Wenonah Yearbook - 1919

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“Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic, the good natured man."

Our Alma Mater

ONCE again the years have rolled by and once again our Alma Mater sends fortli of her sons and daughters. Alma Mater! how much those two small words mean to us just now. She has always been dear to our hearts, but now, somehow, when the time approaches for separation how those ties tighten, how much closer she draws and holds us than she ever did before. In retrospect we see all the gifts, the storehouse of treasures, she has bestowed upon us;we see that she has endowed us with learning, highest of high ideals, culture, determination to win, and strong hearts to mould other strong hearts. Some of the gifts given us are too subtle for words, some have a meaning which we alone can feel and appreciate in the innermost parts of our souls. We try to explain the term Alma Mater: she is a guiding star, leading us forever onward to the better and brighter realms of life, a lighthouse to light us on our way and to help us steer clear of the rocks of failure and despair, a harbor to which any of 11s may return at any time, a mother who gives only the best she has, to make her children great. But Seniors! who are leaving the protectmg care of your Alma Mater—are you going to take only and never give? The Normal School which you are about to leave is known east, west, north and south; its aspirations, its ideals, its abilities are known the nation over. With this in mind, what are you going to do for your Alma Mater? Are you going to lower those standards, or are you going to keep those high standards, or are you, better still, going to lift them to a plane never before reached? Our Alma Mater is You! She is made up of your sacrifices, your hopes, your ideals, your very soul: she is what you make her. What will that be?

This Book is Dedicated to FLORENCE

LOR1NG RICHARDS

DEAN OF WOMEN

who for seven years has done so much for the development of a more perfect womanhood at Winona State Normal School.

I had forgotten that the battle flamed For spring at home again had been so fair, And you in spite of scars and tales of war Had seemed so much yourself. Life had resumed Old quiet ways, and dear creation smiled. And so I had forgotten that last spring

The guns had cursed, and roared their threats to you, That agonizing pain you’d felt, and heard Men shriek and moan. You never spoke of it. And then one sultry night along toward dawn

A sudden stormtore thru the sullen air; The lightning seemed to strike our very door. I held my breath for fear. You did not wake; But as you slept you shuddered and then groaned, And muttered short quick oaths, and uttered prayers For dauntlessness and strength of soul. “Oh God!

Keep me a man! The snakes of hell! My pal!!

Like a stuck pig he bleeds. —Come! Drive them back And as the storm shot out its curse, you told Me as you moaned what you had vowed to keep, The fear, the pain, the horror of it all.

The fury of the storm died down.—You woke

And lay a moment silent then you sighed And touched me with your hand. You thought I slept. Hie dawn came, and you smiled yourself to sleep

For you were home again but never shall I now forget the battle storm, for you Have told me but you shall not dream I know.

FACULTY

E. Louise Guernsey

Theda Gildemeister, B. S. Pedagogy Art

Mary R. Slifer Reading

Effie Shambaugh, A. B. Physical Education

Feoyd W. Moore. A. B. Civics, Economics

Julia M. Hubbard, B. P., Training School

Arthur French, B. S. Mathematics

Evalyn Rodge Training School

Lydia Miller Secretary

A Isabel Collins Home Economics

Helen F. Staples Supervisor in Training School

Christine Nilsson Rural Education

Grace Ferrey Training Kindergarten

Ray J. Scarborough. A.M. Geography

Violet M. Melanuer Teacher in Training School

Bertha Schwable, B. S. Kindergarten Supervisor

Charlotte B. Chorpf.nnino, A. M. English

E. Catherine Burkholder, Ph. B. Su/rerrisor in Training School

Louise C. Sutherland, B. S. Kindergarten Education

William H. Munson, B. S. Zoology Physical Science

Eleanor Chandler, B. S. Mabel Marvin Manager Morey Hall Consulting Nurse Secretary, Teacher in Training School

Pearl Jack Teacher in Training School

Mrs. Charles Johnston Music

Robert R. Reed. A. M. English

Florence L. Richards, Ph. B Literature, Dean of Women

Mary Grant Librarian

Nellie Peake Teacher in Training School

John H. Sandt Manual Training

Bertha Speckman Drawing in Training School

I'almadge O. Dillon, A. B. Physical Education

Mabel Smith Teacher in Training School

Flora I.. Trites, B. S. Rural Education

S. Gaylord, A. Psychology

Ellsworth Lowry, A. M. Principal, Training School

Esther B. Cooiey, B.S Home Economics

J M FIolzinger. M. S. Curator

Faculty Meeting.

Mr. Maxwell: We are meeting this morning to decide upon our group picture for the annual. 1 think it is best to open this matter for discussion. Mr. French, have you any suggestions to offer?

Mr. French: Mr. President, I have an idear that having either of these group pictures in the Winoner Annual would be a trifle ioter out of the way.

Mr. Lowry: I disagree, all the latest publications are strongly in favor of group pictures for annuals.

Mr. Scarborough: Mr. President, I think the idea is all right, but I do not think we all appear to be square with the world. Therefore, I do not think we should consider it.

Mr. Lowry: The latest trend in modern education is against this “square with the world” idea.

Miss Slifer: I think the idea most commendable and I think the majority appear to very good advantage—but as for myself—well—I don’t think I am that thin.

Mr. Lowry: I disagree with you. 1 think careful measurements will show that you are.

Mrs. Chorrenning: I think this discussion very flimsy and unnecessary.

Mrs. Johnston: Why! I don’t think so. We must discover all the flaws; for instance, I don’t like my mouth in this picture. It looks open.

Miss Guernsey: Maybe if you’d keep it shut a few minutes it wouldn’t look that way.

Mr. Lowry: That’s impossible.

Mr. Maxwell: Order! Order! please!! Miss Shambaugh, you look as though you were anxious to express your opinion.

Miss Shambaugh: Mr. President, I think most everyone’s eyes look dim. They are usually so bright and snappy.

Mr. Lowry: 1 challenge you to verify that statement.

Mr. Moore: Mr. President, I think I can explain this to Miss Shambaugh. It’s because threefourths of you people let that photographer bum foozle you into taking off your glasses.

Mr. Gaylord: Well, I really don’t think either of these pictures do me justice. I think I should have been wiser to put myself in the fourth dimension and be nowhere.

Mr. Moore: It might have been wiser for us all to follow that scheme.

Mr. Lowry: That’s not in any of the new movements.

Mr. Maxwell: Time is flying.

M iss Richards: Mr. Maxwell, I think in order to do justice to ourselves and also to the Seniors who are to remember us by this picture we should get a photographer from Chicago—one who could understand the psychology of this group.

Mr. Maxwell: That couldn’t be done.

Mr. Lowry: I think it could be. I’m willing to try it myself.

M R. M unson: Mr. President, I don’t want to argue with you, but I have found in my many experiences that individual photographs are far superior to groups.

Mr. Maxwell: We must choose quickly; Miss Trites, have you anything to add?

Miss Trites: Mr. President, I don’t think we should take either of these pictures, as they lack the very back bone of our faculty, namely, our FORD.

Mr. Lowry: I disagree. This faculty lacks back bone altogether.

Miss Collins: Mr. President, I too, have an objection to this group picture. It would be a very bad advertisement for the school.One look at the proportion of “fats and leans” will readily expose this faculty’s disgracefully scant knowledge of home economics.

Mr. Lowry: I don’t see why this faculty has to know anything about home economics. We either board or have wives.

Mr. Dillon: Moreover, Mr. President, we must not put either of those pictures in the annual; both show such a complete lack of physical education. Why, Mr. Maxwell! If this round shouldered exhibit is published in our annual I shall be forced to resign my position as physical director of this school.

Miss Cooley: Yes! Yes! Mr. President, look at the wearing apparel of this faculty. The Seniors should have notified us in due time, so that we might have put on our evening gowns and “swallow tails.”

Mr. Sandt: Mr. President, the matter of dress is a trivial thing anyway, I am strongly in favor of this picture, as I think it most flattering to my style of hair dressing.

Miss Grant: Yes, indeed Mr. Maxwell, these objections to me seem very shallow, I should cherish either of these pictures as a library of intelligent faces.

Mr. Reed: I prefer this one. Don’t you think the part in my hair looks straightest in this one?

Mr. Maxwell: I should like to consider your objections but we must settle on one of these pictures. I really don’t think this group could be much improved on anyway. Also we must remember we are employed by the state and any further discussion of this matter would be a decided waste of their funds. That is all for this morning.

Lucile Scanlan

Hazel Bard Bardie" ANOKA

As brimful of mischief and u'it and glee, As ever a human person could be.

Winifred Tighe

FLANDREAU, S. D. For she is a jolly good girl.

Florence Bruns Flo"

WHEATON

\\ e grant that though she has much wit, She's very shy of using it.

Alberta Johnson CHATFIELD

You're much obliged, come again.

Jennie Mulnix "Jen" CALEDONIA

Nothing in life is so sweet as love's young dream.

Charlotte Blanchard "Char"' LAKE CITY

A harmless, flaming meteor, her hair, her go.

Irene Koelmel "Ikey" WABASHA

The Light that helped us in our search.

Dollie Mettam

WINONA

Clever and full offun.

Ona Rowlee RUSHFORD

Our budding authoress.

Mildred Ruhberg

“Mil”

OSAGE, IOWA

An affable and courteous girl.

Frances Yany

MINNEAPOLIS

Full u'ell do I love to giggle.

Mabel Uglum

GRAND MEADOW

Mild, modest, Mabel.

Agnes Saul LAKE CITY

A combination of dignity and beauty.

Elsie Gilow

WINONA

She labors under “War Conditions.”

Regina Teitenberg

WORTHINGTON

Our prize swimmer.

M ildred Mannered “Mil"

MINNEAPOLIS

She stepped right from Vogue in styles from gay Paree.

Agnes Steele Freckles"

REDWOOD FALLS

Her heart is true steel.

Margaret Johnson

WINONA

Your pleasing countenance is a silent recommendation.

Catherine Thompson “Tommy"

ST. CROIX FALLS, WIS.

Never idle a moment, be it work or play

Ada Whipps

MINNEAPOLIS

Is there anything I can do for you?

Lila Sampon “Sammy"

LAKE CITY

A fine maid, in more ways than one.

Mary Fitzgerald

“Fitz" STILLWATER

And I pray you let none of your people stir me; I have an exposition of sleep upon me.

Dorothy Youngman

ST. PAUL

Fler dancing was ever as light as a fairy's.

Elma Churchill

plainview

Our little Quaker.

Helen Lawrence

“FIon"

ELY

Ready Jor her M. R. S. degree.

Helen Fichtenau “Skig”

ST. PAUL

The hand that made thee fair, hath made thee learned.

Florence Elson

“Flo"

ST. PAUL

Full of vigor, dash and go, she's different from the rest you know.

Susan Graff

KELLOGG

Neatness personified.

Bernice Hills “See”

MINNEAPOLIS

But to see her was to love her.

Anna Bloom “A bloom"

STILLWATER

That same face of yours looks like the page to a whole volume of roguery.

Mary Healy CHATFIELD

Our Irish Mary.

Florence Beissel “Flo”

ST. PAUL

Mistress of herself, though China falls.

Ruby Nelson kerkhoven

She always makes a basket.

Helen Knopp WINONA

A good word and a smile for every one.

Helen Kratz WINONA

Dimples need no letter of introduction.

Marcia Hurlburt

WINONA

When she meets you she pleasantly greets you.

Adelaide Gallagher

ST. PAUL

An ideal mother.

Marjorie Butler

Dodgie"

KENYON

The only time Marjorie is bluffing is when she's on the W inona Bluffs.

Helen Pratt

MINNEAPOLIS

True in word and kind in deed.

Marion Laidlaw

ST. PAUL

1 came, I saw, I conquered.

Blanche Artz

JACKSON

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the lije of a voluntary student.

Ruth Nystrom

MINNEAPOLIS

It's nice to be natural, when you're naturally nice.

Marie Kauphusman

WINONA

Brilliance ivill get its praise, though the keep silent.

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Anna Gjedren

HOUSTON

My tools are my chief assets.

Willa Lockwood Willie

GRAND MEADOW

Gym is my constant companion.

Gladys Holbrook

WINONA

One whose nature never varies.

Ada Rappe

PRESTON

She speaks to the point.

Mildred Harder “Alutz" ST. PAUL

Is it your smile or is it your eyes?

Elsie Maas

WINONA

What makes you so demure?

Clara Kuzel

ROCHESTER

She's true to her word, her work, her friends

Alvira Risser

Rissie

WINONA

Come my best friends, my books, and lead me on

Grace Norgaard

WHEATON

She weighs each word and each word counts.

Pauline Lemme

WINONA

A lively girl who sees the joy in life.

Anna Aske

“A”

ASHBY

It matters not how long we live, but how.

Bernice Knopp

“Bun”

WINONA

The hidden soul of harmony.

Mabel Nelson

HASTINGS

Tall in body and tall in mind.

Alice Nelson HASTINGS

The good in Alice makes up for the bad in the rest of us.

Dorothy Coe Coey”

HOUSTON

Her u'ords, like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about her at command.

M

yrtle Erickson “Myrt”

WHEATON

Good fellowship is the ship for me.

Laura Madden LEWISTON

Sweet and modest in her manner.

Blanche Ward

WINONA

Seek me as I am, if seek you do at all.

Kathleen Lynas K

ST. PAUL

More thoughtful of others than herself.

Herbert Edd “Doc"

WINONA

His bark is worse than his bite.

Wenonah

Verna Hughes harmony

She'll make even a better housewfe than a teacher.

Anne Tinnesand

belview

Your plays in basket ball have u'ori the day

Adeline Thomas “Ad”

BIWABIK

Our loyal friend from the range.

Viola Dahl “Vi”

WINONA

U e wish you had stayed loriger.

Florence Phalan

WINONA

She's equipped with patience.

Florence Fellows

WINONA

A modest violet, Florence may seem. But it takes a head to run the C. L. C.

Charlotte Carbert

Charley”

DELHI

Our peppy booster.

Claire Reuter

COCHRANE, WIS. Perpetually good-natured.

Alma Deforth

ST. PAUL PARK

Always the same.

Margaret Robb

WINONA

She was the master of reason and mirth.

Gladys Johnson dug”

WINONA

“Oh! girls, Pm just petrified”—but.

Doritha Ferris Auntie

LINCOLN, NEB. Linked sweetness long drawn out.

Mildred Gerlicher “Mil”

WINONA

A good scout—in work and play.

Jeanette LaFrance

WINONA

She sang when the world was weary And the tired old world was glad.

Margaret Hankenson

Marg

GLENCOE

A daughter of the Gods, Divinely tall and most divinely fair.

Ruth G. Mueller

MINNEAPOLIS

But the charm that most did captivate, was the charm of her sparkling eyes.

Tilla Aske

ASHBY

Efficiency is the key-word of “T.”

Dorothy Lang

Peanuts

WINONA

Music is a true universal speech of mankind.

Margaret Stephans

ELGIN

Teaching is “My Art."

Ruth Onsgard

HOUSTON

A combination of many accomplishments.

Florence Berg

Flossie

CANNON FALLS

Her constant smile makes life worth while.

Gladys Winter

DAKOTA

What fairy hand touched you?

Lillian Cinclair “Li/”

MINNEAPOLIS

1 have a heart unth room for every joy.

Orda Ledbetter

CLARKFIELD

Orda can do anything she tries to.

Edna Laufenburger

WINONA

True worth is in being.

Margaretta Reynolds CHATFIELD

She's a generous girl in every way.

Ruth Turnquist STILLWATER

Your personality has made us all your friends.

Gladys Bender

Gladie”

ST. PAUL

If your heart is cracked, Gladie, let it go “Bobbing” at Rochester.

Alice Baehr “Teddy”

ROSE CREEK

Alice, thou art in all our hearts.

Sylvia Wilson

DAKOTA

A true jriend is forever a friend.

Martha Seeling

ST. CHARLES

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Marian Bausman

“Skui na

MINNEAPOLIS

To a young heart everything is fun.

Olga Thonvold

KERKHOVEN

I'm an enthusiast.

Madeline Bjerke

RUSHFORD

Her poise is power.

Mary Allan “Maryallan”

REDWOOD FALLS

Happy as a lark, busy as a bee.

Wenortak

‘9‘9

Meredith Calkins “Merry" ALBERT LEA

A good heart is worth gold. Gratia Kelly

ST. PAUL

Her hair, her maimer, all who see admire.

Gail Powell “Gale"

STILLWATER

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Delilah Leighton AUSTIN

A light heart never grows old.

Romana Thoeni “Mona" WYKOFF

Who doesn't know our talented Mona.

Alma Kegel

LANSING, IOWA

Duty is very sweet, hut pleasure's sweeter, And pleasure wins the day.

Lucile Scanlan

LA CROSSE, WIS.

Look, she is winding up the watch of her wit; by and by it will strike.

Ethel Harkness

SPOONER, wis.

Her modesty is a candle to her merit.

Mary Walker

“Mary Jane

WYKOFF

Those mho know her can best appreciate her wit.

Charlotte Thomas

“Char"

MINNEAPOLIS

I cannot rest from travels, I will drink life to the lees.

Edith Nelson

TRACY

Always the same, quiet arid kind.

Ruth Weigel

WINONA

Her good temper is like a sunny day, It sheds its brightness on everything.

Leona Basye

WINONA

Ambition has_no rest.

Stella Adams

“Stelle"

WENDELL

Never too busy herself to help others.

WenonaK '9‘9

Blanche Ekren

HOUSTON

Still the wonder grew; That one small bead could carry all she knew.

Nellie Peake

NORTHFIELD

Thy scholarship and teaching ability go band in band.

Evelyn Vollmers

RED WING

Our peppy band-master, pro tern.

Della Geffe

WHITEHALL, WIS

When I go ajter a thing I get it.

Genevieve Currie “Gen"

HINCKLEY

She thinks of others’ comforts, not her own.

Blanche Hillman

ROCHESTER

A pretty face, that has charmed many a lad.

Leone Smith

ST. PAUL

Her looks are indicative of her nature.

Erdine Ward

ST. PAUL

Fine maimers make this lady.

Esther Nelson “Es"

MINNEAPOLIS

Rastus has everyone's heart in tow.

Dorothy McKeown

CHATFIELD

Sweet, sincere, and sensible.

Hazel Deyling “D”

OLIVIA

The sort oj girl that we’re all glad to know.

Genevieve Guimont “Frenchy"

BIWABIK

Laugh and the world laughs with you.

Grace Bastian

HARMONY

Cheerful company shortens the miles.

Bertha Hansen "Bert"

ROCHESTER

Friends like you, Bert”, are what we need.

Harriet Hutson

SPARTA, WIS.

We're sorry you didn't come sooner so ice could know you better.

Luella Kratz WINONA

Luella thinks first and speaks afterward.

Edith Early PRINCETON

I am always early.

Allen Lipscomb “Lip"

ZUMBRO FALLS

For particulars, see Mrs. Lipscomb.

Arthur Tarras “Moose" WINONA

I'm trying to make a man of myself.

Class Officers

Helen Smock, Mary Allan, Jennie Mulnix, Dorothy McKeown, President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer

Class Song

Oh, hail! Winona, proudly we sing, Up to the boundless blue our praises ring. Our Alma Mater, noble and strong, For thee Winona, we raise our song.

Majesty crowns thee, thy spirit (lames, Pride, honor, glory, love, further thy fame, Ever we’ll loyal be, following thy light, Luring us onward thru darkest night.

Oh, our Winona! guide thou our youth, Lead us unerring on, to light and truth, Always we’ll follow thee, living thy praise, Hail! Oh, Winona, thru endless days.

D. Coe.

Class Song 1919

Berniece Knopp

Senior Class History

Winona State Normal School, Winona, Minnesota, May—, 1919.

To a Senior of 1918. Minnesota.

Dear “Big Sister”:

Commencement week is looming in sight and the class of 1919 is reminded of their “big sisters,” the class of 1918. This letter is to recall to your mind your little sisters, the class of 1919.

Do you remember that September day about two years ago when a group of bewildered, frivolous Juniors, wandered from entrance to entrance (it seems all entrance and hall to us) finally reached the assembly room? Here we followed your kind suggestions and walked before a dignified member of the faculty, fumbling in our vanity cases lor two dollars to be paid for those “not to be folded” pink slips.

After struggling through a few weeks of Pedagogy, Psychology and Methods we finally picked up courage to call a meeting and elected our officers. Shortly after we learned that the faculty also realized that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy;” and how our faces beamed when it was announced that the faculty invited us to a reception at Morey Hall. How pityingly you Seniors watched our happy preparations for the party; you knew that that night we were unknowingly to take our first plunge into the fathomless waters of dignity. We were all highly pleased when you thoughtful Seniors buried the affair at vour class day exercises; but alas, it came to life again in the fall!

Not all the parties, however, were planned bv the faculty. What wonderful times we had at the Get-Acquainted party, where we met our big sisters, at the excursion to Castle Rock, at the Country Life Club party and at the Hallowe’en party! Do you remember these delightful times and the original, clever Spring Festival, with which we honored you Seniors? Sh! Don’t tell a soul, but we are wondering how the Juniors are going to honor their betters this year.

May brought Class Day, Commencement and parting. How we sighed and sobbed at having to part from friends, facultv and work. There were some exceptions to this sadness, however. On account of the usual generosity of the faculty in bestow ing “E’s” there were some of us who were privileged to enjoy the summer session.

What a complete change the first year had wrought in us, as revealed in the fall of 1918. You would hardly have recognized the former frivolous Juniors in the now dignified, plainly dressed Seniors. We swelled with pride at being called Seniors and smiled with pity on the new group of Juniors. All went well until w e entered upon the wild dilemna of student teaching and found no “big sisters” to give us the needed information. Critic classes are now held every afternoon to make our days more interesting. They are very successful, for everyone enjoys them as shown by the full attendance at every meeting.

The officers we elected, who are girls you no doubt remember, are Helen Smock, president, Mary Allan, vice-president, Dorothy McKeown, treasurer, Jennie Mulnix, secretary. The only elass meeting of interest in the fall w as for selecting class rings, which, of course, are the prettiest of any class vet graduated fromthe Normal School. The “Flu” put a damper on all our plans for good times so fall and winter passed in solemnity and quiet.

Spring, how'ever, brought an oversupply of excitement. What tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth the Seniors must go through; the conglomeration of try-outs for the play, nominations, applications correctly written, photos which the photographers don’t seem to realize must be exceedingly good, writings for the annual (including class histories!) and invitations, tax a person’s working power and purse.

The faculty as usual were slow in handing in their photos for the annual, but listen— there’s a reason—many had new ones taken! So our annual is the first one for many years to be strictly up to date.

The booming success of our class play has no doubt reached your ears. The “Blue Bird’’ gave all who attended a night of pleasure and happiness and brought success to the Seniors. We owe a vote of thanks, tho, to the Juniors for their applause and also for their cooperation in the class day exercises.

Now Commencement week is at hand and the future holds great things in store for us in some metropolis, such as Homer, Rollingstone and the like. Before we leave we are going to bequeath to the Juniors our quiet dignity of bearing and ability to stand well in the estimation of the faculty without overworking our brains. We are also trying to get former classes to cooperate with us in finding some means of obliterating such things as “E’s” and characterization blanks from Normal Schools. Are you agreed?

But there is the 5:40 bell and time for everyone to be out of the building. Good-bye.

Your “Little Sister ’’, Senior of 1919.

P. S. I hear Mr. Streif coming for the “slow pokes.’’ E. V.

Junior Class History

AFTER the graduation weeks of June, 1918, many ot the high school students of Minnesota and some of the other states felt as if they would starve because of the lack of educational food. In fact, several were distressed, and even predicted an educational famine. Finally, the famine set in, and the people looked about for relief. They all knew that the food they were seeking was to be found at one of the state Normal schools, but they did not know which would offer them the most nourishing food. After very careful consideration, these people decided that the Winona Normal School could and would share the best food of the state with them. Keeping their decision in mind, these famished hordes came from the North, South, East and West, in trains full to Winona.

The actual relief of the famine did not begin until the third of September. On this day, the hungry strangers gathered in the assembly hall of the main building, where their rations were prescribed to them on pink slips. A considerable number of the starving strangers appeared less fretful when they saw in their prescription four of the following list of substantial foods: Arithmetic, Drawing, English Composition, Geography, Music, Penmanship, Psychology, Reading and Theory of Education. By means of these generous rations, the famished ones rapidly waxed in strength; but to secure greater relief and strength, they chose to partake of the dainties: Industrial Arts, Sewing, Manual Training and others along with their more substantial lare. After eating together for seventeen days, these strangers became Iriends, and wanted to be represented as a single group; so they organized themselves into a body called the Junior Class with Miss Carbert for presi- dent, Miss Kowaleska for vice-president, Miss Warnecke for secretary, and Miss Kelm for treasurer.

The faculty, who were insole ehargeof the Juniors’ diet, believed that the Juniors needed plenty of fresh air to keep up their appetites. They provided picnics and excursions for this purpose, usually with Air. Holzinger or Mr. Scarborough in charge. In case of an excursion, Air. Scarborough was ever mindful of helping the Juniors keep the cardinal directions in mind by the use ol city maps, d need be. Did the Juniors enjoy these outings?

Just heaps, for first of all, they had fun; then too, they missed an assignment in preparing their own meal after such excursion; and last and best of all, they munched on something new.

These two kinds of food made the Juniors become more spirited, and they displayed their newly created spirit in all their activities; and especially in connection with their war relief work, which consisted of making surgical dressings, pledges to the Red Cross and contributions toward the Liberty Loan Compaign. The Juniors seemed to show more of their originality in raising the money for the Liberty Bonds than in any other of the war work. Some of the young ladies put aside pride and washed windows; others, worked at the Ten Cent Store;still others, transformed the alcove of Alorev Flail for a quarter of an hour into a delicatessen shop, and sold chocolate pies; and still others, camoullaged, the assembly hall of the school into a doughnut factory, and sold powdered doughnuts even to the men, who in this case did not seem to abhor the sight of superfluous powder. Just before Thanksgiving 1918, there was an evil little bird named Enza to whom someone opened the door and in-flu-Enza to make mischief for the Juniors. In cases where sufficient precautions were not taken, he was sure to spoil their food by pecking at it in such a manner that what he did not devour was not fit to eat. The Juniors at once weakened, and sought the aid of physicians, and nurses in the faculty, who in each case put them on a special diet. They were given conference soup, make up egg-nog, topical custard, and other light foods of the kind to meet the different stages of weakness, and under this nursing they came back to vigor again.

After Enza’s reign of terror, the Juniors once more gained strength by means of their activities. Surely, the skating rink at Alorey Hall gave the Juniors ample exercise and occasion to display their skill as skaters. Then, too, the Juniors showed their increased ability to mix with the best of society by attending the Valentine party, which the Seniors gave them. They unfolded the utmost of their ability in connection with the basketball games they played; for the Juniors showed that they could play well, root loudly and take defeat with the calm of steady and well nourished nervous systems.

From the combination of the substantial food, dainties, appetite growing athletics, the Juniors grew strong and developed their minds and muscles to such a degree that as this Annual goes to the press, they are ready to burst out into Seniors.

Ellen Mf.halek.

Members of the Junior Class

Anderson, Julia

Ascott, Ethel.

Aygarn, Mildred. Birkholz, Amanda.

Bockler, Edna.

Brandt, Eleanor.

Brown, Gladys.

Brown, Mattie.

Brown, Mae.

Bruette, Laura.

Calkins, Ralph.

Carlson, Ruth.

Carroll, Genevieve.

Carroll, Jeanette.

Carson, Frances.

Cassidy, Kathryn.

Cates, Louise.

Chack, Lilly.

Chance, Ida.

Chandler, Helen.

Child, Mary.

Christenson, Florence.

Crooker, Marion.

Cummins, Gladys.

Danielson, Odea.

Dooney, Ethyl.

Doran, Katherine.

Drenckhahn, Emily.

Ekren, Edna.

FJdred, Evelyn.

Ellison, lone.

Fairbanks, Mabel.

Filkins, June.

Filkins, Ruth.

Foote, Margaret.

Freeman, Esther.

Garrigan, Gertrude. Gensmer, Elsie.

Geyman, Harriet.

Gilbertson, Jennie.

Gilmer, Viola.

Govier, Murle.

Grabow, Josephine. Graetz, Ida. Guelzer, Adele. Guenther. Margaretha. Haley, Mary. Hampel, Elsie. Hartman, Edith. Heffron, Helen. Hellickson, Blanche. Henry, Dorothy. Herrick, Marie. Hilliard, Catherine. Hoge, Rhoda. Keeley, Laura. Kelm, Amy. Kidd, Ethel. Kimball, I illis. Knutson, Ruby. Koontz, De F. Dallis. Kowaleska, Josepha. Kroning, Henrietta. Kroning, Nora. Laufenburger, Ellen.

Livingston, Helen. Mathews, Josephine. Maxwell, Robert. McCune, Nadine. McKenney, Nell. McKeown, Flora. McKinstry, Goldie. Mehalek, Ellen. Miller, Alice. Miller, Muriel. Mondale, Irene. Moore, Zada. Munson, Zelda. Nelson, Elsie. Nelson, Lily. Nelson, Mabel. Nicholas, Rubie. Noehl, Marion. O’Roark. Alice. Pauli, Dorothy.

Posz, Helen. Preston, Bessie. Preston, Maude. Rathbone, Hazel. Remold, Minnie. Rice, Elizabeth. Risser, Rosema. Roeder, Mildred. Rohweder, Millard. Rose, Fern. Ross, Esther. Sclater, Alice. Silseth, Miriam. Simmons, Lucia. Sinnet, Clara. Snyder, Margarite. Speltz, Helen. Sperry, Florence. Spittler, August. Stahowik, Helen.

Stall, Ruth. StefTes, Margaret. St.einbauer, Rosella. Steinhart, Lura. Sterling, Mabel. Stockbrand, Elva. Tibbetts, Ethel.

Tifft, Kathryn. Turngren, Clara. Van Duzee, Jeannette. Vine, Esther. Wagenhals, Margaret. Waldron, Hazel. Warnecke, Frieda. Warnecke, Hedwig. Wendt, Gertrude. Werner, Hugo. West, Helen.

Wetzel, Nanomi. Wilford, Florence. Wohlfarth, Ida. Woodcock, Dorothy. IN

Men’s Club

IN ORDER to provide a suitable home for young men students attending the Normal School, a large club house has been secured and will be ready for occupancy in September. The house is well located just across the street from the main building, faces south, and is sheltered by several large elm trees. The structure, being massive and spacious, is well adapted for a men’s lodge. The house is well arranged inside, is modern, has very comfortable sleeping and living rooms, and is provided with a broad colonial veranda. It will be run on a cooperative plan, with a member of the faculty living in the house. The club will not only afford a home for twenty-five young men and be the center of activities of all the men of the school, but will also promote comradeship and further practical ideals of every day living.

Our New Dormitory

ANOTHER dream has come true! Another dormitory for women is an assured fact! After 1919 no more will students go elsewhere because of lack of dormitory accommodation. The first of July excavation will begin on Morey Hall grounds, and soon on the east side of the lawn, running at right angles to Morey Hall and connected with it by a porch, will rise the new dormitory similar to the old in architecture, but with all the interior improvements that experience can suggest.

As the dining room and kitchen at Morey Hall will be adequate for all students desiring board, the new dining room will be used for dancing, theatricals, and parties of various kinds, and the kitchen for candy-pulls, and for all those culinary experiments dear to the heart of college women in their lesiure hours. A “beauty room” and sewing room will also be a feature. More rooms for entertaining small groups will be set apart, with a guest room for Mother when she comes. An inviting infirmary on the first floor may put a premium on illness! On rainy days we will saunter thru an attractive under-ground passage into the Morey Hall dining room.

Can’t you already hear the ukuleles twanging on the porch of the new hall, and the answering songs from old Morey and the Lodge’?

Morey Hall and West Lodge

Editorial

TUPPER says, “To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.” We the contributors, workers and advisors tried to do all of these things when we prepared the material for thisAnnual. In all the collections here represented we have tried to be accurate. It has been our aim to have correct data and thus give to you dear readers, a true picture of the Winona Normal School life. If the facts of a history are incorrect, the history is worthless. Likewise, the happenings of a school year here recorded must be pictured trueto life to make this Annual the priceless thing it is intended to be.

Furthermore, as we read, wrote and edited sections for this and that department of this Annual we aimed to give you not only an accurate, but a complete account of all that took place during the year. Many sections of this printed memory may seem entirely new because they are dressed in their best clothes, while others may be familiar to you because you helped dress them. Then, too, some portions may be entirely unheard of to that student who has not lived as complete a life as he or she should have done in this many sided and progressive institution; but to the wide awake and up and doing member of the school this will be a reference book in all its parts. In the years which are to come you will be glad we have given you this complete encyclopedia of this year’s happenings.

Lastly, we have written this book not to know our individual minds, alone, but to turn the mind of the whole school inside out. In our search for completeness we found many things which were new to us, but which have always been here. Many of the motivating and uplifting forces among us of which we had been but dimly conscious, came into clear light in our exploration. As you read page after page look for some of the seemingly vague undercurrents of the life we have been living together for two years. It has been our effort to share with you all the benefits of our inquiry.

It is our wish that you may say we have enriched you in our accurate, complete and explicit account of your stay here. But if for some unforseen reason you find the picture wanting in some light or shade of meaning, take to heart this statement of Samuel Johnson’s, “There is probably no punishment for authors in the next world—they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”

Editor-in-chief

“YVenonah” Staff

Assistant Editors

Junior Editor

Business Manager

Assistant Business Managers

Art Editor

Assistant Art Editors

Picture Editor

Girls’ Athletic Editor

Joke Editors

Faculty Advisors

Gail Powell

Helen Fichtenau

Ruth Turnquist

Martha Seeling

Mildred Mannerud

Alvira Risser

Helen Kratz

Ellen Mehalek

Robert Maxwell

Grat.a Kelly

Gladys Johnson

Leona Basye

Mildred Harder

Agnes Steele

Dor.tha Ferris

Helen Laurence

Margaret Hankenson

HazelBard

Lucile Scanlon

Charlotte B. Chorpenning

E. Louise Guernsey

Floyd W. Moore

Cinderella of the Wonderful A, or the Tail of a Term

CINDERELLA, perched at her Desk in the midst of confusion, was typical of her type. Eler sisters were either different or alike. But, nevertheless, to do them justice, they labored most strenuously. The lint flew like chaff as they swept page after page with their Eyes. Indeed, they spent so many hours emptying the Receptacles of Knowledge that their social selves were unused and dusty. They did not know the proper times at which to say, “Oh Chums!”, “I’ve heard,” or “Let’s not and say we did,” and, more scandalously, they were so unresponsive that they could not be “simply petrified!” The fact remains, however, that they garnered a good share of A’s.

Now, the inhabitants of this Normal Place where Cinderella struggled, were, in general, so very poor that only Favored Few had a rare collection of A’s. Of course, the family of A Little Less Favored had a pretty fair collection of B’s, but the Laboring Majority managed to carry on with plain C’s. Our poor heroine belonged to the latter group.

One bright day, when Cinderella had been exerting herself beyond Usual Limits in her place of business, a fellow worker by the name of Bolshevik Tendency told her that she was of royal brain and need not stay in Usual Limits. Cinderella pondered deeply. She knew Favored Few was giving, that evening, a reception in honor of the Royal Prince, Superintendent Seeking-for-Teachers. Above all things, Cinderella desired to go, but of course it was required that one seeking admittance must have an A. Suddenly, she thought of Faculty, her fairy godmother. Surely, Faculty would aid her if she should ask.

All turned out as she had wished. It is true, she had to wear her old Mentality but Faculty had brightened and refreshed it with her own best Encouragement. Therefore, Cinderella finally rode gaily off to the reception in Faculty’s Esteem, which runs neither as an Electric nor as a Ford.

Ah, a secret! That I should have almost forgotten! Urged on and aided by Faculty, Cinderella had applied herself so diligently that she had at last secured an A! She was so proud and happy that she wore it to the reception. It really did gleam brightly from the midst of her sad group of worn and frayed C’s.

But alas! The foolish girl enjoyed so very much the appraising smiles of the Prince that her A was completely forgotten for the time. And no wonder, for it fitted her Ability so snugly that she had no misgivings, whatever. Nevertheless, during the General Scramble it was lost! Poor Cinderella became so disheartened that she immediately returned to Usual Limits.

Soon after her departure, the Prince in resting his Eves upon a Pink Slip, chanced to discover the glittering A. He at once proclaimed that he wished the owner of so fine an A to be in his Employ.

His declaration was this, “The A must be tried upon everyone’s Ability, Favored Few first, then the members of the family of A Little Less Favored, and finally, even the inhabitants of Usual Limits. The one whose Ability shall fit this A snugly and without a Wrinkle shall be in my Employ!”

Favored Few raised loud protest at the foolishness of trying the A on the Abilities of the people of Usual Limits, but the Prince was firm.

The process ot fitting was begun. The Abilities of Favored Few could not begin to fill so round and full an A. They rattled in it! The same was found to be true of the Abilities of the family of A Little Less Favored. The Prince, however, was not discouraged. Fie went frankly to the Fairy Faculty for Advice. Advice told him the way to Cinderella’s Place of Business.

When she saw the Prince ride up to the door, Cinderella Hushed with anticipation mixed with a little uncertainty. Dauntlessly and with undampened ardor, the Prince asked her to try the A. It fitted her Ability snugly and without a wrinkle! Recklessly, the Prince carried Cinderella of the Wonderful A away to his School, and they worked ceaselesslv ever after.

To a Passing Acquaintance

The highest ministries of life remain A mystery. Strong spirits, unaware, Shed healing, like a fragrance, everywhere, As pines yield sweetness under sun and rain.

And whom they lift, unknowing, out of pain, As little guess whence came the help they bear As how red lilies draw from earth their flare And glow7 of scarlet laughter, free of stain.

’Tis sweet as that far white throat’s note to think What hidden springs of living thus are freed To unguessed ministries of faith and love.

As you, alike unconscious of my need And of your gift, have given me to drink Of waters drawn from wells I know not of.

Sonnet to a Baked Potato

Fair spud that from the fairest of all ov’ns

Thy gentlest of all gentle smells dost take!

Flow many thoughts of aunts of thine and cous’ns

At soggy sight of thee at once awake!

Flow many scenes of what departed bliss!

Flow many thoughts of what entombed hopes!

Flow many visions of us all w ho miss

From many meals thy hardened browned slopes!

No more! Flooray! That magical sweet sound

Transforming all! Thy charms shall fret no more!

Thy sight, accursed fruit, no more abound!

Flence forth I scorn thv brow n encrusted core!

And ever and anon when thee I spy—-

From thee with zipping swiftness will I hie!

C. B. C.

D. L. F.

Peace Day

All yesterday’s cold weight of shuddering fear, Its dread of news, dropped from us for a space, While streaming high above the earth’s dear face Our proud flag floated. Calling far and near It bade, “Rejoice!” We thought of those most dear Whose agonizing waiting soon should cease; And then we thought of those whose swift release Had come thru Death—life’s last eternal seer.

We felt we must rejoice! And yet for some The crazy merry making’s out of tune. Should not our praise go straight to God above Who teaches us o live, to strive, to love?

Ah, yes—but little children learn too soon Of Flander’s Fields—Rejoice! For Peace has come!

—D. Coe.

Peace Day

PEACH day what is the true meaning of those two words? In history they will mean simply the signing of the armistice by the Germans; to true Americans they hold a much deeper meaning. To some they are the symbol of joy, of relief after the long struggle; of exultant pride in the prowess and power of our nation. To others they stand for gloom; they have experienced the tragedy, the agony, the brutishness, the blackness of what has gone before. But to all they mean such deep and inwrought feelings that forever November nth will be above all a day to renew that feeling of brotherhood between nations welded together by the price that was paid for peace not the price in the billions of dollars but the price that was paid in the blood of our men, in the tears and sulferings of women and children, in the destruction and desolation that befell France, bleeding Belgium, aching Poland, and unfortunate Serbia. The memory of this sacrifice and suffering expanded and profoundly deepened as nothing else could have, our feeling of the brotherhood of man.

As the Liberty Bell had rung out the independence of our thirteen states in 1776, so in 1918 the independence of many nations was sounded through the night. Then the steady ringing of a liberty bell gave the news. Now the shrieking whistles and clanging bells pierced our very soul with the story; the story that transformed so vitally our lives. They proclaimed that we as a nation had accomplished a gigantic task; they proclaimed that the English “Carry on” and the French “Thou shalt not pass” had won the day. They proclaimed that the last gun was to be fired in a few minutes; that the last regiment had gone over the top. In a few hours this wholesale slaughter of beautiful lives would stop; the roar of the cannon, the work of the tank, the smell of poisonous gasses would be no more. No wonder uncounted hearts greeted this as a great day of days!

Oh the feelings that came to us in the early hours of that morning as the news was declared! We became a conflict of emotions, now one feeling becoming foremost and now another. Sometimes we were overwhelmed with its bigness, sometimes enthralled with its glory, again dumb with the unutterable tragedy it had meant. We were clutched by a feeling of fear which fairly took our breath away. Could this supreme news we had heard be true? We were almost afraid to let ourselves think so. It would be unbearable should a gray cloud again veil our star of hope.

But no! Surely we couldn’tdoubt the persistent triumph of those sounds. The vietorious news almost left us speechless; then out of the stillness came breathless murmurs.

“Father will come back! —A home —*a real home once more.”

“My brother—.”

“Both of mine—.”

“Jim.”

Others said nothing at all; but behind hurt eyes were more solemn thoughts of Flanders Field with its row after row of graves and markers. They tried to ignore the anguish in their hearts and clung to the thought that he had died for his country that “Anything conceivable that he might have done would have been less than what he did.” Yet, even though his supreme sacrifice summoned to courage, the throbbing heart tolled heavily “It can never fill the place that waits tor him.” But they, too, mastered their innermost feelings and cheered with the others. Here at home on peace day was a touch of the indomitable spirit of the battle fields.

The cheering crowd told us we were not the only ones who were happy. Everyone about us was cheering. Our whole nation was flying its flag. For a flash of blind pride we burst lorth with a feeling of glory; glory because it was our victory. We forgot the work of France, of England. We could only see America triumphant. We had gone over the top!

Shortly we smothered this feeling for one a little more worthy. We saw more clearly our place in the whole. We were proud, to be sure, because it was our boys who had turned the tide. We still allowed ourselves the joy of imagining long columns of them in khaki marching on to victory with our beautiful stars and stripes triumphantly floating above. But our thoughts also went across the water to those people who had first and longest walk-

ed in the furnace; who knew far better than we all the torture, the hell of war. The wonderful feeling of brotherhood surged resistless within us and crowded out the petty emotions so unworthy of true democrats. They had given up everything in life worth while that we might be free. We wanted to repay them; a thing that money could never do. AH we could do was to sympathize with them in their struggles, reioice with them in their victories, and admire them for their pluck, their long patience, and their loyalty to mankind. A stronger bond throbbed between us than ever before.

b ou and I experienced these feelings; but did we know that on that day we became stronger and greater individuals? Did we know that on that day our nation was becoming a stronger and greater nation? And did we know that on that day brotherhood, democracy, and peace took on a deeper meaning for all the world for all time?

Snap Shots

From A Teacher

“We will no longer have to think of our boys going out to kill human beings. As win ter approaches we will be happy, for now we know they will not have to stand in the deep cold muddy water in the trenches waiting for the fatal moment when they strike or are stricken down. There is still work to be done, but this work is lighted with the star of peace and hope.”

From A Student

“It is a long road without a turning. Our boys have been traveling that road, but now they have reached the turn.—Now they will take the new road that leads to reconstruetion and home.”

From Another Student

“This day means so much to me because I know my mother is so happy over this morning’s news.”

From A Janitor

“As yesterday’s celebration continued hour after hour, I wondered if those people were expressing their gratitude and joy as best they could. 1 think that a part of “Peace Day” should have been spent at church, or in prayer.”

The League of Nations

AS WE seniors are looking forward to our graduation, the nations of the world are framing the treaty of peace which may or may not be a league of nations. Our annual would be incomplete without a mention of this fateful world political situation. We Americans can appreciate this new idea in world government by going back to the thirteen struggling colonies stretched along the Atlantic coast in 1783. They tried living as individual colonies. They did not succeed. This failure drove them to unite under the Articles of Confederation. After once taking this step forward they could not go back. Best of all, they did not want to go back. About eight years later a more perfect instrument of government was brought to the attention of these pioneers, by Alexander Hamilton. After months of work, prayer and consideration the new plan of government was adopted and began to operate in 1789. This same constitution with a few amendments is stilt operating with even greater power than Alexander Hamilton ever dreamed it should possess. Did the struggle, the patience, the period of trial and experiment pay? Ask yourself.

About three score years and ten after the constitution was accepted by these developing states, this permanent but elastic instrument of the will of the people, w'as reinforced and thus made dearer to the nation. Lincoln referred to this in the most famous phrase of his Gettysburg address; “■—-that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

With this successful experiment and proof to go back to, can we as growing nations oi the world afford to lose the opportunity now before us of working out by like struggle, patience, trial and experiment a covenant of all free governments to unite for the better ordering of the world? Can the nations that are sensing the present political situation in the world go back to the stage of development they were in before the war?

The league of nations to be sure is still clouded with the mists of uncertainty, as was the experimental form of our United States’ government in the eighteenth century. The results of this bigger idea in shaping the fate of nations are incomprehensible and unknown. But cannot these leading nations of the world lit themselves to the proposed form of the league through the period of “try-out” just as patiently as the thirteen colonies did with their weak and uncertain instrument of government? These nations are groping in the dark for the light of a freedom far greater than that which the colonists searched for when they united under the “try-out” of 1783. Shall we grow timid and faint hearted before we find the light for which we are searching? No!

1 he light of freedom is waiting, “It is for us rather, to be here dedicated to that task remaining before us; that from our honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that these nations, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that a league of the nations, by the nations and for the nations shall not perish fromthe earth.”

Community Work

‘‘Alive and Awake” has been and always shall be the motto of the students of this school. We were awake when we started our community work at Morey Hall, but we should have fallen asleep if we had stopped there. We went out into the city and proved to the city people our motto was one which we lived up to. Even Winona seemed a small place so we enlarged the boundary lines of our community to include the state of Minnesota. Like all growingthings we soon outgrew these small limits. We saw an opportunity to help our nation in the world crisis of war and reconstruction and we stretched to that. At last our community grew so large that it reached over to our allied nations across the waters. We are now reaching the boundary lines of our community, and our present aim is not extension of limits, but extension of kinds and variety of work.

The Liberty Loan - Morey Hall Scholarship

THE Liberty Loan - Morey Hall Scholarship was planned by the war committee of our school last year. So lar, six one hundred dollar bonds have been purchased and we hope by the end of this year we shall have seven hundred dollars worth of bonds. Every year each girl in the school will try in some way to earn one dollar to add to the scholarship fund.

A single room at Morey Hall is to be set aside for the recipient distinguished by her scholarship, and her board will also be given her. In addition to this, the interest on the money secured for scholarship is to be given her as pin money. Realizing the fact that education is a basis for the greatest possible growth we extend our heartiest congratulations to the future holders of the Liberty Loan - Morey Hall Scholarship.

It is an unusual pri\ ilege which belongs to every graduate of the Winona Normal School: As we live in the various communities into which our work calls us, we may keep watch for a gifted and high-cbaractered young woman, who would bring honor to the Winona Normal School by becoming a teacher under its guidance, but who is barred therefrom by lack of funds; when we find her we may notify the President of the School and he will be able, through this scholarship to help her become a teacher. This is an opportunity to serve our Alma Mater, the cause of education, and a friend, at one stroke.

East End Work

THE “spirit ol service” In the Normal school becoming ambitious went out into the city of Winona. The benefits and pleasures we have enjoyed have been “carried on” by a few girls to other girls of the town. Gladys Johnson has been the chief booster in the athletic field, for every Thursday night she has “forward marched” a class of girls from the Onward League. They march and they love it. Romana Thoeni and Jennie Mulnix have played and worked outside the school in the vast Field of dramatics with some of these same girls. It is great fun, this learning and then doing, and it is great work, too; for what do these things which we learn mean to us unless we can pass them on to others and make this world a little richer for our having been in it.

Y. W. C. A.

THE Y. W. C. A. attempts to give inspiration and an opportunity lor service to its girls through the regular meetings and the social service. This year’s work has been quite productive although the “flu” disturbed us very much during the fall and winter.

In spite of the epidemic, however, the membership committee did very well. A campaign was held in the fall and then the initiation ceremonies under the direction of both membership and social committees took place at the city ^ VV. C. A. building.

The finance committee raised thirty dollars at an auction at Morey Hall early in the year. Later the Directories were issued, and in the spring more money was raised by sales and entertainments.

Each Sunday the Bible Classes have met to discuss social problems, and every fourth Sunday have had a union meeting of all the groups. The Social Service workers, who are closely allied to the Bible Study, have been very busy, their work taking them to the Draft Board, County Farm, the hospital and private homes. T he Rest Room, which is social service exclusively for Normal girls has been brightened by new pillow covers and curtains. The program committee has been very busy and its year’s program included: Miss Barrows on “Canteen Work in France”; Mrs. Chorpenning on “Red Cross Work in Washington;” Mr. Reed on “The Ethics ol War Poetry;” Miss Staples on “Social Service in War Lines;” Mrs. French on “Snap Shots of my Fife in I urkey;” and “Readings” by Miss Slifer.

Miss Lillis Kimball went to the National Conference at Evanston in March, and eight of the new cabinet members went to a cabinet conference in Minneapolis on the 12th and 13th of April.

1 he Annual Elections were held March 26th and E.llen Mehalek was elected president, Grace Merryman, vice-president, Fern Rose, secretary, and Jeanette Van Duzee treasurer.

The old cabinet regrets to leave but every member knows that the new officers will be just as enthusiastic and eager about Y. W. C. A. work as they have been. They feel, too, that the year of 1919-20, will see much fine work carried on under the new cabinet.

Community Singing

WHEN our boys were in camp and on the battlefield they sang, sang,sang. In the evenings when the sun was low they would gather for a few minutes of chorus singing. The old, old songs which had been replaced by the so-called “popular” songs again came into prominence through the boys’ chorus singing. This chorus singing spread, and now, even though the war is over, we, all of us, are singing the old songs. Under the direction of Mrs. Johnston, the people of Winona are joining the great chorus which is aiming to make this year of 1919 a singing year throughout the United States and the whole world.

Our French Orphans

WHEN the people of the United States realized what a large number of children abroad were robbed of one parent or both by the cruelties of the war, they stretched forth eager hands to help them. Clothing and food were sent to these distressed little people; but our good American people were not content to sit back and say,“We’ve done enough;” many of them adopted children who needed help. Some of the members of our faculty and of our student body individually adopted an orphan, but we all wanted to help in this world wide movement so we of the Winona Normal School, adopted a little eight year old French boy named Jean. We do not know much about this boy; but we are hoping, since he is learning to write, that some day he will write us a letter, telling us all about the life we are trying to brighten and cheer through the money we send across the sea for him.

Fire Relief Fund

THE spirit and bigness of our community work showed itself in the response to the Fire Relief Fund. When word had been received that our northern forests were burning and that many were suffering from lack of food and clothing we answered the call for help. A collection was taken in chapel amounting to one hundred and forty-two dollars to be sent to the sufferers for their immediate relief.

United War Work Campaign

DUR 1 NC the United War Work campaign, the students and members of the faculty did all they could to promote the cause. After enthusastic four minute speeches a collection of a little over one thousand dollars was taken.

The Training School

CLUBS, gymnasium, dancing, health crusade, “dramatics,” laboratory work, play writing, swimming pool, play grounds, ’n’ everything. Do you, reader, know the training school? Maybe you think you do. But if you are not aware of the fun and “pep” that mark it. then you don’t. “A school should train the whole child all there is of him.” This is the motto of the Winona Training School, and we live up to it! That’s why school work is more delightful, subjects easier to teach, and life as a whole more worth while in the Winona Training Department than in many other schools.

Do not think, on the other hand, that it is all play and no work. The Training School is a very active, business-like place. Each child makes his standing and holds it by scholarship alone. Our departments throughout are divided into classes, A, B and C, according to the ability of each child. Thus none is crowded and none held back; each does his best in a group where competition is possible for him.

Do we turn out geniuses there? It has seemed so at times. The children perform stunts so amazingly well one stands by with mouth wide open, thinking, “It can’t be true. I hey must have a great deal of help,” when in reality the boys and girls have done it themselves with verv little outside assistance.

The Training School has the very best of supervisors, who in turn help the “practicers.’ The student teachers under the direction of the supervisors, the children under that of the student teachers, all are bound together in one happy, hustling, growing, Training Depart- ment. The supervisors are the great helpers and what we don’t owe them isn’t worth mentioning. They see that the teaching is up to grade in every detail. They keep the educational ball rolling, and well do the student teachers know it.

“NufI sed” except to add that if you really want to find out more about the training school you should just try teaching. You will see that we know what we are talking about. Of course some ways of doing things may be different when you try it out. We are a democracy and believe in one inalienable right that of progress. We move with the times.

We are thus, today. ^ ou must judge for yourself our tomorrow, when tomorrow is here. One thing, however, we know. Whatever else you may find changed, you will find all the children being developed in all ways in the power to feel, the power to enjoy, the power to do, as well as in the power to know.

Printing

ONE morning in February as we came to chapel we noticed a little pile of cards on every lront desk in the assembly room. Of course every one was curious to know what was on these cards and was interested and excited when they found out that they were the Annual subscription cards. How many thought of how these cards were prepared? I am sure at least one person did and that was Mr. Sandt. Why? Because it was under his direction that some of the hobbletyhovs w hom you met on the way home to luncheon that day had prepared these cards in the Normal print shop. How could they do anything like that? Let us step into the shop and find out. Some of the boys are sorting pi; some are checking up type cases; some are cutting paper; others are “setting up type;” while still others are printing the cards. The work is so interesting that the question, “May I stay tonight, Mr. Sandt?” never fails to be asked at the end of the period. What makes the print shop such an interesting place to work in? In the first place, Mr. Sandt presents the work in a way that appeals to the boy's and in the second place, the materials and machinery in the shop attract their attention. What is there in the shop that attracts their attention? Probably the first things to be noticed are the cabinets and stands which containall the different cases of type; Roman, Italic, Devinne, Cushing, Caslon and others. On one side of the room we see the large foot lever press on which our Annual subscription cards were printed and on which the Junior High School paper, the “NormaJette”, is printed each month. Then there are two hand lever presses on which tickets, calling cards and other small cards are printed. Other machines in the shop are: a stitching machine which is used for stitching pamphlets, pads and magazines; a large paper cutter which is used for cutting the paper lor cards and pamphlets to be printed; a perforator which is used lor perforating receipt pads; and a cornering machine which is used for rounding corners on cards. Besides these there is an imposing table which was made by Normal Manual Training students. On this table the forms are locked into the chase ready for printing. It contains compartments for proof paper, ink, letter boards, and wood and metal furniture.

Along with the printing a new feature has been brought into this department. This new kind of work is wood-cuts. The designs for these were made by the Junior High School girls under the direction of Miss Speckman and the cuts were carved by the Junior High School boys. T he covers of the last two “Normalettes” had wood-cut designs on them and a further evidence of this new' feature w ill be noted by the presence of the end-piece of this article.

The good English, correct composition, punctuation and spelling required for the w'ork in the print shop and the interest with which these are practiced there have a great value in an educational institution. The kind of work done and the spirit with which everything is done in the printing department show that there is constant cooperation between this department and other departments of the school. The success of this department is due partly to the help of local printers but most of ail to the earnest efforts of the instructor, Mr. Sandt.

M. F.. N.

Affiliated Rural School

THE practice schools of the rural educational department are typical, modern schools, located in five nearby influential communities. They are situated among beautiful and rich farm lands. To theseschools come the children of good-hearted, prosperous and progressi\e farmers of Winona county. The old time grind of the little class room is no more for they are “our rural schools” now and the best we have is none too good for them.

All students who are taking the rural course spend six weeks of intensive training in these schools. They live among these farmers, share in their work and fun, and help the community in every way they can. In school, they assist the regular teachers, have teaching methods explained and learn to takeall the responsibilities which they will assume next year in their own schools.

Besides these students who are training, the Normal sends to these schools those who can teach manual training, household economics, and music. The Normal owns a Ford which is driven by Clarence Gerecke and carries the snecial subject students back and forth. Once a week there comes a change in the routine school life of the little farmer boys and girls when the “Normal teachers” arrive. To them this is the best time of the whole week for when they come the tool chest is opened, the little kitchen becomes a hive of busy workers, and the main room becomes a large music hall. The education and pleasure of manual training, household economics and ringing, which are features in city schools, are theirs also.

Another important phase of work in these rural school communities has been the development of farmers’, parents’ and childrens’ clubs. Thru these it is possible to bring the whole community together for serious study or recreation. Many excellent results are growing out of this phase of rural activity. They have helped to develop a valuable understanding of the aims of the schools, a fine cooperative spirit, and a keen interest in the weifare of the community.

These affiliated schools are mutually helpful to the Normal School and to their own communities.

Gilmore Valley School

Country Life Club

THAT the Country Life Club lias been rightly named is evident in more ways than one. The part that stands out as a characteristic of every member is “Life.” The membership is not restricted to country girls, for the signatures to the constitution show that we have girls from cities whose population ranges from five hundred thousand to forty, which is perfect evidence that we are not all “fresh from the farm.” In fact, the only requirements a prospective C. L. C. member must have are to “live” and pay a term fee of fifteen cents. With the opening of the fall term the club reorganized and started to work with a membership of forty-two which increased within a few months to sixty-four.

Great originality and ability have been displayed at various entertainments given in district schools. These entertainments have given the girls an opportunity for social service and at the same time have revealed talent, which perhaps, would not have come to light, had it not been for the free atmosphere of the Country Life Club.

In the early spring an urgent call came from Homer to aid in entertaining the people of that village. Twelve girls responded and gave a most unusual program, made up of music, readings, and folk-dances, besides various stunts. The best part of this program was that most of the numbers were originated between six and eight o’clock after reaching Homer. The encores were proof enough that the fame of the club would spread. After the inhabitants of the village had been amused for the evening, the tables were turned andthey were compelled to entertain eight girls for the night because of the heavy rain. This hospitality of course did not in anyway lessen the popularity of the Country Lifers with the other students; and when we were ready for our next outing at Gilmore Valley, three new members were added to the roll.

Though most of the meetings have had a social purpose connected with them we have had several instructive and inspiring programs. One of these was the lecture by the noted naturalist, Mr. G. H. Trafton, of the Mankato Normal school. This talk was given to the entire school and it is the purpose of the club to offer others of the sort.

W ith the dosing of the school year we feel confident this year's work of the club has been worth while and that the club will hold an even more important place in the life of the Winona Normal School.

Kindergarten

DURING this year the Kindergarten Club has been as active as usual. The first step in the year’s work was the buying of our second Liberty Bond. A contest was held between the Juniors and Seniors, the Juniors being the successful competitors. The Seniors or losers entertained the Juniors for their hard work in winning.

We, the prospective teachers of small children have been interested in all child welfare activities.

The work of the Day Nursery has been carried over from last year and the Juniors have become enthusiastic workers and heloers. The present work of the club is helping to entertain the children at the Junior parties at the Y. W. C. A. where, once a month, one hundred children are entertained with games and stories.

At the close of last year, our attention was attracted b\ the work of the Kindergarten Unit in France, a phase of reconstruction work among the children of the war-devastated regions. So keenly did this cause appeal to the hearts of the Kindergarten group that they practically emptied their little treasury to aid in this work.

To replenish our funds, this year, we resorted once more to the Christmas gift book which had proved a financial aid in the past. The returns from sales justified the hard work of those backing this enterprise.

Our club meetings have been of great interest and help to all members. At each meeting a definite program has been carried out. Not only are the present members of the club interested but also those who have left us. One graduate dressed a doll which she sent to the club to use in its work among children. Another graduate helped in buying a Liberty Bond by giving a sum of money. Not only have gifts been sent but also many interesting letters have been read at the meetings.

Besides the regular meetings the club has had many pleasant social times. During the first term the Juniors were entertained by the Seniors at a “Kid Party.” The Kindergarten room w as arranged as a nursery and children’s games were played. Refreshments were served suitable for a child’s party.

The success of the year has been due to the interest and help of all members of the club.

Art Department

Fine Arts

MONG the list of required subjects in the Normal Course is one called “Drawing.”

ATo the new student this usually suggests three months of dull, monotonous drudgery. Is it? Ask that same student at the end of the term and see how his idea of drawing has changed.

Then just what do we mean by drawing under Miss Guernsey? Does it mean that at the end of the course we have become efficient in the technique of drawing? Far from it; we have simply learned a few of the big principles. We are not even able to apply these principles to an extent at all comparable with our new revelation in the world of art. We have, indeed, gathered some valuable bits of skill and knowledge of handling line, form and color. But is thisall that drawing means?

No, it means that we go from the drawing room with opened eyes observant and appreciative of beauty in the things about us. The trees, hills and life itself have a new and richer meaning. We look at Winona Lake and the surrounding bluffs with their ever ehanging woods and there is a certain unnamable something in the wonderful lights and shadows which we have never felt before. We watch the “race of man” go by with the endless variety of form, face and dress, and we find ourselves better able to interpret his inner nature.

We not only see these things but we are filled with a desire to do. Our imaginations have been quickened, our creative instincts have been aroused and we no longer wish to be idle, taking things as they come regardless of how monotonous or ugly. We want to eliminate that which is ugly and discordant, we want to create and preserve that which is beautiful and harmonious. We are not only more observant and richer in outlook but more eager for the active tasks in making this a more beautiful world in which to live.

Industrial Arts

THE industrial arts department is one of great interest to anyone. W hen one goes in this room he is greatly inspired by the work displayed. The work this year has been greatly modified as many of the materials have been so high. There was Hooverizing in every other department andas this department couldn’t beout ofthegame itdid likewise. The great scarcity as well as the high prices of paper made this department use their ingenuity, so sample books of wall paper were used for paper. This feature of using the wall paper was made very important. Many artistic as well as useful things were made. Other features taken up were clay work, basketry, weaving rugs and binding books. The Minnesota course of study was bound by most students.

The work of this department is very fascinating, helpful, and educational, and it cannot help but develop a better appreciation for the useful and beautiful, and also for those concernedin its production.

Manual Training

THE buzz of the saw, the tap of the hammer, and the whiz of the plane, as it sends curls of shavings on the floor greets one as he enters the manual training room. This year the manual training classes seem to have run to cedar chests, pedestals, porch swings and Morris chairs. There has been a great number of cedar chests having different designs made this year. This large number of hope chests made this year makes things look rather discouraging to those who are endeavoring to enlist the service of young women in the teaching profession as life members. Question? Should cedar chests be discouraged or encouraged?

Household Arts

UNDER the leadership of Miss Collins and Miss Cooley, the department of household arts has made great progress during the last year. Early in the fall the girls of this department were assigned the task, of selecting a few new furnishings to make the dining room of their department more attractive. These girls, assisted by the sewing classes, at last suitably equipped and artistically arranged the dining room. To celebrate this great event a reception was held to which all the members of the department were invited. Needless to say, it was a great success and next day many of the K. G’s. were heard to say that they wished they were K. M’s. instead. It was decided at this time to make the reception an annual happening. The next notable affair in the department was a series of dinners perpared and served by the Cookery II class. The above picture shows the Y. W. C. A. enjoying one of the biggest and best dinners ever given in the school. The staff, Mr. Maxwell, and severalmembers of the faculty were also entertamed at various other dinners.

This department was further made prominent by the commendable work of the sewing classes. The costumes for several one-act plays, given during the year, were made by them. Those for the “Blue Bird’’ were also of their making. The service flag was made by this section of the department as a part of their patriotic service to the school. There are rumors about of a fashion show to be given soon, similar to that of last year only it will of course, be far better than heretofore.

It appears, then, that the Domestic Science Course is one of the most inviting courses in the school. Anyone who is graduated from this course will not only be assured of being an excellent teacher and a capable manager of a home, but will have the comfortable sense of having contributed liberally to the pleasures of our school life.

Mendelssohn Club Quartet

Mendelssohn Club

T I THIRTY girls they are in number but one would think that there were thirty times thirty when they start to sing, for they are like a bow string when set in motion. They X cannot help vibrating to the plucket of their strings. In the whirl of school life what fun is it to stop for an hour and be carried out into the grassy fields or snow clad mountains or sit beside a colored mammy as she lulls her little nigger baby to sleep, and even on into the realms of the unknown. We have tried to share this pleasure as we sang at various times during the year. Our first appearance being at the Women’s Federated Club at the Methodist Church. Then, at the program in honor of thereturned soldiers, also at the winter term graduation and likewise at the state Y. W. C. A. conventions we entertained the scores of people present. These various performances terminated in our final program, the Mendelssohn Concert.

It is not amiss to add that together with our music of joyous and serious nature, we always lived in anticipation of another sort. At different intervals in our work we gave fourdinner parties, the memories of which each girl will treasure. For like the bow after its strings have ceased to vibrate the work of Mrs. Johnston will echo and in turn be transmitted to others by each Mendelssohn girl.

First Soprano

M yrtle Erickson

Alice Bannon

Marguerite Snyder

Mildred Gerlicher

Dorothy Lang

Eevylyn Eldred

Esther Nelson

Frances Yany

Lucile Scanlan

Ethel Kidd

Olga Thonvold

Gratia Kelly

Elsie Gilovv

First Alto

Gladys Bender

Josephine Kowaleska

Doritha Ferris

Jenneatte La France

Dollie Mettam

Second Soprano

Margaret Hankenson

Ethel Dooney

Zelda Munson

Helen Smock

Lillis Kimball

Marion Laidlavv

Grace Merryman

Jeannette Van Duzee

Second Alto

Irene Koelmel

Romana Thoeni

Dorothy McKeown

Ruth Onsgard

Clara Sinnet

Bernice Knopp, Pianist

School Activities

Monday Morning Chapel Talks

STUDENTS in some colleges have a very peculiar feeling in regard to chapel. Many look forward to chapel with the idea in mind that it is a time for general disciplining while others think of it as a very formal and solemn meeting. But such is not the attitude which the students of our Normal take toward it. We rather look upon chapel as a time which takes us away from the daily routine of recitation and gives us a period for inspirational guidance.

Some of the things which have helped to make our chapel time so interesting are the talks given by different members of the faculty. The first part of this school year we waited with expectancy for some time to hear from the faculty. Finally Miss Slifer surprised us, early in October with the wonderful selection, “The Jester’s Sword.” The whole school was impressed not only by the courageous story set forth by the selection, but by the interesting way in which Miss Slifer gave it.

Mr. French was the next oneon the program. As he is new in our faculty we were all very curious to hear him. He gave a very valuable talk on “The University of Constantinopie.” As Mr. French has taught for many years in that University one can readily understand why his talk was so interesting.

A series of lectures were given by Mr. Gaylord on “How to Study.” Many of us still question how we ever learned anything in comparing our methods withthat which Mr. Gaylord planned out. Nevertheless we all agreed after trying out Mr. Gaylord’s method that it is far more efficient.

Early in November, Miss Gildemeister gave us a talk which we, as prospective teachers, will never forget. The subject of her talk was “Patriotism and Loyalty as Brought Out Through the School.” The opportune time which Miss Gildemeister chose for giving her talk (it being just before the armistice was signed) helped to make it so effective.

In the same month Miss Richards gave us a very instructive talk on “The Evolution of the English Language.” The fact that Miss Richards is so proficient in this line of work made her talk exceptionally interesting.

Just a few days before we went home for our Christmas holidays, Miss Staples talked to us on the “Armenian Relief.” The big collection that was taken up later for the Armenian cause really showed what a great influence the talk had on everyone.

The first one to talk to us after our vacation was Mr. Sandt. He read an article to us on “Teaching Industrial Arts in the Rural Schools,” which was not only interesting but humorous as well.

As a rule grown-ups are not interested in children’s stories but this idea is completely shattered whenever Miss Sutherland starts to tell one of her numerous stories. Such was the case when she favored us with the darling little fairy-tale “The Bag of Smiles.” Like so many kindergarten children both faculty and students sat and listened.

About this time we had all been wondering when Mr. Moore was going to speak to us. He did not keep us wondering long however. Early in February he gave us a series of interesting lectures on “Bolshevism and Socialism.” He brought out very clearly the comparisons and differences between the Bolsheviks and the Socialists.

The last lectures which we have heard, were given by Miss Collins on quite a different subject from the others. Instead of being instructive hints for prospective teachers they were rather instructive hints for prospective wives and mothers.

Sometime in the next month or two we expect to hear from the other members ol the faculty. We are certain that their talks will be just as instructive and interesting as the preceding ones.

Miss Cooley has promised to give us a fashion show such as she gave last year. Mr. Scarborough is going to talk to us on “Time and it’s Measurements.” Mr. Reed will speak on “The Value of Comedy.” And Mrs. Chorpenning will discuss “The Recreation Clause in the Hundred Million Dollar Education Bill in the Senate.”

Lectures

This year the Normal Students enjoyed many lectures. However, because of subject matter, some stand out more prominently than others. One well remembered lecture was that given by Dr. Frayer of the University of Michigan, on “Prussia as a World Menace.” A talk by Mr. Hill on the “Y in France,” pointed out the great work that that organization was and in doing for the boys “over there.” Another very impressive talk was given by Mr. A. J. Skeyhill, an Australian soldier and poet, on “War and Poetry.” He also read a number of his war poems. A most inspiring talk was “Youth and the War,” by Judge Ben Findsey. A list of all the lectures of the year and their subjects follows:

Talks On The War.

Mr Hill The Y in France.

Mr. Deutsch The Fourth Fiberty Foan.

Dr. Frayer Prussia as a World Menace.

Fieutenant V. Conrad Fife at West Point.

Judge Ben Findsey Youth and the War.

Mr. A. J. Skeyhill War and Poetry.

Mr. Pett Experience While in the Service.

Fectures On Social Hygiene.

Dr. Dudley The Beginning of Fife.

Dr. Ulrich Two lectures Instructions in Social Hygiene.

Commencement Address.

Superintendent Hartwell of St. Paul.

Talks On Applications.

Superintendent Voorhees of Winona The Value of an Application.

Superintendent Foomis of Winona County The Contents of an Application.

Miscellaneous Subjects.

Mr. Peter Faughry How Experiences at Normal Have Functioned in My Fife.

Mr. Raine Illustrated lecture on Alaska.

Mr. Waldo The Six Essentials of a Big Fife.

Our Movies

THE school received quite an addition this year when we had our new Moving Picture Machine installed. Now we don’t have to spend a perfectly good fifteen cents but can see our movies here in our own assembly room. Early in the winter term we had a very good movie from the Bay State Mill. The picture was very interesting as well as educational, showing old and new forms of harvesting and all the milling processes in the Bay State Mill. Our next movie, “The End of the Road,” was also educational but of a very different type. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if I merely state that the purpose cf the picture was to emphasize certain points in some of Dr. Mable Ulrich’s Iectures on social problems. Our third, and, at the date of this writing, our last picture, “Under Four Flags” was, as the name suggests, a war picture and a very fine one. It gave us a great many interesting scenes of the part played in the war by the United States, England, France, and Italy.

Our appreciation of it perhaps more than equals the time and trouble Mr. Sandt has put in the installment and running of the machine.

The Festival Concert Course

THE first number on our concert course was given by Miss Kitty Cheatham, February 17th. Miss Cheatham has an international reputation having appeared in some ofthe European Courts. Her program consisted of child songs and negro folk songs. Her interpretation of child songs was most unique, her vivid personality predominating throughout.

Our second event was to be given May 9th, but through the financial cooperation of the students and townspeople the committee had sufficient funds to surprise us with a concert on the evening of March 31st. This concert was given by Mr. Scheurer, a violinist, Mr. Williams, a harpist, and Mr. Fischer a ’cellist, all of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. These people also gave a most entertaining and delightful program in the afternoon to over four hundred children of the city.

Our third program, then, came according to schedule, May 9th. In the afternoon the children of the Training School sang the operetta, “The Walrus and the Carpenter,’’ which was a joy both to the performers and to the listeners. This was followed by a program by Miss Leona Lytle, a noted soprano. In the evening the girls of the Normal School gave “The Highway Man,’’ Burton Thatcher carrying the solo parts. Burton Thatcher is associated with the Chicago Institute of Music and is the best baritone in the Middle West.

The Concert Course proved to be a decided success. The student body and citizens of Winona turned out in such numbers the seating room of our auditorium proved insuflicient. So enthusiastic were our audiences, indeed, that we are giving thought to a new seating arrangement for next year so that the crowds can be more comfortably accommodated.

Dramatic Department

The Dramatic Club

THE Dramatic Club activities have been unusually varied during the year. Four very interesting programs have been given. During the summer session a unique event took place on the evening of July 24th when an outdoor play was staged in a charming natural amphitheater at the foot of Garvin Heights. “The Heart of Youth” by Herman Hagedorn tells of the struggle between a wise monk who sees visions and an impetuous lad who rebels against restraint. The author shows in this play the same love for youth that he manifests in his stirring essay, “Young America, You Are the Hope of the World.”

A program of three one act plays of decided merit was given at the Normal School, December 7th. “Joint Owners in Spain,” by Alice Brown is a delightful comedy suggesting the trials of two cantankerous old women who find themselves rooming together in the “Old Ladies Home.” This play was first given by the Chicago Little Theater Company. “The Maker of Dreams” by Oliphant Down is one of the plays of the Manchester England players. In this quaint sketch Pierrot finds in Pierrette the “woman of his dreams.” The last play “Rise Up Jennie Smith” by Rachel Smith won a prize recently in a patriotic play contest. It is the simple story of the heroic sacrifice made by a milliner’s apprentice who gives up her vacation to buy a Liberty Bond.

Two programs have been given away fromthe school. On the 7th of February “The Maker of Dreams” together with some readings and folk dances was given for the Farmer’s Club at the Gilmore Valley School. This same play and “Rise Up Jennie Smith” were repeated at the Minnesota City Town Hall on March 28th, in connection with the organization of a Recreation club for the young people of that town.

The members of the Dramatic Club feel that in spite of the difficulty of casting plays with so few young men back from service and in spite of the inroads made by the influenza epidemic on rehearsals they have had a good year. With conditions becoming normal again a successful season is anticipated for the coming year.

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Community Plays

ONE of the needs of our nation most strongly emphasized by the war is a richer community life. All over the country men and organizations interested in social service are searching for practical and inspiring forms of community activities. We have been interested, here, in a new form of community drama which has been worked out during the year. Mrs. Chorpenning is writing plays, expressly for different groups, in the community who wish their plays to say definite things, or to allow their selt-expression in moods of their own choice. The accompanying cut, for example, is taken from a play written for a group of young people in the rural community in which our Gilmore Valley school is situated. It presented the farmer’s relation to the war. Entirely different were two plays produced with this: a farce, given by a group of working young people, and aimed at the unwillingness of the rich “slacker” to bear a heavy share of the burdens of the war; and a play written to express the way some of Winona’s Polish citizens feel about the relation between the foreign element here and the re t of the town. Just as different again is a fairy play, to be produced later in May, written not around a theme at all, but to give the actors a chance to enjoy the color, dancing, imagination and romance they asked for.

The interesting thing about the plays is the co-operative methods of creating them. The theme or mood desired is chosen by those who ask for the play, and discussed freely.

Note—-Gilmore Valley school on page 58. Then Mrs. Chorpenning works out a plot which will carry that meaning, or give expression to the desired mood, and submits it to the group. When it has been changed and developed to please them the dialogue is written and the play is put into trial rehearsal. During the early rehearsals any changes in the scenes or the wording which the actors desire are made. Sometimes these changes are comparatively slight; sometimes they amount almost to rewriting the play. The play is then put into final shape, and rehearsed for production.

The production must always of course pay expenses; when that is assured the players like best to have their plays contribute to some community occasion. The first ones produced were given without admission at the annual meeting of the Red Cross. The fairy play mentioned above will first be given on Garvin Heights, in honor of Mr. Garvin, who presented the use of this wonderful spot to the school, and then repeated in the Opera House that the many citizens interested in Mr. Garvin as a public spirited man, who would find the heights inaccessible, may see it.

The alert interest taken by leaders of community work in every practical form of creative recreation developed any where in the country is shown by the fact that these little plays have already attracted the attention of the foremost community workers. The National Association Community center and Carnegie Institute, have both asked for detailed reports of the work with the texts and pictures of the plays. This is an indication of the importance attached by these leaders to any developing form of community work, whatever. It means that every teacher should study the problems of community work, and be prepared in whatever community she may be, to take whatever part lies within her power in shaping the new communitv policies and recreations the nation is groping for. This is work m which the schools should be co-leaders. If they fail to meet the call we shall have still more of the duplication of effort; and equipment, with its consequent waste of energy and funds which makes much of our educational and social work so inefficient.

Scf.ne From Gilmore Valley Play

Blue Bird”

CAST OF CHARACTERS.

Tylty Helen Fichtenau.

Mytyl Anna Bloom.

The Fairy Brelune. Martha Seeling.

Neighbour Berlmgotj

Daddy Tyl Hugo Werner.

MummyTyl Helen Lawrence.

Tylo, The Dog Herbert Edd.

Tylette, The Cat Carlton Alger.

Fire Charlotte Blanchard.

Water Dorothy Youngman.

Bread Hazel Bard.

Sugar Dorothy McKeown.

Milk. Mildred Gerlicher.

Light Irene Koelmel.

Gaffer Tyl Robert Maxwell.

Granny Tyl Alice Nelson.

Night Romana Thoeni.

Time Allen Lipscomb.

A Child Gladys Bender.

The Neighbour’s Little Daughter Ada Whipps.

Tyltyl’s Brothers and Sisters, Other Children, The Tall Blue Persons, Stars, The Twelve Hours, Shades Ghosts, Sicknesses, Sleep and Death.

“The

Our Class Play--- “The Blue Bird”

Act I. The Wood-cutter’s Cottage.

Act II. Scene i. The Fairy’s Garden.

Scene 2. The Land of Memory.

Act III. The Pa' ace of Night.

Act IV. Scene 1. The Graveyard.

Scene 2. The Kingdom of the Future

Act V. Scene 1. Outside the Cottage.

Scene 2. The Wood-cutter’s Cottage.

^HE Blue Bird,” one of the most beautiful imaginative plays ever staged, was written by Maurice Maeterlinck. The play is based upon the French concept on of the JL Blue Bird as the bringer of happiness, and is written in such a way that he who reads or sees the play has a better idea of how to find the Blue Bird lor himself. The play has since been adapted to story form by Georgette Leblanc (Madame Maurice Maeterlinck) and published with great success as “The Children’s Blue Bird.”

Maeterlinck is a great lover of children. This is one reason why the children in “The Blue Bird” make such an appeal both to their own kind and to grown-ups. He understands their frank simplicity, their imaginative genius, and their inherent love ol mystery and “make-believe.” He gives wonderful expression to this understanding through a most remarkable combination of symbolism andrealism in what the children feel. Thus the atmosphere of the play is at once so mystic and so realistic that no one can read it without becoming in spirit a child himself, experiencing each real emotion just as the children do, even while he gets the deeper mystic meaning which they do not.

The story of the play centers around the search of the two children, Tyltyl and Mytyl, for the Blue Bird. In the introduction is written the following explanation: “The Blue Bird, inhabitant of the Pays Bleu, the fabulous blue country of our dreams, is an ancient symbol of the folk lore of Lorraine and stands for happiness.” The play is in reality a beautiful allegory representing the search of each soul for that intangible yet greatly to be desired something called happiness. When the children, after searching vainly everywhere for the Blue Bird, finally find it in their own home, the allegory is complete, lor true happiness comes from right seeking and can usually be found right at home.

The play incidentally gives expression to Maeterlinck’s sense of the existence of a soul m the animals and elements of nature. The various characteristics of these animals and elements, especially those that accompany the children on their journey, are so realistically brought out that the reader can never again come in contact with them in their usual forms without seeing the true spirit which Maeterlinck has called to life, just as the children do after their journey has ended. In the scene in the forest, the fear and hostility of nature and the animals toward man is also brought out, showing how they hate and conspire against him because he has conquered them, and how they try to keep from him the secret of happiness.

Tylo, the Dog, is one ol the most interesting and realistic characters in the play. He alone, of all the animals, defends his “little Gods,” the children, from the attacks of nature and the other animals in the lorest. He conquers his fear in the Palace of Night to defend his little master when all the others desert (except the cat, who has previously conspired with Night to frighten the children). Every joy and every sorrow Tylo shares with his “little Gods” as it they were his own, even though they sometimes turn against him in favor of his enemy, the Cat.

Tylette, the Cat, is true to hie, most unlike the blunt loyal Dog. He is diplomatic, proper, secretive, and hypocritical. Cat lovers may be shocked at this characterization, yet if they stop to think, they must realize that they do not love the cat for its doglike devotion but rather for the very mystery and diplomacy of its sleek self. The Cat’s dual character is illustrated by his seemingly affectionate demeanor in the presence of the children and by his dark conspiracies with the other animals and with his friend, Night, when the children are absent.

Bread, Milk, Sugar, Water, Fire, and Light are the other companions of the children on their journey. Each is made so human and yet so characteristic that it can never again become a mere inanimate thing to a reader of “The Blue Bird. Bread, a portly, slow, comical gentleman, is the constant companion of Milk, a sweet, shy, and very pretty lady. Sugar is a tall slender fellow with sugar stick fingers who falls deeply in love with Water, a beautiful maiden, but very pale and sad. This love affair proves most unfortunate for Sugar, since he melts visibly every time he comes near her. Hot tempered Fire is the sworn enemy of Water but is rather afraid of her, consequently behaves himself most of the time. Beautiful Light, symbolizing wisdom, is the children’s most valuable friend and greatest helper in their search for the Blue Bird. To all of these companions Tyltyl and Mytyl become greatly attached.

The scenes in “The Blue Bird” are remarkable in their imaginative beauty and in the wonderful stage effects produced. In the scene in the graveyard, for instance, the tombstones totter at midnight, the graves open, and out of them in place of the ghostly phantoms one expects come thousands of beautiful lilies growing up and up in perfect beauty. Amid the golden hearts of the flowers the bees buzz gaily, the birdscarol happily, and a wonderful soft perfume floats out into the surrounding air. The flowers are the souls of the dead.

Another beautiful mystical scene is that in which the children visit the Land of Memory. At first a hazy mist envelops the Land. Then, as Tyltyl turns the magic diamond, the mist slowly rises, revealing the simple cottage of Grandad and Granny Tyl just as it used to be before their death. The beautiful idea expressed in this scene is that as soon as you think of anyone who has left you here on earth and has gone to the Land of Memory, that person will at once be called to life and live on in this Land of Memory as long as you think of him. Thus in this play, as soon as Tyltyl and Mytyl mention or even think of their Grandad or Granny, or their little dead brothers and sisters, they at once awaken as living natural people with whom the children can talk and play just as they did before.

In the Kingdom of the Future, Tyltyl and Mytyl are shown the little blue children yet unborn. Each child has some particular gift which he will bring to earth an invention, a sickness, or perhaps a work of art which is to be his contribution to the world. Tyltyl and Mytyl even discover their little unborn brother who is to bring three sicknesses and then leave them. While they are talking to the blue children, Father Time appears to summon the children whose turn it is to be born. As these children are carried away to earth on the great ship of Father Time, the songs of the mothers come floating up from far below, welcoming the little children who are coming to them that day.

These three scenes are cited for their surpassing beauty, but they by no means exhaust the wonderful scenes of the play. Perhaps nothing can give a better idea of the beautiful idealism and symbolism of the whole play than Light’s message to the children when their journey is ended:

“Listen, Tyltyl, do not forget, child, that everything that you see in thisworld has neither beginning nor end. If you keep this thought in your heart and let it grow up with you, you will always, in all circumstances, know what to say, what to do and what to hope for I have not a voice likeWater. I have only my brightness, which man does not understand But I watch over him to the end of my days Never forget that I am speaking to you in every spreading moonbeam, in every twinkling star, in every dawn that rises, in every lamp that is lit, and in every bright thought of your soul.”

If any of you find the “Blue Bird,'' will you give bun to us? We need bun for our happiness.

Society

Get-together Party

ONE of the greatest griefs our Juniors encounter is homesickness. Now, we of this school use a device known as the “Big Sister Movement” which is guaranteed to overcome this malady in a single afternoon. The first Saturday of the fall term every Senior took a Junior for a little sister and escorted her to the party on the bluffs. We all carried our lunches in little paper sacks and hiked in groups led by Miss Shambaugh, Mr. Holzinger and Miss Richards. The various groups met at the pavilion across the lake and ate supper with the usual picnic hilarity. Everyone spoke to everyone else with no thought of formality and the result was that the happiest kind of relationships were started.

Faculty Reception

“Nuff said” but the law requires that we say some more. This is an annual event but it only lasts for a couple of hours, so lend your ear for just one minute. First we shook hands with all of our superior “ossifers,” each one of us being duly presented by Miss Slifer. Then we sort of mixed around a little and drank as many glasses of punch as we could get. Of course, Mrs. Johnston made us sing a little to “show off” for the teachers. Then we all went home feeling very well acquainted with “Prexy” and all the rest.

Dance at Morey Hall

Yes! orchestra, eats, faculty dancing, n’everything. We were all dressed up in our best anddanced with all the faculty the only chance we’ve ever had to whisper sweet somethings in their ears in regard to “A’s” and so forth. We had dancing in the dining room from eight to eleven and upstairs in the living room we found many clever entertainments. We heard the wonderful Crazeola Victrola, found out about a marvelous fat and thin remedy and took part in various games and contests. When we had all danced and played to our heart’s content we were served coffee and doughnuts. Then we went home, joyously proclaiming that Morey Hall’s first dance was a decided success. Miss Richards, fully realizing this, promised us more of these informal dances throughout this year and all succeeding years.

Senior Valentine Party

This party was a long time in coming but when we finally had it we certainly felt well repaid for our long wait. The Training School gymnasium was beautifully decorated with eupids, hearts and greenery. To get a good start we, teachers and all, played “Looby Loo,” “Three Deep” and other vigorous games. The next thing on the program was charades on the names of the faculty. Two sides, captained by Miss Shambaugh and Mrs. Johnston competed in guessing these charades. The last of the program was four valentine dances. The first of these was a valentine skeleton dance which proved almost fatal for the poor

skeletons as the lights went on at the wrong time. Then twelve little girls and boys came out of a big red heart and did a very pretty ribbon dance. George Washington and Martha danced the minuet for us very daintily. Then a little valentine “niggah”stepped out of the heart and into our hearts with a Dixie dance which we enjoyed very much. The little boys and girls, alias prospective teachers, served us delicious ice cream cones from big red hearts and then the party was over. Everyone certainly must have had a good time as we heard many people say that this party was the best one of the year.

M. MANNERUD.

The Circus

YOU missed a lot of fun if you didn’t go to the gymnasium on the twenty-eighth of March for the circus given by the Physical Education department. We had everything in our circus that you ever saw or heard of in a “really truly” one and a whole lot more. Just to mention a few things: there were side shows; a band that outplayed any band you ever heard, even the “Kilties;” and, oh yes the clowns, of course! Beside all that there was a rare exhibition of tumblers and several exhibition dances, among them an Indian dance, a Jockey dance, a quadrille and the most original clown dance you can imagine. There was a merry-go-round, too—-we mustn’t forget that—and who ever heard of a circus of any note without performing animals? Ours could do ’most anything from jumping through hoops and turning somersaults to playing leap frog.

After all this we were taken to the minstrel show and sure enough minstrels they were, too. How we did enjoy their clever little songs and jokes on the faculty!

The audience was made up largely of the Normal students who turned out in hundreds. However, a few ladies from the country came in just in time for the parade. Miss Gildemeister took this opportunity to bring her mother, Uncle Joe,and little Ellsworth and Gay. The children seemed especially delighted with the clowns and the peanut man.

Just by way of explanation, this circus was worked up by Miss Shambaugh in her gymnasium classes. She arranged the stunts so that all students in the department could take part which made the event particularly interesting and valuable. No costumes were used except the regulation gymnasium suits and masks and the complete make-up and “get-up” of the minstrels.

M. E. H.

Editorial

STUDENT S come to this school from all parts of the state to get the necessary training a good teacher can not afford to be without. From time to time new courses have been added to the lists of courses already given. When the war broke out the all important question how best to spend leisure time was brought to the attention of our great educators. All the athletic apparatus that could be collected was sent to our military training camps, as a partial answer to the question above. Through the use of this material and apparatus the boys not only learned how to play many athletic games but also learned the value of such games. Now the war is over and we are reconstructing our educational systems. The lessons learned in time of war are now being applied to our school system. This spring a new course, providing for specialization in athletics, was added to our curriculum. A few students interested in this work entered the new classes. Under the leadership of Mr. Dillon and Miss Shambaugh these students will get the very best training possible for this line of work. Next year the course will be fully established and many new and ambitious Juniors will enroll for this line of work.

Basketball 1918-1919

NEVER before in the history of athletics in Winona Normal school, did the prospects of a good basket-ball team look more “glum,” than this season. There were few men in school, but as Uncle Sam discharged his soldiers, old and new students began to come one by one. During the holidays Coach T. O. Dillon was discharged from the service. He once more took up his duties as athletic director and called a meeting ol all the men in the school. About eight men responded to the call. Coach Dillon and the men felt quite discouraged at the prospects, but they showed the same old fighting spirit which always marked the athletics of Winona Normal, and went to build a machine that would come up to the standard of former years. For a nucleus, Coach Dillon used Captain Baldwin, the only veteran of last season, and Robert Maxwell, a former high school star. Arrangements were made for four games in which we split fifty-fifty. The first game was with Eau Claire Normal at Eau Claire. We lost, the score being 42 to 24. The next game, which we won, was with Cotter High School in the Normal gym. The score was 19 to 18. The third game was with an “All Star” bunch, the “Ascensions.” This game, although a little rough, resulted 21 to 18 in our favor. The fourth and hardest fought game was a return game with Eau Claire; teamwork and speed on both sides were the features of the game. The score was 24 to 32 against us.

At the opening game the line-up was as follows: Capt. Baldwin, right-forward; Bambenek, left-forward; Alger, center; Werner, right-guard; Maxwell, left-guard. Later in the season Alger had to discontinue playing the game on account of outside occupations, so Capt. Baldwin took his place at center and Arthur Wacholz, a veteran of last season who had returned from the army took up the vacant post at right-forward. So out of a few men, Coach Dillon built a team of basket tossers, of about the usual standard of the school. To his tireless efforts and coaching we owe the success of our 1919 basket-ball team.

I he Make-up

Cecil Baldwin, Captain and Center.

To Cecil’s good leadership and fast playing we owe the winning of most of our games. More than once his never failing fighting spirit aroused his team-mates to do their best at the most important point of the game, Without doubt Cecil is in a class by himself when it comes to playing basketball. We hope to have him with us again next year.

Arthur Wachholz, Right-forward.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” This old worn quotation sure fills the bill when it comes to “Carp.” He came when he was most needed. The basketball fansheaved a sigh of relief when the well known form of “Carp” romped out on the floor. The coming of “Carp” no doubt saved the team.

Mike Bambenek, Left-forward.

Valuable “stuff” sure came in a small package, when “Mike” made his first appearance on the floor. “Mike” has never failed to “cage” a long shot when it was most needed. His playing will go down in the history of athletics in the Winona Normal.

Hugo Werner, Right-guard.

This is“Huck’s” first season at basketball, but the way he goes at it, you would think he was an old hand at the game. \\ hen our opponents came charging down the floor, they seemed to hit a stone wall when in the vicinity of “Hucks.” He mixed just enough of his football experience with his basketball to make the game interesting.

Robert Maxwell, Left-guard.

“Bob” is the little bunch of speed, who always breaks up our opponents’ plays, and brings the ball back within safe region. It is “Bob’s” team-work that makes the playing of the team like the work of so many “cogs” in a wheel. He seldom fails to get his two or three baskets each game. We look for him to be back next year.

Baseball 1918

WITH only a handful of men to start with, Coach Dillon opened Spring Athletics by making an urgent call for baseball enthusiasts, this being the first baseball team in the Normal school history. A diamond was resurrected on what has lately been the football field, and practice was held every evening.

The season opened with a game with the Cotter High nine. This contest gave us our first victory, and helped to arouse more interest in the team. Several new men were added, and then we traveled over to Faribault, and met the fast Shattuck Military school team of that city. We were handed a defeat in a royal fashion, and we left Shattuck feeling that we had met a team that really knew baseball. Cotter then played us a return game and we defeated them by a large score. Then St. Mary’s College turned the trick on us, and evened things up by beating us 12 to 3. This game will be remembered as the fifty-fifty game, for this closed our season, and left us with two wins and two defeats to our credit.

This season, although short, marks the revival of this sport in our school. Now that new students have been secured, it is hoped that the season of 1919 will be a boost to the athletics of Winona Normal.

Harold Prosser, Catcher.

As They Were

“Babe” holds the record of being the hardest hitter on the team. His work in the St. Mary’s game will be remembered, as it helped to hold the score down, immensely.

Ray Stahman, First-base.

Our lanky “Brew,” covered the initial sack, and pulled down the high ones with his trusty “cloud-hook.”

Earl Baker, Second-base.

If the big leagues saw “Bake” romp around the second pillow, he would have his future cut out for him. His fielding saved more than one run.

Hugo Werner, Pitcher.

“One, two, three, batter out!” That was “Huck’s” speed in every game. He was on the mound in all the games for the Purple and White. We hope to see him break into league ball in the near future.

Robert Stevens, Center-field.

When we needed a hit, “Bob” always got it. The way he could pick off Texas leaguers, was a marvel.

Bennet Morgan, Short-stop and Manager.

When it comes to pep and fast fielding “Ben” sure could deliver the goods. Although contending with injuries he managed to show us what a little pep and determination can do by becoming one of the best players on the team.

Ralph Calkins, Right-field.

“Calk’s” speed on the bases and agility in the pasture, brought him a great deal of recognition by the fans. He is a promising star for next season, and much interest is centered in his development.

George Arndt, Third-base.

That third is a very important post was proved several times by “Georgie.” Though small in stature he showed himself great in ability.

Arthur Sebo, Fielder.

Although a man with little previous experience “Art” showed quickness in learning. He used what he learned to advantage when he met the Germans in France.

Ignatius Kubricht, Left-field.

More than once while standing out among the daisies, “Iggie” was taken to be asleep, but proved himsell to be awake by being under the “pill” when it fell to the earth.

Claire Eischen.

Our baby elephant relieved Prosser as catcher, and helped the team materially.

Girls’ Athletics

Don’t they look like good times? And yet they show only a very small part of what we really do in gymnasium. Here are a few more:

BASKET BALL

You need only to turn to the pictures of the Junior and Senior teams to get an idea of what has geen done. There were three games held to determine the class championship for the year. The first was played February 7th and the Juniors got it on the Seniors 25 to 19! On February 14th the Seniors waked up a bit and made it a 25 to 20 score with the big end for their share. Imagine the anxiety when February 28th, the date of the final game, came around! Although this game was far from being a model for team work, the Seniors managed to shove their end of the score up to 17 against the Juniors 11, thus claiming the championship.

VOLLEY BALL

There was not as much made of this game as of basket-ball but several of the gymna- sium classes chose it to make a lively time of bothin the gymnasium and on the campus courts.

BASE BALL

This was a great lavorite among the fall and spring classes and several stars were discovered who stand as proof that baseball was not intended for the men of our school alone. Ellen Mehalek proved to be our biggest little player and how she can play!

SWIMMING

The pool perhaps, was after all the most popular place, for who doesn’t enjoy a good swim or even a cool “splash” alter a hard day’s work? A remarkable thing about the

Senior Basketball Team

Junior Basketball Team

swimming classes is that their members learn to swim in so short a time. Thanks to perseverance on the part of both Miss Shambaugh and the girls, at the end of the winter term all those registered in the classes, with the exception of three, could swim with some little skill. A swimming meet is to be held at the Y. W. C. A. as soon as the pool is available. Catherine Thompson, Gertrude Garrigan, Regina Teitenberg and Claire Reuter are expected to pull off some interesting stunts.

HOCKEY

Three games were played on the campus during the fall term. Were they worth while? Ask “the” hockey players, Willa Lockwood, Esther Nelson, or Mary Fitzgerald.

TENNIS

Practising against the wall! Who ever heard of that? Yet that is what the class shown above has been doing until the courts were in condition and we expect them to show us why at the tournament. We are soon to see the result of this great interest the girls took in keeping up their practice. During the fall Florence Elson, Leone Smith and CharIotte Thomas played especially good games and we expect them to help liven up the tournament.

TRACK

On your line! Get set! Yes, they were all ready to go when we caught them. Who can tell which one of them will be our first place girl at the meet? Two of the other pictures belong to the meet as well, with the javelin and basketball throws. These track events were new to many of the students but here, too, people of remarkable ability came to the front. Who would have thought that she could run like that?

DANCING

The girls above doing that graceful balance stunt represent the Indian dancers at the circus. It shows something of what dancing in the gymnasium can be. Beside the dancing as regular class work, there was a special class for those interested in interpretative dancing. The members of this class assisted at many of the social functions of the year and will furnish the dancing for the class play.

At some time during the spring term the class will give an out-of-door program. They will present such interpretative dances as “Nature Studies of Seroba” including “Dawn,” “Birds Awake,” “Shepherds Pipe,” Daisy Chain” and “Sunset.”

HIKING

How can I ever walk seventy-five miles? That was the common cry among the girls. But we all wanted our monograms and we needed the points. That’s why we hiked at first. Who knows how far it is to Lewiston? Guaranteed answer: “Eighteen miles, and there’s a five-thirty train back.”

W. B. A. A.

The Women’s Branch of the Athletic Association is no longer a mere lengthy appella- tion. We’re up and doing this year. The association was organized in the fall with Claire Reuter, president; Ruth Nystrom, vice president; Anna Aske, secretary; and Romana Thoeni, treasurer. It was decided that instead of paying dues each member should be required to earn fifty points toward her monogram before entering the ranks. Because of the reorganization each Senior was awarded the points required for her membership. The girls are steadily working toward the hundred point goal and the monogram.

Our 1918-1919 Graduates

DURING the year beginning September 3, 1918 and ending July 25, 1919, the Winona Normal School expects to have graduated from the various departments of the school somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred forty or fifty graduates, fitted to teach in the schools of this state. By the close of this year in July, diplomas will have been granted on seven different occasions.

The first class to be graduated this year was a class of five, namely: Oda Dreblow, Frances Hutchinson, Mary Quigley, Dorothy Shenvood and Anna Uglum. The exercises were held on Friday evening, November 28, 1918, in the Normal School Assembly Hall. The music was furnished by the Normal School Chorus under the leadership of Mrs. Johnston. Superintendent S. S. Hartwell of St. Paul, gave the address of the evening on, “The Present Trend In Education.” Director Somsen presented diplomas.

Two more occasions upon which diplomas were presented were on the graduation of Miss Margueretta Reynolds, on Friday before school was closed for the Christmas holidays, and the graduation of Miss Pauline Lemme, on Friday which marked the middle of the w inter term, January 24, 1919. President Maxwell presented both diplomas in the presence of the Normal School faculty and students.

The Graduation exercises forthe close of the winter term were held in the Assembly Room of the Normal School on Thursday evening March 7, 1919. The program was unlike any program at our previous graduation exercises. This implies that it was unusual It was. It was also exceedingly interesting and instructive to all. The program consisted of a symposium review of the N. E. A. held at Chicago. President Maxwell, Mr. Gaylord, Miss Sutherland, Miss Gildemeister, Mr. Lowry, Miss Trites, Mr. Reed, and Miss Richards each brought to the gathering a brief, concise, worthwhile review of some of the outstanding addresses given at the convention. All of the reports focused in one idea, the idea that the teaching profession is growing so that one needs adequate preparation to teach. The Mendelssohn Club assisted by Miss Potter, and the Normal school Quartette, furnished the music for the evening. The music was exceptionally fine and made us realize that we need not go outside our school for musical talent on special occasions. President Maxwell presented twelve diplomas at this time. They went t©: Stella Adams, Florence Bruns, Alma Churchill, Viola Dahl, Hazel Deyling, Florence Fellows, Adelaide Gallagher, Mary Healey, Frances Hurlburt, Alberta Johnson, Ruth Nystrom and Margaret Robb.

Another mid-term graduation took place at the middle of the spring term in April. M iss Alice Baehr and Airs. Ward completed their work at the Normal School at this time with as much respect and ceremony as if a class of fifty had been graduating.

By farthe largest part of the class expects to finish in June, though a goodly number will finish at the close of summer school in July. For the names of these turn to the pictures in the front of the book.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WE ARE GRADUATED

WHEN the curtain “goes up” at the Opera House, on the afternoon of June 6, 1919, you’ll see us sitting there in straight rows, looking as teachers ought to look. We’ll all be ill at ease, except those who have been too well at “E’s” and they won’t spoil the effect because they will have to stay at home. Everybody will be all fixed up with flowers and everything and you will be saying: “How well Miss looks;” “Why there’s Miss ! She’ll never make a teacher;” Isn’t it too bad Miss hasn’t white shoes; she is the only one wearing black ones.” Then the piano will begin to play and Mrs. Johnston will stand before us smiling her best smile. We will sing just beautifully. Then Mr. Maxwell will introduce the speaker. He will make a fine speech saying many pleasant things about us and the way the teachers are making the world go around. We will applaud enthusiastically and then look over to the seats being occupied by our relatives to see if they look as if they are proud of us. Then Mr. Somsen will say, “I congra- tulate you upon having earned these diplomas It. makes me happy to present them to you.” Then we will have to pay close attention because our names will be read and it will be extremely important that we recognize the pronunciation of them. At last will come the benediction; our own hearts will be most thankful. Then Commencement will be over and there will not be one among us who is not ready to commence.

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Things That Never Happen

Mrs. Chorpenning foolish and giddy.

Every Morey Hall girl having a date.

Ralph Calkins without a violent crush.

No soup on Sunday night.

Mary Healv in a grouch.

Henry not talking to the girls.

Bedroom slippers and breakfast caps in the Morey Hall dining room.

Morey Hall girls sneaking a night’s rest at West Lodge.

The store during study hours without a Normal Light.

Absolute quiet on third.

Florence Elson losing sight of Miss Slifer.

Marjorie Butler getting triple D in teaching.

Elsie getting enough to eat.

Herb Ed not strutting.

Carlton Alger looking intelligent.

AnnaBloom in jake with Miss Richards.

Alma Kegel not dolled up.

Mr. Maxwell dancing.

Mr. Moore singing the hymns.

Mildred H. and Helen F. to breakfast on time.

Popular Song Hits

“My Lover He Comes on a Skii” Bernice Hills.

“If I Only Had a Beau How Good To Him I’d Be.” Ida Mae Chance.

“Home Sweet Home.” Leone Smith.

“I’ll Say She Does.” Muriel Miller.

“Till We Meet Again.” Helen Lawrence.

“Smiles.” Gert Garrigan.

“She’s the Greatest Mother of All.” Erdine Ward.

“Sweet Little Buttercup.” Evelyn Eldred.

“Mary.” Miss Slifer.

“Pa O’ Mine.” Mabel Fairbanks and Ruth Carlson.

“Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye.” Seniors.

“Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You.” Faculty.

“For My Boy And Your Boy.” D. D’s.

“I Ain’t Got Weary Yet.” Mary Fitzgerald.

“Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms.” Florence Beissel.

“Love’s Old Sweet Song.” Gladys Bender.

“When Dreams Come True.” Margaret Wagenhals.

“The Boys I Left Behind Me.” Charlotte Thomas.

Winona State Normal School

Established 1859 4500 Graduates

A Teachers’ Junior College

Offers courses for Teaching Positions

Liberal Culture

Supervision, General and Special Transfer to University or Professional School

Equipment the Best Social Life Helpful Activities Varied

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The Ideal Girl must have—

Martha Seeling’s dignity.

Mildred Harder’s winning ways.

Agnes Steele’s artistic ability.

Alice Baehr’s accommodating manners.

Esther Nelson’s teaching ability.

Erdine Ward’s common sense.

Hazel Bard’s sense of humor.

Blanche Hellickson’s eyes.

Eeone Smith’s nose.

Jeanette La France’s voice.

Lucile Scanlan’s wit.

Dorothy Youngman’s grace.

Gail Powell’s executive ability.

Mary Fitzgerald’s disposition.

Anna Bloom’s coquettishness.

Florence Beissel’s line of talk.

Mil Mannerud’s style.

Florence Elson’s hair.

Glady’s Bender’s ability to play the like.

Dorothy Coe’s ability to bluff.

Bob Maxwell’s blushes.

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MYSTERIES ABOUT SCHOOL.

Dorothy Coe’s marks.

Miss Richard’s age.

Who sings so loud in chapel.

M rs. Johnston’s ties.

Why all of the girls like to take the fellows to church on Sunday nights.

Who belongs to that brown suit.

Whose sheepskin Blanche wears.

The chapel bell had rung,

The hymn had been sung.

But still no leader there in sight

It gave us such an awful fright

When all of a sudden our President came

We knew not then who was to blame.

And Miss Gildemeister came in the rear

So we had nothing further to fear.

We waited to hear some voice boom— “Will you kindly withdraw fromthe room?”

But rules and regulations with authority

It seems do not apply to the Faculty.

’Tis wrong lor any maid to be abroad at night alone, A chaperon she needs until she can call some ehap-her-own.

“Multiplication is vexation Algebra is as bad. Geography perplexes me, And History drives me mad.”

CLASS WILL.

We the Seniors bequeath to the Juniors:

1. Our tender sympathies in their trials and the consoling thought that they will sometime become Seniors.

2. To the Critic Teachers—the reminder that the quality of critic classes depends upon the food served at noon.

3. To Mrs. Chorpenning—a year’s rest, so that the students can catch up with her.

4. To Miss Shambaugh—an automatic gym class.

5. To Mr. Maxwell—we leave a most sincere wish that he can some time afford a new set of hymn books.

6. To Miss Richards—the memory of our sweet, quiet, and retiring ways.

M rs. Johnston—-“A maid must not expect such lovers as she finds in books. Few men are paragons.”

Bernice knopp—“Oh, I should not expect a paragon. I’ll be satisfied with a lover, handsome, brave, noble, and selfish.”

Miss Shambaugh—-“At ease!” Student—“I’m always that way.”

DR. HOLDEN’S DRUG STORE

:$ Nearest place for Students’ Supplies, Drugs, and Stationery :$

Phone

SPORTING

am back from the army and my studio is open and at your service.

Better Merchandise for Less Money

H. Choate & Co.

“THE HOME OF C OOD MERCHANDISE”

All That is New— Always Here First

YOU CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER AT CHOATES

Our New Suits—Coats—Capes—Dresses—Skirts, etc., are exclusiveand distinctive—styles—fabrics and charm of color all are in keeping witr the ideals of the H. Choate & Co.—To be Aheadand keep Ahead is our Aim.

FEATURING AND SPECIALIZING

SILKS—Strictly High Grade Silks—Black and colors—Plain and Fancy—at lowest possible price.

DRESS GOODS—In allthe very latest weaves and colorings, expensive prices. Our Motto—Exclusive Styles—but not exclusive nor

NECKWEAR

Constantly showing exclusive and original styles at moderate prices.

GLOVES

Imported and Domestic Finest French Kid as well as Silk and Fabric Gloves always here in correct sizes and colors.

MILLINERY—Our stock has been gathered with the view of giving your individual taste and preferences the widest possible latitude.

UNDERWEAR—For Men—Women and Children in every wanted weight—color—size and style.

TOILET GOODS—Everything in Toilet Goods that’s good— you will find here—Perfumes—Powders—Creams—Soaps—Toilet Water, etc.

RUGS AND DRAPERIES

Featuring the Famous Whittall Rugs—the Oriental Rug of America. Draperies an unusual large showing of all that is new—Draperies and Window Shades made to order.

HOSIERY Always something N e w— Pure Silk—Silk Lisle and Cotton for Men—• Women and Children.

LINENS

Only reliable and dependable linens sold here at no more in price than the common kind.

WASH GOODS

You will always find here fashion’s most select and favorite styles in Imported and Domestic Wash Goods and White Goods.

CAMERAS AND KODAKS

THE BEST IN THE WORLD

ANSCO and EASTMAN. Both are good and both have their friends, so we sell both kinds, from the tiny Brownie with its picture l 3^ x 234 inches, up to the Beautiful ANSCO DeLUXE taking a picture 334 x 534 inches. We also have film for every size both Eastman and Ansco and if you do your own finishing we have the paper and chemicals best suited to your needs.

Yes, we will do your finishing if you wish.

THE WILLIAMS BOOK STORE OF WINONA

Master Service

THAT IS WHAT YOU GET when you bring your garments to us. We have everthing possible in the way of equipment, and knowledge, and employees, and we are jealous of the good reputation we have already established.

8chafkm CLEANING WORK*

Master Cleaners and Dyers

Phone 1492-J

70 East Fourth Street

Lives of Seniors all remind us, We should strive to do our best, And departing leave behind us, Note books that will help the rest.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead

Who never to himsell has said, As he stubbed his toe against the bed, I ! f ?? ?

Practise Teacher—-“What are the different varieties of beans?’’

Pupil—-“I don’t know.”

P. Teacher—-“Don’t you know beans?’

He met her in the evening

When the sun was setting low; They walked along together In the twilight afterglow; She waited until gently

He had lowered all the bars

Her soft eyes bent upon him, As radiant as the stars; She neither smiled nor thanked him, In truth she knew not how For he was just a farmer’s lad, And she—a Jersey Cow.

Telephone

PALACE OF SWEETS

CHARLES KRATZ, Prop.

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FULL OF GINGER. Johnny had a little dog, And Ginger was his name, He got hit by an auto car, Which made him kind of lame. “Will he bite?” a stranger asked, And Johnny said, “Perhaps, You see sometimes lie’s gentle, But sometimes “Ginger snaps.”

WHOSE? ?

The Editor, at annual staff meeting— “Don’t you think so. Bob? Hey, Bob! Wake up!”

Bob, startled—“Huh? WJiat’s that?

Editor—“What do you think?”

Bob—“I—l didn’t hear, I was (dreamily) thinking about Cedar Chests.”

HEARD IN MOREY HALL DINING ROOM.

Curious Junior—“Can any of you give me a scientific reason for this troco melting?”

Logical Senior—“The vibration of the molecules.”

NOTICE

I wish to announce that I have purchased the studio of Arthur E. Dobbs and will continue to run it under the name of the DOBBS STUDIO. We will always endeavor to maintain the high quality of work and prompt service for which this studio is noted.

We will appreciate your patronage.

Chas. W. Lindsay

H. B. KLINE ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES

1. Honor thy instructors that they may mark high on thy report card.

2. Thou shalt not work all the time, lor thy head will wax gray.

3. Thou shalt not try to make thy brother laugh while he reciteth.

4. Thou shalt not chew gum in the schoolroom.

5. Thou shalt not whisper, for Mr. Maxwell will hear thee.

6. Thou shalt not be discouraged when a red mark appears on thy paper, for that ink costs more.

7. Thou shalt not take the names oi thy instructors in vain.

8. Thou shalt not help thyself to things which belong to others.

170 MAIN STREET Telephone 614-J

9. Thou shalt not sleep in the class room.

10. Thou shalt not exhibit childish habits before thy instructors.

Make a Cedar Chest

Cedar wood was known for its beauty, magnificance, and longevity before the Greek and Romans Civilization. The Cedar tree is often mentioned in the Scriptures and the marvelous woodwork of Solomon’s Temple was made from this aromatic wood. The images or gods of the ancient tribes were made of cedar— and cedrium, or oil of cedar was used in the embalming of their dead. All through the ages cedar has been known as a remarkable preservative; our ancestors knew its value and cedar chests built over a century ago are among the prized heirlooms of the world. This same Cedar, “Juniperus Virginiana” or genuine Tennessee Red Cedar, is used in making cedar chests. The e are many kinds of cedar, but the only moth repelling cedar comes from the southern mountains-—Tennessee Red Cedar. As a birthday present; an anniversary or graduation gift—or a holiday remembrance, nothing could be more appropriate. The giver will ever be held in grateful remembrance. Make your mother, sister or sweetheart happy with a pretty Cedar Chest. We carry genuine Tennessee Red Cedar in toek and can work same to your specifications.

PSALM OF SCHOOL LIFE FOR THE JUNIOR.

Tell us not In mournful numbers

That you flunked in Music I, That you got an E in History, And that Normal “ain’t no fun.” Work for A’s and strive for honors; Don’t let red E’s be your goal. “D” if good enough for Juniors

W ill bring sorrow to your soul. Rouse ye up then and be doing, Seeking highest honors due, You will ne’er regret the effort, When with school life you are through. —A Senior.

Dear Dad—“Why are you so far behind in your studies?”

Fair daughter “So I can pursue them better.”

As Shakespeare said, when he was facing the bold, bad lion, “AH is not cold that shivers.”

W hy is Blanche like a bandage?

Because Calk is all wrapped up in her.

The Bradley Quality Books

Buy your Shoes at the Huff St. Store. Save a dollar or two. Also Shoe Repairing; good work and quick service.

Bring your shoes to-day.

Thomas Charles Company

To the Winona Normal Students:

We take this opportunity to thank you for the patronage you have extended to us. Also to assure you, should you at some future time desire anything in the photographic line, we will be pleased to serve you.

Even tho you leave our city, we will be pleased to receive your orders thru the mail, as we have a large list of mail order customers, especially in developing and printing KODAK FILM, also enlarging, framing and copying, it will certainly pay you, as well as your out of town friends to write for our prices.

Yours very respectfully,

J. I. Van Vranken,

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Snore, and you sleep alone.

Laugh and the school laughs with you, Study and you’re left alone.

The D. L. Auld Company

195-197 East Long Street

Columbus, Ohio

CLASS RINGS CLASS PINS

Engraved Commencement Invitations, Calling Cards and Announcements.

SATISFACTION ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED

As they skated they looked at the stars, There were a million or more; Their heels flew up and they observed A few they had not seen before.

To obtain the wished for results always follow these rules:

I. When you know your lesson

1. Never pay attention.

2. Never volunteer.

3. Never let on you know anything. Results: You will make a perfect recitation when called upon.

II. When you don’t know your lesson.

1. Always look wise and attentive.

2. Always appear studious.

3. Always pretend that you were just going to say what the others said.

4. Always keep from whispering.

5. Always look your teacher straight in the eye.

Results: You will be left in peace.

The Photographer, Winona, Minnesota.

Hardt Cjift Shop

For those unusual and Attractive of All Kinds

Our Picture Framing is a credit where REAL ART is appreciated

Wm.

Katherine Doran to Miss Grant—• “May I take the Reader’s Guide out?”

Carbolic acid means goodbye in any language.

Visitor—“What work do you do here?’’

Student—“As little as possible.”

Miss Shambaugh—“Girls in feeble health should take a tramp in the woods and fields every day.”

Student—“What if the tramp should object?”

If ignorance were bliss 9-10 ol us would be so happy around test time we’d choke.

“Why are our soldiers in Europe called dough boys?”

“Why! Our Secretary ol War is a Baker.”

To the Faculty in general and to those who have not been otherwise mentioned in particular we leave the sincere hope that you will remain the noble men and women that you are. 79

The Williams Co.

Smartness, variety and moderate prices are embodied in the individual garments shown here; something different arrives every day.

We invite inspection.

Royal Confectionery

HIGH GRADE CANDIES AND DELICIOUS ICE CREAM SELECTED CALIFORNIA FRUITS

Theodore B. Tsatsos & Bros.

THE CURRENT EVENTS EXAM IN CHAPEL.

—Question—-“What are Bolsheviki?”

Answer—“Long Live Belgium.”

Mr. Moore—“Why don’t we have to import dyes anymore.

Mary F. C.—“Because now we are dying ourselves.”

Question—“Why is Morey Hall like a Ford?”

Answer—“Because the screws are eternally needing tightening.”

Wanted: A Man—Alma Kegel.

Oxfords and Pumps

In

Wanted: Peace and quiet at the staff meetings.

A. B.—“Aren’t we ever going to court, Mr. Moore?”

Mr. Moore—“Mercy! I don’t know. Let me see! Next year is leap year—we may get a chance.”

Looking over the students of this year it will be plainly seen that the size of the body is not always in accordance with the gray matter of the brain.

FUTURE CELEBRITIES.

Hazel Bard—in Woodrow Wilson’s shoes.

Nora Kroning—a ballet dancer.

Doritha Ferris—a noted cartoonist.

Gail Powell—seafarer.

Katherine Thompson—at the head ol the Winona Kindergarten.

Olga Thonvold—Mrs. Herman.

Lucile Scanlan—vodvil star.

Bessie Preston—a gym teacher.

Hazel Deyling—a minister’s wife.

Clara Kuzel—successor to Emmaline Pankhurst.

Katherine Hilliard—-a small town belle.

Grace Norgaard—Dean of Women at Morey Hall.

Theorem—-A poor lesson is better than a good one.

Proof—Nothing is better than a good lesson. (Faculty)

A poor lesson is better than nothing. (Students) Therefore a poor lesson is better than a good lesson.

Late to bed and late to rise Makes a Junior rather unwise.

We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our milk and cream station to see our up-to-date equipment for handling the greatest and most important of human foods

There are none in the state more thoroughly equipped.

Bay State Milling Co.

MANUFACTURERS

HARD SPRING WHEAT FLOUR

RYE & CORN PRODUCTS

Daily Capacity 6000 Barrels

Winona, Minnesota

The Intrinsic ValueofOur Sterling Novelties Makes Them Ideal Gifts.

The variety of our stock assures easy and appropriate selections for man, woman and child. Hundreds of unique and new ideas enable any one to make a quality gift at an economy expenditure. You’ll find the service as pleasing as the merchandise.

The Gift Shop

G. B. STAGER

Here’s to the Faculty! Long may they strive To make the students happy, Noble and wise.

Dark street, Banana Peel, Fat man, Virginia Reel.

Jokes in other books remind us

We may have some stale ones too; But il you all do not contribute, What can the editors do?

The Annual Staff wishes that all jokes be handed in on tissue paper so that the editors can see thru them.

A school Annual is a great invention, The school gets all the fame, The printer gets all the money, And the stall gets all the blame.

Teacher—“Give Newton’s law of motion.”

Pupil—“Every little movement has a meaning all its own.”

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

and Let Us Say It For You

Seasonable Flowers always in stock and arranged for any occasion at reasonable prices by WINONA FLORAL CO.

Store 176 Main Street, Opposite P. O. West End Greenhouses

The world is old, but it likes to laugh, New jokes are hard to find A whole new editorial staff Can’t tickle every mind. So if you find an ancient joke Dressed in a modern guise, Don’t frown and give the thing a poke, Just laugh, don’t be too wise.

Some of us would like to know if the following loined the hikers club for these reasons:

1. Grace Norgaard—to get short.

2. Clara Kuzel—to get tall.

3. Esther Ross—to get thin.

4. Ella Schuman—to use up surplus energy.

5. Amy Kelm—to use up her giggles.

Fond Parents, looking over Normal school catalogue “History of Eden, they teach that, do they? I didn’t know Eden had enough history to be of use to school teachers.”

Moral—The Catalogue should not abbreviate Education thus: “Eden.”

WHO IS HE GIRLS?

Olga Thonvold—“Why, Frances Yany, you may have him tonight but I must have him Friday night.

Miss Shambaugh—“What are you doing, class, learning something?” Bright Student—“No just listening to you.”

I thank you for the use of your annual as propaganda to prove that all Americans are crazy. Kaiser Bill.

Mr. Moore—Miss Bloom, what is the difference between a want, utility, price, and value?” Miss Bloom—“Oh, have a heart, I didn’t prepare for a test this morning.”

Mr. Maxwell—“Were you talking while I was lecturing this morning?” Student—“Oh, no, I never talk in my sleep.”

The Emporium

63 West Third Street Winona, Minn.

T)ry Goods, Specialties and Millinery

The store where values reign supreme

Let us demonstrate our ability to save you money

MOW TO WORK YOUR WAY THRU NORMAL

“Oh, gimme a bite.”

“Lend me a dime.”

“Got any change? I haven’t had my check cashed.”

“Lend me some paper, I left my notebook at home.”

FOUND:

In the alcove on Second at Morey Hall, an alarm clock bellowing unusually loud and long about midnight during the last part of February. Owner may have same by proving property and paying for this ad at the “office.”

MRS. JOHNSTON’S CHORUS.

“The sopranos were a little off on that last part—‘Were they deaf that they did not hear’—Go on.”

IN CIVICS CLASS.

Mr. Moore—“Which county officer issues marriage licences?”

Brilliant Senior—-“The Register ol Deeds.”

WhitforcTs Confectionery

We Serve Dainty Luncheons and Teas Picnic Lunches Prepared Home Made lee Cream Cones a Specialty. Full Line of Chocolates and Cigars

Remember “The Corner Store

Corner King and Huff .Streets

He—“When I was quite a child, you know, I was told if 1 didn’t stop smoking 1 would become feeble minded.”

SCHULER’S BAKERY

She—“Well, why didn’t you stop?”

Senior to Junior “Does Miss Richards know you are out?”

Junior—“\es, and she gave me a penny to buy a monkey with. Arc you for sale?” Ouch! ? ! \ ! !

Junior—“Where do you get your rolls and cakes for the spreads or lunches?’’

Senior—“Oh, at Schulers, of course! All of their bread and confections are delicious.”

E. S. to a Senior passing the Normal Building the first night in Winona, “What Church is this?”

Miss Richards—-“Girls, don’t go to the “Dairy”after the dance.”

Morey Hallite—“What’s the matter, have they gone out of business?”

Mr. Munson—“What does the formula II2SO4 stand for?”

Student—“Two hits and sent out four times. Phone 23

THE INTER-STATE “A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE”

OUR POLICY -

Is to treat our customers as we would like to be treated. In other words to give every one a square deal.

OUR MERCHANDISE

In every instance at the price offered, Interstate Merchandise should be good value. We do not intend to sell one single item to any one, not worth the money. Consequently people say the Interstate is a good place to trade and we solicit vour trade on the above basis.

The Inter-State Mercantile Co.

Distributors of Fine Merchandise.

Shoe Repair Shop

Bring us your shoes. We mend them quickly and well.

A. M. BARD

Next to Holden’s Drug Store

Guess who these are—

1. The twins.

2. The girl with Stewart C.

3. The Senior tango dancer, lately appcaring on the stage.

4. The smallest Junior.

6. The stoutest Senior.

7- The proud fatherand popularteacher.

8. The Student soon to be “Mrs.”

9. The most graceful teacher.

10. The busiest Senior of our class.

11. The teacher who can answer most Cjuestions.

12. Theluckiest person in school. FOR

FAMILIAR SAVINGS ABOUT THE 15th OF EACH MONTH.

Junior writing home—“How clo you spell financially?”

Roommate—'“F-i-n-a-n-c-i-a-I-I-y and embarrassed has two r’s.”

Oh Boy! if there ever is a time when your heart Hies up and your spirits go down it is the time when you get your wonderful pink slip at the beginning of the new term.

Sr.—“I see you are mentioned in one ol the books just published.”

Jr.—“Indeed! What book?”

Sr.—“The Directory.”

A soldier on boat and sea sick, was just about to lean over board when he saw the sign, ‘Food will win the War— Don’t waste it.’

Landlady—“I’m afraid the bed is not long enough lor you.”

L. C.—“Never mind, I’ll add two more feet to it when I get in.”

The Leicht Press

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Winona, Minn.

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