Social media of my day – the autograph book! I’ve been into old stuff and found all these goodies. Hope you will enjoy them with me. A sampling for today – more to come later.—
My hair won’t stay in place, I have freckles on my face, but just the same my heart beats true, for some one so lovey – like you.
Remember the dear old school days, when you and I were young, We used to pull each other’s hair – and chew each other’s gum.
I’m glad the sky is painted blue and the earth is painted green, I’m glad there’s so much nice fresh air, all sandwiched in between.
The world is like a mirror, reflecting what you do, And if you face it smiling, it will smile right back at you.
I wish you health, I wish you wealth, I wish you gold in store. I wish you Heaven when you die. How could I wish you more?
A friend is a word of royal tone. A friend is a poem all alone.
If you would look into my heart, and find the love that’s there, If you would change it into gold, you’d be a millionaire.
When the evening sun is sinking, and your mind from trouble is free, While of others you are thinking, won’t you sometimes think of me.
I’m not a roaming rover, I’m not a blooming rose; I’m just a little western girl with freckles on my nose.
MAY YOU SIT ON THE CARPET TACK OF SUCCESS, AND RISE RAPIDLY.
Sweet aroma 
wow love these Oneta, you’ve got my grey matter churning trying to think of some old favourites … will put them in a post when I get the recall … thanks for this walk down memory lane 🙂
Thanks, calmkate. I interested in what your mind brings forth on this subject. Different locale. There are some that reveal much wisdom and common sense. Others are fluff, but cute.
yes exactly and there were some regular ones, they will come when I’m less busy!
I have two of my mother’s autograph books. They’re quite wonderful — so much so that I wrote about them once. Three of the sayings you quoted here are in her books, as well.
I had autograph books when I was in school, too, but as I recall, that ended about sixth grade. By the time we hit ninth grade, we used our school annuals as a place to sign our names and leave messages. I have no idea what happened to my autograph books. I suppose in a fit of feeling too grown up for such things I got rid of them.
This list I have contains about 70-80 entries which I copied from my mother’s autograph book; some are from an aunt. I have a couple dozen or so from my own book. I will use them tomorrow. It is noteworthy that three sayings common in our books. I looked up some (googled) short entries in google but didn’t find anything that way. I did find some under “sayings in autograph books,” but I liked mine better. Some were a little highbrow for me. I might come up with “Monkey do, monkey see; do see that monkey in the tree.” See, not highbrow. 😀 Hope you run onto yours someday. We did the yearbook thing too, but they were mostly dull – just “remember our good old high school days” kind of thing.
These are wonderful! Surely beats the ones in my year book! 💖
My yearbook contains nothing that would thrill a writer. “Remember Mr. A in this first hour putting us to sleep with his lessons” doesn’t grab one who loves words.
hahahaha!! I have some witty ones, but mostly, “Good luck in the future” was the common one. Very original, don’t you think? 😉
Quoting a Blogger friend “Yep” – or maybe, “Nope.”
I am going to have to dig up my “social media” books and find those old rhymes from my childhood! Thanks for sharing these Oneta!
Looking forward to seeing if there seems to be a difference in cultures of geographical settings.
It has no search feature or spell check……. NAY I SAY NAY
You make a couple of important points. 😀 Stay with me. I’m not through with this subject. 😀
since I’m working backward in playing catch up while here at the beach, I’m now where I think you “embroiling” began…I have my moms autograph book from her summers at camp during the early 40’s—I so love reading what they each wrote to one another …One thing I learned—my mom won for having the prettiest toes 🙂
Now that’s a teaser! What about the toes? Camp contest? Enjoy that beach time.
I guess it was a camp contest—of all the craziet things…mother could paint some lovely red toenails—and they were in a lovely size decending fashion–unlike mine with the second toe being longer than my big toe—they say folks with that 2nd toe business are the rulers of the roost—my husband just says it’s easy to track me on the beach 🙂
Husbands are so practical. 😀
Wow! Thank you Oneta. I too now want to find my stored autograph books and find the gems from the past particularly from teachers and people of God who encouraged me so long ago. Blessings! Hope to read more from you.
I love the humor, originality, good advice, and common sense in those old books. This one sticks with me. Don’t make love be the garden gate. Love is blind, but the neighbors ain’t. 😀
Here is one from my mother’s 1934 autograph book: “Love you once, Love you twice, Love you better than cats do mice.”
Well, yes. I like that. 1934 – the year I was born. Thanks for sharing.
Just catching up with some of your posts, Oneta, and this one is so fun! I like how you called autograph books the social media, and it was back in the day. I still have mine, and have thought of doing a post about it, and now you have inspired me to do so. I love all the cute rhymes and sentiments people wrote. 🙂
They really were quite creative, weren’t they? I wonder how much they contributed to my love of rhyme. Probably a lot. Hope to read your blog on the same subject sometime.
They sure were! I found a little book at a book sale a long time ago, and it had lots of rhymes for autograph books. Pretty cute. I don’t think my school friends were quite that creative, though some were pretty good. I’ll work something up about this soon. 🙂
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