University of Utah Student Newspapers | 1900-07-16 | Page 38 | Class Exercises

f t. 6 n f f 1 b t IK J t t. t jL CLASS EXER EXERCISES h. h fl f r k I J It f y PROGNOSTICATION j- j jf f r. c Thud thud went went the rain on the window Rain rain jI i would it always be raining It was dark and c chilly illy too The lamp Y i had long since burned ou out the fire had almost burned down and its ts r pitiful little flame cast a sort of lonesomeness over the room My f violets that had bloomed in the hothouse sweet enough to please any v spring time bird only the morning before were now wilted and limp 5 f I was almost as tired as the violets My eyes began to slowly close and then then then-it it was dark no longer light had come and a person with witha a long white beard and two glittering wings was standing beside me You are very tired he said I sprang up II Oh Oh good St. St Peter I cried Then I sank back again II Yes very tired I said You have some difficult work to do he half asked half stated 1 F FI I nodded Yes i Its like this St. St Peter I was given the work of sending ten ten years after Commencement Day to our president Mr Condie a statement saying just what each member of the class is doing The f paper is due next week but being so far away from home I have lost track of all my school school mates what I came to see you about said the Saint It isn't too late to find them yet if you go in a rapid vehicle There are two vehicles that I could use I te replied plied II and they are the ball balloon on and the ship air-ship but you know every prophetess has x used one of those two ever since Noah went to school There is another way of going said my companion stroking his flowing beard How would you like to t take ke a wing To liTo take a what I had never heard of that means of conveyance To ro ride to your school-mates school on my wing he explained ned It would be delightful I cried rapturously rapturous y Then my countenance countenance coun coun- a aI changed But why should you YOl inconvenience yourself for forme me y II I I do it for the good of humanity he replied You know I think a great deal of the people who make up this queer conglomerated world and so Ive I've come to make a bargain with you Ill I'll inconvenience inconvenience inconvenience incon incon- myself for your sake if you'll persuade Annie Moore to stop writing poetry for mankind's sake I a t iii Stop writing poetry I thou thought ht of the sixty cents she had just spent on a new rhyming dictionary then dictionary then I thought of the promise I had made to the class and bowed my head to the inevitable We were about to start when a thought struck me Why St. St Peter I exclaimed How will the gate ate get along without you Oh that's all right he replied I stationed Mr up there so I feel confident that no one will slip in We were now ready to start He spread out his long win wing and after a few discouraging attempts I at last succeeded in seating myself myself myself my my- self upon it There were one or two rapid movements upward and downward and then we were fairly sailing through the air I was busily engaged in finding some means of preventing myself from falling falling falling fall fall- ing down down hundreds of feet below when I suddenly looked up St. St Peters Peter's shrewd eyes filled with amusement were fixed full upon me You Y 0 look like a girl circus-girl rider he remarked That was the first I knew that sarcasm was included in the vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary voca voca- of a saint I was about to reply with the remark that he looked like the Ancient Mariner but happened to think that if inthe future I applied for a position as teacher of the children up above he might use his influence against me so I held my peace After a time I again looked at the Saint He was gazing off into f space with the same amused smile on his lips What are you thinking of St. St Peter I asked I I was wondering he replied whether Dr Talma Talmage e would think we were a diminished form of the Archaeopteryx or of the Rhana- Rhana The sound of the words brought back a flood of memories but I Idid Idid Idid did not reply Presently I saw that we were nearing the earth Nearer and nearer we came until I could distinctly see the land and the houses We halted a moment ab above ve a small town then began to descend towards it and nd finally stopped above a church Someone was singing within and the notes softly floated out of the open window J and rose roseto rose o to us above rose Have you ever heard that voice before asked St. St Peter rt I listened again and the tones brought to my mind min a tall dark dark- haired girlIs girlIs girl Is Is it the same St. St Pet Peter r I asked II Its It's the same only she's a woman now She has been studying music in Germany for the last eight years She did the first years year's work so well that they gave her an encore that is they asked her to todo todo todo do it over The same thing was repeated for seven years I guess she will graduate in about seven more I peeped in at the window and the first look told me that the woman before me had once been the girl Edna Davis In a moment or two we we were again sailing through the air Presently we began to near the earth and I saw the dim outline of a large city After a short time we stopped This is St. St Petersburg said the Saint and the auditorium just below us is the government building There was a group of excited people around it who were talking a very loud and gesticulating wildly There will be no rio war cried Y one Negotiation is the only way to settle national difficulties A Then as a figure came to the door the same voice cried Hurrah for forthe j A Athe the from the United States The whole group took up the cry ending with Carlson Carlson I gave a little start and leaned forward It was was Oscar r Carlson Carlson- j x the beard and moustache could not hide the fact I began Hurrah J for Carlson I but a great rush of wind caused by the movement of f St. St Peters Peter's wing as he began to resume his journey made the cry end 1 in a little choke We did not stop again until we reached New York and then not v until we were above an office in the very heart of the city This is the is-the I the office of five people who run one of the most popular magazines in the country II explained my guide you may be interested interested interested inter inter- ested in them II We both looked in the window A slim light-haired light little lady was talking very fast very loud too by the way to a light-complex- light gen gentleman an The accounts for last months month's publication publication- but I did not need to hear any more for I had instantly recognized the voice of Etta J 5 L Lambert am b ert II She is the business manager manag r and general financier explained my guide A good look showed me that the gentleman beside her was i Christian Jensen II And what does he do I asked II He He is editor of the literary department and helps Rose Thomas with the poetry II And so the lady on the right was Rose Thomas Yes I would 1 have known h her she her she had changed very little Two ladies on the left were talking very earnestly to each other and at a glance lance I 1 saw that they were Elisa Heppler and Margaret Cald Caldwell well It What is their work I asked 1 II Elisa writes the jokes and spices and helps the literary department department department depart depart- ment while Margaret sketches all the illustrations II 4 The two ladies were very much absorbed in some discussion r t. t p That's the way you always do Margaret said the haired dark-haired one II I I write a good story and you just spoil it with your Now look at this for instance Here youve you've pictured the sweet girl graduate e elect like this with a sweet smile and a serene countenance Who ever saw a sweet girl gra graduate look like that Make her true to life Sketch her like this II and she tore her hair her face the picture of agony I looked at St. St Peter His expression was as calm and serene as that of the objectionable graduate You do 10 not seem to be moved by the sight I remarked N No 0 he replied It is not new to me Ive I've seen scenes similar similar similar simi simi- lar to this quite often in the the lower lower flat i In a moment or two we had arrived at Chicago and had stopped above a stately mansion on Wabash Avenue A slender lady with dark hair and sweet brown eyes was standing upon one of the stone steps It took me only a second to recognize Katherine Wall It is her home said the Saint She has lived here for five Iv years Her case can be explained like this Two suitors there were who knelt at my mv feet feet feet- t 1 They both sang long and they both sang sweet But one had money and the other had none none none- And I chose I chose which chose which one I had known Miss Wall in her girlhood days so the question did not not need need answering A hour half-an-hour afterwards found us in Washington and as I expected my guide stopped above the House of Commons Look closely he said In a moment you will see three of the representatives from Utah I did look closely and soon I saw coming out of the building Julia Bateman Rowena Ottinger and T John ohn Condie We stopped no more for a long time for we were making straight x for my old home home Utah Presently I could see all the dim outlines of Salt Lake City but to my surprise instead of going straight to it we stopped at a town on its outskirts Saint Peter halted above one of its principal buildings II There is a town-meeting town going on he explained r Someone was making a speech within This step is for the good of the people he was saying It is for the enlightenment of the people it is for the advancement of the people it is for the improvement of the people it is for the welfare of the people I thought I recognized the voice and peeped in at the window h 1 I I 1 was right in my supposition for it was Thomas Reese who was addressing the assembly He is the leader of everything that goes goeson on in the town explained the Saint Things were pretty slow until J he came but there isn't much sleeping going on now J A few yards away stood the school house We looked in at the windows and saw two rooms exactly alike in every particular There J were flowers in precisely the same positions and places books the 1 same desks the same curtains the same I looked at St. St Peter for foran foran an explanation j j These rooms belong to the two Miss Clarks he said and it was all the explanation nation that was necessary At another town we stopped above one of the buildings on Main Street Across two of its windows was written Franklyn Neil Den Dentist Dentist I cried why his mind did not seem seem to be turned that way when I knew him Well explained my companion he acquired such a taste aste for boring and picking and turning wheels when he was taking natural training that he thought he would go in the dentist business They say he has a very gentle touch I 1 thought of the manner in which he once bored a hole in my bamboo and sent up a prayer for his patients but answered politely Yes he must have a very gentle touch The next place we stop stopped oed at was above the twelve large Varsity buildings near Fort Douglas Douglas Douglas' St. St Peter pointed out two very interesting interest interesting interest interest- ing ones and explained that they represented Professor Stewarts Stewart's realm Here is where the children are measured here their physical powers are tested here the cause of their defects is discovered Thus step by step we went through the two large buildings St St St. Peter eter I said the town must have grown wonderfully in wealth to be able to put up and furnish such structures i Well the city didn't put up these two buildings alone Professor 1 sor Stewart and Mr Speer together wrote a book and both realized a great deal of money from it so the Professor helped to build them of his own accord In the eastern part of the city we stopped at a cottage Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing connected with it was wonderfully neat and systematic On the thedoor thedoor door was written J E. E McKnight i. i There was a noise of childish voices from within then I heard a voice which was not unfamiliar to me say Now children mama is very busy today Remember Every thing to help nothing to hinder A The next moment St. St Peter had carried me again into the air Soon we stopped at another cottage delightfully artistic in its aspect w I t In the doorway stood the tall slender eyed blue-eyed woman who h had d L grown out of the girl Lillian Horne Home Is it her home St. St Peter w f He shook his head in the affirmative r. r But what has become of the music she used to talk so m much ch about ii Oh Oh she decided that there was something better to live for than for the cold world he replied 7 a I looked at her er contented face and pretty home and thought her i gr case was as similar to another girls girl's when she said 1 I I often wished that I might be beA A sorceress of the Nile y I I j j 4 To have a Julius oer o'er the sea J P it'll 1 l J-l 0 c i A An n A Antony b beguile 1 e il kJ JI J i x To float in flowered barge and be bev t The oceans ocean's fairest v v pearl 4 f r 1 But when Im I'm fair to f Jack says see f 4 4 u 0 0 Id I'd rather be Jacks Jack's girl Jt J- J 0 t I eel often wished that I be beAn might h Iy j An author called the leading r f That all the critics would agree 7 My books were worth the reading r. Vif it j it t t To live a spinster staid and grand i l c 4 r And banish frill and curl TL r. r u I y t s K i But when Jack laughs and nd takes my y hand r v. v r C 7 i Id I'd rather be Jacks Jack's girl r 1 r I i 1 ti 1 J v Y t l I eel often wish the world might know I II f i f. f 7 All beauty to be mine y t t The suitors then would worship so fj They would not leave my shrine ti tiTo J fT To have young nobles east and west i. i r t L- L For Forme fashions fashions' whirl 1 me leave But when Jack says he loves me best best I rather be Jacks Jack's girl d V y yIn In another moment we were again flying through the air Oh St. St Peter I cried II I I am hungry hungry I I want to go home to t supper Couldn't you tell me what the others are doing Well he replied stroking that flowing beard of his which was o always blowing in my mouth theres Lydia helping the English teacher in the Hi High h School theres there's McKay Lizzie Dixon Sylvia Cohn Gwendol Gwendolen Gwendolyn n Harmon Althea Morton Lydia Wismar Alice Harkin and Virginia Holt all teaching in the city public schools Then there are Mary Helm Alice Hillam Electa T Jensen ensen Dora Shaw Caroline Scholes teaching in the country schools Jennie Jenniet Jennier t r Davis Gertrude Felt Hallie Ferron May Howard Elizabeth Kirk u If Vilate Lewis Eleanor Eleanor McMaster Lyle Miller Millie Pinney Susette and Laura Squires all gave up their individual work because they preferred to be Jacks girl II IIII II And what has become of Clara Snyder St. St Peter I asked She is running the most flourishing dressmaking and millinery departments in the West II was the gratifying reply Edna May is isher isher is isher her right right hand hand support And what of Hans St. St Peter PeterI r I He He is one of the most faithful reporters for the News Then there is Ruth Palmer She is pursuing a literary line of work and her original speeches have placed her at the head of the Women's Club of Utah Im I'm famishing St. St Peter but cant can't you tell me something about r Ida Parrott f I fOh Oh she taught in the same school for a year or two with Mr r Peterson and their views and mode of teaching and tastes blended blende l so perfectly with each others other's that they decided to well to-to-well to well to teach in the same house Good I cried And now St. St Peter Peter Peter- But St. St Peter silenced me with a movement of his hand Listen II he cried I heard faintly the ringing of an electric bell Its It's Mr ringing for me he cried the hair on his bald baldhead head