Athens State College - Columns Yearbook (Athens, AL)

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Prophecy H! I never will get it written. Why didn ' t they make someone else class prophet, anyway? Oh! I Avish the gods would endow me with the gift of prophecy. I just can ' t, I can ' t — Can ' t do what, piped a queer little voice near me. I looked about me, and there on my psy- chology, which I was pretending to study, stood the funniest little fellow who looked as if he might be made of brown gingerbread. For mercy ' s sake, who are you? I asked. I ' m a brownie, he an- swered in the same strange voice. A brownie? Why I thought brownies only existed in fairy stories. But wdiat are you doing here? I ' m one of a number of creatures who preside over the destiny of those who live in Brown Hall. Haven ' t you learned of some of the wonderful things that have been performed by me and my companions who reside in the walls of this wonderful building? Oh, I remember now how mysteriously some of the rooms in Brown Hall used to get cleaned up. I suppose you did it? Yes, and I am here now to help you. Oh, if you only would, I cried. All right ; tell me all about it and I ' ll see what can be done, he an- swered. I then told him how my classmates had ma de me class prophet, and that I could not write a prophecy because I had no idea where to begin. When I had finished, he said, I think I can help you. Just wait here a moment. Soon he returned bearing a helmet several times as large as he. This, he said, is Pluto ' s helmet. By means of it the wearer is made invisible. Pluto has gladly consented to lend it to you, and Mercury has promised his winged sandals also. Wait until I get them. He soon returned with the sandals, and after I had put theip on, he said, Now we are ready for our journey. What journey? I asked. Why our trip fifteen years into the future, was the answer. All right, I ' m ready, I replied, and we promptly set forth. Over fields, hills and towns we flew until the largest city I had ever seen lay below us. Where are we ? I asked of my little companion. We are now over New York. Follow me and do as I do. I did so, and soon stood on a crowded thoroughfare of the great city. Great throngs of people were going into a tall building near by. We followed them and soon found ourselves in a large court room filled with people. The famous Rocky- bilt murder trial is in progress, my companion whispered to me. Just then a lawyer stepped forward to make the plea for the defendant. As she spoke I seemed to remember having seen that face and heard that voice some- where before. Where could it have been ? Then suddenly I knew that she was my old classmate, Mary Key. I al- ways knew Mary would make a great lawyer or something of the kind when I listened to those speeches she used (29)

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There ' s one who worries from morn till night About her duties to discharge: Collecting poems with all her might The college Annual to enlarge. That she no more will need to sigh, Less time consume in cogitation, Disturb not her neighbors with her cry, I give this box of inspiration — To Kathouise. There is a girl so full of mirth, It is not strange she has her fun With all the girls upon the earth. And no amusement does she shun. With some girls does she specialize. Although they sometimes are contrary, And less they should not idealize I give a permanent case to Mary. GiFTORIAN ' 12 In chemistry I have found out, A substance which is kept in glass Will make one laugh there is no doubt. This compound we call laughing gas. There is a saying, Laugh and grow fat. ' That she may be a big fat girl, She needs to get a laugh down pat, This laughing gas I give to Pearl. A Toast So here ' s to the class of 1912, Whose school work here is almost done. And may they stand firm in the fight While the sands of time shall run. (28)

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to make in Brown Hall. I longed to go up and speak to her, but Brownie said I must not, so we hurriedly left the building. We then made our way through dense crowds of people until we came to a narrow street lined on both sides with tall buildings. This is Wall Street, said my companion. Just then I looked up and saw the sign, A. M. Buchanan, Financier, on a window far above me. A. M. Buchanan, why that must be Annie Buck. Please let ' s see if it is. So my little guide and I flew up to the window and looked in. And there, sure enough, dictating to a stenographer was our own Annie Buck. Annie, I cried, starting toward her, but remembering that she could not see me, I hastily took my departure, followed by Brownie. Well, I suppose her experience with The Athenian and The Oracle is responsible for this. Annie always did come out several dollars ahead in everything that she undertook. Come on, said my companion, we have much more to do yet and very little time in which to do it. Soon we were moving over the Atlantic. I wanted to look down, but we were flying so rapidly that I could hardly get my breath, and I was afraid my sandals would drop off and I would land on the bottom of the ocean if I stopped. So I consumed the time in thinking of my old classmates and wondering where they were. Soon an airship came into view, and as we passed by it I caught a glimpse of a face I had not forgotten. It was that of Sadie Sturdi- vant, tall, lean, lanky Sadie. After visiting all the cities of America and breaking the heart of every man she met, she was now on her way to Europe to win for herself a duke or a lord, I suppose. England and France were passed over unnoticed, and we soon found ourselves in one of the crowded streets of Berlin. Here I received the greatest surprise of all. On a street corner, surrounded by great crowds of wom- en, stood Maggie Griffith, making a speech on Woman ' s Rights. Well, I always knew Maggie was deeply in- terested in woman ' s suffrage, but I didn ' t think it would ever come to this. Why, she ' s President of the Wom- an ' s Suffrage League of America, I heard someone near me say. Well, I ' m sure if everyone were as much in- terested in woman ' s suffrage as I gathered that Maggie was from the speech I heard, we wouldn ' t have much trouble getting our rights. What would happen next I could not imagine, and so absorbed was I in thinking of what I had already seen, that I paid no attention to the countries over which we were passing, and I was somewhat startled when I found myself alighting in the heart of Korea. Before me stood a beautiful granite building above the door of which were engraved the words, Persinger Hospital. I wondered if that could be Mary P. I always thought she would make either a good missionary or — an actress. While I stood there thinking about it, Mary P. herself came out of the door and down the steps. In her hand she carried a medicine case, and I knew that it was she who was at the head of this great institution. Already, Brownie said to me : The time the gods have allowed me to help you will soon be up and we must hasten back to the United States. (30)