AGE FOUR
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950
.little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"—And honestly, Professor Snarf, that's the whole story—now will you please, PLEASE, accept this day late paper?"
Wooden Indians Popular But Scarce As Buffalo
New York—U.P.)—The cigar store Indian of the gaslight era is making a comeback by popular demand but the dead-panned wooden mages are as scarce as the buffalo.
Meeting the demand is the problem of Richard Trinkey, who said he was going to run an owner smoke shop owners across the nation to use all he can get.
Tukey estimated that 3,000 cigar store Indians are known to exist but all save 200 are on "reservation," in private collections. The 200 ie said, are on active duty.
"You just can't seem to get anyone with the patience to sit down and carve," he explained.
Tukey believes there are two ways to solve his problem: get the collectors to part with them and encourage persons to carve them. Both tasks are difficult, he admitted.
In the 1880's, when cigar store Indians were at the height of their popularity, some 100,000 of them stood in front of stores. The noobstacles - on - sidewalks in many cities and the decline of carving as a pastime marked the passing of the wooden warriors, Tukey said.
Very few have been made in the last 150 years. Tukey reported, and any new atomic age models should save more "sex appeal."
The average age of the existing images would be about 70 now, said Tukey, who is leading the campaign in his job as director of the Cigar institute of America.
"They'll just have to look less earsome and more like Clark Gable.
And as for the squaws, well, something is needed to catch the make eye," Tukey said.
"The old Indians were pretty fearsome looking fellows and the squaws really buxom and well covered."
The going price on the collectors' market ranges between $250 and $1,000.
Unlike the flesh-and-blood Indian, the cigar store jobs, which were almost life-size, can not claim to be real "Americans"
They migrated from England, Tukey said.
When sailing ships gave way to steam vessels the artisans who carved bowsprits took up figure
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It's easy to learn to dance—and fun too! At least students enrolled in the social and square dancing classes think so.
This semester the girl grown in size to include 107 students in social dancing and 83 in square dancing. Miss Georgia Westmoreland, instructor in physical education, believes the classes have grown in popularity because students realize more and more the benefits derived from knowing how to dance.
In a poll taken recently by Miss Westmoreland, she found that the fox trut is the most popular with students. They selected this step because they found it "the most practical and most often used." Rivaling it in popularity are the waltz and the tango. Other dances taught in the social dancing course are the rumba, the samba, the conga, and jitter-bug.
"Students have complained that they can hear the beat of the music from the piano but are lost when they try to dance to records or to an orchestra," Miss Westmoreland said. "This semester I am going to play more records so they can overcome this difficulty."
A piano player supplies music for the course. Once students have mastered the basic steps, records are then used.
"If a boy doesn't know how to dance he thinks he should learn, whereas a girl can always learn by following the boy," she said.
The instructor has found that men are more earnest in the course than women.
The square dancing class taught by Miss Westmoreland offers even more strenuous recreation than the social dancing classes. She attributes the growing popularity of this course to the increased popularity in square dancing over the country.
"Any embarrassment that a boy may have in social dancing is quickly overcome in square dancing," she said. "The very nature of square dancing eliminates any embarrassment."
Besides the usual square dance
carving. Merchants used them as signs symbolizing their business
Futhermore, Tukey said, authorities on cigar store Indians agree that few of the men who carved them ever saw a real Indian. Their features are often Caucasian.
numbers, as "Forward Six," "Birdie in the Cage," and "Dive for the Oyster," several folk dances are taught in the course. These include "Put Your Little Foot," Folkas, and schottisches. This semester physical education majors are taking turns as callers.
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