Connecticut western news., 1913-01-23
The WurPa Wurra Club.

The regular meeting had to be post poned for one night owing to the fact that the president and janitor of the Club had received invitations to the Business Mems banquet, and showed themselves to be more loyal to their stom tchs than to the interests of the Club by attending the supper and letting the Club chase itself. When the meeting was called To order, the next night, N. Watson Harden. bergh was elected chairman pro tenn. in the unavoidable absence of the president, who was suffering from a case of acute indigestion and was under pr. Corwin's care. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Rob. Peirce, from George Fords no,es, and he made a poor job of it, as Ford was not present to assist in the interpretation of the marks. On motion of the chair the singing of the Opening Ode was referred to the com mittee on roads and bridges.
 The secretary read the application of Governor Sulzer for membership in the Club, Referred to the committee on music.
 The fat member got up "Mr. Presi- dent" he said, "Td like t offer a mend ment."
 "An amendment to what?" asked the chair
 "I don't care [ what" replied the fat member. dts this: When we have our annual banket p'pose that we present ev'ry guest with a gold-lined lovin' cup fir sooveneer."
 "Rather an expensive proposition" suggested the chair.
 "Expense be jiggered% retorted the fat one. Look at tn fun they'd be, watchin' one another when they git 'em. l don't know of anything that makes a man look so much as if he felt like bloomin' ass, an wish he was t hum or some place else, as t hand him a lovin' cup in front of a big crowd, without a word O warnin' an keep on throwin' sugar at him while all his wits goes a wool-gatherin' till he's so fuddled up that he don't know whether he's a foot or hosSback, an only dimly re'lizes that he's a settin' there like a dunn fool, the sine cure of a hundred an fifty pair O eyes, includin' a groop O female eyes in the corridor, all waitin' fir him t say suthin' an him wonderful if they think that he really thinks he's such a devil of feller as tn presentation speech calls f'r It's a circus t watch feller gittin' lovin' cup showered upon him when he ain't look in fr it, an then t watch him founder in fir word t tell what he thinks of it. That's why p'pose that we give soov- eneer lovin' cups t all tn guests at our annual banket. It'd make more fun than bar'l O monkeys"
 "rhe gentlemen's proposition is not presented in proper form to receive con- siderarion," said the chair. "Call the next case"
 "Can't it be referred to a committee on suthin' or other?" persisted the fat mem- ber.
 "As a special favor to our corpulent friend the matter will be referred to the committee on fool propositions" said the chair.
 That seemed to satisfy the fat member and he subsided.
 G*Note.-The secretary of the Wurra Wurra Club, in a note accompanying the foregoing report, assures the editor that he does not believe the fat member i'm tended any direct reference to the pres entation of last Thursday evening, in his above brutally specific descriptions; and while we are bound to take the secretary at his word. the suspicion will assert it. self, in view of the general accuracy of the portrayal, that either the fat member had, at some time or other, been in a similar embarrassing position, himself, or he was actually twittering on facts. If we were convinced that the latter con clusion was correct, not another report of the Wurra Wurra Clubs proceedings would ever be printed in this paper