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

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BURLINGTON PAPER COMPANY WHOLESALE Paper - Notions Holiday Goods - Fireworks Stationery BURLINGTON, IOWA “My, but your daughter is growing fast.” “Oh, I don’t believe she’s any worse than other young people around here.” Brave Wesleyan Co-ed: “Have a cigarette?” Ruth Purdy: “What, smoke a cigarette? Why, I’d rather kiss the first man that ■:.inic along.” B. W. C.: “So would 1, but have a cigarette while you’re waiting.” A. C. Cicrth: “I want a good brand of toothpaste.” Drug Clerk: “Forhan’s?” A. C.: “Naw, fer teeth! The Oldest Insurance Agency in Henry County and One of the Oldest Companies Doing Business in the State of Iowa THE HENRY COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION IVe Solicit Your Business Brazki.ton Block Phone 223 Page 213

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Hugh Hilton: “I know a girl who swallows swords.” Jimmy Smith: “That’s nothing. I know a girl who inhales camels.” Kroll (taking up quiz paper): “Why quotation marks on this paper?” Millard Wysc: “Courtesy to the man on my right. Prof.” Tramp: “T.lp me, lady, please. For three years 1 worked for the cause of temperance.” Lady: “Were you a temperance orator?” Tramp: “No, I was the ’orrible example.” Irene Boucher: “You’re not collar ad.” Dale Nicholson: “Well, you’re no Fisher Body ad yourself, darling.” “Kannae squeeze ye a little mahr?” “Gosh, no, Sandy, you’re too tight now.” “From whence them motley freckles?” “From eating rusty raisins.” “Here’s to the old fashioned girl—Bless ’em.” “Here’s to the Weslcvan co-ed—Dress ’em.” Visitor: “You say Greek is your most important subject here? Why, I thought it thought it was math.” Soph: “Yeh, but that’s Greek to us.” Getz: “Why do you suppose there is so much electricity in my hair?” Brad: “Because it is connected to a dry cell. Page 212

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 She was only a photographer’s daughter, but, oh! how she was developed. Home Work The sofa sagged in the middle, The shades were pulled just so, The family had retired, And the evening lamp burned low. There came a sound from the sofa, The clock was striking two. The freshman slammed his textbook, with a thankful. “Well, I’m through.” The Green- Grass Grew All Arolxd A green little freshie in a green little way Mixed some green little chemicals up one day The green little grasses now tenderly wave O’er the green little freshic’s green little grave. All Kyes “Say, fella! our eyes are like a bird.” “Howzat ?” “Always hopping from limb to limb.” One dark night as 1 was walking along a brilliantly lighted street, I heard a shot in the distance. I looked through a knot-hole in the barbed wire fence and saw footsteps approaching me on horseback. I ran up to the second story of a vacant lot, where I found a bald-headed man sitting in a corner. I pulled his hair and he yelled in a soft whisper, “Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.” Hearing an awful commotion in the next room, 1 looked through the closed door and saw a sewing machine running around without a stitch on. Page 214