Aloha - Hoover Library

will not be an exception to the rule. Her appearance and attire will agree withthe studio, the description of which has just been given, but tbis will not detractin the least from the success0'£ the artist."Why, Sallie, I thought "ou were going to write sermons for a living. Youhave changed your mind evidently. And is it possible that you have become socareless and untidy-you who were so neat and particular! But I suppose it wasnecessary in order for you to be a great artist."Another member of this class who will carry with him through life his boyhoodcharacteristics will be Jas. H. Straughn, Jr. Would he but reform his waysbefore it is too late it would be well with him. But he will not change untilhis fickleness has brought him to grie'.L Himself fond of girls, he will do. hisbest to make them care for him, and then will cast them aside, only to find a newvictim. In short, he will be a flirt in all that the word implies."Jim will receive a position as cashier in the First National Bank of Centreville.But he will think too much of the ladies and will become careless in hiswork. After a while he will truly and sincerely love a beautiful young girl, butshe will refuse him for another. Then it will be another's heart which will break.Poor Jim will grow more careless than ever. Finally, in despair, he will, forrevenge, commit suicide by marrying an ugly, cross-grained girl who will tormenthim for the rest of his days."Serves you right, Jim; you always had more strikes than you knew what todo with."Fannie Sutton will be a quiet little girl of a deeply religious nature, not caringfor worldly pleasures. Among her classmates she will be noted for her quiet andgentle disposition and for her proficiency in French and German. Soon afterleaving school she will become dangerously ill and will be taken to a hospital tobe treated. Here she win come in close contact with a Catholic nun, throughwhose persuasion she will be led to join the Catholic Church. It may be well toadd that very few inducements were necessary, as previously she was inclined toreligion. Naturally quiet and retiring, she will, a few years later, decide to takethe black veil, and by this act cut herself off from the rest of the world in order todevote herself wholly to her Church and its work."Ah, Fan, my dear little friend and companion, is this the meaning of yoursilence? Is this the reason why you have left all of my many letters unanswered?If I could have known it would have been less difficult to force back the unkindthoughts that sometimes filled my mind. And just to think! my dear little class-70