University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Of axin' yo' il' yo' didn't think yo' c'nd step a little higher- ll been talkin' down to town to sonic as think 'en kalkel-late That fer congress this fall yo're the logicul candidate . -- O pshaw niy uncle says, don't think it's in my line, I'n1 kind o' sort o' plain 'en ain't inutch on the shine. G-ness yer better let nie stay here jest abeout's I am, I w'ant picked out fer Washington, en besides yer Uncle Sam Has got a heap o' better ones than me to represent - But 'f Dan'nl, so wuz Lincoln plain, 'en he was president. Thet's what we want, we want a man a-representin' there Who ain't in fer nl 'busterin', 'en will do things on the square 'En then my uncle whistles but jest before he ends ' The talk he says to him et he's in the hands o' friends. Then he says, H yer pa tells me thet you've got it in yer hat Thet yo' will be a lawyer-now, what's the truth o' that ? Thought I would, I answered up. Well, now, my little man, Do you know you'll hev to work hard if you adopt that sort o' plan. There'll be days 'en days when the spiders' occupy yer door Doin' nuthin' else but spinnin' webs, en then yer ofhs' floor Will be worn out thin and clean by yer walkin' up and down, A waitin' fer yer clients thet never get aroun'. 'En then, besides, you've got to have a lot of push 'en pluck, This yer lawin' business aint by no means circumstance 'en luck, You've got ter hev some brains, my boy, 'en do a lot o' work, If yo' win, you've got to drive--it'll neyerdo to shirk. Then I say, C' my father says thet you was a lazy kid, That whenever they was hayin' a sidlin' Offygu slid, 'En they'd find yo' in the shed a talkin' to the pigs About the mean rapscalusness of the low-lived thievin' Whigs, Or Emmet's ff Vindication , to the brindle cow and calf, En thet the littlest of them two would look at you 'en laff. ' I-Ie did ? says he, thet may be so, but I'd hev' you know, r my man, You'll hev' to recite a long, long while before ryou're uncle Dan . I guess thet's so, but I will try to learn to spout 'en say Pieces 'bout the stars 'en stripes 'en grand Ameriky, So I kin hev' a span of colts, a farm and hired man, 'En be talked of fer congressmen jest like my uncle Dan. GEORGE IQUSSELL BARKER. 16 I 1 l I 1 i n ? l i a l i t 1 . j 1 l l Z, ill l , l I i f 5 4 l l

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Clie new woman H toast Given at the Webster Society Banquet, january io isea OU ASK me to drink to the New WVoman's health, A tribute to pay to her womanly wealth Of intellect, sympathy, true heart and mind The heritage given to fair woman kind. I drink not to eyes that are limpid and blue, Nor lips that are carmined with delicate hue, I drink not to hands that are shapely and small, But I drink to the heart that is nobler than all. I drink to her intellect,-equal of man's, A mind that devises, and studies, and plans. I drink not to empress nor princess remote, But I drink to the woman who some day will vote The world has moved on and we do not neednow, The woman all smiles with the ball-room bow, Though some may prefer the old ' clinging ' kind, With heart' well developed-but minus the mind. Wfe need not the Dora's of Dickens' page, But Agnes, the type of a far better age, ' Not an insolent queen on her canopied. throne, But a Portia, pleading for justice alone. If our forefathers fought for their rights, years ago Can you blame t-he New Woman for now doing so P Is she wrong in opposing, with head lirm and brave, The common-law doctrine of master and slave? We voters forget, when the caresof state vex, A That a soul is a soul-regardless of sex, And that liberties dear to the masculine heart Should form of a woman's existence a part. I honor the woman whose mind can explore The wonderful depths of professional lore, Who struggles this nation of ours to improve, And shoves the world on in the way it should move I drink to the woman who fights her own way, And I trust the ff New M Wfoman is with us to stay HENRY ED Noir-roMP