Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-11-03
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
Constructing q College feil For the
Lakerim Club - Sweet
Charity.


Mr.. Rupert Hughes is contributing
serial. 1.-THE Lakerim Athletic Club"
to st. Nicholas. After the IL boys Of
the club have won various athletic con-
tests. they start out to make up suita-
BILE club yell. The following is the ac-
count of their efforts, from st. Nicholas:
Hi! Hi, yil Hi. vi, vi! Booma.
lacka, bow WOW Hullabaloo Yah,
wah Chick go.runk. go-runk Siss
boom 'rah! Hey-ip, hey.ipl Siccum !
sRah-zool Wah hoo! Bang! K-yi,
mockali-onl Buzz saw Boom 'rah |
Hobble-gobble, razzle.dazzlel Breke-
kek-ex. ko-ax, ko.axl Skookum, shook
um r.
This marvellous language was not the
small talk of the debating society of an
insane asylum, nor was II kennel Of
mad dogs broken loose. 1t was only the
Joint efforts of IL solemn young gentle
men to decide upon club yell. Each
man had his own howl, and insisted on
singing ont with it while all the rest
were rehearsing their own. 1t is reported
that when this grand combination broke
loose all the small boys III town thought
circus was coming along with its
calliope (Which, of course, they pro-
nounced "callie-ope"), while the two
small policemen that pretended TO pro-
tect the town of Lakerim are reported to
have thought that gang OF outlaws was
attacking the place and to have crawled
into the deepest ditch in town and pulled
the ditch in after them.
After every one had yelled himself
hoarse each Of the IL began yelling
again TO quiet the others, and the noise
was almost greater than before. At
length, however, they Quoted down
enough to listen to the various candi-
dates for the yell. History proposed "a
long Latin quotation and insisted on at
least having some big words i'll the yell.
He and Boobies joined forces and com
promised Oh the following gem:
Doodle Diddle-uml Dandle-
um! The duodecimal dozenP'
Punk, however, said that this was be-
meath the dignity of such great men
and proposed one which he persuaded
them to try over. 1t could hardly be
called short, but it wac certainly com
plete and consisted not only III spelling
out the full name of the club, but sur
rounding this with most of the we'll
known yells of all the colleges. 1t went
something like this:
"Breke- kek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax Siss
boom 'rah HULA baloo, ma! Lake.
lin A-t-h-l-e-t-i-c club 'Rah, 'rah,
'rah 'Rah, 'rah, 'rah 'Rah, 'rah,
'rah ~
The dozen started vigorously 10 yell
this out and kept together fairly well
until they came to the spelling of the
long name, but there they logan 10 fall
by the wayside. They dropped to the
ground, exhausted, one by one, so fast
that by the time they reached the last
'Rahr 20 only one man survived, anc
that was the long winded Punk, ano
even he gasped it out like sick rooster
After this they all sat still on the
ground where they had fallen ano
thought hard for some time and debated
in whispers. The result Of this debate
was the final selection Of brisk vel
that left some breath in the body of the
yellers, though it threatened TO breal
all the windows for miles around. The
word "Lakerim" was given three times
with long and short j, and the
veil went out in burst of glory, al
the voices keeping together until hal
way through the last long "HooP
when the boys divided and took differ
ent vowels. This gave the yell a BLOOD
curdling sound that reminded b. j. o
the tribes of Indians he had never seen