Independence Junior College - Inkanquil Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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'THE INKANQUPL ' PAGE 17 THE FAM'LY MAN My daddy comes home with steps so slow, I hardly know if I should go Way down the street an' meet my dad, I know he feels so very bad. My daddy's been out since early' today I , A lookin' fer somethin' to git some Day- ' .Fer the oatmeal's all et up last' night An' baby sissy's a cryin' a sight Acause she ain't had nothin' to eat, An' myl stomach an' backbone feel like they meet. But I ain't acryin' I know My daddy's done his best, an' so I guess I'll go to bed an' see If the sandman's got a dream fer me , 'Bout Hapjacks round an' taters too An' a bowl of hot, thick veg'table stew, An' maybe some cakes an' a pie an' then In the mornin' I wont want no breakfast again. There's a eupful of milk an' a cracker, I think, An' baby sissy must have her drink. An' after that if I come to your door Will you give me a biscuit or two or more? Fer baby sissy's so little an' frail, An' somehow she seems so awful pale. ' But I'm so big that I wont cry- Why there's water a drippin' down oh, why! I ain't acryin'-My eyes blink so's The tearsdkeep a runnin' .down my nose. THE SET OF SAILS One ship drives east, and another west, With the selfsame winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails, And not the gales, Which decides the way we go. J Like the winds of the sea are the- Wings of fate, ' As we voyage along thru' life: ,Tis the WILL of the soul That decides the goal, And not the calmjor the strife.- BALLAD OF A SPIRITUALIST Bill Phaker was a spiritualist, And dealt in fearsome talk. He made the stove and hall-tree sing, And the table jump and walk. Bill threw his last seance one day, When Mrs. Joe McKnapp Wanted him to get her husband, Who'd gone through' a gallows trap. I Bill sang and howled, and groaned and moaned, And each and every yap Seemed to get him bettercontact With the victim of the trap. Then Bill pounded on the table 'Till his phiz grew black as sin, And the coo-coo elockstruck thir- teen, i ' And McKnapp came fioating in. Then the widow started screaming, But Joe didn't hear her speak, For he was busy hammering At Phaker's pointed beak. I don't crave notoriety, The spirit said to Bill, And I'll learn you better manners, So help me Heck, I will I .So he took Bill by the hind legs, Knocked his brains out on the floor, And before the show was ended, Waded ankle-deep in gore. Bills spirit went back with Mc- Knapp's, ' Into the land of Mists. And now is daily paged to earth By other spiritualists. Alone I stood beside the lattice gate ' Then crept within the garden stealthily . But with no thought of .crime to perpetrate I seized a rose in sheerest ecstasy. I grasped the rose and fled in pure delight ' I 'Twas mine, all mine, to fondle and possess ' I gazed upon it in the dim twilight 'Twas withered! Penalty of ruth- lessness.- There was a young man in the city Who, thought he would write a short ditty, A , e But he nearly-fell dead, g When his girltapped her head And he' heard her say, Oh,'what a pity!, r- .W I ' 1, On The Passing Of Santa Claus St. Nicholas, my patron saint, I cry Fortheeg thou'rt gone, Oh, thou art sped! In sorrow can I scarce forbear to shed A tear of grief from out my blood- shot eye, Though try I must, O Santa Claus, though I Am 'ware that thou wilt scoot not on thy sled To heap thy former presents by my bed, , As thou wert prone to do in years gone by. I drop a tear-CAye, bitter salt it islj Into my left shirt pocket. on my breast, And as it through evaporation cools My fevered bosom, up then lights my phiz, For though I know full well thou'rt but a jest, I Thou didst make bright my life on bygone Yules. -Russell Greenlee Spring Song O, happy is the world in spring, For birds fly high, and snakes lie lowg And the nacent grass, sun- kissed and blown By the winds that over the V praries roam, Looks up at the blue, where the A birds fly high, And then at its feet, whore the snakes lie low. And the fishermen tramp, with cheerful mein, Over the carpets of grass so green, And they smile and lziugh, and yawn and sigh, And look at the blue, where the birds fly high, And then at the grass, where the snakes lie low. -Russell Greenlee There was a young man with spring fever, He swore to his girl l1e'd ne'er grieve her: But he curried 'the goat. And got hair on his coat, And his girl swore that he had de- ceived her. U

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PAGE ISV THE INKANQUIL Honestly, Bobbie, I'm so mad. Oh, I'm so mad! No I haven't had a fight with Jerry. No, nothing like that. Yes, he's coming out tonight. Listen, you know that history theme I had to write? Oh, that history Prof! I could just shake his teeth out. I tell you I'm peeved, mad, angry! Why? Well, it's a long story. You see it was this way. I wrote about The Age of Queen Elizabeth. I just spent hours and hours on that paper. Really, it was so fascinating. Queen Elizabeth had the most gor- geous clothes you can imagine. She had hundreds and hundreds of dresses, and scores of hats and shoes. And Jewels! My dear, she had trunks of them! You see, John Hawkins and Sir Frances Drake used to go out on the ocean a long way from England, and when Spanish galleons Cthey were ships, not measuresb came along carrying silverand jewels from South America to Spain, Hawkins and Drake would up and fire at them, capture them, and take them back to England. They always gave Elizabeth half of all they cap- tured-I suppose that was just be- cause she was their queen, or may- be because they had fallen in love with her, the same as nearly all the other nice young men in that country did. Well, anyway, she just had oceans of bracelets, and rings and ear-screws and necklaces. And she had lots of money to spend on clothes-didn't have to ask Dad every time she wanted a new party dress, for her father, old Henry the Eighth, was dead, and anyway she was a queen and could do as she pleased. For source of material I quoted from Melville where he says, The flueen said she had clothes of every sort, which every day thereafter, so long as I was there, she chan- ged. One day she had the English weed, another the French, and an- other the Italian, and so forth. She asked me which of them be- came her best. I answered, in my judgment, The Italian dress. He 'goes on to say how pleased she was with his decision, because she liked to show her beautiful golden hair under the funny little Italian bpnnets. , , HISTORY When she had her portrait painted, she used to wear great, wide, pleated, lace ruffles around her neck, and one dress she had was of blue velvet, embroidered all over in gold and silver. Oh, it was gorgeous! It had a tight bas- que waist, a real full skirt, and those old-fashioned leg-o'mutton sleeves. And whenever she wore this dress, she always wore a per- fectly stunning string of pearls, made in the most elaborate de- sign, that ended in an enormous diamond pendant. Her clothes were the envy of all the other queens, and as soon as she appear- ed in public in a new dress, which was almost every day, every other lady rushed to her dressmaker to one like it. And all the gal- whose wives didn't see it home and described it to in detail. They were afraid wigs would get all mussed they didn't. have lants went them their up if But clothes weren't the only things she had in huge quantites. All the men were wild about her. You see, she could play the piano Conly they called it a virginal thenl, and could speak several languages, besides wearing all those dazzling clothes, and the men all just naturally fell for her. That woman had class, my dear, she had class. There was Sir Robert Dudley, whom she made Earl of Leicester. She was really very fond of him, but there were so many others who kept asking her to marry them that she knew she would get more attention from all of them by not marrying anybody. Wise Lady, I say. King Philip II of Spain just ur- ged and urged her to marry him, and even sent Count Feria as Am- bassador to the court of England, so he could be there all the time to speak aj good word forthe King whenever there was an opportun- ity. The Scotch Earl of Arran. Eric, King of Sweden, the archduke Charles of Austria, Philabert of Savoy, Charles IX of France, the duke of Anjou, and the duke of Alencon all proposed to her. But she knew how to manage them, for they kept coming back and coax- ing her even after she had rejected theirjproposals. ' I V' Well, as I said before, it's a long story, That's just a sketch of the theme I wrote. I thought it was darling. It just thrilled me to death. I looked up a lot of big words in the dictionary, and when I finished, it sounded perfectly scrumptous. So I turned it in Friday. This morning I went in to get mylpaper back. I was- just sure I'd get an A or probably an A plus on it. The history Prof. was sorting out a lot of papers when I entered. Thinking to be real so- ciable, I said, How'd you like my theme? Can you imagine what he ans- wered? No, I'm sure you never could. Really I was astounded. After all my work and such a per- fectly adorable description of her clothes, he said, Do you call that a HISTORY theme? I was so mad I never said one word. I just snatched my paper out of his hand, and gave him the awfullest look. You could see I just withered him. Then I threw my head up in the air to show him he couldn't run over me, and walk- ed out, still not saying a word. He had a D marked on my paper. Imagine it, a D! I'm so mad! Oh, I'm so mad! One time a young man went to jail He'd shot without license a quail, Not a tear did he shed, But softly he said, I Next time I'll throw salt on its tail. The cider supply of our fair city was nearly exhausted on the night of the all school picnic at Le Hunt. Some of the students were report- ed to have acted rather queerly under the influence of the bever- Qlge. Fat Prescott, although much averse to winter baths, was ra- ther thoroughly immersed in the Kansas Natural Lake on the night of the School skating party. ,. Literal Translation Forte dux in aro-forty ducks in a row. Passum sum jam-Pass us some jam. A Boni legis Caesaris-the bony legs of Caesar. -1 We wonder if 'Fat Prescott wears outsize hose. I 4