Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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E I made my debut-He! He! He! into this comedy divine -Oh! Oh! Oh! twenty-one years ago- A- 'ggi Hai Ha! Ha! A great hit '-b. it was to-Gig! Gig! Gig!- ! ' W X Le! Le! Le! Some people ZX ' think this world is to be taken Q4 ll serious-Oh! Oh! Oh! but wi I think it is a huge joke-Ha! Q.. J Ha! Ha! Ha! Everything I wears a smile-Hah! Hah! .N J If ,Q Hah! If it should get any , funnier I do not see how I Dnil - N- , ,,-N-4f-- X' - could stand it-Ha! Ha! Ha! I f-fvff' The doctors say I may die sail b with an attack of the-Gigg-ling-long-gi-tis-I-Ie! He! He! He! The Faculty are so' funny, the Seniors are so Lit' l' i ' ' funny, and Chancellor, Oh ! My ! The other day I saw a ,,'i It funeral-Ha! Ha! Ha! going down the street- He! He! ' -' He! The mourners were all-Oh! Oh! Oh! dressed in black-Hah-! Hah! Hah! The corpse was in the lead- Ha! Ha! Ha! all still like, you know-Oh! Oh! Oh! it A was the funniest thing I ever'saw--Hah! Hah! Hah I- Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!-He! He! He! Hel He! 'PZGALL 1 i tif - W . , . M' X f 1 wi . ggLAgMMmu,, MAL! A A, , ff, - f Agmaisituthn... . :sh

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am a man. There exists no prob- , ability that you will comprehend '55 the profound significance of that statement. .' I am a man, not a child, nor a woman, but , afu!!-grown man. I have no inclination to labor in the athletic field, and, concern- ing football, I never indulge, these sports belong to the realm of boyhood or to the brute kingdom. Ido not cook, nor do I scrub, neither is washing dishes in my line, such is the vocation of woman. I am a being distinguished from all other animals by the power of reason and speech, a man in the service 5. , 'r of the King. Ibecame a living soul some thirty years ago. Since then time has been employed to render me what I now am- one possessing all the essential qualities inherent in man- hood, not effeminate and anything but a dude. I am, YC. VCO? VU, if

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was published in February, 1873. i Have been extant twenty-eight years. Although I sell at a moderate price, I am still in the first edition. Illustrated well by blue eyes and wavy brown.hair. Frontispiece is suggestive. X Public opinion is that while I am in good I literary form and my carriage is superb, - X Ilack richness of content and that the interest is not well sustained, that while -..- - a slight reading is not without profit, a deeper consideration is not desirable. My colloquial style is perhaps too stilted. The dramatic element is weak, diminishing gradually to the close. The sales would have been larger had I been labeled comedy Qlialstaff or Bottomj while as it is, only the most discerning are able tg pierce my melo-dramatic role and see the real comedy, beneath which, when viewed as a whole, is most admirable. Up to the present date I confess being some- what a disappointment to my authors. They have lately sold the copyright and it is hoped that by this change of management and under my new hyphenated title, Ishall acquire 3, certain popularity, at least, with the dilletante. frufuxiuflg