Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-23
THE DESTRICK SKULE.
A VERY ENJOYABLE ENTERTAIN
MENT GIVEN AT BONHAM.
The Ladies' Aid Society Furnishes an Eve
ming u Pleasure for a Good Cause.
How School Was Kent
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

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The entertainment was given under the
auspices of the Ladies' Aid society. and the
| participants Were the most prominent ladies'
and gentlemen in town, who
IN farce, entitled ''The Destrict
Skule." for q few hours kent the
audience IN continual uproar. With their
| abbreviated skirts ana the lengthy pantal-
| cite Of a generation ago, these staid mar
rleG folks seemed to renew their youth with
| tGclr costumes aud for one evening were
the miscnievous children OF a village
| schOoi. The performance of each was so
excellent that it is difficult to tell who most
| distinguished themselves
Mr. Z. c. Hudson, as Prof. Duistcr-
! sBifie. represented admirably the long
| suffering country schOOlnaster OF 4 quarter
! Of = century ago.
The numerous members of the Honey
| suckle family contributed much to the
! amusement of the evening as well az the
size of the school. Mrs. Il c. Alexander
| rs Mrs. Honeysuckle. who was given to
tzgHsSain@ poetry but was always after
y fidin her light under busnel" was excel
lent. and remarkably youthful for the
| mother OF so many children. Miss May Al
! eXanGcr was extremely amusing as the Me
hitable Sophia Honeysuckle whose time
! WIS consumed in attending to the nasal ap-
! pe-dage Of her idiOtic brother Ezekiel Jed
| ediah, who didn't know uothin', but was
I bright and willin' to larn." This character
WIS assumed by Mr.. Chas u. Hunter ''ris-
! ing young lawyer. Mr.. Geo. BAR cashier
o. me bonham national bank, who in his
! colossal proportions somewhat resembles
| Jcnn L. sullivan, was excellent as Little
btGuIe- MIS-: lat hdgsda!e did very
I good work IS Hannah Jane HOueysuckle.
| one OF lhe hllS OF t4e evening was the
! negro servant OF Jhe f1oneySuchle family IN
me person ot Mr.. Ii. :; Alexander, HIS
SOLO on an instrument OF ms own invention
! and 4 rleVerly executed clog dance brought
| Gown tne mousse Out ne modesIiy refused TO
! Tgatonu 70 i IedfIy encore. MIS- George
! D-air Is lhe cry ba0y' ana MIS-.
oA1 "a. Th"lll'' as the glggIn2
Elfi were excellent IN their re
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/ 0i,t Of = very small role Mr. r 4 DyaI
+ editor of the Farmers Review. as Grover
| Cleveland. cave a pleasing exhibition of his
B5s-1,iouir ability in an ny+retnaiv dr,-
matt. rendition of that historic Dnnn1
..Cassibfancbo,. :, In NIani+obIe IonaS ono
of he naurbtiest of the mischievous chill
dren il vas diffruIt Ia racogni2a ETrs q
4. Preston. Her ESSAY ON tLe subject of
Rsuianin Franklin vas extremely arnus-
inc Mrs Henry Ghn,+I.i,Irra &C S,Sp,antbv
PERKINS recited ..'Twiul;Ie. Twinkle. Little
star" with killing gestures. Miss Jessie
Hnov favored the public with a new and
novel recitation entitled. MARY Had 4 Lii
Ill, Lamb Mrs. T. White persouatcd 81
.ira Siimins Mrs l., p Sfeiper assumed
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hAiioN Of SMART Al'i'N'
Kind friends OF the Deestriek Skule:
On behalf of the faculty of this great
cemetery of learnin', | tender to you their
sincere gratitude for your liberal patronage
in estaOiishin' this glorious institution for
the confusion of useful and ornamental in
formation.
My paw was raised in North Caliny. on
Tar Hill Piney Ridge, and him and nav
was married bcfo' | was born. Paw was a
Know kn0thin' befo' the war, but turned
Republican and run for Justice of the Peace
in North Calmly but Democrat beat him
clean out o sight, so paw pulled his freight
for Texas, and has been d mugwump ever
since. ! am proud to say that ! am Il
TEXAN. Native and to the manyore
born
Nav and paw has always been ambitious
about me, but beiu very poor people had