UULU, lUtJ UrSI UU1UI C!UIIUK.ty __1GM-lTO A FRIEND OF MINEDo you know Rub} Struve?0 yes, you think you do.But Ruby was a girl few People ever knew.Ah, well do 1 remember Ruby as a liiile girl,A picture of health and beauty And her hair hung iu lovely curls.For they started school together And went through the first grades, too.Singing and darn ing and playing As all little first graders lt;10.And Marcella often came home lt* And told of her little pals;Of how the teacher favored one Among the other gals.And who do you guess this little girl was?Well 'twas Ruby, the chosen of all.And then when the scourge of sick* ness came.It was Ruby who answered the call.She’s never been quite the same since then.And still could never make outJust why, and what the reason was.And what ’twas nil about.For she only wanted to be the sameAs all of the other girls.Just loved and noticed and to Join In the gamesAnd be one in life's big whirl.But now she's gone to another placeWhere someone will understand,And will call to her and even stand thereWith a beckoning outstretched hand.So Ruby, your not the only oneWho’s been mJ sunders rood,For there's lots of others who have beenCondemned, when all hey meantwas good.Stella Pa ton o-oALlt;AS1SA1Thnonalter;thesaviiuse i-A wast of at gallolt;-xpllt;Hen i distrAl-of aOSSe:sriSol from alcol in aownvicerad i) tightsihic com be s •a si floor poin ruiU befoMdervat tWgrovColo+*H