The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

The newspaper boys just WOOL u
Makes no difference what brought US TO
They gotta quit kcikin' me an stubbs
around.
A Jayhawker club member imper-
sonated Attorney General Dawson at
the clubs annual banquet last night
and organized quartet and sang the
above parody on the famous Houn'
song. Dawson was present and
laughed as he Joined in the chorus.
The Jayhawker club members and
their wives and lady friends, forty
strong, attended the banquet in the Y.
NJ. C. A. dining hall. Scott Hopkins
of Topeka made the address of the
evening and was given a fine recep-
ton by his hosts.
Mr. Hopkins talked from serious
subject, but he handled it interest
ingly and we'll
Three Jayhawkers, George NcDer-
mott, S. G. Zimmerman and c. A
Cain, responded to toasts. Mrs. Otis
Allen read a paper and Mrs. Ernest
Simon sang a solo.
But the Houn' song was the fea-
ture of the evening The second verse
ran like this:
Mean Stubs got House before an old
That wasn't unfrfendly to Stubs me;
An that old Jay Pee just turned himself
T. NJ. LiIlard, president of the club,
presided at the banquet and introduced
the speakers LiIlard was consciefi-
tious in his work. He mixed his abuse
and sarcasm and praise in equal par. IS
and applied them to the men he mad
at his mercy. Iillard makes an ideal
POSTMASTER He is big enough to say
what he really thinks about the ora
tors he is compelled to inf1ict upon his
diners.
George McDermott talked about the
Pride of the Prairies, meaning the
ladies' He thought the women pioneers
were greater than the men camped OH
the plains in the early days and walt
ed for the railroads and good crops.
Houn' quartette-
There is a lawyer chap who talks a
McDermott here will always speak.
And all he needs is fair young bride
To sit at the table by his side
Every time the Jayhawkers meet
McDermott's here and on his feet
Makes no difference if he feels the call,
He's gotta quit talkin' for US ALL
Mrs. Otis Allen, reading a paper. "A
Jayhawker's Wife, related in a humor-
Gus vein her troubles in trying to write
literary masterpiece while caring for
the children at home. The troubles of
the little folks and their griefs and
track.
s G. Zimmerman read a paper on
Laughter The county clerk quoted
from Josh Billings as an authority and
recommended laughter as the best med
fcine for sickness and doctor for the
blues that had been discovered in the
laboratory of the world.
Houn' quartette again
Every time we come to vote,
The boys they try to get Sans goat
Makes no difference if it's his fourth
term
He'll have plenty of votes to burn.
c. A. Cain, substituting for Wistar
Williams the club secretary, who is
sic'- at the hospital and could not fill
his place as regular speaker. talked
about Bridegrooms and how happy and
fortunate they are Civilians engage
ment was announced this week. The
speaker had been a bridegroom ten
years or more ago and therefore could
thusiasm to the subject that the bride
groom-to-be would have had if he could
have filled his place on the program.
Houn' quartette-
This Jayhawker Cain with a nose Tor
news,
With wit that will charm away the
blues;
The newspaper bunch are the s1nartest in
But you bet they don't kick our Cain
aroun'.
Mrs Ernest Simon sang a solo and
responding to an encore favored the
club with the beautiful song. My
Rosary" The club was prompt to ex-
tend a vote of thanks to the singer.
Quartette-the same one
Here's Attorney Simon, wise young lad.
Who soakS the crooks and all that's
bad.
But a spotter chap from the whisky
hunks.
He touched Simon for forty pIunks.
Scott Hopkins spoke of the progress
and achievement of this age and con-
trasted our advantages with the handi-
caps of all other times. He told of our
development in thought as we'll as in
dustry. in broadness of view as we'll as
in inventions and labor saving Devices
in a saner philosophy and more beau
tiful religion as we'll as civilization.