6,1946
PRIL 16.1946
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TELL ME,
DOCTOR
How to Stay Out
of the Hospital
In the spring a young man's (or maid's) fancy often is diverted from more interesting pursuits by a disressing skin irritation acquired on hat last moonlight picnic.
Poison-ivy - Rhus toxicodendron —commonly grows as a low shrub. Sometimes it attains a luscious growth of six or eight feet like the specimens along the playing field fences on Mississippi Street. Occasionally it winds up a tree, its three-bladed glossy leaves, turning to reds and yellow in the fall, making a beautiful vine.
By R. I. CANUTESON, M.D.
(Director, University Health Service)
Not all persons are sensitive to the plant, but to those who are poisony is a far worse summer hazard than chiggers.
Local history recalls cases where the brilliantly colored foliage was used as house or table decorations, to the later distress of some of the vestests.
Contact with the bruised plant produces in sensitive persons a red itching eruption in a few days. Later, vesicles or water blisters appear. These break and crusting follows. All this time, itching is a distressing symptom, and it is aggravated by contact with clothes or by warmth. Treatment runs the gamut of a hundred remedies—each a sure-cure for its advocate—but none is specific. Attention is directed toward keeping the victim as comfortable as possible by the use of a variety of rather simple remedies.
The affliction runs a course of 40 to 15 days, regardless of treatment.
Prevention is the prime factor. Learn to recognize the plant. A specimen is on display at Watkins Hospital. Know where it commonly grows and how to avoid contamination by it. Indirect contact with oil from the plant through a golf or tennis ball retrieved from a patch of weeds, contaminated shoes or firewood, or a friend who has the affliction may produce poison-ivy dermatitis.
By MARTHA JEWETT, Society Editor
In spite of the weather, many parties, hayrack rides, and picnics were held over the weekend. With midsemester grades in, and with vacation near, every student can relax and have some fun with a clear conscience about studying. But, when we come back from vacation, it will be time to dig in and make up for all the fun we've had lately.
Sig Alph Guests
A picnic supper and dancing on the tennis court followed by a hay-tide was given by Sigma Alpha Epsilon Friday night.
Guests were Suzanne Albaugh,
Ann Alexander, Anne Zimmerman,
Marjorie Peet, Rosemary Jarboe,
Bettley Ball, LuAnne Powell, Carolyn
Maloney, Celeste Beesley, Dorothy
Jones, Dixie Ann Bruce, Lola
Branit, La Juan Braden, Patricia
Kelly, Susan Wright, Mary Jo Moxley.
Sheila Stryker, Caroline Merritt,
Betty Lee Blackwill, Dineen Somers,
Patricia Tomlinson, Beverly Frizell,
Sarah Smart, Shirley Otter, Barbara
Byrd, Arleen Feldcamp, Virginia
Larsen, Billie Stillman, Katherine
Culley, Carolee Sproull, Janice
Jones, Rebecca Vallette, Martha
Bonebrake, Joan Stewart, Billye
Simmons, Rozanne Croff, and Norma
Lutz.
Louis.
Chaparons were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bond, and Mrs. Edith Miller.
Newcomers Meet Thursday
Newcomers' club will meet at 3
If you think you have come in contact with poison-ivy, first wash the hands thoroughly using plenty of soap. Then wash the face and then take a complete bath. This procedure avoids contaminating the whole body with the plant oil that may be on the hands.
Don't foolishly try to find out whether you are sensitive to the plant. You may not be on the first contact but will develop sensitivity upon repeated contact.
And if you are one of the unfortunate sensitive individuals, stay in the beaten paths—especially after dark.
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Winning Couple Receives 10 SILVER DOLLARS
Every Wednesday Night, 8 till 12, 50 Cents a Person
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I.S.A. Bridge Finals Tonight
M. R. SNAVELY, Owner
Eight bridge teams, winners of last week's semi-finals in the I.S.A. bridge tournament, will meet in the tournament finals at 7 tonight, in the Men's lounge of the Union.
11th and HASKELL
Prizes are $30 for first place, $10 second, and $5 third.
Teams are: Ruth King and Thomas Pierce, Donald Randolph and J. Humphreys, Manis Foster and M. H. Bloodgood, Max Hand and Donald Frisbie, Mary Goodell and Billie Stillman, Edward Surface and John Kraemer, L. W. McDaniel and Cecil Cooper, and Roger Williams and La-Verne Keeven.
Miss King and Peirce were the high scoring team with 135½ points.
p. m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. J.C.Malin. Mrs.J.S.Carey will be chairman of the social committee.
Guests at Ricker Hall
Merle Antene, and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Wilkins, all of Delphos, and Mr. and Mrs. William Leiser, Kansas City, Mo., were Sunday guests at Ricker hall.
D. U. Has Buffet Dinner
Guests at a buffet dinner given by Delta Upsilon Friday night were Josephine Byerley, Nancy Jackson, Florence Kane, Virginia Foreman, Patricia Creel, Helen Harkrader, Martha Keplinger, Bonnie Chestnut, Dorothy James, Mary Jane Waggoner.
Harmon Entertains
Marilyn Maloney, Constantina Fotopoulos, Anne Wehe, Madelyn Fleek, Eleanor Smith, Dorothy Jean Safford, Sara Webb, Galenry St. John, Sara Brothers, Carolyn Brown, Harriett Harlow, Alice Goldsworthy, Patricia Zachman, Suzanne Blessington, Mary Miller, Lois Burch.
Harmon co-op gave a hayrack ride and hamburger friday Friday night.
Sara Jayne Scott, Sue Jamieson,
Joyce Hartwell, Carolyn Nigg, Barbara Felt, Gail Bixby, Sara Houck,
and Shirley Cundiff.
Chaperons were Mr. and Mrs. William Hall, Mr. and Mrs. George Keene, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore McIntire, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baer.
Guests were Clarence Erickson, Robert Koenig, Richard Olmstead, Virgil Simon, John Harbaugh, Marvin Wray, Charles Dillon, Francis Krohn, Charles Crowley, Victor
Votaw, Warren Shaw, George Collier,
Eugene Petesch, Peter Williams,
Theodore Braymen, Robert Dreizer,
Darrell Wright, Dexter Welton,
Carol Sprague, Barbara Rigdon, and
Mary Elizabeth Allen.
Chaperons were Dr. and Mrs. Ethan Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Klusen.
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