The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-24

Their Fourth Annual Banquet
Was Fire Success.


The feature OF the Jayhawker an
nuaf banquet I'm the. dining hall OF the
| Central Congregational church Mon
day night was The song. Wearing Of
the Green" SUM. by the club and led
alternately by1ohn Dawson. Scotch
man, and. George Hughes. English
man. Hughes, the -Brfton. stood up In
front of the club and waved his arms
His red Whfnkers bristleds with en-
thusiasm. He pitched his voice to a
higher key than 1t had ever been
! pitched before and led the club
through one Verse and the chorus Of
! the Irish song OF sorrow. Then John
Dawson supplanted him in the lime
Hight. Dawson put on as much steam
! as Clyde freighter and carried the
Irish chant up to the rafters The
Irish members of the club sat amazed
at this outburst of zeal of foreigners
for their oppressed island.
The banquet was a most successful
iaffa r.. Morethan fifty guests sat
Flown TO the tribes at $780,, The ladies
a splendid repast, and 1T was admir-,
ably served. The room served nicely
for banquet Nall. After Hughes and
Dawson had saved Ireland in song the
program was carried out. Otis Allen.
president OF the club. made the annual
official address. He pointed with pride
to the clubs successful winter sea-
son. During the eight years of its ex-
| istence the club has never been in as
healthy and promising condition as at
this time.
Mrs. E. r. Simon was. next on the
program and sang a couple of songs
| that were greatly appreciated.
| Tom Lillard responded to the toast,
! THE Ladies, Our Guests Referring
to the new voters in Kansas. Lillard
declared that equal suffrage would be
perfectly all right for the female of
I = ~ i h. .Rrn<<~
the ways Of the woman of whom Solo
mon said:
She openeth her mouth with wis
dom and in her tongue was the law
of kindness. She lOOketh we'll to the
ways of her household and eateth not
the bread of idleness. Her children
rise up and cali her blessed; her hus-
band ALSO. and he praiseth her. Many
daughters have done virtuous1y but
thou exceedest them all Give her of
the fruit of herr hands and let her own
Fworks praise her In the gates"
ii The members of the club were in
| clined to agree with Lillard. but their
wives present Efefrained from COM
ment on the proposition as evolved
from the proverbs of the wise king.
The toast, "A World Worth Living
| In," was responded to by C. A. Cain.
But this member, being in the throes
i of recovery from a severe attack of
grip, took a rather gloomy view Of the
earth as an abiding place.
John Dawson was given the subject,
Wearing of the Green but why he
was SO assigned no man seemed to
know. The Scotchman, however, pro-
ceeded to unfold an interesting his
tory of the Irfahs people from earliest
antiquity down to the troubles in
ulster. "A more fruitful field for the
orator to reap a rich harvest of in
SEPARATION could not be conceived. In
! poetry song, pratory, love and war
i the Irish exceK Their muster roll Of
great lovers, fighters and singers is
long and bright. From the glory of
the Irish brigade at Fontenoy to the
swimming of the Irrawaddy by Ter
ence Mulvaneys Dawson recounted in
stances of Irish heroism. The Scotch
orator was big and fair. He left the
Douglas in his tomb under the slab
of deathless fame and talked only of
Robert Emmet.IWolfe Tone and O'Con-
Inch. But in the end Dawson pointed
with greatest pride to the Irish-Ameri-
cans, the ScOtch-Americans, the Ger
lman-Americans and the Anglo-Ameri-
cans as the flower of the world to-
day. The fathers who loved the
Scotch thistle and the Irish shamrock
and the English, rose. he said, have
taught their children to love the Kan
sas sunflower.
| It was a good banquet.