The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
SEEN IN THE SMOKE
BY Alice HinkIey.

BY Alice HnkIey.
one afternoon during spring vaca
uon as was riding on horseback III
the country, decided to follow a lit
Tie path that led through a rather
deep weeds. as it looked PROMISING
Tor wild flowers. 1t was general,
supposed that there were gypsy
camps in this place, but. as eye wit
nesses of this fact were hard to find
thought nothing of it.
AS ! rode along came to an OLD
log that was just surrounded by VIC
lets. | tied my horse to this, and was
picking away. when l heard some
thlng coming up behind me, and when
turned around, saw an old. stopped
gypsy woman hobbling toward me
SHE seemed as surprised to meet any
one there. as / was, but after hest
tatlng a moment. she came on maxi
ing. lines across the palm of one hand
and jabbering, something about tellins,
my fortune. When / told her that
had no special desire to have my
palm read. she thought a moment
then took little box from her blouse
and asserted that, with the aid of the
contents of that box she could divine
the future of members Of my family
or any of my friends.
had been thinking Of how soon
our class would graduate, and wonder
ing what each was inten ling to dc
and 1t occurred to me to ask her con.
corning the future of each.
When / told her this. she led me
to a space of clearing. quickly struck
up fire, and instructed me to sit
down and name over all my class
mates, while she went through divers
motions over the box, which, she told
/. me, contained seeds of the opium pop.
, by.
The preiiminaries being over. she
babe me keep my eyes on the smoke
as 1t assembled from the fire. She now
slected seed and placed 1T in the
middle of the blaze. In second
there were different colors in the
smoke, and soon the 1.-THE figure o!
Gertrude Weber was plainly discern
iible. The scene was in Germany. It
showed how the women, being in an
Overwhelming majority after the war
had risen to demand their vote, and
Gertrude, true to her German CD in.
stincts had gone thither at once and
had been promptly elected to the
! Reichstag where now saw her hold
ing forth.
| Next, saw a building with large
show window on one of the prominent
streets Of city. In the window
Helen Woolley was seated upon a
revolving stool. some six feet from
the floor, unmoved, amid the throng
gathered around while man in trout
proclaimed the merits of rapid
Razer' hair tonic Helen was amass
ing fortune. while her exertions con
sisted of taking her HAIR down every
fifteen minutes and saying, that:
low | got my start"
1t seemed that Coral Meador had
held this position for a number OF
years. hut upon receiving more. re.
munerative offer. had decided that 1t
was lightning Lengthener" that had
done so much for her.
| The Class Musician.
| What next appeared, l saw to be
a scene from some foreign land. In
front of a domicle a man was rea l.
ing to a group of natives gathered
about him. It was some moments be-
fore recognized Marshall Fulton.
Just before the view became indis.
around, entered the door. Soon some
music reached my ears and next, the
Lydion measures of our class song
could be indistinctly heard. / could
have listened to that indefinitely. but
as the smoke again arose, I saw that
the scene was changed
Lulu Arnold was sitting on the
porch of uncovered cottage. GRO
cheting, until time to start supper.
Her face lit up as some one opened
the front gate. but as | was about to
discover his identity, the picture was
gone and a new one took it's place.
AS the next puff Of smoke went up,
/ saw a lean figure stretched at
length in a steamer chair apparently
sound asleep. Upon close observation
found that there were many others
in the same state Of repose in diff
ferent corners of the wide porch In
moment recognized Bill Reimbo1d.
The deplorable facts were, that Bill
had become rest cure maniac, al
though he had been pronounced cured
several times, could not be induced
to leave the resort, being so in love
with the methods.
In gayer scene, observed that
since Mrs. Castles untimely death,
the pleasure-seeking public could find
absolutely no idol to take her place,
Until Virginia Dunlap came to the
rescue, now more than rivaling the
success Of the former In glancing
over the list of engagements, could
see that many ran On for three years
in advance.
Josephine Whitmarsf was having
vast influence in holding the lives OF
young Americans by her methods of
teaching school. From the rigid at
tention displayed in her class. it was
plain to be seen that she enforced dis
cipline with an iron hand
As this scene vanished, all that
could see was a small oblong box
which l found to contain finger nail
tustre. l could scarcely recognize
the face on the front, but when was
ab1a RI tho w,