The Cairo bulletin., 1905-02-14
HHsnasaEE KaxaKsra -
AN EVENING WITH The
FAMOUS GRIDIRON CLUB
What One of Its Dinners Really Is--On
the Inside at the One Recent
" Given.
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Of them with mesmeFic passes and go
them cut in the center of the room.
New. Mr. Coolidge said be To one
3.of thea, after securing the necesl
ssry iooE Of vaclity ia Indicate hyp.
Iuodc trance, you are the Hon. White
law Reid, Ambassador at he Court
ioffst James You are making a
4 speech before an English audience"
I After q moment the lips OF tne hyp-
motto subject slowly parted. and the
I follow ng speech emerged in measur
cd mononny
Two peoples Of one blo2d. Sd.
/ premacy Of she Ang'o-saxon race.
How / love the English Hands across
the sea, A common heritage. Three
cheers for the King.
This. then, is the Gridiron roas ing
system. There hal not been an inter
ruption while the real Mr.. Reid spoke;
he had been listened to with absolute
attention
Another example, drawn from the
same hypnotic imitation. The hypnot,
s. made one of his subjects under
stand that he was an eminent states
man. delivering an address before the
Gridrn CLUB
81 have been in public Fife twenty
years. said the subject, during
which time / have known all the men,
bers Of he Gridiron Club. and can
truthfully say that none Of them has
ever betrayed my confidence
This SO strongly resembled a speech
altered b. real public man only
few minutes before that Il elected
roar OF laughter Then the hypnotist
turned to he other subject and told
min that he was "a member of the
Gridiron Club delivering an address
before an audience OF statesmen
y have been a member Of the Grid
iron Club for twenty years" said the
subject. During that time have
known many presidents, cabinet of
GERS, senators, and representatives,
and can truthfully say that not many
4 hen have ever betrayed my con
fidence"
The Gridiron dinners are literally
written mp, but the accounts fail to
give any idea OF the atmosphere. The
dinner is revelation TO men who
have cot their ideas of the Gridiron
from aiding accounts of its dinners.
One OF the funniest occurrences al
the late dinner was con ributed pnin
tentionally by Senator Depew. 1t wa2
during the hypnotic scene The hyp
uotist fold one of his subjeos thar
the latter was Senator Depaw The
subject immediately brew his head
hack end brought his jaws into an
exact imitation of Mr.. Depew's fe
nous laugh.
When the real Depew saw this por-
trait of himself he was so taken by
/ surprise and the thing was so ire
/ sistibly funny that he lnvoluntarly
threw his own head back and burS
into his own celebrated laugh There
were two Depews, the true and the
false, both giving the Depew laugh at
the same moment OF course every
body turned to look at the seaa or
and the righteousness Of the situation
struck them an at the same time.
The task assigned to the hypnotic
victim this time was 100 hard how.
/. ever. After being convinced that ne
was nopew he was told that h. must
tell new" story His jaws worked
\ eonyu'' lively and his frame wrHhed
in anguish. but the story would NOT
cone. The same thing happened 20
the o her subject when he was told
he was Senator Fairbanks ami must
utter definite. positive op nion on
5owe pablo question.
4 The recent meeting being the one
4 which the officers of the club fof
( the next year took .her seats. there
was m Inauguration of a pr iaelt
and It was made the occasion for
takirs oh'' the Inauguration of the
/ 7res1ent Of the United Stafes f.
March. and some good points were
made the expense Of the presit ea4
/ rho e7'cvRd them hugely The lFesi
ecnt 81 he United States is the Only
person gho attends tho dinners OF the
club fer whom respect or c-nsidora-
lion s. specially shown. and the idea
If tie Inauguration "stun was that
wa not q satire Of the official inau
gurat'an 90 come on March 4.
AZ he outset Of abe dinner to the
tune ct ~There1l BE q Hot Time IN
die ca Town T,nieht." a band and
: coiisc ian of Rough Riders aYaearcd
esccr'ng The new prcsident CT the
ciuh. aIajor john Vi Carson and
/ ahout lsif dozen mon WHO W re to O..
lrccc "a as His eabiuc 49,
Tne acH president. a iHsdec Oi
ttha rrrcmc c2art. dressed 10 a robe
= and ,1e mc-nbers II tn, cabipct an
: o. whom were haidheade1. mouutcf
8 The aye. The members of the rev
! cabin1t were then in reduced. On.
r was presented as the secretary Of tho
e whipping post.
b "isst your solec i'm rather un
3 ususl was asked.
i Nc % all ! am a backterioloeist
n I am also specially fitted to deal with
2 such Journalists as may be called up
3 on 10 describe he antics Of dress
8 ed fosL"
e The secretary Of agriculture ans
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