Connecticut western news., 1911-12-14
The WurPa Wurra Club

l With Ioe Parsons in the chair, the scs- sion began operation promptly on time and the first business, after the collection of dues, fines and assessments, was a motion offered by Sam Camp, that a committee be appointed to investigate the committee on Woman's Relief Corps find out why that female branch of the Club had not been finally instituted, and adopt such measurers as might be deemed advisable to complete the organization and install its officers The motion was passed and the chair appointed MessrN Sam Camp, Ed. Warner and Judge Ford as the committee of investigation. | The secretary, Mr. Thuriough, read a communication signed by six young ladies, appealing to the. Wurra Wurra Club to use its influence with the presi- dent of the Business Men's Association in the matter of organizing and IFecogniz- ing an auxiliary Business, Women's Asso- citation, for banquet purposes, If nothing else. A motlon was made by Jay Under wood that the chair appoint a committee of six to interview the six lady signeTS of he petition and find out just what they wanted. The motioni was passed, and the chair, instead of appointing the commit | tee off-hand, asked for volunteers to serve on the committee. Every mem Der held up his right hand and some ot them both hands, whereupon. the chair announced, that he would reserve his de- | Cision.
 ] The fat member got up. "Now as long as this meetin' don't seem to have nOthfn' but wimnin to discuss about" said. he, "I reckon can help to make itinterestin'. l don't s'pose it's gen'rally knowed that ! th' ladies of tn Hawthorne Club give their annual shirally to. their husbands an enough bachelors to balance up the membership, last "Wednesday night ] They wasn't nothin' in ,h' paper about it. coz they kep' it putty close, an them gents that belongs to this Club, that was took there by their wifes, don't dast to say word about it. Now l know all about it, an I'll tell ye how My oldest daughter by, my first wife, houseworks next door to one of th' members of th' Hawthorne Club, an she's friend of that lady's hired girl. Well, this giri ] come to my daughter with a letter that her mistress had wrote an left unsealed, on her desk. My daughter thought it was d good joke, and brought it home. Of course jest as soon as l. see it todd her it wouldn't do to swipe letter that way, an that it was private nropty an' none of her bizness nor nobody else's, an' made her take it back to tn, other girl an tell her to put is right back where she found 1t But made copy of it first, coz it had suthin in it that this Club ort to know about, an Pm goin' to ask th' sec'tary to read it.
 Consent being unani mouslN voted, the secretary read:
 My dear Lucy-It was splendid sue T I 1.Atlg thing about it, because you won't see any reference to it in the paper, as there were no newspaper persons. present-you know we are a conservative bunch, and kind of fussy that way. Well, the table was a dream. Mir. Baker. turned the big dining room of The Garfield over 10 our committee in the afternoon, for decora- ton. The arrangement of the tables formed hollow square and the inneredge was a continuous bed of eVergreens and flowers embellished with little electric lights in bulbs representing a variety of fruits of vlriou colorS,, while chrysarS themums, carnations and other flowers were massed in profusion at frequent in- tervals. The p ace cards were exquisite ly wrought swinging tavern signs pro- claiming The Canfeld hostelry and were designed by Miss O. The favors, for the gentlemen guests, alSO deSlgncu pN MISS O. were boxes of matches, in imitation of books, bearing such appropriate titles, on the 'covers,' as The Piper,' "A Parlor Match and other popular works. The menu called fon a feast fit for any of the gods and goddesses you've ever read about-but I'll tell you all about that when you come, back-and the costumes, too; there was class there, you may be sure. But the tOasts-all given by the girls-they were gems and were uproari- ously received All were in poetry and just scintillated. l wish I could send them all to you but you know how they are, about letting anything get out. 1 did manage to get hold of one that Louise B. read, but it took tact to sec ure it. It went this way:
 Here's to
 The Club that cheers
 But not fnebriAteSs
 The Club that rifles"
 And then candidates;
 The Club that has
 No officers nor dues;
 The Club whose meetings
 No member ever views
 The Club whose chairman
 Never had a chair:
 The Club whose gavel
 Was never anywhere;
 The Club that celebrates
 Without expense;
 The Club that mingles
 Wisdom with nonsense;
 The Club whose songs
 Are never heard,
 And ne'er will be
 By man or bird
 The Wurry, Wurry,
 Hurry, Hurry
 Scurry Scurry-
 The Merry. MemY