Connecticut western news., 1913-03-13
The Wurra Wurra Club.

The president of the Club, Mir. A. P. Freeman, was in his place when the clock struck the appointed hour for start ing things, and promptly called the meet. ing to order by hammering on the table with the bottom of his silver cigar-case. He first proclaimed: "The secretary will now oblige by reading the minutes of the last meeting" but the secretary, Watson Hardenbergh, got funny, and said: "The last meeting hasn't been held yet, Mr. President, and I hope it will be long, long time before this Club holds its last meeting" Then he chuckled to-himself and proceeded to read, in that rich, mezzo-baritone voice of his, the minutes of the previous meeting, while the chair looked daggers.
 "Lest this funny business may be catching, and the chorister be likewise in jocular humor," said the chair, drowning darkly upon Chorister Sam Camp, 'rhe singing of the Opening Ode will be laid on the table for future consideration. ? Whereupon Sam jumped up and said he'd sing it any way And that's the way he did sing it.
 The chair then sarcastically asked the sexton of the Club, Mir. s. Brigham Strong, if he too had any side-splitting humor that he would like to get off his stomach before the meeting sobered up and settled down to business, but MT. $. Brigham only shook his head sadly and went to poking the fire; whereupon the chair declared the meeting ready for common-sense business.
 The first business to come up was a motion offered by MT. H. E. Lyles, that the Club, in body, attend the "Dutch supper" to be given this Thursday even ing by the ladies of Pilgrim Church.
 "What's Dutch supperi" asked Fritz Oehlschlager.
 "I know what it is" volunteered Dan Sweeney. ats where they serve pret- gels, and sauer kraut, and dampfnoodles, and zimmtkuchen, and schmier-kase, and pumpernickel, and all kinds of wurst- and the wurst Is the best of all I'm go- ing, any how, if have to go alone"
 "Wa'al," spoke up the fat member, "pve got my own idee of feller that wants to go where he can get tn worst, but,I don't b'leeve in inrouragin' race prejudice that way. Looks t me like a snub to our five Congressmen-they s,p ft, h.tI Aallxyua- ton. Ireckon I'll have t vote ag'in' tn motion"
 r Mir. Lyles explained that 1t was the purpose of the Pilgrim ladies to simply make this the second in a series of na- tional suppers-the first was Russian supper of hash and pancakes, and the next will be an Italian supper of pate de foiegras and frogs legs, to be followed by an Irish supper of macaroni and bananas, an African supper of garlic and sweet potatoes, Chinese supper of pork and cabbage, a New England supper of lobster and mint sauce, and so forth"
 "I don't care," persisted the fat mem ber "I don't want no object lesson in jogfrey when I set down to a square meal. Let them that wants 'em have 'em."
 The motion was overwhelmingly car ried ...
 Ex-Mayor Rowe got up. "I under stand," said he, "that the ladies are polk ing fun at the gentlemen of the Business Mems Association for turning down the proposition to have a ladies' night and give them an. opportunity to enjoy ban quet such as the men themselves enjoy every year, and I'm told that certain of the ladies have agreed to pay for their own suppers if the gentlemen will only get up the banquet and give them a chance to attend, as they are unable to ascertain that there was any other reason than the expense, for turning down the proposition. A friend of mine tells inc that he heard one lady say that if her husband didn't think enough of her to give her the same pleasure that he's willing and able to procure for himself, she was willing to help him out on the cost by contributing from her own allow ance."
 "Does the gentleman make a motionF asked the chair.
 "If he don't, will," sair the fat mem- Der. al make motion that tn wimmin that ain't satisfied with gittin' turned down on tn mems banket can git even by takin' their men folks ' that Dutch supper"
 "The motion is not in order" an- nounced the chair. "And in the absence of any further business I declare this meeting adjourned" Then the lights went out, and the crowd did likewise.