South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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c » e ) €■ PROPHECY OF CLASS OF '92. ES, I am a gypsy, a veritable gypsy, what is more a wandering gypsy, I am queen of the band. Respected by my own, by the world I am called a vagabond, a pariah, a beggar. But who can claim a nobler ancestry, a longer lineage than mine? Perhaps Pharaoh was my great great grandfather’s great great grandfather, who knows? And yet, scorned as I am apparently by respectable folks, do they not in reality bow to me, pay me homage, and regard me as more than the ordinary mortal? Countesses, duchesses and ladies of high degree come to me in disguise and in fear and trembling ask for their fates, noblemen have sought to penetrate the future, by my lifting the veil. Many profess unbelief but they always go away convinced. I have heard that there is to be a picnic around here to-day and, as these young folks are just at the curious age, I may expect a visit from them. They will come scoffing and saying it is just for fun, but they will wait anxiously for my words and by the correctness with which I shall name each one and the characteristics which I shall describe they will be compelled to believe me and will go away more slowly and thoughtfully than they came. But, hush! Here they come—Good-day sweet ladies, and is it to old Queen Caudace you come to hear your futures? Just cross her old hand with silver and she will trace a bright life for you: In your hand, Miss Rhodella Kirtland the Mount of Apollo is well developed. These Apollonian subjects love to shine before the world. The ascending branches on the Mount of Saturn denote musical success. Your utter lack of voice is made up by your unique manner of rendering solos. Your career as a Prima Donna will be short for the star and cross on the Mount of Jupiter indicate a brilliant marriage with a Japanese Noble. The magnificence of your Japanese Trousseau will be the envy of the court. Mr. Fred Dustin, the many confused lines on Mount Jupiter denote a long and unsuccessful struggle for greatness. You are to invent a wonderful patent, many wheeled, double action, electro magnetic, Latin verb conjugating machine. The wavy formation of lines denotes obstacles such as your forgetting Latin or the brilliancy and independence of the students who might l e supposed to need the machines. It seems you are unable to sell a single one. Your generous heart, indicated by the Mount of Apollo, piompts you to delight the hearts of small boys with the remains of your failure. YTou retire into the background and devote yourself to the manufacture of electric bells, that won’t work. v -

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Our trials, when they come, will meet, As problems that we met in school. We’ll struggle on nor fear defeat; We’ll find a way to solve by rule. We’ll go forth bodly to the world; We’ll hold our banners all unfurled. How sweet ’twould be to think the class, And all that should be here, by right With whom we climbed the mountain pass; Were each in his own place to-night! But no, the word comes sadly back One, one, from earth has heavenward flown Her loving presence here we lack. The flowers of earth are killed by frost, And bloom in fairer fields of light. The pearl of countless price is lost, In depths of seas beyond our sight. That loved one joined a higher band Than this on earth, of which we are: By her we’re led to a brighter land Our model she, altho’ afar. And now the remnant of this band, Who’ve walked together hand in hand. Must say a last, a fond good-bye; Tho’ from each breast it brings a sigh. May each find joy and peace in life; Be each a conqueror in the strife. Each grow more noble, pure and true, An onward, upward way pursue. Adelaide Ann W inton.

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 The prominence in your hand, Miss Saidee Phillips, of the Mount of Mercury indicates eloquence. Your lectures on Woman’s Suffrage will be very popular. You will make a tour around the world and at length, won by a widower and seven jewels, will sett le in Madagascar as a missionary’s wife. Mr. Henry Somsen, your talent for sculpture betrays itself by a scarcity of lines, by the Mount of Venus, of Mars and of the Moon high in the hand, which has a strong tendency to thickness and hardness. You will not carve beautiful statues, decorations, or even tombstones. A cobbler you shall be and you shall shape shoes and they will say of you truly: He cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With foot gear to mend on his knees, Stitching patches, or pegging on soles, as he sang Out of tune, ancient catches and glees. Across in the centre of your hand’s triangle, Miss Addie Winton, denotes an extremely quarrelsome and contrary disposition. You will become a scold, a Zantippe in fact and will lead those around you a dreadful life. But a second “tamer of the shrew” will appear and you will lx? reduced to submission. Your Saturnian hand Miss Nellie Yates, reveals your liking for Philosophy. Moral Philosophy is your forte and to you will be given the work of demonstrating the value of that science. Ten years hence, your name yet remaining Miss Nellie Yates, you will adopt a large family of boys, girls and cats. The result of your training will be large headed, small bodied young men, young women and old cats. Your good strong hand with its long third linger, Mr. Frank Pool, indicates a love of adventure. You will throw a base ball into the air. You will throw it with such force that it will not return. Eager for adventure and anxious for your ball you will manufacture a pair of wings of wax and go in search of it. Alas! You will lly too near the sun and the heat will melt your wings and you will drop. You will reach the earth in safety but a good deal shaken up and decide one trip will do. You will devote the remainder of your life to the manufacture of sausage of a superior quality. Miss Edith Hookey, your liberality of mind, your generosity, your nobility of soul is denoted by the size of the triangle of your palm. You will found a refuge for old maids. Here will Hock old maids from all parts of the country with their cats or poodles, their knitting, their false hair, their paper llowers and frisky ways. But in your quiet orderly manner, you will reduce this Bedlam to order and you will always be remembered as a blessing to Old Maidendom. In you, Miss Isabel Dallager, will the uncrowned queen of America find a noble successor. As President of the Y. C. T. U. will you rival if not outshine Miss Frances Willard. The Mount of the Moon and of Mercury on your hand, Miss Florence Wheeler, certainly denote astronomical taste and ability but as your hand is hard and of the pointed type which betokens an artistic use of the strength, the former fact is overshadowed and you will Ixjcome a dancing teacher so