Lincoln High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Manitowoc, WI)

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FUTURE: Name them oneby one and [shall endeavor to sat- isfy your wants. PRESENT: Here is a list, take them in order.’ (He hands over alist). FUTURE: Here I see first the name of Maud Baringer. Isee a lady sitting upon a throne of gold. Beside her is a kingly looking man wearing a gold crown, and around them I see many subjects. PRESENT: Where is this? It isn’t England, is it? FUTURE: No. The Mardi Gras carnival at New Orleans. Here is Alfred Bazal; beside a ticket stand at the Manitowoc County Fair, I see a man with a three legged table. He has three cards in front of him and is calling this out to a large number of be-whiskered gentlemen: ‘‘Come on, boys, try your luck, half a dollar. Pick out the king of hearts and you get this five dollar bill. Youcan’t lose. If you fail to pick the king, I will give you this beautiful package of unexcelled chewing gum.” PRESENT: ‘‘Battleaxe” could deal himselfa royal flush without. getting pale. Who's the next? FUTURE: Edwin Chloupek I seeasa retired farmer in Mishicot who recently put on the market condensed pig squeals for use in the latest dance, the barnyard dip. Then I see Josephine Craite. On account of her knowledge of History and Commercial Law, she has been appointed domestic science instructor in the Manitowoc High School. Here is the name of Grace Dickson. She has charge of three large millinery stores in Chicago, New York and London, and she has purchased sites for branch offices in Cato, Clover and Coopers- town. I see the name of Royal Elfner. After his name, I see the words Hon. Senator from sixty-ninth district. PRESENT: There ought to be more in Congress. FUTURE: There are. Here are Frank Frelich as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and Alfred Koehler as Speaker of the House. They often have furious debates on ‘‘The Conservation of Summer, for use in Winter.” In political positions, I also see Herbert Schmitz as Secretary of Agriculture and Arthur Rahn as Chairman of the U. S. Eugenics committee. Then, since Wisconsin has adopted Woman Suffrage, I see Linda Reiland running for mayor of Maribel on the prohibition ticket. There are some other good suffragists in that class of 1914: there are Dorothy Nelson and Martha Marquardt, both command- ers in General Jones's army, which annually walks to Washington —25—

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Tomorrow “All the world’s a staze, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.” Dramatis Personae: Present, that which we know. Future, that which we want to know. Scene: Manitowoc High School, June 18, 1914. Enter FUTURE, musing to himself: Many are the failures upon the records of time. All are not failures, all are not successes- Were there no failures, we could not have success. Oh, that I had the power to make all men’s future what they wish. Truly the future would then be filled with success for everyone. It cannot be. Enter PRESENT. (Listens to FUTURE.) FUTURE: Strange isit, that I find, in the vast before, things which startle ordinary beings and make some shudder with appre- hension, while others smile with the thought of that which isto come. PRESENT speaks: Who are you whose words do imply the foresight of that which we all wisi to know? FUTURE: Iam that which ever enters into the plans of gnats and notions; that which must be provided for, the future. PRESENT: Pray, if you know all things that are to be, answer me the questions which I should like to know. FUTURE: Speak! My mission is to make bright the minds of youth, while there is yet the chance. Time will come when they shall have their cup of hemlock and be the wiser for it. PRESENT. I must introduce myself. I am the Present. I am here in behalf of certain persons who would like to know what you have in store for them. 94

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to persuade Alfred Koehler to put a bill through the house for woman suffrage. : And then in England, I see Esther Gerpheide and Mary Red- din fighting for woman suffrage and Irish Home Rule. PRESENT: Isn’t Robert Frazier a Senator? What is he doing? FUTURE: I see him doing time in Waupun for violating the Sherman Anti-trust law by trying to corner the market on original thoughts; and beside him is Chester Worel who is also doing time for trying to smuggle in a hen’s egg without paying duty. PRESENT: ‘‘Chet” always did like to evade questions and “Bob” always did have such foolish ideas. Who's next? FUTURE: Esther Gennrich I see asa typist, having won the world contest for speed and accuracy. Then, Agnes Gleason and Margaret Meany, who always were together, are now in Africa, civilizing a wild tribe of man-eaters. Enola Giffey I see as the famous actress of the Vixograph com- pany. Then I notice the name of Nell Gregory and associated with that name I see the newspaper announcements ‘‘Gregory’s latest styles from China; Mme. Paquin doomed.” PRESENT: Are none of the girls taking up music? FUTURE: Yes. Estelle Gunderson is studying at France, and is soon to make her appearance on the stage with Paderewski’s “Sunrise on a Rainy morning ” There I see George Kennedy as stage manager and composer of popular rag-time. His latest song hit is ‘“‘Way down in Goo- Goo-Eye-Land Where the Watermelons Grow.” PRESENT: Ohmy! Poorchap! He will get over it soon. FUTURE: Then Iseeon this list the name of Lydian Guttmann, who is a practicing physician in Dunlap, South Carolina; heart dis- eases, a specialty. Adolph Haese has large lumber interests in Northern Canada. PRESENT: Oh say, how about Orin Hansen? FUTURE: He’s next on this list. 1 see happiness in store for him if he can earna living for two. He has a great fu- ture in his art of playing checkers. Some day he is bound to get a prize if he can get a king before the other player has all his men. PRESENT: I’d rather see him married to the art of playing checkers than— — oh, well,— —. FUTURE: He will make a good husband anyway. Next on the list [ see Helen Hess, She is widely noted for her synopsis of Burke’s ‘‘Conciliation with America.” Here is Erwin Kaderabek, international law expert for the U.S. Just at present Mr. Koehler has had him arrested for Malfeasance, —26-—