The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-08
CLASS PROPHECY.
Marie Wilburn

| On summer afternoon l was Sit
ting by my desk admiring a beautiful
vase of roses that had been placed
there for a surprise to me. Charmed
Dy their fragrance and beauty, 1 fell
adreaming of happy days gone by and
looking with blind eyes into the un-
known future.
VI course in this melancholy spell
my thoughts hung in clusters about
my classmates and school experiences
When l learned by actual count that
there were eleven roses in the vase.
pressed them to my bosom that N
truly the fragrance and @eetness of
the eleven roses made me feel that
our class was meeting by proxy.
Just then i noticed a movement
in the petals of one of the roses
that 1 had thought resembled our
golden haired and musical Elizabeth
Garner. The petals opened wider and
wider apart. Like flash there ap-
peared in the rose beautiful little
fairy which said, "You are dreaming
of Elizabeth am her guardian
spirit and can tell you what the fu-
ture has in store for her." Because of
her charming manners her suitors are
almost without number. Alas! Cupid
will interfere and her heart will be
won by a tall, slender fellow with
dark eyes and hair who has ever been
near her during her school days."
With a smile and sigh of content I
dismissed the little fairy for we'll
could | guess the rest.
| picked up a second rose and out
stepped another fairy. "Ah, tell me-
| said, "of Gertrude Orr, she who pos
sesses the 'Math" brain of the class
The little fairy, without saying a
word, pulled back the curtain of time
for moment and 1 saw Gertrude, a
dlgnified and successful teacher in a
Southern college.
Just as I placed this rose into the
vase, another little fairy stealthily
stepped from bud and signaled me
to be silent. Speechless I stood while
II listened to this bright prophecy
Just few more years shall pass
and bride shall come from this your
class" "Pray tell me-" I said, but the
fairy broke in and continued: "He1
name will still be plain, old Pearl, but
then she'll be, a wealthy bankers
girl"
This jingle said, the fairy disap
peared so that another might tell OF
Thelma Hart. "Her quiet manners has
fitted her to be minister's wife ant
minister's wife she will be-"
And now from the fifth rose came
another little fairy walking SLOWLY
and indifferently gazing about. "Why,'
said |, you remind me of the only
boy that is in our class, Jennings AL
ford. Can you tell me of him .
YES" she said, "if you could follow
me to large church, I should SHOW
you there a stately minister in hi
robes of dignity pouring forth word
OF inspired instructions. He shall
: grow more and more handsome as h,
grows older, and more useful as h,
! grows more handsome and wiser"
The sixth little fairy appeared
"Of whose future are you going t,
tell me?" / asked "Of your ga,
little blue-eyed brother Tom in YOU
class play" she said. "In seclusio,
she will live for few years eve
}, growing in sentiment and developin,
In soul and mind; but suddenly sh
will come with bound from her GO
clusion like strong prisoner VIII
breaks his chains. For a few wear
she will watch a world of admirer
laugh and weep as they read he
lmatchless poems. 1t sufficeth to sa,