UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
Louis L. CCA
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ELLE POTTER
High School Editor
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FRIDAY APRIL 26,1912.
THE WHY OF THE KIRMESS There is on the campus today a freshman girl for whom the kirmess is primarily given. She may be looking ahead and knowing that she cannot afford to return to school next year. Perhaps she feels discouraged and that she is so small a part of the big university that she would not even be missed. And yet it is to help her that the proceeds of the Kirmess will be used.
And when she receives this scholarship she should turn and work that next year some other deserving freshman girl may feel the same glad joy in her heart that comes from knowing that the whole University loves her and cannot afford to lose her.
Who and where ever she is let her take hope. The dancers in bright attire are dancing just for this freshman girl. The brilliant pageant winds over the campus for this freshman girl alone. Every hour spent by the Kansas girls was gladly given for her sake.
The University of Missouri hasn't enough blondes among the girls of the senior class from whom to elect a May Queen. What's the matter with the chemicals?
LOCAL TALENT AT MUSIC FESTIVAL
Now that the music festival is past, it seems a fitting time to register student complaints. Undoubtedly, the festival is popular with the young men and women of the University, but there is at least one objection which is frequently raised against it. Why must there be local talent forced into the program?
The festival is advertised as one of the really good opportunities for students to hear good music. The price of admission is comparatively high, and many a seat holder is disappointed when local musicians appear on the program. Students attend the festival in order to hear artists who do not frequently come to Lawrence and although they appreciate the local musicians, they pay festival prices in order to hear numbers which would be impossible to hear at any other time.
FOR CLOSER UNION
Some time ago a movement was started to bring about a closer relationship between the faculty and student body of the University. Several meetings have been held at which representative students and members of the faculty who are
popular with the students, discussed many of the University problems.
This movement is one that cannot be commended too highly. In a large institution like the University, all possible measures should be taken to create unity. The various meetings have shown beyond doubt that both faculty and students are ready to follow any good plan for closer union that may be suggested. It is to be hoped, something tangible will result.
BROADENS FIELD FOR GIRLS Few people realize how many University students are self supporting, or partially so. The field of work is much broader than ever before, and especially is this true in the case of the girls. There is, however, a lack of initiative among the women students in taking up the varied opportunities for self help. Many feel that they can work only in private homes, and will accept no other class of work. As a result, the Women's Employment Bureau of the University experiences difficulty in filling positions other than domestic.
At present, there is an excellent opportunity for girls to conduct cooperative clubs or tease houses which they could run on a purely cost basis. This would provide many unemployed girls with desirable positions.
TO BE A K. U. MAN?
"Be a K. U. man." "Would that mean anything?" said Dr. Naismith in one of his classes, "when the crew on the Titanic was about to stampede, the captain called 'Be British, men,' and they held to their posts.
"Be a K. U. Man." Does it mean anything to you to come from Kansas? Does it mean every man for himself, or something higher and nobler—a deep loyalty to the best interests and ideals of the University? While in school, we sometimes forget its truest ideals but when we leave the institution we should carry with us a sense of love and reverence for the University that at the call of our Alma Mater we would stand at our post and be K. U. men.
For the benefit of the young women of limited means seeking an education, Smith College will experiment in cooperative housekeeping. One of the ways to be used for the purpose in which the young women will live and keep house.
Artesian wells at the Yale gymnasium will supply the Carnegie pool with water at the rate of 30,000 gallons an hour.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
The chump who wanted to see it the cigar cutter was sharp is not hallel on the level with the fool that attempted to buy fence rails at the post-office
Wasn't the fellow who jumped from the window hurt?"
"Oh, no, he struck on his head."
"On his head! But——"
"Well, he had on a soft hat."
She Went Home to,
Mr. Jareth, hurry! You know the proof of the padding is the eating, dear.
Mr. Just Married — Yes, but I'm not test tube.
— Chaparral.
Dartmouth Jack-O'Lantern.
Well, he had on a soft hat."
"Wife is just one sham thing after another," thought the husband as his spouse placed her teeth, hair, shape and complexion on the bureau.
She Went Home to Mother.
Chaparral.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
HORSE and an Ass were traveling together, the Horse prancing along in its fine trappings, the Ass carrying with difficulty the heavy weight in its panners. "I wish to do and well fed, and all that fine harness upon you." Next day, however, there was a great battle, and the Horse wounded to death in the final charge of the day. His friend, John, followed them afterwards and found him on the point of death. "I was wrong," said the Ass. "Better humble security than gilded danger."
AUNT NICKELOUS
SULFIDE SAYS
Yer never know what these girls'll do next. They tell me down at Wellesley they're gettin' a mile o' pennies, 84,400 of 'em for to make a builn' Ought to started in when I was a girl. A cent went farther in them day than it does now.
(By Genevieve Wells)
"Comin' events cast their shadows before," so I've heard. Must be there is goin' to be somethin' doin' over at the Kansan office the way them fellers have been hunter' round the campus for news. It's been a mighty newsy paper fer the last few days.
It makes a feller think its June and everybody's goin' home, to see so many tags everwhere. More than yer see in the baggage room at the depot.
Pretty near everybody's wearin' a yeller tag. "Tother day I was talkin' with a Law when 'long came a feller with a yeller button on his cap an' wearn'in a green tag. "Wher's bound fer," I says. "Aw, no wher," says the Law, "he just don't know St. Patrick's day over."
They say over in Missouri they ain't got enough blondes in the University to choose their May queen from. Must be awful behind the times over there. Aunt Nickelous Sulfide chuckled as she arranged several bottles of peroxide on the shelves. Their chemistry laboratory certainly is small.
Student elections at the University of Wisconsin are now conducted under a "corrupt practices act," which follows quite closely a similar law passed last winter by the state legislature. The cost of the first election under the new rule was $40. The same election for the candidates between $300 and $400 is heavier than at any other election of recent years, notwithstanding the fact that heretofore conveyances have been used to take voters to the polls.
Two graduates of Dartmouth College have donated three gold medals to be awarded for the greatest physical improvement shown by students between January and May. The competitors must show a classroom average of at least 65.
ELIZA'S INTERUPTED CONQUEST
Eliza was fat and forty. Fair Eliza was not, for her smooth skin had a rich brown hue resembling that of a chocolate cream. Her eyes, small and twinkling, were usually an expression of alertness and occasionally of snappiness that was indicative of a quick temper. Eliza's neck and arms were her chief pride, for their smooth roundness just laid claim to real beauty.
By Ruth Van Doren
She debated the question reasonably for some time and finally decided she'd "take Ligo." For several weeks she labored earnestly with him. She wore her prettiest clothes for him, she listened attentively to his disjointed discourse, rolling up her eyes at him adoringly, and murmuring, "Yes, Mistah Lige!" at every opportunity; she made the kind of pie he liked every Saturday, until the family wondered at the repetition, when she considered that she had laid enough snakes for any ordinary man she arranged one Saturday evening, to lead up to the important question. She wore a pink dress with a flowing pink sash around her ample waist, piled on all her jewelry, and straightened herwig before her mirror with a complacent smile. Lige were certainly propose before the evening was over.
As Eliza had charms, so had she masculine admirers. Every Saturday night some dusky lover came across the river to the farm to spend the evening with "Miss Eliza," who was in reality twice Mrs., having been twice a widow.
One defect Eliza had, which might have kept her vanity chastened, had she not discovered how to conceal it cleverly. Of one of another race it might have been said, "prematurely gray." The little gray kinks that covered Eliza's round head warranted no such dignified phrase. It was just gray wool. So Eliza wore a wig—a wig of straight black hair surely never grown on human head. It had a stylish pompadour in front and a flat bun effect in the back. Eliza admired it exceedingly, but guarded the secret of her coifure jealously. Once Miss Edith caught her without it, and Eliza stillly refused to speak to her for nearly a month.
Eliza knew by experience that personal beauty attracts a man's fancy, and that flattery goes far toward winning his heart. So she made herself beautiful, and in spite of her "fat and forty," coqueted her way into several hearts, especially that of one Lige. Eliza was tired of earning her living. She felt she had better and that sociability which her work on the farm did not permit. Lige had money, she knew, for he owned a saloon just across the state line.
Intimate communion with the minds of the wisest and most gifted of our disciples fails to bring with it, not merely patience and hope wherewith to meet the unavoidable cares and disappointments of life, but an attitude to bear even its worst calamities.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
ALEXANDER IRELAND.
It was part of Eliza's duty to milk the three cows every evening. On this particular Saturday, Lige, probably scenting excitement in the atmosphere, came across the river early before the cows were milked. Eliza, becoming above her brilliant pink, conscious that Lige was already smitten by her beauty coyly invited him to come to the barn with her while she milked. Lige sauntered along beside her, dangling the milk pails at each side, never taking his eyes from Eliza. She smoothed her hair self-consciously and smiled up at him.
"You who has got pretty hair, Miss Eliza," he volunteered.
"Oh, pshaw." she demurred, tossing her head, "It ain't notnith' to speak of." "You'e too modest," he murmured down at her.
Eliza called the ows and took down the milking stool. She did not mind showing how gracefully she could perform her task. Lige leaned against the side of the barn with his hands in pockets, and watched her admiringly.
The Jersey Bess, calm under Eliza's skillful hands, chewed her cud meditatively as she watched him. She cast a suspicious eye around at Eliza, and caught her in the act of smiling coyly up at the lounging figure. Jersey Bess looked disguised. She switched from dress to gloves and liberation. The tail was matted with prickly cockle-hurrs collected in her afternoon ramble thru the pasture.
A second time she turned to look at Eliza. Eliza was just lowering a very firty eye. She meant to have no indecision tonight. For a moment the expression in Jersey Bess's eye was less cow-like. She gave her tail a vicious little switch to slap a fly from her smooth flank. But the eyelid of the eyes was slapped instead Eliza's bent head, and in an instant flew back with an unacustomed bunch of straight black hair dangling from the end.
Eliza gave a shriek of dismay, clasped her hands to her head, among the little gray kinks. Then instinctively she made a dive for Bess's tail, to disentangle the precious wig. As she turned to Lige with her wig awry on her head but she saw the barn in him doubled up against the barn in an uncontrollable fit of laughter.
"You so has got pretty hair, Miss Eliza," he gasped between shouts. Then Eliza's temper broke loose. Spurred on by wounded vanity, she poured forth a flood of her choice language up on the astonished Lige. The language was accompanied by the pail of milk, which she dashed upon him in her rage. When the torrent was followed by the milking stool Lige liced. Leaving her to stand shouting imprecations upon his offending head, and upon the innocent-looking Jersey Bess, he fled across the river to spread the tale among the Saturday night crowd at the saloon.
Now Eliza goes about in glowering sulenness, which will last no doubt, until some ignorant stranger admires her hair.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
MY DEAR
If I hadn't had you, my dear,
in the years that we've been together.
With the teeth to tongue and your jest
and smile.
No ratter how gray the weather;
If I hadn't had you when my hope was
now.
And the world had been empty and sad and drear,
To comfort and tease and love me, I'd have seen no green in the grass
low,
To comfort and tease and love me.
No blue in the sky above me.
If I hadn't had you, my dear,
If I didn't have you, my dear,
With the glamour of youth about you,
When the day's work drags and my
work drags.
Why, what should I do without you? If I lied, have you when the day is long?
And the long, long night comes after;
gives wrong.
To set it aight with laughter.
if I didn't have you when the world goes wrong.
If I didn't have you, my dear,
There'd be small need of my tarrying here.
Big Special Feature
—Esther Clarke.
AT THE
Friday and Saturday
A " CHRISTIAN SLAVE, "
"A VOICE FROM THE DEEP"
Sensational production of the Italo-Turkish War. Actual scenes from Tripoli, by Circes. Also a Special Release Biograph.
A Vitagraph Feature.
"THE BLACK WALL"
And a side-splitting Comedy.
ALKALI IKE WINS THE RANCH WIDOWER'S DAUGHTER
Don't Miss the Grand's Program
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