The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-30
Pageants, PROFESSIONS and
Mosques at Washburn.
Elaborate Festivities for Five
Hours Next Saturday.
DANCE OF TWILIGHT SHADOWS
Queens, Heralds, Attendants,
Witches, Pages and Fools.
College Green Open to All Peo-
pie of Topeka.

! when Merrie May first early calls
| the morn,
| With merrie maids a-maying they
| do go:
| To the near towne and parishe runnes
| the streame
| OF eddie people to eat cakes and
| creame.
Last week Washburp talked base
ball: this week it's May Day; next
week it's to be books. Washburn
campus today is crowded with fairies
| in ginghams, May queen in MILDLY.
witches in sweaters, Mary, Queen of
Scots, with a book on modern educa-
| ton under her arm. It's May, May,
May Dances and drills pageants,
professions and Mosques are planned
for the third of the month WASH burn
campus next Saturday Will be IKE d
| bit of merrie England.
It's all on account of the May fes-
| tivities@"Ye Revels of Ye May Time
as the program has it, con we College
Greene" Washburn has had a modest
! little Maypole dance the fifth month
in every year. This spring the fete is
to be as elaborate, as perfect in detail
as the combined efforts of the 100
students can make it,
The spirit of the revel, which begins
at O'Clock on Saturday. will be felt
as soon as visitors reach the Wash
burn gate Dusty ped lest hand w erl
pecting to purchase a pink ticket. Not
So A dininutive bunch of vio1ets Will
be. pinned on each guest; TINS Will
entit1e him to watch the pageant, en-
joy the dances, and view the Mosques
He'll not have to open his pocket book
again until he feels hungry and seeks
the lawn south of the administration
building; there he'll deposit ~ Genus
and receive a basket containing sand
witches, salad, olives and potato chips.
All this sounds delectable. If he's ex-
travagant he'll invest an add1tlonai
nickel and receive fudge, cake ana
strawberry ice cream.
Money for Good Cause.
The students are expecting to clear
5000. all of which will be used in
sending delegates to the Y. w c. A.
convention held in August at Cascade,
*. s. A. c. sent % delegates last
year" explained one of the May
queens attendants. 1--WE only had IL,
all of whom paid their own expenses.
This year we want to have 25."
Festivities commence. with the pa
geant which winds across the lawn
heralds, queen, hoop rollers, attend
ants. dancers Pyramus, Thisbe,
witches, Cleopatra, Pocahontas every
character to take part in the fete.
Then comes the browning of the queen.
Miss Grace Gaines, who was chosen
from the senior class, is to have a
white satin gown, a train, crown, a
sceptre and all the other attributes of
a charming queen O. May. She is to
be crowned by Mrs. F. K. Sanders,
wife of the president and mistress of
ceremonies. Then comes the Maypole
dance when dozen dainty, white
frooked girls wind among the rainbow
ribbons.
The hoop rolling, one Of the anus
ing features of the entertainment, will
follow the May pole dance. Four girls
have been chosen from each class; they
will wear white gowns with sashes and
ribbons of their class colors. Then
comes the italian drill performed by
slender dancers with silken scarfs. At
$50 is scheduled "ye feasting upon We
college greene In an hour the dance
will recommence. then the myth of
Ceres and Prosperina with a cast of
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