THE CHEM AW A
AM ERICAN
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will be engin eerin g , the sam e th a t he studied at Chem aw a. H e will
have a laboratory in w hich he will spend all his spare tim e. H is in v en
tions of a gasolineless engine for autom obiles insures a com fortable com
petence as a long as he lives, but he w orks h ard er th an ever on his hobby,
perpetual m otion. In cid en tally , he invents an egg-beater th a t is ru n by
electricity.
He does not build a house to liv e in, for he has never cared
for girls and could never be reconciled to buy in g a new dress every
change of the season. H e will live in his laboratory w ith a c I ock for a
com panion u n til, seized w ith a longing for ad v en tu re, he will go to
p lant the S tars and Stripes at th e South Pole and will never be seen nor
heard of again.
Some brothers are alike in appearance and m anner. T h e boy of
whom I now tell you is a b rother to the w arrior liefore m entioned, but
he is w holly unlike his illustrious kinsm en. H e is slighter of statu re
and quieter of m anner, and his aversion to fighting is so great th a t he
would not even sw at a fly. H e has a hidden treasu re som ew here, and
as soon as he leaves school he will dig it up and travel in unexplored
lands. H is h air-breadth escapes will fill a book us big as an unabridged
d ictionary , b u t I shall not give his career in detail. W hen he reaches
C hina he will stop and become a leader in th e civilization of the C h i
nese. H e will spend the rest of his life teaching the natives th e ways
of the w hite man and the In d ian .
T he n ex t is the artist of our class. H is high brow, his refined be
havior, speak eloquently of good breeding and account tor his love for
the beautiful. M usic and carto o n in g are his specialties, b u t it is in the
com position and execution of exquisite m usic th a t he will excel. A fter
a few m ore years of stu d y , he will establish his studio in a th riv in g
tow n of A laska w here he will spend a long and useful life teaching the
youth of his native land to appreciate and to give expression to the
beautiful.
T he most talented girl of the class is of fair com plexion w ith d ark
wavy hair. H er figure is slight and ju st the rig h t proportion for w ear
ing the present fashion of dress becom ingly. She know s how to take
a joke and how to m ake one. She has been in Chem aw a since she was
a small child, b u t she will soon leave for Y ork State w here her first b en
evolent act will be to secure an endow m ent for a library for poor am
bitious young people. She is a good suffragette and will tak e a p ro m in
ent p art in politics of the state.
H ers will be the honor of being the
first wom an m ayor of New Y ork C ity. She will be influental in rid d in g
th e state governm ent of co rru p tio n . She will be as noted in her way
as Jane A dam s or C lara B arton are in theirs.
It is a proud class th a t can send forth at least one good cook. W hen
we hear th e word “ co o k ” we im m ediately form a m ental p ictu re of a big