Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1913 — First May Picnic Very Much Enjoyed by Girls. [ARTICLE]

First May Picnic Very Much Enjoyed by Girls.

It required considerable edn joling on the part of ten girls of the grades to induce some of the teachers to chaperone them, but the teachers good naturedly surrendered and four of them accompanied the girlies on a stroll down the river Wednesday evening after school. All the delights of youth were enjoyed as the imaginations of the picnickers caused them to proclaim that an island they found had never before been discovered and with some ceremony they christened it Iroquois Isle and declared it all their own by the rights of discovery. A dainty luncheon was served at the fete celebrating the discovery and aided by the teachers two hours of very pleasant moments passed so quickly that all were disappointed at the rush of time and the fading light of the evening. Their, description certainly reminds us of the time "when we were kids,” and of the lines of Longfellow when he wrote: “When thou art worn And hard beset With troubles that Thou wouldst forget, Go to the woods and hills No sorrow dims the Sweet look that nature wears.”