Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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EVA HORTON “It's wiser being good than bad— And she is always good. MARIE CASEY Somebody I know Hopes one day for reputation. ’ ’ JOSEPH TRINAJSTIC Morning, evening, noon and nigh!, They praise him, every one. LAURA SATAVA Blue were her eyes like the fairy flax Her cheeks like the'dawn of day. FRIEDA LUCHT The girl, who wrote these verses true, And ne’er complained a bit We hope at least she ’ll please a few, With all this real, fine wit. (The Editors.) 31

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GOLDIE THOW “Oh, and her genius put t.o scorn The proudest in the purple born.” HELEN MEYERS “0, true and tried so well and long From very weakness she seemed strong.'' LESTER SMITH When reading back his shorthand notes, His eyes would quite give out, So with his pencil for a cane He’d feel his way about. LOUISE HOEWENER “Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And foresees things, not yet occurred. ROSE RAVITCH “For she was jes’ the quiet kin' Whose natures never vary. Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow hid in Jenooary. ” 30

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ADA ROGERS A si range propensity she had For wearing bright red bows— But who can teJlf Perhaps they helped To brighten banking woes. MAURICE ZTPSER “lie listened not when people jabbered hard. But folded his two hands, and let them talk. ” ESTHER HEDTN Her voice is low, and she so tall That teachers, on their knees Must crane their weary necks to say, “Won't you speak louder, PLEASEf” JOE KONCANA Who, after taking salesmanship, Had learned to use no slang, Walked straight out of the room and said-“Oh, I don't give a hang! ELLA SCHROEDEK From girlhood back to babyland Without a word she goes, By just a motion of the hand, Or tilting of the nose. 32