Connecticut western news., 1913-06-12
The Wurra Wurra Club.

| Strong, in the absence of the president MT. William Shelhoos, who had sent word that he was busy, in his study, com posing Symphonic Rhapsody with obligato grace-notes in it, and practicing the contortions that go with it, and wouldn't be present.
 Ed. Warner moved that the minutes of the previous meeting be dispensed with, and the singing of the Opening Ode omitted' He said, "I, for one, don't want to hear any singing that will take the taste of the Norfolk concerts out of my mouth" The minutes and the singing were omitted.
 "Now," said Mir. Warner. "I propose that we sidetrack all routine business and hear the report of the fat member, who attended the Norfolk concerts as the representative of the Club and the official critic"
 "Does the gentleman offer that as a motion" asked the chair.
 "Course do," replied Warner. inn patiently. Ibid you think offered it as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States2 or as a substitute for Schedule K in the tariff billi"
 The motion was unanimously passed, and the fat member was greeted with round of applause as he hoisted himself up out of his chair.
 "Wa'al, Mister President" said the corPulent gentleman, "I don't pertend t be no cricket, an I hain't got no rick lection of bein' made tn official rep'sen- tive O this Club. l went t them con- certs as tn official rep'sentive of domestic tyranny, so to speak. My wife sung in tn concerts, up to tn time the singers was sorted over fir tn actual p'formance, then she stopped goin' t tn rehorsals. But she got tickets sumhow, an she sed I'd got t go Tong whether wanted to or not becoz 'twa'n't ev'rybody that could git tickets, an she pposed t show sum folks that she wa'n't exackly nobody, not yit. An that's how 1 cum t go.
 "They had good payin' house ey'ry night, an had t put up tn 'Standin' Room Only sign long b'fore tn fiddlin' b'gun-an' that's doin' purity good fir show that didn't have no movin' pitchers. Tn p'formers looked fine-four hunderd an odd singers, of all genders, an seventy hand-picked fiddlers, flute players an hornets from tn high-tonedest ortchestras in New York. tell ye, them Stickleses don't do nothin' halfway, an Paine don't do nothin' th' other half You ort t seen Painel Say; he had sv'ry one O them singers an fiddlers so they'd eat out of his hand; an I'll swear If he'd give'm tn wink t do it he'd had lem standin' on their heads. My wife sez his tnit wife knows.
 "Th' fust night they sung tn Golden Ledger, musical temp'rance drammer cantatty in one axe; an it was a corker. They all took their parts real good Tn only cricketcism I've got fir 1t is, that tn | author-some democrat by tn name of O'Sullivan-showed poor taste in takin' liberties with Teddy jest after he's won lawsuit fir islander. You see, th' villain in tn play was a feller they called Lucifer. Wa'al, if you say tn last'sylla- ble fust it makes 'Rucifal,' an that's as near t Roosevelt as O'Sullivan dast t' come fir fear O. gittin' in Dutch, his own self. Wa'al, this Lucifer tells tn Prince that If he'll git good jag on it'll be good fir what ails him. So the Prince gets soused, an it almost cost him tn gal but it all come out right in tn end, an they was married, an lived in peace, an died in grease, an come t life in a vim I.egar bottle,' as we used U say when we was little.
 "Th' second nights p'formance was | another mor'l musical drammer cantatty, | suthin' in tn wimmin suffridge line Sampson an Delia.' Our Canaan folks | sung in that, an I tell ye they done 1t | nice, too. Tn mor'l of tn cantatty was, chasin' wimnin is bad fir tn eyes, an | fir tn health in gin 'ral, an means good l bye t plitical presteege. It was great | night. Madam Homer sung, that night. | an tn big crowd acted crazy about it. | My wife sez Homer is one of tn sweetest wobblers she ever heard.
 "I can't pertend t give no resoom of all tn tip-top things they had th' last night. They was too many specialties | on tn bill-o'-fare. Tn big ortchestry | had gay old time on it's own hook, with | Arthur Mees in tn pilot-house, shakin' | tn ruler. My wife sez Arthur Mees is | tn R. P. Paine O New York an she cal'lates that's goin' some fir Mees. He | sure can hypponize an ortchestry an make it set up an take notice.
 Miss Case, O New Jersey, sung some | pieces, jest like bird. My wife sez Miss | Case is one O tn sweetest wobblers she ! ever heard. She was purity as a pitcher, | but when she opened up t let one O them high ones out, l couldn't help | thinkin' her singin' teacher had been n | dentist once, an couldn't break hisself O l sayin' jest leetle wider, please When | she got through singin' she carted off a | bunch O posies bigger'n a cock .o' hay. |
 "Leo Schulz, who looks more like | Bryan than William Jennin's does, his self, played some solos on his chellow, ! an was enquired half dozen times i Tn last piece he played fir an enquire you ort t heard itl Tn purtiest, sweet