Racine High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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L?1'1Er1S1i'-'fX ?,.:zK1PtLK4wx2 berg's suggestion in the form of a n1o- tion? At this request El pink-headed youth with fi Napoleonic- :mir arises and says, I move fllilt we follow Mr. NVeinberg's sug- gestion and zleeept the use of the ezunp for an evening. And I am sure,'l he gen- erously concedes, Htllilt if the girls will provide sutlieient food, we boys will take ear-e ofthe bob. Ile sits down quite u11- disturbed by the battery of significant re- marks fired at him by the outraged girls. 'AEI'-ai, the president emeritus is so much ?lltlI'lIlPLl at the thought of insuffi- cient food that she forgets to address the chair. HYes, indeed, girls-w-we must have plenty of sandwiches-you know how boysziresand being out in the air. Girls, do you suppose eighteen dozen are enough if we have about three gallons of beans with them? The seeret:u'y. who is apparently labor- ing under the impression that she is to ezlt the entire eighteen dozen, shows signs of an zipproaehing demise. Nevertheless, she recovers suffieiently to moan. O peo- . th' th' 2 ' ' Hi S th I l ple' fl s 1 il0ll1l fipieu besides e heals and goodness only knows wuit else! A stormy diseussion follows, in which si eompromise of twelve doze11 is ettecfted. Alarmed at the prospeet of further wordy battles. the girls unanimously agree to plan the details among them- selves, and the meeting adjourns with the same hilarious confusion with whieh it began. -Esther A. Jensen and Regina D. Mohr, '12 EXHIBIT-CAM ERA CLUB

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