The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-01-13

more favt rable as TO weather. Prof
s. Platt, as musical director, deservei
word of special praise.
Following the entertainment dancI
was enjoyed for several hours. So
lines on 1.-THE Western Journey of
Spinsters," read during the enterts
ment are given:
THE sPINsTERs' JOURNEY.
In Newtown lived the spinsters.
Whom you all know so well;
And OF their wondrous journey,
I'll now proceed to tell.
Twas on glorious summer day,
They started tor the West;
And every happy spinster
Was logged out in her best.
As the dear old scenes familiar
We're qnickIy lett behind.
These young and trisky maidens
We're easy in their minds.
They had nObly done their duty,
In tact their level best;
And thepoor meu-they had suffered
For them there was no rest.
But those horlid men in ,Newtown,
We're so very hard to pie ase
That in place OF any Spinster,
they preferred life of ease.
Then these poor lone women
Through no fault OF theirs they knew
We're forced to up and travel
To fields and pastures new.
The first stop on their journey
Was Bridgeport on the Sound,
Whore they in search OF bargains
Che big stores made the round.
Twas here an accident occurred
To Miss Matilda Blathers,
A clumsy man stepped on her dress,
And ripped out all the gathers.
Next they are started tor New York
Where all the sights were seen,
And on the Bowery who got lost
But Josephine Jane Green.
From Gotham then to Buffalo
Was the next jump on their trip,
Where Miss Olivia Bennett
Did lose her brand new grip,
Which spoiled her peace OF mind
For wig-false teeth-and powder
Were in that grip confined.
Then again,-when they at Cleveland
We're tackling dinner vittles
Twas found they'd been deserted
By Penelope Doolittle;
For at the breakfast table
While finishing some hash,
She at a man did shipper,
And straightway made a mash.
Rovilla Abigail Hobbs at Chicago,
Was lett behind torlorn,
For at a woman's meeting,
some one trod on her corn.
From Chicago to Denver
l. u.
Where Miss Melissa Higgins
IN miner made claim.
Through the mountains. wild and rocky.
in fear of broken bones,
The Spinsters next proceeded
Without Priscilla Jones,
For in Leadville she was smitten
With q handsome silver king;
And thought with clever handling,
He would surely buy the ring.
FL ON Leadville to Salt Lake City,
Famed as the sanity town,
Where a wealthy Mormon slider
Converted Cleopatra Belle Brown.
For she thought. II marriage was lottery
Like the Louisiana one,
Why couldn't man take more chances
If he only had the mon.
They next did start for Frisco,
And going through the diggins,
We're once again deserted
By Miss Jerusha spriRgins.
Now up at busy Portland
We find them once again,
Except ophelia Pitkin,
| Who failed to catch the tr in.
From Portland to Seattle
Where they did take the boat,
Upon the way to Klondyke,
still filed with faith and hope.
The next mishap did happen
TO Rachael r. becca Short,
For she fell overboard
AZ they were leaving port.
And as they sailed, the way along
\ Unto that frozen cline,
Miss Betsey Bobbet, she did have
What hit DO called "a Time"
The boat II tipped
Miss Betsey dipped
No doubt you re all acquainted -
For travelling by sea
Is just as bad as painted.
Jessica Juliet Smith
Of the Yukon did sicken,
Which did ind ed surprise.
For she was no spring chicken.
At Juneau they we're minus
Patience Desire Mann;
For she would go no further.
Such dreadful risks they ran.
And going through the chilkoot Pass
Florence Lucretia GNodhope
Was seen no more by them.
\ She tripped-.and slipped
And down she went
Upon an 10y slope,
While carriers did crumbs
At Florence Arabella Large
md on account OF size snd weight,
'T,, 10 double they did gharge.
Theresa Ethel Bodkin,
In the DasSson City throng,
Did get lost but was recovered
by sophronia Araminta Long.
Now OF that Weste n journey,
This l. the truth ahem)
And 1t doesn't lose in telling,
Tho 1t wasn't told by them.
For they did get together
And on arrival home
They told different story
of where they'd been TO roam.
AS according TO their story
Nearly all did get a rnan-~
But the men we haven't seen yet.