Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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INSPIRED AT HERSHEY HALL Our new dean, Miss Voorhees, ’s come to our house to stay, To uphold the constitution and keep the dates away. To make us all to go to bed at ten o’clock, an’ keep The rules and regulations, and get eight hours of sleep. And all us wicked children, when ten o’clock has come, We set around the chafing dish and have the mostest fun. But we has to be most awful still—say nothin’, most, about— ’Cause Miss Voorhees ’ll get us if we don’t watch out. Oncet there was some little girls who wouldn’t say their prayers, And wouldn’t go to bed at ten, away up stairs. Oncet Miss Voorhees heard them holler, as they went down the hall, And she up and took their names down in a book, that’s all. Then she read the constitution, her looks I can’t express, But she kinder lost her temper, just that one time, I guess. And sent them all to bed at eight, or some time there about, And Miss Voorhees ’ll get you if you don’t watch out. An’ one time there was a little girl who always laughed and grinned, And never went to bed on time, though she knew it was a sin. And oncet she was restricted, but she had to comb her hair, So she wouldn’t go to bed at eight and said she didn’t care. And when house meeting time came round she thought she’d go and hide, But there was Miss Voorhees standing by her side. And she ’bout snatched her baldheaded, for she knew what she’s about, And Miss Voorhees ’ll get you if you don’t watch out. And Nellie Curran tells us, when the alcohol burns blue, And the chocolate fudge it sputters, and the coffee, too, And we hate to go to bed at ten, and we like to have our say, And we talk of what we ’spec’ to do with school days far away: “You’d better mind Miss Voorhees and douse your light so clear, And when Miss Voorhees reprimands shed the penitential tear, And cherish all her precepts and mind what you’re about, ’Er Miss Voorhees ’ll get you if you don’t watch out.”

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How much a man is like old shoes. For instance, both a sole may lose. Both have been tanned, both are made tight By cobblers. Both get left and right. Both need a mate to be complete. And both arc made to go on feet. They both need healing, they both get sold; And both in time will turn to mold. With shoes the last is first—with men The first will be the last; and when The shoes wear out they’re mended new; When men wear out they’re men dead too. They both are trod upon, and both Will tread on others, nothing loth. Both have their ties, and both incline, When polished, in the world to shine. And both peg out—now would you choose, To be a man or be his shoes? J. M. BURD CO. Shoes for College People Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank 720 Jefferson Street BURLINGTON, IOWA When in town drop in and visit the newest bank and enjoy our rest rooms. We operate along modern lines and will greatly appreciate your accounts. T. B. Gabeline, Pres. AUGUST WiTTE, V. Pres. M. E. Toothache, Cashier

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BIRD CRANE FURNITURE DEALERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS WINDOW SHADES WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF FRAMING PICTURES B ngtons LADIES, MISSES ana CHILDRENS READY TO WEAR STORE WO W£A'5 GOOD CLOTHES Three Stores Now: Burlington, Keokuk, Davenport While in Ottumwa, Eat at the “IOWA CAFE” QUICK SERVICE, COURTEOUS TREATMENT REASONABLE PRICES, CLEANLINESS COME AND SEE Regular Meals 25c Fine Sleeping Apartments in Connection 124 EAST SECOND STREET Opposite Courier Building “Let Me Do Tour Dirty Work N. MOATS Agency Iowa Steam Laundry Ottumwa, Iowa 25 Years at Wesleyan