University Daily Kansan
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Dating Today Differs From Those in 1854
By KAREN HILMER
The dating and courting customs back 100 years ago went out with the horse and buggy—to some extent.
When great-grandmother was a girl, she probably met her husband-to-be at a taffy pull, a square dance, or at an ice cream social. Today we meet members of the opposite sex probably over a game of bridge, a cup of coffee, or in a class.
Instead of getting the family car for an evening, a fellow would wheel the carriage out of the stables, harness the horses, put on his best suit, high collar and bow tie, and start down the path to the home of the girl of his dreams.
Today, college Joe throws on a cashmere sweater, jeans or slacks, tears out of the garage, and hopes tears out of the garage, and hope he makes it to his girl's house without a mishap to the fender.
The evening "dates" were quite different also. The boy who lived in the 1850's has just halted the horses and has stepped out of the carriage. He knocks on the front door and is greeted by a
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The first version of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was published in 1855.
father wearing spectacles, and a copy of "David Copperfield" in his hand. Our young bashful lad is ushered into the plush parlor, where only guests are entertained. He waits, and waits, and waits. Finally a sweet, demure little girl with myriads of long curls streaming down her back and dressed in the latest style of the season, slowly makes her entrance into the parlor. Of course she is carrying a hanky—to be dainty. She is accompanied by her father and mother. Tea and cake is served and they all settle down to a quiet evening of checkers.
Today—what a change! The date was at eight and it is now 8:45. There is a screeching of brakes, and a slam of a car door. Our arrogant suitor pounds on the door and is admitted into the living room by his date for the evening, who is dressed in the latest style of the day, sweater, skirt, bobby sox and short cropped hair. A few more couples join the party and the parents are asked to leave the living room. The latest recordings of Stan Kenton are thrown on the victrola, the rug is pulled back, and the party begins.
Jay Jane pledging services will be held at 5 p.m. next Wednesday in the Pine room of the Student Union.
On the Hill
--the pinning of Beverly Siebert, college sophomore, to William Blair, college senior, was recently announced. Miss Siebert is from Kansas City and Blair, a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, is from Osborne.
Phillip Delbert Piatt, engineering junior, was elected corresponding secretary of Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity at a recent meeting.
Gamma Phi Beta sorovity announces two pinnings.
Sigma Kappa sorority announces the pinning of Barbara Joy Pering, college sophomore, to David E. Sbur, graduate student. Miss Pering is from Kansas City. Sbur is from Scranton, Pa., and is a graduate of Pennsylvania State university. He is a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
Friday, March 26, 1954
Peggy Jones, education junior, and Martha Nienstedt, business junior, were recently initiated into Jay Janes. Their names were omitted from a previous list of Jay Jane initiates.
William E. House, Robert Tomlinson, and Donald F. Smith, former students at the University, are among the Marine second lieutenants completing a five-month officers' basic course at the Marine Corps school at Quantico, Va.
The pinning of Miss Joanne Ramaker, college sophomore, to Dwight Harrison. engineer ing-
ior, was also announced. Harrison is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Both are from Downs.
Gamma Tau chapter of Delta Tan Delta fraternity recently initiated 11 men in ceremonies heid at the Shelter. After the ceremony the chapter attended services at the First Methodist church.
Carl Pingry, pledge class president, was honor initiate. Others initiated were James Bickley, Gene Coombs, Larry Stroup, Louis Stroup, Ronald Pittenger, Darrrell Nixon, Robert Henningson, and Hal Williamson, college freshmen, and Donald Ulrich, and Bernard Moffet, engineering freshmen.
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Phi Delta Theta fraternity announces the pledging of Frank Black, engineering freshman from Lawrence.
Kanza hall will hold a dance from 8:30 to midnight Saturday at the house. Chaperons will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vander Meid.
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity will hold a party from 7:30 to midnight Saturday at the chapter house. Chaperoning will be Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Valenstein. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Hershkowitz, and Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Murrill.
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will hold a semi-formal dance from 8:30 p.m. to midnight Friday at the chapter house. Chaperones will be Mrs. Ruth File, Mrs. John Skie, Mrs. North Wright, and Mrs. Hazel Hawbecker.
The Gadsden purchase of 1853 included 45.535 square miles in the Mesilla valley south of the Gila river, in what is now small portions of Arizona and New Mexico.
New Words Wanted For Corset, Girdle
New York —(U,P)— They're trying to coin a new name for a corset—because women don't like the present one.
One foundation garment company (Gossard) began the hunt after its research department reported women objected to the old-fashioned sound of the word corset, yet weren't entirely pleased with girdle as a replacement.
The new term must be descriptive, must give an immediate impression of slimming results, and yet must not be an intimate term that would take foundation garments back to the days of "unmentionables" in conversation. These are requirements set up by the company.
"We're considering the word 'sheath.' said one executive.
State's Coal Center Was Mining Camp
If that term sounds like a far cry from a corset, then look at some of the other changes the years have brought. Not long ago women called garters "suspenders," brassieres "waists," and girdles "pantie waists."
Pittsburg, the coal metropolis of Kansas, was founded in the 1870's as a mining camp. The district produces 50 percent of the coal mined in Kansas.
Close by are the mining towns of Franklin, Galena, and Girard. It was at Girard where J. A. Wayward founded the Socialist weekly Appeal to Reason, which achieved a circulation of a half-million.
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