Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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16 GLEANER Give me the 'Daily Yappj I said. The only reason why I took the 'Daily Yapp' was because I didn't take any other. I put the paper in my pocket and for the want of something else to do I ask the newsy for his name. I told him he had clean cut features but a dirty face and I patted him on the shoulder and called him Sonny.'f I may have gone further but he interfered and said: ' Say mister, cut dat 'sonny' stuff. If yer want my name an' history I'll tell yer. I say it about six times a iay anyway to sech guys like youse, so here goes. We- ie mudder, pop an' me odder two mrudders-11ve in a shanty next to the Count. The Count's a bannaner con- noisseuer. If yer want ter come down some day I'l1 in- terdooce yer to me Pop. He's a school teacher. We ain't as poor as you might think, only pop don't want ter pay the income tax, so we live in a dump. What did you sa that banana venderis name was? I asked him. ' I didn't say, he replied, but if your anxious, I tell yer. He's Dominick DeVito. Him an' me Pops old friends. No sooner than I heard the I felt like a life long resident of New York. I have found another classmate! Then I asked him for his father's name. Me Dad's Phil Trupinf' he answered- I'm Jake, me mudder's Rose, an' me oder two brudders is Ike an' Wait a minute! I exclaimed. You say your dad is Phil Trupin? Here's a dollar. Take me to him. I gave him the dollar but he didn't seem to want it very bad. I-Ie said he would use it to buy his smaller brother the cigarettes he ow'd him. We agreed that he should first take me to the banana merchant and then he would take me to his , Pop. On the way to DeVeto's stand, he asked me if I have been to the new mooseem yet. I told him I hadn't, so he offered to take me up there. . Dey got a great artist there now, he said, wot paints dat sentimental stuff. He's got a picture there of a friend of his'n and a girl. Its stunning. The museum was on our way so when we came to it we went in. I was looking at the various pictures when my young friend nudged my side and whispered, There's ture. A the guy now. He's watching, the crowd around his pic-

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THE GLEANER 15 run dances off instead. I have no trouble in keeping the 'coeds' in step with the rest of the school. I have also made several additions to the depart- ments. I put plush lounges in the shop, a student's cream supply in the dairy and opened a tannery to supply the students with cowhides. - I heard from Zinn the other day. He runs a big threshing concern out West. He buys up old lumber and threshes the grain out of the wood. I've also heard from a few of the other fellows. Ap- ple has a big tobacco ranch in North Dakota. He's happy. The first few years after he left F. S. he led a high life. Later he married a discarded theatrical star. Then he settled down on a farm, bought a couple cows and showed his wife how to live the milky way- If you ever have a chance go over to see him. Livingston got tired of raising flowers, so he went back to Ireland to raise a revolution. I got a letter from Gross two weeks ago. He's out in Palestine and is making good. He's doing community workg making things look lively out there. He changed the 'Dead C' into the 'Live B! The old timers had salty dispositions over the matier, but he soon got rid of them, installed Farm School Pep and got things going good, The Jipper always was a good worker, so watch for his success. That's all I know about the fellows. Now tell me about yourself. But first you must come over and get something to eat. Besides I want you to meet my wife Effie. I'll give you a 'knock down' to some of the broads at the Domestic Science Building. There are some high steppers there and I'm sure you will enjoy yourself. I went with him to dine and told him all I knew. But they sure did know how to entertain there. I almost felt I was in the Sultan of Turkey's private play room. I spent an enjoyable day there and in the morningof the next day took a train for rather the train took mel to New York. When I got off the train and stepped down into that hast hurlv-burly, hustling city I felt a bit out of place. sort of unadiusted to my surroundings and felt a little relief by calling a newsv for the morning paper. WuXtra! wuXtra! he called- W'hat'll ya have? 'Morning Stretchf 'Spooners Gazettef or 'Daily Yappf WuXtra!

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THE GLEANER 17 Well I'1l be hanged! I exclaimed, If it isn't Stat- lnan, congratulations and Hello! Jimmy crickets!', he ejaculated. Touff! Welcome to our city! How do you like my new picture? Do you recognize who is on it?', Do I, I said, Well I should smile. If it isn't Effie hugging Stone! VVhat do you call it? Crushed Stone, It sells great. Say, I got a couple tickets for the show. Do you want to go? I was going to take my wife out but she died last night, so we two will go and have a good time. We'1l pay extra for the kid. They say its a great show, Its Babe Sammuel's 'Follies' at the fOld Scratch' down in Hogan's Alley. Babe runs the show. He's got a nice bevy of girls, all front rowers. There done up in ham strings and each one carries a candy, Great stuff. They got a fine second act. farce Making Love to the Queen of Hearts. I-Ie's good too. Slim got tired push- ing the plow so he went into the acting game and picked the 'Queen of Hearts' as his business card. Its an ace of a show. Hits your heart in the right spot. All the clubs go to see it, so put on your diamonds and we'll run down there. We'll stop in at the counts stand and hunt up Trupin on our way back. Trupin is teaching vocational agriculture in the Bronx. He's trying to persuade the farmers to more Nritzapeechest' instead of. the. baz- wotts, but he's having a pretty hard time at it. Let's hurry now. If we get there early enough we will hear our classmate Skaist. He's a great pianist. He uses his fingers to a great advantage. He plays for the Follies' and touches them up for two hundred per. Come on. I went to the show and enjoyed myself uimmenslyi' as the kid expressed it. I met all the fellows and had a real reunion. I found Iger too. He -was Editor of the 'Daily Yapp,' the paper I bought in the morning- I stop- ped in to see him and found him looking good fthat's why' he wears glassesj and prosperous. Krotoshinsky was working for him too. VVhen Kroty left Farm Schol he couldn't find a job so he was walking around New York like a lost Battalion, when I ger pick- ed him up and put-him in the educational department: He ran a three column article every day instructing the foreigners to speak good English. He was so good at it that the American Extension Brewery sent him to Siam to teach the Chinese down there to talk English. But Seeing Krotoshinsky ended. my great task. I felt