Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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IK- Il) many instances (when the evidence is on her side) she will prove ra'u convincing in her argument both to judge and jury. Of course these conjectures as to the future of the individual members of this class may fall wide'of the mark. I intend that they shall. The future, even tomorrow, is a blank mystery, and we know not what a day will bring forth. We can only say here in the presence of friends, schoolmates, teachers and parents, you have given unto us bountifully, and we promise to pay, day by day, in our different lines of work, with various commodities, the (nil measure of our debt. If vve render unto the generation that shall rise around us gifts like those that have been given us, live upright, Christian lives, improve our God-given faculities, and in every way be useful men and women, we shall then be balancing our account of so long standing. Tomorrow the first installment becomes due. Tomorrow we go forth to exert an influence on the world, and to commence rendering unto others what has long been given us. Oh, thou tomorrow! Mystery! Oh day that ever runs before! What has thy hidden hand in store For mine, tomorrow, What hast thou In store to make me bear the now? Oh day in which we shall forget The tangled troubles of today. Oh, day that laughs at duns, at debts, Oh day of promises to pay ! Oh shelter from all present storm! Oh, day in which we shall reform Oh, safest, best day of reform ! Convenient day of promises! Hold back the shadow of the storm, Oh, blest tomorrow! Ohiefest friend, Let not thy mystery be less Hut lead us blindfolded to the end

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17. for Geometry, slu will accept a position as book-keeper with a prominent business house in the great city of of Norfolk and make herself a thoroughly good businesswoman. She, like most noted people, commences at the bottom approaching the summit gradually. On 1 icr way she does not forget the interest of her sex but travels here and there on Temperance and “Woman Suffrage.” In after years we see her name too inscribed among those of the ( rent women of A merica. Then what may we expect of the central figure of our group? This young gentleman wields the pen with alacrity and becomes a prominent literary man after graduating in Harvard. Society is astonished and overjoyed by the magazine he presents to her view. It even excels the Century, Scribners, Harpers or any noted magazine of the times. Imagine our pride and pleasure on receiving the first copy of the “Golden Age” edited by our talented classmate. A fourth member of this‘distinguished” class was very much admired by us for her love of literature. When we were studying literature, it was she who could always interest us with little bits of biography,—such as the story of George Washington and his little hatchet and all that. Such incidents as these impressed on our minds that she (our classmate) was remarkably talented as well as to render it almost impossible for us to forget the noted person of whom she spoke. Often were our emotions over-wrought by her efforts in elocution. Nor shall her passion for oratory cease with her school days. Her charming beauty and queenly manners will aid her grandly in her profession—elocution. In the early part of the 20th century we shall witness her accept the professorship of elocution in one of oar leading colleges. Oh! Tis true many lovers may kneel at her feet but she will turn proudly away from all. saying. matrimony is not her calling. Now may we not read too of another but by no means least of the pentagon? The profession of ped-a-gogy has already overtaken this stately biped. But becoming restless in so meek a station in life she wishes to take up the study of law. As will be remembered by her old schoolmates, she was a worshipes of oratory. Her love for public speaking she could not repress in her youth, but in after vears by stimulated efforts and a little practice, she overcame the love but not the difficulty. However she will become a lawyer.

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“ - T El 3dS S - hitewash is white. It is nm lt of linu , glue, isinglass and water. The lime is produced from various alkaline earths, and its symbol is (’a O. The glue is put in to make it stick. Whitewash is not always pure, though, and many deceptions are imposed on the unsuspecting public. Whitewash is very useful. It is used on houses to stop up the cracks in the ceiling and to cover up old walls and rotten looking places. Ladies use it to cover up the dirt on their faces sometimes, hut they don’t call it whitewash. What they use is “Miraculous Radiant Complexion Beaut ifier” or something like that. Men put whitewash on trees to keep the hugs off, and merchants use a species of whitewash when they try to sell a secondhand coat for a new one. Tom Sawyer put it on his aunt Polly’s fence. Tom didn't like to whitewash much so he traded off chances to boys who did, for apple cores and dead rats with strings tied to their tails to swing them hv. This little incident illustrates the two kinds of whitewash most commonly used; the kind put on the fence, and the kind Tom used on the hoys. People don’t whitewash fences much now; they whitewash each other. We all believe we are very wise, but wise as we are, strange to say, an article marked twenty-three-and-a-half cents will touch our