The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-17

"soh eoets parents Tany five,
/ But to them the cost is small.
Wnen festivals are over and we come
down
/ From the life we have lived In the
sky,
We find that we ara lust ordinarv
beings,
The Alumni OF Keokuk High.
Clothes Was His Topic.
Rev. d. e. Butler, pastor Of the
Bethel A. M. e. church who was pres
ent at the meeting, eulogized the
dress of all members of the Alumni
association present in the following
witty manner: i
Keokuk colored Alumni
Has spread another feast,
And calPd US from the south and
| north.
And from the west and east.
| There has been no hesitation,
Our .go-to-meetin' clothes
Are on our backs-Look round, see
Our frocks and frills and bows,
Just you look at Myrtle Ashby,
! And her tucks and ruffles scan,
And our own Miss lone Hawkins,
Who is dress'd to beat the ban
Little Ruth, our secretary
Land sakes, she's dressed to kill,
And, as to Rita Ashby.
Now that's dressmaker's skill
Chicago's first bronze" high school
grad,
mean Mrs. M. e. Bland,
Is all rugged up in ''fussy stun"
Just to let US know she can.
There's Friedrich Fields. who ranks
among
The warmest boys In town,
And Miss Artitia makes them all
Go way back an sit down.
Lonzo Draine has tried himself
What do you think of that?
And the way Miss Gross is all dolpd
up,
We wonder where she's at.
Just you look at Fielding Johnson,
The man who totes the mail,
He's not only got the goods on,
But they say he's got the. kale.
Then there's McBrooks, the ice cream
man,
y
And Ollie Gross, takes off her hat to
none,
That's what they say.
Tuskegee sent Miss Mabel Bland
UP here, from way down south;
And Ralph Geabau from Washington
Look at 'em-shet your mouth.
There's Professor Arthur Robbins,
With fiddle and with bow
Patsy sure is proud of him,
Don't ask me how l know.
Look at Mrs. Aurelia Handy,
Just nine days now a bride,
She always was fashion plate
And q pretty gal beside.
Do you see Miss Letha Johnson
All dressed from head to feet
In genuine-what. you call it?
Anyhow it's hard to beat.
Della Johnson is caution
She always wears the best,
She simply tells EN-" what she
And EN-" he does the rest.
Oh yes, there is Roy e. Handy tt
With his weddin' garments on,
II ever there was a lucky duck
It's Handy, sure's you're bon.
Look at Parson Butler with
His long black frock so new,
And likewise the parsons lady,
Kinder high falutin, too. Ell
Let's say 'Three cheers for v. II. b.
Our only grad this year,
And wish her well, although fate
rules
That she shall not be here.
Tuskegee Institute, spoke on several
interesting incidents in connection
with her school course and also Of
the development of education among
the colored residents in the sou h.
She said that it was easy for all col.
ored graduates to find exc, lent poci-
lions in the southern states and that
this was an incentive that made hem
wish to secure the higher educational
advantages.
School Day "reminiscences.
Mrs. Nellie Bland spoke as follows
on "Reminiscences of School Days:
Backward, turn backward, o time
in your flight,
Make me a child again, just for to-
night"
So sang the poet, and SO ask you
to stop for while in your onward
march, turn back the hands of the
clock, and at the hour of $3.50 a. m.
start to school in the old Buckeye
state with a little girl Of four and
one-half years. Do you smile at the
weight of years? Please remembe.
that in the good old times" we were
sent to school young in order that the
twig might be bent while yet very
plant, for on that depended the
beauty of the tree. On that bright
morning, with stiffly starched skirts
and little yellow backed primer in
hand. she made her first courtesy
(bows were not in fashion them to
the school master. Think of mite
of girl going to her first school to
great six-foot man, weighing all OF
200 pounds and with a voice like a