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

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With beauty all around her, 'Mid blooming flowers and singing birds VVhich tend to her inspire, These make her poems widely read, X Filled with poetic fire. Now, Florence Abbott's smiling face, S Is on the lens reiiected, As soon as she left school she wed, QT is just as we eXpected,j She met her husband at the Fair, They lived awhile in Lansing, ' Where she the art of singing taught, And he the art of dancing. Appointed foreign minister, He soon took her to China, That 's all that Florence had to tell, And so I rang for Mina. She spends her time in lecturing, For Womanis Rights she works, And thof her life is threatened oft, She ne'er her duty shirks. With Dewey Seeley, next, I spoke, A prosperous man is he, And running now a chicken-farm, Where Leadley's7' used to be. HEvangelists, terms cheap,77 a sign You read above the door Of the office of two maidens Of the Class of 794. '

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As when he was a senior And brought such pets to school. For Burda Northrop, next I rang, A moment, then she came, UI live inrsingle blessedness, And Northrop is still my name. A patent medicine I make, A remedy most sure, Six bottles for tive dollars 't is, a And man or beast It will curef' 'Faye Lawrence, elocutionist, Travels from town to town, She is with the High School male quartette, And with them wins renown. An English teacher, Mabel Main, And with her methods new, She makes that study interesting, And quite instructive, too. Then Henry Ballard came to view, 4'Now what is your vocation?'7 I almost tainted as he said, y '4An honest politician. For though, in eighteen ninety-three, T heyhad one at the Fair, I had not seen for many years, , An article so rarei Next to the 'phone Rebecca came, A poetess, no wonder! A handsome home. in Florida,

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Yes, Robinson 85 Randall, I Are two names, to-day, well-known For the power of Mattie's' sermons, if And Nina's touching song Wolllcl turn the hardest sinner From the error of his course, Ani. touch the very coldest heart With feelings of remorse, And then came Mary Humphrey, ah! She, you 7d not recognize, Detective in Chicago, now, She wears a deep disguise. it ffOh, yes, I like the work,'7 said she, 'ft is a life exciting, And when not hard at work, I stay At home and do my writing, For I am working on a book- 'Black Beauty lt will excel- You knew my fondness for a horse, ' In school-days, very well. ' John Hoag, next I spoke with, He, at Okemos holds forth, And at 'his dry goods he says You 'll get your moneyis worth. For Harley Newman, now'I called+ Ah, there is thaticlassic brow, That stately. form, majestic mien, And he 's at Harvard now. I A learned professor there is he,