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will not be an exception to the rule. Her appearance and attire will agree with the studio, the description of which has just been given, but tbis will not detract in the least from the success 0'£ the artist." Why, Sallie, I thought "ou were going to write sermons for a living. You have changed your mind evidently. And is it possible that you have become so careless and untidy-you who were so neat and particular! But I suppose it was necessary in order for you to be a great artist. "Another member of this class who will carry with him through life his boy- hood characteristics will be Jas. H. Straughn, Jr. Would he but reform his ways before it is too late it would be well with him. But he will not change until his fickleness has brought him to grie'.L Himself fond of girls, he will do. his best to make them care for him, and then will cast them aside, only to find a new victim. 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 Centre- ville. But he will think too much of the ladies and will become careless in his work. After a while he will truly and sincerely love a beautiful young girl, but she 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, for revenge, commit suicide by marrying an ugly, cross-grained girl who will torment him for the rest of his days." Serves you right, Jim; you always had more strikes than you knew what to do with. "Fannie Sutton will be a quiet little girl of a deeply religious nature, not caring for worldly pleasures. Among her classmates she will be noted for her quiet and gentle disposition and for her proficiency in French and German. Soon after leaving school she will become dangerously ill and will be taken to a hospital to be treated. Here she win come in close contact with a Catholic nun, through whose persuasion she will be led to join the Catholic Church. It may be well to add that very few inducements were necessary, as previously she was inclined to religion. Naturally quiet and retiring, she will, a few years later, decide to take the black veil, and by this act cut herself off from the rest of the world in order to devote herself wholly to her Church and its work." Ah, Fan, my dear little friend and companion, is this the meaning of your silence? 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 unkind thoughts that sometimes filled my mind. And just to think! my dear little class- 70