Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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THE 1914 ALMANAC Her face so fair, upturned to his. Bespoke the truth. XYhile he, with subtle tare, Her thoughts did share. A shriek-a whiz- He had the tooth. She could swing a six-pound dumbbell. She could fence and she could box: She Could row upon the riyer, She could claniher 'mong the roclcsg She could golf from morn till evening, And play tennis all day long, But she couldn't help her mother, 'Cause she wasn't very strong. No word was spoken when they met, By either, sad or gay: And yet one hztdly smitten was, 'Twas mentioned the next day. They met hy chance this Autumn eye. XYith neither glance nor how: They often come together thus- A freight train and a cow. The Bank for East Side People T e Peoples, State Savings Bank STARR AVENU E The Best Service is none too good for their Customers. Special care given to Savings Depositors. EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBHHHHHHHHHHHHUHIIHHHHHHHIIHHHIIHHHIIHDHHIIHDH 1 '74

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THE 1914 ALMANAC TH li FCM JTBALL MAN She had long been considered the prettiest maid, The queerest and coolest of all, And the youth who approached her might place all his bets Cn a hard, disastrous fall. Wlearing her hair on the top of her head, This maiden walked and noticed no nian by the way, Till a creature with masses of hair on his head, And clad in a sweater of gray- Approached herg oh, dear, her heart pit-a-pat, Beneath her waist ruffles did beat, And she caught her sweet breath with a cute little gasp, And blushes swift manteled her cheek. She smiled as she blushed. the creature it grinned, And they wandered far from town, And when all alone, with his arm 'round her waist He made what they call a touchdown She called him her dearie, her own duckie-duck, And a lot of such goo-gooing gush, And then for the hundred and twentieth time, Her face stopped a grand center rush. She smiled as they met and she smiled some more, As close as she clung to himg And found that the chances of all other girls, XYith her dream were mighty blame slim. VVith her face in his face and her arms round his neck, She swore she forever was his: And the way that she clung would make any vine, Get out of the tree-climbing biz. NVhat mattered to her if he'd lost an eye, If his nose was knocked round to his ear? Or his slats caved in or his stomach jammed out, Clear out of its natural sphere? VVhat matter to her if his legs were broke, Gr his backbone out of place? She cared not a bit if she still could tell The back of his head from his face. He could smoke if he wished, and chew if he must. Or by influence rush the can, Since she swore a swear that he must be hers, For he was her Football Klan. 173

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THE 1914 ALMANAC OH! XYHAT A WORLD. L. Aue could take a worthless sheet of paper, write a poem on it, and make it worth S10 Q ???j. Thats genius. Our treasurer. H. Towe, could write a few words on a sheet of paper and make it worth S100 C ??j. That's capital. Bill Eliot could take material worth 10 cents in the machine shop and he might make it into an instrument worth 555. That's skill. Leo Kietzman could write a cheque for 5550.000 and it would not be worth 10 cents. That's tough. Esther Graves could purchase a hat for 75 cents-but. of course, prefers one worth 320. That's nonsense. The staff burns the midnight oil to turn out some pages for you to criti- cise. That's The Almanac. If you handed in a story or joke for The Almanac- That's School Spirit. That's what we want ! ! Florence Black- I don't think that one should always obey one's par- ents, do you? Cecil ? Cecil XV.-i'XVhy, I don't knowg what makes you ask Florence-f'Last night when one of the boys was here fplease take noticej, papa called down: 'Florence, put out the lightf and of course I did it. And when he came down stairs and found us in the dark he was just raving madf, APPLIED MATHEMATICS. I sometimes wonder what's the use Of squaring the Hypothenuseg Or why, unless it he to tease, Things must be called Isoceles. Qf course I know that mathematics Are mental stunts and acrobatics, To give the brain a drill gymnastic, And make grey matter more elastic. Is that why Euclid has employed Trapezium and Trapezoid I wonder F-yet it seems to me That all the Plain Geometry One needs is just this simple feat- XVhate'er your line, make both ends meet! 175