El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-28
Graduate

new tan shoes squeaklng
prelude to his chronicle.
chosen to his office as TIL
In the class. He touches a
events-as, for instance,
two years back when every
academy brought in liv|
school, and simultaneously
loose during morning prave
end of his address the histo
fies his hearers by a poetica
lit is rumored about that hi
ter wrote it, which runs thur
The Classes come, and the
Through summer heat and vii
But the best of Glasses known
Is our Class-the Class of 1910y
The applause which ensues 4
drown out the pedal creaking
follows him across the platform.
Next comes the statistician, and
boy, short plump, twinkle eyed. At II
he touches only matter of fact pointsN
average age, height, weight. But sooh
he comes to data of vital interest for
which the school is waiting; the name
OF the boy who wears the largest shoe
and the girl who wears the smallest
the number of girls who chew gum: the
boy who has the biggest hat, and SO on
Music next. Two young girls-under-
classmen, for whom this is the sole bit
of distinction tonight-go to the piano
and thump out the Military Polonaise
as an accompaniment to the talk that
fills the hall The audience, delighted,
demands an encore. The girls hesitate,
then return to the piano, and, accord
ing to the unwritten canons of such an
occasion, play an encore longer than the
fiIst.-NO, it isn't Poet and Peasant" =
it Is ''The Beautiful Blue Danube"
The One Big Event
And now comes the event of the even
ing-the class prophecy. There is no
escape for any one now. for TO omit a
classmate from the prophecy is the in
suit of insults. By time hsnored Gus
tom a girl foretells the future of the
boys and a boy presides over the des-
TIMES of the girls.
The prophecies takes the rostrum
first. She is a tall, well-built girl, with
a shreagd, merry eye-a sweet girliSh
waggishness that has fitted her for the
present task Yet with all her ingenuity
she must needs fall back on the old
stock formulas for seeing into the flu
ture. She is not to be blamed, for there
are no new ones. She begins something
like this:
'One fine spring morning in the year
- manning a date some 10 or 10
NCtiS III IHS IuluIt1. Il was U1SApecI-
edly delayed for an afternoon in New
York city, and while looking about for
something to do, whom should l meet
but my old friend John Smith Here
upon the unaucky Smith. the best ath-
lete in the class and notorious ladies
man." bushes furiously and catches his
breath. while his friends about him in
the audience nudge him.
The prophecies continues: Finding
a spot where we could chat quietly
needless to say the young lady has
never been in New York. II questioned
him about himself With some reluc-
lance he told me that at present he was
the director of physical culture in
fashionable young ladies' school ND the
Hudson" "A Wild burst of laughter
smothers the speaker, while Smith sinks
as low as possible in his seat. Again
the prophecies: TT seems that Smith
had married one of the teachers in that
school, (another subtle thrust, for the
youth is universally disliked by the
teaching staff. 'and they had both ia
ken to teaching We got to talking OF
our old school DAYS together, and Smith
was able to tell me about MANY of nv
classmates. For instance. And here
follows the riot of forecasts Either the
victim is pedestaled in Just the niche
his present character would presuppose,
on by the principle of 9 juxtaposition of
the incOngTuous" he is allotted to
sphere wholly at variance with all his
normal traits.
On Patriotism
And who is this that shambIes for