“Slipping And Tripping“ was the subject of an address given before the boys of the Friday Evening Club yesterday morning, at a specially convened out-of-joint session, by Professor Ivan Fittleford. Fittleford offered a very interesting account of the people of an obscure region of Germany (a region unnamed at his insistence), whom he referred to as “the clumsiest beings upon the earth.” He showed a series of photographs and short movies of the Germans falling that were greeted first with laughter but by degrees converted to a more sober understanding of what Professor Fittleford called “the burdens that may afflict only those far away from us but that we should nevertheless feel as intimately as if they were visited upon us and our very families.” By the end, many of the boys were deep in doleful tears, through which they purchased souvenirs that included hats emblazoned with the slogan “Beautiful Fall Weather” and small sculptures of the Germans tumbling down. Great interest was taken by the boys and membership has increased to more than 100 in advance of next week’s talk. The topic has not yet been announced but the speaker will be Albert Saenz, the famed local acrobat better known as Sky Chicken.
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