Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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Suffice to say, across the Wire, There came to me aright, A message from each class-mate dear, Wliich I repeat to-night. First, ringing up the central lphone, I asked for Anna,,Long, Who ls now in California, And called the Queen of Song. o She told 'me that she ld traveled far A O'er land and ,cross the ocean, Giving concerts every night, But now she 4' had a 'notion i To leave the stage with all its cares, Endow some Worthy cause, Some charitable institute, A home for aged Zczwsf' The nextone on the list, I End Is Nellie Gongwer's name, A And she, you 'll all ,be pai-ned to hear, Is quite unknown toifame., ,Q g She 's running now a, pop-corn stand, In Lexington, Kentucky, S And says When all her debts, arepaid. She Ill count herself quite lucky. A professional bicyclist next-f, , You know him+H'arry Casef- And it Was,quite 'a pleasure, too, To see his beaming face, I o , Said he, Although do not boast,

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51365 IDFODDGCQ H HOULD old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Ah, no! it is not right,7' thought I, As, musing o'er old times, ,I I wondered how the fates had dealt With those who studied o'er The lessons Seniors had to learn, In eighteen-ninety-four. Full sixteen years have taken flight, And now in nineteen-ten, Illl find out where those people are ' A And what they ,ve done since then. Now, there s the telephonascope, The invention of the day, Through which we see and speak to friends Ten thou-sand miles away. 'T is something like the telephone, We used some years ago, But. so superior to that, You 'd not compare the two. To here describe this instrument, ,T would take too long a time, And lt is entirely too complex, To tell about in rhyme.

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I can say that indeed, Upon a wheel, I Hrst gained fame, All know the biz' I made. . Grace Hagadorn, ,of Chicago, next, A kindergarten teacher, Ah! she 'd command obedience, So stern is every feature. She's taught the little ones that song, 4'The Yellow and the Blue, And for a chapel exercise They have to sing it through. My ,phone was next connected With,a studio in New York, Where day by day, Ruth ,sits and draws She thinks, by patient work, r Some day to bean artist great-g We know she willsucceedg Hers is a will that makes a way , ln any time of need. A large farm, Jessie Ballard runs, And in her yearlyraising , Of wheat, potatoes, corn and oats, She has. prospered ' quite amazing. Next steps up to the lphone, a form Decked out inred and yellow 5 'T is Harry Lewis-snake,charmer- A brave an,d,.dar,ing fellow, Who handlesidangerous reptiles now With manner .quite as cool, I ,