The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-27
THEIR OLD
SCHOOL DAYS
Were Talked Over by Mem
bers of High School Alumni
WIT AND WISDOM
Displayed in Responses to the
ToaStS.
t AND WISDOM

It was q jolly crowd Of High School
Alumni that met last night in the par
lo-s OF the Hotel Hamilton for the thir-
tenth annual banquet. The guests be-
gan assembling at clock and at a
quarter past 10 O'Clock marched down
TO, the splendid dining room. where was
spread one OF the most sumptuous ban
quets ever. prepared by the hotel. Classes
as far back as % had their representa-
tives there. some with eight or ten rep
resentatives and others with only one or
two. In all. there were stxty-four pres
ent. The class OF % was well represent
ed
After the banquet came the toasts.
each being introduced by POSTMASTER
Bird He said in the beginning that he
would not be held responsible for what
he OF any one else would say there that
night. That he was chosen a good deal
as the little boy who set the old orindie
hen. He set her on two dozen eggs
His mother asked him why he did IT,.
that the old hen could not hatch all the
eggs. The boy replied that he wanted
10 see the old fool spread herself
He said also that the occasion meant
something TO them this year. They were
all together now. but no one knew how
soon they would be separated for good
and all. One OF their number was going
TO the far east, but even then he would
be at West Point
He introduced Mr.. Dean Minick. who
spoke on The Republic That Never Re
treats" referring 10 the speaker as the
dean Of the High School.
Mr. Minick said he had been told 10
turn logic upside down and he would
find wit but he had been doing that for
the past three years and failed 10 ind
any so he would have 10 rely on his
own. The subject meant that from the
beginning the republic had gone forward.
From the thirteen states II had gone 10
Kentucky: from there 10 louisiana and
from there TO Cuba and to the Philip
pines He showed that the progress of
the republic was due TO the common
sense OF its people.
He closed the toast given by Franklin
In company with an Englishman and
Frenchman.
Mr.. CLYDE Smyser gave the next
toast The Mutations Of Time He said
that he knew not what time was. mao
never felt il. saw II. or heard II. hut
knew there was such a thing as ne hau
seen and felt the effects Of it. There was
time. FOR was there not Father Time the
origination of all time.
Time is a physician. for he heals all
wounds. We cannot get away from
time. for time flies"
Looking back one could tell what
the future would hold. but 10 be sure one
could only wait and see as only time
could tell.
The POSTMASTER next introduced Miss
Nellie Dryden, who spoke on Mere
Man" She gave a very neat little cpl
taph on Mere Man" She pictured ms
progress of man from a mere boy 10 TN
youth who grows 10 the babe and thef
in fear and trembling gets his second
hair cut that week instead or the muci
desired shave; then TO the young mzi
in love and finally TO the married mar
/ Mr. VIII Price gave toast on " O
man. God Bless Her" He SAID ina
men did not have TO remove the han
from their faces when they proposed u
some woman, they got close enough e
shave" He said she was the highes
Great ton OF God, not being created from
the dust as mere man was, put VA
created from man himself. then the high
est crea ton OF God. Man never aske'
{ God 20 bless woman for her beauty 81
for her new Easter bonnet. but Tor ne
goodness and kindness TO man. lie CAV
F7orence Nightengale as an example d
wonan's kindness TO man He said tina
a mothers love made a success out
many a man and again, he loves some
ones sister and resolves TO succeed 70
I her sake
! Professor r. T. Knight toasted tn
subject THE Qualities That VIM II
took Roosevelt as his example ant
showed by him that the quality of per
sonaity Of some men was what pushe'
them TO the front as men gave way Z
uerso,aiitv when they would fight pTin
etnle 10 the death. In short. ne sa'
ne would sum mp the qualities that VII
I in two words courage and sincerity
Miss Harriet /. Dean answered % m
toast 1.-THE Sorcereas Response By tclhn'
( a story Of q Princeton boy friend p
hers who fell under the hewitching gaz
( of a LADY who had lost a bethrcthed ant