
work,<br />
materi:<br />
with o<br />
HlRSC]<br />
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Phone Fran<br />
1117 Gl
THE LOWELL<br />
I I }—. i-'Lf<br />
nawn BIMUIK a MAKKCT sr. HC* ram- niuiouc *r tuts HW nai.*T surra<br />
4 LARGE CANDY STORES<br />
Ifancisco.<br />
Through strategy ami persistence, liody will complete the purchase of the<br />
Mr. Rhodes has secured a promise piano which we have been buying so<br />
from the P.oard of Education that that long.<br />
We manufacture glasses<br />
on oculists' prescriptions.<br />
We put brains into our<br />
work, honesty into our<br />
materials, and keep faith<br />
with our customers.<br />
HIRSCH & KAISER<br />
218 Post St. Opticians<br />
Our Specialty Is<br />
Victoria Chocolates<br />
Orders Promptly<br />
Attended To<br />
Aloha<br />
Candies, Ice Cream,<br />
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Manager Underiij}l|<br />
Sept. 2—Alara&di<br />
Sept. 9—Be?lceley<br />
letic Groundsi"S"?j?<br />
Sept. 13—U:*t3$<br />
keley.<br />
Sept. 16—Frerrioi<br />
Sept. 23—Hitcha<br />
Oct. 7—Lick,' «<br />
Grounds.<br />
Oct. 21—Cogswe<br />
Grounds.<br />
Oct. 28—St. Igna<br />
Grounds. '<br />
T\Jov. 4-—Mission<br />
letic GroiindsTT 1 ^^:<br />
Nov. 30—Ai ;A.<br />
game. . .'•%<br />
A HERO<br />
Chauncey'-alway<br />
to be a hero. ;'HeJi<br />
of current qp<br />
brave men, whoirr<br />
damsels fair, fire<br />
He would be a m<br />
But how to find.tli<br />
as he would *ie"<br />
when the;beautifii<br />
thrown from her;,<br />
princess, disguisei<br />
fell over the side c<br />
He tried' irijallf<br />
y ^<br />
hood on ariiptorc;<br />
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FOOTBALL SCHEDULE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following is the practice and<br />
league Rugby schedule arranged by<br />
Manager Underbill:<br />
Sept. 2—Alameda, at Alameda.<br />
Sept. 9—Berkeley, at Presftlio Athletic<br />
Grounds.<br />
Sept. i;i—U. C. Freshmen, at Berkeley.<br />
Sept. \6—Fremont, at Fruitvale.<br />
Sept. 23—Hitchcock, at San Rafael.<br />
Oct. 7—Lick, at St. Ignatius<br />
Grounds.<br />
Oct. 21—Cogswell, at St. Ignatius<br />
Grounds.<br />
Oct. 2S— St. Ignatius, at St. Ignatius<br />
Grounds.<br />
Nov. 4—Mission, at Presidio Athletic<br />
Grounds.<br />
Nov. 30—A. A. L. Championship<br />
game.<br />
A HERO AT LAST.<br />
Chauncey al»vays had had the desire<br />
to be a hero. He was a diligent reader<br />
of current fiction, and the stories of<br />
brave men, who risked their lives for<br />
damsels fair, fired his imagination.<br />
He would be a modern knight-errant.<br />
But how tc find the opportunity? Try<br />
as he would, lie was never on hand<br />
when the beautiful young heiress was<br />
thrown from her horse, or the foreign<br />
princess, disguised as a working girl,<br />
tell over the side of the excursion boat.<br />
He tried in all ways to find his opportunity.<br />
He scoured the neighborhood<br />
on a motorcycle, until it occurred<br />
SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER I, <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
to him that he couldn't earn' the helpless<br />
maiden to safety on a motorcycle.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n an automobile was necessary.<br />
But this failed also.<br />
He was high on the hill one day,<br />
when he thought he saw his chance.<br />
A young lady was walking down a field<br />
right into the arms, or. rather horns, of<br />
an angry bull. And she had a red<br />
parasol! Chauncey resembled a streak<br />
of lightning in his hurry to arrive on<br />
the scene, only to see the other fellow<br />
help her over the stile, while a harmless<br />
cow grazed indifferently near by.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he realized that an automobile<br />
was not swift enough, he must get an<br />
aeroplane. "This is my chance." he<br />
said.<br />
So nearly every day Chauncey could<br />
be seen, hovering over the peaceful<br />
country side, looking for his heroine.<br />
One day, while slowly flying- over a<br />
sheltered and lonely farm-house, his attention<br />
was attracted to-a huge red<br />
auto, tearing up the road to the house.<br />
Suddenly it stopped and three burly<br />
men jumped out, pulling a young girl<br />
with them. She struggled wildly but it<br />
was of no avail. <strong>The</strong> men dragged her<br />
into the house.<br />
At last! Chauncey sent hi^ aeroplane<br />
quickly to the ground near the<br />
house and rushed to the door. In his<br />
haste he neglected to notice a man with<br />
the queer-looking box on a tripod who<br />
entered the house soon after the automobile<br />
party. He burst in the door<br />
and dashed toward a room in which he<br />
heard a struggle going on.<br />
As he entered he quickly took in the<br />
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lift<br />
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*.BrSve'ly he.rushed,to : therescue. : One . n<br />
man he hurled to-the ground, taken un- /^f??. °P. ei ?.. * n . d<br />
awares. He was about' to tackle' the' singlc-frle^tlifoaghT.thetrestatip«itjtothe - ^<br />
others, when an onlooker shouted," back wherethe private-compartment-is _ -<br />
"Hey! Get out of that! Do you want<br />
to spoil tlie picture?"<br />
Chauncey paused in amazement.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hesitation was fatal. <strong>The</strong> ruffiians<br />
pounced upon him and hurled him<br />
through the window. Slowly the explanation<br />
burst upon him. He had interrupted<br />
the progress of the latest<br />
drama of the Vita^raph Company!<br />
I. R. CALDER, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
ON AND ABOUT THE CAMPUS.<br />
In the Study Hall the third period<br />
last Monday, three girls and a boy entered<br />
the east door after ten minutes<br />
had elapsed. <strong>The</strong>y were evidently'obnoxious<br />
castoffs from some recitation<br />
class. In single file they marched<br />
across the front of the hall and up the<br />
middle aisle to positions in the rear.<br />
We were reminded of a recent political<br />
meeting at the Dreamland Rink when,<br />
in the midst of fervid oratory, a drum<br />
corps entered and marched single file<br />
up the aisle bearing a standard with<br />
the sentiment, "<strong>The</strong> Butchers for Mc-<br />
Carthy to a Man."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re has come into being lately an<br />
organization known as "<strong>The</strong> Hubbellists."<br />
who take noonday nourishment<br />
at "Joe's" on Sutter street. <strong>The</strong>y sit<br />
six strong around a table in the "booth<br />
for ladies," where no female has ever<br />
been seen. Eight members were walk-<br />
located. .<strong>The</strong> leader .turned-, to; enter<br />
arid then fell back, telescoping" the<br />
whole hungry column. Two feminines<br />
were eating there. . ._, •<br />
OPPORTUNITY.<br />
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a<br />
dream:— •<br />
<strong>The</strong>re spread a cloud of dust along a<br />
plain; . .<br />
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged<br />
A furious battle, and men yelled, and<br />
swords<br />
Shocked upon swords and shields. A<br />
prince's banner<br />
Wavered, then staggered backyard, benumbed<br />
by foes.<br />
A craven hung along the battle's edge,<br />
And thought, "Had I a sword of keener<br />
steel-<br />
That blue blade that the king's son bears<br />
—but this<br />
Blunt thing!" he snapped and flung i 1 "<br />
from his hand,<br />
And lowering crept away and left the<br />
field.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re came the king's son, woundc 1 ,<br />
sore bestead,<br />
And weaponless, and saw • the. broken<br />
sword.<br />
Hilt --burned in the dry and trodden<br />
sand,<br />
And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout<br />
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,<br />
And saved a great cause that; heroic day.<br />
EDWARD ROWLAND Sux.;:<br />
bi-weekly,issued;h<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> 'H<br />
OSGOOD MURDO<br />
ROBT M UNDER!<br />
WM, RAINEY, .'<strong>12</strong><br />
AILEEN HAND, '<br />
VINCENT MEAD;<br />
JAMES RANSOHC<br />
ROY VAN VLIET,<br />
CORiNNE CRONJ<br />
GARTH BOERIGi<br />
ELMER WISE,:"1<br />
ERNEST SMITH,<br />
Busin<br />
DAVID WOLF, '1<br />
SANFORD STEIIi<br />
B. ARENDT,'13<br />
THEODO<br />
APPEi<br />
We are so incli<br />
in ourselves Ta<br />
rarely consider tr<br />
or the convenien<br />
mates. Air. Mori<br />
ly on the fact<br />
was such arnult<br />
in front of the<br />
that the sidewal<br />
suggests that, n<br />
someone on the<br />
walk to the corn<br />
stay within the<br />
vicinity immedi<br />
This is a l<br />
faculty are the 1<br />
fited by its'pro;<br />
convenienc'e,-to<br />
has to cross the
THE LOWELL<br />
A bi-weekly issued by the students of. the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School. /<br />
Editorial Staff. , ['•..,<br />
OSGOOD MURDOCK, MI ...Editor<br />
ROBT. M. UNDERHILL, Ml.. ..Associate<br />
WM. RAINIiY, M2 .Organizations<br />
AILEEX HAND. Ml Organizations<br />
VINCENT MEAD. Ml School Notes<br />
JAMES RAXSOHOFF. Ml Athletics<br />
ELIZABETH RUGGLES, '13 Athletics<br />
ROY VAX VLIET. M2 Jokes<br />
CORINXE CRONISE, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
GARTH ROERICKE. '<strong>12</strong> Exchanges<br />
ELMER WISE. M2 Artist<br />
ERNEST SMITH. Ml :....Artist<br />
Business Staff.<br />
DAVID WOLF. M2....Business Manager<br />
SANFORD STEIX. M2 Associate<br />
B. AREXDT.M3<br />
street, to,jliei; J&ftiliHftil;;boyr:who,is- ;<br />
buffeted: blushinglyinVhis-.dashfqir-Oc4<br />
tavia street; let us move on.% Show Mr; : ;<br />
Morton that we can do^ this-little thing •<br />
without the exhortations of a teacher<br />
daily! It surely is".an "evil practice<br />
when even the street cars must crawl<br />
and ring their bells. What are you<br />
going to do about it? .<br />
;<br />
• "' ' • • * ' * • • • * • . • •<br />
<strong>The</strong> management had hoped to pubiish<br />
a photograph of bur new school's<br />
condition this week,' but the overcast<br />
weather has discouraged our photographer,<br />
Sherwood Chapman. However,<br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER,M2 he promises a masterpiece for the next<br />
F. BUCKINGHAM, '11 issue.<br />
* * *<br />
APPEARANCES.<br />
We are so inclined to be wrapped up<br />
in ourselves and each other that we<br />
rarely consider the opinion of outsiders<br />
or the convenience of our fellow classmates.<br />
Mr. Morton commented recently<br />
or. the fact that very often there<br />
was such a multitude on the sidewalk<br />
in front of the two exits at dismissal<br />
that tiie sidewalk was impassable. He<br />
suggests that, instead of waiting for<br />
someone on the top floor with whom to<br />
walk to the corner, that everyone either<br />
stay within the building or leave the<br />
vicinity immediately upon dismissal.<br />
This is a practical matter. <strong>The</strong><br />
faculty are the last persons to be benefited<br />
by its prosecution". For our own<br />
convenience, to aid the tender girl who<br />
has to cross the street to get to Gough<br />
Our next number will be the "Red<br />
and White" number. <strong>The</strong>re's a surprise<br />
in store.<br />
GETTING A NEW SCHOOL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rapidity of Progress From the<br />
^ Start.<br />
THE LOWELL feels that it is not only<br />
interesting but necessary to review the<br />
progress .so far on oiir new home. So<br />
we have uncovered the grim figures as<br />
follows: .<br />
November, n08r-Bond Election, when<br />
School Bonds were carried.<br />
November 29. 1909—Lot purchased<br />
by Supervisors with charming disregard<br />
of public opinion.<br />
September 19. 1910—Appropriation by<br />
Supervisors for construction.<br />
March 17, <strong>1911</strong>—Contract awarded by<br />
Board of Works.<br />
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A representative"'of THE- EOWEIX visited<br />
the site recently. <strong>The</strong>re are numerous<br />
concrete blocfe in position to form<br />
the foundation. Tv^.. concrete machines,<br />
some little steel, crashed rock, and abun-<br />
• dant sand are already OR'.the premises.<br />
Out of the four streets surrounding the<br />
square block, one is graded. <strong>The</strong> building<br />
is to be on the southwest corner of<br />
the lot. On the north side is a sand bank<br />
fifty feet high and on the east side is a<br />
sand bank twenty-five feet high. We will<br />
have plenty of "grit." But best of all<br />
there were fully and exactly two men<br />
and a sand sprinkler working. Progress!<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> is surely being neglected by the<br />
city's administration. From time to time<br />
this term THE LOWELL will print photographs<br />
of the new building. Thus we<br />
will follow the advance which the two<br />
men and the sand sprinkler may make.<br />
Let each <strong>Lowell</strong>ite strive personally in<br />
his or her way to urge the rapid completion<br />
of our building. Let us make a<br />
"New Building" campaign.<br />
At the present rate some Socialist<br />
Mayor many years" hence will claim the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School Building as one of<br />
the accomplishments of his administration,<br />
and there will be no one living who<br />
can remember far enough back to dispute<br />
him.<br />
THE NEW LOWELL.<br />
As each class has entered the school<br />
from the grammar grades, its members<br />
have come with the expectation of<br />
being located on Hayes street, between<br />
Ashbury and Masonic, within a<br />
very short time.<br />
But at last work has begun on the<br />
foundations. <strong>The</strong> building is to be<br />
-^haae^fpbrickjand^is' to lia\&|'three<br />
•I;^"t^rij§5>'^m "att?c.,.Md^"oasemcmtf CTHe<br />
- 'main entrance is •bri>Hayes
THE;<br />
u. This afternoon the Debating Society<br />
• will have three interesting talks on<br />
"Conservation," "Arbitration" and the<br />
"Jury." A general discussion by'the<br />
members will follow.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first league contest will be held<br />
with Mission on the evening of September<br />
30th. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> affirmative<br />
team will meet the Mission negative<br />
' team at the Girls' High School Auditorium,<br />
while the Mission affirmative<br />
team is meeting the <strong>Lowell</strong> negative<br />
team at the Mission Auditorium. <strong>The</strong><br />
two contests will be judged by a percentage<br />
system and the winning school<br />
chosen accordingly.<br />
On October 14th, representatives of<br />
the various High Schools of the Debating<br />
League of California will meet<br />
in a discussion of the general question,<br />
"<strong>The</strong> P.est Method of Dealing with the<br />
Liquor Problem." <strong>The</strong> winner will be<br />
presented with a medal. A try-out in<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> to select a representative will<br />
be held very soon, and all are urged<br />
to prepare.<br />
Last Friday, an impromptu debate<br />
was held on the "Recall of the Judiciary."<br />
A new pianist. Frank Armer, has<br />
been secured for the Boys' Glee Club.<br />
In the last issue of the "<strong>Lowell</strong>."<br />
the statement was made that Mr. Julian<br />
Cohn would direct the Orchestra<br />
this term. Different arrangements<br />
have been made, however, by which<br />
Miss Elizabeth Dolan will again act<br />
as leader.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Orchestra is in a splendid condition<br />
just at present. More brass has<br />
been added until now the~st rings and<br />
th.e brass are about evenly divided.<br />
*fhis was one of the drawbacks against<br />
which the Orchestra had to contend<br />
last year, but since this is removed,<br />
there is nrureason why this organization<br />
shou^ not have an exceptionally<br />
successful semester. Rehearsals will<br />
be held hereafter every Friday evening<br />
at 7 o'clock in Room 22.<br />
At the last meeting of the Reading<br />
Club, the first two acts of the "Melting<br />
Pot" were presented. <strong>The</strong> production<br />
showed earnest preparation and able<br />
management. <strong>The</strong> last two acts will<br />
be presented the Wednesday after this<br />
issue of the "<strong>Lowell</strong>" is out. This is<br />
but one of three mid-term plays the<br />
club intends to present this semester.<br />
Under the auspices of its old director,<br />
Mr. Pasmore, the Girls' Glee Club is<br />
promising to be more successful than<br />
ever before. New members are what<br />
the club needs, and the large number<br />
of Freshmen enrolled this term is a<br />
great encouragement towards the desired<br />
result. Any others wishing to<br />
join must do so .Jbefore next Monday,<br />
as after then the membership is closed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spanish Club has been encouraged<br />
to ;5nd the members showing<br />
more interest in the meetings by more<br />
regular attendance. Perhaps a little<br />
better order would enable more members<br />
to enjoy more thoroughly the<br />
really excellent programs.<br />
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6r ,«^THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> First Assistant Treasurer reports<br />
that the Students'.; Association<br />
dues are coming in slower jt'nan they<br />
should. It is necessary that the delinquents<br />
pay their dues soon or they will<br />
be expelled from the Students' Association.<br />
<strong>The</strong> December '<strong>12</strong> class are planning<br />
to give a dance in the near future. <strong>The</strong><br />
committee is at work on it at present.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class of June '<strong>12</strong> have arranged<br />
a-boat ride to be given on September<br />
16. <strong>The</strong> invitations are in demand and<br />
all those wishing to be guests of the<br />
Low Seniors should see either Miss<br />
Short, Arnold Bowihay or William<br />
Rainey, who have the affair in charge.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pleasure-seekers will leave Crowley's<br />
wharf aboard Crowley 6 at 9:00<br />
o'clock. A very pleasant time is anticipated<br />
by all.<br />
Willie Newbauer, P. G., took a very<br />
pleasant journey into the mythological<br />
world on his entrance to U. C. He<br />
entered the realms of Neptune in the<br />
U. C. tank.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Big Trio—Bell, Russ and Pressley—are<br />
still keeping Marie Nowlan<br />
busy in the Bonbonniere. Marie's<br />
nerves arc all unstrung—nerves, not<br />
strings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> December '10 class have continued<br />
the organization of their class.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have a set of officers and committees<br />
to keep up the kindred spirit<br />
of classmates. We hope Willie Newbauer<br />
and Co. will succeed.<br />
School > Notes<br />
We welcome Mr. Downeyasa<br />
ber of our faculty. . i ^<br />
nent head of the science.departniei<br />
during the absence of Mr. Sheld<br />
He is a graduate of<br />
After leaving college, he was head of •.<br />
science at Santa Rosa High. From<br />
there he came to Mission High as head,<br />
of the department. We hope Mr.<br />
Downey will find his stay at <strong>Lowell</strong> a<br />
most pleasant one.<br />
We regret that it was necessary for<br />
Mr. Jenson to leave <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
Miss Sawyer has returned from her<br />
summer home amongst the hills of<br />
Mill Valley and has taken her residence<br />
in San Francisco.<br />
Jack Trubell has become very clever,<br />
in the art of handling money as secret<br />
tary for Mr. Rhodes and United Railroads.<br />
Hand-ball artists are prohibited<br />
from going over the fence after balls<br />
in the rules and regulations of the<br />
faculty.<br />
Teacher (dictating)—Tell me, slave,<br />
where is thy horse?<br />
Startled Freshman—It's under my<br />
desk, but I'm not using it.<br />
Editor—Your narrative is too bald.<br />
• Author—Very well: I will add sonie ;<br />
hair-raising incidents.<br />
A big interclassl<br />
going to be h<br />
line, and anyone^<br />
cordially invited^c<br />
class teams. : AJ1$1<br />
fairly .good-'-sKown'<br />
training privileges'<br />
squad; so it is of gr<br />
all those who are b<br />
should swim this i<br />
A new. featee|<br />
that no big- tea'rrlji<br />
to compete in-thf<br />
give new material<br />
remember. a]l you •<br />
material. <strong>The</strong>re ai<br />
the teamandthelb<br />
Training" for the<br />
immediately after t<br />
will just leave a co<br />
tice to get intb^t:<br />
. fine this season arii<br />
" if we have the sam<<br />
last year, why-we<br />
A. A. L. again th<br />
buys an afternoon<br />
What is -a>;dach<br />
A low-down dc>!<br />
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and anyone who can swim • is<br />
cordially invited to try out for their<br />
class teams. All those who make a<br />
fairly good showing here will receive<br />
training privileges with the big team'<br />
squad; so it is of great importance that<br />
all those who are out for the big team,<br />
should swim this afternoon.<br />
A new feature of this interclass is<br />
that no big team men will be allowed<br />
to compete in the races. This will<br />
g've new material a better show, and<br />
remember, all you "fish," we need new<br />
material. <strong>The</strong>re are six places ope:, on<br />
the team and the best six get them.<br />
Training for the Academic will start<br />
immediately after the interclass, as that<br />
will just leave a couple of weeks' practice<br />
to get into trim. Prospects are<br />
fine this season and there is no reason,<br />
if we have the same support that we did<br />
last year, why we should not win the<br />
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What is a dachshund? -<br />
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, Last Saturday. <strong>Lowell</strong> played her<br />
first. Rugby game and it really was not<br />
much to brag of. It gets to be pretty<br />
bad when only fourteen fellows show<br />
up and we have to borrow a man from<br />
the opposite side.<br />
I don't think this is quite fair to the<br />
school nor is it doing justice to Captain<br />
Heacock, who is working very hard to<br />
produce a championship team. If Oakland,<br />
.with no more students than we<br />
have, can turn out over 100 fellows;<br />
and Palo Alto, with only-100 boys in<br />
the school, can turn out 60 for Rugby,<br />
why can't <strong>Lowell</strong> turn out a decent<br />
squad? <strong>The</strong>re is hardly a time when<br />
there are 15 players on the field. Lick<br />
is just taking up the game, and they<br />
have enough out for three full teams.<br />
If you don't want to play the game,<br />
if vou take-no more interest in it than<br />
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you appear to, if you had racher go<br />
to y the skating rink .Mondays than<br />
go to Rugby practice,' why haVen't<br />
some of you at least enough spirit or<br />
interest to propbse giving up the game<br />
altogether? It isn't just, that the school<br />
should spend several hundred dollars<br />
for a team where no interest is shown!<br />
Something should be decided very<br />
shortly as to whether <strong>Lowell</strong> should<br />
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<strong>Lowell</strong>ites; because they are.-too lazy'. 1 "<br />
<strong>The</strong>y would rather dress up like' dudesthan<br />
come out and enjoy a little athletic<br />
exercise.<br />
Track Manager Urban, in trying to<br />
arouse interest in future <strong>Lowell</strong> track,<br />
has prepared the p!an of giving prizes<br />
in the coming Interclass for first and second<br />
places. This plan will come before<br />
the ex. committee soon, and its fate will<br />
be determined.<br />
It seems a shame, though, to have to<br />
reward fellows for coming out for such<br />
a fine sport as track. However, be that<br />
as it may. I hope this article will hit<br />
home a:id that a goodly number will ;<br />
turn out and put <strong>Lowell</strong> track where it<br />
belongs, first on the list.<br />
Stum—What time is it? I've an invitation<br />
to dinner to-night and my<br />
watch isn't going.<br />
•Thai—What's the matter with your<br />
watch? Wasn't it invited, too?<br />
Oh! You Lloyd!<br />
Calling the roll: "Is your<br />
absent today. Miss Sawyer?"<br />
E. S.: "Yes. I think he is."<br />
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<strong>The</strong> girls have been practicing hard<br />
since the beginning of the season and ><br />
the team is rapidly getting into shape.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y expect to play the State Normal<br />
High School: team next- Thursday £in.<br />
the yard, and St. Rose's Academy'<br />
some time soon. ., • •<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls interested in swimming<br />
have been practicing hard, but will not<br />
be allowed to compete in the swimming<br />
meet. <strong>The</strong>y hope soon to reorganize<br />
the Girls' Swimming Club as<br />
they had last term. <strong>The</strong> practice will<br />
be held at Sutro Baths instead of Lurline,<br />
where it formerly was held.<br />
Col. E. Powers, of the Board of Education<br />
and a representative of the Italian<br />
Bank, recently addressed the Student<br />
Body in our spacious assembly hall,<br />
launching the new School Savings Bank<br />
project. <strong>The</strong> principle is an admirable<br />
one and even high school students can<br />
afford to lower their dignity by receiving<br />
stamps for their savings.<br />
"What are the three most common Mother—Elsie, how far did you prowords<br />
in High School?" gress in your history today?<br />
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; <strong>The</strong> cast of "<strong>The</strong> Melting Pot" were is out of the. fray.. So ;-'„'•]<br />
rehearsing ..violently in the Biology (<strong>Lowell</strong> '11), wishing to \.^,., -.:k..v.-,«,a^.»a<br />
Laboratory.- Stage-Manager George H. but not foolish about getting- ; auuui geiung-.SieppVcb steppeci£<br />
Sussdorff was shouting at the thespians on (hv (why nnt^ not?), mcii«i rushed .';•« on +w«~r,~i&~iv~<br />
thVfield^aljt<br />
as Garnet Holme was once wont to tied up in iron chains^aridinine pad-/<br />
shout at him. Baron Bowhay was try- locks. " ••••;••<br />
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"Halt!" he shouted.<br />
"That won't do," bellowed Homer.<br />
"Halt!" came again.<br />
"You act like a piece of cheese," was<br />
the reward.<br />
"Halt!" quoth Bowhay.<br />
"It isn't right yet," interrupted the<br />
director.<br />
Kelley Colin, reclining on a table in<br />
the corner, raised his head, "Aw, get &<br />
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Talk About.Leo Meyer!<br />
Just "as the news of "Midge" Jordan's<br />
retiring from football and-, the,<br />
need of an aggressive and fighting man<br />
was evident, Will Z. Newbaur entered<br />
U.C.<br />
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Solve and Find Roots of:<br />
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(2) Bullblatt—Rosenwinkle.<br />
(3) Bucking locker—Farnham.<br />
(4) Duzendorff—Sussberri.<br />
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Rumor has it that Bemie Applefiel'd<br />
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will some clay be president, but we fear<br />
that he will only be governor. That's<br />
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Teacher (in Chem.)—Willie, can you<br />
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Not only will it aid<br />
derstanding betweei<br />
students, but will a<br />
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and enthusiastic es,<br />
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tains" and welds t<br />
into that kinship th:<br />
Tt is indeed a pri<br />
to open this new<br />
however, has not h<br />
I have encountcre<br />
the selection of a<br />
many things I wov<br />
students and I " w<br />
talk a little.about e<br />
everything about sc<br />
<strong>The</strong>re arc many<br />
discussed in these<br />
vantage of the fac<br />
school. As for ins<br />
•What <strong>Lowell</strong>' 1<br />
Most.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honor Systi<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Spirit.<br />
Athletics.<br />
Student Activitic<br />
Student Self-Go\<br />
I have decided, 1<br />
words in regard tc<br />
Committee:. what il<br />
it may accomplish ;<br />
Unfortunately, t<br />
knows little or not<br />
. ence of such a cc
i '11<br />
-. ,, -i',.^"...-, ..,•..•.-.'••'; ':'.'r/7 dc corf's. I am<br />
a firm believer in school spirit. That<br />
midst, and the fe\y. who do know. r\ the<br />
other hand, fail "to realize the purpose<br />
and worth of such a committee. It.<br />
therefore, seemed proper to me, rather<br />
than discuss those hackneyed questions<br />
about which most of us have frequently<br />
aired our opinions, it might be well to<br />
"talk up" this little known Cornmi!!'-^<br />
on Student Affairs.<br />
Student Affairs Committees exist in<br />
kind *>t MIKMI spirit i'r>:\[ "moveth mount<br />
tin uul welds together the student.-,<br />
ml tl it kin.-.Iiijj that "livetii forever."<br />
It is indeed a privilege and a pleasure<br />
to open this new section. <strong>The</strong> task.<br />
111\« i s 11 lias imt been an easy one. for<br />
I ' \c (ncniintered much difficulty in<br />
t!ii M U tj,,n ,,f ;i subject. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
many things I would like to say to the<br />
't'ldints md I was almost tempted to<br />
talk a little.about everything rather than<br />
everything about some one thing.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re ;iro many topics that could be<br />
discussed in these columns to the advantage<br />
of the faculty, student and the<br />
school. As for instance:<br />
What <strong>Lowell</strong> High School Xeeds<br />
Most.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ibinof System at <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Spirit.<br />
Athletics.<br />
Student Activities.<br />
Stmlen 1 many of our largest and best universities<br />
and have been estahli.-he.ii to advantage<br />
in many of the foremost hi^h.<br />
schools of the country. In some ca~es<br />
they have proved a tVitire while in others<br />
they have remained inactive and<br />
therefore inefficient. However, in most<br />
cases, they have been successful and efficient<br />
and the movement is in their favor<br />
and so we find nc-w schools creating<br />
Student Affairs Committees.<br />
Student Affairs Committees may do<br />
much or they may do little. <strong>The</strong>re are<br />
two responsible parties co'ncerned: the<br />
members of the committee and the members<br />
of the student body. lV>th bodies<br />
Self-Government.<br />
I have decided, however, to sa . few<br />
words in regard to the Student Affairs<br />
Committee:. what it stands for and what<br />
it may accomplish at <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
Unfortunately the average student<br />
knows little or nothing as to the existence<br />
of such a committee in our very<br />
must be in complete harmony and both<br />
must be active. <strong>The</strong>n again there is the<br />
question of education. We nm.-t l>e educated<br />
to the purpose of thi- committee.<br />
In those schools where they have been<br />
most efficient, the Student Affair- Committees<br />
have been established for years<br />
and it !i,. • been one long slow process of<br />
training and experience.<br />
<strong>The</strong> work of these committee- differs<br />
in different schools. In some universities<br />
thev have executive powers where they<br />
have been long established and where<br />
thev work in harmony with the- faculty<br />
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been crectdl We admit the ignominious<br />
and flagrant mistake. .. Perhaps the omniscient<br />
graduate will notice that August<br />
1, <strong>1911</strong>, is given as the date for the statement.<br />
This was probably overlooked.<br />
Piiit, after all, this is truly gratifying criticism.<br />
After three years of inaction,<br />
progress is now so rapid that e'er we can<br />
record a fact, the statement is made untrue<br />
by lightning advance. We rejoice<br />
in i ir blunder. Hi. 1 .*, oh Alumni, and oh.<br />
fellow students, why can you not render<br />
constructive criticism? Grant that at<br />
least our intentions are good in the matters<br />
that we do cover. P.ut if you must<br />
find fault, pray show us what essential<br />
we do not contain, point out wherein<br />
we fall short of our mission!<br />
THE FRESHMAN RECEPTION.<br />
When throe "'clock came on last<br />
Friday afternoon the Freshmen ;>. and how to do it. everybody<br />
tlio Highly enjoyed himself, iwd<br />
the refreshments. All the Senior boys<br />
served lemonade, all the Senior girls<br />
asked boys for conversations, and all<br />
the Freshmen stood around until captured<br />
by some designing partner.<br />
What if they didn't discuss the topics<br />
the program called for? <strong>The</strong>y enjoyed<br />
themselves just as much, and<br />
the object of the affair was accomplished,<br />
they became acquainted.<br />
And then when the Boys" dice Club<br />
favored them with some melodious selections,<br />
and they were taken shoeshopping<br />
by Hazel Hollingsworth, and<br />
Dave Wolf contributed a few popular<br />
scales, they all knew the reception was<br />
a-success. But the climax was reached<br />
when" a few of the dignified Seniors<br />
appeared as foreigners in the "Melting<br />
Pot." Did anyone know Ernest<br />
Smith could be botli English and G'er"-»<br />
man- before? Who would have suspected<br />
Myrtle Franzen's Russian parentage,<br />
or Ailcen Hand's French?<br />
Ami who ever imagined Willie Rainey<br />
as a second Rubenstein. or Arnold-<br />
Powhay as a Russian har«>n? And<br />
did anyone know what cues were<br />
wrong and how many mistakes they<br />
made? Surely not the Fre>hmen, so<br />
what difference did it make?<br />
Upon that one nco...-;nn Freshmen<br />
and Seniors mingled as one ejeiss.<br />
Let us hope that vhe friendship so<br />
auspiciously begun will be continued,<br />
and thai more interest niiy be shown<br />
in the lower classmen by the Seniors<br />
a> a result ol it. .May all succeeding<br />
classes o\ newcomers be welcomed to<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> with as heart felt a spirit as the<br />
class ,,f 1
THE ASSEMBLY.<br />
T HE-<br />
'Hie Debating Society has just<br />
adopted a new plan in the hope of',<br />
increasing interest in debating workL<br />
Briefly, the plan is this: <strong>The</strong> Debating-<br />
Society is to be turned into an<br />
a s -e.nbly every other Friday. On<br />
the- day* the entire business of the<br />
viui'y i- in 1)0 conducted in the<br />
•.aim manner as the business in the<br />
\--< iiiiily ..; California, the members<br />
01 tin- v-e.«sion of the Debating Society<br />
this afternoon, a special committee<br />
appointed to investigate "Woman's<br />
Suffrage." will make its report.<br />
This committee consists of Messrs.<br />
Honitr-hevger and- Fest, and the<br />
Hisses ('.eballe and Piper.<br />
A new society has sprung up among<br />
us in the last week. This is the Camera<br />
Club. <strong>The</strong> objects of this organization<br />
may early be imagined. <strong>The</strong><br />
only prerequisite to. becoming a member<br />
is the ownership of a camera.<br />
Quite a number of persons have<br />
joined already, but a larger enrollment<br />
is desired. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> expects that<br />
this club will be very helpful in furnishing<br />
pictures for publication.<br />
Owing to a lecture given by the<br />
Board of Education there was only<br />
one meeting of the Reading Club this<br />
fortnight. <strong>The</strong> attendance at that<br />
meeting was such as the club should<br />
always desire. Over a hundred were<br />
present, to see the last two acts of the<br />
"Melting Pot" presented. Let us hope<br />
that the success of this play will encourage<br />
lower classmen and nonmembers<br />
to continue attending the<br />
meetings.<br />
Mr. Pasmore, the director, is much<br />
pleased over the interest and enthusiasm<br />
shown- by the members of the<br />
Glc Club. This is due, no doubt, to<br />
the extraordinary large Freshman<br />
membership. <strong>The</strong> girls have already<br />
begun to prepare for their semi-annual<br />
school concert, which will probably<br />
be given in November.<br />
Mr. Rhodes promising to aid the<br />
Spanish Club by being present at the<br />
meetings has encouraged the members<br />
to endeavor afresh to make the<br />
work of the club count. Those beginning<br />
Spanish are urged to join as<br />
the club is not only interesting but<br />
very instructive.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
A rally was held in the yanl through<br />
the permission of Mr. Morion on the<br />
31st of August. This was the best<br />
rally that l.owell has held for some<br />
time. It was an indignation meeting<br />
. I\\T the i'i''ll>all situation and l.owell<br />
"spirit" w:i* shown in a marked degree,<br />
-'resident Smuh opened with a<br />
lew remarks and was followed by Mr.<br />
Rogers Mr. Rhodes and liin RansohulT.<br />
Tin- -perches were short, and<br />
in ihv puin!. This is the sort of rally<br />
tha: should In- encourageM at <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
School Notes<br />
Any fi-llnw wlm cannot r"ine out<br />
and play f*>< >t 1 »:i 11 owing In family objections,<br />
should arrange in Iiave Mr.<br />
Rogers nr Mr. Rh«'.de.s write in his<br />
folks and straighten the iii:itter mil.<br />
Messrs. Leek. Worth and Fassman<br />
were dishonorably expelled frnin the<br />
'Students' Association for non-payment<br />
of dues.<br />
<strong>The</strong> committee of the June '<strong>12</strong> class<br />
have completed final ar 'angements for<br />
their boat ride for Saturday. All those<br />
seeking the day's pleasures about the<br />
waters of the bay should assemble at<br />
Crowley's Pier, foot of Howard street,<br />
at 9 a. in. A pleas >nt time is guaranteed<br />
by the committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> committee or the December '11<br />
class have plans under consideration.<br />
Although nothing lias thus far been<br />
formulated there will be in the near<br />
future.<br />
Tlu-re certainly is some spirit lacking<br />
wher. seven men m" tin; football<br />
team are seen sitting around Drcam-<br />
\ ^:'• •J : \ J J5' j ;:35<br />
,t "<br />
land Rink on Monday aiternoon when<br />
a game is in progress a;^ the Presidio<br />
grounds. It is not necessary to mention<br />
names, but these fellows should<br />
certainly show a little More spirit.<br />
We regret to see that Amv ITeacock<br />
is limping about. Amy was<br />
kicked in the ^mii: with Kerkeley. •<br />
We all hope that he will soon be<br />
back in the game.<br />
lack 'lulls is certainly playing good<br />
football with the P.arbarians, but we<br />
wish he would help the situation out<br />
a hit at l.owell by pr?.cticing with<br />
'.he team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> swimming' intercl.iss was. Veld<br />
last Friday afternoon. It was a grand<br />
success, both from the financial standpoint<br />
and that f swimning. Something<br />
over $10 was made.<br />
We regret that our worthy editor.<br />
"•Ozzy" Murdock. is ill. ( >z7.y Is lying<br />
in bed with an attack of chickenpox.<br />
O/.zy. leave the "chickens" alone."<br />
Maurice Mclaughlin. "09. our old<br />
tennis expert, recently won the Xational<br />
Tennis Tournament nt Newport<br />
from a field of 202. L'nforlnnaiely he<br />
succumbed to l.arned. seven years<br />
I". S. champion, in the challenge<br />
match for the championship of the<br />
L'nited States.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Dec. <strong>12</strong>, class have completed<br />
plans for their dance to be held on the<br />
29th of this month at California Hall.<br />
<strong>The</strong> affair i< in charge of a committee<br />
composed of Messrs. G. I'oerickc,<br />
chairman; L. Ward. (,\ Colin. Miss<br />
Piper ami Miss Griffin. Invitations<br />
can be procured from Dusenbery. An<br />
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F. : X- Sept. 22—A;*§; :<br />
| r :-'•. at the Y. M. : C|5<br />
:<br />
Sept. 23—Rugby<br />
fael: <strong>Lowell</strong> vs. H<br />
FOOT<br />
After one of tli<br />
boys' rallies ever<br />
and after we h<<br />
crushing defeat;- t<br />
has taken rapid st<br />
ccssful season.<br />
we have the mate<br />
come out and hef<br />
ning chance.<br />
we have secured I<br />
"<strong>Lowell</strong>ite," Ton<br />
coach for us.<br />
proposition for y<<br />
reject: whether }<br />
behind Tom Lai<br />
good team, or l<br />
^ nity by having i<br />
practice with ch<br />
of <strong>Lowell</strong>, from'<br />
show how\Uie'- J<br />
progressing, ^o 11<br />
of the schporv.<br />
and organized<br />
This organizatio]<br />
work of M'r. Roj<br />
PHONJ<br />
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2037
CALENDAR.<br />
Events in which <strong>Lowell</strong> is interested<br />
between to-day and thc next day V \-i'f<br />
publication :<br />
Sept. 22—A. A. L. swimming meet<br />
at the V. }!. C. A.<br />
Sept. 2.? -Rugby game at San Rafael<br />
: l.i-well v». [ liehcock.<br />
FOOTBALL.<br />
Alter one «.f the most cnthusiastK<br />
li'.v>' rallies- ever held in the school,<br />
and after we had handed Lick a<br />
crn-hing leteat. the Rugby situation<br />
ha« taki'!, rapid strides towards i sueccssud<br />
season. Fellows! now that<br />
% ^ t -" havi 1 the material for a line team.<br />
C'-'ii;e "tit and help keep up this winning<br />
chance. To help matters along<br />
we have -ecured the services of a true<br />
"l."wellite." Tom l.aine, to act as<br />
ciiach lor us. Xow then, it's a simple<br />
proposition ior you to either grasp or<br />
reject : whether you are going to get<br />
tci-.l 1 •! Tom Laine and put forth a<br />
,V"od te;.ni. or neglect this opportunity<br />
by having a few fellows out for<br />
practice with chances for withdrawal<br />
l <strong>Lowell</strong> from the sub-league. To<br />
show how the interest of Rugby is<br />
progressing, some of the smaller boys<br />
°i the school have gotten together<br />
and organized a light-weight team.<br />
1 his organization was due to the good<br />
work of .Mr. Rogers, who held a rally<br />
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<strong>The</strong> second half was largely a fight<br />
among the forwards. Harry Hicks<br />
made a clever try, which was converted<br />
at a difficult angle by Marwedel.<br />
This score stood till the end of<br />
the game though <strong>Lowell</strong> was oh the<br />
verge of scoring all the time.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> 0, Alartieda 21.<br />
Due to the poor support given to<br />
the team by the fellows and students<br />
we mil defeat ai the hands of Alaincda<br />
on Saturday. Sept. 2. Alameda<br />
outweighed the fellows that did represent<br />
the team of <strong>Lowell</strong>, but otherwise<br />
the fellows put up a grand fight.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> 11, Insurrectos 3.<br />
On Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 6th.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> defeated a team composed of<br />
graduate iootball stars to the tune of<br />
11-3. This victory was due to the<br />
great n, f ln and team work displayed<br />
by our fellows. <strong>The</strong> score was 5-3 at<br />
the end of the first half, but when the<br />
second half ended it showed 11-3.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> 0, Berkeley 19.<br />
Saturday afternoon. Sept. 9th. we<br />
met with defeat at Presidio Athletic<br />
Ground?, the score being 19-0. This<br />
score does not stand again * us as a<br />
crushing defeat, but showei . it <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
could fight and hold dow.i a championship<br />
team. This was demonstrated<br />
by the way we held Berkeley down<br />
the first naif, '.lie score onlv reading<br />
.1. W. TP.ASK B. A. SCHMIDT<br />
T.:
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> S'-.phomore team won the meet<br />
handily, due to organized training under<br />
Captain Detrich and Mr. Rogr<br />
cr* who was a great aid in starting<br />
fellows and getting spirit up.<br />
<strong>The</strong> iViiowing arc the point winners:<br />
vards—Detrick, Van Vliet and<br />
i. Time, 26:00.<br />
10) yards—Derby, Van VHet and<br />
Wils'-n. Time. 1:01.<br />
22 f i ; iris—Tharp. Goodall and<br />
Ili-rtu. T::::c. 3:16.<br />
440 \:.v'.—Collishaun. 'Winter and.<br />
FicKl. Time. 7:02.<br />
irii—Collishaun, Goodall and<br />
Wiii by Seniors, composed<br />
a". Winter, Van Vliet, Ranr.''.<br />
Smith.<br />
;.r swimming practice is now<br />
.':.; at the Y. M. C. A. tankay,<br />
and the squad is begin-<br />
-h"\v "class." <strong>Lowell</strong> is go-<br />
•."i:i that meet and every one<br />
vam is working his best, so,<br />
•i'-.i'i forget Friday night,<br />
•i. 1 >• n't make any dates for<br />
hi. but come down to the Y.<br />
and root for <strong>Lowell</strong>. It's<br />
:K' that the team asks of<br />
the sciv '•: and you ought to do that—<br />
:h.v. is support.<br />
BASKETBALL.;<br />
A short time ago the vice-president<br />
of the L. H. S. S. A. held a meeting<br />
of last year's team, and Dorothy Rie>(y<br />
was elected captain. <strong>The</strong> girls prac-'<br />
lice in the yard on Tuesdays' and<br />
Thursdays. A few girls turn out faithfully,<br />
but the support is not all that it<br />
should be. <strong>The</strong> team has not bscn<br />
definitely picked so there is a chance<br />
for anyone who will work.<br />
Several teams have been challenged<br />
and games are expected with Commercial<br />
and Polytechnic soon.<br />
' TENNIS.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls are practicing in Golden<br />
Gate Park after school and on Saturdays.<br />
<strong>The</strong> imerclass is to be held<br />
Sept. 23 and ail who want to enter the<br />
tournament should be sure their names<br />
are n the list. Names can be given<br />
to Miss Carlotta Sawyer or to Miss<br />
Leslie L'nderhill.<br />
SWIMMING.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls interested in swimming<br />
have changed their place of practice<br />
from Lurliir.- to Sutro Baths. Ernie<br />
Smith has neen giving them some advice<br />
on overhand swimming.<br />
Misf, Bowman—Who knows how to<br />
get a square root.''<br />
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a "swift footed" bicycle and various<br />
ash cans. <strong>The</strong>y had been unlearned in<br />
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Mission High School, San Francisco.<br />
I am pitted to Inform you that one of our students who was very deficient In<br />
Enpllsh owes It to the work done for him in your school, that he is able to graduate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of our EngllBb Department says that his advancement under your instruction<br />
was most marked, and that his progress inspired him with the confidence<br />
that ho previously lacked. _ . , .<br />
.T. O'CONNOR, Principal.<br />
DR. WM. A. MARTIN<br />
870 F«ll Street<br />
San-Francisco San Francisco. July Iff. U09.<br />
Dear Mr. Raymond:-* wish to express to you and your daughter my appreciation<br />
of the verv satisfactory results you have obtained in helping my son and daughter<br />
out of the'maze of difficulties in which they had become entangled withtheir<br />
studies I shall always t«ke preat pleasure in adding, my word of recommendation<br />
to that of the many others, who I know are lavish in their praises of <strong>The</strong> Raymond<br />
Coaching School. *o»« very "-ere.y<br />
Telephone West 2751<br />
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THE LEGEND O<br />
RFV<br />
Long ago the In<br />
was a great king wh<br />
rivers and valleys<br />
name was Wohave,<br />
beautiful crystal ps<br />
of the Russian Rive<br />
all afraid of this tdi<br />
could bring terrible<br />
habitants by rjasinj<br />
flow, thus iuining t<br />
One day the king<br />
surface of the wate<br />
ful Indian maiden<br />
Her long, black ; tn<br />
she had twined the<br />
had fallen into the \<br />
made sport of bj<br />
cheeks were reddei<br />
her hair, and her e<br />
sparkling water.<br />
While the king g<br />
charming maiden,<br />
through the treesv;t<br />
her father, and wa;<br />
the Wandas. He
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SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER 29, <strong>1911</strong>. No.~10<br />
CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
<strong>The</strong> contributors to "<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong>" are becoming rare. Don't let them<br />
become extinct. Write stories if you are inspired. Write poetry if you<br />
can. Write an article on some school institution or a suggestion for some<br />
improvement or innovation. At least favor the management with the<br />
funny things that happen in and out of the class rooms. "<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong>" is<br />
for everybody now. Let everybody take this chance to appear in print.<br />
Hand your contributions to the editor or any member of the staff. Pencils<br />
and paper will be supplied to those meaning business.<br />
THE LEGEND OF THE RUSSIAN<br />
RIVER.<br />
Long ago the Indians believed there<br />
was a great king who ruled all the inland<br />
rivers and valleys of California. His<br />
name was Wohave. and he dwelt in a.<br />
beautiful crystal palace at the bottom<br />
of the Russian River. <strong>The</strong> people were<br />
all afraid of this king, for if aroused, he<br />
could bring terrible calamities on the inhabitants<br />
by causing the rivers to overflow,<br />
thus ruining the crops. .<br />
One day the king had come above the<br />
surface of the water. He saw a beautiful<br />
Indian maiden sitting by the bank.<br />
Her long, black tresses, through which<br />
she had twined the scarlet wister berry,<br />
had fallen into the water, and were being<br />
made sport of by the ripples. Her<br />
cheeks were redder than the berries in<br />
her hair, and her eyes brighter than the<br />
sparkling water.<br />
While the king gazed captivated at the<br />
charming maiden, a warrior strode<br />
through the trees towards her. He was<br />
her father, and was chief of the tribe of<br />
the Wandas. He was very angry he-<br />
cause the damsel had strayed away from<br />
the camp, and he scolded her severely.<br />
Wohave was so angry because the chief<br />
dared abuse the girl who had so charmed<br />
him, that he appeared before her father.<br />
As he spoke, his wrath grew mighty and<br />
the earth shook, and the waters roared<br />
because of his violence.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> maiden has done no harm," he<br />
cried in a voice of thunder. "She shall<br />
abide with me if she desires, and no<br />
longer be abused by you."<br />
<strong>The</strong> chief looked at the stranger with<br />
disdain, then he laughed. He had<br />
grown so great among his own people<br />
that he had forgotten to respect the gods.<br />
"And who are you that you should tell<br />
the chief of the Wandas what to do?" he<br />
cried. "My daughter is mine to be done<br />
with as I like."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n Wohavc's wrath waxed greater,<br />
and he cried out loud so that all the tribe<br />
heard him. "For this, each year I shall<br />
take as my bride the most beautiful of<br />
the daughters of the Wandas. She must<br />
be brought to this place at this time evenyear.<br />
If not I shall cause the crops to<br />
be spoiled and desolation to afflict the<br />
people. I take as my first bride this<br />
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lovely maiden, for 1 am Wohave, the<br />
king of the Russian River."<br />
And saying this he sank with the<br />
maiden in his arms to his castle in the<br />
river. So every year the people sacrificed<br />
the most beautiful of their maidens<br />
to the river god.<br />
When the white man came and the Indians<br />
were driven from their ancestral<br />
homes. Wohave did not forget his demand.<br />
Every year when the time comes<br />
for Wohave to claim his prize, some<br />
person is taken as a sacrifice. That is<br />
why each year the Russian River claims<br />
its victims. A. H.<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
"VOTES FOR WOMEN."<br />
When the columns of our contemporaries<br />
are so full of pleas for "the franchise"<br />
for women. THE LOWELL feels<br />
that, if only to hold its enviable position,<br />
it must declare itself among the pros.<br />
Yes, we favor suffrage for the ladies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> gents have suffered long enough.<br />
Let the wives have a chance. Let them<br />
have the advantage of the immense education<br />
and advancement from politics<br />
that the men have so long enjoyed. All<br />
vote for the Eighth Amendment.<br />
As for examples of the success of<br />
feminine voting, none better than <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
could be presented. Since the Boys'<br />
High School found it could no longer<br />
be such, the girls have cleansed our elections<br />
annually and semi-annually. <strong>The</strong><br />
"ladies' vote" has been responsible, for<br />
the clean and handsome line of presidents<br />
that have graced our household<br />
ever since. Even within the memory of<br />
the present generation is the instance of<br />
the patriotic maiden counting votes who.<br />
seeing that an infamous candidate was<br />
dangerously near being the next president,<br />
influenced enough freshman girls<br />
during the lunch hour to swing the victory<br />
to decency, right and her friend.<br />
How would a mere homo have acted if<br />
he had been counting-votes Vsii&fi3lpfei %<br />
v And even. ;now everyv rooni;arid ;3ass?f|i>-:<br />
lias its demagogue and ieadiex^piv^-Sii5v r :<br />
women. <strong>The</strong> older ones hold{•:<br />
tie caucuses about the friendly sanHr ;^,f •<br />
wich at noon and plot to uplift theirab-^Sv;<br />
ble and themselves. Some servediiti- Afully<br />
on class committees to the m^ ;;<br />
barrassment of the gentlemen commit^"'<br />
teemen. or make sandwiches for class<br />
picnics or parties. All have a .strong ___<br />
though not always positive influence on<br />
the male vote.<br />
When we recall these facts, we can- '<br />
not imagine <strong>Lowell</strong> without the sweet,<br />
wise voice of the girls. And if <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
has suffrage for women, surely the State .<br />
should. Q. E. D. and the matter is de- .<br />
cided. Why the formality of an election<br />
at all?<br />
THE SONG OF THE STUDE.<br />
(With apologies to C. U. H.)<br />
I've bought my LOWELL every time<br />
On Friday for three years,<br />
Each issue has a score of names,<br />
Mine never once appears.<br />
Who's in the cast of Reading Club? •<br />
• Who gets rec's. for I&C?<br />
Who's running for class president?<br />
Why, any one but me.<br />
Who flunks in Latin, then in Greek?<br />
Who gets in Math, a D? .<br />
Who worries over English feet?<br />
Why. nobody but me.<br />
At last I was converted<br />
P.y Ernest President,<br />
A man. in English classes,<br />
On drawing pictures bent.<br />
Now I attend all rallies.<br />
Am let in on all schemes,<br />
I am the water carrier ;<br />
Fur all "Weight"' Rugby teams.- - ; •"<br />
—V. S., June '13;;:.)<br />
I5Si-:*S8<br />
••mm.<br />
tt bi-weekly' issue<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong><br />
' - "•/•<br />
Edi<br />
OSGOOD MURI<br />
ROBT. M. UNDI<br />
WM. RAINEY,<br />
AILEEN HAND<br />
VINCENT M.EA<br />
BYRON JACKSC<br />
JAMES RANSO1<br />
ELIZABETH Rl<br />
ROY VAN VLIE<br />
CORINNE CRO:<br />
GARTH BOERU<br />
ELMER WISE,<br />
ERNEST SMIT1<br />
Bus<br />
DAVID WOLF.<br />
SANFORD STE<br />
B. ARENDT, '13<br />
LYNN WA<br />
THEOD<br />
HA<br />
Again we he<br />
<strong>The</strong> California<br />
that students of<br />
trouble. A skyli<br />
has been broke<br />
climbing on to th<br />
. orders and in s<br />
course is entire<br />
gives the wholt<br />
reputation of di<br />
tiveness. It is \<br />
ball enthusiasts<br />
the Board of E<br />
some screen dei<br />
either go comp<br />
come back into<br />
entlv would soh<br />
secure this facil<br />
Rut meanwhi<br />
every handball<br />
People with the<br />
Eto^;.,
EUJfTDHIAL5<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
ft bi-weekly issued by the students of the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
Editorial Staff.<br />
OSGOOD MURDOCK, '11 Editor<br />
ROBT. M. UNDERHILL, '11.. ..Associate<br />
W.M. RAINEY, '<strong>12</strong> Organizations<br />
AILEEN HAND, '<strong>12</strong> Organizations<br />
VINCENT MEAD. '11 School Notes<br />
BYRON JACKSON, '<strong>12</strong> School Notes<br />
JAMES RANSOHOFF, '11 Athletics<br />
ELIZABETH RUGGLES, '13.. ..Athletics<br />
ROY VAN VLIET, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
CORINNE CRONISE, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
GARTH BOER1CKE, '<strong>12</strong> Exchanges<br />
ELMER WISE. '<strong>12</strong> Artist<br />
ERNEST SMITH, '11 Artist<br />
Business Staff.<br />
DAVID WOLF. '<strong>12</strong>....Business Manager<br />
SANKORD STEIN. '<strong>12</strong> Associate<br />
B. ARENDT,'13<br />
LYNN WARD, '<strong>12</strong><br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER/<strong>12</strong><br />
F. BUCKINGHAM, '11<br />
HANDBALL.<br />
Again we hear from our neighbor,<br />
<strong>The</strong> California Conservatory of Music,<br />
that students of <strong>Lowell</strong> have given them<br />
trouble. A skylight of their music room<br />
has b«vn broken, and boys persist in<br />
cliiT.-binyf on to the roof alter halls, against<br />
orders and in spite of a lock. This<br />
course is entirely uncalled for and it<br />
gives the whole school an undeserved<br />
reputation of disobedience and destructiveness.<br />
It is pitiable that either handball<br />
enthusiasts or tlie Student Body or<br />
the Hoard of Education cannot provide<br />
some screen device so that balls would<br />
either go completely over the roof or<br />
come back into the yard. This apparently<br />
would solve the difficulty. Let us<br />
secure this facility at least.<br />
Hut meanwhile it is incumbent upon<br />
every handball man to treat the music<br />
people with the utmost courtesy and re-<br />
; . •. Zi*' ><br />
spect j_rs. gwan, the housekeeper, is<br />
most sympathetic and offers to hold any<br />
bal1 untl1 the<br />
owner calls for it at the<br />
door. This' is a sacrifice on her part.<br />
It is reasonable and imperative that no<br />
one encroach on parts of the property<br />
forbidden or locked. May there be no<br />
further complaints of bovs continuing to<br />
dlnib the roof when the are<br />
>' prohibited<br />
from the premisc<br />
Coninlainf- complaint.comes romps from trom thp tne inh-ihitant
FROM THE FACULTY.<br />
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MUSIC IN THE HIGH SCHOOL.<br />
'-in complying with the editor's request<br />
to write something on the above topic,<br />
I have nothing new to offer on the subject,<br />
but shall merely venture an opinion<br />
on the phases suggested by certain frequently<br />
asked questions. Does music deserve<br />
a place in the high school curriculum?<br />
Are musical clubs sufficient to<br />
our needs ? Are our present musical organizations<br />
of any real value?<br />
Music ranks in age with the oldest of<br />
the arts. <strong>The</strong> art of warfare—if it be<br />
considered an art—is scarcely more ancient<br />
than that of music, as is evidenced<br />
by the fact that side by side with barbaric<br />
implements of warfare are found<br />
barbaric implements of music—instruments<br />
of torture perhaps we might judge<br />
them from our enlightened standpoint,<br />
though it may be said in passing that the<br />
day of the musical (?)' instrument of<br />
torture has not passed. Music has always<br />
been an accompaniment of battle,<br />
whether exemplified by the crude, noisy<br />
poundings of the savage or by the up-todate<br />
military band.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact that the universities now accept<br />
music as an entrance subject clearly<br />
indicates that musical instruction in high<br />
schools merits consideration. I should<br />
like to see music given a regular place in<br />
all public schools, except, possibly, those<br />
of a special or technical character. It<br />
seems almost unnecessary, if not impossible,<br />
to enumerate all the advantages of<br />
such a course. <strong>The</strong> supreme position of<br />
music among the arts, its effectiveness<br />
in developing the aesthetic side of cue's<br />
nature, its refining influence — these<br />
would make the study worth while. That<br />
music gives enjoyment, that it is a power<br />
for good, that it is a natural form of<br />
human expression—these are additional<br />
reasons, sufficient, perhaps, to warrant<br />
the introduction of the subject into<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
school generally. As to ^ j | ^ | | | | | |<br />
such instruction, clearly the idea, is iriotSWJAKi-:^?<br />
the production of' expert mulsicjatte,' \>oy;;'c •^; ^<br />
prodigies, or virtuosos. Such!" achieve- ^?i<br />
ments can be.left to private institutions.; : "<br />
What sort of instruction, then, should be-; '<br />
given? Well, chorus singing by;:all •<br />
means, whether anything else or not.<br />
<strong>The</strong> glee clubs, such as we now have,'<br />
are certainly of real value, because they<br />
give some training and some enjoyment<br />
to those who participate, arid, let it be<br />
hoped, they give some enjoyment to<br />
some who do not participate. It will be<br />
argued that, when the chief aim of a<br />
glee club seems to be the memorizing of<br />
a few songs—mostly of a light, many of<br />
a trifling, and some of a ridiculous character<br />
(referring, of course, only to the<br />
boys' club)—for the purpose of giving<br />
an entertainment at ten cents per head,<br />
the musical development of the school at<br />
large is not much enhanced. I confess<br />
I agree with the argument, and that is<br />
why I favor regular musical instruction<br />
in the high school.<br />
As to present musical organization 1 -,<br />
the glee clubs are as widely representative<br />
as the students make them. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
are for all; that is, for all who desire to<br />
participate and who will attend regularly.<br />
A slight aptitude—no musical, knowledge<br />
—is all that is required. <strong>The</strong> orchestra<br />
has met with general favor and has<br />
added materially to the musical accom- .<br />
plishments of the school. This organization<br />
can never be widely representative,<br />
however, since participants must possess '<br />
unusual skill and previous training.<br />
<strong>The</strong> three musical organizations have<br />
room for more members. While these<br />
clubs arc in no sense a substitute for general<br />
musical instruction, they represent,<br />
at present all the musical manifestations<br />
of the students, and for this reason they<br />
merit all the encouragement they can<br />
get. T. A. S.<br />
|£% To-morrow;^.,<br />
J: .and HumbbjdfcEyeoir<br />
p joint entertainra|n^<br />
: - School AuditonuiiK,<br />
the affair arerto!bejus(<br />
penses of the cbri^ht:<br />
League of California<br />
city in October, vv;:<br />
An excellent—prog<br />
ranged. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
ing the music, seven<br />
recitations, a farce 1<br />
ning High, and"Bill;<br />
mous laughing; song,<br />
the long entertainn<br />
now on sale at schoo<br />
and aid the good cau<br />
<strong>The</strong> election of de<br />
C. convention will.be<br />
in the Debating So<br />
tion tryout will be h<br />
tion. ;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chess Club i:<br />
nament to pick a te<br />
is to meet Berkeley<br />
match games. ;<br />
<strong>The</strong> last two nieel<br />
Club were exceedin<br />
<strong>The</strong> programs were<br />
ti
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THE LOWEXL<br />
ACTIVITIES<br />
To-morrow night, <strong>Lowell</strong>, Mission<br />
and Humboldt Evening High will give a<br />
joint entertainment at the Mission High<br />
School Auditorium. <strong>The</strong> proceeds of<br />
the affair are to be used to defray the expenses<br />
of the convention of the Debating<br />
League of California to be held in this<br />
city in October.<br />
An excellent program has been arranged.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> Glee Clubs furnishing<br />
the music, several declamations and<br />
recitations, a farce by Humboldt Evening<br />
High, and "Billy" Hynes in his famous<br />
laughing song, form only part of<br />
the long entertainment. Tickets are<br />
now on sale at school. Spend a quarter<br />
and aid the good cause!<br />
<strong>The</strong> election of delegates to the D. L.<br />
C. convention will be held this afternoon<br />
in the Debating Society. A declamation<br />
tryout will be held soon after vacation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chess Club is conducting a tournament<br />
to pick a team of three, which<br />
is to meet Berkeley High in several<br />
match
W<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '<strong>12</strong> boat ride was a marked<br />
success. All those attending are unanimous<br />
in congratulating the committee<br />
on its success. <strong>The</strong>re were many fishes<br />
following with the boat and they were<br />
certainly well fed. thanks to Dave Wolf,<br />
Hirschfelder. Montgomery, and the<br />
Misses Musich and Keeling.<br />
Cheney was right there with a fair<br />
one.<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '<strong>12</strong> class elected Miss Hammon<br />
as Secretary, to fill the vacancy left<br />
by Miss Kempton. <strong>The</strong>y also appointed<br />
a committee of three, consisting of Dave<br />
Wolf, Byron Jackson and Miss Gcballe,<br />
to watch the class finances.<br />
<strong>The</strong> December '<strong>12</strong> class dance will be<br />
held at California Club Hall to-night.<br />
<strong>The</strong> committee, with Mr. Boericke as<br />
chairman, has worked hard for the success<br />
of the affair and a fine time is guaranteed<br />
to all. Bids can be procured<br />
from Cyril Duscnbery in Room 4.<br />
A fine rally was held in the hall Friday,<br />
September 22. <strong>The</strong> rally was well<br />
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Some of the people dance some of the<br />
time; some of the people dance all of<br />
the time. It is said where Merzbach's<br />
Orchestra plays, all of the people<br />
dance all of the time.<br />
Merzbach<br />
Music a Amusement Co.<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
School Notes<br />
attended, but not as well as it^sKoiildJ'<br />
have been. President Smith";presided£j<br />
over the rally. Jimmy Rarisonofrgaye^/:<br />
stirring talk on swimming, arid ' Djulcfe<br />
Marwedel spoke on football. Les. Henry<br />
came forth with his usual spirit-raising -<br />
talk. <strong>The</strong> rally was a fitting send-off to<br />
the swimming and football teams.<br />
Grcenberg of Room 15 was expelled<br />
from the Student Body for non-payment<br />
of dues.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re certainly was a fine representation<br />
of <strong>Lowell</strong>ites at the swimming meet<br />
to help the team to victory. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
should be this same enthusiasm at all<br />
meets ,or games.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> will be represented by a full<br />
team in the game with Lick to-morrow,<br />
all the men being signed. Ye <strong>Lowell</strong>ites!<br />
come out and see us down Lick.<br />
<strong>The</strong> attendance at the school Tuesday<br />
was rather slim. Many of the fellows,<br />
developed the money-making habit of<br />
election day.<br />
Editor Murdock has left the "chicken" ,<br />
and is again with us.<br />
We manufacture the best quality of<br />
Fine Candies, Ice Creams and Ices, and<br />
also supply family trade at short notice.<br />
Miss Marion B. White's<br />
Dancing Classes<br />
will re-open<br />
SEPTEMBER 15th<br />
at 2868 CALIFORNIA STREET<br />
Near Divisadero<br />
Children's class, Wednesday, 3:30 p. m.<br />
High school pupils, Friday, 8:00 p. m.<br />
Private Lessons -.<br />
Ballroom, Fancy and Classical Dancing'<br />
Phone Fillmore 1S71 Hall for Rent<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
•'.- Our old fcr<br />
now paces thei<br />
on Sacramento<br />
a valuable "rr<br />
management.'<br />
One evenini<br />
visited said es<br />
ter of somewh<br />
was entirely fi<br />
pie lingered a<br />
Levin hove in<br />
mate greeted<br />
two seats con'<br />
ford strode in<br />
Presently he<br />
his "antiquus<br />
twinkle in his<br />
"I can give<br />
Why, Botc<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> shoul(<br />
than that.<br />
Hubbeli (ej<br />
to hear somet<br />
<strong>The</strong> Club (<br />
us!<br />
President I<br />
together.<br />
(G-r-a-t-e,<br />
lows.)<br />
• One of t<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>'s girli<br />
ted by a frie<br />
chance visit<br />
course, of a<br />
"I think ii<br />
and for a goi<br />
"Oh, but it<br />
so cool and<br />
And we dra<br />
and drank "a:<br />
juice."
THE/. LOWELL<br />
On and About the Campus<br />
Our old crony "13." Botch Levin<br />
now paces the aisles at "La Petit" theater<br />
on Sacramento street. He seems to be<br />
a valuable "man" and a jewel for the<br />
management. But:<br />
One evening lately a son of <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
visited said establishment with a daughter<br />
of somewhere else. <strong>The</strong> ''orchestra"<br />
was entirely filled so the two young people<br />
lingered at the back. Soon Lusher<br />
Levin hove in sight. His former schoolmate<br />
greeted him and suggested that<br />
two seats could be ably covered. Bradford<br />
strode into the darkness in search.<br />
Presently lie emerged and approached<br />
his "anti(|iuis amicus." <strong>The</strong>re was a<br />
twinkle in his eye.<br />
"I can give ye two separate seats."<br />
Why. I'otch! Even two years at<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> should have taught you better<br />
than that.<br />
Hubbell (eating soup)—Do you want<br />
to hear something great?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Club (seeking butter)—Yes. tell<br />
us!<br />
President Hubbell—Scrape two bricks<br />
together.<br />
(G-r-.'i-t-e. see the joke. Applause follows.)<br />
One of the most respectable of<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>'s girls was recently being twitted<br />
by a friend who had heard of her<br />
chance visit to a winery during the<br />
course of a Sunday junket.<br />
"I think it is positively disgraceful,<br />
and for a good church member too."<br />
"Oh, but it was great—the cellar was<br />
so cool and restful after the hot day.<br />
And we drank and drank and drank<br />
and drank and drank (horror)—grape<br />
juice."<br />
Tommy Benson, insect detector of<br />
Yosemite, was the victim of a funny<br />
one. We understand that his history<br />
teacher demanded an essay on Ajax in<br />
the first year.<br />
Thomas was not satisfied with the<br />
dope in the classical dictionary. He<br />
scorned Homer's helpful hints. He<br />
would draw it direct. So he went to<br />
a spiritualist. "What of Ajax?"<br />
<strong>The</strong> medium tranced and entranced.<br />
Finally she got into communication<br />
with the higher-ups. However, she<br />
soon had the answer:<br />
"People dead over 5000 years can?<br />
not be disturbed—yes, only a dollar."<br />
And now he is thinking of calling on<br />
Oliver Cromwell of more recent fame.<br />
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FOOTBALL.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> first league game of the season<br />
will be played with Lick to-morrow at<br />
St. Ignatius. <strong>The</strong> chances of the team<br />
have taken a great bound since all the<br />
men have been signed up. We have a<br />
great chance to wipe up the earth with<br />
Lick to-morrow and everyone in the<br />
school ought to come out to glory in the<br />
defeat of pur old rivals. Tickets are 15<br />
cents. <strong>The</strong> whole team will be in the<br />
game and we will surely win if you people<br />
will only support Captain Heacock.<br />
Get behind the team, yc Lcwellites, and<br />
help lead them to victory.<br />
Last Saturday <strong>Lowell</strong> played a game<br />
with Hitchcock at San Rafael. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
ran up a good score on us, however,<br />
winning by 18 to 0. <strong>The</strong> team did not<br />
play up to its standard, but with an unprejudiced<br />
referee the score would have<br />
been much less.<br />
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On Friday evening, September 22,<br />
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see or hear the whole evening|wa^<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>! We out-rooted and oiit-swain^ rv ;<br />
all coi- ipetitors. . V^Js^'j<br />
<strong>The</strong> meet started in with a snap, when:??-•• :<br />
Ernie Smith and Hyde Lewis annexed V~<br />
1st and 2nd places in the 100, and kept 11__.<br />
right up until the very last, when our<br />
crack relay team won by a full lap and<br />
broke our former record by 5 seconds, fes..;<br />
<strong>The</strong> team as a whole was the best that -<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> has ever turned out. Smith'<br />
broke the record in the 100 and tied his<br />
own record in the half. Lewis swam an<br />
excellent second to Ernie in the 100 and<br />
came back with three more points 5n the<br />
220. Lewis is only a freshman, but be- ;<br />
fore he gets out will be a crack if he<br />
keeps up his good work. Another man,<br />
in the 2nd year, is also a comer, and that<br />
is Collischoun. Any one who saw the<br />
880 he swam will certainly agree with -me.<br />
Collischoun will be back Jiext,termL^_:<br />
to repeat his brilliant performance of last.<br />
Friday night. ; '..-.••;• ']••<br />
As for the relay team, too much can<br />
not be said for it. Every man swam his<br />
lap in record time and everyone will be, . \,<br />
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:.... .<strong>The</strong> point ; winn<br />
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220 yards—Lewis<br />
880 yards—Smitl<br />
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Making a total o:<br />
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<strong>The</strong> boys' baskq<br />
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day and Friday."<br />
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games with the ci<br />
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<strong>Lowell</strong> will be<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re were tw/7 cups up, one for the.<br />
winning team arid one for the winning<br />
relay. <strong>The</strong>se cups have to be won three<br />
times before they become the permanent<br />
' property of any school. <strong>Lowell</strong> has her<br />
name on both cups for the first time now,<br />
and here's hoping that she will get them<br />
both for keeps!<br />
<strong>The</strong> point winners of the evening<br />
were as fallows:<br />
100 yards—Smith, 5; Lewis, 3.<br />
220 yards—Lewis 3.<br />
880 yards—Smith, 5; Collischoun, 3.<br />
Relay—<strong>Lowell</strong>, 5.<br />
Making a total of 24 points. Cogswell<br />
was our nearest competitor with a total<br />
of 11 points.<br />
BASKET-BALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys' basket-ball team will practice<br />
in the yard every Monday, Wednesday<br />
and Friday. A game is scheduled<br />
with San Rafael on October 13th, and<br />
games with the city schools are now being<br />
planned.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> will be well represented in<br />
Army and Navy circles next year with<br />
Goeppert at West Point and Fortgang<br />
at Mussel Rock.<br />
GIRLS' ATHLETICS; :<br />
On the 14th of September, the basketball<br />
team played the Commercial team<br />
in the yard. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> team, on the<br />
whole, played a go6d game, but at the<br />
finish the score was 11 to 1 in favor of<br />
Commercial.<br />
Practice goes on twice a week, and it<br />
has been arranged that the girls can<br />
practice in the yard during vacation.<br />
Games with Polytechnic and St. Rose's<br />
Academy will probably be held the week<br />
after vacation.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
Tryouts for the class teams will be<br />
held to-morrow, and the Interclass will<br />
be held on October 7th. All girls who<br />
want to try out for the school team hand<br />
names to Miss Underhill.<br />
Worthy President Ernest Smith surprised<br />
the Executive Committee the other<br />
day. Putting a motion before the<br />
house' he said: "All those in favor of<br />
the appointment of a committee to examine<br />
the treasurer's books, including<br />
Mr. Morton . . ."<br />
How about it? Would Mr. Mortonpass?<br />
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Vol. XIV. SAN FRANCISCO, OCTOBER 20," <strong>1911</strong>. No. ii,<br />
Interclass Basketball Schedule.<br />
October 18, Seniors vs. Sophomores.<br />
October 20, Seniors vs. Freshmen.<br />
October 23, Sophomores vs. Juniors.<br />
October 25, Sophomores vs. Freshmen.<br />
October 27, Juniors vs. Freshmen.<br />
October 30, Juniors vs. Sophomores.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following are the points made<br />
by the various classes:<br />
Juniors—72J4.<br />
Freshmen—56.<br />
Seniors, 41J/£.<br />
Sophomores—27.<br />
"Waiter," called the man at dinner,<br />
"come here at once; there's a hook andeye<br />
in this salad."<br />
"Yessah, yessah," replied the waiter,<br />
"that's part of de dressin', sah."—Ex.<br />
MATERIAL FOR ANNUAL.<br />
All drawings, stories, articles, poetry<br />
and miscellaneous material for the<br />
Christmas Annual must be finished<br />
and handed to the editor by Friday.<br />
November 3rd, two weeks from<br />
to-day! This is necessary that the paper<br />
may go to press and be finished<br />
several clays before the close of school.<br />
We are especially anxious to secure<br />
some fine pieces for this number, and<br />
hope that everybody will try. If you<br />
can't write a story, write an article that<br />
will be interesting to your fellow students,<br />
not your English teacher. BUT<br />
WRITE SOMETHING.<br />
RUGBY TO-MORROW.<br />
Cogswell Game at' St Ignatius<br />
Grounds.<br />
. r To-morrow afternoon at the St. Ignatius<br />
stadium <strong>Lowell</strong> and Cogswell<br />
will battle for the championship of the<br />
San Francisco sub-league. If we can<br />
defeat the Folsom street warriors we<br />
can beat any team in this city. It will<br />
be the crisis to our <strong>1911</strong> Rugby team.<br />
Every non-consumptive pair of lungs<br />
here should be behind the yell leader<br />
and the team to-morrow afternoon.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y're going to fight and so must we.<br />
If you buy your ticket this afternoon<br />
the price will be 15 cents; We'll all<br />
meet to-morrow afternoon at the St.<br />
Ignatius grounds at 3:00 o'clock.<br />
N. B.—One week from to-morrow,<br />
the team meets St. Ignatius in the same<br />
place for the same price.<br />
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Manager David Wolf announces that<br />
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that will cost 50 cents three weeks<br />
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one with a ticket, the better for you.
•,"V ,<br />
A ABOUT ^THE I^LO WELL<br />
SCHOOL CAMERA CLUB.<br />
;£1) CIubJ-;was" organized' Sept. 11th,<br />
<strong>1911</strong>, whch ; fifteen students became the<br />
charter members.<br />
(2) At the second meeting five<br />
more students joined, kb the membership<br />
is now twenty.<br />
(3) A committee of the club has reported<br />
that Mr. Downey has given his<br />
consent to allow a darkroom to be<br />
made out of one of the rooms adjoining<br />
Room 19.<br />
(4) Chemicals, materials and apparatus<br />
will be procured at a very low<br />
.cost<br />
(Organized Monday, Sept. 11, <strong>1911</strong>.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> purposes and objects of the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School Camera Club are:<br />
d) To foster and promote the art<br />
and science of photography among the<br />
students of the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
(2) To receive instruction in the art<br />
and science of photography by means<br />
of lectures given from time to time under<br />
the auspices of the club.<br />
(3) To place at the disposal of every<br />
member a dark room, materials and<br />
apparatus, at school.<br />
(4) To place within the means of<br />
every member the chemicals and apparatus<br />
necessary in the processes of picture<br />
making.<br />
(5) To help in every possible way<br />
THE LOWELL by supplying the necessary<br />
pictures and photographic illustrations<br />
of the paper.<br />
• • (6) To promote good fellowship<br />
among its members by outings, given<br />
from time to time, in the country, for<br />
and to cultivate a deeper appreciation<br />
of the aesthetic side of Nature.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> 3, Lick 0.<br />
On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 1st<br />
'-">;•;•••. •-•• ••• -;'.i>:" ; ; ^f!p^.^g«aa<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> playe^ itsj@firstsyeagti<br />
with Eick? 'This was tn%firs£?<br />
two schools have _<br />
series for the last four<br />
played her old time<br />
out a very large rooting<br />
on the <strong>Lowell</strong> side a few were<br />
here and there.<br />
<strong>The</strong> game started with Lie<br />
off to <strong>Lowell</strong>, who returned it to touch.<br />
After various line-puts and~~scrum's7~ r<br />
Lick kept the ball in <strong>Lowell</strong>'s territory-.'<br />
for the most part of the first half. Wheti£<br />
Lick got the ball on their own five-yard-;;?<br />
line the <strong>Lowell</strong> forwards got in andl ;<br />
fought like Trojans. Lick, aroused^byS<br />
her strong rooting section, put up,a:/<br />
stone wail defense and <strong>Lowell</strong> was. un-fe<br />
able to score. Half time was called<br />
with the ball on the five-yard line. ., ..<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> started the second half by; :<br />
kicking to Lick, and smeared the man;;';<br />
before he could return the kick to £<br />
touch. Here <strong>Lowell</strong> showed her fight-i<br />
ing spirit and knowledge of the game;<br />
After a few scrums the ball was heelediS<br />
out to the backs and after one of,th^K<br />
prettiest passing rushes ever , seen^<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> scored her first try. <strong>The</strong> goalfj,<br />
was not converted. <strong>Lowell</strong> then krckedAj<br />
off and the play remained in Lick's tef^p<br />
ritory for the remainder of the second J<br />
half. It was during the second<br />
that <strong>Lowell</strong> displayed the class of-.,<br />
by that she could play by keeping ..._,,<br />
ball within her own twenty-five-yard^<br />
line the whole half. No names oughB^<br />
be mentioned as stars, for the wholesteam<br />
fought alike. <strong>The</strong> team linedup'S<br />
as follows': , .ho<br />
fenback, Marwedel, Smith,<br />
Metson, forwards; Wilkins,' hal§||M^|<br />
Hicks, Ransohoff, five-eighths- Caa&.&iM-d^M<br />
Heacock, center three-fourths; ......<br />
Agee, wings; Montgomery, .full/i-^^^^^Jj<br />
QSGOOD MURD0fek?£?£<br />
ROBT. M. UNDERHIIt^<br />
WM. RAINEY,<br />
AILEEN HAND<br />
VINCENT<br />
BYRON<br />
JAMES Qr®<br />
•ELIZABETH RUGGKES^<br />
ROY VAN VLIET,--'<strong>12</strong>^>i<br />
CORINNE CRONISE^lZ<br />
GARTH BOERICKE,%'<strong>12</strong>i<br />
ELMER WISE, '<strong>12</strong>iv>--j^<br />
ERNEST SMITH;SipS<br />
Business Stei<br />
DAVID WOLF;;'<strong>12</strong>:^BU<br />
SANFORD STEIN;"'<strong>12</strong>;'?:<br />
B. ARENDT/13 : :.*$&£<br />
LYNN WARD/<strong>12</strong>||<br />
THEODORAISGI<br />
co- •s^mm<br />
During 1<br />
mittee met" in<br />
This occurrence, jr<br />
an important-step-irivacl<br />
activities. Fiye^memf"<br />
tive Committee<br />
of three from _ti_^,,.<br />
petty misunderstandra<br />
this case the matterjf<br />
result was riot^ _ ,.^^<br />
but the principle;;ofi^ffij<br />
between representatif<br />
rescntative fa'culfyff<br />
ing precedent.':<br />
high standard o£|^e||j<br />
an admirable;,; .pro]<br />
regrettable th^s"<br />
before been-<br />
<strong>The</strong> studei<br />
ceive a decided'a
v THE LOWELL, ^ !.;<br />
. • ' " ' • • -<br />
A bi-weekly issued by the students of the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School. -<br />
Editorial Staff. .<br />
OSGOOD MURDOCK, '11 Editor<br />
AILEEN HAND, '<strong>12</strong>.. Organizations<br />
VINCENT MEAD. Ml School Notes<br />
BYRON JACKSON, '<strong>12</strong> School Notes<br />
JAMES RANSOHOFF, '11'. Athletics<br />
-•ELIZABETH RUGGLES, '13....Athletics<br />
ROY VAN VLIET, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
CORINNE CRONISE, M2 Jokes<br />
GARTH BOERICKE, '<strong>12</strong> Exchanges<br />
ELMER WISE. '<strong>12</strong> , Artist<br />
ERNEST SMITH, '11 Artist<br />
DAVID V.'OT.F. '<strong>12</strong>....Business Manager<br />
SANFORD STEIN, '<strong>12</strong> Associate<br />
B. ARENDT/13<br />
CO-OPERATION.<br />
During the last two weeks a joint committee<br />
met'in the office one afternoon,<br />
This occurrence marks or should mark<br />
an important step in advance for <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
activities. Five members of the Executive<br />
Committee met with a committee<br />
of three from the faculty to discuss a<br />
petty misunderstanding. To be sure in<br />
this" case the matter was trivial and the<br />
result was not all that could be wished,<br />
but the principle of official discussions<br />
between representative students and represcntativc<br />
faculty members is a pleasing<br />
precedent. In a school with such a<br />
high standard of students and with such<br />
an admirable, progressive faculty, it is<br />
regrettable that such a meeting has never<br />
before been held,<br />
<strong>The</strong> student affairs would certainly receive<br />
a decided and lasting impetus with<br />
;the syiniiathy" aiiid^offidal-c^peratiqn^<br />
of the.faculty. : And our, teachers would<br />
surely not belittle the^respect:and hear^:<br />
approval of them that the students<br />
would gain through such procedure.<br />
Difficulties could be easily solved thus<br />
that seen, nearly insun.ountable.now.<br />
Let us hope that these friendly official<br />
rn,,f(,ror,rnK conferences ot taculty of f-irnltv and -ind stuaents students win. will<br />
be frequent and efficient in the future.<br />
THE PROPERTY COMMITTEE.<br />
At the last meeting of the Executive<br />
Committee Mr. Rhodes started a movement<br />
that promises to be a great mnovation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proposal is to make a<br />
• ^ d H e r:<br />
physics laboratory in the yard. Here<br />
will be collected all the coats, suitcases,<br />
books and properties that are unclaimed<br />
throughout the building. Every<br />
one will clean out his desk and see,that<br />
all property has a name on it. -A committee<br />
of three will maintain this property<br />
room and lost and found articles<br />
will be entirely under its charge. <strong>The</strong><br />
room will be open at certain specified<br />
times for enquiring owners. We will<br />
hear no more fountain pen and biology<br />
book notices at 1:15 hereafter. <strong>The</strong><br />
plan Is surely a capital one.<br />
-<br />
We were very sorry to hear of. the<br />
serious mishap of Arnold Bowhay, our<br />
first assistant treasurer. In repairing a<br />
gas fixture he was seriously burned on<br />
hands and face in a heavy explosion.<br />
He hopes to be back at school by next<br />
week at least. In the meantime Teddy<br />
Schaertzer, his, lieutenant, is doing the<br />
work. Oh, you forty-five cents!<br />
.!"<br />
i mm
December, 19<strong>12</strong>, held^a<br />
.pleasant little dance atithe California<br />
Club Hall on the Friday night before<br />
vacation. Garth Boericke, the floor<br />
manager, deserves' credit for a very<br />
well managed affair, except for some<br />
weird , punch. We were all barely<br />
saved from an awful fate by its lack<br />
of strength.<br />
<strong>The</strong> football team's trip to Stockton<br />
proved exciting. After Ishi Woodmansee,<br />
the wild man, had lain in wait<br />
with a pitcher of water for half an hour,<br />
waiting for little Pressley, he dampened<br />
"Dusty" Rhodes by mistake.<br />
How could you, Ishi?<br />
Leonard Agazelow, ex-1913, is now<br />
at California, correspondent for Oakland,<br />
San Francisco, Los Angeles and<br />
foreign newspapers. <strong>The</strong>re is hope for<br />
us all.<br />
President Smith has a new suit.<br />
Walk two blocks, save five bones.<br />
<strong>The</strong> question of recognizing the<br />
Camera Club as an activity under the<br />
Students' Association, was brought up<br />
at the last meeting of the Executive<br />
Committee, but the matter was placed<br />
on the table.<br />
We are gladHoi<br />
conforms with <strong>Lowell</strong>'s<br />
lished custom of letting<br />
vote.' • ; '.•V,._. i. , . , , . . „ _..<br />
Miss Hodgkinson has •started^a^li'<br />
movement, and earnestly requests Ithat^ithe<br />
girls keep clear the passage -from i "tffi<br />
the building to the street on the westside.<br />
This is only reasonable, and as °<br />
the women in the faculty have ,been<br />
often inconvenienced by congestion, we '<br />
hope the girls will take heed. .,".<br />
A handball tournament is being con-'<br />
ducted, one game being played in the<br />
yard each noon hour. <strong>The</strong> games have<br />
been very good and attract wide at'<br />
tention.<br />
In the recent municipal election we<br />
followed especially eagerly the fate of<br />
two prominent <strong>Lowell</strong> graduates who: .,<br />
were running. Ralph Hathorn for District<br />
Attorney and Wm. McCarthy, for<br />
Supervisor. <strong>The</strong> former is a,pf6minenif =<br />
member of the Alumni Association./<br />
We wish them both the best of good?<br />
fortune in the November election and<br />
promise our hearty and valuable support.<br />
•••'•:,'<br />
GOLCHER BROS.<br />
MANUFACTURE<br />
BASEBALL AND BASKET BALL<br />
TracK and Gym. Supplies<br />
510<br />
MARKET STREET<br />
San Francisco<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
• ' ' - : • - ' • • . • • •<br />
mam<br />
;^At;the<br />
Arthur<br />
sented. This wasj3||<br />
Every one prestif l<br />
If the prediction <<br />
true the ;second||R<br />
have been<br />
-issue is out,<br />
roll on the floor wit<br />
p<br />
not as heavy as the "Melt<br />
its reception was juskas;;<br />
At the last rneeting^oi<br />
Club a novel pf6grar&|p<br />
It-consisted of .a selecti<br />
Bias," a SpahisiiJl|^p^<br />
another short<br />
ing is also.tpbje<br />
"program will .pe^anotKeS<br />
/"Don<br />
- <strong>The</strong> Camera ;,<br />
ganized. <strong>The</strong>! club|has^<br />
' saVy apparatus and|chejn]
<strong>The</strong><br />
| Glub this :<br />
supernatural. Three very delightfulv:gard toi.takihg^Meyeloping ; -Shd
BWv:-:--'-:, 1 ;:<br />
E3*~;-;-,:VS'.<br />
• - * • . • -<br />
.1 .-•<br />
Prodigy.<br />
Joseph Fortgang is now an assistant<br />
teacher at U. C. He looks forward to<br />
a professorship within the week.<br />
Her Voice Was Soft and Low.<br />
Bell (footballer) indignantly refuses<br />
to vote since women have suffrage.<br />
"Consistency, Thou Art a Jewel."<br />
Ganz plays a good, consistent game<br />
of football. He is always the same distance<br />
from the ball—about as near as<br />
a rooter.<br />
Great Presidential Disappointment.<br />
Tenor Buckingham refused to accompany<br />
Nordica at the ground-breaking<br />
ceremony (vocally, I mean).<br />
Turko-Italian War Bulletins.<br />
Ali Ehrmani Pasha has emerged<br />
from retirement and the gray-headed<br />
patriarch has consented to again take<br />
his place at the head of the Turkish<br />
PHONE WEST 5625<br />
F. WICHMAN<br />
2037 FILLMORE STREET<br />
CLASSY DANCE MUSIC<br />
Some of the people dance some of the<br />
time; some of the people dance all of<br />
the time. It is said where Merzbach's<br />
Orchestra plays, all of the people<br />
dance all of die time.<br />
Merzbach<br />
Music a Amusement Co.<br />
• Bands - Orchestras - Entertainers<br />
3534'.TWENTIETH STREET<br />
Mission .4008 Mission 100S<br />
Personals<br />
By ROY VAN VUET<br />
: 3535<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
'•i^mm<br />
flying squadron. This news<br />
changed the whole aspect<br />
and the logical odds are i<br />
on Turkey.<br />
"Caesar Milites Urbem.w....^—^i.^<br />
Signor Cornelie Presselie was hastily<br />
erected as bulwarks around Tripoli.<br />
No!<br />
Don Jaime Ransohie has thrown, his<br />
influence on the side of the Italians<br />
(thus practically deciding the outcome<br />
of the war).<br />
He desires to challenge the whole<br />
Turkish fleet to a swimming meet.<br />
P. S. <strong>The</strong> odds have reverted to<br />
11 to 9 on Italy.<br />
We Knit to Fit.<br />
At the track interclass Caulder had<br />
his numerals sewed on each leg of his<br />
track pants, "<strong>Lowell</strong>" on the back of<br />
his shirt and a fraternity pin embroidered<br />
on the front. What was the matter<br />
with the name and address, Nifty?<br />
All out of thread?<br />
We manufacture the best quality of<br />
Fine Candies, Ice Creams and Ices, and<br />
also supply family trade at short notice.<br />
Miss Marion B. White's<br />
Dancing' Classes<br />
will re-open<br />
SEPTEMBER 15tii<br />
at 2868 CALIFORNIA STREET "<br />
Near Divisadero ,<br />
Children's class, Wednesday^ 3:30 p. m.<br />
High school pupils, Friday, 8:00 p. m.<br />
Private Lessons<br />
Ballroom, Fancy.-and Classical Dancing<br />
Phone Fillmore 1871 Hall for Rent<br />
f~ple within^i<br />
IsgSri the support : r oM<br />
' : sit among--"* 1 ''**'<br />
fully He<br />
years. However;? tKe^<br />
great. One Wednesday<br />
ited Dreamland^-^ 11 "<br />
friends. HeflHo<br />
around that<br />
well enough to',<br />
partner. <strong>The</strong><br />
nt<br />
dl<br />
happiness. He "held^l<br />
fully. And now'sinc^<br />
the "fourth on thejtjajj<br />
right on "holding^e|d<br />
ever and ever. ;.-.":^yi<br />
<strong>The</strong> members ipJEgti<br />
History class all^rotig<br />
sample ballots .piiJelS<br />
ecfon the^a<br />
tered on that:<br />
tion, and<br />
ed, it was<br />
of 22-11.<br />
results of.<br />
election next<br />
he thought'<br />
intelligently ^<br />
that didn't apply|bnl|<br />
Several of<br />
recently "at:a;!<br />
queting Mauric<br />
tinguished alummi!p|<br />
the east as second*^<br />
in,, the United;J<br />
;for the Antipo;des$|<br />
; bring the world'sftw<br />
'cup to Ame'rici'wfien.
Two mutually attractive yourigfpeopie<br />
within these walls have been inr<br />
trouble, but all is happiness now. She<br />
would go to the rink on Monday afternoons,<br />
but she could only skate with<br />
the support of a partner. He would<br />
sit among "the boys" oh the side ruefully<br />
He had not skated for four<br />
years. However, the strain was too<br />
great. One Wednesday evening he visited<br />
Dreamland in the absence of all<br />
friends. He hobbled and thumped<br />
around that course until he could skate<br />
well enough to hold his own with a<br />
partner. <strong>The</strong> next Monday brought<br />
happiness. He "held her up" successfully.<br />
And now since the passage of<br />
the "fourth on the ballot" they can go<br />
right on "holding each other up" forever<br />
and ever.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members of the High Senior '<br />
History class all brought their fathers'<br />
sample ballots on election day and voted<br />
on the amendments. Interest centered<br />
on that one in the fourth position,<br />
and when the ballots were counted,<br />
it was found to have lost by a vote<br />
of 22-11. Speaking generally of the<br />
results of both the state and school<br />
election next day, Mr. Clark said that<br />
he thought the class had voted more<br />
intelligently than the state. Of course<br />
that didn't apply only to the above.<br />
Several of the boys were gathered<br />
recently "at a down town cafe" banqueting<br />
Maurice McLaughlin, our distinguished<br />
alumnus who returns from<br />
the east as second best tennis player<br />
m. the United States, and who leaves<br />
for the Antipodes Noveriiber 1st to<br />
bring the world's' tennis championship<br />
cup to America when he returns. But<br />
getting, baclc to the story. - Every one'<br />
had appeared but, the guest of honor.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y waited many minutes and each "<br />
minute made them hungrier. <strong>The</strong>n;<br />
poet laureate Ransohbff honored the'V<br />
occasion with this strain: "I wish this<br />
McLaughlin would come. I'm so hungry<br />
I could eat mud. And they say<br />
he is wonderful at serving." Thirtyseven<br />
seconds later Oosy Murdock rewarded<br />
the effort with an appropriate<br />
laugh.<br />
Oliver's foot was on the head of a<br />
poisonous viper. Garth was all excitement.<br />
"Hold him there till I kill<br />
him!" He frantically seized a clod and<br />
raising it on high, hurled it. It came<br />
with force tremendous. But did it hit<br />
the snake? No, it did not. Oliver's toe<br />
was in the way.<br />
Headquarters<br />
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If,you want the<br />
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best value, get<br />
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Gym. Suits<br />
Bathing Suits<br />
Athletic Apparel<br />
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: By ARTHUR MARWEDEL. ...<br />
<strong>The</strong> football season is well under<br />
way and we are now in the midst of<br />
our league games. We have started<br />
the season by winning our first league<br />
game from Lick. It was in this game<br />
that <strong>Lowell</strong> showed everybody who<br />
witnessed it, that she is a fighting<br />
team out to capture the sub-league pennant.<br />
Now that we have the team it<br />
is going to take support to help the<br />
fellows out, so everybody who thinks<br />
they are <strong>Lowell</strong> students ought to get<br />
behind and hold this winning team<br />
along. Our next league game is with<br />
Cogswell, on Saturday, Oct. 21st, at the<br />
St. Ignatius grounds. <strong>The</strong> team asks<br />
your support. Go out there and make<br />
a little'noise, or at least have some representative<br />
body that can be seen.<br />
Our next game after Cogswell is with<br />
St. Ignatius, on the 28th of October.<br />
Stockton 6, <strong>Lowell</strong> 3.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> journeyed to Stockton on<br />
Oct.. 14th to play the high school team<br />
of that town. <strong>The</strong> score does not stand<br />
for the game, as <strong>Lowell</strong> outclassed<br />
Stockton from every point of view. As<br />
this was the first time that rugby had<br />
been played in Stockton it was hard to<br />
secure a proper referee, which resulted<br />
in the choice of a man who knew absolutely<br />
nothing=,about the game except<br />
hqwjto hejp Stockton along. To illus-<br />
sideration that the fellows had ,q<br />
journey and that the heat had some?<br />
thing to do, the game was a very goodfe<br />
one, as told by the remarks from the<br />
grandstand. ..,v',[•'•:'<br />
TRACK.<br />
By CAPT. FRANK URBAN.<br />
<strong>The</strong> track interclass was'.lield at the .<br />
Stadium on Oct. 4th. It.being-held inthe<br />
middle of the week of vacation*<br />
there was not the interest shown that<br />
might have been. It was a great success<br />
notwithstanding the drawback.-,<br />
With the material that came out,.pros-;<br />
pects for next year's team are excellent:..;<br />
for some good times were recorded.<br />
Lamereaux ran well in the hurdles and<br />
ought to be able to place in the spring<br />
meets; Herrick, the speedy Junior^ ?von<br />
both 50 and 100 in fast time. Herrick<br />
is a hard worker and deserves whathe :<br />
got. Field, the old <strong>Lowell</strong> star, showed<br />
that Alaska had not taken any of his<br />
speed. He won the half and mile with<br />
ease. "Wiolf threw the hammer 110 feet. : !<br />
With these men and some practice we<br />
ought to figure in the spring. •••..^'<br />
Urban won the 220 and quarter mile "<br />
in good form. /<br />
Although the interclass is over, don't
; Activity in basketball is>" gradually'<br />
.increasing and the prospects are great.<br />
Tryouts for the different class teams<br />
and scrub games have held,the court<br />
for the past three weeks, and[an interclass<br />
has been arranged. # ' '<br />
<strong>The</strong> big team is also taking form.<br />
<strong>The</strong> survivors from last year, Fujita,<br />
Capt. Hirchfelder, Hood and Fuld, are<br />
playing in better form than ever, and<br />
all of them have grown. Of the debutants,<br />
Bender, Raymond, Howell and<br />
Lewis give promise of being hard,<br />
successful players. <strong>The</strong> team went to<br />
San Rafael Friday night with the girls<br />
and were nosed out of a fine fast game<br />
by a 28-26 score. All of the above mentioned<br />
but Hood were in the contest.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team played beautifully except for<br />
too much fouling.<br />
Upon the advice of Mr. Longley,<br />
Cooper has become an aeronaut. His<br />
flight to the Hall a few days ago was<br />
made in record-breaking, time.<br />
GIRLS' ATHLETICS.<br />
BASKETBALL.<br />
, On Oct. <strong>12</strong>th the Girls' Basketball<br />
team played the Polytechnic team on<br />
i '<br />
r 3'Dn^En^|^riin^3bct. "i30^1ii^l<br />
'girls played' San ^Rafael-in the Garden)<br />
THeater at S£ri Rafaeip 1 '<br />
were well matched and t!<br />
SanRafael <strong>12</strong>^ <strong>Lowell</strong> 16. <strong>The</strong> line-ups<br />
in both games were the same. For-,'<br />
wards, Dorothy Riedy, Martha Mc-<br />
Cloughry; touch center, Jeanne Levy;<br />
side centers, Gladys Anderson, Elinor<br />
Durbrow, Margaret Volkman; guards,<br />
Alma Thornburg and Lillian Kelly.'<br />
On Oct. 19th the girls are going to<br />
\play Cogswell on the Cogswell court,<br />
and hope for victory.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tennis Interclass was held on<br />
the Park courts in vacation. <strong>The</strong> Juniors<br />
won from the Freshmen by default.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seniors, Deborah Newman<br />
and Beatrice Gawne, won from the<br />
Sophomores and Juniors.<br />
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act."—Ex: V<br />
She—And don't you go in for sports<br />
of any kind?<br />
He—Oh yaas, don't yer know, I'm—<br />
haw—passionately fond of dominoes.<br />
Ex<br />
"I see you are paying the hospital<br />
expenses of that painter who fell off<br />
the roof."<br />
"Yes, he's too valuable a man to lose.<br />
As he went down he touched up several<br />
places that were hard to reach."<br />
—Ex.<br />
This story is told by a Cornell teacher<br />
when speaking of fish-scales:<br />
A little girl once asked her mother:<br />
"Are scales fastened on fish like shingles<br />
on a roof?"<br />
"Yes, dear," the mother answered.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y are put on that way, of<br />
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studies. I shall-'always 1<br />
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army and navy circles this year, with at Mussel Rock.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Raymond Coaching School<br />
TWELFTH YEAR<br />
Mission High School, San Francisco.<br />
I am pleaded to inform you that one of our students who was very deficient in<br />
English owes It to the work done for him in your school, that ho is able to graduate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of our English Department says that Ills advancement under your Instruction<br />
was most marked, and that his progress inspired him with the confidence<br />
that he previously lacked.<br />
J. O'CONNOR. Principal.<br />
DR. WM. A. MARTIN<br />
870 Fell Street<br />
San Francisco -<br />
San Francisco, July 15, 1909.<br />
Dear Mr. Raymond:—I wish to express to you and your daughter my appreciation<br />
of the very satisfactory results you have obtained in helping my son and daughter<br />
out of the maze of difficulties In which they had become entangled with their<br />
studies. I shall always take great pleasure in nddlng my word of recommendation<br />
to that of the many others, who I know are lavish In their praises of <strong>The</strong> Raymond<br />
Coaching School. Yours very sincerely. WM. A. MARTIN.<br />
Telephone West 2751<br />
Eleven Years' Experience in Coaching<br />
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SAN (FRAN<br />
"THE BLUE ^<br />
Taking a diligence to the'ttay<br />
pies, where we were to get o<br />
down the bay, we rattled over.tl<br />
ly paved streets. A diligence-is<br />
conveyance something like t a<br />
though not half as comfortabli<br />
Already at seven-thirty the<br />
were crowded with people. Di<br />
dren, and still dirtier men:and"<br />
swarmed about.<br />
Arriving at the bay we. boai<br />
pleasure boat. It was nerplea<br />
us. <strong>The</strong> crowd was very mb<br />
the odor of onions was quite<br />
dence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boat conveyed us tc<br />
where we were once more gla<br />
foot upon land. We then jurn<br />
small boats, somethings likelli<br />
boats. A launch towed us jo<br />
trance to the grotto. J :•<br />
Just before you enter the gr<br />
have to lie down flat onjyour<br />
any other way, to avoid getti<br />
Of all the beautiful bluejshi<br />
played by Nature, here is the !<br />
<strong>The</strong> water is like glass,: and i<br />
you can see the bottom: ~/3?h<<br />
like the note of a songbirdjii<br />
<strong>The</strong> sides of the grotto are'1<br />
In some places it was veryifc<br />
the women became nervous^<br />
After leaving the grbtto^ 1<br />
t-ur way to the front part-'of<br />
to discuss our lovely time;and<br />
b eautiful work. It had^beenVi<br />
si £ht. ,'viG
VoL XIV. SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 3. <strong>1911</strong>. No. <strong>12</strong><br />
"THE BLUE GROTTO OF CAPRI."<br />
Taking a diligence to the bay of Naples,<br />
where we were to get our boat<br />
down the bay, we rattled over the poorly<br />
paved streets. A diligence is a small<br />
conveyance something like a coupe,<br />
though not half as comfortable.<br />
Already at seven-thirty the streets<br />
were crowded with people. Dirty children,<br />
and still dirtier men and women,<br />
swarmed about.<br />
Arriving at the bay we boarded the<br />
pleasure boat. It was no pleasure for<br />
us. <strong>The</strong> crowd was very mixed, and<br />
the odor of onions was quite in eviu:nce.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boat conveyed us to Capri,<br />
where we were once more glad to set<br />
foot upon land. We then jumped into<br />
small boats, something like huge row<br />
boats. A launch towed us to the entrance<br />
to the grotto.<br />
Just before you enter the grotto you<br />
have to lie down flat on your side, or<br />
any other way, to avoid getting hurt.<br />
Of all the beautiful blue shades displayed<br />
by Nature, here is the grandest.<br />
T lie water is like glass, and in places ,<br />
you can see the bottom. <strong>The</strong> echc-is<br />
like the note of a songbird.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sides of the grotto are beautiful.<br />
In some places it was very dark, and<br />
the women became nervous.<br />
After leaving the grotto, we made<br />
^•r way to the front part of the boat<br />
to discuss our lovely time and Nature's<br />
beautiful work. It had been a stirring<br />
sight. G. S. S.<br />
RALLY THIS AFTERNOON.<br />
School will be dismissed at 2:30 today<br />
that a short, peppery rally may<br />
be held for the Mission game tomorrow.<br />
Ernest Smith, Jesse Steinhart,<br />
Mr. Rodgers, Jimmy Ransohoff<br />
and Vince Mead will probably be<br />
among the speakers. <strong>The</strong>re will be<br />
some popular melody and a new rally<br />
stunt. Come and see.<br />
MISSION GAME TO-MORROW.<br />
Probably everybody realizes that<br />
the crisis of our Rugby season comes<br />
to-morrow afternoon at the Presidio<br />
grounds. We know what Mission is.<br />
This will be no gentle, passive contest.<br />
Our team has a stiff fight before<br />
them. <strong>The</strong>y've got to give back<br />
what they get. If we win it is the<br />
sub-league. If we lose it is another<br />
humiliation from the Mission pretenders.<br />
This game is worth all the other<br />
games together, Will you be there to<br />
fight with the team?<br />
UNIVERSITY CONCERTS.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> has literally been stormed<br />
with propositions for concerts by the<br />
California Mandolin Club and" the U. C.<br />
Glee Club. <strong>The</strong> plan is to hold con^<br />
certs in the Study Hall after the fashion<br />
of our own musical talent. <strong>The</strong><br />
mandolin club will probably play on<br />
the first or second Thursday in December<br />
and the Glee Club's concert<br />
will probably take place next term.<br />
\..
. Contributions to this' department touching on any matter c<br />
are urged.—Ed.<br />
ATTENDANCE AT GAMES.<br />
At the <strong>Lowell</strong>-St. Ignatius game<br />
there were just about twenty fellows<br />
in the <strong>Lowell</strong> rooting section. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
did the best they could to make a little<br />
noise but that was mighty insignificant<br />
alongside the two hundred<br />
voices that St. Ignatius turned out.<br />
Now what's the matter, fellows? Are<br />
you going to let every other school<br />
think we arc yellow? That's certainly<br />
what they will do if they see we only<br />
support our team until it loses its first<br />
game. Let this be the last poor showing<br />
we make this year. Even if you<br />
have a seat at the Orpheum or something<br />
else on hand.-drop it! Come out<br />
and support your team. We have a<br />
good team and, what's more, it still<br />
has a chance for the sub-league. Every<br />
team except Mission has lost one<br />
game.<br />
Now, next Saturday come out to<br />
the Presidio Athletic Grounds, every<br />
one of you <strong>Lowell</strong>ites, and help our<br />
team put Mission on the list of schools<br />
with one defeat!<br />
BYRON JACKSON, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
A superintendent of schools was lecturing<br />
on how unobserving the children<br />
of to-day are. Going to the<br />
board he asked one of the youngsters<br />
present to give a numb r. <strong>The</strong> child<br />
gave 56, and the superintendent wrote<br />
65 and asked for another. Someone<br />
gave 24 and 42 was written. When<br />
another was asked for a little boy<br />
lisped out, "<strong>The</strong>venty-theven, change<br />
that, you thucker."<br />
SOME ANNUAL FACTS.<br />
By the Business..Manager. f^At<br />
Has it ever occurred to you what \<br />
each copy of a LOWELL Annual actually<br />
costs the management? Do you<br />
realize that you are now afforded the.<br />
opportunity of buying a ticket for the<br />
Annual, redeemable upon publication,<br />
for less than half the actual cost.per<br />
copy r <strong>The</strong> cost of each Annual is<br />
<strong>The</strong> cost of each Annual.'<br />
ticket is $0.35.<br />
Do not put off your purchase of a<br />
ticket until too late! Last June there<br />
were one hundred people who were<br />
disgruntled because they could not<br />
get an Annual, only because they neglected<br />
to purchase an Annual ticket in<br />
time.<br />
After next Friday there will be fifty<br />
tickets on sale for fifty cents apiece.<br />
When these are gone no more will be<br />
issued. Positively no LOWELLS can be<br />
purchased with coin. A hint to the<br />
wise, etc.<br />
MYSTERY.<br />
We are in receipt of the following<br />
anonymous black-mail communication.<br />
A free copy of the Girls' Edition will<br />
be given for the best solution:<br />
"It is better to be in the game than<br />
on the rooting section; it is better to<br />
be in the rooting section than on the<br />
lines; but it is better to be on the line<br />
than not at the game at all."<br />
This is not all fiction. We can perceive<br />
a large truth in those few words.<br />
WM. RAINEY, 'X2mjiMB<br />
iITTloERICKE^<strong>12</strong>p<br />
ELMER WISE, '<strong>12</strong>. .,:>£';&..<br />
ERNEST SMITH,
THE LOWELL<br />
A bi-weekly issued by the students" of the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
Editorial Staff.<br />
QSGOOD MURDOCK. '11 Editor<br />
ROBT. M. UNDERHILL, '11....Associate<br />
WM. RAINEY. '<strong>12</strong> Organizations<br />
AILEEN HAND, '<strong>12</strong> Organizations<br />
VINCENT MEAD. '11 School Notes<br />
BYRON JACKSON, '<strong>12</strong> School Notes<br />
JAMES RANSOHOFF, '11 Athletics<br />
ELIZABETH RUGGLES, '13.. ..Athletics<br />
ROY VAN VLIET, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
CORINNE CRONISE, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
GARTH BOERICKE, '<strong>12</strong> Exchanges<br />
ELMER WISE. '<strong>12</strong> Artist<br />
ERNEST SMITH '11 Artist<br />
Business Staff.<br />
DAVID WOLF. '<strong>12</strong>....Business Manager<br />
SANFORD STEIN. '<strong>12</strong> Associate<br />
B. ARENDT, '13<br />
LYNN WARD, '<strong>12</strong><br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER/<strong>12</strong><br />
THE GIRLS' EDITION.<br />
In two weeks we will be greeted<br />
with the two-colored splendor of a<br />
Girls' Edition. Aiieen Hand has been<br />
chosen as Editress with "'Teddy"<br />
Schaertzcr as Business Manager. It<br />
will be a treat for us all to have a<br />
• LOWELL grown to its old proportions<br />
and splendid with gilt. <strong>The</strong> girls always<br />
have been able to produce a<br />
fine paper in March, and now we're<br />
going to see how much better it can<br />
be in the Fall. We wish you the best<br />
of good luck, ladies. May Providence<br />
rain more contributions upon you than<br />
have fallen on us this Fall.<br />
Owing to the large number or contributions<br />
received, we have been able<br />
to enlarge our edition this month.<br />
We sincerely hope these extra pages<br />
will be interesting to the eight; hundred<br />
students at <strong>Lowell</strong> who.study<br />
English and should be actively inter-'<br />
ested in story and poetry writing.<br />
NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION.<br />
Our semi-annual election is upon<br />
us. <strong>The</strong> nominations may have been<br />
held yesterday. <strong>The</strong> probability is<br />
that they will take place at a special<br />
meeting of the Executive Committee<br />
next Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock.<br />
Everybody ought to be there. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
should be five applicants for each office.<br />
Elections in this school during the<br />
last few years have shown a lack of<br />
principle on the part of the voters.<br />
Nearly every term the fight has been<br />
a factional one, not openly, but under<br />
the surface. A certain percentage of<br />
the vote seems ignorant and pliable.<br />
By energetic and systematic canvassing<br />
among the Freshmen and among<br />
the girls, officials have been elected<br />
who had little or-no qualification save<br />
their political foresight and energy.<br />
This condition of factional combination<br />
defeating the most worthy candidate<br />
has dominated all politics for<br />
centuries.<br />
But now a change has come. We<br />
no longer elect a man mayor because<br />
he is a Republican or a Democrat, but<br />
because of his personal qualification<br />
and his record. And so in our school<br />
election. For <strong>Lowell</strong>'s sake use sense.<br />
Don't vote for or against a candidate<br />
because he belongs to your "sewing<br />
club" or because he doesn't. Don't<br />
vote for a candidate because Lizzie or<br />
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Jerry asked you to. Don't give him confidence. At least be interested|ani<br />
your vote because his name is first on independent. Don't pledge ^rg;<br />
the ballot, or because he is handsome to the firstj conceited<br />
or because he smiled at you. Vote for asks you for it;_ You can<br />
him, because he's' the man for the thing for <strong>Lowell</strong> by giving her<br />
place! If you don't know how to vote,<br />
ask some Senior in whom you have<br />
officers. And best of all, it will cost^f.5<br />
you nothing. , .'; 5-'v : 5v^<br />
School Notes<br />
At the last meeting, f the Decem- the Boosters," by Mtssrs. Golinsky,<br />
ber '11 class the matter of the Senior David Wolf, Chester Cohn and Louis"<br />
dance was settled. <strong>The</strong> dance this Straus.<br />
year will be held at the St. Francis <strong>The</strong> fellows around school must<br />
Hotel on the 21st day of December.<br />
<strong>The</strong> committee is working hard on the<br />
affair and promise success. <strong>The</strong> committee<br />
in charge is Miss Adams, Robert<br />
Underhill and Vincent Mead,<br />
chairman.<br />
have been traveling lately. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
a fine show of (H)English (H)ats. '"•'/••<br />
<strong>The</strong> June '<strong>12</strong> class is planning to<br />
give a dance before the term is over.<br />
A committee will be appointed scon.<br />
<strong>The</strong> question of giving the Camera<br />
<strong>The</strong> question of giving the orchestra Club recognition on the Executive<br />
recognition was referred to the Stu- Board has not been acted on as yet.<br />
dents' Affairs Committee by Mr. Morton.<br />
This committee will manage<br />
their concert.<br />
Amy Heacock and Jack Tufts have<br />
secured shares in the Bonbonniere Recreation<br />
Hall. <strong>The</strong>lma represents their<br />
June '13 at a recenf meeting considered<br />
the advisability of giving a dance.<br />
Misses Sawyer and Ruggles and Messrs.<br />
Bickel, Robinson and Somers are the<br />
committee in charge.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> was well represented in a play<br />
which the Jewish Juniors presented for<br />
charity Thursday evening, "<strong>The</strong> King of<br />
interests. Some capitalists!<br />
Don't forget the big rally in the<br />
hall this afternoon at 2:30. Some<br />
good "stunts" will appear. Be there!<br />
..We are glad to hear of the engagement<br />
of Mr. Henry H. Hart, '03, a;<br />
prominent attorney now, to Miss Alice<br />
P. Stern, '05. Congratulations. ,<br />
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the interest shbwn'Vbpio|<br />
in the performance'^^<br />
the play was ; weU Ve^<br />
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they had only bad;6^i<br />
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But according to gen<<br />
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Those who have ever had. any experience<br />
in theatricals realize what a<br />
difficult thing it is to produce a farce<br />
without proper stage setting and costumes.<br />
Taking this into consideration,<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Amazons," which has occupied<br />
the last three meetings of the Reading<br />
Club, deserves high praise. <strong>The</strong> unusual<br />
attendance at the meetings and<br />
the interest shown by lower classmen<br />
in the performance was a proof that<br />
the play was well received by the<br />
school at large.<br />
Didn't our girls make fine "make-believe"<br />
boys, though? And they certainly<br />
nourished their cigarettes. If<br />
they had only had "make-believe"<br />
smoke, too. it would have been more<br />
realistic.<br />
But according to general approval,<br />
the boys certainly carried off the honors.<br />
Dave Wolf, who made a successful<br />
Frenchman, was unable to talk<br />
without being laughed at. His "la-lala!"<br />
and "Don't you know," together<br />
with several other unnamable expressions<br />
and mannerisms, set the audience<br />
in veritable convulsions. Buckingham<br />
certainly made a hit while on<br />
the rope. Was it comfortable, Fisher,<br />
or was your exhaustion at the opening<br />
of the third act real? Chapman,<br />
of_ course, is English, so how could<br />
he help making a |good Englishman?<br />
But because he is naturally British,<br />
that is no reason why he should be<br />
an amorous lover. I am afraid you'll<br />
never shine in that, Chapie. You had<br />
two chances to show your talent, but<br />
you failed.<br />
I wonder how many members of<br />
the cast had ever been to a tea party.<br />
According to the experience shown<br />
by the cast, piano playing and dancing<br />
arc much more popular amusements.<br />
A serious situation is now facing<br />
the Girls' Glee Club. A lack of interest<br />
on the part of the girls seems to<br />
cause a decided decrease in the attendance<br />
at the meetings. Mr. Pasmore<br />
feels he cannot give his time<br />
and attention to a club which offers<br />
him such a small amount of material<br />
to work upon. It is very probable<br />
that if a larger showing is not made<br />
at the next meeting he will consider<br />
himself obliged to give up his instruction.<br />
If the members of the club<br />
have any spirit whatsoever they surely<br />
will try to have a larger attendance<br />
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what you are made of and never let<br />
it be said that the girls of <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
disregarded any opportunities to better<br />
themselves, or to serve their<br />
school.<br />
On October 20th the tryout for the<br />
debating team was held on the question<br />
of the Federal ownership of interstate<br />
railroads. After a hotly contested<br />
argument the following team<br />
was chosen: M. Rosenblatt, Honigsberger<br />
and Rabinowitz. A second team<br />
was also chosen, consisting of Wascerwitz.<br />
S. Rosenblatt and Herrington.<br />
Mr. Cloud, Mr. Clark and Fred Shipper<br />
acted as judges.<br />
At the convention of the ID. L. C.<br />
held here last Saturday, three members<br />
01' <strong>Lowell</strong>'s society were honored by<br />
being elected officers in the league.<br />
Adolph Postcl was chosen President, Honigsberger<br />
as Editor oC the "Debater,"<br />
and Rosenblatt as Business Manager.<br />
<strong>The</strong> concert given by the orchestra<br />
is to be held next irriday in the hall.<br />
Make a memorandum of this on your<br />
notebook, and lay aside two nickels<br />
for your ticket. <strong>The</strong> orchestra de-<br />
CLASSY DANCE MUSIC<br />
Some of the people dance some of the<br />
time; some of the people da?ice all of<br />
the time. It is said where Merzbach's<br />
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dance all of the time.<br />
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with no money and little reputation^<br />
and in the face of the' indifference of<br />
the student body. Yet in three<br />
months, paying their own expenses,<br />
they are ready to come before you<br />
and give a concert. This is <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
"spirit," and deserves your support.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra is filling a longrfelt<br />
want in <strong>Lowell</strong>, and you should' show<br />
your appreciation by patronizing their<br />
concert.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Camera Club holds its meetings<br />
every other Monday now. Last<br />
Monday an interesting lecture was<br />
delivered on the "stop" systems by<br />
Paul Scheeline.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club has discovered that there<br />
is a stereoptiron outfit in the school<br />
and hopes to give a lecture with its<br />
aid before the end of the term. Arrangements<br />
are being made with the<br />
California Camera Club for several<br />
practical lectures by the members of<br />
that club.<br />
On Monday, November 13th, Mr.<br />
Altman will deliver a short lecture on .<br />
the "Composition of a Picture." All<br />
members are requested to be present<br />
and those interested are invited to attend.<br />
Miss Marion B. White's<br />
Dancing Classes<br />
will re-open<br />
SEPTEMBER 15th<br />
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THE ST/iGN|<br />
This game<br />
season, dae entirely^<br />
<strong>The</strong> team was cripplgd<br />
couple of the fellows^b<br />
by some of them not_gei<br />
<strong>The</strong> fight that was*<br />
dwindled at the first-g<br />
bleachers. It was , a<br />
on the St; Ignatius side<br />
were packed, while the<br />
ers looked sick. <strong>The</strong><br />
- staunch supporters wei<br />
ual, and credit is due<br />
With these condition:<br />
a good game and with<br />
consistent practice w<br />
won. As it was the fi<br />
3 to 3. <strong>The</strong> game 1.<br />
that <strong>Lowell</strong> usually '<br />
<strong>The</strong> worst of the wl<br />
ever, is to come bacl<br />
next morning and heat<br />
of deadheads who "lie<br />
rub it into you, now<br />
<strong>The</strong> sentiment of th<br />
point can't be express<br />
<strong>The</strong> least you can<br />
Saturday afternoon a<br />
go out on the bleac<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is only a ga<br />
before the champior<br />
and whether we figi<br />
with you.<br />
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THE. ST. IGNATIUS GAME.<br />
JAS. RANSOHOFF.<br />
This game was the poorest of the<br />
season, clue entirely toiack of support.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team was crippled badly by a<br />
couple of the fellows being sick and<br />
by sonic of ihem not getting signed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fight that was left, however,<br />
dwindled at the first glimpse of the<br />
bleachers. It was a cold day and<br />
on the St. Ignatius side the bleachers<br />
were packed, while the <strong>Lowell</strong> bleachers<br />
looked sick. <strong>The</strong> customary few<br />
staunch supporters were there as usual,<br />
and credit is due them.<br />
With these conditions <strong>Lowell</strong> played<br />
a good game and with a bit more of<br />
consistent practice we would have<br />
won. As it was the final score stood<br />
3 to 3. <strong>The</strong> game lacked the fight<br />
that <strong>Lowell</strong> usually shows.<br />
<strong>The</strong> worst of the whole thing, however,<br />
is to come back to school the<br />
next morning and hear the very bunch<br />
of deadheads who never do a thing,<br />
rub it into you, how good you are.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sentiment of the team on this<br />
point can't be expressed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> least you can do is to put off<br />
Saturday afternoon appointments and<br />
go out on the bleachers and shout.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is only a game or so more<br />
before the championship is decided,<br />
and whether we figure or not rests<br />
with you.<br />
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Athletics<br />
BASKETBALL.<br />
By ERWIN HlKSCHFELDER.<br />
<strong>The</strong> basketball ihterclass brought<br />
out much promising material for the<br />
team, for the interclass resulted in a<br />
tie between the Sophomores, Juniors<br />
and Seniors, each team winning two<br />
and losing one. <strong>The</strong> Freshmen were<br />
hopelessly outclassed because of lack<br />
of experience and weight. <strong>The</strong> three<br />
leading teams showed excellent team<br />
work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first game between the Sophs<br />
and Seniors was merely practice for<br />
the older men. <strong>The</strong> Sophs showed no<br />
team work, such as in the later games.<br />
<strong>The</strong> score: Seniors 33, Sophs 21.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second game was defaulted to<br />
the Juniors by the Freshmen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> third game was the Freshman-<br />
Sophomore game, and here the Sophs<br />
first showed their real worth. With<br />
several shifts they smothered the<br />
"scrubs." Score: Sophs 29, Freshmen<br />
S.<br />
.<strong>The</strong> next game between the Sophs<br />
and Juniors was a real battle. At the<br />
end of 40 minutes the score was a tie.<br />
In the following five minute period<br />
each side made two points, but in the<br />
next period the Sophs" pulled away.<br />
Score: Sophs 28, Juniors 26.<br />
In the fifth game the Seniors beat<br />
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<strong>The</strong> final game between the Juniors<br />
and Seniors was an interesting struggle.<br />
It .was marred by fouls which<br />
netted the Juniors 14 points in the first<br />
half, and combined with 3 field goals,<br />
they were never headed. Final score:<br />
Juniors 33, Seniors 20.<br />
Of the individual players, Levinson,<br />
Marwedel and Lewis showed well for<br />
the Seniors; Hirschfelcler, Fujita and<br />
Hood for the Juniors; Bender and<br />
Berndt for the Sophs, and Shoenfeldt<br />
and Laiser for the Freshmen.<br />
<strong>The</strong> teams lined up:<br />
Freshmen—Sullivan, Mitchi, Flood,<br />
Schoenfeldt, I-Iowell.<br />
Sophomores—Garvin, Berndt, Bender,<br />
Conrado, Hyashi.<br />
Juniors—Hood, Fujita. Reyman,<br />
Hirschfelder, Somers. Harris. S. Olsen.<br />
Seniors—Fukl, Ransohoff, Levinson,<br />
Marwedel, Leek. A. Olsen. Lewis.<br />
Billy—I'll bet you a kiss on the<br />
"Athletics."<br />
Milly—It's .-. bet. We'll let Jack<br />
hold the stakes.—Ex.<br />
GIRLS' ATHLETICS;<br />
Basketball.<br />
On Thursday, October 19, the <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
Girls played the Cogswell Girls on the;<br />
Cogswell Court. In spite of the slip-^<br />
pery floor, <strong>Lowell</strong> won by the uneven<br />
score of 21-5.<br />
Some time soon there is to be another<br />
game with Commercial, and the <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
team hopes to redeem its only defeat of<br />
this season, provided that the school will<br />
turn out and support it.<br />
Tennis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> try-outs for the Girls' Tennis<br />
team were held last week. Miss B.<br />
Gawne and Miss Deborah Newman<br />
made the team. A challenge has been<br />
received from the Girls' High team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> game will be played at Golden Gate<br />
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"You're a duck of a girl."<br />
"Don't make game of me.''—Ex.<br />
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On and About the Campus<br />
<strong>The</strong> Science Department has declared<br />
war on the English Department.<br />
It is hoped that the trouble<br />
may be settled by arbitration at the<br />
noonday Physics Peace Conference.<br />
This is how it happened:<br />
A High Two Composition class had<br />
been instructed to pen a descriptive<br />
passage, employing the method of development<br />
by comparison and contrast.<br />
One little boy who does not like to<br />
have his name mentioned in these columns,<br />
handed in a paper headed, "Col-"<br />
eoptera and Odonata." (He learned<br />
those in Room 6.)<br />
Mr. Rodgers rebuked him, saying,<br />
"Why do you persist in choosing a<br />
subject like that? Why not take a<br />
topic of present general interest? And<br />
look here! You've spelled the first<br />
word wrong. That's not the way to<br />
spell Cleopatra."<br />
Now the question' is, "Who was<br />
Odonata ?"<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was tc be a little assembly<br />
of <strong>Lowell</strong>ites one evening a week or<br />
two ago. One of the suburban members<br />
of the faculty was urgently asked<br />
to stay over and attend. But not so.<br />
"I'd" like to. boys," he said, "but I<br />
ran't possibly. You see I have that<br />
cow now, and I have to go home and<br />
milk her."<br />
And to think that they all must<br />
move to the city!<br />
Leland Leek, a "P. G." from June<br />
'11. has been proudly sporting a motor<br />
cycle of late. It may sometimes be<br />
seen at noon locking arms with Daredevil<br />
Potter's machine across tne<br />
street. Leland has been riding it quite<br />
constantly and we were very much<br />
surprised to receive a negative answer<br />
when we asked recently how he enjoyed<br />
it.<br />
"I want to sell it," said Leland. "I'm<br />
getting tired of it. I want to get a<br />
machine now. 'I've ridden the motor<br />
bike so much that I'm sore and I<br />
have a great longing to return from<br />
the mantlepiece to the table for dinner."<br />
Recently Mr. Clark was presiding<br />
over a study period in the hall. A<br />
small Freshman entered and was asked<br />
qua de causa he was there.<br />
"1 don't know what the matter was.<br />
I threw a chair across the room and<br />
the teacher sent mc'up here."<br />
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At the end of an amateur's dramatic<br />
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"I'd like to know my fate to-night,"<br />
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"I confess I cannot help forming<br />
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from his dress."<br />
—Lord Chesterfield to his son.<br />
For men who are closely confined<br />
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Don't wear pajamas just because the<br />
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Don't wear a suit with a check in it<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Sarcastic Dentist—Well, you are<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Raymond Coaching School<br />
TWELFTH YEAR<br />
Mission High School. San Francisco.<br />
I am pleased to Inform you that one of our students who was very deficient In<br />
English owes It to the work done for him In your school, that he Is able to graduate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of our English Department says that his advancement under your instruction<br />
was most marked, and that his progress inspired Mm with the confidence<br />
that he previously lacked.<br />
J. O'CONNOR, Principal.<br />
DR. WM. A. MARTIN<br />
870 Fell Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
San Francisco, July 15, 1909.<br />
Dear Mr. Raymond:—I wish to express to you and your daughter my appreciation<br />
of the very satisfactory results you have obtained In helping my son and daughter<br />
out of the maze of difficulties In which they had become entangled with their<br />
studies. I shall always take gTeat pleasure In adding my word of recommendation<br />
to that of the many others, who I know are lavish In their praises of <strong>The</strong> Raymond<br />
Coaching School. Yours very sincerely,<br />
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NOVEMBER, U
v< SAX FRANCISCO, XOYF.Ml'.liR 17. 1011. N'O.<br />
Tim's ThanKsgiving<br />
For many days the storm had been brewing, and now when it came, it<br />
was unbounded in ils fury,<br />
"<strong>The</strong> like was never seen before." «o men declared, as they buttoned their<br />
verei>ats tighter about their throats, or drove their hands deeper into iheir<br />
pockets. And. indeed, it seemed as though nothing ever could have been<br />
or ever would be equal to it. <strong>The</strong> wind blow furiously, driving the fastf;illiiisjf<br />
snow before it. sweeping down the streets, and whirling gustily around<br />
corners. <strong>The</strong> air was like ice. and the flying snow stung the facc»y,i>i the<br />
many persons hurrying homeward, each one eager to be out of its reach<br />
and in the shelter of a blasting hearth.<br />
Hut all were not journeying home. Standing on a corner, in the very<br />
nitdsrof the storm, was a little newsboy, his blue bands, numb from'the cold,<br />
clutching a few papers. His face was drawn ami pinched, and his clr~b.es<br />
were ragged, and thin, and torn. <strong>The</strong> wind seemed to blow right through<br />
him. and he shivered as he stood patiently waiting tor someone to buy his<br />
few remaining papers. Hut n" one cared to stop for such things to-night.<br />
( Hlier thoughts occupied their minds, for this was Thanksgiving eve. Although<br />
:i was Wt earlv. the streets were well-nigh deserted. <strong>The</strong> clock<br />
in :; neighboring tower struck ten. AI its first note. Tim. for that was his<br />
name, stirred himself from Ihe trance be seemed to have fallen into, and<br />
listvniiuj intently, counted each stroke as it boomed forth on the night air.<br />
"l >ld Faithful." he murmured, as the last stroke died away, "always on<br />
time, always ready; you are :ny la Cher's gone, r.nd father's gone, and now 'Rags' is gone: for do you know.<br />
•Old Faithful." when I Woke up this morning, poor Rags was .stiff and cold,<br />
and he never nv-'ved. though I called him and called him. He is dead now,<br />
and 1 am all alone—all alone. e.\t,-:->t for you. 'Old Faithful.'"
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2 THE LOWELL<br />
Uttering these words, with a sob, the almost frozen lad, utterly''exhausted,<br />
sank clown into the snow, overcome with grief and an overwhelming<br />
sense of loneliness. Me was an orphan, with no relations, and no friends<br />
except the skye terrier. "Rags." who. until his death this*morning, had followed<br />
his little master through all his hardships, with unceasing devotion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old clock in tin- tower, which lie had named "Old Faithful," seemed to<br />
be a companion to him.<br />
Some fifteen or twenty minutes later. Patrolman Casey, on his nightly<br />
heat, came to the corner. Stopping a moment to..draw his hat lower over his<br />
f.-u-o to protect himself from the blinding storm, he espied the motionless form<br />
f Tim. half covered with snow, lying where it had fallen. Stooping to<br />
investigate the kind-hearted policeman recognized the little newsboy, whom<br />
he h;id often noticed .-landing on llu- corner day after day trying to sell his<br />
paper*. Thinking of his own little ones at home, safe in bed. dreaming of<br />
lo-niorrowV ji>ys to come. Casey gathered the senseless lad in his arms, and<br />
now all unmindful of the weather, (piickly bore him to a hospital a block or<br />
tan awav. <strong>The</strong>re Tim was given into the care of one of the nurses, and with<br />
many injunctions to her t.i do her best, regardless of the cost, the kind-hearted<br />
Iri>!iinan departed, promising to cal' on the morrow.<br />
True to Cases"-. commands, the doctor and the nurse did their best, but it<br />
was some lime helore tlu-v had the boy thawed o;;t. and restored to consciousness.<br />
When hr opened his eyes. Tim found himself in a clean white bed. in a<br />
strange room. Hut he was still too exhausted to take much notice of his<br />
surroundings, lie fell into an uueasv slimmer.<br />
When he awoke it was broad daylight, and the storm was still raging.<br />
T 01. weak to move. Tim lay still, watching with wondering but grateful eyes,<br />
ihe iiur.-e who brought him some b'-oth. Soon .liter this. Casev appeared to<br />
see his little wail", as he called him. lie found the boy unable to speak above<br />
a whisper, so feeble was he. <strong>The</strong> gr.i'xl man did not stay long, but went away<br />
planning how he might assist Tim when he should become well again. Poor<br />
Tim. he would never be well again. All day he lay. hardly stirring, content<br />
to listen to the storm outside, and to wonder, perhaps, how he had gotten<br />
where he was. lie received with grateful looks all the services that were<br />
rendered him.<br />
Late in the afternoon, after a small Thanksgiving dinner, which was a<br />
marvel to him. he fell into a deep sleep, which, the doctor said, would determine<br />
his fate. Throughout the early part of the night they watched by his<br />
bed-side, waiting for the sign which would tell them whether little Tim was<br />
to live or die. Kight o'clock passed, and nine, but no sign from the motionless<br />
form on the bed. And now the old clock in the tower rang out the hour of<br />
ten. Suddenly, in the midst of its chiming, the little newsboy started up.<br />
" "()ld I-aithml.'" he called, but it was nothing more than a whisper:<br />
" '< >ld Faithful.' I'm going home: I've found mother. "Did Faithful,' " Sinking<br />
back among the pillows, the little soul, as the last note echoed and reechoed,<br />
and finally died away, passed from the tired, wasted body, which was<br />
'•• ulTer no more. Little Tim had breathed his last Thanksgiving.<br />
MARTHA MCG.OIV.IIUY. '13.<br />
Dear Mr. Cl;<br />
I can not realize<br />
about my regn<br />
believed, as a i<br />
because the latt(<br />
closely connectc<br />
years, and that<br />
that I had no i:<br />
something whic<br />
of your students<br />
I rcrnembe<br />
Philippines, giv<br />
and conditions.<br />
I don't knr<br />
social conditiot<br />
and accidental<br />
current on the;<br />
the natives arc<br />
American regii<br />
class that so 1<<br />
they will not c<br />
a red-hot little<br />
tion every oth<br />
editors must c<br />
• I am told<br />
cians would j.<br />
order to maki<br />
war which ><br />
different tribe<br />
languages, at<br />
represented:<br />
called, arc tl<br />
is exclusively<br />
tribes, and th<br />
one adds to :i<br />
Southern Isl<br />
most primiti<br />
the habit of<br />
and pillagbn<br />
wind change<br />
are of "tacki<br />
the islands a
THE^LOWELL<br />
..•••.>•«.'(?•<br />
A Message from Manila<br />
- . ; Ma'ate. Manila, P. I.<br />
Dear Mr. Clark-:—I remember that when I was graduating from <strong>Lowell</strong>—<br />
I can not realize it was almost a year ago—Mr. Noursc and I were talking<br />
about my regret at leaving <strong>Lowell</strong> ami my student life, li'e said he<br />
brlieved. as a rule, teachers felt the parting more keenly than students,<br />
because the latter went so completely out of their lives, after having been so<br />
i-Io.-i.-ly connected and oftentimes pleasantly associated with them for foi;r<br />
years, and that they appeared to lose interest in student affairs. T insisted<br />
that I had no intention of doing so, and in proof of this T am sending you<br />
something which T am sure will be of interest to you, and possibly to some<br />
+<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
fi~w y*- ^• u ^-i~^\^'^<br />
iiuthe matter, the account of the work clone hy hospitals, public schools, etc.,<br />
speaks for itself.<br />
I have taken several trips into the iniand provinces. I have observed<br />
a reasonable amount of prosperity in the 'rural population eyeiywhere,<br />
although it is greatly increased wherever good roads enable bringing produce<br />
to market. <strong>The</strong> natives are not particularly successful fanners, and many<br />
people think it a great mistake to offer such an elaborate "book education" to<br />
children whose parents are hardly able to keep alive under the heavy school<br />
tax. <strong>The</strong>y would like to see rather a more substantial industrial foundation<br />
on which in rear the Temple of Knowledge. <strong>The</strong> character of the people is<br />
somewhat like that of the American negro, the majority being absolutely<br />
childish ami ignorant, a great many making absurd pretensions to education<br />
and social position. Prices are low, but trade does not thrive, as money is<br />
scarce.—it has been suggested on account of the natives' intolerable habit of<br />
cock-lighting.—the money simply passes from one gambler to another without<br />
ever becoming the medium of exchange. Just at present, the people are ir.<br />
a bail way. as Chinese rice has gone up to famine prices, but even now there<br />
is no evidence of dissatisfaction with the government, which, in fact, is<br />
doing everything imaginable to relieve the distress.<br />
If at any time you would like me to look up any reports of commissions<br />
or something of that kind. I am quite at your service. My father has been put<br />
on a "staff detail." so we are living in the city, quite convenient to the government<br />
buildings, and anything T could do for you would be a small return<br />
for the conscientious pains you have taken to make my many interesting hours<br />
in your classwurk of profit and value.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se islands are so truly what is called a "great country," so rich in<br />
possibilities, known and unknown, and apparently limitless resources, simply<br />
waiting for capital to develop them. Every year will make them a more<br />
interesting and important question to our nation. You sec, it is exceedingly<br />
so to me. as I have managed to write so much on the subject with absolutely<br />
no data except my own observation. I don't know that it is of much value,<br />
being, as I have said, entirely casual, but it is something from a person on<br />
:he gn>n;i.i. at lea-t. Very sincerely yours.<br />
A Suggestion<br />
MAKJOKII-: C.WIIM'.KLI. KCCKMAX.<br />
iolutelv<br />
return."<br />
j hours<br />
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THE LOWELL 5<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mystery of the Sea<br />
<strong>The</strong> good ship "Spartan" lay to off Cape Horn, buried in a smother of<br />
flying spume and hail. In fifty clays she had made the run from Xcw York<br />
in her present position on her way to Honolulu. For three weeks she had<br />
finiyht to round the cape but had barely held her own against strong adverse<br />
winds and seas that were high as mountains.<br />
<strong>The</strong> captain and crew were worn out by sleepless nights and constant<br />
labor at the pumps, for the ship strained in every butt and timber and was<br />
k\-iking badiy.<br />
"I think," said the captain to the mate, "since we have passed this<br />
change of the moon and the barometer has fallen, that this weather is likely to<br />
continue for some lime. We had better make a fair wind of it and square<br />
away for the Cape of Good Hone. Give her the fore lower topsail and fore<br />
topmast stay sail and wear away before it." <strong>The</strong> mate, who was the captain's<br />
son, hastened to put the orders into effect. In half an hour the "Spartan''<br />
was rolling her yard arms under, and making twelve knots an hour before a<br />
furious westerly gale. Kverybody brightened, ior the pressure of the three<br />
weeks' struggle was lifted. Sunny days and beautiful weather followed as<br />
they crossed the Indian Ocean into the China Sea.<br />
In the neighborhood of the Agincourt group of islands a dead calm fell<br />
up«>n the waters. Fearing those none too well charted seas the captain<br />
ordered .a boat lowered to row toward the islands, that they might take<br />
soundings. <strong>The</strong> young mate and three sailors made up the boat's crew.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were to return to the ship when the captain ran up the colors.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y rowed away, growing smaller and smaller on that vast • >cean.<br />
<strong>The</strong> captain had a premonition o{ danger, lor the islands were inhabited by<br />
cannibals, lie set the flag lor them to return, but whether they did not see<br />
it. or their venturesome spirits aroused, they decided to land, cannot be told,<br />
for when last seen through the glasses they were still rowing toward the land.<br />
In the meantime night had fallen, and the "Spartan" had drifted by.<br />
Flare-lights were burned at intervals throughout the night, but nothing<br />
wa- seen f the men. In the morning strong adverse winds blew, and the<br />
captain was forced to head for Hong Kong. <strong>The</strong>re a .-.learner was chartered,<br />
and a large searching party, aided by the U. S. Asiatic squadron, set out to<br />
find the capU'in's son and the other men. A thorough search was made of<br />
every foot of the island, but no trace of them was found, not even an oar<br />
from the boat. K. CkosM.KY. '11.<br />
In a Little Town in California<br />
I had alwavs heard, especially from traveling salesmen, that t was a<br />
"queer" town. Somehow the exponents of that '-queer" theory didn't seem<br />
to care about explaining further, so the heater was left to conjecture as to its<br />
probable meaning. In my case, it was with motives other than the desire to<br />
see old friends, that 1 decided to xisit a day and a half there.<br />
Arriving on the afternoon train, 1 was taken three miles out to a<br />
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6 THE LOWELL<br />
large ranch.. When I was duly installed, I proceeded to take cognizance<br />
of my surroundings. With no guide or pointer, other than to "act natural,"<br />
I was left on my own resources. Well, I tried to act naturally, and I guess<br />
that's how I walked into trouble. <strong>The</strong>re were several smaller houses on the<br />
place where I was staying, besides that of the owner. At the door of one of<br />
these houses, stood a woman, smiling and nodding to me in friendly welcome.<br />
Encouraged by her smiles, I walked over and she engaged me in conversation.<br />
After recounting her girlhood memories (stating specifically that she was<br />
born in Missouri"), her marriage and her subsequent journey and settlement<br />
out "West here,'" she continued in this manner: "My cousin—lives on the<br />
other side of the railroad—lias a nephew, who is coming from 'back state'<br />
soon. 1 just got a letter from him. <strong>The</strong>y have the newest pair of twins and<br />
I can hardly wait to see them. My sister's oldest girl has a friend, who has<br />
come from the 'River' to see her. She has twins, too, but they're older than<br />
the other ones. She is a cousin to my sister-in-law's brother back home.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are trying to sell their properly to come out here. When they do come,<br />
my husband's brother is coming, too. and my aunt, the one who is a grandmother<br />
to those twins F was telling you about, is going to cook for them.<br />
Charlie, that's my boy"— <strong>The</strong> pressure exerted on my brain was above<br />
normal. Terrified, F lied.<br />
<strong>The</strong> town sheriff was up to supper in the evening. I was forewarned that<br />
he also was from Missouri. Being up for re-eiection, true to all tricks of the<br />
trade, he was visiting all his acquaintances. Ucing introduced as a stranger,<br />
the worth)' officer asked me how F liked the town and had I been around<br />
much. I replied, that I hadn't been around much, but that the town to all<br />
appearances seemed quite prosperous.<br />
"Yes, that's so,"' he averred, "this place is all right. Xigh as big as<br />
Chicago"—I was allowed just enough space to gasp—"only, it isn't all built<br />
up yet," he finished, in quite a natural tone of voice. <strong>The</strong>re! I had fallen<br />
again, and so easily. I was beginning to think that / was "queer." As' I<br />
was plainly discomfited. F sought the protection of my room as soon as<br />
diplomacy allowed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next morning 1 was awakened by a sudden thump, which was followed<br />
by a triple wail. Hearing movements in the other rooms, I got up.<br />
On inquiry, I was told that the above was acted out every morning by the<br />
child of the family in the nearby cabin. At early dawn, the boy would fall<br />
from the bed with a thump, suddenly awaken and start to cry.<br />
'•Something, certainly, must be the matter with the child, but that yell<br />
serves better than the cock's crow, and that thump is the best alarm clock<br />
we've ever had." one of the men jokingly said. Things were beginning to<br />
take on an uncanny aspect and I caught one meaning of the word "queer.''<br />
i'y that morning's mail, F received cards of membership to four different<br />
churches and was lold [ would receive about eight more by the next delivery.<br />
<strong>The</strong> "Baptist" is the largest and most famous church in town. Everybody<br />
lives in some direction from the Baptist church.<br />
Although this town is in California, I certainly wouldn't call it a Cali-<br />
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fornia town. Why, when the Baptist minister, during service one Sunday. •<br />
had asked how many people present were from Missouri, about half of the<br />
five hundred members raised their hands. <strong>The</strong> Dakotas, Kansas, Indiana.<br />
Illinois, also had their representatives. California was feebly sustained by<br />
four hands, not that there aren't more natives in the town, but that California<br />
doesn't go to church. I soon learned there were two factions in the town.<br />
First were the church-going people, who abhorred dancing and such frivoliiicfi<br />
and who declared for the "bible and choir.*' In opposition, was (the second<br />
party, composed mostly of Californians and the younger set who rebelled<br />
against the efforts of the ministers to bring them into the fold, but who<br />
didn't mind going to church once in a while. If the church party resolved<br />
that the little theaters should be closed on Sunday, the opposition immediately<br />
passed resolution?, saying that the churches ought to be closed on Sunday.<br />
In the evening occurred the incident of Mrs. Sam's cow. Mrs. Sam was<br />
the wife of ->ne of those workers, who lived on the ranch. Give a Missouri<br />
housewife a cow and a place to hang her clothes, and she will make an enviable<br />
home in plain or mountain but lacking either she feels she isn't "settled."<br />
Mrs. Sam had lor weeks vainly teased her husband to save a little of his<br />
ci.uav money to get a cow. but Mr. Sam, a naturalized Californian. had to<br />
have his smoke and such little indulgences. Hut Mrs. Sam, true to her<br />
Mi>souri blood, had to have a cow. so off she went, late in the afternoon, to<br />
get one on the installment plan.<br />
About dusk I saw her coming home, trailing her cow behind her. She<br />
tied her treasure to a post to be admired, and the lew present, including<br />
myself, pronounced it a bargain. Now it was quite dark when Mr. Sam<br />
came in from work and was told to take a look at the cow. I am sure he<br />
couldn't have seen even the outline of the beast, so dense was the darkness.<br />
Hut he merely looked in the direction of the post and "pronounced with all<br />
the assurance of a connoisseur: " Taint worth the baby's rattle!" 1 am told,<br />
however, that it is a characteristic of most men. besides Missouri husbands,<br />
to refuse to give their wives the credit of being good buyers.<br />
As this night was to be my last there, my friends said they would take<br />
me to enjoy the •'butterfly life" of the town. Enticed by a large electric sign,<br />
we entered a nickelodeon, like those we have here. It was my misfortune,<br />
however, to be seated next to two women, who were trying to bribe their<br />
consciences into believing that they were not doing wrong by coming to a<br />
moving-picture show. With such exclamations as, "Why, look, there's<br />
Mr. Thomas. He belongs to the church choir. It certainly is all right for<br />
us. as long as he goes to shows!" they kept me in distraction. I took my<br />
leave of the gay life of that town when I left that little nickelodeon. If a.<br />
person has such a troublesome conscience, I don't see why something can't<br />
be done.<br />
I left the next morning on the early train. I was sorry I did not have<br />
time to meet some of the town's business men, for I feel that it is because<br />
of them that those traveling salesmen shook their heads at the town and<br />
called it '•queer." In view of my visit there, I, also, think I have some reason<br />
M. B.. June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
for calling this little country place "queer."<br />
vt 3 ^<br />
If<br />
I^4#i§i
8 THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Voice of a Child<br />
It was the night of the annual ball. <strong>The</strong> musicians had already taken<br />
their places and the magnificent white and gold room was beginning to fill<br />
with throngs of people, when little Chris, the twelve-year-old son of the<br />
Italian janitor, stole quietly up to where the orchestra sat. He crouched<br />
down and opened the door a tiny crack, so that he might watch the progress<br />
of the ball. A happy sigh stole from his lips as his eyes fell upon the<br />
brightly lighted scene below him. Never before in his short life had those<br />
color-loving eyes of his so much to feast upon. <strong>The</strong> bright colors, pink,<br />
blue and lavender, all blended into an ever-changing shade as the couples<br />
swayed in time to the measure* of a waltz. <strong>The</strong> child, forgetting all else,<br />
imagined himself in his much-drcamed-of fairyland. His lovely, wide, brown<br />
eyes danced with joy as he tried to feel himself one of the happy throng.<br />
lie kept no track of the time. It might have been minutes, it might have<br />
been hours, that he lay there enraptured. Suddenly that ever-terrible cry<br />
of "Fire!" rang through the room and startled him abruptly from his pleasant<br />
thoughts. In an instant all was confusion. Though the orchestra played<br />
bravely on, the sight of the thin cloud of gray smoke that was wafted<br />
through the main entrance so frightened the dancers that many made a rush<br />
for the side doors. <strong>The</strong> floor manager, very much frightened himself, leaped<br />
upon the platform and shouted that there wns no danger. I'iut few heeded<br />
him.<br />
Fn the midst of the confusion, a child's clear, sweet voice rang out above<br />
the din of scurrying feet and cries for help.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re is no danger," be sang in his pretty, broken English, and then,<br />
prompted by the floor manager saying that the fire was across the street, he<br />
repeated the words until a number stopped their foolish panic to listen.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n lie launched into a soft Italian melody. Soon all but a few of the<br />
immense throng had stopped to listen to the beautiful song. <strong>The</strong> boy, forgetful<br />
of tbc many eyes upon him, sang to the end of the strain. Suddenly,<br />
realizing his position, be turned quickly and started for the door amid a<br />
thunder of applause. One of the musicians caught him by the arm.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y want you to sing again." he said. Hut Chris, overcome with<br />
shyness, shook himself free of the man's grasp. With the applause still ringing<br />
in his ears, he ran as fast a? he could to his poor home. M. D.. '11.<br />
"What are the passengers looking out of the window for?" asked a<br />
nervous lady as the conductor came through.<br />
"W c ran over a cat. madam." said the conductor.<br />
"Was the cat on the track?" she next asked.<br />
"Oh. no, ma'm." assured the conductor, "the locomotive chased her<br />
uj) an allow"—Ex.<br />
•'J'lease. father, will you give me an example of a paradox?"'<br />
"My son. I believe about the best example would be an honest politician."<br />
TH<br />
Hank was<br />
heard of the cit;<br />
arrested almost<br />
she knew. As<br />
in the city.<br />
When he<br />
move. <strong>The</strong> coi<br />
His cousin had<br />
added still mor<br />
Hank was<br />
sent him the f<br />
He had a large<br />
safety pin. H<br />
him so curious<br />
At last hi<br />
grin on his fac<br />
a large red aut<br />
in this thing ai<br />
we'll have to<br />
in one of thos<br />
But this e<br />
have chilled th<br />
alight on me!<br />
dashed by wit<br />
by the asstifa<br />
him from expi<br />
"Ain't chi<br />
things!" So<br />
us!" yelled H<br />
<strong>The</strong> cause of<br />
Wheat Flake:<br />
up with him,<br />
not following<br />
"For lam<br />
straining his*<br />
a bicycle rot<br />
down.<br />
When H<br />
alive. He w<br />
turned on the<br />
first time I<br />
He went to<br />
much for
plaved
io : THE LOWELL<br />
A Clever Division<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was once an old farmer who lived in a valley, near a village. He<br />
had three sons, who were very helpful to their old father. <strong>The</strong>y assisted him<br />
in many ways, but particularly in leading his cows to pasture. All his life<br />
the old man had been poor, but. being certain that he would have little to leave<br />
his sons when he died, he had from their infancy taught them lessons of<br />
shrewdness, in order that they might live by their wisdom.<br />
When he was on the point of death, the wise old man made his will. He<br />
found that, besides the plot of ground on which he lived, he possessed only<br />
seventeen cows. He divided these among his boys in the following manner:<br />
To the first he left one-half of the seventeen cows; to the second, one-third;<br />
and to the youngest, one-ninth.<br />
When the sons read this will after his death, they were greatly puzzled,<br />
for seventeen was divisable neither by two, by three, nor by nine. Instead<br />
of going to work the next morning, they sat around with gloomy looks, each<br />
trying to find a way out of the dilemma.<br />
Xow it happened that just then there passed by the door Xina, a poor<br />
girl, r"io was taking her only cow to the village nearby. She was feeling<br />
very badly this morning, for she had loved this farmer clearly. She had been<br />
a great comfort to the wise man when he had been old and feeble, and had<br />
to depend for his support on others.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys called in Xina to see if she could help them, for she was very<br />
quick-witted. This is what she suggested:<br />
"Let me add my cow to your seventeen," she said, "for then there will<br />
be an even number, and maybe we can make a division.''<br />
It happened as she said. <strong>The</strong>y were then able to divide the cows satisfactorily.<br />
To the first son, she gave nine cows; to the second, six; and to the<br />
third, two. P.ut the strangest thing of all was that these added up made<br />
just seventeen.<br />
"Xow, since you have your cows evenly divided, I will take my own one<br />
and go to the village."<br />
So saying, Xina started away, leaving the three boys verv happy that<br />
there was any one so clever. Bin the youngest son thought how much nicer<br />
it would be if there were eighteen instead of seventeen cows. So he ran after<br />
Xina, and they were married the next day.<br />
Xow there are eighteen cows in the pasture. But the youngest son<br />
takes all the credit of the arrangement upon himself. He thinks he is the<br />
wisest of all. C. S. '13.<br />
<strong>The</strong> world is fast growing more prosaic, that is, if the world can be<br />
judged by Colorado. In that State the first State Capitol building is now<br />
used as a Chinese washhouse. Xow if Colorado had the romance of California<br />
.»•<br />
<strong>The</strong>. English<br />
certainly was:i I<br />
ing.: "Don't look<br />
him, 'Have'fcany<br />
pression yielded<br />
to the class (.it i<br />
I give you the<br />
period." your edi<br />
than beg you to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Emper|<br />
writings of Epi<br />
and advantage t<br />
per!" Yes, jus<br />
been glad to<br />
About 50<br />
we know nothi;<br />
know him is a<br />
Epaphroditus,<br />
one of the mos<br />
taught in the iv<br />
at Xecropolis<br />
death at a verv<br />
principles that<br />
with his teachi<br />
He. empha<br />
good that Irs<br />
developed in<br />
preaches the d(<br />
more fervor a<br />
domination. I<br />
yourselves.<br />
Sometime<br />
hesitating ben<br />
your feet" leai<br />
banal and the<br />
herd with bea<br />
Pat had<br />
"Have tl<br />
parish priest.<br />
"Tall-bu<br />
worked on, w
Will-<br />
poor:<br />
eeiihg<br />
been,<br />
=had;<br />
"•\ : '•' • '<br />
very'.-'<br />
tbj.th.f^-<br />
THE LOWELL 11<br />
Epictetus<br />
<strong>The</strong> English assignment may have been longer than usual: the girl's face<br />
ivrtainly was. In fact, she took the dose so dismally, I couldn't help exclaiming:<br />
"Don't look so distressed. Think with Epictetus. so that you may ask with<br />
UMII. 'Have any of you ever seen me look discontented?'.'' Her dismal expression<br />
yielded to the vacuous. Epictetus! Epictetus? So I confidently turned<br />
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IGmueU<br />
A bi-weekly, published by the Students of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
EDITOR<br />
AILEEX MAXD, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
MYRTLE ERAXZEX, "<strong>12</strong>. School Xotes.<br />
MARGERY DURUROW. '11. Organizations.<br />
ELIZABETH RUGGLES, '13, Organizations.<br />
HESTER MATHEWS. '11. Organizations.<br />
LESLIE UXDE.RIIILL. '13. Boys' Athletics.<br />
DOROTHY REIDY, '14,'Girls" Athletics.<br />
CORIXXE CRONISE, '<strong>12</strong>, jokes.<br />
DORIS M'LOUGHLIN, '<strong>12</strong>. Jokes.<br />
CARLOTTA SAWYER. '13. Artist.<br />
EVA COE. -11.<br />
^ . BUSINESS STAFF<br />
Business Manager<br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Assistants<br />
KATHARINE CROSSLEY. Ml.<br />
EDITH PERRY, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong> set high ideals for the citizen of a democracy.<br />
According to his standards, his chief requirement is an utter disregard of<br />
self. <strong>The</strong>re is no room in such a system of government for one who is unwilling<br />
to sacrifice his own private desires and pleasure to the welfare of the<br />
public. Each must live for the other, and all together for the state. This is<br />
his criterion for a republic.<br />
In our school, itself a small republic, the ideals of the man for whom it<br />
is named should have some influence. What higher standard could be had<br />
for a <strong>Lowell</strong>ite than that given to him by the patron saint, as it were, of<br />
his school? To strive to assist our schoolmates and teachers, to live up to<br />
the standards required by the faculty, to,so love our school that no service<br />
is too great for her—these should be the ideal.-, for our citizens. We must<br />
not serve our4sctib<br />
about us out-bfKlc<br />
to do staff rworlcr<br />
paper, the 1<br />
desirous of holdin|<br />
Annual, the one •<br />
to his "record"||*h|<br />
If the ideals<br />
we should therihal<br />
would then be no I<br />
would be no tardy]<br />
the study hall peril]<br />
a higher standard<br />
be the spirit thati<br />
"<strong>Lowell</strong> spirit" by]<br />
THE PI<br />
A school pape<br />
should offer an ol<br />
Its standard of mil<br />
Since the.jou)<br />
stands, it should<br />
essentials which<br />
which the literary!<br />
absence of all perl<br />
By a literary)<br />
stories, verses, oij<br />
readers. Most )i<br />
literary departmc|<br />
literary section,<br />
cxclusi vely, tends]<br />
the materials to<br />
clever results in<br />
in obtaining realH<br />
Witty happel<br />
the journal! But]<br />
their point when]<br />
of interest to eve<br />
the whole school,!<br />
and appreciate th|<br />
others than the<br />
<strong>The</strong> moral tone ol<br />
If each pupil<br />
representative- of f<br />
material. No pij<br />
tributed at least
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THE LOWELL<br />
not serve our school for ulterior ends. True devotion urges us to help those<br />
about us out of love cf service, not personal glory. <strong>The</strong> pupil who wishes<br />
to do staff work in order to have his name in the editorial column of his<br />
paper, the one who wants to sell <strong>Lowell</strong>s because jt^'lots of fun," he who is<br />
desirous of holding an office in order that his (picture will appear in the<br />
Annual, the one who will identify himself with a club to add one more item<br />
to his '"record"—that pupil is an undesirable citizen.<br />
If the ideals of James Russell <strong>Lowell</strong> were applied to our democracy,<br />
we should then have the true "<strong>Lowell</strong> spirit" in more ways than one. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
would then be no need for soliciting attendance at rallies and games, there<br />
would be no tardy class after school, nor would there be delegations sent to<br />
the study hall periodically. We should have faculty and student co-operation,'<br />
a higher standard of scholarship, and helpfulness one to another. This would<br />
be the spirit that would do things. Let us try. then, to cultivate the true<br />
"<strong>Lowell</strong> spirit" by applying the principles of democracy in our school.<br />
THE PLACE OF THE JOURNAL IN THE SCHOOL.<br />
A school paper should be the expression of the highest in the school. It<br />
>l)nul(l offer an opportunity for the best to be brought out of each pupil.<br />
Its standard of quality should be the means of judging the merit of the school.<br />
Since tlje journal is so purely representative of ihe life for which it<br />
stands, it should be kept up to the highest moral standards possible. <strong>The</strong><br />
essentials which mark a first class school paper are. first, a department in<br />
which the literary talent of the school may be developed, and. secondly, an<br />
absence of all personal gossip.<br />
l!y a literary department I mean the place in the journal for essays,,<br />
stories, verses, or any descriptive or expository articles of interest to-the<br />
readers. .Most journals select stories as the exclusive material for their<br />
literary departments. A story, if well-written, is indispensable to a good<br />
literarv section, but the printing of the ordinary high school production<br />
exclusively, tends to lower the standard of the paper. Essays and verses are<br />
the materials to be encouraged. Contests have brought forth some really<br />
clever results in their lines. <strong>The</strong> co-operation of the English department<br />
in obtaining really worthy literary matter is essential.<br />
Witty happenings in the class-rooms should always be recognized by<br />
the journal. But how often the sayings which seem so funny, in reality lose<br />
their point when written up for the joke column. Only matters which are<br />
of interest to every pupil should be recounted. Your "school notes" arc for<br />
the whole school, not for a few individuals who may understand their points<br />
and appreciate their humor. Personal gossip, which really has no interest to<br />
others than the parties concerned, should be consigned to the waste-basket.<br />
<strong>The</strong> moral tone of the paper is injured by the printing of such matters.<br />
If each pupil realized his obligation to help make the journal the true<br />
representative of the life of the school, there would be no more appeals for<br />
material. Xo pupil ijhonld graduate from his school without having contributed<br />
at least one article to his paper. ..<br />
I i<br />
O
THE•TORVM<br />
NOONTIME ENTERTAINMENT.<br />
A few weeks ago some of the girls of the upper classes thought it a<br />
gond idea to liave some sort of ]):istinic at noon for the girls who bring their<br />
lunches. <strong>The</strong> plan began first including only Freshmen girls, to make them<br />
better acquainted ami to make them feel at home. P.iU the tiny suggestion<br />
spread into an enormous scheme and met with universal favor. Xow every<br />
class is interested, and once a week, on Wednesday noon, a program will be<br />
presented, one class having charge of the entertainment for one week and<br />
another class for the next week, and so on.<br />
It was.on November 1 that the introductory meeting was held in Room<br />
14 to submit the plan io the entire group of girls. <strong>The</strong> meeting was so successful,<br />
more than one hundred girls being present, that the girls could<br />
hardly wait for the first program to be presented. Each girl entered into<br />
the spirit of the movement with the proper vim. many clever suggestions<br />
were given, which will greatly help to make these noontime entertainments<br />
pleasant.<br />
Shall we call these Wednesdays days at home? For in many ways<br />
they are. All your friends are present, and you all together enjoy a delightful<br />
hail hour. Your hostesses entertain you. and in return you receive,<br />
them at your day at home. So, then, the low Senior girls were your hostesses<br />
on Wednesday. November 8. <strong>The</strong>y were indeed glad to welcome so<br />
many guests, for it is always more pleasing to have a large, jolly company,<br />
isn't it? It was little expected that the sixty chairs in Room 22 would be<br />
occupied, but lo! twice as many more might have been well used. <strong>The</strong><br />
program consisted of a piano solo by Camella Cole, a reading by Selma<br />
Geballe. a musical number by a trio of the Low 4 Class, composed of Miss<br />
Rowen, Miss Svenberg and Miss Wales; a clog dance by Mfss Barrieau,<br />
and a reading by Doris McLoughlin.<br />
Next Wednesday the High Three Class will have its day al home, and<br />
already every one is anxious to visit Room 22 again. <strong>The</strong> suspense of the<br />
program is arousing a keen interest in the girls, and before long, no doubt,<br />
the classes will be vicing with one anothei to produce the greatest amount<br />
of talent.<br />
It is not because the girls are considered lonely, nor lacking in resources,<br />
MSlifc<br />
that this" moy<<br />
daily routing c<br />
study, ~.tb:«>nuik<br />
closer tie of sc<br />
We only<br />
plan may be w<br />
years.<br />
Within th<br />
to deal with t<br />
if found and i<br />
of any value,<br />
So not k<br />
Affairs Corrm<br />
lost book, fot<br />
to the depths<br />
crowded buile<br />
worked out at<br />
A comma<br />
all articles foil<br />
where all sucj<br />
During the J<br />
mittee will bd<br />
sufficiently id<br />
kept for a c<<br />
they will be<br />
hands of the<br />
at future tin<br />
suitable uses<br />
But in t<br />
the school,<br />
carry out th<<br />
1. Cleat<br />
and if it is lj<br />
collector of t<br />
2. On a<br />
identification<br />
page but oni<br />
3. And<br />
lender be."<br />
of time and<br />
Committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> edi<br />
edition. Th<br />
ing are grea
THE LOWELL<br />
that this movement has been started, but to relieve" the monotony of the<br />
daily routine of work. It is to make school life something more than mere<br />
studv, to make it pleasant and cheerful and to bring all ihc girls into a<br />
closer tie of school sympathy and friendship.<br />
We only hope that, since it has met with such success at present, this<br />
pla-i may be worthy to live among the girls at <strong>Lowell</strong> throughout the coming<br />
vcars. MYRTLE FRAXZGX, '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
THE LOST AND FOUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Within the last two weeks a committee has been organized in the school<br />
ti. deal with the matter of lost and found articles. In the past, lost articles,<br />
if f.iiind and unclaimed, have been put on shelves around the building, or if<br />
MI' any value, have been taken to Mr. Morton's office.<br />
So not long ago the question came up. in a meeting of the Students'<br />
Affairs Committee, whether some method might not be found whereby the<br />
lot book, fountain pen. etc.. should be returned to its owner or consigned<br />
tn the depths of the ash can without delay or cluttering up our already<br />
crowded building. With the help of Mr. Rhodes, such a scheme has been<br />
w.irked out and will be carried inio effect immediately.<br />
A committee of five persons has been appointed, with full control over<br />
all articles found on the premises. A small room has been built in the yard<br />
where all such articles may be placed, awaiting application and identification.<br />
During the time between <strong>12</strong>:30 and 1 o'clock, some member of the committee<br />
will be in charge of that room to hear applications and to return afl<br />
sufficiently identified articles. All things turned into the storeroom will be<br />
kept for a certain length of time, probably about two weeks, after which<br />
they will be disposed of in various ways. Should any books come into the<br />
hands of the committee and be unclaimed, they will be kept and given out<br />
at future times to pupils needing them. An effort will be made to find<br />
suitable uses about the school for all unidentified property.<br />
P.ut in these matters we must have the co-operation of you people in<br />
the school. If you would help to have a clean building, begin at once to<br />
carrv out these simple rules:<br />
'l Clean out your desks of every single thing not belonging to you.<br />
and if it is borrowed, return that thing to its owner or turn it over to the<br />
collector of the committee, who will come to your room each noontime.<br />
' On all your own books, fountain pens. etc.. place your name or some<br />
identification mark. In books, put your name in ink not only on the iront<br />
pa^e but on pa-c 33. This will save r. lot of trouble over lost front pages.<br />
151 3 And lastlv. remember the quotation. "Neither a borrower nor a<br />
lender be." Trv to have and to keep your own things. It will be a saving<br />
of time and effort to yourselves, your friends and to the Lost and Found<br />
~ . CORIXXE CROXISE. <strong>12</strong>.<br />
Committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> editor wishes to thank Miss Duffy for her kind interest in this<br />
edition. <strong>The</strong> efforts of the girls who assisted in making this paper interesting<br />
are greatly appreciated.
16 THE LOWELL<br />
Items of Interest<br />
CONCERT THIS AFTERNOON.<br />
At 3:15 this afternoon be sure to have your tickets ready for the concert<br />
given by the orchestra in the Hall. .An excellent program is promised<br />
and it is hoped you will all attend, as this organization needs your support.<br />
Something new is promised for this week. As there has always been<br />
such a demand for the posters which advertise the ''Girls' Edition." an auction<br />
has been suggested. <strong>The</strong>n every one will have a chance to bid upon a<br />
poster for his room. It is hoped that if the Executive Committee authorize<br />
this sale, it will be heartily supported by the students. <strong>The</strong> proceeds will<br />
go to Tin-: Lowiiix.<br />
<strong>The</strong> front of our school building has heretofore been sadly devoid of<br />
U'.coration. Perhaps the Mission football team realized this when they so considerately<br />
supplied the need.<br />
One of our sister papers has an enterprising editor. He congratulates<br />
his fellow students in his editorial upon divorce reforms which a European<br />
country has adopted, lie at least realized the necessity of having the high<br />
school paper's editorials reach over a broader field.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> has had the reputation for prodigies. Perhaps the most remarkable<br />
specimen is the pupil who became a French teacher at U. C. within three months<br />
after leaving the shelter f her friendly walls. This is not meant to be a panegyric<br />
to an ex-student, but brains should receive due tribute wherever found.<br />
Will Xcwbauer certainly deserves praise for his progress at the University.<br />
Nominations for L. H. S. S. A. officers were held on Thursday the 9th at<br />
3 o'clock. <strong>The</strong> elections will probably be a week from Tuesday.<br />
A railroad president once was going over his line, and at ~ station got<br />
off to take a walk. He came up to a place where an old Irishman was hammering<br />
the wheels of the private car for flaws. <strong>The</strong> president said. "Well,<br />
Pat. how are the wheels?"<br />
"Rotten." said Pat.<br />
"Mow do you like the car?"<br />
"It's like the wheels."<br />
"How do you like the engine?"<br />
"It's like the car."<br />
This exasperated the president and, drawing himself up. he said, "Do<br />
you know who I am?"<br />
"Yes, I do." said Pat. '"you're Mr. Blank. And say. I knew your father,<br />
too, and he's going to be president of this road again."<br />
"How's that?" said Blank, "he's dead."<br />
"I know it, and this whole blamed railroad is going to "<br />
It was ce<br />
afternoon, No<br />
mense audiem<br />
rooting sectio<br />
history of<br />
developed son<br />
saw those goq<br />
until Presiden<br />
one it was, toe<br />
On Wedii<br />
was organized<br />
Hand addressij<br />
committee wa<br />
and Jones, to<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchej<br />
cert in the hall<br />
will participate<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mandl<br />
the Executive<br />
of December.<br />
Preparatio<br />
dance. <strong>The</strong> c<<br />
cember 22 as tl<br />
as yet the final<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lowel<br />
<strong>The</strong> score- was<br />
clearly revealed<br />
<strong>The</strong> Juniot<br />
near future. 1<br />
since they have<br />
At the mee<br />
Mr. Fest, as rcl<br />
bers. It was a]<br />
two seconds wl
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It was certainly a monster "rally" that was held in the hall on Friday<br />
aiii.-rnMi.iii. November 3, <strong>1911</strong>. Monster in every way. <strong>The</strong>re was an imnlonso<br />
audience who took a keen interest in all that was going on, and the<br />
r• >tinii" section has never been better. That rally was a feature in the<br />
history f <strong>Lowell</strong> High School, since it cut away from strict rules and<br />
ilovolnped something novel. From the very time we entered the hall and<br />
-,iw tliMse good old red and white colors hung over the doors and windows.<br />
until President Smith asked for a good '"Ec Rah! Rah!" (what a splendid<br />
• >iK- it was. too!) to close the rally, wasn't everybody enjoying himself?<br />
( in Wednesday afternoon, November 8, the Sophomore class, June "14,<br />
wa> organized. In the absence of Mr. Smith, Mr. Murdock presided. Miss<br />
Hand addressed the class and urged them to be a model organization. A<br />
committee was then appointed, consisting of Miss Volkman. Messrs. Furth<br />
and Jones, to draw up a constitution.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra of the school has been granted permission to give a concert<br />
in the hall on November 17. It is rumored that the Boys" Glee Club<br />
will participate and that a fine program has been prepared.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Mandolin Club of the University of California has been invited by<br />
the Executive Committee to give a concert at <strong>Lowell</strong> during the early part<br />
of December.<br />
Preparations are being made by the mighty Seniors lor their Senior<br />
dance. <strong>The</strong> committee has selected the St. Francis as the place and December<br />
22 as the time. A program is also being planned for Senior Day. but<br />
as yet the final arrangements have not been completed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong>-Mission Rugby game was played on Saturday, November 4.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sere was 35 to 4 in favor of Mission. Hut Mission's character was<br />
clearly revealed when she defaced the public sidewalk with offensive writing.<br />
<strong>The</strong> luniors. June '13. are preparing to give a dance some time in the<br />
near future. <strong>The</strong>y are quite energetic, this will have been the second dance<br />
since they have been organized.<br />
At the meeting of the Executive Committee on Thursday. November 9,<br />
Mr. Fest. as representative of the Camera Club, took a picture of the members.<br />
It was almost impossible to retain the graceful positions for twentytwo<br />
seconds which were at first assumed.<br />
; I
READING CLUB.<br />
<strong>The</strong> meetings of tlic Reading Club, both on the 1st and 8th of N'ovcmber,<br />
were verv interesting;'. <strong>The</strong> stage manager cliosc liis selection on both days with<br />
skill. <strong>The</strong> first program consisted of selections from Kudyard Kipling. Rider<br />
I laggard and Richard I larding Davis. <strong>The</strong> program was entitled "A Day With<br />
the Animals." On the 8th the title for the afternoon was "A Day in the South<br />
Seas." and short stories were rendered from Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Gilbert<br />
1'arker. and attain Rudyard Kipling. On both days the attendance was smaller<br />
than at some of the previous meetings. It is hoped, however, that the meeting<br />
n the 15th. when "<strong>The</strong> Great Divide" will be presented, will be well attended.<br />
1'reparations are under way for the final play of the term. <strong>The</strong> plans arc<br />
not yet complete, but they will be announced in due time.<br />
DEBATING SOCIETY.<br />
On November 10. Mr. Rogers gave a lecture to the society, the subject<br />
being "<strong>The</strong> Art of Debating in All Its Phases/' This proved to be both<br />
interesting and instructive.<br />
This afternoon there will be no meeting on account of the orchestra<br />
concert.<br />
O'.i November 24 there will be the debate, open to all Freshmen and<br />
Sophomores, for the Frank Xieto memorial cup. <strong>The</strong> question is "A Greater<br />
San Francisco."'<br />
<strong>The</strong> l!ig Team chosen some weeks ago was scheduled to debate Mission<br />
High,,but that school has defaulted.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are icw girls' names on the roll of the society, and, since this is<br />
a "Girls' LOWKI.I.." the opportunity is taken to urge more girls to join.<br />
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls have been rehearsing with great interest for the concerts that will<br />
be given by the Girls' Glee Club toward the end of the term. On the 15th of<br />
December the girls have been invited to sing for the Seamen's Institute. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
mmm<br />
expect also tc<br />
good, but the<br />
upon all that i<br />
though t<br />
select, none th<br />
from Spanish<br />
there was a vc<br />
the last mceti<br />
an interesting<br />
bad that a gre<br />
programs, win<br />
the end of tin<br />
that time hanj<br />
repaid. I<br />
<strong>The</strong> orcl<br />
the Hall, whf<br />
at school. T<br />
ings for the<br />
afternoon wi<br />
orchestra the<br />
be enjoyed,<br />
composed by<br />
Wolf.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orcl;<br />
still in need <<br />
<strong>The</strong> Car<br />
equipment a:<br />
been carried<br />
<strong>The</strong> clut<br />
well attende<<br />
vember 18,<br />
upon the arf<br />
place last M<br />
most import!<br />
lectures pror<br />
wish to atter<br />
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expect also to give their school concert in a short while. <strong>The</strong> attendance is<br />
good, hut there are always a number of. girls who stay away and it is urged<br />
upon ;•.!! that tor the good of the club they must be at rehearsals.<br />
SPANISH CLUB.<br />
Tin .ugh the number that attend the Spanish Club faithfully is small and<br />
select, none the less the programs are most delightful. Two selections tranlated<br />
from Spanish were read at the meeting on the 31st of October. Resides these.<br />
there was a very beautiful,Spanish legend read called the "Emerald Eyes." At<br />
tin- !a-t meeting another story translated from the Spanish was rendered, also<br />
an ir.urc-tiug selection dealing with Spain from Washington Irving. It is too<br />
had ihat a greater number of people do not attend the meetings and listen to the<br />
pri'vjTam-. which are always of >*rcat inn-rest. Two plays arc to be given before<br />
tlu- i-ud
20 THE LOWELL<br />
BOYS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boys' Glee Club has been preparing some new songs for their concert<br />
to be given the Friday before school closes. Owing to the number of<br />
holidays which have fallen on Thursdays, the progress has not been as good<br />
as desired.<br />
Several numbers will be given by the club at the orchestra concert on<br />
the 17th.<br />
On Saturday evening. November 18, the club will sing at the San Francisco<br />
Settlement Association.<br />
CHESS CLUB.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chess Club has been holding meetings regularly, but the attendance<br />
is very small. More members are wanted for this club.<br />
A committee has been appointed to arrange for games with the chess<br />
team of Berkeley High.<br />
<strong>The</strong> other day in the L4 History section, the class was wading through<br />
the details of the election of 1824. First. Mr. Clark asked who the candidates<br />
for the presidency at that time were. Pctersen replied from the back<br />
of the room, "<strong>The</strong>y were Patrick Calhoun and ."<br />
"1 tell you 1 won't have this room." protested the old lady to the bellboy<br />
who was conducting her. "I ain't agoin' to pay my good money for a pigsty<br />
with a measly little foldin' bed in it. If you think that just because I'm from<br />
the country'"—<br />
Profoundly disgusted, the boy cut her short. "'Get in, mum. This ain't<br />
your room ; this is the elevator."—Ex.<br />
IN GREEK.<br />
Some One (reciting)—And Miltocythes, the Thracean-<br />
Miss H—d (from the back of the room, in an audible voice)—My. aren't<br />
you glad your name isn't Miltocythes?<br />
COPIED FROM BOARD IN ROOM 16.<br />
Triangle I and Triangle II are respectably equal to each other.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> pis<br />
Saturday, Novi<br />
rooters, who<br />
started with<br />
Mission's terrij<br />
three points tc<br />
converted, thijj<br />
Mission had<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> player:]<br />
prevent Missic<br />
sence of Captz<br />
handicapped.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys<br />
School on<br />
team is going j<br />
<strong>The</strong> team]<br />
to be able to<br />
A game<br />
will be playccj<br />
<strong>The</strong> tea;r<br />
Francisco, wlj<br />
Boys' ter<br />
ber of <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
up hope of<br />
school. Ttierl<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy|<br />
Park, and a
plaved and was deieated by the Mission Rugby players on<br />
Saturday. November 4. <strong>The</strong> game was .strongly supported by the <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
roi«t':rs. wh showed the team that the school was behind them. <strong>The</strong> game<br />
started with Marwcdel's kick-off. <strong>Lowell</strong> soon rushed the ball far into<br />
Missicni's territory and a successful kick from mark by Marwedel brought<br />
three pi lints to <strong>Lowell</strong>. After this Mission' soon secured a try, which was<br />
i-iinverted, this being soon followed by a field goal. From this time on<br />
Missiim had the better of the game, although <strong>Lowell</strong> fought hard. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> players kept up a sturdy fight for the game, but were unable to<br />
prevent Mission from winning the game at a score of 35-3. Owing to the absence<br />
dt Captain Heaeock and several other fine players. <strong>Lowell</strong> was greatly<br />
handicapped.<br />
BOYS' BASKETBALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys' basketball team has arranged a game with St. Helena High<br />
School on November 25. This game will be very enjoyable, as the <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
team is going to play on the St. Helena court.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team has sent a challenge to Redwood City High School and hope<br />
tn he able to arrange a game some time during this month.<br />
A game has been arranged with the San Mateo High School, which<br />
will be played Fridav evening. November 24. on the San Mateo court.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team wishes to play a game with the National Guard team of San<br />
Francisco, which will be played on the National Guard's court.<br />
BOYS' TENNIS.<br />
P.isvs" tennis is in a verv nourishing condition. Every day a large number<br />
of <strong>Lowell</strong>ites mav be seen practicing at Golden Gate Park. Do not give<br />
up hope of making the team because Johnston and Strachan are still at<br />
school. <strong>The</strong>re is plenty of opportunity to make the second team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> boys' tennis interclass will be heid Saturday, November 18 at the<br />
Park, and a large entry list is expected.<br />
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BASKETBALL.<br />
Although there h:ue been no games played within Ihe last two weeks,<br />
the few who come to practice have heen working hard, Much credit is due<br />
these girls. Lately at practice there have been scarcely enough players for<br />
two teams. This should not be so, considering 'he large number of girls<br />
in the school.<br />
Interclass will be held if enough will come out and try for their- class<br />
teams. <strong>The</strong> number of applicants now out from each class are few. <strong>The</strong><br />
Freshmen are the only ones who have a sufficient number to form a team.<br />
Try for your class team, girls! You doivt know the fun you are missing by<br />
not playing basketball. Every girl who cannot possibly come out for practice<br />
should at least support the school team at the games.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
<strong>The</strong> game to be played with Girls' High School on November 4 was<br />
postponed, but will be played in the near future. A challenge was received<br />
from Lick, which the girls have accepted. Good luck to you, girls!<br />
In this term's interclass those who played were:<br />
Seniors—Deborah Newman and Beatrice Gawne.<br />
Juniors—Myrtle Fitschen and Leslie T.'nderhill.<br />
Sophomores—Eleanor Durbrow and Robina Henry.<br />
Freshmen—Alice Hopps and Beatrice Downing.<br />
"Why don't y<br />
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"Ain't got no I<br />
"Why don't yt<br />
"He ain't got<br />
"No brush? A<br />
"Ain't got no<br />
Cheney—What<br />
Young Lady—•<br />
Teacher—How<br />
"I don't know.<br />
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Chem. Teacher<br />
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"Why don't you brush your hair?"' asked a man of the boy with the<br />
frowsy hair.<br />
"Ain't got no brush.''<br />
"Why don't you use your father's brush?"<br />
"He ain't got no brush."<br />
"Xei brush? Why hasn't lie a brush?"<br />
"Ain't got no hair."—Ex.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a young girl named OXeill<br />
Who went up in a great Ferris wheel,<br />
But when half way around<br />
She looked at the ground<br />
And it cost her an eighty-cent meal.<br />
IN THE STUDY HALL.<br />
Cheney—What is so funny?<br />
Voting Lady—Oh, I was just thinking.<br />
Teacher—Mow many ribs have you Johnnie?<br />
"I don't know, ma'am," gurgled Johnnie, "I am so awful ticklish I never<br />
cmild count 'urn."—Ex.<br />
sir.<br />
t'liem. Teacher—Well, how did that experiment come out?<br />
I'upil (holding broken test-tube in his hand)—It all came out of this end,<br />
Pat—You say if I use one of those patent dampers, I save half me coal?<br />
Agent—Exactly, sir, exactly.<br />
Pat—Begobs, I'll take two.<br />
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24 THE LOWELL<br />
•'.-•. ••-'••:: ^W^^Mr<br />
Teacher—You shouldn't laugh aloud in class. ^-; ;-,<br />
Freshie—I didn't mean to. I was smiling when all of a sudden the smile ^<br />
busted. -.; • '<br />
• "" IN GREEK. "•':•'• :<br />
K-cy Cr-s-l-y (translating)—Xenophon came marching up on horseback;<br />
Mr. Tu-cr—He was sort of a circus rider, then?<br />
A teacher in a primary class asked her pupils to write a composition on<br />
the cow. A little fellow labored steadily for several minutes and finally produced<br />
the following:<br />
•'All cows give milk except Bull Durhams and they give tobacco.'<br />
A tutor who tooted the flute.<br />
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot;<br />
Said the two to the tutor.<br />
"Is it harder to toot or<br />
To tutor two tutors to toot?"<br />
Bobby had been very naughty. <strong>The</strong> teacher look him aside and they<br />
had a heart-to-heart talk. Bobby sat still, looking at her intently, deeply<br />
interested. <strong>The</strong> teacher believed that her sermon was making a great impression,<br />
for he seemed positively fascinated by the line of argument. Just<br />
as the teacher reached the climax in her appeal to his better self, a light of<br />
discovery broke over the boy's face.<br />
•'Say, teacher," he said eagerly, "it's your lower jaw that moves, ain't it?'<br />
IN SPANISH.<br />
T-d—y S-h-c-t-a translating—I will go on a horse more spirited than my<br />
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IN HISTORY.<br />
F. R-s-n-h-1—"Paradise Lost" is the story of men before Adam.<br />
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TWELFTH YEAR<br />
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J. O'CONNOR. Principal.<br />
DR. WM. A. MARTIN<br />
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San Francisco<br />
San Francisco, July 15. 1909.<br />
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Vol. XIV. J<br />
ELECT!<br />
<strong>The</strong> election ,<br />
2Sth. expressed<br />
in the choice o<br />
Several close co<br />
some of the resn<br />
wish the best of<br />
ficials and we hq<br />
tray the trust pla<br />
follow, more as<br />
record than of<br />
President, Arr<br />
President, Miss<br />
Secretary, Lynif<br />
Assistant Treas<br />
Schaertzer, '<strong>12</strong>;)<br />
urer. Russell Be<br />
Treasurer, Lynn<br />
ron Jackson, Jr.<br />
Rep., Miss Flor<br />
Glee Club Rep., J<br />
ish Club Rep., Lc<br />
Society Rep., M<br />
Reading Club Re<br />
gles. "13; Track<br />
"13; Rugby Man<br />
Swimming Mana<br />
Girls' Basketball<br />
McCIoughry, '13,<br />
dent Affairs' Cori<br />
I'ert Thomas, Lyr<br />
Piper.<br />
WORDS FROM<br />
. <strong>The</strong> editpr-ele<br />
had the opportui<br />
thanks and'icieas<br />
ing his predece<br />
there was np.iss
ELECTION RETURNS.<br />
Tlie election of Tuesday,. November<br />
2cStli. expressed the will of the majority<br />
in the choice of next term's officers.<br />
Several close contests were decided, and<br />
sonic of the results were surprising'. We<br />
wish the best of success to the new officials<br />
and we hope that not one will betray<br />
the trust placed in him. <strong>The</strong> results<br />
follow, more as a matter of permanent<br />
record than of information:<br />
President. Arnold" Bowhay, '<strong>12</strong>: Vice-<br />
President. Miss Myrtle Franzen, '<strong>12</strong>;<br />
Secretary. Lyiiian Heacock, '<strong>12</strong>; First<br />
Assistant Treasurer, Miss <strong>The</strong>odora<br />
Schacrtzer. '<strong>12</strong>; Second Assistant Treasurer.<br />
Russell Bell. '<strong>12</strong>: Third Assistant<br />
Treasurer. Lynn Ward. '<strong>12</strong>; Editor, Byron<br />
Jackson. Jr.. "<strong>12</strong>: Girls' Glee Club<br />
Kep.. Miss Florence Piper,''<strong>12</strong>; Boys'<br />
Glee Club Rep.. Joseph Meyer. '13 ; Spaniel<br />
Club Rep., Leo Simon. '<strong>12</strong>: Debating<br />
Society Rep.. Miss Edith Griffin. '<strong>12</strong>;<br />
Reading Club Rep.. Miss Elizabeth Rugjrles.<br />
'13; Track Manager. Oliver Field.<br />
Mo: Rugby Manager, Paul Tissot, '13;<br />
Swimming Manager. Hyde Lewis. '14:<br />
Girls' Basketball Manager, Miss Martha<br />
McCIoughry, '13: Members of the Student<br />
Affairs' Committee, Sanford Stien,<br />
Bert Thrnias, Lynn Ward, Miss Florence<br />
Piper.<br />
WORDS FROM THE EDITOR-TO-<br />
BE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> editor-elect hp.s not heretofore<br />
had the opportunity of expressing- his<br />
thanks and ideas in THE LOWELL during<br />
his predecessor's term because<br />
there was no. issue after the election<br />
SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 5, 1311.<br />
except the annual, the material for<br />
which was complete. This year, however,<br />
owing to the bi-weekly edition,<br />
that opportunity is presented. I want<br />
to thank the voters most heartily and<br />
hope to prove that their confidence<br />
was not misplaced.<br />
<strong>The</strong> great hue and cry of every editor<br />
has been, "more material." Here<br />
is the chance to make that cry beforehand<br />
and have the material. During<br />
this Christmas vacation you will liave<br />
plenty of time to write a short article<br />
describing some trip, some humorous<br />
incident, some sport or anything that<br />
interests you. <strong>The</strong> holiday season is a<br />
great time for insp : rations. Try it!<br />
Give your editor a stock from which<br />
he may choose! It often happens that<br />
he is criticized .for his selections, when<br />
he has printed everything written, in<br />
a desperate effort to fill up space.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is another way in which we<br />
may help our sciioo! paper this Christmas.<br />
.Since our -Jvertising rates and<br />
financial success depead on our circulation,<br />
we should make a gteat effort<br />
to increase it. We all know some old<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>ite or friend who would gladly<br />
subscribe for THE LOWELL at 75 cents<br />
a term if he only knew how to get it.<br />
Although nothing definite has been<br />
done about this matter as yet, some<br />
subscription tickets will probably be<br />
distributed before the end of the term<br />
which will entitle the purchaser to a<br />
six months' subscription by mail.<br />
When these tickets are issued it is the<br />
duty of everybody to take at least two<br />
and make some effort to sell them in<br />
vacation. BYROX JACKSO.V, JR., '<strong>12</strong>.
THE LOWELL<br />
'<strong>The</strong> Editor asked me'tbVpresent'some<br />
figures of this term's finances of.THE<br />
LOWELL. I take. it to mean that the<br />
Editor believes that figures give proof,<br />
and that from these proofs you may<br />
judge for yourselves, whether or not the<br />
present system of THE LOWELL is to be<br />
considered a success or a failure. If<br />
success has crowned our efforts, if fortune<br />
has smiled upon us, then should our<br />
idea of THE LOWELL be continued; but<br />
if, on the other hand, failure has branded<br />
us and unkind fortune marked us as<br />
failures, then let us return to the old<br />
style of publication until some better<br />
system is worked out.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re has been but little difference in<br />
the cost of the two LOWELLS. AS a matter<br />
of advertising, our enterprise found<br />
greater favor among the merchants,<br />
whereas, we were able to give them<br />
twice the amount of advertising for the<br />
cost of a single *'ad" of last term.<br />
<strong>The</strong> monthly profits have often surpassed<br />
our fondest hopes and expectations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> net profit for the first two<br />
editions was $76.70. <strong>The</strong> second month,<br />
generally one of reaction and loss in<br />
profit, did not affect us with nearly the<br />
force that it struck my predecessor of<br />
one year whose advertising fell to a meager<br />
four pages. Our gain for these two<br />
issues was $48.50. To start the Girls'<br />
Edition after the third month, we were<br />
able to boast of a balance of $180.85.<br />
<strong>The</strong> regular edition of November 3 and<br />
the Girls' Edition taken together brought<br />
our purse up many dollars and we can<br />
proudly start our work on the Annual<br />
with a balance of $257.47.<br />
<strong>The</strong> facts and figures are yours for<br />
approval. Decide for yourselves, has it<br />
been success—r.or failure?<br />
DAVID WOLF, '<strong>12</strong>, .<br />
Business Manager.<br />
' •••-• -'is-<br />
REGARDING!,. IJH^&^J & DUES.<br />
I believe.our experience during,the<br />
past term has shovyn that it is for the<br />
general good to .have.; the dues.paid up<br />
at the beginning of^each term. /This<br />
will help everybody concerned. In<br />
the first place it increases' the total influx<br />
of dues. <strong>The</strong> total this term has<br />
already passed the $420.00 mark. This<br />
is a decided increase over past terms.<br />
<strong>The</strong> reason for this increase is that<br />
several of the collectors worked hard<br />
to have the members pay up their dues<br />
at the beginning of the term. In one<br />
case an entire class paid up for the<br />
term. In the second place it makes the<br />
work easier for the collectors, and the<br />
members are not continually bothered<br />
during the term about their dues.<br />
Members of L. H. S. S. A. take heed!<br />
Pay your dues up at the beginning of<br />
each term, thereby saving yourself annoyance<br />
and benefiting the school at<br />
the same time.<br />
ARNOLD' BOWHAY,<br />
1st Asst. Treasurer.<br />
THE POSTER AUCTION.<br />
A novel digression from the usual<br />
disposition of Girls' Edition posters<br />
took place when they were auctioned<br />
off after the Orchestra concert in the<br />
ball. Instead of the favored few obtaining<br />
the posters, every pupil was<br />
given, a chance to bid for one for his<br />
room. <strong>The</strong>spirit with which the auction<br />
was received was shown by the<br />
prices paid. Did you ever know of<br />
•<strong>Lowell</strong> not receiving something, new<br />
wUh enthusiasm? .Dayid Wolf:and<br />
Robert M. Underhill. alternated as,auctioneers.<br />
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ROBT.MJiUNIL<br />
WM.LRAINEYJ<br />
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VINCENT-MI<br />
BYRON>jAeii<br />
JAMES RANS(<br />
ELIZABETH<br />
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ROY.VAN^VE:<br />
CORINNE^CR<br />
GARTJWB'OEJ<br />
ELMER^WISE<br />
ERNESTSMI'<br />
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DAVID WOtl<br />
SANFORD'/vST<br />
B. ARENDTi'l<br />
•THEOI<br />
We must-.c(<br />
girls on'• their.<br />
We are mfafpc<br />
ficulties^surrpi<br />
especially. ,£wh<<br />
only two'weel<br />
management<br />
the auctiorijof<br />
a neat profit';<br />
the paper was<br />
larly. intere.ste<br />
settled*a-ques<br />
u pm os t^in.jni r<br />
PlacedQ||3<br />
it decidi|(i|||a<br />
paper|inyst|b<br />
of literati!<br />
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strdng1y3§
THE LOWELL<br />
A bi-weekly issued by the students of the<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
Editorial Staff.<br />
OSGOOD MURDOCK, '11 Editor<br />
ROBT. M. UNDERHILL, '11....Associate<br />
WM. RAINEY, '<strong>12</strong> Organizations<br />
AILEEN HAND, '<strong>12</strong>........Organizations<br />
VINCENT MEAD, '11 School Notes<br />
BYRON JACKSON, '<strong>12</strong> School Notes<br />
TAMES RANSOHOFF, '11 Athletics<br />
ELIZABETH RUGGLES, '13.. ..Athletics<br />
ROY VAN VLIET, '<strong>12</strong> Jokes<br />
CORINNE CRONISE, '<strong>12</strong>..... Jokes<br />
GARTH BOERICKE, '<strong>12</strong> Exchanges<br />
ELMER WISE. '<strong>12</strong> Artist<br />
ERNEST SMITH, '11 Artist<br />
Business Staff.<br />
D-WID WOLF. '<strong>12</strong> Business Manager<br />
SANFORD STEIN, '<strong>12</strong> Associate<br />
B. ARENDT,'13<br />
T.YNN WARD, '<strong>12</strong><br />
THEODORA SCHAERTZER/<strong>12</strong><br />
We must certainly congratulate the<br />
skirls on their issue of THE LOWELL.<br />
We are in a position to know what difficulties<br />
surround the issue of a paper,<br />
especially when there has been one<br />
only two weeks before. <strong>The</strong> business<br />
management was admirable, even to<br />
the auction of the posters which netted<br />
a neat profit. <strong>The</strong> literary standard of<br />
die paper was high. We were particularly<br />
interested in an editorial which<br />
settled a question that has long been<br />
upmost in mind. It was headed "<strong>The</strong><br />
Place of the High School Paper" and<br />
it decided that the mission of the said<br />
paper must be to set a high standard<br />
of literature and dignity. <strong>The</strong> statement<br />
is made that the personal element<br />
must not enter and that only matter<br />
of interest to all must be included.<br />
<strong>The</strong> present male editor feels very<br />
strongly on this point.-"'It would: indeed<br />
^e a' task to find sixteen pages<br />
during a whole term that would, interest<br />
everybody: But to issue thirty-two<br />
pages a month of absolute general" interest<br />
Would be a task for the immortals.<br />
•<br />
We are too apt to consider that our<br />
own interest is the general interest,<br />
and that what does not interest us is<br />
uninteresting to everybody. It is im-'<br />
possible to conceive of a publication in<br />
the world that would interest everybody.<br />
That is why there are so many<br />
publications. And so in our world at<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>. We cannot have many papers,<br />
but we can so compose the one paper,<br />
not so that the whole will interest everybody,<br />
but so that everybody will be<br />
interested in some part. This seems a<br />
far broader, more unselfish principle<br />
and aim.<br />
And then the old question of persona!<br />
reference. THE LOWELL is the organ<br />
of the Students' Association. <strong>The</strong> Ed-<br />
. itor and Manager are elected under the<br />
auspices of the Association and they<br />
are responsible to it. Of course we<br />
should publish the best literary material<br />
available. <strong>Lowell</strong> is essentially<br />
an academic high school. Its paper<br />
should prove this. But should not the<br />
highest aim of the editor be to co-operate<br />
with and advance the interests of<br />
the Students' Association that elected<br />
him? We spend thirty periods a week<br />
pursuing higher education. Can we not<br />
well afford to devote a part of our paper<br />
to becoming better acquainted and<br />
more intimate with each other. A<br />
"Nation" or an "Outlook" can appeal<br />
to a few thousand people in a country<br />
of millions, but in a local community<br />
where there is' but one local : paper, to<br />
accomplish''the'-greatest good and se-<br />
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THEv LOWELL<br />
cure the highest success, its '-ideals -<br />
should be but a little^tiighei- -tfiarf- the<br />
ideals of thie majority;'ot,the peopM in .<br />
the community/ not higher than the<br />
standard of the few best people there.<br />
And so at <strong>Lowell</strong>. We must make our<br />
paper appeal to and satisfy the most<br />
people, rather than the few best people.<br />
Settled on the end at which we are<br />
aiming, we may consider the method to<br />
accomplish it. <strong>The</strong> present editor<br />
feels that only l>y a considerate and<br />
careful use of this personal material<br />
can the paper be truly alive and influential.<br />
<strong>The</strong> dignity of the publication<br />
should never be forgotten; but the<br />
more admirable form of dignity would<br />
seem to be the command of respect<br />
and interest rather than solemnity of<br />
demeanor.<br />
And finally. Let us stand for progress.<br />
THE LOWELL in its monthly form<br />
had reached the limit of development.<br />
It had become an expensive, mechanically<br />
beautiful paper. This term we<br />
have perhaps gone to the other extreme.<br />
We would recommend to the<br />
next editor that he include a cover with<br />
a permanent design, printed perhaps<br />
in different colors from month to<br />
month. This would give him twenty<br />
pages every two weeks. We suggest<br />
that he arrange with the English Department<br />
so that students would receive<br />
English credit for contributions<br />
to ,THE LOWELL. Also-.that• thg^field-• of'•[<br />
tschoolVactivitybe';sp^ assigned to the<br />
stafi^tHait the-editpr's-wbrk:be^ntirely<br />
elimtnative, never constructive/;'"'"•',• ••;'-;<br />
To do this the income will have to<br />
be increased. <strong>The</strong> sales at school<br />
should be at least five hundred every<br />
issue. Besides' this the subscription<br />
list should be built tip to two hundred<br />
at least. This would make the advertising<br />
value greater and it would increase<br />
the influence and prestige of the<br />
paper itself.<br />
Let us all get behind the editor next<br />
term. Instead of opposing whatever<br />
course he chooses, let us unite to help<br />
him on the positive side and to aid<br />
him with our own work and ideas.<br />
And let us all remember that the editor<br />
is but mortal.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re appeared in the Girls' Edition<br />
a certain little tale signed by a student<br />
yet translated directly from the Span-,<br />
ish. This is almost a criminal offense.<br />
<strong>The</strong> one thing worse than contributing<br />
nothing is to take credit for some piece<br />
that you do not deserve. If you have<br />
translated a piece sa}' so and give the<br />
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a piece, be sure to make the fact apparent.<br />
<strong>The</strong> editor cannot watch such<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Block L Rally was held "in the<br />
hall On Friday; November 24th. ' A<br />
fine crowd was on hand and the auditorium<br />
was specially decorated. Among<br />
the speakers were President Smith,.<br />
Geo. Montgomery, Amy Heacock, Russell<br />
Bell and Arnold Bowhay. <strong>The</strong><br />
feature of the day was a musical number<br />
by the "Cannibal Trio," consisting<br />
of Chet Ferguson, Cap. Potter and<br />
Clayton Dinmore. <strong>The</strong>y were there!<br />
L's were bestowed upon the seven<br />
members of the victorious swimming<br />
team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Executive Committee recently<br />
awarded Robert Underhill a rising<br />
vote of thanks for so successfully managing<br />
the football team. He did not<br />
use his entire allowance for expenses<br />
and he managed to turn $90.00 profit<br />
into the treasury, which was far above<br />
the estimated income.<br />
<strong>The</strong> enterprising Class of Juno '13<br />
are to give a dance on December 16th.<br />
Harold Black is chairman of the committee.<br />
Nominations for class officers<br />
were recently held. Messrs. Livingston<br />
and Sommer are aspirants for the<br />
presidency, and the Misses Rawles and<br />
ISoeskcri long to be vice-president.<br />
<strong>The</strong> election was capabiy handled by<br />
a board consisting of Messrs. Smith,<br />
Mead, Ransohoff, Olsen, Hirschfelder<br />
m:^rW^:r; : :;-<br />
-fere4r-<br />
and tJnderhill: <strong>The</strong>ii<br />
ranged so that eaci<br />
was 'firs,t on half of the ballots; | A ,pTan<br />
is now on foot tohold a primary elec- v<br />
tion to determine the candidates next<br />
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<strong>The</strong> June'14 Classes now completely<br />
organized. Officers were elected recently,<br />
Orel Goldaracena being the<br />
president. <strong>The</strong> members of thisclass<br />
have shown a good spirit throughout<br />
the whole organization.<br />
Two members of the faculty, Mr.<br />
Morton and Miss Cronise have been<br />
the victims of slight illness during the<br />
last few weeks. We were all glad to<br />
see them back afterwards. This is<br />
quite the proper time for colds.<br />
We notice that both Mission and.<br />
Commercial now have sessions so arranged<br />
that school begins in the morning<br />
about 8:30 and is over by 1:00<br />
o'clock. This arrangement would certainly<br />
be welcome at <strong>Lowell</strong>. It would<br />
make a less tiresome school day and it<br />
would give many of us a chance to<br />
augment our incomes.<br />
A committee from the High Senior<br />
Class is now working on plans for<br />
graduation exercises on Senior Day.<br />
<strong>The</strong> committee consists of Miss Durbrow,<br />
Bernhardt Fest and Osgood<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Reading Club, has been very enterprising<br />
this term. It has given three<br />
plays, and hopes to present a fourth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last one, "<strong>The</strong> Great Divide," although<br />
a rather difficult undertaking<br />
for a high school, came off successfully.<br />
It lost greatly by having none of<br />
the beautiful scenic properties which<br />
go so far to make a play of this kind<br />
a success.<br />
As a whole, this term the Reading<br />
Club has been very successful. <strong>The</strong><br />
reading programs throughout have<br />
shown care in their selection, and the<br />
- plays have been, for the most part, very,<br />
good. But why is it that only about<br />
one-third of the members show up during<br />
the meeting when no play is to be<br />
presented? <strong>The</strong> object of the organization<br />
is to instill a love for good literature<br />
in the minds of the members, not<br />
for amusement by producing a play<br />
which has no real literary merit in itself.<br />
Let us hope that next term the<br />
members will regard the Reading Club<br />
in a more serious light, and come prepared<br />
to appreciate good literature.<br />
Spanish Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> play "La Independencia" has<br />
been given in the last meetings.. <strong>The</strong><br />
play is a good one and could be given<br />
successfully if those in the cast would<br />
make more of an effort to be present<br />
at rehearsals. An amusing play "Los<br />
Solteronas," is being prepared for the<br />
end of the term.<br />
It is to be hoped that next term some<br />
new material will come into the,club.<br />
Also, that chemistry, and physics will, .<br />
not interfere with the attendance. .<br />
<strong>The</strong> last few meetings of the Girls'<br />
Glee Club have been devoted to rehearsals<br />
for the concert. Most of the<br />
girls have done faithful work this term<br />
in preparing for the concert. Praise is<br />
due to those who come regularly every<br />
week in order to do something for the<br />
school. <strong>The</strong> preparation put upon the<br />
program deserved a larger attendance<br />
at the concert. <strong>The</strong> hall was comfortably<br />
filled last Monday when the<br />
concert was held. Conscientious work<br />
during the term certainly was repaid<br />
for the singing was very fine. <strong>Lowell</strong>'s<br />
enterprising orchestra was on hand,<br />
and agreeably surprised everybody<br />
with a fine new piece. .<br />
. <strong>The</strong> Debating Society held the Nieto<br />
Memorial Debate on December 24th.<br />
Messrs. Harris, Kaufman, Herrington<br />
and Shapiro discussed the project of a<br />
Greater San Francisco. <strong>The</strong> judges..<br />
Miss Cronise, Adolph Postel and Bert<br />
Rabinowitz awarded the cup to Mr.<br />
Harris.<br />
(Continued on Page 8, Column 1.)<br />
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Some of the people dance some of the<br />
time; some of the people dance all of<br />
the time. It is said where Merzbach's<br />
Orchestra plays, all of the people<br />
Miss Marion B. White's<br />
Dancing Classes<br />
will re-open'<br />
SEPTEMBER 15th<br />
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dance all of the time.<br />
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We cannot say too many things' in<br />
favor of the Lost and Found Committee.<br />
<strong>The</strong> members have worked hard<br />
and have accomplished wonders. It is"<br />
to be hoped that every student will feelit<br />
his duty to co-operate with and aid<br />
the committee. But some very funny<br />
situation? arise. A Biology recitation<br />
had to wait the other morning while<br />
Mr. Carey rescued his text book from<br />
the confines of the mansion in the yard.<br />
No exception or discrimination is<br />
shown. <strong>The</strong> other evening about 4:30<br />
there were so few people about the<br />
building that it was uncanny. After<br />
gathering all unclaimed hats in the<br />
hall, the committeemen locked their<br />
vault and wandered home to their respective<br />
ancestral firesides. About this<br />
time a promising young gentleman<br />
from Room 1, having finished his mechanical<br />
drawing, was ready to leave.<br />
Hut did he find his hat on the regular<br />
hook? Xo. he did not. After a hot<br />
search he was later seen departing<br />
oapite undo and blessing the Property<br />
Committee.<br />
Oh. yes! Did you hear of Fisher<br />
ttuekingham's little millinery chicanery?<br />
lie went to Tait's for lunch the<br />
other day. He hung his plebeian hat<br />
on a honk beside all the rest. While<br />
he ate. some one took that hat by mistake.<br />
Clever Buck saw the situation,<br />
so he bribed his waiter to pick him a<br />
pretty one from those that were left.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> nomination of next term's officers<br />
will take place on Monday, December<br />
4th, with election next Friday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra concert in the hall recently<br />
was a, marked success. This<br />
organization has shown the right spirit<br />
during the term and it should certainly<br />
be recognized by the Executive<br />
Committee. All expenses for the term<br />
were paid and a slight amount turned<br />
over to the credit of the Boys' Glee<br />
Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Camera Club is preparing to<br />
give an evening entertainment in the<br />
hail one of these evenings. This is<br />
another activity that has shown lots of<br />
pep. <strong>The</strong> members have certainly<br />
helped THE LOWIXI. along.<br />
Nominations in the Reading Club,<br />
Wednesday yielded the following results<br />
:<br />
President. Corinne Cronise; Vice-<br />
President, the Misses Piper and Hn]lingsworth,<br />
and Byron Jackson; Secretary,<br />
the Messrs. Buckingham, Wolf,<br />
Simon and Becker: Librarian, the<br />
Messrs Bruce and Towne. <strong>The</strong> election<br />
will be held next Wednesday.<br />
THE" LOWE 1JL,<br />
Gladys had a little lamp,<br />
A jealous one. no doubt.<br />
For every time her beau came in,<br />
<strong>The</strong> little lamp went out. Ex.<br />
. _ (Continued,from Page. 7.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> proofs of the "Annual"' material<br />
also bore some weird mistakes. In<br />
the swimming write-up an n replaced<br />
the w in Bowie Detrick's name. In<br />
mentioning the Editor, the printer referred<br />
to Eozy. But best of a.H;, ; one<br />
that the Girls' Glee Club and some<br />
others will appreciate. On the Glee<br />
Club's page mention was made of "the<br />
success of Mr. Paf-vn^re, our former director.<br />
But the o in "former" appeared<br />
as an a on the proof sheet.<br />
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Hoys' basketball has taken great<br />
strides at <strong>Lowell</strong> during the last week<br />
and everything points to a successful<br />
season. <strong>The</strong> team is quickly rounding<br />
into shape and by the beginning of<br />
next term should foe in prime condition.<br />
During last week <strong>Lowell</strong> met and<br />
defeated Mt. Tatnalpais Military Academy<br />
at San Rafael. This game was<br />
•me of the best games seen in San Rafael<br />
for several years. At the end of<br />
the first half <strong>Lowell</strong> led by a safe score,<br />
but at the beginning of the second<br />
Tamalpais put in a spurt and within a<br />
few minutes the score was even.<br />
This tie remained until within two<br />
minutes of time, when Marwedel, our<br />
"midget" center, shot a difficult field<br />
goal and put <strong>Lowell</strong> two points to the<br />
good. <strong>The</strong> game was not won by any<br />
means and several times our goal was<br />
in danger. Just before the whistle was "<br />
blown, Hirschfelder threw a goal and<br />
ihe score remained xUz Zuv.fc until the<br />
end. Score: <strong>Lowell</strong> 32: Tamalpais 28.<br />
<strong>The</strong> team which went to San Rafael<br />
was composed of Fujita, Fuld, Marwedel.<br />
Hirschfelder. Lewis, Render and<br />
Conrado.<br />
Wednesday <strong>Lowell</strong>'s second team<br />
will play Pacific Heights in the yard,<br />
and Friday they buck up agr.inst the<br />
Star of the Sea team. If you don't<br />
think you can make the first team,<br />
come out and try for the second, which<br />
practices every Monday in the yard.<br />
During vacation both teams will<br />
practice every Monday. Wednesday<br />
and Friday at the National Guard court<br />
on Van Xess near California. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
a chance for every one to get into the<br />
game. Come out and help our winning<br />
team.<br />
GIRLS* ATHLETICS.<br />
On Thursday, November 23rd, the<br />
Girls' Basketball team played the<br />
Cogswell team'on the <strong>Lowell</strong> t''court.<br />
Although all of the regular team were<br />
not in the game, the score was IS to 3<br />
in favor of <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
A challenge has been received for a<br />
return game with Lick sometime before<br />
the end of the term.<br />
On December 5th <strong>Lowell</strong> will play<br />
Commercial on the Commercial court.<br />
This team is the only team which has<br />
defeated <strong>Lowell</strong> this term, so the outcome<br />
of this game is looked forward<br />
to with interest and hope of success.<br />
All those interested in basketball are<br />
urged to come and support the team.<br />
Berkeley High School has been challenged<br />
and will probably play on Saturday,<br />
December 16.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> next morning the doctor came and<br />
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Mike said: "1 didn't have a dime so<br />
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Me sent his boy to college.<br />
Hut now he cries "Alack!"<br />
He spent ten thousand dollars<br />
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To hit a woman's heart, it is best<br />
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pleased to show you hundreds of others—<br />
AGLANS—the swagger coat as worn in all the fashion centers in<br />
America and abroad—in fabrics as English as the River Thames—<br />
$18, $20, $25<br />
;ABARDINE raincoats—guaranteed absolutely waterproof—light as<br />
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r and warm as toasta y<br />
$16.50 -othcrwt $20, $25, $50<br />
Wear<br />
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Hat S3.00<br />
II,<br />
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3rd Floor<br />
BENJAMIN CLOTHES—STETSON HATS—MANHATTAN SHIRTS<br />
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<strong>12</strong><br />
Phones: West 8335<br />
S2O37<br />
THE ;i LOWELL<br />
;We are prepared to furnish Frozen Puddings; bl;<br />
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Ice Cream and Water Ices, and Sherbets of<br />
all kinds in bulk or brick form : Individual forms<br />
Candies, Ice Cream and Ices<br />
L. F. McAbee, Proprietor<br />
ALOHA<br />
"Home of the famous Victoria<br />
Chocolates"<br />
and<br />
Many other specialties from the Aloha<br />
factory<br />
1744 FILLMORE STREET, nr.Sutter<br />
San Francisco<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bonbonniere<br />
French Candies<br />
ICE CREAM :: LUNCHES RESERVED<br />
Kaiser's<br />
2816 California Street<br />
AT DIVISADERO STREET<br />
SKOLL<br />
DRESS SU11T<br />
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: i i : -•'."••- I 1 -<br />
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Phone • K-3. • '•'}<br />
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Corner Bush<br />
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Teacher (to<br />
name of the t<br />
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ATHL<br />
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JERSEYS<br />
1726 Fillihbn<br />
SON & FARI<br />
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1117 GI
4 LARGE STORES<br />
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HOLIDAY GIFTS<br />
SWEATERS<br />
JERSEYS<br />
1726 Fillmore St.<br />
SON & FARLESS<br />
ENGRAVINGS<br />
:: For School Papers ::<br />
OUR SPECIALTY<br />
Commercial Art Co.<br />
DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS<br />
S3 THIRD ST., SAN FRANCISCO<br />
Phone Franklin 2146<br />
H. Pierre Smith<br />
Photographer<br />
SPECIAL RATES GIVEN<br />
1117 GEARY STREET<br />
TO STUDENTS<br />
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Between Van Ness Avenue and<br />
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Timely Hints on Diress<br />
"I confess I cannot help<br />
some opinion of a man's sense and character<br />
from his dress." ' - .<br />
—Lord Chesterfield to his son.<br />
For men who are closely confined<br />
a striped suit is the appointed style.<br />
Don't wear pajamas just because the<br />
invitation reads "Evening Dress."<br />
Don't wear a loud suit simply because<br />
you're going to call on a deaf<br />
man.<br />
Don't wear a suit, with a check in it<br />
to the races.<br />
To make your trousers last, simply<br />
make your coat first.<br />
Are Trousers singular or plural? If<br />
a man has them on,.they're plural. If<br />
he is without them it's certainly singular.<br />
Be careful of your personal appearance—it<br />
is the part of a gentleman to<br />
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point. "<strong>The</strong> Hastings" can fit you out<br />
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Hastings Clothing Co.<br />
Post and Grain Ave.<br />
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• ' • ' % • - - A<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Most<br />
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Ever, shown 1<br />
Ladles' Outln<br />
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THE ELL1<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
I'IIOIICH: "West 202G Home S 3181<br />
BRANSFORD'S<br />
STATIONERY AND<br />
PERIODICALS<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Pennants Fifty Cents<br />
Fac Simile of the Pennants<br />
to Place on Your<br />
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Cents the Dozen ::<br />
it)86 SUTTER STREET, at Fillmore<br />
<strong>The</strong> Most Complete Line of<br />
Athletic and Outing Goods<br />
Ever shown on the Pacific Coast<br />
Ladles' Outing Suits In a. variety<br />
of patterns that are priced to sell—<br />
and made to last.<br />
THE ELLERY ARMS CO.<br />
48-52 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO<br />
<strong>The</strong> Raymond Coaching School<br />
TWELFTH YEAR<br />
Mission High School, San Francisco.<br />
I am pleased to Inform you that one of our students who was very deficient In<br />
English owes It to the work done for him In your school, that he Is able to graduate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of our English Department says that his advancemen" under your Instruction<br />
was most marked, and that his progress Inspired him with the confluence<br />
that he previously lacked.<br />
J. O'CONNOR. Principal.<br />
DR. WM. A. MARTIN<br />
870 Fell Street<br />
San Francisco<br />
San Francisco, July \Z. 1903.<br />
Dear Mr. Raymond:—I wish to express to you and your daughter my appreciation<br />
of the very satisfactory results you have obtained In helping my son and daughter<br />
out of the maze of difficulties in which they had become entangled with their<br />
studies. I shall always take great pleasure in adding my word of recommendation<br />
to that of the many others, who I know are lavish In their praises of <strong>The</strong> Raymond<br />
Coaching School. Yours very sincerely.<br />
WM. A. MARTIN.<br />
Telephone West 2751<br />
Eleven Years' Experience in Coaching<br />
High School Students<br />
Mention <strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> When Buying<br />
2659 CALIFORNIA STREET
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THE LOWELL<br />
BOX-BACKS!<br />
This season's offerings in the new BOX-BACK OVERCOAT<br />
offers every feature, style, comfort and usefulness. With<br />
its convertible collar (to be worn both ways), perfect broad<br />
shoulders and sweeping box-back. Made in many exclusive<br />
patterns and materials.<br />
Be sure to see this coat! - - $15.00 to $30.00<br />
Style Originators to College Tailors<br />
130 GRANT AVENUE<br />
CLOTHES HABERDASHERY HE AD WEAR
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' iflr. QJhauurus $. Shnurs, in anurrriatinn<br />
nf ljis inslrurtiiu' in llir rlass-rnom. Ins<br />
guiuittg ijanu nurr urganixcu artiuilirs, ljis<br />
fricnusljip auu auuirr in urrsanal rrlatinns. uir,<br />
tljr mcmbrrs nf % (Class nf 3rrrmbrr <strong>1911</strong>,<br />
ucuiralc this, nnr g>rniur fcftilinn nf Ebe iCnutrll.<br />
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MR. FRANK MORTON" -<br />
MR. F. H. CLARK -<br />
MR. FRAN'CIS E. CROFTS<br />
MISS A. G. DUFFY<br />
MR. J. I 1 . XOURSE<br />
MISS M. M. COX<br />
::i MR. HL'DSOX SIIF.I.DOX -<br />
MR. j. j. sciiMnrr -<br />
MR. J. A. I.OXGI.EY<br />
MISS F.I.SIK A. WF.IGLE<br />
MR. ROCKIIOLD<br />
MISS ELSIE I SOW MAN" -<br />
MR. FRAXKLIX I-:. PER1IAM -<br />
MISS CECILIA CROXISE -<br />
MR. JAMES E. ROGERS -<br />
MR. F. I;. TL'CKER -<br />
MR. T. II. RHODES -<br />
MISS FRANCES IIODGKIXSOX<br />
MK. LEROY II. STEI'MEN'S -<br />
MR. I'KEI) \Y. KOCH -<br />
MR. EVERETT I'. CARRY -<br />
MR. T. A. SMITH -<br />
MR. A. DOWNEY -<br />
MR. A. ALTMAX -<br />
MRS. X. J. TIIARP<br />
''•' Absent i n leave.<br />
Faculty.<br />
- - - Principal<br />
Head of History Department<br />
Head of Mathematics Department<br />
Head nf English Department<br />
Head of Classical Language Department<br />
Head of Modern Language Department<br />
Head of Science Department<br />
Head of Drawing Department<br />
History<br />
- - - - - - History<br />
Mathematics<br />
Mathematics<br />
English<br />
English<br />
English<br />
Classical Languages<br />
- Classical Languages<br />
Classical Languages<br />
Classical Languages<br />
Science<br />
Science<br />
Science<br />
Science<br />
Drawing<br />
- I'livr-ieal Culture
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Bits of<br />
Color<br />
'round<br />
the<br />
School<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Class of December <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
I'.einy; the photograph.- and portraits of the various members of the lass<br />
that graduates as a class. Some of the individuals maj return in the spr.-;<br />
that t!ie ; shock at leaving may not be over-severe. •«<br />
Grace Ailams<br />
Ida 1'iluiu<br />
liva Coe<br />
Katherine Crosslcy<br />
Margery Un.rbmw<br />
Ruby Jewell<br />
Hester Malhews<br />
Deborah Xcvvinan<br />
Gertrude I 'orwnncher<br />
Marjorie Ryan<br />
F.velyn Sawyer<br />
C.ladys WaiK-'.<br />
I-'isher r.uckiiiuliani<br />
S!;vr\\ood Ch:i]>man<br />
Win. F. Cheney<br />
Win. R. Dubois<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
r.ernhardt Fesl<br />
Cieor^e [•'.. Goodall<br />
!'>ert Froliman<br />
Jolm (i raves<br />
I larrison A. Jones<br />
Vincent Mead<br />
< 'same Murashi.cje<br />
( (s^ood Munlock<br />
Arthur (.)lscn<br />
lames KunsoholT<br />
John \'.. Skinner<br />
ICrnest Smith<br />
Win, Somers<br />
Robert M. L*n
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THE LOWELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Class Officers.<br />
ames Ransohoff.<br />
I'tT'sMent Senior Class 11;<br />
1IU.MI1.ISS Track - 0», 'ID, 'II;<br />
i i K "OS '09<br />
mliijr 'IVain •«!i. 'In, '11: Caplain<br />
Ml; Knntliall T'.-am MO.<br />
11; l'.a.sk,tli:ai T.-am Mil. Ml:<br />
Mauau.T Ml: A. A. I.. \\p\a:iisl'.<br />
Clul. •!•'. 11; SiM-r.-iary<br />
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THE L O W ELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
tiracc Ailains.<br />
H.-ill*ir I i;un-f I'.nnniitl.i<br />
'II; Si'iinis'i I'luli '1"; 'r.-tinl:<br />
i'lull "'.I.<br />
nl I hapmati.<br />
'l:i!-- s - - . - f i . M i '•:•: I n i i - i -<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
I lazcl Cookc.<br />
T.-imls CKiK •<br />
lull M". '11.<br />
:•: Spsinlsli<br />
Win. K. Duhoi-.<br />
in: i-.],;• I'lul. •":•. '!"•<br />
Katharine Cmsslcy.<br />
Cli-.. Cluli "">: 1>|>. 'ni<br />
M". Ml: S'-i-vi.|iiry 'n!i. MM<br />
Vi. •• 1'r.si.l.lil MII; l<br />
y.-u;:nlv.- M«: Int.r.l:iss !<br />
l>.ilin« •"'•, M"; (ill-.- c'l ..i '"'.'<br />
M". Ml: l.il.r.u-iiin 'in. Ml<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Margery Durlirow.<br />
l:>".ilinu dull 'II: sp. nl.-li<br />
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11; Il'pr. s.-ni.i ti\ -• 'I r i ;)••«•<br />
"'lull 'II: T-imi» I'IIII.. S.- I.-.<br />
l:iry 'II: S U M . n l s ' AIT.-iirs<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Ruby Jewell.<br />
It..;ulilii; t'lllli M l . 'Sills'<br />
O l c c I'luli Ml.<br />
] hirrisi >u A. loiies.<br />
liili-ri-lii.«s UiisU.'U.iill M l :<br />
THE L O \V ELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
t )>:>iii^ Mura.-lii^c<br />
ItU'-l'l iss l::i."k>'lli:i1l '11 :<br />
Iii'h:ilinu S."i>-ly '1": Art<br />
Staff •"I'l.i- l-.w-ir Ml<br />
mi-.- i'i<br />
|!iisiii.-ss<br />
nis I'IUI.<br />
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Mli<br />
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Ml. I'.a.-k. •ll.a 11 '"!'.<br />
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t ' l t l l i Ml.<br />
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•"'.'. 'I". Ml; lT-siil.-ni Ml.<br />
ltitfii!:iss 1'.-tianiii: ..v;<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Arthur OIscn.<br />
' i i i i - a t - A i n i s . I I :<br />
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Marjuric Ryan.<br />
;..;Mliim ("lull 'II: 'IVniii.-<br />
li '1"; Class Vii-f-l'i-fsi-<br />
• l.-iii 'I".<br />
|"lni \ : .. SkiiitKT.<br />
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T HE L O W ELL<br />
THE CLASS OF DECEMBER <strong>1911</strong>-<br />
Krncst Sniiili.<br />
Ilil—r. Ml: i'h;ilii|>i"llslil|> SwlmtninK<br />
'I'.-am '"'.*. ' I'K Ml:<br />
Miiimui'r M": Ciass Tt. snr.T<br />
MH; K-:i.|inu (Mill. Ml:<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Class History.<br />
By FISHER A. BUCKINGHAM.<br />
Four years ago, one peculiar day in January, which thought spring weather<br />
due but couldn't quite settle the doubt, a miscellaneous gathering from the<br />
various grammar schools collected at <strong>Lowell</strong> and announced that they wished<br />
to enter High School. <strong>The</strong> usual solemn, awe struck, tone was not missing in<br />
the announcement.<br />
We were soon in our class rooms ami finally all histories (public and private<br />
alike), were placed on file and enrollment cards made out. <strong>The</strong> celebrities from<br />
the different schools began the struggle for supremacy and were ignored by all.<br />
liven their own schoolmates lacked interest in former heroes for we had joined<br />
the Students' Association.<br />
After the summer vacation we returned a happy sun-burned, blistered crowd<br />
—now a factor in school life for we had participated in the election of the<br />
Student Body officials.<br />
We gradually improved and in our second year showed our literary aspirations<br />
by starting two publications, (written by hand), "<strong>The</strong> Hook" and "<strong>The</strong><br />
Goat." This time our efforts were too strenuous for with the decrease in the<br />
circulation of Tin-: LOWKU. public-spirited authorities confidently warned the<br />
contributors and the papers died natural deaths. During this term our class<br />
was organized and with the election of the officers and adoption of a constitution<br />
a new responsibility was added. "Pay your dues; only ten cents a<br />
month," was the plea accompanying the responsibility.<br />
Following our return after the holidays one of the class sages proposed that<br />
ihe dues be raised. With all solemnity they were advanced the stupendous sum<br />
of five cents per month. Fortunately we could not see into the future. As<br />
the sum in the treasury grew, so the demand for spending it grew and finally<br />
our first dance was given. It came off so successfully that within a month it<br />
was followed by another. <strong>The</strong>y were recognized in the social columns of the<br />
LOWELL and together with the winning of the interclass swimming championship<br />
began to make a record.<br />
During the following term we established a new fad and in so doing created<br />
the precedent of having class boat rides. Our low junior boat ride and our<br />
modest dance were both attractive. We were now eligible for the Reading Club<br />
but with age came dignity and we survived the honors poured upon us.<br />
Our junior year ended with a wonderful dance at the California Club resulting<br />
in great credit to the Entertainment Committee and the class. We finally<br />
prepared for our senior year by electing a new administration.<br />
We were now'Seniors, well represented in school activities and honored<br />
at all class and school functions. We had reached a state where social announcements<br />
of the class in THE LOWELL no longer created commotion: on<br />
the other hand we were zealous to see that we' received all honor due us and<br />
more besides.<br />
<strong>The</strong> class entertained the High Seniors at a reception in the unique but<br />
picturesque surroundings of a boat club. Again we prepared on the approach<br />
of the holidays for the coming deration to High Seniors by duly selecting our<br />
officers.<br />
20<br />
Now, after a most<br />
considered scandalous';.ai<br />
young, and a brilliant ro<br />
Some of the old frii<br />
so you are growing tip.<br />
graduated from," etc<br />
that we may be able to<br />
minds of all and we reo<br />
old school for the last t<br />
I am beginning tc<br />
labor since I graduatec<br />
my wife, a graduate o:<br />
—pulled the first gray<br />
me lovingly as she sa :<br />
appear.<br />
This sentiment w;<br />
—Francis, Fern, and<br />
Francis, the oldes<br />
fond of playing scho<br />
and cat after a tiresoi<br />
always has an unclea<br />
desire to play in the c<br />
Ida Blum, my s<br />
Edwin Goodall that<br />
desired to hold confa<br />
especially in regard t<br />
For two years tr<br />
the graft prosecutic<br />
against Harrison Tor<br />
graph Company; Wi<br />
Company; Sherwood<br />
spectively, of the He<br />
too numerous to men<br />
Many worthy ci<br />
prosecution and sin<<br />
ference League has '<<br />
his methods, and de:<br />
he can neither bark<br />
Manager Goodal<br />
stated that Fisher /<br />
and Savings Bank,^<br />
by William .RandoJl<br />
historian. '<br />
g<br />
. He •fc.edit.
irijjjafcy 1<br />
Hoinwi;'<br />
lspira-<br />
?"<strong>The</strong><br />
in tlie<br />
;ci .the<br />
class<br />
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finally^;;<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
Xow. after a most enjoyable Freshman reception, which would have been<br />
considered scandalous and highly improper action in the days when we were<br />
young, and a brilliant round of class dances, we prepare to graduate.<br />
Some of the old friends look and wonder and remark as they leave "Well,<br />
so you are growing up. Coming on fast, my boy. Why. I can remember when I<br />
graduated from." etc. We look at the successful people around us and hope<br />
that we may be able to some day take their places. <strong>The</strong> Senior dance fills the<br />
minds of all and we receive diplomas. <strong>The</strong> exercises are over and we leave the<br />
old school for the last time. Alumni!<br />
After Fifteen Years.<br />
1 am beginning to feel old. Tis fifteen long years spent in sludv and<br />
labor since I graduated from dear old <strong>Lowell</strong>. Tt was just this morning that<br />
my wife, a graduate of the Girls' Seminary—oh, I mean Girls" High School,<br />
—pulled the first gray hair from the still fertile crop on my head and kissed<br />
me lovingly as she said she hoped that two gray hairs would not forth with<br />
appear.<br />
This sentiment was immediately echoed by our three dear, little cherubs<br />
—Francis, Fern, and Thaddeus.<br />
Francis, the oldest, is a craftv little fellow for nine years. Fern is very<br />
fund of playing school and delights in instructing me how to spell rat<br />
and cat after a tiresome day with some clients. Thaddeus is only four and<br />
alwavs has an unclean face and pair of hands because of an unrestrainable<br />
desire to plav in the dusty roads.<br />
Ida lilum. my stenographer, just brought in a notice from George<br />
Edwin Goodall that several members of the Municipal Conference League<br />
desired to hold confab with me to-night in regard to the coming election,<br />
especially in regard to the office of District Attorney.<br />
For two years this city has been upheaved and at unrest on account of<br />
the graft prosecutions instituted by District Attorney Wiliiam Cheney<br />
against Harrison Jones, local manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph<br />
Company: William Winter, President of the Consolidated Railways<br />
Company; Sherwood Chapman and Vincent, President and Treasurer, respectively,<br />
of the Home Telephone Company, and man) other wealthy men<br />
too numerous to mention.<br />
Manv worthy citizens are disgusted with the result and tirades of the<br />
prosecution and sincerely desire its discontinuance. <strong>The</strong> Municipal Conference<br />
League has advanced James Ransohoff in opposition to Cheney and<br />
his methods, and desires the voters to send Cheney back to Arizona, where<br />
he can neither bark not bite.<br />
Manager Goodall (by the way. George is managing the campaign) also<br />
stated that Fisher Aurelius Buckingham. President of the Humboklt Trust<br />
and Savings Hank, would be unable to be present but would be represented<br />
by William Randolph Dubois.'erstwhile editor and now a famous political<br />
historian.<br />
Obgood Murdock. that venerable "Oozie." is a member of the Conference<br />
He is editor of the Daily News and has been alderman three suc-<br />
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ccssivc terms. His presence puts some spirit into our conferences and makes<br />
them snappy. It is often very relieving to hear him laugh.<br />
Woman suffrage is in full blast now. To-night the members of the<br />
Municipal Conference League will consider placing Gladys Waibel on their<br />
ticket as a candidate for Mayor in co-operation with Ransohoft' for District<br />
Attorney. With these two stars we can wage a stronger fight in the campaign.<br />
<strong>The</strong> League is uncertain whether it ought to endorse Gertrude Porwancher<br />
fur Supervisor or not because she insists on placing the "lid'' on the<br />
Uiwn.<br />
Arthur Olscn has been employed to operate the central wireless telephone<br />
station on election day. With this invention we will be able to receive<br />
information at any time of the day from any precinct.<br />
Chief of Police Eva Coe is very busy, so she told me. arranging the<br />
extra details for policing on election day. Extra precautions are being made<br />
mi account of the feeling over the prosecution.<br />
Captain Hester Matthews is in charge of the Mission Street Station. Tt<br />
is rumored she is preparing some strange treatise on the Greek language.<br />
She is assisted by her able lieutenants. Sergeant Mariery Durbrow and Sergeant<br />
Hazel Cookc, who always has her sewing kit.<br />
Captain Marjorie Ryan is in charge of the plain clothes women on<br />
election day and on all special occasions.<br />
<strong>The</strong> police are armed with a new weapon called pinhatwitit. This remarkable<br />
and effective weapon much resembles a hat pin. only it is much<br />
longer and can be stretched.<br />
<strong>The</strong> campaign is at its fiercest now. Our candidate for District Attorney<br />
has been supported by over hall of the stronger papers, including the Daily<br />
News.<br />
Ernest Smith told me yesterday, much to my joy, that he had been engaged<br />
at a magnificent salary by Underbill & Co., Publishers, to illustrate<br />
the latest and most popular, as is predicted, novel by Ruby Jewell. Ernie,<br />
at present, is on the Examiner staff, lie has contributed many trite and<br />
satirical cartoons which have caught and held the attention ol thousands of<br />
voters, much to our advantage.<br />
Osame Murashigc's caricatures in the Chronicle have caused our rival,<br />
Cheney, to gnash his teeth in silence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> counsel for the S. P., as their representative, namely F.crnhardt Fest,<br />
by his indirect aid causes us to feel still more confident of the results of the<br />
campaign. He is the man behind the gun in this fight.<br />
This is the Friday after election. Election Commissioner John Skinner<br />
announces our glorious success. To-night a few gentlemen \vill be guests<br />
of Madame ISouwie. nee Grace Adams, at the gorgeous Green way Ball at<br />
tli2 Fairview Hotel. Miss Deborah Newman, starring in "<strong>The</strong> Tennis Girl,"'<br />
will attend with her manager, Bert Frohman. This affair will certainly be<br />
an opportune relief from a tiresome campaign.<br />
If our former schoolmates could onlv see us all now! Such is life!<br />
B. F., '11.,.<br />
EX<br />
D. CEM BER ELEV.N<br />
Entere<br />
Five Shells the<br />
Editorial<br />
When the generation<br />
ing away was in its<br />
were, it had two organs,<br />
man's Hook, the other<br />
Goat. This last was<br />
ruped. Though it coir<br />
thing it found the brov<br />
in Room 3 so rotten<br />
were issued and the gan<br />
Nobody knows who gi<br />
we all know .Underhi<br />
Hook was healthier,<br />
be more excuse a: Loi|<br />
than for a goat anyhowJ<br />
lowered every.now am<br />
Mr. Downey and ou<br />
spent a .delightful vacal<br />
of the former in Port<br />
with tears that Jim 1<br />
friend to return to his o<br />
Street. <strong>The</strong> love of 1<br />
David and Jonathan's .<br />
acquaintance. i<br />
Miss Gladys Waibe<br />
pended from school<br />
general disturbance,<br />
dogging her lessons '<br />
Monday she was |o«:<br />
the floor managerial
EXHALING IT'S LAST BREATH.<br />
I). (.'KM I'.F.K KI.KVX. Kditor. <strong>The</strong> business Manager is above reproach.<br />
l-'ntered as Class Matter at the City Poslnffice.<br />
Five Shells the Cop'. One Wheel by the "ear.<br />
Editorial. sicnally. <strong>The</strong>re was a I'ortola edition<br />
When the generation that is now pass- so gay that it hail to be curbed by the<br />
inu away was in its childhood, as it police. <strong>The</strong> cover has since found a<br />
were, it bad two organs. ( )ne was I loff- home at the Affiliated Colleges—the only<br />
:n:m'~ I look, the other was I'liderhiU's survivor of a lost scribe. I Jut even the<br />
'.-it. This last was a Hellenic avid and Jonathan's seem like a cold if you give him the number. He has<br />
acquaintance.<br />
been coaching the Suffrage Patrick<br />
Henry Golph Club and is wanted by<br />
Miss Gladys W'aibel has been suspended<br />
from school for cutting and<br />
Phil Stanton at Sacramento as an<br />
adviser.<br />
general disturbance. She has been<br />
'logging her lessons of late and last<br />
Manager L'nderhill states that yes-<br />
Mondav she was found skating with terday's blue blank signatures surpass<br />
the Hoor manager at Dreamland by all precedents. <strong>The</strong> members of the<br />
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faculty began forming in line by 5:30<br />
p. in. the night before, bringing cots<br />
and food. When the gates opened at<br />
8:30 this morning the press was terrible.<br />
Player Pressley alone received<br />
so many initials that extra ink had to<br />
he brought from Oakland. If nothing<br />
interupts. all the signatures will have<br />
been affixed by to-night.<br />
Hough Cheney. <strong>Lowell</strong>'s fastest<br />
wing, has been yanked from the squad<br />
ami his loss will be keenly felt. Thi<br />
gent's parents feel that he is seeing<br />
too much of life with the friends he<br />
is making and he will go cast to<br />
school. An account appeared yesterday<br />
of his part in the affair with the<br />
chorus girl of the Kiss Waltz Co.<br />
Room 15 is in heavy mourning.<br />
Great joy was evident among our<br />
instructors when it was announced<br />
that school teachers here must live<br />
within the city's walls. Some feeling<br />
existed because certain teachers in<br />
other schools were commuters, but<br />
this decision comes as a victory for<br />
the <strong>Lowell</strong> contingent.<br />
ALUMNI.<br />
THE GOAT HOOK-<br />
Just as do all saffron publications in<br />
factories of culture, so do we dedicate<br />
these words to our Alumni. <strong>The</strong> Goat-<br />
Hook hopes that these people may hear<br />
of these reminiscent words and know<br />
we still love them.<br />
'"Pop" Richard, our former comedian-actor-president<br />
is working for our contemporary,<br />
the Examiner, now. He has<br />
changed variously between advertising,<br />
newspaper and insurance work but he<br />
feels that he has found a home with<br />
Silk Hat Harry now.<br />
In this connection we must mention<br />
Gertie Devine. She is a confirmed type-<br />
writer lady but does not practice her<br />
profession regularly. In other words she<br />
works occasionally. This seems to be<br />
the habit of a certain type.<br />
Our martyred president. Ivory Wakeman,<br />
is still with the old reliable S. P.<br />
He is seen occasionally, by night, at<br />
dances and the like. <strong>The</strong> old boy is<br />
decidedly there with the fair ones these<br />
days.<br />
Brothers Joseph and Frank Fortsang<br />
r.lternate between Divisadero Street.<br />
Fourteenth Street and U. C. <strong>The</strong> prides<br />
of the Rue de look very pretty in nice<br />
suits these days. Some day they're<br />
going to be doctors and dentists like<br />
Mr. Blue and Doc. Frost. Why not?<br />
Lucette Masury, the former charmer<br />
of Willow Camp and Shotwcll Street,<br />
is now holding forth at San Rafael. Tt<br />
makes it nice for the <strong>Lowell</strong> boys at<br />
Hitchcock.<br />
Princess Pressley. who is one of the<br />
pleasant memories of those first days in<br />
Room 9, has now reached the heights of<br />
Juniorhood. We expect great things<br />
from Cornelius. He's a big man.<br />
Gladys Phelan. she of the high brow<br />
and great dome, beat us out and is now<br />
a member of the <strong>Lowell</strong> contingent at<br />
U. C. Oh, won't you girls get yours<br />
when you enter in September.<br />
Ed. Knease, a former prominent member<br />
of the Bonbonniere Counter Club is<br />
now tending counter ior our other contemporary,<br />
the Chronicle, on Fillmore<br />
Street. Maybe the school training<br />
doesn't help. It doesn't, you say?<br />
Leonard Agazelow, <strong>Lowell</strong>'s greatest<br />
quarter-miler and winner of the Larkspur<br />
and Caledonian meets, was also one<br />
of our original number. He is now at<br />
California after an eventful career in<br />
newspaper work and self advertisement.<br />
X. B.—Mili Valley. San Francisco,<br />
Modesto and Vallejo papers please copy.<br />
To a Class of Virtual<br />
Intellect I Dedicate this-j<br />
f rain:<br />
Behold a multitude of<br />
Seated at their desks of<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are the teacher's bj<br />
and joys.<br />
At present they their teacj<br />
foil.<br />
In front of me sits-Murd<br />
Before him, behold, a m]<br />
<strong>The</strong>re, yonder sits a br(<br />
Mead,<br />
And Mr. Rhodes just t
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THE GOAT HOOK<br />
SHAVINGS OF THE MUSE.<br />
To a Class of Virtue. Fortissime and Who sometimes think and always say<br />
Intellect I Dedicate this Memorial Refrain<br />
:<br />
Behold a multitude of girls and boys,<br />
Seated at their desks of toil.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are the teacher's blessings, pride<br />
and joys.<br />
At present they their teacher they would<br />
foil.<br />
In front of me sits Murdock on a chair<br />
Before him. behold, a maiden fair.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re, yonder sits a brilliant member,<br />
Mead.<br />
And Mr. Rhodes just told him to take<br />
heed.<br />
lila Blum looks just like one daffy-dill<br />
And at the door, where breezes gently<br />
waft, sits Underbill,<br />
<strong>The</strong>re sits a guiding light, a youth<br />
named Cheney,<br />
I le has golden hair on top of his beany.<br />
In back of Meyer is Fisher Buckingham<br />
<strong>The</strong>n Marwedel who seems to love a<br />
lamb.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's Olsen. honorable vender of the<br />
car book.<br />
And a man named Schake, the past<br />
tense of shook.<br />
One boy,<br />
Girl coy.<br />
Sure joy!<br />
THE CLASS.<br />
Old <strong>Lowell</strong>ites so often tell<br />
Of things that always went so well<br />
When they did go to <strong>Lowell</strong> High.<br />
Thcv'rc some of our old family.<br />
That things went better in their day,<br />
But we of good December 'Lcven.<br />
When some of us MIGHT get to<br />
heaven.<br />
Will tell the other seraphs there<br />
That of everybody, ev'rywhere,<br />
That of ev'ry high school class<br />
Which through history may pass<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was but one. that class of ours<br />
Will be remembered more than hours.<br />
But those of old December "Leven,<br />
Who will never get to heaven<br />
Will tell the other Spirit band<br />
That all the classes in the land<br />
May scrape and hunt and scour for<br />
hours<br />
But never find a bunch like ours.<br />
We've got Dubois. and Festy grand,<br />
A politicianctte. Miss Hand.<br />
We've Underbill and "Oozy" great.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two could almost run the state.<br />
We've "Ernie" Smith, the president.<br />
Of <strong>Lowell</strong> High, on swimming bent.<br />
I licks and Winter, Olsen too.<br />
Like Ransohoff, we've got a few.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's not another class that had<br />
A little boy like Skinner bad.<br />
Now Harold Hicks, with cur'.y hair.<br />
If e'er lie steps in barber's chair.<br />
Will give the barber such a fright<br />
lie will not sleep for many a night.<br />
Murashige carWlraw like fits.<br />
And Eva Coe. with sharpened wits,<br />
In Spanish raises quite a laugh<br />
About "Pepita" and such gaff.<br />
Now "Frenchy" Meyer is a boy<br />
Who finds in photography much joy.
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THE GOAT HOOK<br />
Ruby Jewell and piano keys<br />
Have been good friends for many days.<br />
"Rough-Neck" Cheney, all night long,<br />
Thinks of Math, and "Jawn" Graves<br />
strong<br />
Will come to bless the happy day<br />
When from Greek he gets away.<br />
Hester Mathews and Ida Blum<br />
When the happy day shall come<br />
Will think with Miss Porwancher wise,<br />
Should they see with their own eyes,<br />
Jones and Cheney both agree<br />
On some exampl' in Physics "C."<br />
That they have seen the greatest feat<br />
That ever happened in this seat<br />
Of learning, good old <strong>Lowell</strong> High,<br />
Where all of us, yea oven I<br />
Have had our little bit of fun<br />
In listening to .ome well worn pun<br />
In English: or with saddened face<br />
Have tried in "Trig." to keep the pace<br />
With sines and cosines, tangents too,<br />
Yes. all of us, including you.<br />
Have had our fun. and also work,<br />
Of course we never tried to shirk<br />
Or cut. or do such outlawed things.<br />
Tn fact as happy as some kings.<br />
And now. at last, we graduate,<br />
<strong>The</strong> time will come when we will state<br />
That through the times that come to<br />
pass<br />
<strong>The</strong>re ne'er will be a greater class.<br />
G. E. G., Dec. "11.<br />
Over his keys the tipsy clubman<br />
Beginning doubtfully and far away,<br />
First lets his fingers wander as they<br />
list<br />
And hunts the key that opens the back<br />
way.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n as he finds his needed instrument<br />
Finds hope and fervor, nearer draws his<br />
door,<br />
First heard by faint clickings of the key<br />
His spouse wakes and rates him for his<br />
spree.<br />
DECEMBER 'll'S HALL OF FAME.<br />
Heroes brave, we twenty-seven—<br />
Class of December, Nineteen 'leven—<br />
We're scratched and scarred from the<br />
bloody fray.<br />
Rut here's where we make our getaway<br />
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Mayhap in the coming eventful years<br />
We'll oft look back with smiles or tears,<br />
We'll remember each glorious day at old<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>—<br />
Each sadness.<br />
Each gladness.<br />
Each school prank and madness<br />
That tested our Faculty's innermost soul.<br />
And now let us gaze down our long Hall<br />
of Fame<br />
And consider the meaning of every<br />
Great Name.<br />
When it comes to pure Art,<br />
To the real thing called "ART."<br />
That discriminates not<br />
'Twist a head slightly caved,<br />
A glorious fracture.<br />
A nose marcel waved<br />
Or things of that nature—<br />
Our much dented President. Ernestine<br />
Smith, is truly artistic!<br />
Another one of the art athletic<br />
Whose trials as such proved also pathetic,<br />
Whose object at <strong>Lowell</strong> seems to have<br />
been<br />
To rid himself of all surplus skin!<br />
Beloved by the profs as a student of<br />
note.<br />
Renowned for the essays on Ethics he<br />
wrote—<br />
We bow to his talents, our hats we take<br />
off<br />
To the wondrous achievements of Jim<br />
Ransohoff!<br />
Who gets -the "deuce" ,<br />
for "dues"? y>j,<br />
Who gels abuse, and bri<br />
Who kills all joy?/<br />
Who is dot boy?<br />
Chorus: FISHER BU(<br />
We, too, supply the sn<br />
In the personage of Cli<br />
Now, I'll leave it to '<br />
Is he there?<br />
At <strong>Lowell</strong> there runs z<br />
That Chappy is quite.<br />
To change each ever<br />
Hair-Hair-Hair!<br />
Yea. Bo! Change the 1<br />
his Hair.<br />
Among our very best<br />
As an intellectual we<br />
Comes our brilliant T<br />
With his mighty voij<br />
Every syllable he utt<br />
Has a meaning all it<br />
Every wise word tha<br />
To posterity will be<br />
A true English stud<br />
Gadzooks, Dubois-i;<br />
He can use more<br />
Cause Miss Duff;<br />
Than anyone else ii<br />
In our celebrities ga<br />
and Why,<br />
- Our muchly loved<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy with tin<br />
Whose keen sense ><br />
Scatters like ch<br />
All sorrow depress<br />
Making no effort a<br />
ing ' ;<br />
Those chuckles<br />
At times inausr<br />
Can anyone gufg<br />
OOSIE MUI
Who gets the "deuce" when he conies<br />
for "dues"?<br />
Who gets abuse, and brings the blues,<br />
Who kills all joy?<br />
Who is dot boy ?<br />
Chorus: FISHER BUCKINGHAM!<br />
We. too, supply the snappy<br />
In the personage of Chappy:<br />
Now. I'll leave it to ymi, Mabel!<br />
I- he there?<br />
At <strong>Lowell</strong> there runs a fable<br />
That Chappy is (|uite able<br />
To change each every wavelet of his<br />
Hair-Hair-Hair!<br />
Yea. I'm! Change the very structure of<br />
his Hair.<br />
Among our very best<br />
As an intellectual wonder<br />
i"011 ii.- our brilliant Barney Fest.<br />
Will-, his mighty voice of thunder.<br />
Kvery syllable he utters<br />
Has a meaning all its own;<br />
Kvery wise word that he mutters<br />
To posterity will be known.<br />
A true Knglish student he is—<br />
Gadzooks. Dubois is a wiz!<br />
1 le can use more whys.<br />
Cause Miss Duffy more sighs.<br />
Than anyone else in the biz.<br />
In our celebrities gallery of Who's Who.<br />
and Why,<br />
Our muchly loved Editor next we espy,<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy with the laugh.<br />
Whose keen sense of the funny<br />
Scatters like chaff<br />
All sorrow depressing—<br />
Making no effort at all toward suppressing<br />
Those chuckles delicious.<br />
At times inauspicious—<br />
Can anyone gurgle like—<br />
OOSIE MURDOCH?<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
Amongst our pigmies of repute<br />
None ranks so high<br />
Nor is so cute.<br />
So dainty.<br />
Blythe and<br />
Debonair,<br />
As our great big Bulgarian Duke.<br />
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Little Bobby<br />
I las a hobby,<br />
Must be busy all the time:<br />
College Ex's.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Rec'ses—<br />
<strong>The</strong> wav he eats 'em is a crime.<br />
As an agent of Old Father Time<br />
Georgie Goodall's there!<br />
It's simply swell<br />
When he rings that bell—<br />
< leorgie, you're some bear!<br />
Just when things are getting tough,<br />
When we're being handled rough—<br />
Ah ! that chime sublime !<br />
<strong>The</strong>re dwells with us a handsome youth<br />
Whose fiery speech, whose love lor<br />
truth.<br />
Have made of him a cynosure indeed.<br />
He's bound to make his mark some<br />
day.<br />
He knows full well Life's not all<br />
play—<br />
Sincerity. Fidelity—your name is<br />
MEAD.<br />
From the banks of Ishakari<br />
Came to us our Murashigi:<br />
With his clever little sketches<br />
And those etches<br />
He will fetch his<br />
Well earned laurels from Dame Fortune's<br />
lavish hand.<br />
Olsen cares little for forms or for<br />
codes—<br />
He comes and he goes at will:<br />
i :
.ij.<br />
As a car ticket aide to Sir Thaddeus<br />
Rhodes<br />
He rather fills the bill.<br />
WINTER makes it rather warm<br />
When "Buckie" seeks his fifty per;<br />
Poor "Fishie's" scared he'll come to harm<br />
When Winter thunders: "What's this<br />
fcr?"<br />
Oh. we bow to your headpiece, Great<br />
Cheney.<br />
We take off our hats to your hair;<br />
For 'tis very well known<br />
That wider that dome<br />
You nourish a wisdom most rare.<br />
As a light fantastic tripper<br />
Gracie Adams is a ripper—<br />
In sooth, she is a Graceful minx:<br />
She'll dance on someone's heart, methinks!<br />
An orchestral genius dwells in our<br />
ranks;<br />
Where there's music, she'll be in the<br />
middle—<br />
And you'll find Ida Blum in the maddest<br />
of pranks:<br />
She's as fond of her fun as her fiddle!<br />
Deborah Newman's quite a sport.<br />
She likes her "little game":<br />
Deborah on the tennis court<br />
Is seeking Sutton fame!<br />
Eva Co" and Hester Math' and Margie<br />
'lirow are three<br />
Genuinely happy nymphs of gay frivolity-<br />
Eva looks at Hester with a wicked<br />
little grin.<br />
Margie looks at both of them—and<br />
then the fun starts in:<br />
A truce to the serious.<br />
We'll laugh till delirious—<br />
On with the comedy!<br />
Whoops, ma' dcah!<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
Clever Senorita Cooke<br />
Eats up Spanish with much gusto—<br />
She'll peruse a Spanish book<br />
With quite a native lusto.<br />
A Jewel indeed is Ruby,<br />
A musical gem at that—<br />
But I wonder how you would like to be<br />
<strong>The</strong> mon in the lower flat?<br />
When Gertrude's busy teaching school,<br />
Enforcing the glorious Golden Rule—<br />
This tip to her pupils (I know they'll<br />
not rue it):<br />
Be prompt to obey if Gert Porwancher<br />
to do it!<br />
Margery Ryan finds a weird fascination<br />
In the brilliant prospectus of co-education<br />
;<br />
From <strong>Lowell</strong> to U. C. is a glorious<br />
step—<br />
May she have the success that she did<br />
as a "Prep."<br />
A mighty fine student is little Miss<br />
Waibel;<br />
From present appearance, who knows<br />
but she's liable<br />
To set a new standard for those of her<br />
sex:<br />
She'll have no trouble in getting her<br />
rec's.<br />
Katherine Crossley's always smiling<br />
In a manner most beguiling:<br />
At all sorrow she seems to scoff—<br />
May it prove the "smile that won't wear<br />
off."<br />
Evelyn Sawyer's surely some bear—<br />
When she starts in to rule<br />
Her little kid school<br />
I want to get young and be there!<br />
December Eleven now bids all good-by!<br />
Till we meet again as <strong>Lowell</strong> Alumni!<br />
EMPLOYEE fiiS<br />
FAITHFUL^SE<br />
<strong>The</strong> Emporium annoui<br />
tion of one of its mpst .1<br />
cient servants, Y^Mrij&Ghi<br />
has charge of the; petti<br />
of the company;; Mfi'(<br />
praised for his doglikc<br />
the company. As "he •<br />
with the fairer sc.Vj th(<br />
probably be a very ad\<br />
ou the Emporium's pari<br />
MISS EVA COE'S<br />
REVIEW<br />
"Self-Defei<br />
Many novel ideas J<br />
this treatise. <strong>The</strong> pro<br />
pins, fingernails and p<br />
dealt with. All women<br />
"Committee on Public<br />
this book, for the good'<br />
APOLOGIES TO<br />
Bernhardus Fest of Ri<br />
By Eva's desk he swot<br />
To chew ye spearmint<br />
For ever, ever more.<br />
Near the little stove h<br />
<strong>The</strong>n "long came a tea<br />
Who made him take 1<br />
Whereupon our Fest<br />
"Never again, gosh cl<br />
ROGUE'S G<br />
Osgood Murdockknown<br />
as "Oozie."<br />
heard him laugh?<br />
Bernhardt Fest—<br />
Sarah Bernhardt?;-.<br />
Ida Blum—I W9 n(<br />
inside of the Boat Cl<br />
tertainer.<br />
F. Aurelius Buckii<br />
derful stomach; biritt<br />
lections!
EMPLOYEE PROMOTED FOR<br />
FAITHFUL SERVICE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Emporium announced the promotion<br />
of one of its most faithful and efficient<br />
servants. Mr. Cheney, who now<br />
has charge of the petticoat department<br />
of the company. Mr. Cheney is to be<br />
praised for his doglike faithfulness to<br />
the company. As he is very popular<br />
with the fairer sex, the promotion will<br />
probably be a very advantageous move<br />
mi the Emporium's part.<br />
MISS EVA COE'S NEW BOOK<br />
REVIEWED.<br />
"Self-Defense."<br />
Many novel ideas arc expressed in<br />
tlii- treatise. <strong>The</strong> proper uses of hatpin-,<br />
fingernails and pointed shoes, are<br />
•3!<br />
••>,)<br />
•J.I<br />
ill<br />
SITUATIONS WANTED —MALE.<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
Competent young man wishes employment.<br />
He is not particular what work<br />
he is desired to undergo. He has had<br />
extensive experience in a secretary's<br />
duties and as a football manager. He<br />
can serve as a president's prompter and<br />
a creator of disturbances generally. He<br />
can talk continually on any subject<br />
whether acquainted with it or not. In<br />
short, he considers himself tolerably<br />
fitted to be cither a salesman or an insurgent.<br />
Experienced young man wishes situation<br />
as a bellboy. T am a "steady-going<br />
young chap with good recommendations.<br />
1 have rung bells sixteen times a day for<br />
two years. As to personal appearance.<br />
T may modestly say I could do credit<br />
to any establishment. <strong>The</strong> only objection<br />
might be my height, but then I am<br />
growing, so that could not be held<br />
against me.<br />
Handsome young man desires to be<br />
employed as a swimming teacher for<br />
young ladies. I have had experience in<br />
that line before, that is, in swimming,<br />
not with the ladies. I am greatly reduced<br />
in circumstances, which accounts<br />
for my being forced to earn my bread.<br />
I once aspired to a presidency but now<br />
am reduced to this sad plight.<br />
I am a youth of nineteen summers,<br />
extremely good looking, one might say<br />
handsome, a graduate of high school<br />
and out of luck. I would like a situation<br />
as an editor or as a vaudeville actor. I<br />
li&ve a laugh which usually makes a hit<br />
and I am sure it would take on the Orpheum<br />
stage. T have had considerable<br />
experience with amateur theatricals, in<br />
fact. I was a telegraph operator for a<br />
mob scene which never came off. As an<br />
editor, for the past six months I have<br />
had charge of one of the leading magazines,<br />
and so great has been my influence<br />
thdt I have completely changed it.<br />
N. B.—I also know how to fry fish for /<br />
biological use.<br />
Talented young artist wishes a position<br />
under a kind master. He must be<br />
kind, as I might forget myself and mistake<br />
him for a football, for I am very<br />
strong. T can cartoon anything from a<br />
jellyfish to a teacher. I am also capable<br />
of being employed as a rapid messenger<br />
to take notices to people crossing the<br />
ocean. It is my pastime to swim across<br />
the Golden Gate every moiling for<br />
breakfast, so you see I could overtake a<br />
ship with ease.<br />
SITUATIONS WANTED—<br />
FEMALE.<br />
Teacher's position wanted by a studious<br />
young woman, preferably in a town<br />
where there are no pretty girls. I am<br />
well fitted for such a position as I have<br />
a strong sense of humor to develop and<br />
am desirous of impressing a part of my<br />
knowledge on embryo intellects. Apply<br />
Miss Cowpuncher, S. F.<br />
Young lady of high school education<br />
wishes to be employed as a demonstrator<br />
of Xcwbro's Herpicide. I have a beautiful<br />
head of brown hair which strikes<br />
envy to the breasts of all beholders. I<br />
have worn it clown my back until quite<br />
recently, so that the fame of my weird<br />
locks has spread far and wide. I have<br />
also an unlimited knowledge of jewels,<br />
especially rubies and amethysts. My<br />
opinion upon the value of jewels will be<br />
sent free if a two-cent stamp is enclosed<br />
with the request.<br />
Situation as a cook wanted by woman<br />
of experience. Would preferably be<br />
30<br />
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i ,i<br />
|!<br />
i<br />
1i1 \<br />
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r<br />
y<br />
\ '<br />
\ ? •<br />
;behefit§6fS^^glif^*'<br />
because • iflihe»ship 2<br />
: surely^comeltotsnor<br />
inarc^payes;^;^<br />
Young actress*\vi:<br />
periencedich'ieflyiih:<br />
••••-••-.jji*k;t"->;;""'.'.»" '.<br />
can taKe off a yelpij<br />
tion. I can also,<br />
gusfo."'"~~- T~<br />
Young woman<br />
chauffeur. She has<br />
perience in running<br />
fact, owns one:" Shj<br />
order to clef ray her i<br />
to college.<br />
EQU/<br />
Murdock = t 6-c<br />
EvaCoe=Tsin:<br />
Ransohoff = Frig<br />
Goodall = 1 class<br />
Cheney,= 1 silk<br />
Fest = 1 talking<br />
Unciernui = J'it<br />
vMiss Durbrow<br />
•Miss Mathews<br />
Castillana.<br />
Vince Mead =<br />
Frohmah= A<br />
Marwedel = Ar<br />
Hicks = <strong>The</strong>^b£<br />
Ida Blum == IN<br />
1 ordinary pap<<br />
paper for the proi<br />
2 (Shakespeare<br />
X chicken-l)ox»==<br />
3 Bad. recitatioi<br />
'tardiness<br />
of a red mark; on<br />
^SugarJ 1 ;:^<br />
the Bonbonnierre.
••;.•«;•;••<br />
employed upon a boat. This is for the<br />
benefit of my life insurance company,<br />
because if the ship should sink T could<br />
surely come to shore by the aid of my<br />
marcel waves.<br />
Young actress wishes to make a contract<br />
with a traveling show. I am experienced<br />
chiefly in imitating a boy. and<br />
can take off a yelping puppy to perfection.<br />
I can also sneeze with much<br />
gusto.<br />
Young woman wishes position as a<br />
chauffeur. She has had extensive experience<br />
in running an automobile, in<br />
fact, owns one. She wishes to run it in<br />
order to defray her expenses while going<br />
tn college.<br />
EQUATIONS.<br />
Munlock = 1 6-cylinder laugh.<br />
Eva Coe = 1 Miiall deviless.<br />
KansoliotT — Friday's dinner (fish).<br />
< ioodall — 1 class "A" alarm clock.<br />
Cheney = 1 silk petticoat.<br />
Fest = 1 talking machine.<br />
Underbill ~z Big Piiisiness.<br />
Miss Durbrow<br />
Miss Mathews<br />
Castillana.<br />
Yince Mead = A promoter.<br />
Frohman — A viajero.<br />
Marwedel = An auto fixture.<br />
11 icks = <strong>The</strong> barber's terror.<br />
Ida Blum = 1 dumpling.<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
= 2 Senoritas de<br />
1 ordinary paper -\- the margin = a<br />
paper for the professoress of English.<br />
2 (Shakespeare — the dramatic idea)<br />
X chicken-pox = an editor.<br />
3 Bad recitations 4-ropghhouse<br />
— L C M.<br />
tardiness and cutting<br />
of a red mark on the monthly menu.<br />
4 Sugar" 4- 360° 11. — chocolate at<br />
the lionbonnierre.<br />
31<br />
THE DIVINE COMEDY.<br />
(With apologies to Dante.")<br />
PROLOGUE.<br />
I stood among a nm
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
from his doom. 'What is it that en- attempted flight. I was told he had to<br />
tcred as many, left as few, but yet was<br />
the best that ever went?' Now, solve it<br />
if you can."<br />
Each shade puzzled vainly over the<br />
question. I was last. A happy thought<br />
had entered my brain, and I had hope.<br />
"It is the class of December '11 from<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> High School," I cried. Edipus<br />
disappeared, and in his place stood a<br />
guide. "You have solved the riddle,"<br />
he said. ''I am now at your service to<br />
conduct you through the afterworld."<br />
INFERNO.<br />
We entered the cave, and found ourselves<br />
in a large room where the king<br />
of the infernal region sat. He was very<br />
unlike the representations of his Satanic<br />
majesty. He also had black eyes,<br />
but there the resemblance ceased. Upon<br />
his brow he had an athlete's crown, and<br />
across his chest burned in letters of fire,<br />
"L. H. S. S. A." I thought thi:; most<br />
probably was the signum of some caballistic<br />
order, so I remembered the letters.<br />
We bowed before the monarch.<br />
"This shade has guessed the riddle,"<br />
the guide explained.<br />
"Curses!" his majesty said in a husky<br />
voice, "another shade escaped."<br />
I was wondering who the other fugitive<br />
was when the guide explained that<br />
a young man had attempted to flee a<br />
short time ago but had been captured.<br />
He suggested we see him. so we left the<br />
Satanic presence and began our journey.<br />
We soon came upon the unfortunate<br />
man who had attempted liberty. His<br />
punishment for his crime was to run a<br />
jute mill. In order to do this, he was<br />
set talking. As he spoke he alternately<br />
rose and fell on his tip-toes. <strong>The</strong> machinery<br />
was attached to his heels, which<br />
device was very successful. I felt really<br />
sorry for the youth, for lie was good<br />
looking and spoke well, too. I asked<br />
what his punishment had been before he<br />
32<br />
assort football suits continually because<br />
he never used to be where he should<br />
have been at one o'clock.<br />
Leaving him, we came upon a stout,<br />
black-eyed young woman. She looked<br />
exceedingly woe-begone as she packed<br />
candy into boxes. When asked why she<br />
seemed so unhappy when she had an apparently<br />
easy punishment, she sighed<br />
and said, "I'm never allowed to see a<br />
boy at all. I always liked them too<br />
much, that's why I am here."<br />
We then came to Tantalus. "You<br />
mortals have such funny ideas about<br />
Tantalus," my guide said, "but not one<br />
of them is true." <strong>The</strong> true Tantalus<br />
was a tall, pug-nosed man, with a hacking<br />
giggle. People were continually<br />
coming to him with lovely contributions,<br />
but j'lst as he put out his hand to receive<br />
them, they would recede from his<br />
grasp. <strong>The</strong> poor man was in such mortal<br />
agony that he continually went into<br />
hysterics. That's how I heard his laugh.<br />
• We left this painful scene and came to<br />
a room where an executive session was<br />
being held. A young lady who seemed<br />
to be in the last stages of nervous prostration<br />
was presiding. It was her doom<br />
to continually be mixed up with amendments<br />
to the amendments, and points of<br />
order. When asked the reason for this<br />
harsh punishment she smiled and said,<br />
"Oh. I giggled in the Spanish Club."<br />
Just then a small, light-haired fellow<br />
rushed in and began ringing bells frantically.<br />
"Why, what's that good-fornothing<br />
fellow doing?" I asked. "Oh,<br />
he's just calling us to the cooler," I was<br />
told.<br />
And to the cooler we were called.<br />
We were carried along by the throng to<br />
where a man sat. Icy chills seemed to<br />
be carried from his person to the suffering<br />
shades. I wondered what it was<br />
he did that cooled us off so completely<br />
''^ i 'i}X"~y'^i~'&Z$<br />
.; "•'.."•".igirp^jji&isffa,-<br />
V^^I^Haapeeh<br />
.: cool;air^remi:<br />
-But as-we "w<br />
i-Jnfernbiaftmal<br />
came rushing I<br />
these minutes {<br />
in great distre<br />
ing for them.<br />
._:; :/;.V.../P<br />
~ < " TKeprfety.<br />
we.now came<br />
after the glar^<br />
were sitting<br />
antly together<br />
hour. But aj<br />
bell rang the<br />
went to thei<br />
~ <strong>The</strong>le :; 'people<br />
on earth and<br />
their friends<br />
One of the<br />
prayed: the TJ<br />
away. A ma|<br />
her. D's as<br />
must, iyou; di|<br />
guide •asked,<br />
the poor.jabdj<br />
,: Just then<br />
' looking up 11<br />
hair driving aj<br />
us^land tookf<br />
Purgatory, in]<br />
so kind hear<br />
notgp to heJ<br />
for? speeding |<br />
swered.<br />
; <strong>The</strong> next ]<br />
was' a 'n<br />
pump<br />
: 7 '--W' ]
when we came in his presence. My<br />
guide whispered. "No one here knows<br />
it, but it's all in the name."<br />
I had seen enough of Hades. <strong>The</strong><br />
cool air reminded me so forcibly of the<br />
stifling heat within that I was only too<br />
glad to be conducted to a plcasantcr<br />
region.<br />
lint as we were ready to ascend from<br />
Inferno a man with a turned-up nose<br />
came rushing by. "Oh, I must have<br />
these minutes ready by <strong>12</strong>:30." he said<br />
in great distress. "Mis majesty is waiting<br />
for them. Oh. dear, oh, dear!"<br />
PURGATORY.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pretty, mountainous region which<br />
we now came upon was a great relief<br />
after the glare of Inferno. Merc shades<br />
were sitting around or talking pleasantly<br />
together, because it was the noonhour.<br />
But as soon as the one o'clock<br />
bell rang the inhabitants of Purgatory<br />
went to their customary employment.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se people had sinned slightly while<br />
on earth and were consigned here until<br />
their friends had prayed their sins away.<br />
One of the women had been relieved<br />
just as we came. Her friends had<br />
prayed the D's she had in high school<br />
away. A man was digging a grave for<br />
her D's as we arrived. "How deep<br />
must you dig the grave. John?" the<br />
guide asked. "One foot for each D,"<br />
the poor laborer said.<br />
Just then we heard a toot-toot and<br />
looking up I saw a lady with burnished<br />
hair driving a Cadillac. She stopped for<br />
us, and took us in. She drove us over<br />
Purgatory in her machine. "You are<br />
so kind hearted," I said, "why did you<br />
not go to heaven?" "Oh, I was pinched<br />
for speeding too many times." she answered.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next Purgatorian we came upon<br />
was a man who was attempting to<br />
pump some spirit into a football team.<br />
"Go to it, fellows. A bunch of men<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
33<br />
like you should be able to play a good<br />
game. Show some pep. fellows!" We<br />
stopped his harangue at this point and<br />
asked him why lie had not been consigned<br />
to Hades. "Oh, really. I was<br />
good. My only fault was slang and<br />
talking too much. And then, too. I<br />
ransohard at a football game that I had<br />
a nose bleed. Martyrs never go to<br />
Hades, you know."<br />
<strong>The</strong> next object of interest was a tall<br />
young lady who was practicing on a<br />
piano. She was bringing forth really<br />
divine melody. She was practicing so<br />
she could play in the heavenly orchestra<br />
after her release from Purgatory.<br />
PARADISE.<br />
Just then the sound of distant singing<br />
was heard. I found myself transported<br />
to Paradise. A great float passed me<br />
with the heavenly choir upon it. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
had just welcomed a soul to glory.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were chanting:<br />
Mere is a glad newcomer.<br />
Give ears, ye saints, give ears.<br />
She has come to us from earth<br />
With straight S for four whole years.<br />
I raised my eyes to see her face but<br />
the light blinded me. <strong>The</strong> sun was<br />
shining in my eyes and it was time for<br />
me to get up for school.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> Seasons.<br />
When Winters gone, and Sowers gone.<br />
For they're going out together.<br />
What will we do? Oh, yes.<br />
We'll have Rainv weather.<br />
Card of Thanks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> management of the Goat-Hook<br />
wishes to thank the following members<br />
of the Clothes Press Club for<br />
their valuable services as goat-herds:<br />
Aileen Hand. Vincent Mead. Ernest<br />
Smith, P.ernard Fest. Fisher Buckingham,<br />
Uert Frohman. George Goodall.<br />
i
•I<br />
By ROLPH<br />
<strong>The</strong> life of a dramatic critic in a<br />
massive city is often arduous, occasionally<br />
pleasant, and once in a thousand<br />
times interesting. I don't let myself<br />
think so, but once in a while I am<br />
charmed with a bit of business or a<br />
chance line in a dramatic piece, and<br />
niv vocation seems almost worth, while.<br />
<strong>The</strong> production of '"<strong>The</strong> Amazons" at<br />
the "Annex" impressed me so Wednesday.<br />
As I stood behind the hedge -In<br />
the first act, watching in turn the superb<br />
character work of Messrs. Buckir.gvian.<br />
Chapwolfc and Ham and Mvn again the<br />
subtle handling of a difficult situaaation<br />
by Miss Crowsneeze, I was glad I was<br />
alive. I resolved to interview her (we<br />
have now completed the first paragraph<br />
of necessary bull and can begin the<br />
actual interview).<br />
A? I entered her dressing room, Miss<br />
Crowsneeze was seated reading a funny<br />
paper. She makes a special study of<br />
wit and humor and spends all her<br />
leisure hours scanning the papers for<br />
new sparks of fun. She rose and<br />
frankly greeted me. She is frank and<br />
open in her manner and we found no<br />
difficulty in carrying- on a very interesting<br />
dialogue. It is not always thus.<br />
Of course our talk turned to her<br />
present bill. "Do you know, the Amazons<br />
seems much funnier than it really<br />
is." she informed me. "<strong>The</strong> lines are<br />
not particularly bright but it is the audience's<br />
familiarity with the players—no<br />
I mean the player's familiarity with the<br />
audience that produces the mirth. For<br />
instance in the third act, the author did<br />
not conceive of making Mr. Buckingham's<br />
part a personification of grace,<br />
but, when at rehearsals he so violently<br />
spilled ginger ale and glasses and himself,<br />
besides sliding down ropes unexpectedly<br />
and lying hit by swinging aparatus,<br />
we let him go on doing it."<br />
"What makes the play seem so natural?"<br />
I asked.<br />
"It is the recklessness of the cast.<br />
It has never been played the same way<br />
twice. We now, of course, know what<br />
to expect, some times it is very confusing."<br />
"I have often wondered why more<br />
athletic types were not selected to play<br />
as overcoated Amazons," quoth I.<br />
"It does seem strange, doesn't it?<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact is that we were all much more<br />
husky when we began, but the strenuous<br />
work has reduced us. Our stage manager<br />
is a vigorous worker. <strong>The</strong> actual<br />
giving of the play is always subordinate<br />
to rehearsals."<br />
"Haven't we been talking along,<br />
though?"' I spurred her on. "Have<br />
you always played the lead with Mr.<br />
Chapman ?"'<br />
"Oh, yes! If it wasn't for him I<br />
couldn't go on. Don't you think he's<br />
grand? Do you know that complexion<br />
is natural. He never tises fixatives.<br />
Why, I just wait longingly all through<br />
the play for that waltz in the last act.<br />
Don't you think it's fine. HE wrote<br />
that waltz (here she coyly smiled and<br />
blushed). Did you know it was dedicated<br />
to me?"<br />
"No, I did not." I said.<br />
At this point the call boy passed<br />
announcing Miss Crowsneeze's entrance,<br />
and with a sweet good-by we parted.<br />
34<br />
-Picture ^Mii|yp)^^v<br />
Picture' Djjke|Marv^eli<br />
; Pichire ;Er^^SmitH& n<br />
Picture Bob iUnderhili;>\\<br />
Law. I<br />
Picture Grace: Adams, ,<br />
boys, ;, • '.<br />
Picture Hazel Cook, fuj<br />
Picture Ruby Jeweil,*witi<br />
hair, '•'-.. j<br />
Ficture Miss Hand, \v<br />
stare. 1<br />
Picture Sherwood Chapn<br />
tidy,<br />
Picture Fitz Cheney, wj<br />
ciety:<br />
Picture Miss. Newman j<br />
all gone, h :' ' 4<br />
Picture Miss Isaacs, ;loc<br />
Picture Eva Coe; not w:<br />
Picture George Goodall,<br />
Picture Miss Crossley, i<br />
mure/ ><br />
Picture Miss Porwancln<br />
poor;<br />
Pictures-Fish Buckirigl:<br />
C ing to dance,..;,••<br />
Picture Will Winter; i<br />
Picture-Miss Mathews,<br />
Picture Bert Frohma<br />
meek.<br />
Picture them all, my re<br />
As I have pictured the<br />
Class here.<br />
r<br />
Miss Duffy—How<br />
enjoy Silas Marner?<br />
Ransohoff—I did no<br />
Miss D.—Why not,<br />
Ransohoff—I have i
JUST PICTURE.<br />
Picture Jim Ransohoff, a shy young lad.<br />
Picture Miss Waihcl. ever so bad,<br />
Picture Ida Blumj: so slender and tall,<br />
Picture Duke Marwedel, ever so small.<br />
Picture Ernie Smith, not wanting to<br />
draw.<br />
Picture P.ob Underhill. without Robert's<br />
Law.<br />
Picture Grace Adams, afraid of the<br />
boys.<br />
Picture Hazel Cook, full of noise.<br />
Picture Ruby Jewell, with straight black<br />
hair.<br />
Picture Miss Hand, without a baby<br />
stare.<br />
Picture Sherwood Chapman, always untidy.<br />
Picture Fitz Cheney, without girls' society.<br />
Picture Miss Newman, with freckles<br />
all gone,<br />
Picture Miss Isaacs, looking forlorn.<br />
Picture Eva Coe. not wanting to laugh.<br />
Picture George Goodall, tall as a giraffe.<br />
Picture Miss Crosslcy. so prim and demure.<br />
Picture Miss Porwancher. in lessons so<br />
poor.<br />
Picture Fish P.uckingham. not wanting<br />
to dance.<br />
Picture Will Winter, full of romance.<br />
Picture Miss Mathews. failing in Greek.<br />
Picture Bert Frohman. angelic and<br />
meek.<br />
Picture them all. my reader clear,<br />
As I have pictured the December, '11<br />
Class here.<br />
D. E. X., '11.<br />
Miss Duffy—How many did not<br />
enjoy Silas Marner?<br />
Ransohoff—I did not.<br />
Miss D.—Why not, Ransohoff?<br />
Ransohoff—I have not read it yet.<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
35<br />
—THE CAUGHT THEATER—<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Home of the Worst"<br />
G. Homer Sussdorff<br />
Presents<br />
Fits You Cheney<br />
in<br />
What Every Woman Knows<br />
With Superb Support<br />
Mr. Cheney as "Every Woman."<br />
Mr. Underhill as "<strong>The</strong> French Barber."<br />
Miss Waibel as "Lizzie the P.ar-<br />
Maid."<br />
Miss Rvan as "<strong>The</strong> Foreladv."<br />
A SWIMMING MEET.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was tumult on the benches.<br />
In the quaint old swimming tank.<br />
And the water splashed with swimmers.<br />
Racing restless up the bank.<br />
I.owellites did crush their score-cards.<br />
As they gave their <strong>Lowell</strong> yells.<br />
While the sweat stood on their foreheads,<br />
With the jingling of cow-bells.<br />
It was in the great old relay,<br />
That our hardest race was won.<br />
How they shouted! What rejoicings!<br />
As the red man crossed the line:<br />
Till the noise of <strong>Lowell</strong>'s triumph.<br />
Thrilled us with a feeling-fine.<br />
HERMXCTOX." '14.<br />
On a recent examination paper in<br />
civics was this question: '"If the<br />
President. Vice-President and all the<br />
members of the Cabinet died, who<br />
would officiate?"<br />
One student, after trying in vain to<br />
recall who came next in succession, had<br />
a happy inspiration and wrote, '"<strong>The</strong><br />
undertaker."
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
THE AMERICAN COLLAR.<br />
(Somewhat) After Emerson.<br />
It is with pleasure that I appear before<br />
you gents to-day. Business is good.<br />
<strong>The</strong> outlook is bright. It is to be hoped<br />
that very soon men will turn about from<br />
the great scientific and engineering feats<br />
now being accomplished and think of<br />
themselves more, and of their appearance<br />
on Friday and Saturday nights.<br />
<strong>The</strong> people of the world have come to<br />
scorn the highest tidiness and appearance<br />
in their fellow men. And so it is<br />
that I have chosen to speak to you today<br />
on the American collar.<br />
Clothes must be thought of in their<br />
entirety to be studied. It is rumored<br />
that the gods divided suits into coats.<br />
vests and trousers that they might be<br />
more helpful to themselves. But for<br />
purposes of study we must consider the<br />
whole. Man is but a backgroir.nl for<br />
the clothes. <strong>The</strong> great tendency now is<br />
for "man at the dresser" to become "man<br />
dressing." This is dangerous.<br />
<strong>The</strong> collar is the index of apparel<br />
just as the finger ring is the announcer.<br />
<strong>The</strong> old oracle might have said "All collars<br />
have two buttons: beware of the<br />
wrong one." Let us take the collar by<br />
the small stub and consider him in his<br />
natural atmosphere, round the neck.<br />
First the influences:<br />
<strong>The</strong> greatest influence on the collar is<br />
powdered nature. After one day's exposure<br />
in this world of sin and filth, the<br />
collar becomes so influenced by nature<br />
that it requires a week to restore it.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next great influence is the past.<br />
For the past years, gentlemen in Paris<br />
and on the Orpheum en route have been<br />
showing us what style of collar to wear.<br />
At first they were ruffs. <strong>The</strong>n came<br />
lace as a sort of border to the coat. We<br />
wore high chokers for a while. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
they began to turn over. We wore them<br />
very low with a large tie, and now we<br />
wear them very high with almost no tie<br />
at all. <strong>The</strong> future may bear possibilities,<br />
but there are few unused new styles<br />
left. Through it all, however, we must<br />
not be enslaved by the past. We must<br />
remember that the influence of fashion<br />
arl former fashions arc to inspire us,<br />
not to dictate to us. Let us be improved<br />
by style when we look scrubby, but let<br />
us cultivate a taste of our own.<br />
<strong>The</strong> third great influence on the collar<br />
is that of action. No collar can keep his<br />
self-respect by staying in solitude and<br />
seeing no one else's collar. He soon degenerates<br />
into negligee or flannel. He<br />
must go out into the world and be seen<br />
to make his maintenance worth while.<br />
He must undergo the wiltings of heat<br />
and work. He must submit to disfigurement<br />
by rain. He must mix in the cosmopolitan<br />
pack of the laundry. In short,<br />
to be ornamental and so useful he must<br />
be active.<br />
<strong>The</strong> duties of the collar are few. At<br />
all times he must be independent and<br />
self-reliant. He must stand alone and<br />
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constant with the aid of starch. He<br />
must be bold yet colorless. Bashfulness<br />
and shrinking are not becoming to him.<br />
He must become the leader of wearing<br />
apparel.<br />
Perhaps I have dwelt tediously on the<br />
collar in the abstract. We must consider<br />
the American collar. We have long been<br />
swayed by England and France and<br />
other swell European countries. We<br />
find it in such names as Chester, Belmont<br />
and Eaton. We must make our<br />
collars pre-eminently American. This<br />
we have begun to do by naming our collars<br />
for prominent aviators and comets<br />
''^^BOmmm<br />
ti fie American;,<br />
EXIT JOY-E|<br />
When all iround's<br />
And in school and<br />
Of fun you yearn<br />
With one, who lik<br />
Suppose you're in ^<br />
Surrounded by sc<br />
tall,<br />
Has it ever occiui<br />
you sat '' "*<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's someone ]<br />
to chat?-<br />
You lookTtcTthe<br />
the front,:<br />
In each nook and]<br />
you hunt,;;<br />
You've just spi<<br />
turned in he<br />
You really don't<br />
you will iriee<br />
You look at her.<br />
But the fair yo<br />
•••••• pays--- V j<br />
She's busily worl<br />
And coolly ignor<br />
And just as;yoi<br />
. . speak; '^;;<br />
She
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
Let us continue the good work. Let us Your pulse gives a bump: you're up in a<br />
make America, the queen of industry jump,<br />
and science, also the standard for styles Your heart's in your throat, in one great<br />
and collars. big lump.<br />
No Taxation Without Representation. <strong>The</strong> hall teacher gazes as by him you<br />
"Great celebration at Schuetzen stalk.<br />
Park. Sarah Fest has received the Determined, by now. to the maiden to<br />
ballot ('Amendment No. 8)."—Scien-<br />
talk -<br />
tific American. Your mind's in ;•- whirl, you're all in a<br />
flurry.<br />
pyTT m v Fv,TpP rT n O M !r ° r EXIT JOY—ENTER GLOOM.<br />
*»«-* maid will be gone if soon you<br />
^ ^ hum._<br />
When all around's serene and fair<br />
And in school and out you have no care,<br />
Of fun you yearn to have your share<br />
With one. who like you. has no care.<br />
Suppose you're in the study hall.<br />
Surrounded by schoolmates, short and<br />
tall.<br />
Has it ever occurred that from where<br />
you sat<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's someone with whom you'd love<br />
to chat?<br />
You look to the back, and you look to<br />
the front.<br />
Tn each nook and corner, you peer and<br />
you hunt.<br />
You've just spied a beauty as she's<br />
turned in her seat.<br />
You really don't know her. but swear<br />
you will meet.<br />
You look at her. and gape and gaze.<br />
But the fair young miss no attention<br />
pays.<br />
She's busily working at her books.<br />
And coolly ignores your yearning looks.<br />
And just as you're aching with her to<br />
speak.<br />
She goes to the dictionary, some knowledge<br />
to seek.<br />
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I low fussed you feel when you reach the<br />
place.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re's a look of perplexity on her sweet<br />
face.<br />
Perchance, if you're lucky, and smile<br />
her way,<br />
<strong>The</strong> maid with a blush might deign to<br />
say:<br />
"Thay in whitch of theeth bookth ith the<br />
life of Thakthpeare?"<br />
Doesn't it jar you. when such words you<br />
hear?<br />
You coolly reply, and sneak to your place.<br />
Convinced that all is not just in a face.<br />
D. L. \V.. Tune '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> driver of the wagon on the<br />
fishing tour never opened his mouth,<br />
except when appealed to. but his<br />
slightest utterance burned with wit.<br />
with a little brogue thrown in.<br />
"You're a pretty bright sort of a<br />
chap." remarked one of the passen-<br />
Rcrs. "It's easy to see that your people<br />
came from Ireland."<br />
"Not on your life." said Mike.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re ye are badly mistaken."<br />
"What! Didn't come from Ireland!"<br />
"Niver! <strong>The</strong>y're there yit."
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
UNDER THE SPREADING BOOT TREE.<br />
This detriment is edited by that the dictionary, where it was given as<br />
ic of o ' satirical saSl c 1 humorists, Hoo Hoc meaning "grave." Th,s is the sen<br />
Wood B. Fest. He has been secured<br />
tence she wrote, "<strong>The</strong> man was in his<br />
at great expense and at the risk of solemn."<br />
the personal cheerfulness of the shepherds<br />
of the Goat-Hook. As GOOD "I saw a wonderful thing to-dav.<br />
jokes are rare, we will give a boot for "What was it?"<br />
every legitimate contribution to this "A plate with a bun on."<br />
column. Go to it, Clarence! Allright.<br />
Mead—<strong>The</strong> assessment will have to<br />
be $2.00 a head.<br />
Murdock— No, $2.00 behind.<br />
Question—Who is king of the H-4<br />
Class?<br />
Answer—Chaos reigns supreme!<br />
What Did He Mean?<br />
Mr. R-g-s—Who can give me an<br />
example of classism?<br />
Small Boy—<strong>The</strong>re goes a squab.<br />
N. B.—<strong>The</strong> sheriff and the coroner<br />
are simultaneously looking for the<br />
propagator of this torture. Odds are<br />
10-6 on the sheriff.—P.. F. ED.<br />
Mr. Crofts—Repeat what I said.<br />
Poor Fellow—Don't leave the sign<br />
outside if you can help it.<br />
Fest (as he galloped into German)<br />
—I've a little pony.<br />
Meaning of equilateralhorscsicles ?<br />
Little Irene, on being told by her<br />
teacher to write a sentence containing<br />
the word "solemn," looked it up in<br />
Maiden Lady (after trying to learn<br />
to play tennis)—And he kept saying<br />
30, love. Wonder what he meant?<br />
Man (at bargain counter)—I want a<br />
lady's waist.<br />
Saleslady—What size and color?<br />
Man—I don't know and I don't<br />
care.<br />
Lady—You'll get it wrong.<br />
Man—That's nothing; it's for my<br />
wife so it'll be wrong anyhow.<br />
Soon after Al Willard entered U. C.<br />
he showed great ability in using a<br />
milk bottle.<br />
No one has a right to be contented. It<br />
is the one absolutely fatal state.<br />
Suspicious.<br />
Miss Oldgirl—I wonder why that<br />
baby always yells whenever it sees me.<br />
Crusty Old Bachelor — Because,<br />
ma'am, babies have the privilege denied<br />
to other unfortunate beings of<br />
expressing their feelings as they<br />
please.—Ex.<br />
38<br />
Why is a cowardly soldier like a<br />
roll of butter?<br />
Because he will run when exposed to<br />
fire.<br />
••&•<br />
Boericke-s-War-Cr<br />
Student Affaire;Com;<br />
R. Statistics^.^j<br />
have to show'Bell; ;<br />
Question For the (<br />
Resolved, That ii<br />
your picture in the<br />
with which you rea<br />
the one you oughn<br />
with. • (If possible,<br />
Sussdorf'reports<<br />
as he says he jwaother<br />
day, anckthe<br />
going all day, and i<br />
was no bettette==<br />
•\ •.v;.^In i<br />
Sturmthal%ied<br />
cestral chaSeau|th<br />
pulled up th^draw<br />
.get across"thegoi<br />
Rumor has#"<br />
scho, H§f ai<br />
Sturmthal<br />
:.--••-Arts- 11
Teacher—Who was the first man?<br />
Pupil—Washington; lie was first in<br />
war, first—<br />
Teacher—No, no, Adam was the first<br />
man.<br />
Pupil—Oh, yes, I suppose so, if you<br />
were talking about foreigners.—Ex.<br />
Motto for the Suffrage Leaders.<br />
"She laughs best who laughs last."<br />
Iiocricke's War Cry—"Down with the<br />
Student Affairs Committee!"<br />
R. Statistics M. I'nderhill's—"You'll<br />
have to show me!"<br />
Question For the Debating Society.<br />
Resolved. That it is better to have<br />
your picture in the annual in the class<br />
with which you really graduate than in<br />
the one you ought to have graduated<br />
with. (If possible, have it in both!)<br />
THE GOAT HOOK<br />
Sussdorf reports fog horns of no avail,<br />
as he says he was on a boat ride the<br />
other day. and they had the fog horns<br />
going all day. and in the evening the fog<br />
was no better!<br />
In Vain.<br />
Sturnuhal tried to escape from his ancestral<br />
chateau the other day, but they<br />
pulled up the drawbridge and he couldn't<br />
get across the moat.<br />
Rumor has it that Ehnnan runs the<br />
school. Me and Buckingham and<br />
Sturmthal have a committee.<br />
In Greek.<br />
"Hut I pity the Trojan heroes and<br />
the long-skirted sons of Troy!"<br />
Teacher—Wie kommst die Hcrr?<br />
Pupil (indignantly) — Nobody; I<br />
combed it myself.<br />
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He was being punished for something<br />
or other by being shut up in a closet,<br />
where he raised, an awful row. kicking<br />
and screaming. Finally the noise<br />
ceased, and his mentor approached<br />
the door, to whom the youthful prodigy<br />
replied, "I'm not good yet: I'm<br />
resting 1 ."<br />
Hostess—Will you have some bread<br />
and butter, darling.<br />
Small Roy—Bread and butter! I<br />
thought this was a party.<br />
"I think it would be well." said<br />
the decorator, "to have your dining<br />
room bordered by a frieze."<br />
"No, no," remonstrated the man<br />
who had but recently struck it rich,<br />
"I want that room, above all, to have<br />
a warm., cozy appearance."<br />
Teacher—Tommie, what is the future<br />
of "I give"?<br />
Tonnnic—You take.<br />
Teacher—Who was Joan of -\rc?<br />
Small Boy—Why, the wife of Noah,<br />
who built it, of course.<br />
In Low Two Latin.<br />
Mr. Rhodes (trying to get Miss<br />
Levy to translate verb)—Now, Mollie,<br />
you've had me on pins and needles<br />
waiting for the one beautiful word.<br />
Tell me just that one sweet word.<br />
Miss P. (in stage whisper)—Say<br />
yes, Mollie!<br />
"Hubby, you have a lock of my hair,<br />
haven't you?"<br />
"Next my heart."<br />
"See if you can match it in some<br />
puffs when you go down town."—Ex.
CLASS OFFICERS <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Spring 1909.<br />
Clarence Wakeman President<br />
Irene Reynolds Vice-President<br />
Sherwood Chapman Secretary<br />
George Becker Treasurer<br />
Fall 1909.<br />
Eugene Richards President<br />
Fern Gable Vice-President<br />
Robert L'nderhill Secretary<br />
liartlin Johnson Treasurer<br />
'Spring 1910.<br />
Robert M. Underbill President<br />
Ida Blum Vice-President<br />
George E. Goodall Secretary<br />
Bartlin Johnson Treasurer<br />
Fall 1910.<br />
George E. Goodall President<br />
Marjorie Ryan Vice-President<br />
Fisher Buckingham Secretary<br />
Ernest Smith Treasurer<br />
Spring <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Vincent Mead President<br />
Eva Coe V ice-President<br />
Ida Blum Secretary<br />
Willis L. Winter Treasurer<br />
Fall <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
James Ransohoff President<br />
Gladys Waible Vice-President<br />
Eva Coe .Secretary<br />
Fisher Buckingham -. Treasurer<br />
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GEORGE MONTGl<br />
ESTHER ROTH .<br />
JENNIS HAMMON<br />
GEO. BECKER ..,<br />
PINK VAN VLIE'tJ<br />
RIP VAN EHRM.'<br />
PROF. ARNOLD<br />
NIFTY CALDER-j<br />
KELLEY GOHN-I<br />
BERT THOMAS<br />
ESTHER^SCHIMI<br />
EDITH GRIFFIM<br />
CYRIL DUSENBIl<br />
CHAUCER FALC<br />
SUSAN B ANTH'<br />
NOISY BELL-W<br />
COMMUTER BO1<br />
**><br />
It the undertak
CLASS OFFICERS.<br />
June 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
GEORGE MONTGOM ERY "'resident<br />
EST1IKR ROTH Vice-I'resident<br />
JENNIS 1IAMMON Secretary<br />
CEO. BECKER - Treasurer<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
1'IN'K VAN VI.I I\T—Class carnation and advertising agent for the now celebrated:—<br />
RIP VAN 1C11 R.MAN—<strong>The</strong> grand old man and Sleeping Iieaiity of <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
I'ROI-' ARNOLD BOWHAY—<strong>The</strong> eminent scientist, who recently risked life and<br />
liml) to prove to the world that illuminating gas is combustible.<br />
NIFTY CM.DER—Whose strikingly original idea of wearing his "safety" pin over the<br />
kneecap has revolutionized the methods of the tasty and nobby<br />
costumer.<br />
KFLLEY COHN—<strong>The</strong> thespian critic of the local stage, whose unusual talents bid<br />
fair to soon place him among the foremost heroes of the nickelodeon<br />
world.<br />
CLASS OFFICERS.<br />
December 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
BERT THOMAS President<br />
FSTI1ER SCHIMITTMAN Vice-Presidcnt<br />
EDITH GRIFFIN Secretary<br />
CYRIL DUSF.NBERRY ' rcasurcr<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
CH \L"CF-R FALCONER—Poet laureate, the boy with an eyebrow on his lip.<br />
SUS \N B. ANTHONY SCHAERTZER—Spends the summer at Ross and tames not<br />
only wild horses.<br />
NOISY UF.LL—Who would rather eat tongue than be happy.<br />
COMMUTER BOERICKE—Whose motto is "Manana." and whose actions are incidental<br />
to his dreams.<br />
If the undertaker can inter a corpse, can Dusenbury?<br />
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CLASS OFFICERS.<br />
June 1913.<br />
HAROLD BLACK President<br />
CARLOTTA SAWYER Vice-President<br />
MARTHA McCLOUGHRY Secretary<br />
HARVEY LIVINGSTON Treasurer<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
"THREE BALLS" SOMMER—Whose tongue is even greater than Excalibur.<br />
MISS RUGGLES—She believes that diamond rings aid election to office. No, they<br />
arc a result, not a means.<br />
HERRICK—Who figures to win the test-tube contest. He has annihilated four score<br />
and ten.<br />
BLACKAND McEWEN—Green way in embryo.<br />
ROUGHO ROBINSON—Who will move next week.<br />
CLASS OFFICERS.<br />
December 1913.<br />
ROBERTS MARTIN President<br />
HELEN ARENDT ' [[[[ [.[ " [[[ V^President<br />
LOUIS LESS Secretary<br />
BENNET GOLCHER ." V.'.V.'.V^^.^TreasureV<br />
Note—Owing to the pep of this class, it was found necessary to dissolve their<br />
organization, for the good of the schoolhouse. <strong>The</strong> following are a few of the<br />
Daffydills.<br />
If Raymond can buffalo Mr. Carey, can Albert Bull?<br />
It a particularly choice girl wer- in the boat, would Louis Lameroux?<br />
We also have:<br />
PRINCESS PRESSLEY-He likes to ride on moving paddle wheels.<br />
ROUGHNECK GR1EB—Why does he make up Biology after school on Tuesday?<br />
OREL GOLDAR<br />
ALBERT A< CHE<br />
ELEANOR DUB<br />
LESTER WOLI<br />
CHICK FOSTE1<br />
SLIVERS CARF<br />
GRACEFUL 01<br />
:£$&£S
CLASS OFFICERS.<br />
June 1914.<br />
OREL GOLDARACKN'A President<br />
ALBERTA CM ESS Vice-President<br />
ELEANOR DURBROW Secretary<br />
LESTER WOLFF Treasurer<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
CHICK FOSTER—<strong>The</strong> seven-foot infant who dances at rallies.<br />
SLIVERS CARFAGXI—He challenges the world to play him handball and out-crab<br />
him.<br />
GRACEFUL OLENDER—Who hopes to shoulder the while man's burden on the<br />
track team.<br />
December, 1914.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se eggs will be hatched by the end of this week.
THELOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Price of Tell.<br />
Far, far away, farther, perhaps, than you or I have ever been, lies a v,<br />
little country whose mountains are always capped with snow. Switzerland, r<br />
they call this strange, but beautiful land, with great, natural walls surrounding<br />
it on all sides, and its glaciers, and deep gorges and ravines. Way<br />
down in the southern end, tucked away in a corner, is the quaint, little<br />
town of Gene. It lies in the midst of some of the steepest mountains in<br />
Switzerland, and just at the base of old Matverhorn, whose grim visage,<br />
towering high in the heavens, frowns on the town below.<br />
It was Christmas eve,—a typical Christmas eve. <strong>The</strong> snow was falling<br />
steadily and silently, its crisp, white flakes covering the highways, and<br />
banking up against the houses. Up above the town, the wind was holding<br />
sway, but clown in the valley everything was silent. Except for the lights<br />
shining in the windows, one would have thought the place was forsaken,<br />
for all the shops were closed, and the streets deserted. <strong>The</strong> last'loiterer<br />
had long since departed.<br />
But, if it was silent without, not so within. Every house was the scene<br />
of merrymaking. For was not the good old Kris Kringle expected that very<br />
night? Great and many were the preparations made in the dear old Saint's<br />
honor, and numerous were the fears of many of the children, who, consciencestricken<br />
and smitten with images of former pranks, trembled, lest the old<br />
fellow, who could be most alarmingly stern if the occasion demanded, should<br />
leave them a bundle of sticks in place of the sugar plums and sweetmeats,<br />
visions of which danced tantalizingly before their anxious eyes.<br />
But everyone was not inside. Out in the snow, a solitary person was<br />
toiling up the mountain. Behind him lay Gene; ahead, old Matterhorn, its<br />
head submerged in clouds, its old throat growling, and its eyes flashing, as<br />
the wind whistled around it, spending its fury here, having failed to reach<br />
the town below. <strong>The</strong> little figure, struggling upwards, stopped again and<br />
again to draw his tattered cloak more tightly about him.<br />
Half-way up the old mountain's back he stopped, and, pushing open the<br />
door of a little cottage, entered. As he stepped inside, a huge St. Bernard<br />
dog bounded toward him, barking, and leaping about him, trying to express<br />
in actions the joy and pleasure which he felt but could not utter.<br />
'"Down, Tell, down!" the boy commanded as he crossed to the open fireplace,<br />
wherein the remains of a never very large fire sent forth a soft, dull<br />
glow. He stooped to poke the coals into action, and as he did so the firelight,<br />
reflecting on his face, brought it out in strong relief. His eyes were<br />
an intense black- and heavily fringed. His straight nose, firm mouth, and<br />
determined jaw gave character to his face. A mop of dark, curly hair<br />
crowned his well-shaped head. He was clad in the native Swiss dress, torn<br />
and worn, however, beyond description. Big, awkward-looking goat-skin<br />
boots covered his feet, reaching half-way up his legs. <strong>The</strong>se, though somewhat<br />
worn, were by far the best part of his attire. He carried an Alpine<br />
staff, which he put behind the door when he entered.<br />
<strong>The</strong> room in which he stood was rather large; evidently the living<br />
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was thiirah<br />
expression i<br />
drew near t<br />
"Ah,ij\<br />
me, have y<<br />
there is littl<br />
has been so<br />
cried thems<br />
appointed."<br />
"I kno<br />
to-morrow.'<br />
turn away<br />
he viewed i<br />
of rye brea<br />
though hei<br />
he saw coul<br />
three meals<br />
on Tell, wr<br />
supperless.<br />
......Ariosto<br />
years old, (<br />
two young<br />
family, but<br />
mouths wei<br />
mother was<br />
children, ar<br />
had been a<br />
various heii<br />
there was ii<br />
work for.th'<br />
Early'it:<br />
meat, depai<br />
was Christi<br />
father had<br />
had cqntrib<br />
verge of 'sp<br />
mountain^<br />
snow.: <strong>The</strong>
THE LOWELL<br />
room of the house. Latticed windows opening out faced the town below.<br />
..<strong>The</strong> furniture, which was rude and plain, consisted of a table, several chairs,<br />
•and a cupboard fastened in one corner. A shelf, secured to the wall, extended<br />
entirely around the room. On this were placed at intervals ornaments,—figures<br />
of animals, and other images, all carved out of \*ood. A<br />
couple of hand-woven rugs covered the floor.<br />
As the lad straightened up after his efforts with the fire, a lady entered<br />
the room. She, too, was clothed in the native dress, which, like her son's,<br />
was thin and threadbare. Deep rings circling her eyes accentuated the tired<br />
expression in her thin, pale face. Wrapping her shawl closer about her. she<br />
drew near the fire.<br />
"Ah, Ariosto," she said, "you arc later than usual to-night. Hut, tell<br />
me, have you met with any better success to-day? I sincerely hope so, for<br />
there is little left in the house to eat. and no money, and everything of value<br />
has been sold now. And then, to-night is Christmas eve. <strong>The</strong> children have<br />
cried themselves to sleep. This is the first time they have ever been disappointed."<br />
<strong>The</strong> boy's face saddened, but he strove to speak cheerfully.<br />
"I know, mother," he replied, "but, then, something may turn up by<br />
to-morrow." He spoke with a brightness he did not feel, and was forced to<br />
turn away to hide the obstinate quiver of his lip. Going to the cupboard,<br />
he viewed in silence the solitary plate of dry goat's meat, a small chunk<br />
of rye bread, and the pitcher, not half full of rrilk. He turned away, and<br />
though he was exceedingly hungry, refrained from touching the food, which<br />
lie saw could hardly, even by the most skillful management, last four people<br />
three meals. Fastening the door, he bestowed an affectionate "good night"<br />
on Tell, who was stretched out in front of the grate, and departed to bed.<br />
supperless.<br />
Ariosto Rea was the eldest of three children, and, though but twelve<br />
years old, the wage earner for the family, which consisted of the mother,<br />
two young children, and himself. Teil, also, was considered a part of the<br />
family, but as he shared his master's food, he was not included when<br />
mouths were counted. At the death of his father a year before. Ariosto's<br />
mother was left too feeble to do much more than care for her house and<br />
children, and so the burden of supporting them rested with him. This he<br />
had been able to do, with the aid of the money derived from the sale of<br />
various heirlooms, and articles of value. But now. as Mrs. Rea had said,<br />
there was nothing left to sell, and the winter having arrived, there was less<br />
work for the lad to do, so that it became harder to get food.<br />
Earlv the next morning, Ariosto, taking a small portion of the bread and<br />
meat, departed, dividing the food with Tell who went along with him. It<br />
was Christmas morning. He thought of the Christmas before, when his<br />
father had been alive, and they had had plenty of food and clothing, and<br />
had contributed their share in the merrymaking. Now they were on the<br />
verge of starvation. <strong>The</strong> two comrades proceeded on their way down the<br />
mountain. <strong>The</strong> storm had ceased, and everything in sight was covered with<br />
snow. <strong>The</strong> sky still looked threatening, however, and Ariosto knew they<br />
would have another storm before night. .<br />
47
THE LOWELL<br />
In clue time, they arrived in Gene, and then ensued another long, weary<br />
chase, a repetition of many preceding ones. All day Ariosto walked, going<br />
from door to door, but everyone was too busy celebrating. <strong>The</strong>re was small<br />
use of his services. To be sure he received numerous bits,—sugar plums 1<br />
and cakes, which he stored away in his pockets for the little ones at home.<br />
Late in the afternoon he started lor home, for the storm was about to<br />
break, and it was getting dark.<br />
Some five minutes before, a gentleman tourist, stopping at Gene, had<br />
started up the same road which Ariosto took. Wishing to see the view<br />
from the summit of old Matterhorn, though knowing absolutely nothing<br />
about the country, he had positively refused a guide, and had departed,<br />
despite the protestations and excited ejaculations of disapproval from the<br />
landlord of the inn. This road was dangerous at any time, being filled with<br />
narrow passes, overhanging ledges, and in fact all the dangers of the Alps<br />
which could have been crowded into it, but for an utter stranger to attempt<br />
it as such a time, and without a guide, was almost suicide. But he was an<br />
American, and, as such, thought he was fully competent to take care of<br />
himself.<br />
Ariosto trudged along, rather happy on the whole, for, although he had<br />
not succeeded in getting any work, he had been liberally treated in another<br />
way, and he patted his pockets, bulging with good things. <strong>The</strong>y would not<br />
starve now for another day at any rate. An older person would probably<br />
have thought this poor comfort, but Ariosto was young and hopeful And<br />
so he journeyed upwards, Tell leaping and bounding along ahead ot him.<br />
He had gone about half way up when the storm broke. <strong>The</strong> snow<br />
fell and the wind blew, increasing in strength every moment, finally becoming<br />
almost a hurricane. It grew darker, too, and Ariosto quickened his<br />
pace, eager to be home. Ten minutes later. Tell, who had run on some<br />
distance ahead, began to bark. Hastening, the boy soon came up to him.<br />
Apparently, the dog was bending over a pile of snow. Upon examination<br />
it proved to be the senseless form of the American tourist. He had evidently<br />
slipped on the icy path, and, falling, had struck his head, for a large bruise<br />
decorated the side of it. But Ariosto did not stop to conjecture the cause<br />
of the accident. <strong>The</strong> man was too heavy for the lad to carry, so he turned<br />
to Tell for aid. <strong>The</strong> clog always wore a goat-skin box fastened to a strap of<br />
the same material, secured about his neck. A flask of whiskey and some<br />
bandages were always kept in it. Some of the whiskey was forced clown the<br />
unconscious man's throat. Thiu revived him, and in a short while he was<br />
able to walk, with the boy's assistance, the remaining distance to the cottage.<br />
Arriving there, he was soon thawed out, but waited until the storm abated<br />
before attempting to descend the mountain. He insisted upon returning to<br />
Gene that night, and since a bruised head was the only unpleasant reminder<br />
of his adventure, he was able to do so.<br />
Shortly, the storm ceased, and the moon and stars coming out, lighted<br />
the path as bright as clay. And so they started down the mountain. Everything<br />
was covered with snow. Before them lay Gene, bathed in a silver<br />
4S<br />
Vi.<br />
flopd of ••;inoonligfi|<br />
journey;<br />
eyeing..<br />
pocket, anS: hoiciln<br />
for •tne-db^#€eS<br />
brain, they choked? hihv,<br />
the companibn^AyKoijhj<br />
followedi-him faithfilllj'!<br />
"Never, never/^the<br />
of those at home.- Hov<br />
without fear, of. starvatii<br />
hand and the coins drc<br />
and brushing aside ~the;;<br />
him, and go quickly.'' '<br />
not what to make of th<br />
fondling and kissing hi<br />
pered, but obedient as<br />
over to him who was<br />
him, and they went off<br />
who had thus, seemin)<br />
blinded eyes until they<br />
the mountain. He ch<br />
then gazed at them,a<br />
pocket. <strong>The</strong> sound tin<br />
His heart was in Gem<br />
<strong>The</strong> storm is<br />
No more dri'<br />
Has stopped<br />
Of Sataii's'k<br />
His rumbiin!.<br />
Fronft&ck. ac<br />
Is silent'with<br />
And then'the<br />
j ^<br />
Its tropic bar<br />
Or here^cM-vt<br />
TiistcaugHt 1<br />
Now dnpS;. fl<br />
Arid; ^dainty,<br />
• <strong>The</strong>air i0i<br />
<strong>The</strong> heaven's
¥<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
f<br />
Hood of moonlight. Walking- rapidly, they soon reached the end of their<br />
journey. Just before they entered the village, the stranger, who had been<br />
eyeing Tell enviously, all the way down, drew three gold pieces from his<br />
pocket, and holding them up before the boy's eyes, offered them in exchange<br />
for the dog. "Sell Tell!" <strong>The</strong> words burned themselves into Ariosto's,<br />
brain, they choked him, and left him speechless. Sell the comrade of years,<br />
the companion, who had shared his joys and hardships in turn, who had<br />
followed him faithfully!<br />
".Never, never," the boy declared to himself. Rut then, came the thought<br />
of those at home. How the money would help them. <strong>The</strong>y could live then,<br />
without fear of starvation before the spring came. He suddenly held out his<br />
hand and the coins dropped into the outstretched palm. He turned away,<br />
and brushing aside the tears, which would come, said in a husky voice, "take<br />
him. and go quickly." <strong>The</strong>n he started up the mountain, and Tell, who knew<br />
not what to make of the whole performance started after him. Illut Ario?to,<br />
fondling and kissing him, bade him go with the stranger. <strong>The</strong> dog whimpered,<br />
but obedient as usual, turned slowly, and with drooping tail, walked<br />
over to him who was henceforth to be his master. <strong>The</strong> gentleman caUed<br />
him. and they went off. Tell every HOW ami 'hen turning to look at the lad<br />
who had thus, seemingly, deserted him. Ariosto watched them with terbliuded<br />
eyes until they were out of sight, then turned, and started slowly up<br />
the mountain. He clutched the coins, unheeded, in his nerveless fingers,<br />
then gazed at them a moment in silence, before he dropped then in his<br />
pocket. <strong>The</strong> sound they made, clinking against each other, moved him not.<br />
llis heart was in Gene. M. G. McCi.orciiuv. |une '13.<br />
<strong>The</strong> SnaKe Woman.<br />
G. HOMER SI'SSHORF, June 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> storm is o'er. <strong>The</strong> hissing, pelting rain<br />
No more drives down. <strong>The</strong> screaming wind long hence<br />
Has stopped its shrill, wild blast. <strong>The</strong> flaring winks<br />
Of Satan's leering eye have ceased and. too.<br />
His rumbling, roaring laugh, that echoed loud<br />
From back across the Andes' range. <strong>The</strong> world<br />
Ts silenfwith the aftermath, save now<br />
And then the lapping of the waves, as broad.<br />
Majestic Amazon rolls on between<br />
Tts tropic banks in grandeur uncompared.<br />
Or here or there the drop of tardy rain,<br />
lust caught before its fall upon the palm,<br />
Xow drips from leaf to leaf and thence to ground,<br />
And, dainty, patters on the underbrush.<br />
<strong>The</strong> air is damp and warm. <strong>The</strong> rain has cleared<br />
<strong>The</strong> heaven's meadow with its cleansing flood<br />
And now the earth gives forth its humid heat.<br />
<strong>The</strong> jungle all in riot intertwines.<br />
<strong>The</strong> brake, the forest with its solid growth,<br />
49<br />
A
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> cv'ry tree and shrub, the flow'ryiblooms,<br />
With perfumes deep, in damp, dark unVlergrowths,<br />
Outstretch their winding, clinging arms and grasp<br />
Each other in their love's embrace until<br />
A wall, impassable., is formed between,<br />
A beauteous wall of thick, black, quiv'ring leaves,<br />
Which only strange wild things, in timidness,<br />
Can pass through in their agile trail<br />
As these wild denizens of leafy shades<br />
Move silently among the swaying fronds,<br />
A crackling i.ow or then of twigs is heard<br />
When one missteps: or calls anon of bird<br />
To bird and beast to beast, a throbbing pulse,<br />
An ever present hum, the buzz, almost<br />
Inaudible, of tiny insect life.<br />
All else, the glades are silent as the tomb.<br />
—But then a sound unnatural as the blast<br />
Of clanging trumpets in abodes of death<br />
Breaks in upon the brooding quiet of<br />
<strong>The</strong> humid scene, disturbs the melancholy<br />
Stillness of the heavy air. As when<br />
A star breaks loose from out its chain and goes<br />
Careening through the torpid heav'n—A shot!<br />
Its echoes, full resounding, roar redoubled,<br />
Throughout the silent bowers reverberate.<br />
And, far off, distant calls of man and hound<br />
Are borne diminished on the evening air.<br />
A crackling twig, the snapping underbrush<br />
Again is heard, but in its volume much<br />
Increased. Some wild thing, in its headlong rush,<br />
Mas cast aside all timidness and fear<br />
And, stricken, flees. <strong>The</strong> outstretched, branching shoots<br />
Now wave ai;d move in agitation deep<br />
As though the wind's rough blast did thrust its force<br />
Amid the thick, resistant, tangled boughs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> slender osiers and the lianas, twined,<br />
In mute, chaotic tumult arc disturbed<br />
By some cyclonic impulse far within.<br />
<strong>The</strong> center of the onrush now is seen.<br />
A crackling loud, the boughs are torn span,<br />
And from within the gloomy, verdant shade<br />
A form darts out and falls upon the bank,<br />
A crumpled heap.<br />
<strong>The</strong> night is silent once<br />
Again. <strong>The</strong> baying dogs no more are heard,<br />
<strong>The</strong> fleeing creature now is safe. <strong>The</strong> moon<br />
SO
THE LOWELL<br />
In grandeur lifts its crescent horns above<br />
<strong>The</strong> trees and rides among the circling stars.<br />
Its light drops down, a tender balsam, on<br />
<strong>The</strong> wretched thing. <strong>The</strong> quiv'ring form is now<br />
Dim outlined in the candid, lunar flood.<br />
<strong>The</strong> creature seem? at first but massy flesh.<br />
But. then, the shadowed outlines take on form.<br />
Arms, legs and head upon a lxxly thin<br />
<strong>The</strong> clearing light brings forth. And lo! It seems<br />
Almost, the creature has a woman's form!<br />
She lies there, prostrate, gory, blood-besmeared.<br />
A woman there in that dark jungle night<br />
Alone, forsaken, wounded, blood-besmeared?<br />
She seems not dead and yet not quite alive.<br />
Her body, thin and snakclikc, covered green.<br />
Does jerk and quiver horribly from time<br />
To time and rolls from side to side in ev'n<br />
^Monotony.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n suddenly the arms begin<br />
To wave and move, as e'en the branches white<br />
Entwining overhead in aimless. half-<br />
Unconscious rhythmic beats. <strong>The</strong> sinuous reeds<br />
Are whitened by Diana's beams and. streaked<br />
With red. are mirrored in the river's glass.<br />
Each finger is a tiny serpent clinging<br />
Fast upon the mother stem. <strong>The</strong> bead is raised;—<br />
A ghoulish, pallid face with sunken checks<br />
And fiery eyes deep set in sockets dark.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lips are tight drawn back on starting rows<br />
Of chalky teeth. <strong>The</strong> hair is long and thick,<br />
And lungs down to her feet. Its long, coarse strands<br />
Are inky black and wet and covered o'er<br />
With green, with speckled bands of green, thin, smooth<br />
And slippery green. <strong>The</strong> swaying arms renew<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir motion to and fro, draw back and dart<br />
Out e'en again, as subtle serpents strike.<br />
<strong>The</strong> shoulders now are raised and join the rhythm,<br />
A sound, too. issues from the opened lips.<br />
A weird, half-crooning hum that, rising, falls<br />
In murm'iing minor cadences. <strong>The</strong> song<br />
Increases in its time. <strong>The</strong> waving arms<br />
And shoulders, muscleles.s. join in the change.<br />
And fast and faster flies the fervid beast<br />
Until the body madly reels from side<br />
To side in frenzied, wild, ecstatic beats.<br />
She leaps unto her feet and fiercely springs.<br />
To either side. A maddened fire from both<br />
31
THE LOWELL<br />
Her eyes darts out; a rapt, mad stare transfixed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> slender body, boneless, turns and twists<br />
In wild, soul-agonizing leaps of death,<br />
As e'en a reptile's convoluting skin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> climax of the death-dance now is reached!<br />
Her hair in cascades swirls about her hips,<br />
<strong>The</strong> song now issues from her lips, a mad,<br />
Long scream of pain and joy. Her form is all<br />
Suffused with ruby blood that rushes down<br />
From large and ugly wounds that nestle in<br />
Her throat. <strong>The</strong> bands of green, the slippery bands,<br />
All slime, now lank and dead, swirl out from arm<br />
And throat and leg—and then the dance is stopped!<br />
As sudden as the lightning's flash is come<br />
Ami gone, the rhythm halts, the tempo falls,<br />
And silent, corpse-like stands the dancer there.<br />
<strong>The</strong> agonizing scream has now died down<br />
To guttural hisses, rattling in her throat.<br />
<strong>The</strong> arms no longer move, the legs are dead,<br />
Her body, stiff and rigid, stand? all still.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n ev'ry muscle seems to crumple and<br />
She falls, a dead weight, on her face and moves<br />
No more.<br />
<strong>The</strong> moon is gone. <strong>The</strong> heaven's arch<br />
Is peopled only by the stars. <strong>The</strong>ir dim<br />
Light shows the body there, all still.<br />
<strong>The</strong> silent world is mute and hushed. But no—<br />
<strong>The</strong> creature seems to move yet once again.<br />
Confused and twining, something creeps and crawls!<br />
<strong>The</strong> bands are come to life! <strong>The</strong> bands that swirled<br />
Out lank and dead are rising, spreading out,<br />
And myriad serpent heads are shown above<br />
Tlie pro.;rate form. • <strong>The</strong>y rise and fall and strike<br />
And inten-vinc as e'en the woman's body<br />
Did before. That body now is dead<br />
And they, in revel, dance upon its flesh.<br />
<strong>The</strong> snake-heads, hissing, squirm and twist just as<br />
<strong>The</strong> flames that oscillate on sizzing, seadrift fire.<br />
And thus they keep their vigil all the night.<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman's flowing locks o'erfall the river's bank,<br />
And moss-like, coarse and black, are bosomed on<br />
<strong>The</strong> moving tide, borne here and thither like<br />
Long, evil, poisonous, ever-moving weeds.<br />
Her body moves no more. <strong>The</strong> snakes dance on,<br />
<strong>The</strong> wat'ry locks float out and up and down.<br />
<strong>The</strong> waters underneath her overflowing throat<br />
Are dyed a. deep, dark, ever-growing red.<br />
52<br />
arid the ^<br />
'Many^yjaifsyigi<br />
came to tmVfearthiffi<br />
very dry. .;He,liad : 1]<br />
which you' nave^a!<br />
mountains; tcutlle|et<br />
grass and when :th(<br />
the Good Man slep<br />
more. _ _^<br />
After much pt<br />
came from the-We<br />
pray more, wbrk'l<br />
and the grass grew<br />
Spirit directed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man, ben<br />
tected by the Grea<br />
his slaves hated t<br />
One bad niglr<br />
large tall corn-anc<br />
and in "the mornii<br />
gone.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the Goc<br />
the Great Spirit c<br />
the grass grow th<br />
pray more. I can<br />
land where^the E<br />
this branch and il<br />
flee. Water will<br />
cross." "•""' '•'.,.<br />
When the"; Gi<br />
the great Sierras<br />
his corn was larg<br />
the Evil Spirit r<br />
One night v<br />
uf.'the' Great Sf<br />
flowers and was<br />
a mole. <strong>The</strong> Gc<br />
the Evil Spirit ci<br />
<strong>The</strong> Good I<br />
bow and arrow<br />
him and fled.<br />
When he
THE LOWELL<br />
A Legend of the Sierra LaKes.<br />
My children, listen to me, and I will tell you the story of the Good Indian<br />
and the Big Water (Lake Tahoe) but you must then sleep and not ask tor more<br />
food.<br />
Many years ago, before your father's great father, the chieftain Wampa,<br />
came to this earth, there dwelt a Good Man in the Wasboe country which was<br />
very dry. Me had little to eat—you should always be thankful for the abundance<br />
which you have—and he was very poor. <strong>The</strong> Evil Spirit, which dwelt in the<br />
mountains to the east, very often came and slept on the Good Man's corn and<br />
grass and when the Good Man arose the corn anil grass would be gone. But<br />
the Good Man slept less, worked more, and ate less, for he gave to the Spirits<br />
more.<br />
After much prayer and more fasting the greatest and kindest of the Spirits<br />
came from the West bringing the Good Man water and said to bin; "Vat more,<br />
pray more, work more, and I will help you." <strong>The</strong> corn grew large and tall<br />
and the grass grew thick and green when the Good Man had done as the Great<br />
Spirit directed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man. being a good man (as I have told you) was favored and protected<br />
by the Great Spirit and all the guod Spirits, but the Evil Spirit and all<br />
his slaves hated the Good Man for be obeyed the Great Spirit.<br />
One bad night the Evil Spirit bating the Great Spirit came and slept in the<br />
large tall corn and thick green grass of the Good Man. which was of the best,<br />
and in the morning, when the Good Man aro>c, the corn and the grass were<br />
gone.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the Good Man worked more and prayed more because be ate less and<br />
tlie < ireat Spirit came to him and again made the corn grow large and tall and<br />
the grass grow thick and green. He toid the Good Man "Eat more, work more,<br />
pray more. 1 can not stay by you. but if the Evil Spirit comes again, flee to my<br />
land where the Evil Spirit does not dare to follow and I will protect you. Take<br />
this branch and if you are in great danger, drop a piece of it behind you as you<br />
flee. Water will instantly cover the earth and the Evil Spirit will not dare to<br />
cross."<br />
When the Great Spirit went back to his country far away in the west beyond<br />
the great Sierras, the Good Man ate much, worked much and prayed much for<br />
his corn was large and tall and his grass grew thick and green. For his success<br />
the Evil Spirit hated him the more.<br />
One night when the Good Man had gone to his tepee to rest, he dreamed<br />
of the Great Spirit, who came to him carrying a stalk of corn with cactus<br />
flowers and was followed by an animal with the head of a coyote and the body of<br />
a mole. <strong>The</strong> Good Man awoke with a start and arose. Ear in the east he saw<br />
the Evil Spirit coming in a ball of fire.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Good Man remembered what the Great Spirit had said, so he took his<br />
bow and arrow, a piece of meat, and the branch the Great Spirit bad given<br />
him and fled.<br />
When he had run to the edge of his country, the Evil Spirit was very near,<br />
lie dropped a few of the twigs behind him and there instantly appeared a large<br />
S3
i f :<br />
body of water. He was now for the time being safe as the Evil Spirit must go<br />
around it. He ran very fast but when he had crossed the mountains at the<br />
edge of his country, he stopped for breath, and looking back again, found the<br />
Evil Spirit had very nearly reached him. <strong>The</strong> Good Man was much frightened<br />
so he broke off more of the branch and threw it behind him. He was tiring<br />
while the Evil "Spirit grew stronger as he ran and soon drew closer. <strong>The</strong><br />
Good Man did not lose hope, for he still held much of the branch and he now<br />
began to climb the high mountains—the Sierras—on the edge of the Great<br />
Spirit's country. When the Evil Spirit was very near the Good Man threw all<br />
but a few twigs of the branch clown the mountain toward the Evil Spirit. <strong>The</strong><br />
branch made the Big Water (Lake Tahoe) and a leaf which dropped near it<br />
made another lake (Fallen Leaf).<br />
When the Good Man reached the summit of the Sierras, he threw the remainder<br />
of the Great Spirit's gift to the care of the winds. <strong>The</strong> Evil Spirit<br />
remained in his own land as he never dares to cross water. Finally reaching the<br />
valleys where the Great Spirit dwelt, he found his tepee at the edge of a wonderful<br />
forest on the bank of a river and all the corn and grass which he had lost<br />
and twice as much again were growing for him in the fields.<br />
My children, rest now, and when you arise eat much, work much, pray<br />
much and some day when you are called by the Great Spirit you will meet your<br />
father and your father's great father, the chieftain W r ampa, and the Good Man<br />
in the great beyond. F. A. B., '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Japanese King Arthur.<br />
We read in Oriental history, that the first King of Japan was a conqueror,<br />
who came from some part of the Asiatic continent, just as that<br />
of England, from Celtic tribes came from Germany. King Arthur, the first<br />
King of Britain, was a Celtic hero, and a score of legends are connected with<br />
him. We have also similar stories told of the first King of Japan. <strong>The</strong><br />
following is a legend about the first King, whose name was Jinmu (meaning<br />
divine force), and was the founder of the present dynasty of Mikado. <strong>The</strong><br />
Japanese history before this King, who lived about seven centuries before<br />
Christ, belongs to half mythical legends. (I heard this story while I was<br />
attending a primary school in Japan, so I have forgotten the small details,<br />
but will endeavor to narrate as much as my memory recollects. I have<br />
introduced some Japanese names in order that you will get some idea from<br />
them. <strong>The</strong>y are pronounced like Latin.)<br />
From unknown time, before the earth was created, there lived a goddess<br />
in heaven, whose name was Ama-terasu (meaning "shine through Heavens").<br />
She was the mightiest of the mighty, and therefore the sole dictator in the<br />
universe. She represented beauty and wisdom. Her body was the glory<br />
of the sun, and consequently, if she were not in Heaven, the universe was<br />
believed to have been covered with eternal darkness. One day, when she<br />
looked upon the earth from her station in Paradise, which the Japanese,<br />
call Taka-ama-gahara (meaning high, heavenly plateau), the entire surface of<br />
the earth was covered with uniform muddy liquid. <strong>The</strong>re was neither land<br />
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nor sea; simply*a<br />
powers, like Jupiter<br />
her'-'- : --* ffia<br />
the sceptre,<br />
islands "Tlfe^^nt<br />
islands were cbyere<br />
and daughters offlz<br />
our Old Testament;<br />
subjects. '/S:<br />
After many ye<br />
down to the island<br />
Susano was strong<br />
gods. He came do'<br />
"part of the countr<br />
which enters the Ja<br />
Tena-Zuchi and As<br />
ing, with their beai<br />
Susano advanced i<br />
their sobs they to<br />
an immense serpei<br />
to be the prey of<br />
the spirit of a dau<br />
conquer this mor<br />
of the task, he sho<br />
self as a maid and<br />
vases in a row o:<br />
behind these vase:<br />
appeared with a i<br />
was so large and<br />
pine trees. Wher<br />
one head into eac<br />
swallowed the wi<br />
ing forth his swe<br />
to tail. But, whe<br />
the flesh. He toe<br />
shining from hil<br />
ancient warrior v<br />
After the c<<br />
song expressing<br />
Japanese'poetry,<br />
Immediately<br />
to his mother v<br />
and the sword v<br />
his mother. T<br />
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nor sea; simply a uniform muddy liquid like gruel. As she possessed all<br />
powers, like Jupiter, she separated land and sea in this muddy liquid with<br />
her long sceptre. While she was doing so. a drop of mud dropped from<br />
the sceptre, and this drop became the islands of Japan. She named these -<br />
islands '"<strong>The</strong> Country of Abundant Reeds and Large Crops." Soon these<br />
islands were covered with reeds and rice, and were inhabited by the sons<br />
and daughters of Ixanagi and lzanami, who correspond to Adam and Eve of<br />
our Old Testament, and were supposed to be the ancestors of the Mikado's<br />
subjects.<br />
After many years elapsed, the goddess sent one of her sons. Susano,<br />
down to the island in the hope of setting up a kingdom. Like Hercules,<br />
Susano was strong and loved adventures. Me was the roughest of all the<br />
gods. Me came down upon this land, and traveled through the southwestern<br />
part of the country. During his journey he came to a river called Hino.<br />
which enters the Japan Sea. At the source of this river he met an old couple,<br />
Tena-Zuchi and Ashina-Zuchi (meaning hand-mallet and foot-mallet), weeping,<br />
with their beautiful daughter, Inada ('meaning rice-fields'), in their arms.<br />
Susano advanced to them and asked the cause of their sorrow. 'Through<br />
their sobs they told him that there lived in their immediate neighborhood<br />
an immense serpent with eight heads, and that their daughter was doomed<br />
to be the prey of this monster. On hearing this. Susano was moved by<br />
the spirit of a dauntless warrior, and promised the old couple that he would<br />
conquer this monster with an agreement that after the accomplishment<br />
of the task, he should marry their daughter. Subsequently, he disguised himself<br />
as a maid and prepared eight large vases full of wine. Me placed these<br />
vases in a row on a large rock near the monster's den and took his :;eat<br />
behind these vases, so that his shadow fell on each vase. Soon the monster<br />
appeared with a fearful noise like thunder as he came forth. <strong>The</strong> monster<br />
was so large and aged that his entire back was covered with moss and huge<br />
pine trees. When he reached the rock, he looked into these vases, thrusting<br />
one head into each vase. Thinking the images of the prince real maids, he<br />
swallowed the wine, and fell asleep. Susano saw this and rejoiced. Drawing<br />
forth his sword, he sprang upon the monster, chopping him from head<br />
to tail. Hut, when he came to the tail, he found a hard obstacle lying within<br />
the flesh. He took it out and found that it was an excellent sword, clear and<br />
shining from hilt to tip. Perhaps this sword was the remnant of some<br />
ancient warrior who had tried his prowess with xhis monster, and lost his life.<br />
After the conquest Susano married the beautiful Inada. and sang a<br />
song expressing a thought of sweet home. This was the original form of<br />
Japanese poetry, which is still sung in Japan.<br />
Immediately after his marriage, Susano went to Heaven and reported<br />
to his mother what he had experienced on earth. <strong>The</strong> report was made,<br />
and the sword which was found in the tail of the monster, was accepted by<br />
his mother. This sword was the Kxcalibur of Japanese Kings, n:i • is<br />
one of the three treasures that were handed down from King to King until<br />
the present day. While paying this visit to his mother, he, unknowingly..
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committed a grievous offense, which stirred the whole universe. One day<br />
when the goddess was weaving as usual, Susano brought a wild horse into<br />
her palace and destroyed her weaving articles. <strong>The</strong> goddess was furiously<br />
angered at this rudeness and immediately hirl herself in a large stone cell.<br />
This was a great astonishment to the gods as well as to the men, because<br />
at the disappearance of the goddess, heaven and the earth likewise became<br />
dark. Now, all the gods assemb'ed before the stone cell and held a council.<br />
<strong>The</strong> resolution of this council was a dance. So all day long they danced in<br />
front of the stone door by the light of a bright fire, with the chorus songs of<br />
chanticleers, the birds of dawn.<br />
Wondering :x *he cause of this unusually great mirth outside, the goddess<br />
opened the mussive stone door a few inches and peeped outside to see<br />
what was taking place. One of the gods, Tajikarao (meaning enormous<br />
strength) caught the door, as it was pre-arranged, and pulled it with all his<br />
might. <strong>The</strong> door yielded and was thrown open, and to the surprise of all<br />
the living creatures, the world was again in the light of the sunshine. Susano<br />
was condemned in the divine council and was banished from Heaven.<br />
<strong>The</strong> goddess then .sent down her grandson, Ninigi, to the "Land of the<br />
Risin:, Sun/' with a compliment, consisting of the *word found in the tail<br />
of ihe monster, a looking-? 1 -? 1 " made of solid metal, and a jeweled ball, as<br />
a symbol to the rightful rui-'rs of that country. He, accordingly, descended<br />
upon the summit of Mt. Taicachiho (meaning a thousand high heads of rice),<br />
which is supposed to be one of the mountains in the southwestern part of<br />
the country, probably the present volcano. Mt. Kirishinia. and declared that<br />
this country should be ruled by his generation forever.<br />
His great grandson was called Prince Ugaya-fukiaezu (meaning Prince<br />
of an incompletely thatched roof). At his birth, a rough hut was erected<br />
in great haste on a seashore, for hi: ..'.'ther was the princess of the deep. It<br />
is said that an attendant had seen u ,,'^at serpent coiling around the infant.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y say that this serpent must haw- 'j. -the t-me of his birth, this prince has<br />
this name.<br />
King Jinmu, or the Japanese King Arthur, as we might call him, was<br />
the fourth son of this prince. He was tall, strong, brave, and excelled in<br />
stratagem. At the age of fifteen, he declared that he was the successor to<br />
his father. He early resolved to subdue the whole country: because the<br />
central and northeastern parts did not yet enjoy prosperity under his rule,<br />
but there were as many constant wars as there were clans. Consequently<br />
he gathered together all his subjects, knights and footmen, and set out for<br />
the conquest. He fought many battles, and subdued clan after clan until<br />
he came to the central part of the country. Here he was attacked by a strong<br />
clan, headed by Nagasune-hiko (meaning the man who has long feet) at<br />
the slope of Kusae Hill. A great battle ensued, lasting a whole day, and<br />
this largely damaged the Prince's side. Prince Itsuse, one of the elder<br />
brothers of this Prince, died in this battle. But, as Timnu was standing on a<br />
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height, looking over the battlefield, a mysterious fish-hawk circled down<br />
upon his standard from the sky, and alighted on the Prince's bow-head.<br />
Strange to say, from this bird of good omen, dazzling bright beams<br />
were cast forth. <strong>The</strong> beams were so bright that the enemies were no longer<br />
able to behold anything against it, but turned their backs and fled from the<br />
battlefield. In the following battles, this bird always came down upon his<br />
standard, which thus gave him continuous victories. From this time on, this<br />
bird became the war emblem of this Imperial Family. All the central and<br />
western parts were thus pacified. He now proclaimed himself first King<br />
of Japan, and placed his capital at Kashihara (meaning Oak-land). This<br />
ancient capital now exists, and the dynasty thus founded is the line of<br />
Mikado. OSAME Mi'K.\snir;i-:. Dec. "11.<br />
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DANIEL MONICSISKKCER. Dec. '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
A field of white, bright flashing, cold.<br />
Wind and rain and sleet.<br />
A shanty bare, a cabin old.<br />
<strong>The</strong> picture is complete.<br />
Alaska, land of golden dreams.—<br />
Of dreams that ne'er come true:<br />
A land that spells success for men,<br />
For men who work and do.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re, men are men oi mind and will,<br />
Characters rough but square.<br />
Each one of them's been through the mill.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are rude but always fair.<br />
A fascination for the place<br />
Exists in every soul.<br />
That's felt the hardships of this land<br />
Of v.-ind and rain and cold.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mountains look tu:-:. high above<br />
L'pon the world below.<br />
That world of gold, of joy. of love,<br />
That land of ice and snow.<br />
Alaska gives. Alaska takes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cold and snow are criK-1.<br />
Death often calls the very man<br />
Whom gold has branded, "Fool."
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Three Envelopes.<br />
E. A. FALCONER, Dec. '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> parson and I are old friends—college chums, in fact—and sometimes,<br />
being: very fond of talking, he tells me little stories of his own experience.<br />
This is one of them:<br />
"To people in the great world without." he said to me one day, "I believe<br />
that the humble position of a country pastor is thought to be one of<br />
the most monotonous in the whole field of human employment. A city<br />
position, so our old college mates tell me confidentially, is bad enough—<br />
what with visiting the sick, bolstering up the spiritual walls of some poor<br />
back-sliding sister, going to afternoon receptions, etc.—these, they say<br />
doubtfully. may lighten the burden of existence: but a rural clergyman—<br />
unthinkable!<br />
"It is lonesome sometimes, I admit: and yet there are some things<br />
that help to relieve this country dreariness. <strong>The</strong>re are marriages, for instance—whole<br />
countryside events; strawberry festivals, the giving of a<br />
series of especially interesting sermons, or a revival on a small scale, as an<br />
endeavor to drive the hardened old rams and black sheep home again to the<br />
flock, and such things: these all help. 13ut the marriages are the real headliners.<br />
''For example, it was only a few days ago that I received a letter. It<br />
was not a very brilliant one, nor very well written, nor was the penmanship<br />
very good. And yet it had a certain homeliness and good will in it, that were<br />
better than those three, and which seemed to be all its own. I'll tell you<br />
about it.<br />
"It happened about two years ago, just after I had graduated and fixed<br />
myself comfortably here. I was in my study, one July afternoon, working<br />
out the next Sunday's sermon—a fire-and-brimstone one, as I remember—<br />
and was a little bit heated, both on account of the subject and the weather.<br />
All of a sudden a rap came on the door, and in answer to my 'please come<br />
in' a man and woman entered.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>y were not a very exceptional couple; he was a little man of about<br />
thirty, with a hungry-looking, unsmiling face. Just then it was a little red<br />
with heat and embarrassment, and had a certain set its-got-to-be clone expression<br />
about the lips. She was even smaller than her groom, with large<br />
sentimental eyes, and a rather weak face. Yet she wasn't what you would<br />
call bad looking. I waited for him to speak.<br />
" 'She,' he said, with a jerk of his thumb toward the bride, 'wants to<br />
marry me!'<br />
" 'Very well,' I said, 'have yoi a license?' <strong>The</strong>y had.<br />
"So I called in the blacksmith and his helper, both near neighbors, as<br />
witnesses, and the ceremony began. He mumbled out the responses, and<br />
she gave hers in a kind of pitiful please-be-decent-just-this-once tone.<br />
"At last they were married, and I gave the conventional 'salute the<br />
bride' command. He hesitated a moment, as if in doubt as to what I<br />
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meant; then seging/t<br />
gave it a peck^exac<br />
"'Here/herald<br />
thanked him; laid*it I<br />
throwing a litle rice|<br />
"Two dollars,<br />
do not get veryfhigj<br />
At last I decided-or<br />
latest fashions, at tl<br />
sudden, shoes, style<br />
was left looking bl<br />
dropped to my feet<br />
cardboard which sti<br />
'Enciosed find fee.<br />
optinrist should alwa<br />
"<strong>The</strong> other Iettj<br />
it is very personally<br />
belt."<br />
"My dear sir,"'<br />
wonder. I ain't a<br />
checks. I'm the m •1<br />
Remember me now<br />
That's why I'm wi<br />
She's gold. Solid<br />
taken. I was badl;<br />
I married for mom<br />
duke. Her dad ha<br />
I didn't. So we m<br />
fit. She got me,<br />
She could milk co\<br />
took to reading.<br />
herseH. And then<br />
cook? I don't .me;<br />
a good cook. Goc<br />
that's what soured<br />
steak, roast mutton<br />
you ought to eat |<br />
and good? And bi<br />
then when Thanks<br />
in the loft, hid, f<<br />
preacher, and fat?<br />
weeks with all kii<br />
cooked him. Ah!<br />
Got a big new rani<br />
him up. Paper taj<br />
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meant, then seeing her upturned clieek—women always know somehow—he<br />
gave it a peck, exactly like a sparrow, and turned to me.<br />
" 'Here,' he said, handing over a stiff envelope, 'is your tee.' I took it,<br />
thanked him, laid it on the desk, and then followed the pair do.vn the steps,<br />
throwing a litle rice to spread a glamour of romance.<br />
"Two dollars, as you may know, is the legal fee. Parish clergymen<br />
do not get very high salaries, and I didn't want to spend the fee foolishly.<br />
At last I decided on a pair of shoes, and was running over in my mind the<br />
latest fashions, at the same time carefully opening the envelope, when of a<br />
sudden, shoes, styles, fees and everything else went out of my head, and T<br />
was hit looking blankly at the letter. Why? A bright new penny had<br />
dropped to my feet and lay clattering on the floor. Slowly I took out the<br />
cardboard which stiffened the envelope, and read on it this brief message:<br />
"Enclosed find fee. It's all she's worth.' One cent! I laughed at that. An<br />
optimist should always laugh when he meets a cynic, and I
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mashed potatoes,.smooth as silk: 'n cranberry sauce, an' celery, an' pumpkin<br />
pie, an' plum puddin'—oh, you just ought to taste her plum puddin'—all<br />
burning with brandy—cooking kind, sir—an' bristlin' with holly. An' all<br />
the rest of the fixings. Nuts an' raisins, an' oranges—sweet ones—'n hard<br />
cider, and, and—you know! Fine. Simply scrumptious. Couldn't even<br />
smoke after that dinner. Oh, sir, a fine woman, parson. Best dinner on<br />
earth. Can't be beat. Grand cook. You ought to taste her biscuits, not<br />
like mother used to make, no. sir, and coffee—parson, her coffee you can't<br />
drink. You've got to beg its pardon first, it is so like sacrilege to taste it.<br />
Scrumptious! Grand! She's almost made me wish I was a Mormon.<br />
This ain't much letter, parson, being as I'm no literary man, and not<br />
writing much. But she's grand. Fine cook, parson, fine. I just had to<br />
beg your pardon for my first estimate of her. Worth her weight in gold,<br />
she is. You'll find my marriage fee inside. Here's a note from her, too.<br />
It's for your wife. If you ain't got one, parson, marry. Marry quick.<br />
Get a good cook, parson: the fireless cooker kind. This is my best wish,<br />
from yours truly. Henry Perkir.».<br />
"That was the letter. <strong>The</strong> fee was twenty dollars, 'one millionth her worth."<br />
a postscript informed me."<br />
He laughed. "Perkins' wife certainly knew where his heart was, all<br />
right." And he laughed again.<br />
Two years later I met the parson. He had a city position now, and<br />
wife. I went around to supper one evening, and in the small talk after the<br />
meal, a thought struck me, and I said. "Parson,'" I still called him by his<br />
old name, for it has a fresh sound, "Parson, what was that note from<br />
Henry Perkins' wife about? You remember? Henry Perkins of Ohio and<br />
his 'scrumptious' little cook."<br />
"But I don't know," he said. "I never read it." He sat looking thoughtfully<br />
at his wife, and then said, "What was it, Mary?"<br />
Mary smiled. "Wait," she answered, "and I'll get it for you." She<br />
rose from the table and went upstairs to her room. After a short while<br />
she returned, bearing a yellow-creased page. Carefully she unfolded it,<br />
and began:<br />
"My clear sis'.cr." (I think I said that Henry's wife had sentimental<br />
eyes). "I am going to give you a little bit of advice. This is it: One of<br />
the hardest things for a woman to find out is when a man changes from<br />
her lover to a big boy that must be fed and looked after. And this is the<br />
unfailing test: When he comes in some night, meets you in the hall and<br />
says, 'Hello, Pet*—smack—'what've >-•.< got for supper?'—when he does<br />
that, he isn't your lover any more—h . ••••• husband." We all laughed.<br />
"But isn't it true," Mary said, la.-i>;:••?. • s.<br />
"Yes," said the parson; "yes, it's trut. 1 ..en he teethed a gentle pick<br />
and said, half to himself, "It was a good supper, Mary."<br />
Mary laughed again, fondly, and said, "Yes, boy, you're my husband."<br />
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Tolstoi: Novelist, Educator and Philosopher<br />
Few daring critics have declared their convictions on Tolstoi's life and literary<br />
works; these criticisms run from one extreme to the other, many of them<br />
apotheosize Tolstoi, giving him the honor of being "the greatest literary genius of<br />
the last century": while others going to the opposite extreme, have denounced<br />
him. But all of these criticisms are more or less prosaic and often insincere; be-_<br />
cause in literature as in all other forms of art, we do not measure the greatness<br />
of a genius by cubic feet, neither can we prove the real merit and genuinity of<br />
an author by means of any chemical reactions. Hence, it is an obvious fact that<br />
we have no definite standards in literary criticism, especially when that literature<br />
is more creative than didactic. We can put up our tcmjHirary. worn creed to limit<br />
the teachings and ideals of others: yet we can never put any boundary and dogmatic<br />
rules on the spirit of the artist, the poet. Mis work and inspiration are<br />
divine, his creation is absolutely exempt from our narrow pedantic rules and<br />
every day life-experiences. If there ever was a need for a definite test of an<br />
author's work, the only wise and safe method for this test will be to look for<br />
the original power, the genuine human passion and sentiment*—for life as it is<br />
expressed by the author.<br />
Xow. taking life as a standard, we find that all the litrrr.'.ure of all ages and<br />
of all countries go under two distinct categories. <strong>The</strong> fii-t and main piiasc of<br />
literature is the written record of human thoughts, aspirations, struggles and<br />
hopes. <strong>The</strong>se human passions and activities expressed and preserved in literature<br />
and art. are undoubtedly the noblest and dearest treasure that the human nice<br />
has. <strong>The</strong> second and less important phase of literature is that which is a mere<br />
imitation of the first. That is to say, when an author has not seen life, when he<br />
has not experienced the burning passions and deeds of the human soul and<br />
body. He then simply writes what he had read in some other author who had<br />
these experiences. As time has passed, this base ambition of copying and deforming<br />
the genuine ideas of an original author lias been so extensively practiced,<br />
that now it is impossible to draw a distinct line between the genuine and<br />
the counterfeit. It is at this most trying ]>oint that most of our rritics ?o radically<br />
tail to recognize the best, the truest and the noblest. In dealing with such a<br />
genius as Tolstoi the student must change his unguarded appetite from literary<br />
diletantteism.<br />
Most of our critics, according to their sanctified custom divide Tolstoi's<br />
works into three parts: his novel- first, his writings and ideas on pedagogy the<br />
second, and his philosophy the third. For us, however, there is but one Tolstoi.<br />
All of his writings go under the same category. Mis imagination, his ideas and<br />
his intellectual faculties spring from the same root, they obey the same inevitable<br />
laws and conceptions—the laws of life, the unfailing laws of Nature.<br />
His novels, besides their rich, picturesque construction and flowing versatility,<br />
have two distinct features. One we call realism, and the other an attempt<br />
to explain various courses and their consequent phenomena by psychological and<br />
philosophical analysis. This word realism does not stir our imagination so violentlv<br />
as it did when it first appeared in literature. In another word, the reflection<br />
of real life as it appears in literature has not the same destructibility as it<br />
n*ed to. We are more daring, we are more humanized than the former genora-<br />
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tion. We have the courage to face realities. Nay, we even welcome realities, we<br />
aspire to them. From this mode of reasoning and truth hunting sprang a form<br />
of literature, which is nothing but the reflection of our psychic phenomena in<br />
form of beauty and truth.<br />
Tolstoi is, undoubtedly, the master of this new school. He tells us what<br />
he has really experienced, what he has felt, dreamed, and realized. It his tale<br />
is stirring, if it is too emotional, too destructive, it is so because our daily life, our<br />
daily dreams, and struggles are also burning, horrible and stirring. If there is<br />
any defect in such works, it is because the author cannot fully express himself,<br />
he cannot tell us in details the entire truth. He tries to sacrifice the truth for<br />
the sake of art, for the sake of beautiful appearance. If all his novels and short<br />
stories were put together they would make several large volumes. His "War<br />
and Peace," a rather historic novel, published in I860, consists of some 2200<br />
closely-printed pages. "Anna Karenina," undoubtedly his masterpiece (1875),<br />
is little less than 800 pages, etc.<br />
His attempt on generalizing the most conspicuous events in history, the<br />
Napoleonic wars, specially those in 18<strong>12</strong>, show that he was a keen observer, that<br />
he could penetrate into the physiological and psychological facts and grasp these<br />
facts with a firm hold. But, alas! cur psychic world is too narrow to grasp fully<br />
the real meaning of everything. We may possibly make some sharp remarks<br />
upon this or that subject, we may form some beautiful phrases and formulas of<br />
facts that arc analogous; but all these thing's cannot solve the problem. We are<br />
ignorant now as we were before Tolstoi was born. He succeeded in giving us<br />
some beautiful pictures of life, he makes us think, search for the greal unknown,<br />
for the absolute reality, for God! But his generalizations and psycho-analyses<br />
are not, and could not possibly be as good and convincing as those of Plato.<br />
Now and then he touches the real, the truth, he feels the presence of God; but his<br />
wings are powerless, he falls into that deep sea of ignorance.<br />
His philosophy of life, death, culture, religion and education is worthy of<br />
consideration. It is deep, sincere and elevating, it is the richness of Tolstoi's<br />
spirit, his conception and ideal of the good and beautiful. But it is not the truth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following parable is perhaps the best definition that he gave to religion. <strong>The</strong><br />
ethical conception of Tolstoi is as rich anrl imaginative as his conception of the<br />
human soul:<br />
"After the Chinaman had paused for a while to observe the effect of hi? tale,<br />
he continued as follows: 'That which I have related to you concerning the sun<br />
could also be said in relation to the Godhead. Each and every nation has so<br />
long and so persistently stared at his God. and tried to master things which<br />
arc beyond our comprehension, that it has become totally blind; and it therefore<br />
beholds in its God now only a being which fits in with its own notion of seifesteem<br />
and its Chauvinism. <strong>The</strong> truth of the matter is that all the Christian<br />
sects are no less blind than the grossest idolators, and all the churches and temples<br />
are therefore built upon deceit and falsehood! None of you has any right to speak<br />
of God and Religion as long as you remain strangers to the great law of the<br />
brotherhood of the human family.'<br />
"Whereupon all the guests of the house glanced abashed at the gentle Chinaman<br />
and were presently absorbed in deep, earnest meditation."<br />
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Y. ARSEN.<br />
• If one had^jappeij<br />
spring day Vl858,*a"]<br />
Near her sat~Her\rnot!<br />
was, accordingjo the-]<br />
future.<br />
"Oh, mother," sh|<br />
seems as if I'd been<br />
"Why, Martha,<br />
you were courted am'<br />
rassing position."<br />
"Well, it's' extra!<br />
out her plain dress, "j<br />
not know any one's<br />
"Martha, child,"!<br />
If you will weave unlj<br />
over to Mary Eveletl<br />
so anxious to know.'f<br />
"All right, motl<br />
large chest in the cc<br />
numerous pieces of<br />
towels and other pil<br />
out of the house amlj<br />
Seven years ha<br />
Merril sat weaving!<br />
realized, for Marth{<br />
hand, but only one]<br />
who had been her<br />
sun has gilded all<br />
their new garments]<br />
almost carmine. A|<br />
one side serves as<br />
John Hamilton had<br />
spent the most pr«j<br />
the news of ihe Ci\<br />
their plans for the<br />
. when George Men<br />
fired upon.<br />
In startled terj<br />
calmed her fears.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next even|<br />
news that he had!<br />
country. Reluct^<br />
Before long t
i<br />
t<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Unused Outfit.<br />
If one had happened to be passing by the Merril home in Connecticut one<br />
spring day in 1858, a little girl of twelve could have been seen intently weaving.<br />
Near her sat her mother, who was superintending operations. This little girl<br />
was, according to the custom of that time, preparing an outfit for her life in the<br />
future.<br />
"Oh, mother," she sighed, "do you think I'll ever finish this weaving. It<br />
seems as if I'd been born to weave."<br />
"Why, Martha, you really mustn't say that," answered the mother, "for if<br />
you were courted and had no wedding outfit, you would truly be in an embarrassing<br />
position."<br />
"Well, it's extremely hard on me. mother." answered the child, smoothing<br />
out her plain dress, "guess when 1 am courted. I'll be so busy weaving that I'll<br />
not know any one's near me."<br />
"Martha, child.'* answered the mother, "don't grieve me by saying that.<br />
If you will weave until your brother George comes in from town, I'll let you run<br />
over to Mary F.veleth's for an hour. <strong>The</strong>n you can learn that poem you were<br />
so anxious to know."<br />
"All right, mother, for here George conies." answered Martha, going to a<br />
large chest in the corner of the room. (tpeiiing it, she placed upon her knees<br />
numerous pieces of daintily stitched linen. After fondling the many pillow-slips,<br />
towels and other pieces, she gently replaced them all. Jumping up, she ran<br />
out of the house and up the road to her friend's home.<br />
Seven years have passed since the spring day in 18?8 when little Martha<br />
Merril sat weaving her outfit. <strong>The</strong> vague purpose of all that labor was now<br />
realized, for Martha had an ardent suitor. She had cithers who longed lor her<br />
hand, but only one for whom she cared. This was John Hamilton, a youth<br />
who had beer; her childhood companion. Again it is spring and the newly-set<br />
sun has gilded all the heavens in a mantle of gold and crimson. <strong>The</strong> trees in<br />
their new garments of green are so affected by this gorgeous tint that they look<br />
almost carmine. Along the quiet road stroll two lovers. A convenient log on<br />
one side serves as a rustic scat for the couple. It was while seated there that<br />
Tolm Hamilton had asked Martha to become his wife. It w:is there they had<br />
spent the most precious moments of their courtship. It was there also that<br />
the news of the Civil War was broken to them. <strong>The</strong>y were quietly talking over<br />
their plans for the future and the happy life they were expecting to lead together,<br />
when George Merril hurried to them with the news that Fort Sumter had been<br />
fired upon.<br />
In startled terror Martha clung to John and he, to the best of his ability,<br />
calmed her fears.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next evening when the lovers strolled to the rustic scat. John broke the<br />
news that he had planned to go to war with George Merril to fight for his<br />
country. Reluctantly Martha gave her consent to his scheme.<br />
lie fore long they had gone, and every evening Martha visited the log which<br />
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recalled such sacred recollections. Summer came and still Martha hoped and<br />
waited for John to come back to her.<br />
On the evening of July 30 Martha was startled, on coming home from<br />
her customary stroll, by her mother's dismayed expression.<br />
"What is the matter, mother?" she cried, "what has happened? Has<br />
anything befallen George?"<br />
"No," answered Mrs. Merril, slowly, and then she felt that something was<br />
wrong with John. With a cry she sank senseless to the floor. She was tenderly<br />
carried to her room where she remained critically ill for several weeks.<br />
When well enough, her mother handed her a letter from George containing<br />
the news of John's death. It was dated July 21 and read:<br />
"Dearest Mother:<br />
"To-day was very disastrous for us. A battle was fought at the little<br />
creek of Bull Run. At the beginning of the day we were successful, but,<br />
owing to the superior military skill of the Rebs we were finally beaten and<br />
forced to retire with large loss of life. Many of my comrades and friends<br />
grown dear gave lives and limbs for our cause.<br />
"Mother, tell Martha that John was hurt. A bullet struck him in the left<br />
breast and he was carried to the hospital where I saw him. Mother, dear,<br />
break the news gently to poor, dear Martha. She will never see him again,<br />
for the poor boy passed away about an hour ago. I stayed with him to the<br />
end and he died in my arms with Martha's name on his lips.<br />
"Dearest mother, I am sickened by the bloody honor of war and all the<br />
beautiful young lives that are wrecked by it. My time is limited, as I must<br />
get rest after this awful day. Tell Martha that John worked creditably up<br />
to the time he was wounded.<br />
"Your own loving boy,<br />
"George."<br />
One day about three months later when she had somewhat recovered<br />
from her illness, Martha was walking in the town and met her old schoolfriend,<br />
Mary Eveleth, who cordially greeted her. Mary had in her hand a<br />
large package which, as she explained, she was sending to the Sanitary<br />
Commission. It consisted of bandages for wounded soldiers.<br />
"I'm devoting most of my time now to making bandages, dearie," she<br />
said. "We women can't get out and fight, but we can do little things at<br />
home to make life as comfortable as possible for those who are fighting.<br />
Why don't you try something, dearie? You seem to have plenty of time and<br />
it will do you good to put your mind on some one thing."<br />
"I'll see what I can do, Mary. I have some things at home that I will<br />
never need and they would be excellent for bandages," answered Martha with<br />
a deep sigh.<br />
"I'd be glad to have you try, dearie. It will do you good, too," Mary<br />
said, as she went her way.<br />
Thoughtfully Martha drove home. She wandered reminiscently out to<br />
the old seat, sacred to the memory of the happiest days of her life. Evening<br />
was coming on and again the world was as though clipped in gold. All the<br />
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THE LOWELL ' . -<br />
scenes of her life passed before her as she sat there, Rising at last she became<br />
aware that night had fallen. Hastily she entered the house, and, going<br />
to the chest in the corner of her room, opened it. Each little piece of linen<br />
was taken out, each embroidered letter.was fondled, each brought a different<br />
memory. How she had labored to produce these, and how it had all ended!<br />
Going to the table, she took a large pair of shears. She took a dainty<br />
garment, and, with a lew determined slashes had cut it into strips.<br />
Late into the night she worked, hardly knowing that she had labored so<br />
long. At last, realizing that she was tired, she folded the linen away with<br />
a sigh.<br />
In a few days the cherished outfit was demolished anil was on its way to<br />
serve as bandages for wounded soldiers.<br />
Years later an old lady, visited a little Connecticut town. It was sunset<br />
and the world was again bathed in gold. Once more the trees were clad in<br />
green loaves. <strong>The</strong> old lady made her way to a certain road, by its side<br />
sat two lovers on a rustic, old log. A silent prayer arose from the heart of the<br />
onlooker, that their romance might end more happily than hers.<br />
D. I. C. lime '14.<br />
A LucKy Encounter.<br />
All public characters arc objects of curiosity. <strong>The</strong>refore John l'.randing. die<br />
Mayor of Ludox. was such a subject. <strong>The</strong> particular point which had interes'cd<br />
the townsfolk was not bis favoriu- color nr flower imr whether he: thought the<br />
country road should curve around by the mill pond or go straight to the forest<br />
tract, it was not any such trivial matter as this. 1 say. but the all-absorbi'.ig<br />
i|uestion of how he obtained his start in life.<br />
it is strange what turns gossip will lake. l>ut it is strangest of all that<br />
the subject of |ohn I'.randing should have occupied the public mind for the unheard-of<br />
space of six months. liver since the new Mayor had been suggested as<br />
a possible candidate, tongues had bevn bu
THE LOWELL<br />
John Branding (he was called Jack at the time) was employed by Farmer<br />
Tryhod as man of all work. Although trustworthy in all other respects he<br />
was given to over-talking. One day an incident occurred which cured him<br />
forever of this fault.<br />
Like the proverbial Jack of the Beanstalk, he went to the city to- market<br />
a cow for his employer. But unlike his famous namesake, he obtained not a<br />
few brightly colored beans but fifteen bright dollars. And what was more,<br />
be had real money, none of your paper notes or greenbacks, but real hard gold<br />
and silver coins.<br />
When he had so satisfactorily completed his mission, he turned his steps<br />
IKuneward. To reach the farm he had to cross through at least a mile of<br />
thickly-wooded country. He had crossed this tract many times, so there was<br />
absolutely nothing to fear, even if his pockets were full of bright coins. So<br />
lie whistled blithely as he walked along, every little while slapping his pocket<br />
lustily to make the money jingle. Perhaps his whistling or perhaps the<br />
jingling attracted the attention of a man on horseback at one of the crossroads,<br />
for the rider stopped his horse and waited for John to come up.<br />
"And where have you been, friend?"' the man asked.<br />
"Why, to the city, of cours?. It's astonishing what a brisk little place<br />
it is, too."' John answered. He was ready to strike up a friendship on a<br />
moment's notice, providing the other party came one-fourth the way.<br />
"Mow is the building of the Orphans' Home progressing? Have they<br />
finished the foundation yet?"'<br />
"Oh, I know nothing of orphans' homes. When a man goes to town to<br />
sell a cow he takes little notice of buildings, but rather looks out for the<br />
highest price he can sell his beast at."<br />
"Did you have any luck with your sale?" the stranger inquired, with<br />
interest.<br />
"Didn't I. though!" and Jack struck his pocket a resounding whack.<br />
"But talking of homes, I'll have to be hastening to one myself."<br />
"Just a moment, old man. Before you go. be so kind as to hand that<br />
money over. It won't take you a minute so don't delay long." To Jack's<br />
surprise he saw a pistol pointed at his head.<br />
"This is carrying a joke too far, my honest fellow. Come, let me go."<br />
In spite of Jack's forced bravado, his lips paled and he glanced nervously<br />
about for some way to escape.<br />
<strong>The</strong> footpad cocked his pistol. <strong>The</strong>re is nothing more terrifying to a man<br />
than to hear the cocking of a weapon that is aimed at his head. It shatters<br />
all hopes he may have of help, and makes him quake to his heart-strings.<br />
But Jack made one further attempt to save his precious dollars. "I am a<br />
laboring man and this will surely lose me my livelihood. Come, let me pi.<br />
on."<br />
"I don't care what you lose." Another suspicious sound of the gun decided<br />
the poor farm hand. With an angry gesture he flung the coins several<br />
feet from him. <strong>The</strong> money scattered far and wide upon the ground.<br />
<strong>The</strong> robber muttered an oath. He ordered Jack to pick it up, but the<br />
latter was inexorable. He folded his arms and waited. When the other<br />
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sid^|it%lunj<br />
bbtlKKdrse i<br />
Ile-\yould re<br />
come back.<br />
.lo>vedjiim.'.<br />
As it gi<br />
nervous.,<br />
"Suppb<br />
wife conjee<br />
"To thi<br />
"Why,<br />
do declare,<br />
In surp'<br />
when they<br />
beast." It's<br />
admiring tl<br />
John<br />
claim the<br />
said in cov<br />
' Just tl<br />
the saddle<br />
dollars in j<br />
After<br />
or horse,<br />
the amoun<br />
in btisines:<br />
,Now 1<br />
often laug<br />
fifteen doli<br />
the farmer<br />
his encouij<br />
Next<br />
a brace of<br />
]<br />
' Wa<br />
Rat
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THE LOWELL<br />
realized it was useless to threaten longer, he descended from his horse, and<br />
after making sure his victim was unarmed, warily proceeded to pick up the<br />
coins. . v<br />
Jack watched his chance. When the robber's attention was diverted for<br />
only a second, with a spring which he had learned in childhood, he bounded<br />
upon the high way man's horse. <strong>The</strong> instant his legs touched the animal's<br />
sides it lunged forward, and before the other realized what had happened<br />
both horse and rider were galloping madly along the road.<br />
lie ran in pur. ^nt, and vainly called to Jack to return, lie shouted '.hat<br />
he would return the money, give him twice the amount, if he would only<br />
come back. P.ut lack heeded his words no more than the bullets which followed<br />
him.<br />
As it grew late and his man did not return. Farmer Tryhod began l be<br />
nervous.<br />
"Suppose he sold the cow and went oft" with the uionev." the farmer's<br />
wife conjectured.<br />
"To think of such a thing, mamma," her (laughter rebuked her. gently.<br />
"Why. the lass is actually blushing," the genial old man teased. "l!i:v I<br />
do declare, here is a horseman tummy in at the gate."<br />
In surprise, the family ran on tu the porch. <strong>The</strong>y were more astonished<br />
when they perceived the rider to be John.<br />
"Did you trade old ISrindle for the horse. John'- Why. that's a beautiful<br />
beast. It's worth a hundred at least. And the saddle!" <strong>The</strong> farmer was<br />
admiring the horse in his hearty fashion.<br />
I oh n told his story. "<strong>The</strong>re is absolutely no danger of his returning to<br />
claim the horse, for he values his precious freedom too much i warrant." he<br />
said in conclusion.<br />
lust then the farmer uttered an exclamation of surprise. He ha'.l Jified<br />
the sadtile. and suspended under it was a bag that contained five hui.drtd<br />
dollars in gold.<br />
Alter some time had elapsed and no one had come to claim cither money<br />
or horse. John considered him>ell as rightful owner, ile paid the farmer<br />
the am-Hint he had received for the cow. the rest he used to r-iabiish himself<br />
in business.<br />
.Now that |ohn is growing old and has been blessed in many ways, he<br />
often laughs at his adventure, lie says the footpad receive;', from him but<br />
fifteen dollars, while he gave him a horse, a fortune, and a bride. <strong>The</strong> latter<br />
the farmer bestowed upon him when he left his service. Hut the lesson which<br />
his encounter taught him was to be careful not 10 confide in strangers.<br />
Aii.EKX MANII, June '\1.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Team!<br />
Next vear's debating team (.as well as last year's, the y«:ar before's and<br />
a brace of "years hence) will be composed of 'Watts and "Witzes. <strong>The</strong> line-up:<br />
flarvard.<br />
VaIc<br />
\\'-I
THE LOWELL<br />
Perfect—oo.<br />
T could hardly refrain from grumbling. Dusting was ccrtahuy not to my<br />
liking. I lad it not been a duty rather than an obligation, I dare say I might<br />
have been templed to vacate the premises. As it was, we, my two sisters and a<br />
brother, had each agreed to participate in the general house-cleaning before we<br />
left for our summer vacation, and it was largely due to our enthusiasm and<br />
haste to leave that we all so generously accepted these duties. Brother Tom<br />
had taken upon his shoulders the responsibility of the chores in and about, while<br />
my sisters and I apportioned the cleaning of the house. My lot was that of<br />
dusting, and this I attempted with the zeal and rapidity of a novice. To observe<br />
my method of procedure. I dare say I resembled a miniature wind-mill in<br />
action, if my arms may 1 e compared with the fan of that mechanism. This attitude<br />
I refer to as that assumed at the commencement of my occupation.<br />
Somewhat heated after such violent exercise. I leaned disconsolately against<br />
the wall, absently staring at the multitude of dust molecules that flittered and<br />
danced in the sun-stream, as though defying my ability to roust them from<br />
the room. It certainly appeared to be the case. Despite that I had spent the<br />
entire morning in the cleansing of my room, to look horizontally along the surface<br />
of a table or chair one would think I had been engaged in substitution<br />
rather than that of transportation. I came to the conclusion that my work was<br />
useless .-till it would hardly do for me to inform the rest so. so at it again 1<br />
-larted.<br />
Looking about the room for a new object of attack. I decided on a large<br />
oaken ward-robe, where, within its crevices, the dust nestled snugly. After<br />
sonu! time, the front of it being cleaned to my satisfaction. 1 further agreed in<br />
completing my laborious task by wiping off the rear of said piece of furniture.<br />
It took some effort on my part to move it from the wall but finally with a<br />
groan and the splitting of several friendly spider-webs, it slid toward the center<br />
ot the. room. Needless to ?ay 1 leaned panting against the wall, this time from<br />
sheer exertion. As 1 gradually gained my breath 1 was wont to move and stared<br />
aimlessly about. Suddenly my gaze was arrested at the back of the late moved<br />
wardrobe. What an odd collection of labels and figures was scattered upon it.<br />
On the upper right-hand corner was a large blue and white label, similar to<br />
those pasted on steamer-trunks and suit-cases, spelling the manufacturer's<br />
location. "Well, of all strange things," I could not help exclaiming.<br />
According to the sign, the wardrobe must have been made in Holland,<br />
Michigan, and this was the very place where 1 intended to spend the summer.<br />
I hi> was enough to arouse any one's attention: certainly far more interesting<br />
than distributing dust particles. I moved nearer and noticed the strangest<br />
group of figures and drawings. First, what might be called a house, a drawing<br />
most fitly described as one which is accomplished (hiring the kindergarten years.<br />
L'nder the drawing, if it nay be so called, was the number S45. written in a<br />
firm, legible hand. <strong>The</strong> pencil was of blue lead with which both objects had<br />
been cirawn. therefore I concluded the author and artist must have been one.<br />
1 wondered who could have done such a thing and for what purpose. An idea<br />
occurred to me. perhaps some employee of the factory had scrawled during his<br />
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leisure moments: on Vojne<br />
people putting "notes iircsh<br />
haps this was a:similar?c<br />
more;so, probably, from<br />
which' I intended tb be.; I<br />
weaker sex, and I was
THE LOWELL<br />
leisure moments on some handy board. <strong>The</strong>n I remembered having heard of<br />
people putting notes in shoes or in bags of tobacco for various reasons. Perhaps<br />
this was a similar case. TIic latter argument appealed to me instantly,<br />
more so. probably, from the fact that the writer was in those whereabouts in<br />
which i intended to be. Human nature craves for adventure, especially so in the<br />
weaker sex. and 1 was certainly no exception to that case. Searching eagerly<br />
about. 1 found, a little to the left, in the same firm script, the word "Stearns"'<br />
evidently the name of the writer, and a little farther on. the word "I'en." but<br />
written in lead pencil. It began to appear as though 1 were right in my conclusion.<br />
That the author wa< a man could not be doubted from the hand-writing,<br />
and that Hen Stearns wa- his name, -ecined probable. Looking up again at the<br />
drawing of the hoii-e. I imagined he meant the number beneath it to be that of<br />
the house. This seemed rea-onablc. but what good was the number without the<br />
name of the street? <strong>The</strong>n 1 noticed by the -ide of the figure a crooked anil<br />
curved line labeled "Vine." 1 could hardly refrain from exclaiming aloud in<br />
my Mtrpri-e at the discovery. \ ine street was one of the quiet avenue* in the<br />
suburbs of Holland. My imagination soared high. Already I pictured a iiand-<br />
Miine. stalwart youth, forced to labor iu a -Hilly factory by unrelenting poverty,<br />
lie certainly must be educated to write -i • characteristically. I remembered that<br />
father had told u- that we could often judge people by their script. I dare sa\ I<br />
was improving on !ii> information, going -o far ;i< to join ilie physical with the<br />
mental.<br />
Xow thoroughly aroused. I examined every inch of the back of the wardrobe<br />
for any other figure*. < >nce I came aero--- the word "/Y/7/.w" I have a faint<br />
recollection of its being the Latin for "--kin." This certainly pointed toward an<br />
education. In regard to the meaning. I fully agreed that his delicate -kin had<br />
been cut by a rough board while engaged in smite la-k.<br />
And MI niv fancy played mi, making this Hen Stearns a hero in disguise. At<br />
Ia-t I came to the word " Perfect"." I thought a -ccond : that. 1 was quite sure.<br />
wa- the name of a cigar, and a twenty-five cent one at that. 1 hesitatingly added.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he must smoke. I admired him for his choice. And to think of his being<br />
so extravagant! A mere factory laborer indulging in the luxury of a twentyfive-cent<br />
cigar! Thi- wa-* probably one of his finer in->tinct< remaining from an<br />
indulgence before he was reduced to his present -trait-. I looked for more<br />
writing. <strong>The</strong>re was nothing but a few word- commenced and then dropped, as<br />
an afterthought. My little ronu.nce so abruptly ended by lack of evident<br />
material. I decided to continue in -pite of olds. With so '.iright a picture of<br />
the guitleinan in question, his address, and better still, his occupation. I c ndd<br />
hardly afford to drop so exciting an affair. Supposing, when I arrived in llolland.<br />
I should<br />
il<br />
go<br />
y;o through<br />
through<br />
the<br />
the<br />
factory. I could not expect to pick him out inane-<br />
diately. but if 1 came at the n< hour I might see an 1 detect hint at hi- writii;<br />
while eating hi<br />
is lunch. And if I should meet him. and would even so far a-<br />
Irohe affair, what then? I wa- hardly prepared to answer<br />
to tell him of the war<br />
that myself.<br />
Suddenlv from out he still room there m-e the angry vail of inv sister.<br />
tdelv disturbing my meditations. A heated argument between us a- to our<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
ability to attend to duties soon made me forget about even Ben Stearns. After<br />
the interruption I hardly felt in the mood to muse, so I hurriedly finished my<br />
dusting and later hastily answered the dinner call.<br />
At the table, my sister poured forth her grievances, but I was in too great<br />
spirits to retaliate, so the matter was dropped. As I started to leave the table,<br />
father asked me if I would not care to go with him to the furniture store to find<br />
out why a couch which he had ordered had been delayed. I was on the point<br />
of refusing, when it occurred to me that I possibly might gather some information<br />
about the factory mentioned 0:1 the back of the wardrobe. Since the latter<br />
had been purchased at the furniture house where we were bound. I stood a fair<br />
chance of learning something. Father, as we went down-town, must 'nave<br />
ob^-rml my concealed expectation, but he said nothing of it.<br />
Arriving at the furniture house, after some delay, dad was told that his<br />
couch had been mistaken for another, and so he was asked to select another to<br />
be delivered immediately. A salesman led us toward the warehouse in the rear.<br />
After a rather blind walk through a dimly lighted alley we suddenly entered<br />
another building, which resembled a barn in every respect except that furniture<br />
replaced the hay. We were led intn a clearing where the salesman displayed<br />
1 lie couches.<br />
Xot being specially interested. 1 began taking in my surroundings. A huge,<br />
white, glaring globe of light illuminated the place with a ghostly Hood. A<br />
number of clumsy redwood po,t> upheld the roof, and on each initials and names<br />
were deeply cut. On one of these posts I noticed a large pasteboard advertisement<br />
for varnish, and 011 another, a little above, a similar notice for paint. <strong>The</strong><br />
posts, mainly, attracted my attention. My eyes, roving on. observed the initials<br />
"I!. S.," the cavity colored blue. Xot far above the letters was an advertisement<br />
stating that this brand of cigarettes might be obtained at eight for five. What<br />
a familiar sound those last words had. 1 repeated them a couple of times, and<br />
it dawned on me that there was a surprisingly close relation between them and<br />
the "845" of my wardrobe. It certainly seemed so. for "I 1 .. S." tended also in<br />
that direction. I was suddenly rudely pushed . ; de by a gruff " 'sense me. lady."<br />
a;id a short, stocky man of disheveled appe;.i"iree brushed by me and proceeded<br />
to scrawl "Handle with care" on a huge wooden box. Where had J seen that<br />
handwriting before? With a gasp of disgust at the writer, I noted the resemblance<br />
of the words to those on 111 v wardrobe.<br />
"I say. Hen. you're marking the wrong case," somebody shouted up from<br />
the depth f a box of excelsior. An angry retort of "shet yer mouth" came<br />
in.in the 111:111 before me. <strong>The</strong>n I heard father calling for me to go.<br />
As we skilfully piloted ourselves over the box-strewn path, father asked me<br />
what I thought of his new couch.<br />
"nil. its Perfect—00." \ murmured, reading the advertisement on a near-by<br />
post, stating that cigar the best obtainable at five cents.<br />
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Fi.oKKxcu KI:I:LIXG. June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
(•„<br />
I<br />
"Now, see here, \<br />
from the monetary'isid<br />
every day like the" res<br />
don't you take some rii<br />
- Van der Blitz'gn:<br />
sort of a tragic drama<br />
are you doing at the c<br />
crossed the room to;w<br />
"Guess I'll go to I<br />
dropped from the mah<br />
for amusement. You<br />
female."<br />
Van der Blitz real<br />
one seat left." He too<br />
gram fascinated him.<br />
batic feat. Van der 1!<br />
he walked out. Passi<br />
evening.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next week, \<br />
began to talk of it. ^<br />
um—a Wednesday nij<br />
<strong>The</strong>n it dawned on A<br />
same place and same<br />
Van der Blitz had<br />
But she lived fifty mi<br />
heard of the doings b;<br />
Mrs. Van der Bli<br />
der Blitz. <strong>The</strong>. letter<br />
had always been a res;<br />
Van der Blitz's tei<br />
with his affairs. Aftc<br />
siderably and began t<br />
wrote a very filial lettc<br />
Lite again. He thank<br />
In the letter he did nc<br />
closed. His aunt was<br />
Van der Blitz sat<br />
out a paper in iegal st<br />
go to see Miss Edith<br />
ft for himself, also k<br />
<strong>The</strong>n he sat down to<br />
tricks. .-<br />
Just a few days be<br />
saw "'Miss Edith Lite'<br />
his pocket, each ticket
THE LOWELL<br />
Behind the Footlights.<br />
"Now. see here. Van der l'.litz. why don't you marry? You have «>> excuse<br />
from the monetary side of the case. Here you are. lounginir around at the club<br />
every day like the rest of you worthless '•achelors. On a ui.n.it like this, why<br />
don't you take some nice i,'irl to the theater?"<br />
Van der '"itz grunted, then replied. "You've taken "some nice girl' to some<br />
sort of a tragic drama show, and you've gotten married, now what in the deuce<br />
are you doing at the club?" <strong>The</strong> adviser sighed, "You're a hopeless case." then<br />
ero--ed the room to "atcli a poker game.<br />
"• iuess I'll go i p l'.aldv in •- Vaudeville." Van der l'.liiz announced as his feet<br />
dropped from the mahogany table to the carpet. "When i go to the theatre 1 go<br />
for amusement. You will wait a long lime 'fo-e you see me in there with any<br />
female."<br />
\'an der I'.litz reached the box-office only to be told the usual story of "only<br />
one -eat left." lie took it. <strong>The</strong> jokes tickled him. but tile fourth act on the program<br />
fascinated him. It was a slender young lady who did a very daring acrobatic<br />
feat. Van der l'.liiz sat erect through it all and when the curtain dropped<br />
he walked out. Passing the box-ofiice. he purchased a ticket lor tin- following<br />
evening.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next week. Vn.i der I'.litz did not enter the club room-. <strong>The</strong> members<br />
he^an to talk of it. Mr. I Slack mentioned the fact that lie "had seen him—ah—<br />
uni—a Wednesday night at llaldwiu's during Miss Kdith Lite'.- acrobatic act."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n it dawned mi -Mr. l\aeen him Monday night at the<br />
same place and same time. I'hey knew this would never do!<br />
Van der I'.litz had an aunt. his only living relaiion. to whom they could turn,<br />
l'.ut she lived fifty miles out of town. However, next day Mrs. Y:m der I'.litz<br />
heard of the doings by telegraph.<br />
Mrs. Win der liiitz puffed up stair- to her writing room and wrote to Van<br />
der l'.litz. <strong>The</strong> letter was right to the poim. It contained the fact.-, that theirs<br />
had alwavs been a respecuble family and that it must continue -o.<br />
Van der I'.litz.'s temper tlared as he read the note. Somebody was interfering<br />
with his affairs. After an hour's brooding over the letter, he cooled down considerably<br />
and began to see his aunt's side of the case. He then sat down and<br />
write a ven filial letter to her. promising that he would not go to see Miss Kdhh<br />
Lite again. He thanked hi- aunt for her kindness in looking after his welfare.<br />
In the letter he did not mention the fact that Miss Kdith Lite's engagement had<br />
clo-cd. His aunt was very much pleased when she read it.<br />
Van der I'.litz sat down at a writing desk in the dub one evening and wrote<br />
out a paper in legal style, -latini; that he. Montiiomerv \ an der l'.liiz. would not<br />
yo to see Miss I'.dilh Lite, should she ever come to the city aijain. lie signed<br />
it for himself, also for a witness. He placed it in an envelope in his pocket.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n lie sat down tt> a ijame of brid^i- at which he trumped all his partner'trick-.<br />
lust a few days iieiore \"an der I'.lilx tore up his legally written rc-olutioii. he<br />
-aw "Miss Iidith Lite" on the billboards. A few days later seven tickets were in<br />
his pocket, each ticket dated a different day.<br />
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p1<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
At ]NIiss Edith Lite's first performance of her second engagement, Mr. Van<br />
dor Blitz was serenely unconscious that he was being watched. Mr. Black's opera<br />
glasses were directed to his fascinated an 1 illuminated face. <strong>The</strong> first intimation<br />
he had that he was being watched was when his aunt planted herself in his rooms<br />
Thursday evening and informed him that he was to go home with her Saturday.<br />
Van dcr Hlitz sat back in his chair with open mouth and his attitude said.<br />
"Well, of all things!" But he uttered no protest. When he got over the surprise,<br />
he tol I his aunt he would be delighted to go with her to her country home.<br />
His words and his feelings did not correspond, however.<br />
Friday, while packing. Van der Blitz noticed that he was badly in need of<br />
sunn; si»ft shirts. So lie went down town. Passing a large jewelry store, a necklace<br />
attracted his attention, tic looked at it and entered the store. He asked the<br />
clerk to show him some necklaces.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re arc some men who cant' t conceal their being bachelors. <strong>The</strong>ir very<br />
looks are proof. Van
om<br />
m<br />
IP<br />
m<br />
4-<br />
pi^ii<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
it> liis confessional, and QH Master, the consecrated wafers remained in the bottom<br />
of hi< holy vase.<br />
<strong>The</strong> riest"> heart was discouraged at this, and he continually prayed<br />
to Ciod that before dyinij it he granted to him to gather his scattered liock into<br />
the fold.<br />
Ciod heard him.<br />
New you are ,-OIIIJJ; w sec mm viw, ..v.,.,<br />
( )ne Sunday, after the reading from the (iospel. M. Martin arose in the<br />
pulpit.<br />
My brothers, you mav believe me or not. but last niiibt 1 found myself, misera!do<br />
-inner that I am. at the r of Paradise.<br />
1 knocked and Saint l'eter opened the door for me.<br />
"Why! It i> yon my y«nni Monsieur Martin." lie -aid: "what ij 1 wind<br />
brini;- yi-.u here? What c;i:i I do fur your"<br />
"I loud Saint 1'eter. you who have the lari;e book and key. could you tell<br />
me. if 1 am not ton curious, how many inhabitants of Cueuijnau you have in<br />
1'aradi-e?"<br />
"1 can refuse you nothing. Mon.-ienr Martin. Sit down and we will loi>k up<br />
the matter together."<br />
And Saint I'eter took the larije hoi-k. •>|uned it. and put on his >pectacle-.<br />
"l.el I'.-' louk—Ciiciiitnau \'.ay r I'n—Cu — I'ucu^nau—here we have it.—•<br />
l'ucujiiiau . . . My LMMHI Monsieur Martin, the pai^c i- white, not one -onl.<br />
no more people from lucu^nau than fish-bone- in a turkey."<br />
"What! No une from i/uai.nnau berer No oner It i-not pu--.ible! Look<br />
a;^ain and<br />
"No on
THE LOWELL<br />
dazzling as day and with a diamond key hanging from his belt was writing,<br />
scratch? scratch*, in a book much larger than that of Saint Peter.<br />
"Well, what do you want? " said the Angel at last.<br />
'T.eautiful Angel of God. T wish to know,—perhaps T am very curious, if<br />
you have here the people from Cucugnau ?"<br />
"'I''"-—?"<br />
"<strong>The</strong> people from Cucugnau. for \ am their priest."<br />
"All! You are Father Martin, arc you not?"<br />
"At your service, holy Angel."<br />
"You say Cucugnau."<br />
And tlif Angel opens and turns the pages of his book.<br />
••Cucugnau." he says heaving a heavy sigh. "M. Martin, we have no one<br />
from Cucugnau in Purgatory."<br />
"What! XII one from Cucugnau in Purgatory! Heavens, where are they<br />
then?"<br />
"Why. holy man. they are in Paradise. Where do you expect they are?"<br />
"1'iut T come —from—Paradise—."<br />
"You come from there!—Well?"<br />
"Well, they are not there!"<br />
"What do yiui expect? If they are neither in Paradise nor in Purgatory,<br />
there is no other possibility, they are—."<br />
"Alas. alas, is it possible? Could it be that the great Saint Peter has made<br />
a mistake? Alas, woe n us! How can I go to Paradise if my people are not<br />
there?"<br />
"Listen, my poor Monsieur Martin, since you wish to be sure on this point,<br />
cost what it may. and see with your own eyes how matters stand, take this path<br />
and run if you know how. You will find a very large door at the left. <strong>The</strong>re you<br />
will get all the information you want. Good luck to you!"<br />
And tlie Angel closed the door.<br />
It was a long path, paved with red-hot coals. I staggered as though I were<br />
drunk. 1 stumbled at each step. I was in a perspiration and panted from thirst.<br />
Hut. thanks to the sand;:Is which Saint Peter had lent me, I did not burn my feet.<br />
After 1 had hobbled along for some time T saw a large door at my left<br />
hand, a large door yawning wide open like that of a furnace. Oh ! My children !<br />
What a sight. Xo names were asked there; there was no register. People enter<br />
there in crowds, my brothers, just as you enter the saloon on Sundays.<br />
Although 1 was in a great perspiration, my hair stood on end. I smelt,<br />
something burning, roasted llesh. something like the odor which is spread through<br />
our Cucugnau when the blacksmith is shoeing an old donkey. I lost my breath<br />
m that stilling and burning atmosphere. I heard terrible noises, groans and oaths.<br />
"Well, are you coming in or not?" said a burned demon, pricking me with a<br />
pitchfork.<br />
"I am not coming in. I am a friend of God."<br />
"You are a friend of Cod—you rascal! What arc you doing here?"<br />
"1 have come—.:h do not speak to me any more about it for I can hardly<br />
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stand-on mylfeeP-Ii ha<br />
you "might hav'eJspmc; p<br />
tiot \kno\v that? ai<br />
"how we arrange, them '1<br />
And I "saw-in thV<br />
got drunk so 'oftenTan<br />
hussy, "Ligii't-fingered',<br />
Julien. Isaw "Bess t'<br />
I saw Maitre Grapasi<br />
noise on his garden ra<br />
her wells, and" that oh<br />
my crucifix, walked by<br />
as though he had met<br />
Moved, pale with<br />
his mother, another his<br />
"You understaiyJ.<br />
not last. I have clmg<br />
you are rolling head<br />
morrow. <strong>The</strong>re will I<br />
thing is to be done \v<<br />
"Monday I will<br />
not much. ><br />
"Tuesday, the cli<br />
-Wednesday, the<br />
"Thursday, the i<br />
"Friday, thewoi<br />
"Saturday, f#n<br />
What Father M;<br />
After that mem<<br />
known about the stir<br />
<strong>The</strong> good Fathei<br />
followed % his floe<br />
of lighted candles an<br />
of choir boys who w<br />
At tl<br />
When Ernie Si<br />
Smith, brushing as<br />
time. K. can run:<br />
. Bell bit "is ton<br />
Since his tong 1 -
THE LOWELL<br />
stand on my feet—I have come from afar—to ask yon humbly—if by chance—<br />
yon might have some people from Cueugnau here—."<br />
"Well. I'll be ! You are pretending to he innocent, as though you did<br />
not know that all Cnr.ignau is here. Look, old fool, look and you will see<br />
how we arrange them here—your famous people of Cueugnau.'<br />
And 1 saw in the midst of a blast of llame: Your hen-pecked friend who<br />
;tole handfnls of grain from tht staek>.<br />
I saw Maitre (.irapasi who oiled his carl-wheels so well, so as to make lc-s<br />
in>i-e "n hi> garden raids, and Oelphine who a-ked so much fur the water from<br />
her wells, and thai "Id lame bei^ar. who. when he u-ed to meet me. carrying<br />
mv crucifix, walked by -o proudly. his cap on hi- head ;ind hi- pipe in liis mouth,<br />
a- tli to be done well, it must be done systematically.<br />
"Moiuhn I will hear the eoufe»ii>u of the old men aiul women. Thai i-<br />
not much.<br />
"Tuesday, the children. 1 will lini-h that -oon.<br />
"Wednesday, the youny; folks. That mi^lit lake more lime.<br />
Ihur.-day. the men. We will cut lhat -Iful.<br />
"|-"riday. the women. No tallle-tak-.<br />
"Saturdav. the miller, one day is not too much for him."<br />
What Father Martin .-aid was done.<br />
After that memorable Sunday the virtue- of tin.- people of Cucuijnau were<br />
known about the surrounding country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> good Father Martin, now happy and joyful, dreamt the other night thai,<br />
followed by his Hock, lie was climbing in rc.-pleudent procession in the nticUi<br />
of lighted candle- and of a cloud of incense which embalmed the atmosphere and<br />
of choir boy- who were -inying the "Te l)etun." the road to Heaven.<br />
At the <strong>Lowell</strong>-Missicn Game—Track Material.<br />
When Krnie Smith was injured in the game. hi> lather K. (Cannnuball i<br />
Smith, br.iMiing aside seventeen pnliceuieM. ru>hed on to the field in record<br />
lime. K. can run some.<br />
Hell bit his tongue and couldn't talk: poor dumb-Hell!<br />
Since his tongue is cracked the faculty call him Liberty l'.ell.
THE LOWELL<br />
Hope's Companion.<br />
When Hope Wreston was but a few months old, she lost both her parents.<br />
She was sent to live with her nurse, at the home that the family had occupied.,<br />
for many years, a large, rambling country place in the mountains.<br />
<strong>The</strong>'child soon learned to take complete charge of herself. Her nurse was<br />
only too glad of this as the company of a child bored her because she had<br />
never been able to understand children. Although no companion had ever<br />
been seen with the child and her life, was apparently lonesome, yet she always<br />
was happy. Her cheery voice could be heard singing or talking with herself<br />
at almost any hour of the day.<br />
As a result of having no human companionship, a host of fancies kept the<br />
little one company. Each tree had power to talk with her, every flower was a<br />
child like herself, the leaves chased her. then she in turn pursued them.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a queen for every rose bush and elves and sprites for each flowery<br />
palace.<br />
She lived in a world unknown to the average child. She read and enjoved<br />
nature with a far keener understanding than most older persons pos-<br />
M'ssed. <strong>The</strong> butterlly was to her a wondrous creature. To harm one of<br />
Cod's helpless creatures was the farthest thought from her mind. Perhaps<br />
SOUK- subtle understanding caused the little insects to realize this, for they had<br />
no fear in coming near her ur in being touched by her. Even the bee, the<br />
bane of most children's existence, she made a fellow. She hated to see its<br />
honey taken from it. Perhaps she realized that the little creature put part of<br />
its own life in its labor, and respected the sacrifice.<br />
lull throughout all her play she had a sharer of her fancies. Continually<br />
M>me companion was with her. She talked to it in the most endearing 1 terms.<br />
She asked it questions and seemed to hear its answers. Whether her companion<br />
was a creation of her mind or some invisible spirit we can not say.<br />
Hope called it "grandmother." To the child her grandmother was as dear as<br />
though she were with her in the flesh.<br />
In the hall of the house was a picture of Hope's grandmother. She<br />
had been dead for many years, so the child had never seen he: alive. Hope<br />
loved to watch the picture. It seemed to her that the face looked happier<br />
every time she stood before it.<br />
One day a lady came to stay at the home. She immediately became<br />
interested in the child. <strong>The</strong> nurse said Hope was a queer little girl. Although<br />
she never had anyone to play with, she seemed perfectly contented.<br />
Hie had vainly tried to be companionable to her, herself. She added that<br />
lately she had noticed a change in the child, she had been quieter, ar.d would<br />
sit for hours gazing at her grandmother's picture. She was afraid she wasn't<br />
very well, but knew of nothing which could be done.<br />
Mrs. Green, the visitor, decided to watch the child. She found her standing<br />
with her hands clasped behind her, talking to the picture. She heard her<br />
snv:<br />
••Grandmother dear, you love ,lle sn muc]l [ kncm% for you ahvays laugh<br />
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with<br />
(Mrs.'Green<br />
much upon Hop<br />
fancies. She rci<br />
But she har<br />
loved grandmotl<br />
dear, where are<br />
she fell before i<br />
<strong>The</strong> removal<br />
said. <strong>The</strong>re \va<br />
Although t<br />
dissatisfied. All]<br />
felt that if the c<br />
would recover.<br />
Meanwhile<br />
but she begged<br />
was, then. Oh;<br />
her home.<br />
Finally, one<br />
grandmother ca 1<br />
a cry of joy<br />
said. "Your ha<br />
even better "that<br />
come back-to m<br />
In the earlj<br />
the Monos and<br />
deal of trouble<br />
<strong>The</strong> chief <<br />
greatly admired<br />
was the father -<br />
noted for his c<<br />
arrow.<br />
Awanee wn<br />
a hostile tribe,<br />
of Canuya's feai<br />
punished.<br />
One day A<br />
had gone quite;<br />
along the banl<<br />
Awanee had tn<br />
river. In it wn<br />
stantly that he<br />
lie saw Awanc
THE LOWELL<br />
when you sec me coming. Sometimes when we are playing, yon won't talk<br />
with me, so I come here to see you smile at me."<br />
Mrs. Green decided to remove the picnire. She thought it preyed too<br />
much upon Mope's mind, in fact she considered it the cause of her abnormal<br />
fancies. She removed it to an inner room where it could not be found.<br />
But she hardly expected the result of her action. When Hope found her<br />
loved grandmother's image gone, she cried out iu surprise. "Grandmother,<br />
dear, where are you? Oh, dear heart, why have you left me now?" <strong>The</strong>n<br />
she fell before its accustomed place, a white little heap.<br />
<strong>The</strong> removal of the picture had hastened an impending illness, the doctor<br />
said. <strong>The</strong>re was nothing to be done but to care for her well.<br />
Although the picture was hung in front of her bed. Hope scorned still<br />
dissatisfied. All during her illness she railed for "dear heart." Mrs. Green<br />
felt that if the child could but again imagine her grandmother by her side she<br />
would recover.<br />
Meanwhile she grew \v< use and worse. <strong>The</strong> doctor prescribed a change,<br />
but she begged not to be removed. "Grandmother wouldn't know where 1<br />
was. then. Oh. please leave me win. re she can find me." So they left her at<br />
her home.<br />
Finally, one clay when Hope had been unusually cheerful and happy, her<br />
grandmother came back to her. Suddenly the child raised her arms, and with<br />
a cry of joy called her name. "Km jmi don't look like your picture." she<br />
said. "Your haii is white and you are somewhat 'hanged. Kut 1 like you<br />
even better that way. Oh. grandmother dear, how giad 1 am that you have<br />
come back to me again." A. II.. '\2.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cry of the Panther.<br />
In the early davs fit" California, two Indian tribes lived near Mono Lake,<br />
the Monos and the Yosemites. <strong>The</strong>se tribes were hostile and had a g--eal<br />
deal of trouble between themselves.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chief of the Monos had a beautiful daughter. Awanee. who \va<<br />
greatly admired by all the warriors of her tribe. <strong>The</strong> chief of the hostile tribewas<br />
the father oi a handsome young Indian named Canuya. <strong>The</strong> latter was<br />
mted for his courage and the great skill with which he used the bow ami<br />
arrow.<br />
Awanee was greatly interested in the young Indian, although he was of<br />
a hostile tribe. None of her ptople knew how much she enjoyed the stories<br />
of Canuya's fearlessness, and she never mentioned his name for fear of being<br />
punched.<br />
One day Awanee wandered away from the wigwams of her tribe. She<br />
had gone unite a distance when she came to a beautiful river. While w;.Iking<br />
along the bank the sound of splashing water r^'clu'd her ears. Kefore<br />
Awanee had time to conceal herself in the bushes a canoe darted up the<br />
river. In it was a tall, handsome young Indian and Awanee could tell instantlv<br />
that he was a Yosemitc. <strong>The</strong> Indian paddled to the .shore, and when<br />
he saw Awanee standing there, was instantly struck with her be;:uty. He<br />
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. THE LOWELL<br />
landed, and speaking kindly to her. said lie was Canuya, the son of the<br />
Yosemites' chief. Awanee had fallen in love with Canuya the minute she<br />
had seen him. She told him how much she had heard of his bravery and what<br />
a great interest she had taken in him but dared not tell her tribe.<br />
As it was growing late. Awanee was anxious to return to her home and<br />
feared lest some of her people would discover where she had been. Canuya,<br />
however, said she must not go until a meeting; place was selected. <strong>The</strong> spot<br />
selected was the summit of a high precipice overlooking the river. <strong>The</strong><br />
precipice was equally distant from the Monos and Yosemites and was not<br />
likely to be frequented by Indians from either tribe. So that neither tribe<br />
should learn of the friendship of the young people, Canuya was to give the<br />
crv of a panther from the summit which, when heard by Awanee was a signal<br />
to meet her lover.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se plan* wen- successfully carried mil for some time and the two<br />
young Indians met frequently. At last, through warriors of both tribes, the<br />
chiefs learned of the friendship existing between Awanie and Canuya.<br />
Awanee and Canuya were not allowed to leave th'nr camps. Awanee spoke<br />
to none of her people but stayed in her wigwam lamenting the loss of her<br />
lover for she thought she would never see him again. She knew that Canuya<br />
was being held in his camp for she never heard the panther cry. Neither the<br />
Monos nor the Yosemites knew anything about the signal. Canuya imitated<br />
the cry of a panther to such perfection that they believed it was the cry of a<br />
rial panther and paid no attention to it.<br />
( hie night while all the Yosemites were sound asleep Canuya crept away<br />
from his wigwam and gave the panther cry from the summit. Awanee had<br />
been awake all night thinking of Canuya. When she heard the cry. she could<br />
hardly believe her ears. She thought she had been dreaming but when it was<br />
given a second time, she recognized it as the crv of Canuva. Awanee crept<br />
out of her wigwam on hands and knees until she was a safe distance from<br />
the wigwams. <strong>The</strong>n, rising to her feet, she made her way as quickly as possible<br />
to the summit.<br />
Mere Canuya was wailing, lie told Awanee how he had crept away<br />
from his wigwam without being caught and in like manner Awanee related<br />
her experience. Canuya suggested that since the Monos and Yosemites could<br />
never be friendly, and therefore, since they themselves could never be married,<br />
they should at least die together by jumping over the precipice. Awanee<br />
consented, saying she could not have lived without Canuya. Canuya raised<br />
his voice in the last panther cry \.!
^f; I .MIIMIM.-I;. I-Miinf. I >iivlil I.. Wiiir. M:m:iKi-r.<br />
U-ued hi-uecl;iy Iiy tin- students of tin- I.dwell Mitch School.<br />
EDITOR.<br />
OSGOOl) M UK DOCK. '11.<br />
ASSOCIATE.<br />
ROI1F.RT M. L'NDF.RIIILL. Ml.<br />
DEPARTMENTS.<br />
V IN CM-: XT MKAI). Ml. Sell, ml Notes.<br />
AII.KKX I LAND. M2. < >n,':iiiiz:iti«m-.<br />
WILLIAM RAINFY. M2. Orir:miz:iii..:is.<br />
I'.VROX JACKSON. M2. Alumni.<br />
GARTH I'.OKRICKI-:. M2. Kxchansjcs.<br />
JA.MI-1S RAXSO1IOI-'F. M1.' Athletics<br />
Kl.lZAP.IiTII RUGGLKS. M.3, Girls' Athletics.<br />
ROY VAN Yl.ll-rr. M2. Jokes.<br />
CORINNK CUONISE. M2. Jokes.<br />
I-I.MER WISP.. '1.3. Art.<br />
KRNT.ST SMITH, Ml. Art.<br />
BUSINESS MANAGER.<br />
DAVID WOLF. M2.<br />
ASSOCIATE.<br />
SAN FORD STF.IN. M2.<br />
ASSISTANTS.<br />
TIIKOI1ORA SCIIAKRTZKR. M2 I VNN W \R0 'P<br />
1:KRT ARFXI)T. M.3 CORiN:; F. CRO.VISE. <strong>12</strong><br />
Editorials.<br />
AT LOWELL FOR FOUR YEARS.<br />
We (it the .LcraduatiiiLV class arc now lapsing into the semi-annual reflective,<br />
pensive mood of high seniors. Sophomores and Juniors cannot understand us<br />
when we say that we regret leaving. 1 tut after four solid years at <strong>Lowell</strong> with<br />
her people and her teachers and her habits, we do feel that we will lose much<br />
when we are no longer among the number. Perhaps some of us do not feel this<br />
way. Some do not realize what the school has meant, or perhaps it has not meant<br />
as much as it should have. This situation is regrettable in itself. Those of us<br />
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who feel this way will be sorry later that we did not make the best of a great<br />
chance. But we all surely feel some emotion in these our last days.<br />
In addition to this growth of emotion, we are imbued with a reverent and<br />
superior feeling of wisdom: wisdom from books and wisdom earned from experience.<br />
However lofty this may appear, there is no doubt that in four years<br />
wo have become far better thinkers and much more successful performers of<br />
either good or bad. Tt is with a hope of encouraging the former development<br />
that these words have become literature. Auditc, iuvciies!<br />
<strong>The</strong> first year is the important one. Tt is during those first ten months that<br />
a student's future path is surveyed. Tt is while a Freshman that he or she starts<br />
either up or down. And these most difficult days are the very ones for which<br />
the beginner is least prepared. He enters blindly, innocently. He desperately<br />
plunges into whatever presents itself to him first. Sometimes it is pure harmless<br />
water, but often, very often, it is not. So as a gentle guide and director, we<br />
present two suggestions from our own sometimes blundering experience.<br />
Primarily, be your own dictator and be yourself! Mix with all your mates.<br />
Pie broad and companionable. See what everybody else is and does. Don't be<br />
sour and critical. Give them all whatever credit belongs to them. But in spite<br />
of everybody, steer your own course. Have some few ideas and ideals of your<br />
own and let them guide you. Don't become a hero worshiper or an admirer of<br />
clowns. Refer every impulse of importance to your own standard and foresee<br />
what the result would probably be. This stand will bring to you self satisfaction<br />
and popular respect. And so. briefly, be independent and self-reliant.<br />
And next in importance, make the right intimate friends. Be friendly with<br />
everybody. Don't be proud, lie on smiling, speaking terms with them all. But<br />
beware who your intimates are! Many a promising boy has been dragged down<br />
by inferior companions in his first year. Many a fine girl has been handicapped<br />
by a hasty choice of intimates. Don't cast your lot with any special "crowd"<br />
until you have been in high school long enough to see the comparative merits of<br />
all the crowds. However, when you are ready, make it a point to have all the<br />
near friends you possibly can. <strong>The</strong>y will make you happy and successful.<br />
And now good-by, <strong>Lowell</strong>. In four years you have recast and polished us<br />
all while we have wrought but a faint impression on your impregnable pages.<br />
Your masters have made each one of us a composite of themselves. We go out<br />
into the street among all men. Those masters still stay here to lose themselves<br />
in others. May they continue! May you enlarge and progress physically and<br />
intellectually, old <strong>Lowell</strong> of our school days. May your influence be still great<br />
and your record continually unstained. And may we in return be ever faithful<br />
and grateful to you for that priceless gem which you have bestowed upon us—<br />
character.<br />
Appreciation.<br />
One last word of thanks and praise before we commit the rudder to its next<br />
governor, lieside the faithful and consistent work of the regular staff throughout<br />
the term, we cannot fail now to express our gratitude to Mr. H. Pierre Sniiith<br />
for his success with the photographs, to the Commercial Art Company and <strong>The</strong><br />
James H. Barry Company for mechanically perfecting our publication, and to<br />
the Camera Club for its willingness and enthusiasm in taking many required<br />
photographs. Last and best to Mr. Nourse for his thoughtful and'invaluable<br />
suggestions concerning the contents of this paper.<br />
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I'y G.XKTII 1'oERICKK. Dec. <strong>12</strong>.<br />
THK LOWELL has not been overcrowded with Exchanges this term—due.<br />
most probably, to the discontinuance of detailed comment made necessary by<br />
the changed form in our regular mid-term issues. Tn the following criticism<br />
preference was given to those schools who favored us with commencement<br />
numbers.<br />
It is a pleasure to review such an artistic annual as /:/ Solano. from Santa<br />
Paula. California. <strong>The</strong> front-piece photograph with its accompanying poem is<br />
most appropriate and distinctive.<br />
<strong>The</strong> June Trident could have a larger literary department,, and the class<br />
photos could he arranged more effectively.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Russ. San Diego High.—<strong>The</strong> "Senior Publishing Co." is a good idea<br />
overdone. <strong>The</strong> class prophecy, in the shape of a cartoon and its accompanying<br />
explanation is an original and refreshing bit of humor.<br />
In the Ilex. Woodland High. Cal.. the large cartoon cut is out of all proportion,<br />
otherwise it is an excellent number.<br />
Whims, l'.roadway High. Seattle.—<strong>The</strong> poem. "Playing the Game" should<br />
head the paper. It lias theme, spirit and appeal. <strong>The</strong> author has no reason<br />
to withho'.il his name.<br />
Totem. Lincoln High. Seattle.—"<strong>The</strong> Rhyme of the Worthy Graduate" has<br />
no merit. <strong>The</strong> slang is offensive, the expression forced and crude.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tokay. Lodi. Cal.—For a small school <strong>The</strong> Tokay is all right. Next<br />
time don't publish Alumni Xotes if it's only going to be a tabulated list of<br />
names three pages long.<br />
Olive and Cold.—<strong>The</strong> material is all there but the arrangement is poor.<br />
Editorials should not come first. Individual Faculty pictures are not necessary.<br />
T'ne poem. "A Meditation." should have more prominence.<br />
We have no criticism for the West port High School Herald commencement<br />
number. We would like to see one of your monthly issues.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cogswell.—<strong>The</strong> departments are complete and interesting. <strong>The</strong><br />
"Ninth Panel" begins well and is original. "Salada P.each" is an enjoyable<br />
sketch.<br />
'the Sequoia, from Eureka. Cal., is a marvel of artistic beauty. However,<br />
here again we see a long list of Alumni, taking up seven pages. This is<br />
wasted space. Neither the students or Alumni themselves ever take any interest<br />
in those departments.<br />
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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Executive Committee, ihe main board of management under our<br />
Constitution, meets regularly on Thursdays in Room 7 at <strong>12</strong>:30 P. M.<br />
Interested l/nvellites are always welcome as spectators. <strong>The</strong> members for<br />
this term have been as follows:<br />
Ernest Smith President<br />
Aileen 1 land Vice-President<br />
Robert M. Underbill Secretary<br />
Thaddcus Jl. Rhodes Treasurer<br />
Arnold I'.owhay First Assistant<br />
Vincent M ead Second Assistant<br />
David Wolf Third Assistant<br />
James Ransohofi" A. A. L. Representative<br />
Mr. J. K. Rogers Faculty A. A. L. Representative<br />
Mr. Frank Morton Principal<br />
Mr. Joseph I 1 . Xourse Faculty Representative<br />
Miss Elsie A. Weigle Faculty Representative<br />
Osgood Murdock IIigh Senior Representative<br />
Myron Jackson Low Senior Representative<br />
<strong>The</strong>odora Sehaertzer High Junior Representative<br />
Erwin 11 irschfeklcr Low Junior Representative<br />
Albert Hull High Sophomore Representative<br />
Dorothy Riedy Low Sophomore Representative<br />
Emily Hertsch High Freshman Representative<br />
Alma Tbornburg Low Freshman Representative<br />
Besides ihese full members, all team managers and elected representatives<br />
from each organization under the Students' Association are ex-officio<br />
members, with voting rights on matters pertaining to their various activities<br />
respectively.<br />
Frohman (at studio)—Remember. 1 don't want a big picture.<br />
Photographer—Well, keep your mouth shut then.<br />
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Winged L and Scroll Society.<br />
Formed as the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School Honor Society in May. 1905. Reorgan-<br />
ized in January. 1907.<br />
<strong>The</strong> purpose of the society is to promote good, clean activities in the school<br />
and to keep harmony among the different branches of student enterprise.<br />
A member of this society must have worked faithfully and unselfishly in<br />
some way for his Alma Mater, as the motto reads: "In the service of <strong>Lowell</strong>."<br />
Archibald J. Cloud.<br />
HONORARY MEM HERS.<br />
William C. Crittcnden.<br />
Thadclcus H. Rhodes.<br />
MEMT.ERS IN SCHOOL.<br />
Class of <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Arthur Marwcdel.<br />
James Ransohoff.<br />
Ernest Smith.<br />
Robert M. Underhill.<br />
Osgood Murdock.<br />
Vincent Mead.<br />
Class of 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
Byron Jackson.<br />
Arnold Bowhay.<br />
Roy Van VHet.<br />
David Wolf.<br />
Harold Micks.<br />
George Montgomery.<br />
Lyman Heacock.<br />
Jack Tufts.<br />
Russell Bell.<br />
PAST MEM HERS.<br />
Class of 1905.<br />
Herbert Long.<br />
Alfred E. Roneovieri.<br />
Hiram W. Johnson, Jr.<br />
Victor Pollak.<br />
Otto Barkan.<br />
Geo. L. Lang.<br />
Adolph Tiscornia.<br />
Ralph E. Hare.<br />
Class of 1906.<br />
Harold H. Maundrell.<br />
William Garvin.<br />
Burnett Hamilton.<br />
Melville Long.<br />
William Leib.<br />
Class of 1907.<br />
Hough L. Young.<br />
Leslie B. Henry.<br />
Marry Flynn.<br />
Andrew Massie.<br />
Peter J. Ibos.<br />
Francis H. Deuprey.<br />
Gco. Hammer.<br />
Clifford Jones.<br />
(Continued on next page.)<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shield and L Society.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shield and L Society was organized in December, 1909.<br />
Harris. Marianne P.ell. F.dith Frisbie, Harriet Pa-niore and Hilda<br />
stein, all of June '10.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls' organization was to have the same purpose as the<br />
work for the best interests of <strong>Lowell</strong>:<br />
Aileen I land.<br />
Gertrude Yizzard.<br />
Elfreda Svenberii'.<br />
Mvrtle I'ranzen.<br />
Thomas II. Laine.<br />
Eugene I Hock.<br />
Reynolds Mel fenry.<br />
Maurice McLoughliu<br />
Willard Morton<br />
Robert Ackcrman.<br />
Wendell I lammon.<br />
Ramon Pohli.<br />
Samuel Snead.<br />
llenrv Kreutzmann.<br />
Paul McCIoskey.<br />
Albert Simpson.<br />
Charles Street. Jr.<br />
MEMHERS IX SCHOOL.<br />
Class of <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Margery Durhrow.<br />
Class of 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong>odora Schaertzer.<br />
Selmn Cieballe.<br />
Doris McLaujjhlin.<br />
Edith Griffin.<br />
Class of I'M.}.<br />
Carlotta Sawyer.<br />
IIOXORAKV MEMI'.ER.<br />
Miss Elsie A. Wei"!e.<br />
irnm iiinner |>:IK<br />
Class of 1908.<br />
[.eland Sparks.<br />
Edwin Corbett.<br />
Joseph Leopold.<br />
Class of 1909.<br />
Lyman Grimes.<br />
Raymond Klynn.<br />
William Johnson.<br />
Endicott Gardiner.<br />
Class of 1910.<br />
Sherman I'.urns.<br />
Leo Meyer.<br />
Class of <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
Thornton Grimes.<br />
IN M E.MORI AM.<br />
Edwin A. Smith. 190S.<br />
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Justin K. Fidler.<br />
Marion Read.<br />
Ramon Gilbert.<br />
Edward Salomon.<br />
Hollis Fairchild.<br />
William McKae.<br />
Carl I'.runs.<br />
Samuel Gunnison.<br />
Everard Olsen.<br />
Milton Marks.<br />
Leonard I'.owhay.<br />
I'redric Ma_t;gs.<br />
Harold I "otter.
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RolIKUT M. L'.NhKUll ILL, "11.<br />
'l'he Heading Club is just completing a term of great activity ami success.<br />
It lias accomplished during the current six months more than ever<br />
before. <strong>The</strong> benefit and entertainment furnished by the club has been<br />
accepted by the lower classes and those of the upper division who are not<br />
members. In this way the organization has become more a part of the<br />
school life and interest than formerly. <strong>The</strong> membership is limited to sixty<br />
Seniors and Juniors but this, the officers are glad to see. does not keep nonmembers<br />
from our regular attendance.<br />
Many times a club complains of the irregular attendance of its members<br />
and the lack of names on its rolls but in the Reading Club the only lack is<br />
the lack of vacancies. <strong>The</strong> members of the club have attended so regularly<br />
that it is exceedingly difficult to find places for the people who desire<br />
admittance who would make good members. <strong>The</strong> large attendances this<br />
term have broken all former records and this fact alone tells of the progress<br />
which the club is making. <strong>The</strong> members this term are earnest in their desires<br />
and lend every possible aid to the lY.rthermcnt of the club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club has been greatly aided by some members of the faculty this<br />
term and deeply appreciate their efforts in our behalf. Usually we see several<br />
members of the faculty in our audiences and their presence alone helps<br />
us on. To those taking part in the programs the suggestions of these members<br />
of the faculty have been exceedingly helpful.<br />
It has been the policy of the officers this term to have each member<br />
take part in some program during'the term. Formerly many members took<br />
no part other than that of attending. <strong>The</strong> broader method has worked well<br />
and in this way the benefits of the club have been extended. Another new<br />
idea this term is that of criticism. At each meeting a different committee of<br />
three is appointed by the chair to present a short criticism after the conclusion<br />
of the program. <strong>The</strong> idea has worked wel! and the members are<br />
shown in this way in just what points they can improve their reading or<br />
acting, as the case may be.<br />
One uf our records for this term is that the club has presented three<br />
mid-term plays. L'p to this time the club has never given more than two<br />
and usually only one. Added to these plays the readings have been very<br />
good. Among these we have had the best literature of various classes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plays have been. "<strong>The</strong> Melting Pot." by Zangwell. "<strong>The</strong> Amazons"<br />
by Pinero, and "<strong>The</strong> Great Divide" by Moody. <strong>The</strong> first of these, "<strong>The</strong><br />
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At the beginning of the year the Debating Society promised to have another<br />
successful year to add to its records, a promise which it has certainly fulfilled.<br />
<strong>The</strong> meetings have been all that could be desired. We have had quite a<br />
few enthusiastic supporters present to help the society prosper, noticeable among;<br />
these are the old "grads." Hut the great surprise is the large percentage of girls<br />
in the society. While looking over the roll we were surprised to see that thirteen<br />
girls are attending all the meetings faithfully. In view of the fact that in former<br />
years there were but five or six girls in the society, it was especially gratifying<br />
to notice tin's increase. Keep up the good work, girls! You won't be sorry.<br />
As for the boys, there are about seventy hard, willing workers. This is<br />
about the same number as formerly, a fact: which we arc sorry to find. Fellows,<br />
you'll have to wake up! If you don't hurry up the girls will get ahead of you.<br />
<strong>The</strong> programs have been very interesting and have greatly aided the work<br />
of the society. During the last few meetings, the Frank Belasco Nieto Memorial<br />
Cup debate will have been held to determine the best debater among the Freshmen<br />
and Sophomores, the winners to hold the cup for six months. <strong>The</strong> debate promises<br />
to be very interesting and closely contested, as a large number have signified<br />
their intention 10 debate.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was much disappointment when the society was notified of the inability<br />
of Mission to turn out a debating team. We had several hotly contested tryouts<br />
and it was certainly "tough luck'' that we could not debate after all. However,<br />
the tryouts showed what we are able to do, and those present were convinced<br />
that <strong>Lowell</strong> has an excellent chance to win the new Stanford Cup. This<br />
can only be clone by giving the society the support it deserves, which is more<br />
than we formerly got. If we do get this support it is safe to say that we will<br />
win that cup.<br />
(Continued from Page 90.)<br />
Melting Pot," was presented early in the term. This play of pathos was<br />
given in a finished and excellent manner. <strong>The</strong> cast was good and was well<br />
trained. <strong>The</strong> play was a pleasure to a great number of non-members, as<br />
well as those who are members. <strong>The</strong> second. "<strong>The</strong> Amazons," kept the<br />
audience in mirth during three performances. <strong>The</strong> play, with its many<br />
amusing situations, was a great contrast and change from "<strong>The</strong> Melting<br />
Pot." In the latter part of the term another serious play was given—"<strong>The</strong> Great<br />
Divide." This production kept up the interest of the non-members and was enjoyed<br />
by the regular audience.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>re has entered a stranger into our midst. It is possible that many have<br />
not heard of it. I refer to the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School Camera Club.<br />
One day somebody posted a notice on the bulletin board in the yard that all<br />
interested in photography should meet the following Monday in a certain room.<br />
And so, early in September, the budding organization held its first meeting with<br />
an attendance of about twelve. In one week a simple constitution was adopted.<br />
In two weeks the membership had increased to twenty-six, with twenty-fivepresent<br />
at the first election of officers, who are as follows: Bernhardt Fc-st,<br />
President: Henry D. Meyer. Vice-President: Arthur \V. Townc, Secretary:<br />
Paul Schceline, Librarian.<br />
<strong>The</strong> club is not boosting for numbers in membership, although it has an<br />
active membership of about thirty-five. What I might call its main purpose<br />
is to further the elements of knowledge and art of photography. Photography is<br />
not placing a film in your kodak or camera, telling brother John to look pleasant<br />
and not squint because the sun is in his eyes, snapping the shutter, rolling the<br />
film up and then sending it to be developed and printed by a drug-store agency.<br />
A good picture depends on many essential points, such as the use of the<br />
proper diaphragm "stop" and the paraphernalia attached to the picture "machine."<br />
the right timing, and. most important. 110 doubt, the choice of a suitable<br />
background from an artistic and compository point of view.<br />
During this initial term we held an exhibition of vacation pictures for the<br />
benefit of the members. Mr. Altman gave a very interesting lecture on the<br />
subject emphasized in the previous paragraph: the composition of a picture,<br />
dealing with the choice of scenery, background and the methods of grouping.<br />
Several members have also reported on certain subjects assigned to them to the<br />
aid of all.<br />
Lectures held with the California Camera Club have aided us in our<br />
progress. That we are not a "bunch of deadheads" is evidenced on another<br />
page by a set of scenes in and about <strong>Lowell</strong> and also by a few action pictures of<br />
the Rugby games played this season.<br />
A tramp has been arranged to take place on Friday, December 1st. combining<br />
photography and physical geography with pleasure. By the time you<br />
have read this article the outing shall have been held.<br />
<strong>The</strong> stereopticon has been patched up and by this time we shall have held<br />
an entertainment with its aid.<br />
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LEO SIMOX, June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lowell</strong> High School Spanish Class was organized in September, 1909,<br />
by a number of Spanish students in co-operation with Mr. Rhodes in order to<br />
obtain from the Spanish more than was offered by the regular two-year<br />
course. At first the Spanish Club had a hard struggle for existence, but<br />
through the untiring efforts of Mr. Rhodes and its members it gradually rose<br />
and by a series of final plays showed the interest that was being taken not<br />
only by its members but also by the whole school.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main purpose of the club is to further the students' knowledge o*<br />
the Spanish language. Another aim is to give the Spanish students, and for<br />
that matter all other students who are interested, a knowledge of the Spanish<br />
literature and customs which is not included in the regular course.<br />
<strong>The</strong> results obtained were not otherwise than those which the charter<br />
members hoped for and expected. A marked improvement was noticed in Hie<br />
class work of the members due to outside work mainly in the Spanish Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se results have been obtained in a delightful and sociable way wherein<br />
otherwise the work would have been taken up and done as class work, which<br />
would not have excited any especial interest. A knowledge of the classics,<br />
which is usually obtained in the university courses, not in high school, has<br />
been given the Spanish students of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School by means of the<br />
Spanish Club. And again by this extra work we are proud to say that we have<br />
gained for <strong>Lowell</strong> the reputation of sending the best Spanish scholars to the<br />
universities that have come from any high school in the State, and we feel<br />
sure that this will continue to be true if the present Spanish students will<br />
grasp the opportunity that the Spanish Club offers them.<br />
lint everything has not been running as smoothly in the Spanish Club<br />
this year as in previous terms due to difficulties brought about by the physics'<br />
laboratory periods coming after school on Tuesdays, which is the meeting<br />
day, and also due to a slight misunderstanding in regard to our aims and<br />
purposes. <strong>The</strong> success of the club has not been as great as we have wished<br />
in regard to membership and attendance. On the other hand our programs<br />
have proved more than interesting and instructive due to the energy and<br />
interest of our capable stage manager. Miss Hand.<br />
In regard to the material, for the most part what we have taken up this<br />
year and intend to take up next year, has been approved and suggested by a<br />
Spanish professor at the University of California and therefore we feel that<br />
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GIRLS' GLEE CLUB.<br />
MYKTI.K FRAXZKX. June '<strong>12</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> girls have all worked hard and sincerely this year, but the work<br />
has not been drudgery or without its reward. Many little pleasures have<br />
been mingled in and through this, better results followed.<br />
On Saturday evening. September 30. <strong>1911</strong>. the Girls' Glee Club participated<br />
in a program, jointly with Mission High and Humboldt Evening<br />
High Schools, at the Mission High School auditorium. <strong>The</strong> entertainment<br />
was given to raise funds for the Debating League of California Convention<br />
and a very large audience was there, who enthusiastically received the girls.<br />
One Monday afternoon, after a strenuous rehearsal, the girls were surprised<br />
by an informal social which was planned by the executive committee<br />
of the club. A program had been prepared, games were played, and refreshments<br />
served. <strong>The</strong> time wns pleasantly spent, by all and it has become<br />
an established policy of the club to have monthly informal affairs.<br />
Another such social was being planned, but Mr. Pasmore took the matter<br />
out of our hands and kindly invited the club to his home on Saturday afternoon.<br />
November IS. A delightful musical program was given for our pleasure<br />
and any of the girls who were not present missed a splendid time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Girls' Glee Club gave a concert in the Study Hall on Monday afiernoon.<br />
November 27th. <strong>The</strong> program was a good one and we especially wish<br />
to thank the Boys' Glee Club and the Orchestra for their assistance in<br />
making the concert a Miccess.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n on December 15. Friday evening, we were invited to give a concert<br />
at the Seamen's Institute. <strong>The</strong> concert was a huge success and the<br />
Girls' Glee Club has certainly established a never-to-be-forgotten name<br />
among those good-natured seamen. This concert has been long anticipated,<br />
ever since the last one was given some time last year. A standing invitation<br />
is ours at this Institute as the entertainment which we give is always novel<br />
to them.<br />
<strong>The</strong> greater part of the club is composed of Freshmen girls, and it is<br />
with them now that the future prosperity of the club lies. May they carefully<br />
guard the honored name of the Girls' Glee Club of the <strong>Lowell</strong> High School.<br />
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G. E. GOODALL.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boys' Glee Club, at last, is an established organization with a good<br />
membership and a reputation. Its concerts arc now. I may say, an institution.<br />
In the past it has given its concerts and taken part in entertainments<br />
and proven itself a success financially.<br />
This term the Glee Club took part in the entertainment given by the<br />
Debating League of California at Mission High School, where several of its<br />
selections were well received. Of course, you heard a quartet selected from<br />
the ranks of the club for the great rally before the Mission game. <strong>The</strong><br />
quartet, composed of ''Joseph" Meyer, "liill" Rainey, Telefsun, and Goodall.<br />
sang some air.s of a light character which caused some mirth among the<br />
spectators.<br />
l'y the time the annual is on sale the club will have participated in the<br />
concerts of the orchestra and the Girls' Glee Club.<br />
. To those who wish to join, I will say that it is not necessary to be a<br />
Caruso, or to take music lessons. An ear for music will suffice. If one has<br />
a knowledge of music, so much the better. If you do not know how to<br />
read music you will soon learn.<br />
To join the Glee Club it is only necessary to attend a meeting and have<br />
your name proposed by a member. After the meeting Mr. Smith will give<br />
you a thorough try-out, at which only the executive committee are present.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n if you come up to the standard you will be voted in. Those coming<br />
with an honest desire to obtain the benefits of the club will be admitted<br />
gladly but anyone tempted to join for the prospects of raising trouble will<br />
not be admitted.<br />
I wish to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Smith, our capable and<br />
hard-working director, on behalf of the club, for the care he has taken in<br />
training the club and for the time he has given to the club. I am sure that<br />
every member of the club heartily appreciates the work Mr. Smith has done.<br />
Every Thursday for three years he has given up two hours of his time in<br />
coaching the club.<br />
Next term, under new officers, the Glee Club should increase its membership<br />
and make even a greater success than it is at present. <strong>The</strong> special<br />
needs of the club are high tenors and bassos. Two good fellows with high<br />
voices are needed and two with real low voices. At the beginning of the<br />
term there will be a try-out and these vacancies should be filled. A few<br />
more on every part can be taken on.<br />
And now, to all members and to those who should be, get behind the<br />
Glee Club and help it to even greater success.<br />
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our programs of next year will be both interesting and instructive. Besides<br />
this a movement has been started in the club to have outsiders address the<br />
club in Spanish on Spanish literature and customs and by this give us a<br />
still better knowledge of the Spanish.<br />
We extend invitations, to all members of <strong>Lowell</strong> High School, to visit<br />
the Spanish Club. <strong>The</strong> club meets every Tuesday in Room 22 unless otherwise<br />
stated in the notices.<br />
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liu:.\NoR D. MATinews, Dec. "13.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra was organized last term by the students of <strong>Lowell</strong> and some<br />
outsiders. It elected as its director Miss Elizabeth Dolan. a former student of<br />
I...well.<br />
As it may be remembered, the orchestra furnished the musical program at<br />
the Scottish Rite Auditorium last spring, when the "School for Scandal" was<br />
given ; also at the Mission High School for the play. "Chattanooga."<br />
<strong>The</strong> orchestra has met regularly this term on Saturday mornings in the<br />
drawing-room. Practice lasts from 9:30 to 11:30. <strong>The</strong> orchestra is composed<br />
THE LOWELL<br />
Wearers of the<br />
Faculty.<br />
Frank Morton<br />
Archibald J. Cloud : Gold L<br />
Fred W. Koch Gold L<br />
Tliaddeus Rhodes Gold L<br />
Class of <strong>1911</strong>.<br />
James RansoliolT Swimming<br />
Ernest Smith Swimming<br />
William Sonicrs Track<br />
Class of 19<strong>12</strong>.<br />
John Strachan Tennis<br />
Arnold I'.owhay Track<br />
William Johnston .Tennis<br />
Fred Cans Track<br />
I !crt Robinowitz Debate<br />
Martin Rosenblatt Debate<br />
Cecil I luntingcon Swimming<br />
Roy Van Yliet Swimming<br />
Lytnan I leacock Football, Swimming<br />
Jack Tufts Football<br />
Miss Claire Evans Girls' Basketball<br />
Class of 1913.<br />
William Mctson Football<br />
Richard Derby Swimming<br />
Class of 1914.<br />
Philip Collischon Swimming<br />
Hyde Lewis Swimming<br />
Bouie Detrick Swimming<br />
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THE LOWELL<br />
Athletics.<br />
Edited by JAMES RANSOHOFF.<br />
FOOTBALL. .<br />
By EARL WILKINS.<br />
<strong>The</strong> football season started well and prospects for a winning team were<br />
very bright. <strong>The</strong> practices were well attended at first, and scrub games were<br />
held each day to give everyone a chance. Later on though, for one reason<br />
or another, the attendance at practice dropped off and this was a death knell<br />
to good team-work. In all the games the team went into the field weakened<br />
by the loss of someone but the material that did go in always fought.<br />
In the California Freshman game, weakened by the loss of Capt. Heacock,<br />
we fought the huskies to a close score and the bleachers recognized the<br />
merit of our work. Among the forwards. Hell, Ishi Woodmansee, and Bill<br />
Metson played particularly well and among the backs, gritty little "Shrimp"<br />
Wilkins, Hicks and RansohorT performed especially well.<br />
Later in the season, the team was rewarded by a trip up the river to<br />
Stockton, accompanied by Mr. Rhodes. Although we were defeated, we<br />
had a great time and the experience was a good lesson.<br />
In the League games <strong>Lowell</strong> gave a good account of herself, but seemed<br />
to be followed by a streak of hard luck, entering the last two games with a<br />
badly crippled team.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>-Lick.<br />
This was the first League game and was the only one in which <strong>Lowell</strong><br />
had her full fighting strength. Lick proved herself a worthy antagonist,<br />
as her scrum was very heavy. <strong>The</strong> first half was about even, but towards the<br />
end <strong>Lowell</strong> had a shade the better of the game. <strong>The</strong> half ended with no<br />
score. In the second half <strong>Lowell</strong> came back strong and fought the Tigers<br />
off their feet, finally crossing the line after a beautiful passing rush from<br />
Metson to Hicks, to Ransohoff to Tufts, who carried it over. Marwedel<br />
unfortunately failed to convert an easy goal and the game ended with the<br />
Lkk goal in great danger.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>-Cogswell.<br />
Our next game was with Cogswell and we entered the game prepared<br />
for a hard fight, well knowing'that they had a fine team. For the greater<br />
part of the first half we fought Cogswell off their feet but were unable to<br />
score. In the second half the honors were more evenly divided. Early in<br />
this half Merwedel kicked a beautiful goal from the 45-yard line. From<br />
this point on <strong>Lowell</strong> had a slump and Cogswell, playing beautifully in<br />
streaks, crossed our line for 2 tries. From here on <strong>Lowell</strong> fought desperately<br />
but were unable to penetrate the enemy's defense. Hicks crossed the<br />
line for a seemingly fair try. but it was not allowed. <strong>The</strong> game ended in<br />
Cogswell's favor. Heacock, Hicks, Metson and Wilkins showed to good<br />
advantage.<br />
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At outside five, Ransohoff played a dashing game, gaining a world<br />
of ground by his speed and long kicks to touch.<br />
At center three-quarters, Captain Heacock used his head at all times.<br />
Me played a fine game on the defense, and, possessing a good boot with each<br />
foot, gained many yards by his kicks. Everybody knew that "Amy" would<br />
do the right thing at the right time.<br />
On the wings. Osborne and Agee. both new at Rugby, developed rapidly.<br />
Both of these boys put up gritty games and should be a big help to<br />
the team next year.<br />
At full-back. Montgomery was all t'.iat could be desired. His long<br />
kicks to touch were a great help and not a man curried the ball past<br />
"Montv" during the whole season, which is going some.<br />
Graves showed up well during the latter part of the season. He showed<br />
himself to be especially good on the defense.<br />
Earl YVilkins, the smallest on the team and one of the best, played a<br />
heady ganie through the entire season. "Shrimp" has one of the best boots<br />
uii the team and it is hoped that he will be back next year, as it will be hard<br />
tii fill his place.<br />
THE SECOND TEAM.<br />
This is the first year that <strong>Lowell</strong> has had two Rugby teams since that<br />
game was adopted. After an unsuccessful attempt at two weight system<br />
teams, a second team was organized.<br />
Although not a record-breaking, championship team, it has brought<br />
out lots of new material for the game, and promises to fill the vacancies in<br />
the big team, next year. As it was not organized until the season was well<br />
advanced, only a few local games have been played, but in these they<br />
showed up very well, and kept up the school's name.<br />
On Wednesday, October 8th. they met the Lick Sophomore class team<br />
and, although greatly outweighed, came out on the long end of an 8-0 score.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lick team were heavy, but clumsy and fumbling, and lost the game.<br />
<strong>The</strong> kicking and fine playing of one Jimmie McGee (?) won the game for<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
On Thursday. October 26th, a game was scheduled with Pacific Heights<br />
Grammar School, but as they only had seven players on the field the game<br />
ended in a great comedy in which both <strong>Lowell</strong> teams acted. Capt. Heacock<br />
showed his knowledge of the game, acting as referee.<br />
On Saturday. October 28th, they met Cogswell's second team and were<br />
victors by an 11-0 score. <strong>Lowell</strong> played a fine game, thanks to the coaching<br />
of Metson. and only once were the Cogswell players close to our goal.<br />
On the 1st of November, a return game with Lick was played and it<br />
was our hardest game. <strong>The</strong> heavy Lick team of the previous game had<br />
been practicing and we were lucky to come off as we'll as we did. <strong>The</strong> Lick<br />
forwards had all the advantage, but their backs couldn't handle the ball.<br />
During the season. Capt. Peteler and Winter played a great game at<br />
front rank, and Osborne, Borchers. P.lock. Graves and Huntington showed<br />
up well as backs. I). W. J., '14.<br />
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SWIMMING.<br />
By ERNEST SMITH.<br />
••Swimming is <strong>Lowell</strong>'s birthright," to quote one of our wisest about a<br />
year ago.<br />
Since his utterance two swimming pennants with the big significant word<br />
"champs" on them, have waved triumphantly over <strong>Lowell</strong>. _Last year we<br />
won by an eyelash: this year by a safe margin. On September 22nd,<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>'s Hock of ducks assembled, via the auto route, at the Y. M. C. A.<br />
building, for a little bath. <strong>The</strong>y came up out of the building carrying 2^<br />
points, two cups, and the championship on their shoulders.<br />
Early in the fall it was seen that the team would not suffer from lack<br />
of material. Cap. Ransohoff was subject to a siege of anxious inquiry as to<br />
when the ducks would start active practice, when training started, and what<br />
meets the manager had arranged for.<br />
Lewis, our lankest dolphin, declared that his "form" was great: Ransohoff.<br />
fresh from the invigorating influence of a good swimming pool in the<br />
Santa Crux, mountains, announced that danger hovered over every record<br />
of the A. A. L. Ernie Smith, after a lengthy sojourn in the tempting waters<br />
of Tahoe, returned to the prosaic city grind, proud in the possession of a<br />
healthy copper-colored skin. Red Van Vleit whiled away a month in the<br />
mountains, learning to crawl and breathing ozone. Derrick, possessor of an<br />
Indian's complexion, returned to school with a good understanding of the<br />
"crawl." Cecil Hunlington. the other relay man. had mastered the crawl in<br />
the glassy waters of Tahoe. Still another Tahoe duck was Ehrmann, who<br />
appeared daily' in a gray swimming suit, chasing minnows about the lake.<br />
And so it was up to Cap. Ransohoff to mold this motley crew into a<br />
classy swimming team. Working in co-operation with Georgie Goodall,<br />
Ransohoff secured the privilege of using the Y. M. C. A. pool twice a week<br />
for practice. This much accomplished, he adopted an impartial system of<br />
elimination.<br />
At about this time the aquatic activity came to a head in the form of<br />
a very successful intcrclass. A novel method was inaugurated at .this meet<br />
which ought to serve as a precedent in the future. <strong>The</strong> "idea" was simply<br />
to prohibit any veterans from competition in the individual events. This<br />
system has worked out admirably and has proven a great generator of<br />
enthusiasm.<br />
<strong>The</strong> interclass served as a great aid in the selection of the big team.<br />
With the League's announcement of the date of the big meet, training<br />
started in earnest. <strong>The</strong>' candidates boycotted the tempting Bonbonniere<br />
and conformed with the tobacco regulations of the state with startling and<br />
gratifying willingness. Twice a week twelve ambitious fish-boys found<br />
their \vr.y into the Y. :\[. C. A. tank. Lewis showed Smith the proper arm<br />
movement in the crawl. Smith reciprocated by helping Lewis on the turn.<br />
Ransohoff. harassed by the very trying job of showing the new men how<br />
to dive, stuck to his post as coach with a martyr-like sacrifice. It sounds<br />
queer to say that the men sweated in the water, but the statement is true.<br />
. It was work, work, splash, splash: and then a little more work. It was a<br />
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common scene to see Collischon plugging away at a "half," Lewis swimming<br />
a "hundred," and Jim and Ernie coaching the new relay men in starts.<br />
<strong>The</strong> result of all this hard work was gratifying, as the score of the meet<br />
indicates. At eight o'clock on the evening of the meet one whole.end<br />
of the natatoriuiv was filled by an enthusiastic rooting section representing<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>. Sharph at eight-thirty the hundred-yard men were lined up at<br />
the starting stand. Smith and Lewis, in two bright red suits, with brighter<br />
block L's, were conspicuous among the bunch. Smith went into the lead<br />
witli a gun and was never headed. Lewis, swimming the race of his life,<br />
came down the final stretch nosing out Andrews of Cogswell for second<br />
place, in a fine finish. Smith broke the League record, doing the distance<br />
in 1:05, which, considering the crowded field, was good time. This race<br />
netted <strong>Lowell</strong> 8 points. <strong>Lowell</strong> did not enter anyone in the 440. <strong>The</strong> 220<br />
was a walkover for Johnson of Cogswell, while Lewis swam easily and took<br />
second place without trying. <strong>The</strong> half mile was a good race, Smith and<br />
Collischon taking first and second, respectively. <strong>The</strong> field started at an<br />
awful pace, but our representatives contented themselves with a good consistent<br />
stroke, which they maintained throughout the entire race. Smith, by<br />
his experience on the turns, took the lead in the seventh lap, and was never<br />
threatened. Collischon, by a consistent pace, soon took second position,<br />
and no one contested him after the tenth lap.<br />
This race cinched the meet for <strong>Lowell</strong>. With a nice snappy little cup<br />
for an incentive. <strong>Lowell</strong>'s relay sextet went into the race with some determination<br />
and fight. Anyone who saw the race can testify as to the result.<br />
Lewis, creating some splash and foam, reached the end of his lap two yards<br />
to the good of his field. Cecil Huntington, behaved like a motor boat, minus<br />
its rudder, and went like ''sixty." At the end of this lap <strong>Lowell</strong> led by six<br />
yards. <strong>The</strong>n it was that Red Van Vliet hit the water and gave a good imitation<br />
of a sunstruck fish. His lap ended, the team led by eight yards, and<br />
Uouie Detrick went shooting down the tank, giving the team a ten-yard<br />
lead. Jim Ransohoff came up the tank in 15 flat, and Smith dove with a<br />
lead of twelve yards. <strong>The</strong> pace ended with <strong>Lowell</strong> about fourteen yards to<br />
the good. This race ended the meet. <strong>Lowell</strong> finished with twenty-five<br />
points, almost a record for an A. A. L. meet.<br />
Tn regard to the individual men. Captain Ransohoff, who had been a<br />
member of <strong>Lowell</strong> relays for four years, graduates with his record in swimming<br />
one of honor.<br />
Captain-elect Smith will swim next year and should repeat in his two<br />
races. .<br />
Hyde Lewis remains with us, and should be a big point winner in future<br />
meets.<br />
Phil Collischon will be with us again and should repeat his performance<br />
of this year in the next meet.<br />
Red Van Vliet, who has been one of the hardest workers on the team.,<br />
will swim his fast consistent lap next year.<br />
Cecil Huntington, who has a bright future in swimming, will be with<br />
us next year.<br />
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Bouic Dctrick will swim next year, and should be a factor in another<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> victory.<br />
Thus it is up to us to wish success to the team of 19<strong>12</strong> and to back<br />
Ernie Smith to lead his team with the same success that RansohofT did.<br />
BASEBALL.<br />
GEORGE MONTGOMERY.<br />
I he fall baseball training was commenced at a somewhat later date this<br />
year than last, but nevertheless, the squad has made excellent progress, and<br />
the results attained prove conclusively that, in the next A. A. I., tournament.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> will be represented by a team of the very highest order. We have not<br />
turned out a championship baseball team since 1001. hut the present squad,<br />
composed largely of veterans, bids fair to wipe out this stain of defeats, and<br />
again place <strong>Lowell</strong> on the baseball map. With the strong rind hearty support<br />
"f the school. <strong>Lowell</strong> should figure very prominently in the next battle for the<br />
academic trophy.<br />
Practice was commenced in the earlv part of November, a large squad<br />
turning out. <strong>The</strong> idea of choosing two teams lias again been employed with<br />
excellent results. <strong>The</strong> fellows line up again.-t eai-h other at almost every<br />
practice, and much promising material has been developed from these games.<br />
a- well as from those- with outside teams. <strong>The</strong> squad has also benefited from<br />
the presence of Tom Kelly, last year's sticces>ful coach, whose interest in<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> prompted him to show up at a good many of the practices, and he has<br />
helped the team considerably. It is to be hoped that his services as coach may<br />
again be obtained for next .spring.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fellows out for the team are showing a lot of "pep." and as a consequence,<br />
competition is rife for almost every position. Never in the writer's<br />
memory has there been such an abundance of evenly matched players contending<br />
for the various positions, and the team finally chosen is bound to be a wellbalanced<br />
aggregation.<br />
Perhaps the greatest weakness on the team is the pitching department.<br />
<strong>The</strong> brunt of the burden has fallen on "Duke" Marwcdel. who has shown good<br />
form, but it is doubtful if he will return to school in the spring. McGuiness<br />
has shown up fairly well, but is inclined to be erratic. Anyone who has had<br />
any experience whatever in the pitching line is urged to come out for the team.<br />
It is a duty which you owe to <strong>Lowell</strong>.<br />
"Kruv" Smith" is again receiving in good form behind the bat. and will<br />
probably be seen in his old position next spring. lie has a worthy substitute<br />
in Moisant. who also plays the infield.<br />
P.oth Tissot and Foster have shown up well n '*"•>«• ail( '- although somewhat<br />
weak at bat. either of them could take good care of the position in .'-c<br />
\ A. L. series.<br />
Robinson at
THE LOWELL,<br />
"Stan" Olsen, a veteran, E. Olsen, McGlacklin, Stiachan, Wilkins, Vecki, Pritchard,<br />
Kaplan, Taufcnback, Lewis, Peterson, Levinson. Strong, Borchers, Livingstone<br />
and others whose ability assures a bunch of fast outfielders to the team<br />
next spring.<br />
Out of this list of candidates not a single one has cinched his position, and<br />
every fellow in school, who has had any experience whatever at baseball, even<br />
in the sandlot days of his boyhood, should come out there and help <strong>Lowell</strong> win<br />
the championship next spring. You owe it to yourself as well as to your,<br />
school, for it means your block "L" if t!\e team is successful. A.t any rate, you<br />
will derive a great deal of pleasure from practicing with a fine bunch of<br />
fellows. So it's up to you to show your spirit, to cOme out and try to make<br />
the team.<br />
BOYS' BASKET P.ALL.<br />
ERWJX HIUSCHKEI.OER. Captain.<br />
Another basket-ball season is upon us, and the team has the brightest<br />
prospects for a successful season. Since the completion of the football<br />
schedule, the interest of the school has been centered on basket-ball, and<br />
the result has been the formation of two fast teams. From these two teams<br />
will be chosen the men to represent Lowel' MI the A. A. L. Tournament.<br />
Never in the writer's memory has there been such activity in basketball<br />
at <strong>Lowell</strong> as lias been shown in the last month. <strong>The</strong> boys interested<br />
in the game have been practicing faithfully three tinu- : veck in the yard.<br />
Much promising material has been developed, and the .•>ractice games have<br />
been very successful in getting a Hue on the men. As yet no positions have<br />
been picked and will not be until just before the first League game.<br />
Those trying out for the team are Fuld. Howcll. Raymond, Fichita.<br />
Hood. Marwedel, Hermit. Lewis, Conrado, Bender, llyashi and Hirschfelder.<br />
Don't think for a minute that any nf the men have a place "cinched." Every<br />
one who can lift a basket ball should come out and show w\n.: he can do.<br />
By coming out to practice, you may develop to be one of the s u-.ls" of the<br />
season, but you will never make any team by staying away.<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong>'s first practice game was with San Rafael, and in „;
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: THE LOWELL<br />
Girls' Athletics.<br />
;'";• ' By ELIZABETH RUGGLES.<br />
GIRLS' BASKETBALL.<br />
Since girls' basketball lias been dropped from the A. A. L., interest in<br />
this sport is not so keen as it used to be. At present there is no way for the<br />
girls of <strong>Lowell</strong> to win their block L's either in basketball or tennis. This<br />
is a pity, for a good many more girls would come out and support the<br />
team had they something worth while to work for. Since this is the case,<br />
however, all the more praise is due to those who have worked hard and<br />
faithfully this season.<br />
<strong>The</strong> majority of the present team have not represented <strong>Lowell</strong> before<br />
in games with other schools. This team is a good one and bids fair to be<br />
a very fast one by the end of the term.<br />
Thus fat. only one defeat, that of the first game of the season, mars<br />
their list of victories. As most of the team will be back again next term<br />
<strong>Lowell</strong> ought to have little cause to worry over the basketball outlook.<br />
Captain Dorothy Riedy and Martha McCloughry, the forwards, have<br />
worked hard this season and both are good at field- goals, and improving on<br />
the fouls.<br />
Alma Thornburg. the freshman guard, is especially notable for her long<br />
throws, which have saved the day in several games.<br />
Lillian Keller, formerly on the Pctaluma High School team, has been a<br />
valuable addition to the <strong>Lowell</strong> team. She plays guard.<br />
Jeanne Levy has developed greatly this term as touch center. Her<br />
throwing is still a little wild, but as she is an enthusiastic player she will<br />
probably overcome this with practice.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sides. Margaret Volkman and Gladys Anderson, are quick and<br />
wiry players and have done their full share in all the games this term.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Freshmen this season have taken a lively interest and have beaten<br />
several grammar school teams by big scores.<br />
Many thanks arc due to Mr. Koch, who has taken a great interest in.<br />
the girls and given up his Tuesday and Thursday afternoons to helping them<br />
and has taught them some valuable hew plays.<br />
TENNIS.<br />
As in the case of basketball, tennis is no longer in the League and<br />
block L's, therefore, are things of the past. However, tennis is much better<br />
off than basketball on account of the big interclass cup. This term the<br />
Seniors won the right to have their names engraved on this cup by defeating<br />
the Sophomores and Juniors, the scores being, with the Juniors, 6 to 3, both<br />
games, and with the Sophomores, 6 to 4, and 6 to 0. i'he Senior team is<br />
composed of Deborah Xewman and Beatrice Gawne; the Junior team, Leslie<br />
Underbill and Myrtle Fitschen: the Sophomores, Eleanor Durbrow and<br />
Edna West. <strong>The</strong> Freshmen failed to turn up at any of the tournaments,<br />
and so lost by default. We hope <strong>The</strong>y will take more interest next term.<br />
We are looking forward to a number of games with Girls' High and Lick,<br />
Deborah Newman and Beatrice Gawne playing on the school team.<br />
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Mr. Downey (explaining sound)—When two phase* (faces) come together<br />
there is absolute silence.<br />
()Ul Gentleman—Do you mean to say your teachers never thrash you?<br />
Little l'oy—Never. We have moral suasion in our school.<br />
O. (.'..—What's that?<br />
I.. 11.—Oh. we get kept >n. and stood up in corners, and locked up. and made<br />
to write a word a thousand times, and scolded, and jawed at. and that's all.<br />
An elderly lady, most exceedingly hard of hearing, lived near the river.<br />
One day a warship fired a salute of ten guns. <strong>The</strong> woman, alone in her little<br />
house, waited until the noise ceased, and then smoothed down her dress, brushed<br />
back her hair, and said sweetly. "Come in."<br />
We will soon be as famous as Philadelphia—having now a "Liberty" Hell<br />
ourselves, with a cracked tongue.<br />
Teacher (in L'. S. History)—When were the first battles of the Civil War<br />
fought ?<br />
Olsen—At the beginning.<br />
Teacher—1 f you people knew how little you seem you would cry instead of<br />
laughing.<br />
Jimmie R.—Why, our seats are in tiers (tears) already.<br />
Teacher—Why. Marwedel, tardy again? What is the reasoi. : •
INCIDENTS AT SCHOOL,<br />
PAY AS vou<br />
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To "Red" Van Vliet.<br />
His cardinal virtues were all in his hair.<br />
Heard in Front of Nomination Slip in Hall.<br />
First Freshman Girl—Now for track manager—Field and Herrick.<br />
Who's Field?<br />
Second Freshman Girl—Oh vote for him—you know, he's that awfully<br />
good-looking boy in our English class.<br />
Oh. you suffragettes!<br />
Naughty, Naughty!<br />
Mr. Pcrham—What did Hamlet say of Polonius?<br />
P.. Thomas—To seek him in heaven, and ii he.was not there, somewhere<br />
else.<br />
Mr. Pcrham—Well, where else?<br />
Intense confusion on part of Mr. Thomas.<br />
In Actual Government.<br />
Mr. Clark—Who is it that assesses ihc taxes. Mr. Murdock?<br />
Osgood (an inspiration comes to him alter some thought)—Oh, why,<br />
the assessor.<br />
Ycrv brilliant. Oosy. very brilliant.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Great Divide.<br />
D. Wolf (speaking for the committee of critics)—Of course, there is<br />
no need to tell our opinion of Miss Schaertzer—<br />
Voice from rear of room—Oh. no. Dave, we all know how you feel<br />
about it.<br />
Also in the Great Divide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Heroine—Do you see any figure coming up the path?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Doctor—Xo. T see no one but a small burro, and that is no figure<br />
to speak of.<br />
<strong>The</strong> audience instinctively turns to sec the burro and—enter Mr. Crofts!<br />
Tableau!!<br />
At the Crossroads.<br />
Motorist, in dead of the night, with the lamp from his car in hand,<br />
climbs a sign post to determine which of two roads to take. Arrived at the<br />
top. with the aid of his dickering lamp he spells out the letters. "Fresh paint."<br />
Me—Can you make good bread, darling?<br />
She—Yes. if vou will furnish the doui>h in the hour of knead.<br />
An eminent wit was once asked if he could make a pun about the stars.<br />
He answered. "Yes. bv Gemini. 1 Cancer."<br />
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High School students should he able to discover this error, so get busy.<br />
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Dear Mr. Raymoi<br />
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TWELFTH YEAR<br />
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I am pleased to Inform you that one of our students who was very deficient In<br />
English owes It to the work 'lone for him In your school, that he Is able to graduate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of our English Department says that his advancement under your Instruction<br />
was most marked, and that his progress inspired !lm with the confidence<br />
that ho previously lacked.<br />
J. O'CONNOR. Principal.<br />
DR. WM. A. MARTIN<br />
870 Fell Street<br />
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S:HI F'aiirlsi'o. July 15. 131'9.<br />
Dear Mr. Raymond:—I wish to express to you ati'l your daughter my appreciation<br />
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MANCFACTL'IIE<br />
BASEBALL AND BASKET BALL<br />
TracK and Gym. Supplies<br />
BacK to Our Old Location<br />
In Our New Store With :i Cimiph-te<br />
Stock "I l-'inr<br />
ST.V1MONKRV AM)<br />
SCHOOL SITl'UKS<br />
HARRY COHN<br />
2K»i FILI..MORi:S'I"Ri".i:i"<br />
lintneh i'ost<br />
510<br />
MARKET STREET<br />
San Francisco<br />
FOR CLASS PINS<br />
Fraternity Emblems, Badges<br />
Trophies and Emblems<br />
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GEO. LARSON a CO.<br />
Jewelers Bldg. 150 POST STREET
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THE LOWELL<br />
SAN FRANCISCO<br />
MARKET AT 4th ST.<br />
College Cut Clothes<br />
Built to<br />
Your<br />
Order<br />
$15.00<br />
up<br />
Both in our ready-made department,<br />
in the youths' and<br />
young men's stocks, and especially<br />
in our custom tailoring<br />
section we make a particular<br />
feature of "COLLEGE<br />
CUT CLOTHES" for young<br />
men. <strong>The</strong>se are full of style<br />
and embody all the late fads<br />
and fancies which appeal to,<br />
high school and college chaps.'<br />
Big assortment of splendid<br />
new materials in the newest<br />
styles and colorings are constantly<br />
on hand and in whatever<br />
style you particularly<br />
fancy that's the way we will<br />
make it.<br />
We start our made-to-order<br />
suits at $15.00 and from that<br />
they go up as high as you<br />
want to go.<br />
All of them are made alike<br />
with the best class of tailoring<br />
with the finest linings and inner-linings.<br />
We take all the risk. If the<br />
suit doesn't fit you do not have<br />
to take it.<br />
Order your new suit here<br />
and be satisfied.<br />
<strong>The</strong> American Lai<br />
$45.00 suits made to 01<br />
made on the premises,<br />
variety of mannish m;<br />
This offer is for n<br />
THE<br />
133 Geary Street, nea:<br />
BRANSF<br />
STATIONS<br />
PERIOD]<br />
Loivell Pennant'.<br />
Fac Simile o<br />
nants to'Plac'<br />
Correspondcn<br />
Cents the I<br />
1980 SLITTER ST1<br />
.1 51. Sullivan<br />
T. .1. Sullivan<br />
SULLIVA<br />
Dealers in STAPL<br />
Grow<br />
GoocN Delivered Pror<br />
the City Fm<br />
1001 DOLOR<br />
SAN FRA<br />
Miss Marion<br />
Dancing<br />
will re<br />
SEPTEM:<br />
at 2868 CALIFO<br />
Near Di'<br />
Children's class, W<<br />
High school pupils.<br />
Private<br />
Ballroom, Fancy an<br />
pimnc Fillmorc 18/1
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THE LOWELL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Aiiu-rii-.-m I.;nlic>" T:iilur> «'IK-r- lor lt> days only :i >pvci:il >:ilc of 54O.CKV.:ti ii.«eil. We have a lar^i'<br />
\ariely of mannUli materiaU m" iin|Mirted and iloiiu-tic tstim]—all color-.<br />
Tlii- iilTer i> i'->r a limiti-il time milv.<br />
THE AMERICAN LADIES' TAILORS<br />
1 3 3 G e a r y S t r e e t , n e a r G r a n t A v e n u e . . . . 3 r d F l o o r . W h i t n e y B l d g .<br />
r .-,. -•. w.-.-i L-IIL'.; II..in.- s ::i»l<br />
BRANSFORD'S<br />
SIATIONKRV AND<br />
1'KRIODICAI.S<br />
l.'liitl! I't-nmints I'iity (It tits<br />
Fac Simile of the I'ennants<br />
to I'l.-a-e on ^ mir<br />
C'li-respnn.lence. at Five<br />
Cents the Do/en ::<br />
i.,S Mis.-nm l"0''. M ?.:,?.:•'<br />
Mi<br />
ATHLETIC GOODS<br />
APPROPRIATE<br />
HOLIDAY GIFTS<br />
SWEATERS<br />
JERSEYS<br />
1726 Fillmore St.<br />
SON & FARLESS<br />
ll.'.ni- i•-:•:::•.<br />
THE RED CHERRY<br />
•'. x ~«'II\VAI:/.I:NI:I:K. fi,.|,ri. u><br />
Confectionery<br />
144,. I'OI.K STRKKT<br />
P..-I. I"i 11.- ,v I'.ilif.-rn^i<br />
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
A FAC-SIMILE OF HOW LOWELL BOYS LOOK IN<br />
THE BUSINESS WORLD DRAPED IN JUVENILE<br />
MODE.<br />
We maintain a department for YOUNG MEN—that means from<br />
your first LONG PANTS until you feel too old to care for your appearance,<br />
which should be never. You owe it to yourself to come in, try on<br />
a suit and let yourself see what a YOUNG MAN'S DEPARTMENT<br />
means.<br />
Box-BacK Coats are Popular.<br />
Specialized without vests, in tweeds, diagonals. Fullest peg pants.<br />
$15.00—$20.00—$25.00<br />
OVERCOATS SAME.<br />
Style Originators to College Fellows.<br />
130 GRANT AVENUE<br />
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