The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-02-06
FOR SWEET CHARITY SAKE,
The Superior MInstreFs PLAY to a
Crowded Housc..An Enjoy
able Evening of Jokes.
and Songs and
Speeches.
THE DRILL OF THE >CE ,;,-ss,bS
The Singing Pig Expires on the Eve OF the
Performance. from over.
Training

yer audience ever greeted q cOTnDanV
than that which occupied SUPERIOR
favorite theatre on the occasion of the
heneht given to the city hospitals By
| the Superior Ministries. 1t was com
posed of the all classes, and spoke we'll
Tor the interest taken by the general
publlc IN our hospitals, as also for the
popularity Of the our home MINISTRIES.
The total receipts amounted to SIZE. 80.
OF which the w. G. T. L. will receive
$3.50; st. Mary's, Sl77.25; st. Francis,
Sl4l.50, which amounts may be slightly
reduced when all the expenses are paid
The programme varied somew hat
from that of the previous performance,
a number Of new jokes having been
coined and sprung upon an unsuspect-
ing audience. The evolutions of the
Black Hussars We're very interesting
and won generous applause, as did, in
fact, all the features of the entertain
ment.
At the outset Mr.. Clarkson, one of the
endmen, made feeling, indeed, almost
mise of the singing pig, and said the
boys were all ''busted" over its death.
and a chair was appropriately draped
at one side OF the interlocutor in MEM
DRY of their departed porker Its
owners, Buck Hare and George Forces
man, had ordered a tombstone on which
would be inscribed the following motto:
" Sacred to the memory OF II pounds of
Excelsior sausage" He then told how
he pulled tooth out Of the jaw OF his
mother-in-law by tving fiat iron to it
and throwing the iron out the window.
Unfortunately, the weight dropped on
mans head and knocked his brains
out. The man didn't raise much fuss,
however, and when We commenced to
scrape up his brains tor him he said:
Never mind, | don't need any more;
I'm going to be an end man at the Su-
perior minstrel show next wear"
Buck Hare then sang " lse in Town"
with his usual success. Jokes and songs
then followed one another in succession.
until the conclusion of the first part of
the programme.
The second part consisted of dances,
acrobatic feats, Indian club exhibitions,
a stump speech by Mr.. GARRISON, and
the evolutions of the Black Hussars.
Clarkson's speech was the hit of the
evening both as regards his get-up for
the occasion and the subject matter of
his deliverance. He appeared in the
costume of the new woman, bike. bloom
ers and all. He said:
Fellow women and male trash in
general. appear before you this even
ing as an avoWed champion of our cause,
to discuss the Importance of wOman's
rights, to re-cuss her wrongs and to cuss
the men generally.
am convinced that this world would
have been happier world and women's
position would have been much pleas
anter if man had never existed, and |
thank my stars that my mother was
woman. | maintain that the sexes
were created equal, the woman more so
than the man. not only maintain
these principles but maintain a shift
less husband as well. We are told that
man was created first. Well, supposing
he was-are not first experiments al
WAYS failures? There never was any
thing good in Il man except a rib and it
aas taken from him to make something
better OF which | am one. Man as a
n Ia,
And then again there's poor Eve. They
are always throwing up in our faces the
story of that apple. Now, I'm willing
to bet my new back hair that Adam
pushed Eve up the tree, eat the apple
and then gave her nothing but the core.
Then what did he do? Man-like he
sncaks behind Eve and said: Don t
! blame me; she gave it to me" We've
had to father everything contemplate
! and mean ever since and mother it, too.
/ DO YOU know that men have even had
! the audacitv to call the slot in the cen
| ter of a poker table "kittie' and II that
! cat WAS brought up on the milk of hui
/ man kindness it would have starved to
! death years ago. They have used their
/ caustic tongues on Mary Walker. Did
anyone ever hear a criticism on Ed
ward PavsOu Weston or Dan O Learv,
/ the six day walkers. Not on your yer
anla.
But, my dear sisters, we are bound
to succeed. All the great men OF all ages
/ have been on our side and We have II AZ
for back as Faro-Pnaraoh, | mean,
! Faro is not doing very we'll at presen
have it on the authority of City De
tec;iye Kelly Pharaoh, recognizing
that woman wJn,d eventually rule
issued an order compelling the strans-
ling OF all male children: ii this had
been carried ont, where would some OF
our ladies men be to-day 1t might
have been money III our pockets, and
this would be better, small III amount
though It be, than waiting a dividend
from our detunct banks. Pharaoh was
4 shoe maker by birth although he
never worked at it. We can't all bt
/ Pharaohs but we can wear his TN type
next to our heart in memory of so kind
and generous man.
O, Come with me 10 the lowest and
most degraded portions Of our srea'
city: ascend with me II flights of rick
etv stairs, and what do You behold
Entering A miserable basement you see
before YOU an emaciated female, once
the Belle of Newport, K. l., and cham
mon in tennis circles, but now reduce,
10 a vest-maker in New York city, max
inc 81 vests for 10 cents. Nothing ha'
passed her lips since New Year gu
beer; around her are grouped her /
small children the eldest scarcely toul
wears of age. all CRYING for bread, bu
Oh. kind hearers, she has no bread t
-. .l,-, I'm. Wi n fears in her eVet