The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-02-24
CIRCULATION:
Litchffeld County.
WASHINGTON.

A DELIGHTFUL ENTERTAINMENT.
Editor THE BEE: Agreeable to re-
quest, send YOU little account OF the
"up-to-date' play, entitled, "GreateI
Uncle Sam" Cor United States), taken
from the Christmas number of the Phil.
adelphia Keystone, as enacted at the
last Grange meeting Under the super.
vision of the newly installed lecturer,
Miss Nina Rylander, with the following
cast Of characters:
Miss Columbia, Nina Rylander.
Cuba, Charles Gibson.
Porto Rico, Bert Squares.
Hawaii, Ezra Hull.
Philippine twins, Misses Bailey and Mary
Bacon.
In the opening part Miss Columbia sat
on a pedestal or platform high above tbs
others (supposed to represent keystone)
draped with flags, while she also wa,
draped in fl gs with low neck and sbOr'
sleeves, and holding flag in her hand
while beneath her, partly sitting or re
clining, were grouped the other charac
ters surrounded with limitations of the
separate products of each country as
represented in the prospectus following
(Which send you ss others may want
to get it up for school exhibitions or
other purposes). Hawaii is supposed t.
be boy in short pants without shoes or
stockings, with loose gown and sleeves
rolled up, carrying O bundle of sugar
panp Tn tho rnill-uhioh uoa raprosonfod
in this instance with cOrnstalke, a very
good imitation of cane beariI & size. The
other gentlemen had their faces 5arken-
ed, and the twin sisters are supposed to
be dressed in a single much abbreviated
hempen garment, peculiar to the Malay
or back country Philippian maideDs
professor Worcester, one of the com
missiOners sent by the President TO treat
with them, spent four years in scientific
research mostly among the less civilized
islands, and represents majority OF
them as wild, naked savages, living in
huts and subsisting on grubs and roots
"far cry" to be incorporated into out
civilized body polite, but they need
civilizing.) But our girls did not follow
their prevailing mode of dress, but wert
decked out in bright colors, short white
skirts with wide band of red near the
bottom spangled with stars, red waists
and short sleeves, and even said to be-
quite fetching. The inclemency of the
weather and short time for rehearsala
did not give them sufficient time fol-
practice but 1t was voted decided sue
cess, and as the storm which had beer
raging thI Ough the day kept many of the
Changers away, it is more than likely
that they will be asked to repeat it under
more favorable auspices. The following
is the full text of the play, or dialogue
CHARACTERS:
Cuba-the bearded gentleman, holding
down a bale OF (genuine) Vuelt& Abajao to
bacco.
Porto Rico--the sunburned fellow who il
embracing a bag OF coffee, and keeping hi
weather.eye on the basket OF bananas ant
things
Hawaii in short pants and a confident
smile, snickersnee in hand, on his wsy to the
sugar. cane mill.
The Philippines-the two ladies attired in
| meal bags and native grace, posing before 8
kodak while they guard the bale OF hemp.
Columbia-pertectly satisfied to sit on the
sharp edge of a keystone, SO long as "every
prospect pleases and only Spain is vile"
CHORUS OF THE DARK SKINNED:
Good morning, Miss Columbia-and will you
be so kind
To listen to some foreign tolk, who'd like tc
speak their mind?
COLUMBIA:
Good morning, you-and you-and you'll MY
greeting to you ALI
The strangers of the Spring days are my deal
friends in the FAN.
IT'S fate brings as together (and closer we
will be,
If Senior Porto Rico leans too hard against
the Key
For, .snre, I'll tumble OF my perch he should
Joggle any,
And should drop upon your heads you'll
VOW Pm zone too many
For I'm a rather "hefty' maid; so, Senior, do
take care,
Or there'n be trouble Gin your midst"-and in
mine, 1 declareD
And now my dusky relatives, speak freely as
YOU may
For Free Speech always glads the heart OF
Miss Columbia.
Now who'll speak first?
CUBA:
The ladies hrst-the Misses Philippines.
THE PHILIPPINE TWINS:
o no, kind sir, we're much too skeered we're
timid little twins
Let Tom Hawaii first crate
HAWAII:
Why that HuOuId he ahatIrd
For I've not grievance-~I am happy as q
bird,
rDo you catch my wink, Columbia2) Let Por
to Rico talk,
While just stroll around the block in a hop
ii doodle walk.
PORTO RICO:
No, moi The fittest mouthpiece to voice our
common need
Is surely Senior Cuba, who's had woes "to
burn" indeed;
He's suffered more than we have-been tor
tured night ard day
Aud he's the chap to make the speech so,
Cuba, fire away
CUBA (rising. with salute to the other ma
tiyes and profound obeisance to Column
bia):
Know, then, sympathetic maiden.
That our hearts were hessy laden,
With the multiplied Affections that the help.
less have to bear,
who speak, and these. my cousins,
Have had sorrows by the dozens
But there came day OF reckoning; for WE
ROSE, in our despair.
We'd be Weylerized no longer
Weak we were, but strong and stronger