The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
Quotations For Toast.

Mrs. A. j. Ruddick gave toast to
the ladies and the entire toast was
made up of quotations from Shakes
peare so woven together to make a
tribute to women. The toast demon
strated the Observation-Disclosures of quot
able lines from Shakespeare and also
Mrs. Ruddicks knowledge of the
great bard.
Mrs j. o. Boyd read a group Of
sonnets, from various plays. Mrs.
Boyd's reading is always particularly
fine in it's Interpretation, and her
reading of Shakespeare lines was
particularly well done.
Miss Elizabeth Irwin who is a mem.
Der living out of Keol1uk, is there
fore according to the rules of the club
AN honorary member, and her toast
was to that class Of members. She
said: Il believe it was the duke OF
Argyle who made the ungallant
speech, Woman has no right to be on
la platform-except to be hung; then
it's unavoidable
81 don't know how well this applies
to woman being on a program, but I
understand that from mans determin-
Iation not to be on it this evening, it
is another case of woman's presence
Ito be any program.
my subject being Our Honorary
Members I was really anxious to
find something sufficiently learned to
do them justice-something that l
could learn by heart and quote, but I
have bethought me that perhaps you
are all of the mind of Judge Salmon
iP. Chase. Miss Kate San born said
3 hat once when she was going down
to dinner with he, he said I beg OF
you, Kate, don't quote the Atlantic
! Monthly tonight Well, if not high
brow, why would not deep moving
!earnestness be suitable to the occas-
ion? Most sincerely do I deplore the
absence of most of our honorary mem
beers. 'nr
Statistics seem safe-and sure
6 sometimes but aside from the fact
that our honorary members are sea-
tered from the Pacific coast to the
Atlantic, from the great lakes to South
America, what can l say
! Their long absences, and my own,
have left me absolutely no knowledge
on which to hang any remarks. In
i fact one or two Of them are unknown
to us even by sight-if one of us were
to meet one of them, by chance. it
would not be unlike the meeting OF
the two Irishmen who were each mis-
taken in the identity of the otner-as
one of them put it, We looked at each
other, and faith, it turned out to be
lnayther Of u.s.
/ "In spite of the lack Of real knowl-
! edge, a rumor persists to the effect
That one, or is it two, of our members
lifelong to the club only for Shakes
peare's annual birthday party. so l
think they should be especially well
coined tonight.
/ There are two ways or becoming
an honorary member of the Shakes
peare club: the first is to be and
then not to be, an active member;
the second is by marriage. To the
latter way penalty is attached, a
heavy penalty-at least it is about
five pounds heavy. The club prefers
this method of collecting its passive
menbers-it seems to bind them to
tthe others with sweet and sticky
bond.
This being my first toast, 4 am
o1ite ignorant of the proper con-
} str1ction of one-T don't seem to know
how to bridge the space between
what | have already said and the end
ing l should make.
i perhaps | can dispense with the
formality
"Tbackery made caricature of his
, own face, in which he showed no
mercy to his broken, flattened nose.
j A Iadv said to him: There is only
one thing about YOU that / never could
get over-your nose
n mo wonder. madam he rephed'
there is no bridge to ii
and so | too will dispense with a
, bridge and ask you to drink to tne
health of our honorary members.
Nrs Reno Sales then sang in a
verv delightful way. Pale Hands,
with piano accompaniment by Mrs
Irwin.
The Active Members.
Mrs. r. NJ Laps'ey gave TOAST ~
|onr Active Members. She sard IN
ou. "Jyhe active members-here
oil ore looking at me with tnaA