Life — September 2, 1920 — page 47: what you’re looking at

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First in His Class HE school of concentration had just concluded its examinations for the Ji-year, and the principal rose with a gay smile upon his face. “| feel that I must congratulate all of 2 upon the work you have done this ester,” he said. “And as an evidence the progress we are making, I am go- gto call upon a few of our prize pupils tell us some of the feats they have ac- lished, all of which, I may say in ance, have been duly attested.” A short, stout gentleman, with a some- hat careworn expression, now arose. *] ama married man who never takes y exercise himself,” he said, “and am 1 the head of a family of four grown dren and one wife, all of whom play of, After they have been chasing round the links all day, I can now sit at dinner table for one hour while they tter on about what they have done, and doesn’t interrupt my train of thought.” A murmur of applause greeted this modest statement, and a youngish-look+ »g man, his brows firmly knit, got up. *Iam the owner of a second-hand mo- car,” he said, “which I purchased ma man who was once my friend. other day my car broke down in vet of a public school—it was during hs 1 was able to fix it without being frare that anybody was looking at me.” More applause. The second speaker s succeeded by an ascetic individual wth an enormous pair of spectacles. “This may seem incredible to you, but | fis true,” he said, “as our good principal pows. I have actually read through both Republican and Democratic platforms }JPthout missing a single word.” Loud hurrahs greeted this simple dec- |fPrtion, and a motion was made by a mall group of enthusiasts to carry the 9 out on their shoulders, “One moment, friends,” said the princi- i “the best is yet to come.” In an- ipation of the next speaker, he pro- da garland of flowers, tied with a ight blue ribbon. And the audience {fered forward as one man, as a middle- ‘d gentleman came forward. “Fellow pupils,” he said, “I must preface the account of the extraordinary powers I have developed by a brief ex- ation. 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