Mincy School

This is the Mincy School in Missouri.  Don't know the year or who is in the photo.  Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey lived near here.  I love the book about her, Candle Within her Soul.

Commonplace

I stick smart weed and beggar lice in with my bouquet

And then I smile when my friends begin to say,

"How beautiful, how delicate, what can these blossoms be?"

"Oh, yes," I say, "Oh, yes, but it takes one just like me

To show you all that common things have beauty, charm and grace,

.....But not until you see them stuck in a crystal vase."

Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey