Life — June 5, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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,_ North Central "9 have lost it even in 195 s= Choir of Phifosophy ° The Future of the Class of 1924 Class Prophecy by William N. Crandle, 24, HE other night I had a dream in LIFE - venting girls from using face-powder. “Wel I said to myself, “back in Beatrice was always abid on the subject of girls’ using _face-powder and she doesn't seem to Listening to Reatrice were George Delmot, Bertram Posner and Mary Alle A little further along I came to a big sign which said: “William Nevin and Gertrude Dolby, Ice-Cream Par lor,” and I remembered that when they Chair o Pe, Domestic "e a which I saw all that was going to, happen to the Class of 1924 of thes rth Central High School in the fu ture, and when, much to my surprise I was elected to be Class Prophet, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to write down the things I saw in that dream and tell you something of what is going to happen in 1950 to the members of the Class of 1924. In this dream I happened to be walk- ing down the street when suddenly I saw a familiar face standi box at the corner, and in a minute I recognized Harry W: : President, who ently making some sort of a speech to the assembled multitude, among whom I recognized Edna Gleen, Harriet Mastom and Lil lian MacArdle. “Well,” I said to my- self, “I always knew that those girls were crazy about Harry, and I guess they still are.” Harry was making some sort of a speech and I gathered that he was running for President of the United States, which didn’t surpr me at all as Harry always was a poli tician in high school days A little further along I heard some one making a speech on another corner, and I looked a little closer and saw that it was Beatrice Franley, who was making a speech against the use of face-powder by girls. It seemed that Prohibition had been done away with but that Beatrice was trying to get an amendment to the Constitution pre- Chait $< reek ond Latin. 7 Fis tpl ii} ‘4 4 were in school William and Gertrude were always eating ice-cream at recess together, so I wasn't much surprised to find that they had gone into the ice- cream business, it occurred to me that they probably ate more ice-cream than they sold Pretty soon I came to a big crowd which was watching a couple of prize- fighters fighting, and imagine my sur Prise to find out that the prizefighters were Louis Wrentham and George Du Grasse, who had evidently gone in for prizefighting, The referee was Mr Ranser, our old algebra teacher, and I guessed that he would give the decision to George, as George always was a favorite of his and probably still was. In a little while I found myself in England, and there I was told that Walter Dodd had been made King England because he always dressed like a dude in high school, and that he had married Miriam Friedburg and had made her Queen of England, The Prince of Wales had fallen off his horse so often that the English people had elected Philip Wasserman to be Prince because he was so good at using ponies in high-school Latin In France I fe that George Disch, Harry Petro, 1 Walters, Robert Dimmock, Edwin LeFavre and Eddie Matsdorf were working in a café to gether and that Mary Duggan, Louise Creamer, Margaret Penny and Freda Bertel were constant mers, In Germa Albert Vog Kaiser because h On the boat coming back I saw Wil liam Debney, Stella Blum, Arthur Crandall, Noble MacAnson Henry Bostwick, 1 looking r than they did in North {entral, but evidently prosperous, and just as I landed America I woke up and realized that it hi all heen nothing but a dream bert C. Benchley had been che was so bossy Chair of Ostronomy, comicbooks.com