Our Graduate Daughter

     Our daughter’s graduated, an’ we’re feel-

in’  quite    elated,   for  she’s  comin’  home 

from  college  in  a  day  or  two,  she  writes. 

She hez studied all the lingoes of the Eski- 

mos  an’  Mingoes,  an’  in  ‘ologies  an’ 

classics she is way up in the heights.

      She  hez  took  a  prize  in  spellin’  an’ 

in  readin’,  so  they’re  tellin’,  she  kin 

reason   out   an’   argue   like  a   statesman 

on the stump; she kin dance, kin play 

pianner,    in    a    most    artistic    manner, 

she   hez   got   the   facts   an’   figgers   uv 

the ages in a lump.

     She  kin  pose  an’  do  Delsarte  or  pro- 

duce  a   meal  la  carte,  she  kin  do  the 

physic’  culture  in  a  way  to  beat  the  band; 

she  kin  handle  all  the  topics  from Alaska 

to the  tropics,  she kin “bow an’ slam”, her 

ma says, in a manner truly grand.

     She’s  an  actress  an’  a  painter,  an’  in 

fact  I  guess  there  ain’t-er  blessed  thing 

in   art   or  science   she   don’t   know   frum 

A to Z, an’ I s’pose this world huv know- 

edge  is  a  boon  fur  ev’ry  college,  but  jist 

how  she’ll  use  it  farmin’  is  the  thing 

that’s gittin’ me!

Jan. 24, ('09?)                                                        

The Mingo people are an Iroquoian group of Native Americans made up of peoples who migrated west to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century. Anglo-Americans called these migrants mingos, a corruption of mingwe, an Eastern Algonquian name for Iroquoian-language groups in general.

Mingos have also been called "Ohio Iroquois" and "Ohio Seneca". Most were forced to move to Kansas and later Indian Territory (Oklahoma) under Indian Removal programs. Their descendants reorganized as a tribe recognized in 1937 by the federal government as the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma

.                                                                                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo

François Alexandre Nicolas Chéri Delsarte (November 19, 1811 – July 20, 1871) was a French musician and teacher. Though he achieved some success as a composer, he is chiefly known as a teacher in singing anddeclamation. He went on to develop an acting style that attempted to connect the inner emotional experience of the actor with a systematized set of gestures and movements based upon his own observations of human interaction. This “Delsarte” method became so popular that it was taught throughout the world, but particularly in America, by many teachers who did not fully understand or communicate the emotional connections behind the gestures, and as a result the method devolved into melodramatic posing, the kind in response to which Constantin Stanislavski would later develop his inner psychological methods. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Delsarte