Southwestern Louisiana Institute - Lacadien Yearbook (Lafayette, LA)

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and Tulane. A dispute arose and they called out for the L. S. U. coach to settle it. Up stepped an enormous man, and he was none other than Marshall Denbo. Who ever heard of Lionel Jagou being a palmist? But there he was, the world-famous palmist and mesmerist. The Madam was telling Voorhies Launey ' s fortune and predicted that he and Charles Comfort would succeed in swindling the First National Bank. The large hunk of coin they would in turn lose in a crap game to the famous gambler, Franklin Boyd, whom every one thought would be a preacher. Thus have I been enabled to lay before you a most exact and impartial outline of your future lives and it is my sincere hope that you will all richly deserve the brilliant futures which lie before you. E. P. M. Senior Class Will We, the undersigned members of the class of 1913, being of sound mind and disposing will, do hereby make our last will and testament to the Class of 1914: 1. It is with a feeling of sadness that we hereby bequeath to the incom- ing graduating class our position as Seniors, our various privileges, all the responsibilities of the Annual, and the warning that Senior life is prose and not poetry. 2. Oden wills to Stella, when she happens to come to class with lessons unprepared, his few and far between, hard-earned A ' s. 3. Pat gives to any two members of 1914 his sole aim and purpose to graduate from S. L. I. I. with the least possible exertion. 4. Marshall bequeaths to Bryant his pleasant (?) facial expression and his tendency to loaf. 5. Eppie wills to Nora her red-headed temper. 6. Lilly hereby bequeaths to Lilla her Jim ' s middy blouse and her athletic tendencies. 7. Hilda gives to Alice her Physics Experiments so that she can beat Mr. Mac out of work. 8. Franklin Boyd wills to Edna his oratorical ability. 9. Eunice bequeaths to Stella Theriot her crushes on the younger con- tingent of the Faculty. 10. Cora hands down to Catherine her love for Domestic Science. 11. To our Alma Mater we bequeath our memorial, may it bring to those who gaze upon it none but pleasant memories of the Class of 1913. E. P. M.

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Senior Class Prophecy I WAS so sleepy I could hardly keep my wits about me, but I had an en- gagement that could not be broken, so I had to go. We walked along, making our way to the moving-picture show. I told Robert that I knew that I should go to sleep, but he insisted that I wouldn ' t. We went into the theater and sat near the rear. It seemed that the name of the picture was, You Never Can Tell. Well, you certainly can ' t tell, because I saw my classmates of 1913, and what they would be doing in the future. First, I saw Louise Horiast, as a book agent, go into a man ' s store and simply make him buy her books. We next came to a show window. One of the ladies in the window looked very familiar and I soon realized it was Hilda Rosenfield. There she stood, still posing at the age of thirty, in a black suit. In an instant we were seated in an opera house to hear a lecture on woman suffrage. When the lecturer came forward I thought she looked like someone whom I had seen before, but I didn ' t dream it was really she. Much to my utter amazement I soon recognized the speaker as Lilly Breaux. Before I recovered from the shock that Lilly gave me, we were in an army hospital looking into a room over which was written, General ' s Office. There was Cora Merritt, carefully stroking the forehead of her sick husband. She, of all members of our class, I thought would be the last to surrender to matrimony. I was rapidly changed from there to a ten-cent vaudeville show. A dainty maiden stepped out to give toe dancing, for which she was noted, and I recognized her in a moment to be Eunice Blanchet, who always said she would either be a toe-dancer or a prima donna. But the missionary came next. There in the Fiji Islands, surrounded by admiring little heathens, stood Mary Ruger, with a Bible in one hand and a map in the other, teaching her daily mission class. Noticing on a sign that the largest undertaking firm in Chicago was run by Girard Mouton, I was very curious, but before we could see any- thing inside the shop, we saw that Lloyd Lee ' s dray had just run over Adner Le Fleur, who was a mail-carrier. And guess — the policeman was Aloysius Launey. He grabbed Lloyd and brought him to be locked up, and who should appear on the scene with the jail keys tied to his belt but old Charles Comfort. Adner was taken to the hospital and I nearly fainted when I saw Sam Lyons, with sleeves rolled up, ready to do his duty. Well, who else could Oden Hebert be — here we saw him in his car as a coquette. Maxime Roy was driving his car very recklessly. We followed them up and then we saw that we were on L. S. U. Campus. Sure enough, there was a crowd of spectators watching a football game between L. S. U.

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Pedagogy MADGE LOUISE PATTERSON Lake Charles, La. Graduated from Lake Charles High School, ' n; Entered S. L. I. L, ' 12; Member Avatar Literary Society. Oh, let me close my eyes and dream, Sweet fanciful, vagrant dreams of love. LORRAINE STEPHENS KIRK- WOOD Lake Charles, La. Graduated from Lake Charles High School, ' 11; Entered S. L. I. I., ' 12; Member Avatar Literary Society; Glee Club; Secretary Teachers ' Training Class, ' 12. Music hath charms, and so hath Lorraine. NONA GARDINER Gueydan, La. Graduate from Gueydan High School, ' 12; Entered S. L. I. I., ' 12; Member of Avatar Literary Society; Member of Tennis Club, ' 13. And she ' s not as bashful as she looks, This maid that cares very much for books.