The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-01
POKE FUN AT
THEIR TEACHERS
Paramount Seniors Gave
Original Farce Last Night.
RIDICULE BASHFUL BOYS
Light acknowledge Was Given
to Juniors.

Fairmount teachers Jared hard at the
hands of the senior class Of that institu-
! ton and incidentally the Juniors. sophie
! mores and freshmen had their idiosyn-
cracies held up TO the amusement of the
public. OF course it was in fun, but the
| ~urlesque given BY the seniors at the col
lege chapel last night as a part of their
class day exercises contained, 50 the
knowing ones say. more truth than fc-
ton.
The play was entitled "Ketchum' S
Choice, apd represented Farmer Ketch-
UNI and his wife sending their son and
daughter TO college airmount College
and the incidents following from their
action.
In the first scene Farmer Ketchum who
is represented by Charles Iseiy and Mrs.
kctchum who is represented by Miss Gail
Rhodes are seated in their farm house.
The farmer is reading the market reports
in the daily paper and the wife is busily
knitting
Il think We ought TO send Dick to col
lege, said Mrs Ketchum, looking up
from her knitting He has finished the
high school and he ought to have high
er education. The old man. who is
dressed in working clothes objects 60 this
and says he don't see no use on it" He
finally yields to his wifes logic, however.
and then says that if Dick goes to col
lege, his daughter Maggie shall go too
1t is now Mrs. Ketchum turn TO object.
Tor she intended to put up 500 cans of
peaches. and to sew carpet rags. and
needed Maggie at home. The matter is
finally settled, however, by deciding TO
send children to Paramount college.
IN the second scene everything is hustle
and excitement.
The young people are packing their
valises and trunks to go off TO college.
and Maggie, who is represented by Miss
Harriet Sewall. is afraid she will miss
the train. She is so afraid that she does
little TO expediate matters. Dick is not
on hand and this causes Maggie addi-
tional uneasiness and the audience addi-
tional merTiment.
Lucy Meredith, who is Dicks sweet
heart, and who is represented by Miss
Blanche Houston, is assisting in the
leave-taking preparations and also look
ing sad and fOrlorn. Finally Dick enters
the room and remarks that the trunk is
not roped. His father promptly says:
Rope it, then Just before the cur
tain falls Dick. represented by Frank
Van Buskirk, and Lucy are standing
hand in hand. Dick is vowing that he
viii never have anything TO do with the
college girls, but Lucy cries and says
she thinks he viii.
In the next scene. in which Farmer
Ketchum. Mrs. Ketchum ard Lucy are
in the room together talking Of the hone-
coming of the children, the college boys
are given a few raps because they are
not attentive TO the girls. 1t was OBJ
served that some of the college girls in
the audience applauded these references
TO the students of the other sex. A let
ter IS read from Maggie in which she
says that some of the boys are afraid
to come to Hoiyoke Cottage TO call on
the girls and that they also go to recep-
lions alone.
Lucy is thrown into unconsolable grief
because 4 letter from Dick states that
he has taken Marie Snider 10 receptions
and on boat rides. Farmer Ketchum
goes to sleep over the reading of tnese
letters
In the next scene the Ketchvm children
are represented as coming home from coll
lege bringing with them Marie Snider,
who is represented by Lucia McGinnis,
Farmer Ketchum is fixed up for the oc-
CASTOR in billed" shirt. but unfortu-