Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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Nineteen-forty (2ta±± Tune— Man on the Flying Trapeze' I’m stuffed to the gills with Spruces and Pines of compassing circles and drawing straight lines of prickling out seedlings in nice little flats then pricking out more 'til I think I’ll go bats. I’ve studied my ferns and keyed out my flowers and pondered o’er Soils ’til “Dawn Patrol” hours. I’ve pruned and I’ve sheared all the neighboring trees when it’s 50 below and a 10-mile breeze. I’ve set out Tomatoes in neat little lines I’ve tied up the Lima and Cucumber vines Oh yes, and I’ve even run up and down chasing the plow pulled by old Buster Brown. Can’t you just see me pursuing a bug with a gleam in my eye and a cyanide jug I’ve absorbed Chemistry and there for a spell I drank H,0 and ate NaCl. 1 distinctly remember each heifer and cow I’ve groomed and I’ve fed so I can’t forget now I’ve dropped in my chair when the day's work is done But the best part of all is, I’ve had lots of fun. 30 Carolyn Jones '40

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 StakLitie± Wise-Acres What If Noted For Needs to Ambition Destiny She weren't a good sport Her tiny waist Have more free hours To have a farm To be a sharecropper There were no Penn State Banging her head on the wall Stop talking in her sleep To grow own vegetables under glass To grow violets There were no colours Her happy thoughts Dye everything black To obtain all species To have one Ger-of Geraniums anium in her kitchen window There were no Dell concerts her lovely hair Eat more To be a Botanist To find the right solution There were no rock gardens Cleaning her room Wear a watch To be a Horticultural journalist To write comic strips The Royal Air Force moved back to Canada “At homes” in the rec. room Relax To be happily married with her own garden To have the garden Cows did give buttermilk Her bird-like appetite Believe l % of what she hears To raise horses To have nightmares She stayed up after 8 o’clock Her delicious cakes Be a teacher Garden consultant To join “Information Please” She didn’t have a car Her wise cracks Wash her own hair To own a florist shoppe To be a traveling wife There were no Yearbook Her business ability Make up her mind To write the Great American Novel “True Confessions” She curled her hair Her steady nerves Pass a Woodies test To be a poet To paper a room with reject, slips She had a complete drafting outfit Leaving the windows open in the Ac building Have more time Not to be a glamour A Zasu Pitts girl She had no car Her trusting nature Think before she speaks To beat Johnny in Journalism To write Great American novel Her Saintpaulias Rushing around did bloom Learn to knit To raise a string of To be strung Morgans along by a Morgan (J. P.) There were no Rock gardens Talking fast Work on Friday To plant Alpine plants in the Alps To get up there and yodel She giggled Her laugh Take a P. G. as a general To be a landscape architect To become involved in a triangle She weren’t a special Roomful of Juniors Learn how to spell To be a landscape architect To have to work She got to class 5 minutes ahead ner lovely disposition Talk more To raise ponies To get by exams with ponies She ever got mad Her sneeze Be less scarey To be a housewife To be a housewife There were no Europe Her lovely hands Come down to earth To be a Horticultural Therapist To be an Entomologist They weren’t so much fun Practical outlook Have more classes To have a model like ours class To have a muddled class They didn’t prune at 10 below Hard work (?) Teach the heifers To be Davy Tree to brush their men own hair Davy Jones’ locker The worm turned Pushing pencils Join the WPA None Dust 29

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