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

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which will call you to your home town. few months later you will return again to New .Jersey, and your name as a musician will he made quite popular through the concerts. You will become very friendly with a handsome young gentleman, whom you will see at all of your concerts. He is a musician, and he will ask you to one of his recitals. You will go, and after that you will never have to go home alone, if he is there. You will learn to like him as you have never liked a man, and the same will he true of him. After a few years of friendship you will become his wdfe. He will he wealthy and will give you everything to make you comfortable. You will give concerts together, but will later live in a bungalow in the country. You will be happy there and wrill freely give to anything pertaining to music. But there wdll be need of a larger bungalow' after a few' years, because of the increase in the family— four small brown-eyed girls and two boys. PEAK!. B. RAPP You do not like school work and you never will. You will work a few’ years to get enough money to go on a long trip. You will he undecided wdiere to go. You will have a chance, by some near relative, to go to Europe. You will go along with them and stay there several years. This trip will he good for you. You wdll lose some of your weight and w ill have rosier cheeks. But one thing wdll remain unchanged—your small brow'n eyes. After five years in Europe you will return to your home country and to your home town. You will not he recognized by many of your best friends, because you have changed in appearance. But you wdll recognize them all. One day you wdll take a wralk along the cool country road. On your way you w ill meet a tall, handsome gentleman. You wdll talk to him, but he wdll not recognize you and wdll think that you are “fresh.” You will laugh at him because he looks so disgusted. He w ill then recognize you, because your laugh wdll not change. He will be glad to see and to talk to you. He will see you home that day. He will he seen in the neighborhood every wreek over the week-end. You w ill, a fewr months later, announce your engagement. Mean-w’hile, before the wedding, you wdll learn to do housework. You will have a public wedding. Since both of you like the country so well, he wdll build a bungalow big enough for twro and a few more. Several years later you, your husband and your two children will be sitting at the fireplace one evening. One of the children will ask you to tell them a story. You will tell them about Mohnton’s Navy Yard. This will bring back memories of Mt. Penn, your husband’s former home. MIRIAM E. SCHAEFFER Through some misfortune, you w ill have to stop your wonderful progress in the line of music. But after a few' months you wdll he able to renew your musical studies and will become a great musician. You wdll teach music and wdll become well known. You wdll later like to travel. You wdll go to New York, wdiere you will continue your music teaching. Though you will earn much money, you wdll live in a small, cozy home and will be knowm as a poor young woman. You will be very generous and wdll sometimes give music lessons for nothing. This you will do especially for the poor children. Through your kindness you will meet a young gentleman, a violinist. He will be interested in you and he wdll attract you. Sometime after your meeting he will be seen at your home a great part of the time. You will play together at a great many places. You will have a private w'edding, about one year later. You will live in the outskirts of the city, in a small, comfortable home. It will look like a dreary place, but, after a time, three children will be playing in the yard. This will give it a lively appearance. Although you and your family wdll be happy and wealthy, you will not be satisfied w ithout working. So you and your handsome husband wdll play together whenever you will be asked, which w ill he quite often. In a few' years there wdll be three young musicians, wdio will be quite popular and wfell liked, through their parents, and whose names will he known every-wdiere. MARY E. STICHLER Your life w ill he a life of business. You wdll, through a business course, get a good position. You will be asked to wrnrk in a higher office, and you wdll accept the Page Twenty-nine

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so much attention to you when you fell. Hut he careful. Before his proposal something will happen to you which will he brought about by one who is jealous of your gentleman friend. You will go to a park, where you have made arrangements to meet this young man. Beware! The other young man will heat him to it and will try to kidnap you. But he will be too slow and you will he saved by your future husband. That night he will propose to you and you will accept. A few months later you will be married. You will be very glad that you are a nurse, because your husband will be a young doctor in the same hospital of which you are a nurse. SAHA II. LUTZ Your future life will be a success. You will finish a business course with high honors. Just at the time when you will he planning to go to normal school you will have a very great surprise. A small sum of money will he given you, hut not enough to give you an excellent start in normal school. You will pay much attention to both studies and sports. Ypm will receive many honors in sports, especially swimming and basket ballj You will prove to be one of the beyt basket ball players that that school ha ever had. You will graduate as a well ifnown, well-liked person. You will the f' teach a small, interesting school in tlv beautiful country at a quiet but happy place. You will like your work, bu one thing will be lacking to complete your happiness. There will he yAe person whom you will not hear from nor see for many years. You will he troubled, hut do not despair, for your future looks bright. One day this trouble will end. While you are sitting and brooding over some books in your school house, after dismissal, you will hear a light, gentle rap at the door. You will find there your long lost friend—a tall, handsome, husky young gentleman, with light hair and blue eyes. You will have a long conversation with him, part in the school house and part on the way home. After the conversation you will he very glad for the school term to expire. One bright June day there will be a big wedding, at which you will he the bride and this handsome young gentleman the groom. After several years of happy married life you will have one of your main wishes gratified —that is, to keep a kintergarten. This you will be able to keep with your own darling children. MYRTLK V. POTTEIGKll Mary E. Stichleb Last night I had a dream. I saw Myrtle busy at a typewriter, for she was studying hard in a large business school. Then, after her course was completed, I saw her boarding a train for Philadelphia, where she had been offered a position as private secretary to the president of a large business house. About five years had elapsed, when one fine morning I took a walk into the country and chanced to pass through Stoners-ville. 1 was beginning to feel rather tired and thirsty, when I spied a pretty little vine-covered farm house surrounded by a big flower garden. Behind it was a large orchard with trees over-loaded with big red apples. Everything looked so inviting that I decided to enter and ask for a drink of water. Going up the walk, I met a handsome, dark-complexioned young farmer, followed by a dear little freckle-faced girl, who reminded me of some one I had seen before. Upon my request for a drink of water, the farmer directed me to the kitchen door, which, to my amazement, was opened by my old school friend Myrtle, who had been busy making apple-butter. After hearty greetings she told me how she had given up her position to become the wife of her old friend who had lived at Stonersville in the days of Mt. Penn High. MARTHA E. QUINTEll You will have many obstacles to overcome in life, hut with your great determination you will do it with great success. You will be successful with your music. Hut since you are hard to please, you will try many places before you will be satisfied. At last you will find a place in New Jersey which will he suitable to you. There you will teach music. Through the praises of the people for your wonderful playing, you will be asked to play at a concert. You will go and it will be a success. At this time of your happiness and progress some misfortune will occur Page Twenty-eight

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offer. You will be asked to be a stenographer in one of the largest, recently-built banks in Philadelphia. You will be undecided about going, because you think that you will not like it there. But, after a little persuasion, you will go. Up to that time you will be a stout, healthy young woman. After a few months’ work in this bank you will become unhealthy. You will leave your work and will travel to regain your health. On your travels you will meet many boy friends and you will have many invitations to dances. Since you like dancing so well, you will accept them, in spite of your bashfulness. Because of your financial conditions, you will return to your home town and will act as an employee of Stickler's Toy shop. There you will meet a tall,handsome young man, who is a traveling salesman for the Toy Shop Company. A few years later you will lie seen boarding a New York City train, accompanied by this young man, who is now your husband. Neither of you will like New York, so you will go to Newark and make your home there. This will be near to the main office of the Stickler Toy Shop. You will have regained your health by this time and will not be satisfied without working. You will be the office girl at the main office, while your luislwnd will be a traveling salesman. RICHARD F. THIRY Although you do not like school work, you will some day go to Harvard College. You will like your work there, and thereafter your life will be a success. You will be a favorite of your classmates in both studies and sports. You will play on the Harvard basket ball team, and through your skillful guarding the team will beat Yale quite often. You will leave college with high honors and many friends. You will return to your home town. Your father will be well pleased with your good work at college. You will have an interview with him, and after that you will look very happy and business-like. With that expression you will board a train. After much traveling, which will be done for your father, you will return and go into partnership with him in the “French Dyeing and Cleaning Company.” Now the business will prove a great success. You will act as traveling salesman of this business, and by chance you will get into the suburbs of Reading, including Pennside. Here you will meet a pretty girl with black hair and dreamy blue eyes. She will not be very tall and her face will be familiar. After thinking a while, you will recognize her as a girl whom you knew in your school days and who graduated in the class of ’22. After that you will be seen at Pennside quite frequently. After several months there will be a large wedding, at which you and this pretty girl will play the leading parts. Now you will move into a small cottage in the country, big enough for two, with a beautiful lawn surrounding it. WILBUR T. WEAVER You are a person with a good character and always take things slow and easy. But never mind, “Ignorance is Bliss,” so you may expect a tranquil life. Through your good career you will get work which you will enjoy. You will be a newspaper agent. You will be good to secure subscribers, and the company will think a great deal of you. They will furnish a small Ford for you to do your business. Your business will be successful, and through it you will soon own a large machine. This, however, you will only use for pleasure. With this big, attractive machine, carrying a tall, handsome man, you will attract much attention. You will go to some public gathering, church services. There you will meet your future wife. She will be a tall, slender woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. She will treat you well, but at first she will refuse to go with you. Do not be discouraged; it will be only for a short while. She will come back, and this will be permanently. You will then be married and live in an apartment bouse in the city. You will like it, but your blonde beauty will have so much influence over you that she will finally persuade you to go into the country. There you will move into a beautiful common home and both of you will be happy. You will change your ways through your wife and will then gain a large circle of friends. You will still be a reliable newspaper agent, while your wife will keep the home in good condition, together taking care of the two children, of which both parents will be proud. Page Thirty