February Thoughts

Solvieg Paulson Russell

When I've been reading stories
Of a long time ago,
I look around at all the friends
And playmates that I know.

I think, "Well, maybe Jim wi
ll be
A president some day; And perhaps people years from now
Will read of Ann or Kay."

Each one of them might render
Some service fine and true;
For Washington and Lincoln
Once were children, too.

And if they grew to be great men
And shaped our country's ways,
We children who are growing now
May serve in future days.

So we who love our country
Should strive each day to be
Wise and worthy leaders
Of the land where men are free.


You Cannot Tell

Daisy Jenney Clay

When Lincoln and George Washington
Were little boys like me,
They never thought when they grew up
That they would ever be

The President; and boys and girls
Over books would pore
That told the way each worked and played
So many years before.

Perhaps I should be careful,
And live my boyhood well,
For sometime they might read of me -
You really cannot tell!


Future Plans

Harriette Wilburr Porter

My brothers and their playmates all
Keep planning what they'll do
When they are very big and strong
And educated, too.

John plans to be an engineer,
And Carl a pastry cook.
And George will go to practice law,
And Ben will write a book.

Tom says he'll be a carpenter.
Don wants to be a cop.
And Bob will keep a grocery store
Or else a candy shop.

They're all so full of business plans
They won't have time to be
The president in Washington -
Which leaves that job for me!