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THE BOOK OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-ELEVEN

 

 

Schmidtie, domestic, stay-at-home,
Says that she will never roam
Even for the briefest space

From her conjugal fire-place.

Another devotee of married life

Is Henrietta, and makes a charming wife,
Marguerite and Florence set this fashion
Of succumbing to the grandest passion.

To marry? to eat three meals a day with one poor stupid man!
H. P. swore firmly: “That I never can!”

Yet how “infinitely satisfying” this may be

She writes in old-time joy of ecstasy.

Charlotte Claflin, with classic steps and graceful glides,
With Isadora Duncan dances, and thus hides

Her literary light

Beneath a chiffon white.

Alice Eichberg has a kindergarten neat

With Ethels, Methels, and Teddy bears replete.
Margaret Friend amounts to much,

Does civic improvements, factory work, and such.

Hilpa has found her mission

In a library position.

Dr. Williamson urged her to it
And she says she'll never rue it.

Ruth Gaylor’s beauty, proud and cold,
Enthralls all men, both young and old.

Elsie Funkhauser, a maid of honour so many times with such success
Edits now the Journal column, which tells the bride how she should dress.