Adel High School - Scarlet and Black Yearbook (Adel, IA)

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Last of all our Squaws and Chieftains Comes Squaw Warren, very cheerful. She has a voice like falling water, Teaches how to give the war song, Leads the singing at our Pow-Wows, fWhen we have themj ?? ? ? ? 9 ? ? Waves the tomahawk to keep time by, Makes us open wide our voices, Down our tongues and up epiglottis. Heap fine singers we will yet be. CPI Teaches all this and heap much moreg How to play the tam-tams, Castanets and Indian war drums, I-low to play the piano: Hold the hands upon the keyboard, Strike the notes with Hngers just so. Great is Squaw Warren among the great Ends the song of Hiawatha. Now the great ones all are mentioned. Dismissed is the quick-called council, For the campf1re's glow is dying. Go tell other tribes around us Of our powerful Squaws and Chieftains, Who dwell, loved by all among us, In the tribe of old Adelians. 0l'lCS. R. V.'l7

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Play with A B Cs and numbers, Makes them take and give and borrow, When they play with such small triflesg I So that they rray gain much knowledge, Which will let them buy at bargains. fsmallj yet great is our Squaw Thomson Then is Acly, always smiling, With the hair like danger signals, Who but lately for our pleasure, Left her home and well-known people, Left her heart there for safe keeping, C50 the young braves have discovered., Came to teach us as Squaw Joy, Of the language dead and gone long, How friend Caesar made his marches, How he made his marvelous speeches, l-low and where constructed bridges, When and how he pitched his wigwam. She it is who makes the tribesmen Work and labor like the convicts, Giving all the derivations Of the long and lengthy adverbs, Learning all the conjugations Of the indeclinable adjectives. Thus the students falwaysl working Under mighty supervision, Have twice doubled their mental knowledge UD Till the Chief of all the Chieftains l-las expressed surprised opinion. But we love our dear Squaw Ady. Now comes Newcomb, always cheerful, Almost last, but least by no means, Thirteen cubits stands she skyward, Wears a belt of rarest Wampum, And this belt is just two cubits. Teaches squaws of the older classmen How to bake the bear meat browner, I-low to mix the meal more finely, When to stir the milk and honey, How to cook to please the warriors, Of the sweet roots, which are sweetest. Of the bitter, which is bitterest, Of the hot ones, which are hottest, How to mix them all together, Making food which tastes like bubbles, Which will please the chieftains greatly. Surely we love our magna Squaw Newcomb.

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