Mount Penn Lower Alsace Joint High School - Penn Alma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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Class Prophecies Myrtle Potteiqer CLASS PROPHECIES As in ancient times the soothsayers observed the movements of the heavenly bodies and the curling of smoke and vapors and the rustling of leaves in order to foretell by them what the future might have in store for them, so 1, to whom has fallen the lot of foretelling the future of my classmates, have gazed for hours at the stars at night, have watched the smoke curling from the chimneys and locomotive stacks, and have even watched the gasoline fumes issuing from the exhaust of passing automobiles with the hope that in this way I might discern, as by an oracle, the fate of these, my classmates. By combining all the signs and omens, I have succeeded in aiming at the following definite and positive interpretations: KATHRYN BORN You, who are not at all interested in school work, will find life more interesting in working as a saleslady. You wjjf work for a large department store, our appearance will not change until yo f very late life. You will he happy at t us work, because many people who 1 ere good friends of yours will, throiurly your same girlish looks, recognize ye very readily. But through some disapivrfntment you will change your surround igs and will lead a new life. You wPVgo to school, where you will take vo .-al music lessons. This you will like jetter than anything you have yet tried. Through your success in singing y yu will he asked to sing at a big conee Many people will be present and yov. will win many friends, who will make your name very popular. You will be asked to come to many dances and parties which are held by the people of higher societies, and you will accept. To every one you go you will be asked to sing a selection, which you will gladly do for their amusement. The city life will ruin your health and before it is too late you will move into the country, away from the people who cared so much for you. You will find shelter at a large grocery store and will again lead a new life. As you go in you will be very much surprised to find the owner of this grocery store to be one of your school companions. He, a tall, handsome, husky fellow, with light hair and blue eyes, will also be very much surprised to find you come to him at last. A few months later there will be a great gossip in that vicinity about your marriage to the grocery man. You will now become healthier and happier than you were in the city and will act as saleslady of Benson’s Grocery Store. MARGARET BUSH There is a bright future ahead of you. You will go to school and later will become a fancy dressmaker. You will have your dressmaking establishment on one of the most important streets in Philadelphia. There will be a sign in your window advertising your trade. This will attract much attention, and many passersby will stop in to give you more work- On their entrance they will find a neatly furnished room, which presented an inviting appearance. You will also have some samples of your work at different places in this room, at which they will gaze with wonder. You will be very busy with customers in an adjoining room and will not be able to be with them at once. Soon they will hear you coming, which will be no hard task, since, as usual, you will not have rubber heels on your No. 8 shoes. You will then take the orders, and, when all are gone except one, a messenger boy, you will receive a note from him. You will read the note with amazement, because you are an old maid, and this note will be from a boy friend who was in the same graduating class as you were. You will be asked to go with him, and, as this will be an opportunity so long wished for, you will go. This will be one great disappointment in your life, because at the appointed time the expected one will not come. But do not let this discourage you, because that same evening, as you will be thinking of your foolishness, you will bear one long-expected, well-known step on your porch. You will open the door and will find there a tall, dark, handsome bachelor, who was your best friend in your junior year in High School. A few weeks later there will be announced the engagement of yourself Page Twenty-six

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and this dark bachelor. This will he very surprising to the public, as you love to surprise people. You will continue your dressmaking during your married life, and in this way you will support your husband, who is unable to work through some misfortune. Iloth will he happy and your business will he prosperous. ETHAN A. DOTY You will soon inherit some money. You will invest this money in a large circus, and through some luck you will, at the end, own this circus. Your name will be known over all the world through it. You will take some part in the performances, besides a few employees. But of all the performers, you, as usual, will be the center of attraction. Your main thing to do will he tricks and magic work. You will he very successful with the magic work, and you will be offered the chance to act as a magician for a large theatre in New York. You will take the chance and will drop the circus. Through your great wealth and progress as a magician you will he brought in contact with the higher classes of people. You, who have never traveled much, will go to Washington quite frequently. Since you are know’n as a bachelor everywhere, no suspicions will be aroused. You will greatly surprise your friends wThen you will announce your engagement to a dark-haired, fair-complexioned woman. A fewr wreeks later you will be married. After following successfully the art of magic for several years, you will retire. Within a few years of your retired life the family will increase to four instead of two. One will he a boy, who will he the very image of yourself in your boyhood and will bear your highly honored name. The other, a girl, will show a similarity to both her parents. With these twro children the family will live happier than ever in their newr suburban home on the outskirts of Washington. ABB IF K. IBACIi A few years from now you will he in New' York. You will he in company with the high classes of society. In this way you will have the chances to go to many big dances. You will accept all of the chances. You will attract very much attention wherever you go. At the dances you will he the center of attraction. Your fashionable walk, your rosy cheeks, your long dresses, but, most of all, your eyes. At every dance you will he offered many dances with the most handsome men present. But since you will he offered so many you will not he able to accept them all. When anyone asks to see you home, to he contrary you will refuse them all hut one. lie will be a tall, dark, handsome young gentleman, of wiiom it seems everyone is jealous. Through these dances and other social activities you will he brought in contact with many people, and, therefore, become quite popular. But the people, after awhile, will tire you. You will have several changes in life. From the social life you will take a step higher and will become an actress. You will win great fame and fortune in this way, hut you will again change your mode of life after a fewr years. You will live retired. During this life you will meet a very good friend of yours, a tall, dark, handsome young gentleman, formerly a resident of Birdsboro. You will he married to the young man and will live in the famous Manwiller Mansion in New Y rk. KATHRYN C, LIGHT Your wish to become a nurse will be granted. Inhere will he several attempts made to keep you from going to the hospital you have in mind. You will be discouraged, but since your determination to go is so strong you will in the end succeed. At first you will not like your wmrk, but do not he discouraged, you will turn out well in the end. You, at this hospital, after a few' years, will become a very good nurse and everyone will like you. You will he transferred from this hospital to one of which you will become the head nurse, which will greatly please you. At this place you will have an awful fall. Three men will he obliged to help you to your feet. This fall will bring about twfo things which will change your life: First, it will lessen your weight; second, you will meet your life partner there. He will he one of the three who will assist you after your fall. You will attract his attention. A fewr months later you will he given your vacation. During these months you will have a proposal from the young man wiio paid Page Tw'entv-seven