New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-06-16
CLASS PROPHECY.
By Isabella Maud Stewart, New Iberia High
School Graduate, Glass of 1900

By Isabella Maud Stewart, New Iberia High
School Graduate, Glass of 1900.
On one balmy summer evening, l was
seized with an irresistible desire to wan
der forth across the fields and thro' the
pleasant valleys. It was one of those calm
peaceful evenings when even the birds
sang in a softer tone as if they too were
enjoying the quiet and were both to dis
turb the solitude that prevailed. The
butter cups and daisies, the ornaments
with which nature had adorned the fields
of green, nodded their heads and softly
whispered one to another. The breezes
gently rubbed the leaves of the solemn
oaks that spread their gigantic arms out
as if to protect anything that should hap
pen to stray beneath them, and all nature
seemed in harmony with my feelings.
On, on wandered, my thoughts running
so deep that paid no attention to the
surroundings, nor the distance I had travel
ed. At last becoming weary with my
journey seated myself upon a moss COW
cred log. Here gave vent to my feeling
by exclaiming. "Oh, that one might
know the future" Then l heard a
strange voice at my shoulder saw. Who
art thou rash child that thou should want
to know thy futuref Is it not enough that
thou knowest the present and pasti But
still by some simple question thou might ask
could tell thee what thou longest to know.
On turning beheld a queer little woman
who was quantity clad, and whose face
and hands were thin and wrinkled. "Good
friend! exclaimed, "If thou will wish
thou would tell me of our class" "Take this
and read it for one hour" So saying she
took from the folds of her dress and placed
in my hand volume of strange appear
ance, the very touch of which filled me
with awe. The color was a soft grey like
that of the moss which drapped the spread
ing trees around me. On the cover, inter-
woven with green vines, was written in
gilt letters. "Glimpses of The Future"
Anxious to see what the future held in
store for us, eagerly opened the book
intending to read from the beginning as
far as could within the limited time. As
the leaves rapidly turned 1 caught
q glimpse Of 1.-THE Class of '99." Gladly
would have stopped and read, but the
leaves as il by magic kept turning, SO
waited, knowing that If there were an
other class it would be ''The Glass of 1900"
Yes there was another class and the
s1VON ASsAAoAAoN "AoC VpCuVu ut tudt ptdCc.
There written out before me were the
paths through which we are to tread.
How clearly did it picture each one. 1t
was as If one were looking at large pic
ture the beauty, of which surpassed that
Of the most skillful of workmanship. You
could almost imagine you heard the mur-
muir of busy voices in the school, the |
twittering of birds, the songs of the work
men in the field, the hustle and din of |
town, and the merry laugh and talk Of the
tourist as they gaze upon some lofty noun |
tain or scaled their rocky heights.
The first career that was mapped out in |
this little book of prophecy was that of the |
Lille Of the class She will see her cherished |
hope gratiiied for she is to be . teacher.
II we were to visit her in the future we /
would find her in q pleasant country
school, Of which she knows so little now,
where the cool breezes sigh among the |