Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Even in 'Na-.ture. BY G. C., '00. A Maple gay, - In all the glory of her full array, n Of richest red and gold, Said to a Pine-tree, bent and old, p I wish you would change that sombre green It's really the ugliest gown I've seen. In a mouth there will be a clearing-sale I Held in this Wood. 1,111 sure, my dear, you cannot fail To End things cheap and good. The Pine looked down with a scornful air, And answered the Maple with spunk, My child, I have plenty of things to wear, ' But I keep them locked in my trunk.

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Fraternity. BY M. P. MURPHY. IDedicated to CHAPTER ZETA, or SIGMA LAMBDA NU, of the Toledo High School.1 When Adam from the garden fled, An angel's hand bereft The garden of its gifts, 'tis said, But, moved to pity, left One sapling which he deemed might prove A boon to you and me. The flower of that tree is Love, Its fruit Fraternity. In Godls own garden it had birth, This tree, whose royal shade Gives to the bare and barren earth Bright hues which never fade. The Master's cause may not be served Much nobler than by ye XVho keep this royal gift preserved In Sigma Lambda Nu. The towering oak, Whose branching limbs At noon make grateful shade, Gives shelter to the birds Whose hymns Make joyous all the glade. Unswerved by aught that may befall May Chapter Zeta be The branch that towers above them all, On Sigma Lambda Nn.

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Iimsey lVlcGlegg on the Wand'rings of Aeneas. ' BY B. A. S. AY, Dink, did youse ever read about A-Eneas? No? Well, straight goods, you've missed it. Dat's right. , 'Huh? Naw, course it ain't written by Burt L. Standish, or d' aut'or of Diamond Dick an' his pals, but it's.about I-247-, an' no mistake. The feller wot speiled dis t'ing passed in ,his checks 'fore Dewey wuz born, but, say, he wuz onto his job, if he did live before Manila Bay. Q He wuzn't up much on de rules of de game, an' got his story balled up once in a While, but considerin' dat he wuz an Eye- talian, there's nuthin' t' kick about. Well, as I wuz sayin', d' story is about a feller called 'Eneas He didn't seem t' have no other name, of de aut'or forgot it, but I ' he wuz a Wize Guy, jes' the same, an' had nerve to burn. He'dA knock wid hislittle hammer once in a while, w'en luck wuz against him, an' call fer his ma-W'ich wuz Mrs. Venus-W'en he wuz in trouble, or d' p'lice wuzafter him for ridin' on d' sidewalk widout a lantc-:rn+ar1' say, Dink, 'I tells yer right here, dat no feller ought t' yell fer de old woman w'en d' gang is after him, dat's right-but he wuz, a warm . baby jes' the same, this Eneas feller.. Well, as I wuz sayin', Hilneas an' d' rest of his push wuz 'called Tro- n D' story is about a feller iEneas. called jans, an' dey hung out at a place called Troy, not Laundry or Ohio, but ies' Troy. Now, dis bunch got