From Grandma's Standard bound NOTE BOOK
Feb. 20, 1904
Memory gems
56. The world is round
And full of sin
Watch out young folk
Or you'll tumble in.
57. From north to south
From east to west
Youre are the one
I love the best.
58. Remember me early
Remember me late.
Remember me at
The golden gate.
59. As sure as a vine
Grows around the stump
You shall be my sugar lump.
60. A loving heart is
better than wealth.
(I've tried to reproduce Grandma's writings accurately, and with out corrections. Don't know what happened to 61-69)
70. When you get married
A broom to you I'll send.
In sunshine use the brush.
In storm the other end.
71. My love for you
will never fail
As long as pussy has a tail.
72. My love for you will always flow.
Like water down a potato row.
73. If you love me and I love you
No one can cut our love in two.
74. A merry heart is better than wealth.
75. Always remember and never forget
You have one friend
in Illinois yet.
76. If you should not be forgotten
As soon as youre dead and rotten
Do something worth writing
Or write something worth reading.
77. Apples are good
Peaches are better
If you love me
Answer my letter.
78. When you get old and ugly
As people sometimes do
Remember you have a friend
That is old and ugly too.
79. I love you little
I love you big
I love you like
A little fat pig.
80. May joy and pleasure
be your log
While through this world
You trot, trot, trot.
81. May your virtue live
And spread
Like butter on hot
Gingerbread.
82. When rocks and hill divide us
And you no more I see
Just take a pen and paper
And write a line to me.
83. I you go to a wedding
And they should have
nothing to eat.
Do not say anything
But hunt you a right good seat.
84. If wisdoms ways you wisely seek
Five things observed with care
Of whom you speak
To whom you speak and
How and when and where.
(Love this one!)
86. You I love, and shall forever
You may change, but I will never.
87. May you be happy.
May you be blest
In a neat little cottage
With the one you love best.
88. Strange friends, past
present, and to be
Loved deplier, darklier
understood
Behold I dream
a dream of good.
And mingle all the
world with thee.
89. This our hope for all thats mortal
And we too shall break the bond
Death keeps wath beside the portal
But 'tis life that dwells beyond.
90. When a man weds a grass widow
If his dingty you would lower
Just send as a wedding present
a second hand lawn mower.
(I take it in this context a "grass widow" is a divorced woman)
91. You may roam the plains of Kans.
Where the cyclones madly whirl
But you'll find theres none no better
Than the Edwards County girl.
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