The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
TEACHERS, BANQUET.

Emporia Echool Teachers and the Board Of Edu
cation Feast fogether-W. s. Jays Humorous
Speech.
Friday afternoon at about
O'Clock all the city school teachers, to-
gether with the school board and their
wives, gathered in the Candy Kitchen,
where a delightful banquet was en-
joyed. F'ifty-three in all sat down to
the tables. The feast was gotten up in
Hawkins best style and was most !
thoroughly enjoyed. Teachers can be
as jolly, and know as wei as others
how to enjoy good thing.
The symposium was gotten up by
the second section, so called because
the educational staff of the city schools
is organized into a society, and for con-
venience divided into five divisions,
each of which is expected to provide
entertainment for the benefit of the
whole corps. The second section, TAX
ing advantage of the holiday season,
incorporated with the usual literary
| programe an excellent rejection, of
which j. II. Hawkins was the efficient
caterer. After the guests had once
again proved the maxim that the road
to the heart lay through the stomach,
and were discussing the entrees, Prof.
Klock announced that the hosts of the
hour had provided something additional
for the general benefit, and that w. s.
Jay would respond to the sentiment,
women in Politics.
Mr.. Jay said that since the origin of
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of beauty and intended to be joy for
ever"-Out Of bone, she had been a
bone Of contention and most cOnten-
tious bone; in fact, was the one grand
error in creation. She had been in per-
sistent rebellion against the rest of the
anatomy from which she was taken,
| always longing for the unattainable;
took sides with the serpent in the first
great controversy; claimed to be OF the
saltsOf the earth by virtue of her kinShip
with Lots wife. AS JeZebel she mall
treated the prophets; as Delilah she
betrayed the judges; as Sarah, on one
occasion, came near running the old pa
triarch. and as Jael abused the sacred
rite of hospitality by the murder OF her
guest and was praised by the only Wo-
man judge in Israel for the cowardly
and disgraceful treachery. So these
modern Jael'S of the second section
and include Sister Dudley in this cat
egory-haVe taken advantage of the
weakness of the fl -sh to have the most
potent, grave and reverend SignorS of
the board of education make an eXhi-
bition of themselves as after dinner
speakers. Passing down the ages. the
speaker continued: 1--WE find the jeal-
Gus Elizabeth beheading her more beau
tiful sister, and Marie de Medici evad-
| ing the wise provision of the Sale law
by assuming the regency where she
could not be queen. Even here
and now she defled the teaching of
holy writ as interpreted by the great
| apostle of the gentileS by encro2chlng
upon the prerogatiyes of men in church
and state. The board of education of
this district are now engaged in what
appears to be fruitless struggle, try
ing to convince the women members of
the board that two are not majority
of ten and are met with the unanS-
werable statement that Diety and one
are majority, why not she and Mrs.
Morse? Is it not most time that these,
the most audacious freebOoters of mod
ern times estSught their place? 1t is
true that as educators and in litera-
ture we have now and then an eXcep-
tional success that proves the rule and
that the names Widow Bedott, Mrs.
Darlington, Josiah Aliens wife and
the teachers of the second division will
spaces, showing the poverty of their
surrounding.
, Here Mr.. Jay was forced to suspend
as mob was organizing and tar and
feathers seemed TO be in great demand.
Prof. Klock announced ''The School
and Law as the next sentiment. and
! w. w. Scott as the eXpounder. Mr..
. Scott, warned by the fate of Jay, said
!, he would try and be brief. He said he
had read somewhere the statement that
a nations ballads were more potent
, factor in her civilization than her laws,
. and he thought that if this could be
e truthfulIy said of the songs of people
how much more truthfully could it be
said of her schools. He said the basis
+ of law was custom and the basis OF
q custom was education. The people OF
t Kansas might well be proud of heI
school system, and especially of the
present most delightful innovation
e These periodical gatherings of the
q members OF our various trades and pro
a LESSONS were bound to advance the in.
} terests of humanity and inculcate
. ideas of moderation and liberality, and
O by lessening the causes of strife made
j the law more of an arbitrator and less
J of a gladiator.
Prof. Stevens next talked OF
- ''Bivalves," subject of which the
8 company had already, they thought
y an elegant sufficiency, but upon which
!. he succeeded in keeping his audience
= in a roar of laughter, if the expression
may be used in such a gathering. He
g said the oyster was soft and sappy; haC
is its brains in its toes or stomach, and
y therefore, fitting offering from TIT
second section (Stevens is in the fifth
r and he fully believed that ''wise as al
oyster" was a fitting tribute to tha
}. section.
y, Mrs. Morse and DR.. Jackson ais
= spoke in respone to educational O
l. school topics, and Mr.. O'Connor cham
If pioned the Press as an educator
which, in the presence of so many
u ladies, was an evidence of hardihooC
y AMI daring of which he was hardl
J. Thought to be capable. The entertain
re ment, both gastronomic and gaseous
I: was apparently enjoyed and and MI
y Scott, in behalf of the board, hoped tn
epidemic or whatever it was that at
n fiicted the second section might prov
l. to be contagious.
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