and we are proud to say that there are no slackers, for everyone finds the work very interesting. A few pupils are sent to the board each day, and our night work is corrected. The lesson for the following day is assigned and explained. Then teacher and pupils hold a conversation in French. At the present time this language seems to be very important both in and out of school; so indeed we are glad that we have the opportunity to study it. THE LATIMER AND IRWIN HI-Y CLUB Members of the Hi-Y Club should please read the suggestions on how to kill your association. I. If you do come- come late. 2. If the weather is too wet or too dry, too hot or too cold, . don't think of coming. 3. Complain if you are not appointed to a committee; if you are appointed, never attend any committee meetings. 4. Don't have anything to say when you are called on. 5. If you do attend a meeting, find fault with the proceedings and the work done by other members. 6. Hold back your dues or don't pay them at all. 7. Never bring or solicit a friend who you think might join the association. 8. Don't do anything more to further the interest of the association than you can possibly help; then when a few really get to work and do things, howl that the association is run by a clique. Some time ago Mr. Joseph Breck, Director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, submitted a list of questions to be answered by the pupils of the eighth grades. Mr. Breck's purpose was to determine how much the average eighth-grade pupil knew about art. Below is given a list of the questions. We ask you, our reader, to consider them carefully, and answer them without any opportunity to prepare yourself, as the pupils of the eighth grade had to do. 1. What is art? 2. Name all the different kinds of art you can. 3. Which do you like best, architecture, sculpture, or painting? THE AUCTION "Ten dollars for this beautiful picture of Mrs. Wilkins!" shouted Archie Keller. "Who will give eleven dollars? Eleven dollars, make it twelve; going, going, gone to the little brunette with the blue dress. Here's a picture of the janitor. Going for twenty dollars! Who will give me twenty-one? Make it twentytwo; who said fifty? Who will give me fifty-one? Going, going, gone for fifty-five dollars to the girl with the green goggles! Here's a box of candy. I will sell it for fifty cents! Who said five dollars? Make it six. Who will give me ten? Who said fifteen? Going, going, gone to the gentleman with the red freckles and the green necktie." Archie was the auctioneer. The auction was given for the boys of F Room and the girls of I Room for having the best lines in marching. The articles for sale were wrapped up so that nobody knew what he was buying with his valuable paper money. Clinton Stanley paid fifty-five dollars for a doll's dress, David Kemp almost as much for a doll's muff. I myself received a baby doll. There were pictures of Indians, little books of poems, and many other things. Everybody enjoyed the auction, and all were glad they had had good lines in marching. CRYPTOGRAM Solve the cryptogram on page 217 and receive reward. A flag indicates the end of a word. IN LIGHTER VEIN A Pittsburgh lady visiting in Georgia needed some hair curlers. She stopped at a store one morning, and when the smiling young clerk came up to her, asked to see some kid rollers. The boy seemed perplexed for a second, but he finally hurried off and returned wheeling a baby carriage. An agent, approach if it i approachi ing a house, met a little boy at the gate and asked," Is your mother at home?" "Yes, sir," said the boy politely. The agent walked across the long lawn. After rapping several times without receiving an answer, he returned to the boy and said, “ I thought you said your mother was at home." "Yes, sir, she is," replied the boy. "But I have rapped several times without receiving an answer." ९९ That may be, sir," said the boy. "I don't live here." Last spring in a home where baseball was an everyday topic of conversation, in which the wee daughter took no part, she once remarked, "Daddy, why don't you ever take me to a ball game?" "Why, Gladys, you would not understand it," the father replied. "Why?" said Gladys. "Do they talk Swede?" Hey, Mike, don't come down on that ladder on the north corner. I took it away." One of the most encouraging things about our new army is the humor with which it bears its hardships and the wit with which it describes them. Who could help liking that boy in one of the training camps who says he has so many blankets on his bed that he is obliged to use a bookmark to know where to get in? A NEW SORT OF GEOGRAPHY How much did Philadelphia Pa.? How many eggs could New Orleans La. ? Whose grass did Joplin Mo.? What made Chicago Ill. ? You call Minneapolis Minn. I bet Topeka Kan. EXERCISE 3 EDITING AND PROOFREADING A. The standard of literary quality and of good form should be high in any school paper. If you were editor would you accept for publication either of the themes reproduced here? What suggestions for improvement in arrangement, paragraphing, or wording would you give the writers? Find every mistake in grammar, punctuation, and spelling; tell what correction should be made, and why. THE TABLES TURNED We went out on a gost parade one evening without notifying the family of our absents, for we knew if they were aware of the fact the gosts would not appear, our avenues were to be in the negro's quarters on the plantation, as negros are deathly afraid of gost and realy do believe in them, every thing went well and we reached our destination with out mishap and was having a glorious time. had every dog in the neighborhood barking and I suppose we had pitched our tones, but every thing was going most successfully when an uninvited goast appeared upon the seane in the person of my grandfather with out a mask and we all decided on the same thing at the same time, and I will assure you a large double sheet tied on with tails hanging in every direction was never ment for a racing coustome but we made good time even though we were side tracked in a few ditches on the way. MY FIRST AUTOMOBILE "It was in the summer of 1906 that I met my first automobile " Isaid the old horse to the little colt. ९९ If you will listen I will tell you about it" continued the old horse and then commenced : I quite a young colt then had been playing in the fields all day long, and when evening came was not a bit tired. It was about dusk when my master caught me and hitched me to a light buggy. We started off doun the road at a lively gait for I was feeling fine. We had gone about a quarter of a mile when around the corner came a great roaring horse-eating monster. The fire seemed to shoot out of its two great eyes while it roared and snorted as it approached me. I thought my time had come and I kicked and plunged and snorted and tried to get away from the buggy so I could run but all was of no avail, for I was fasten to the buggy and I knew better than to run with it. Finally this great roaring monster came to a standstill its roaring and snorting ceased and my master laid the whip to me as I dashed madly past. While the monster fled swiftly down the road. This was my first automobile." B. Often after an article, or even a book, gets into print the author is astonished and distressed to discover some |