UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 17,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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The Daily, Kansan aims to picture students at the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals the University upholds. To be clean; to be cheerful; to be brave; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
WHEN SONG IS USEFUL
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1918.
In the Spanish-American war the soldiers sang, "There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight," when they were in a hilarious mood.
In the Civil War martial sadness and gladness was poured out in the stately measures of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Marching Through Georgia," the gayly casual strains of "Dixie," and the solemnity of "We're Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground."
In 1918, in a different day and a different sort of war there is still song in army camps. Formerly singing was irregular and often rebel by a few men. Today the boys are all singing together spontaneously. Chorus singing is a part of the military order of the day. The music officer has his place in the day. The man who originated the idea of military chorus singing is a former member of the University faculty, Professor Arthur Nevin. The musical genius of Professor Nevin has been turned to good military account. At Camp Grant 40,000 men are pouring out the natural emotions aroused by love of home and country in common song.
Tired soldiers get just as much pleasure out of harmonizing on "It's A Long, Long Trail," as does a college quartet inspired to serenade under the beginn influence of the moonlight.
Forty thousand slinging men; one musician's work. Music Officer Nevin is not trying to elevate the popular taste. He is not spending any time telling devotees of "Liliza Jane" that ragtime destroys the structure of those aesthetic sensibilities necessary to the appreciation of Schubert's "Serenade." He is letting the music madness of the day prevail. All that he asks is that they sing, and sing with all their hearts and voices.
Songs will minimize weariness of body, and bring fresh hope, peace, and confidence. It will act as a mental elixir to the sagging spirit.
"It's bound to be a singing army that goes over," says the Music Officer, "we are building the morale of an army with a song on its lips."
Men swear at it and women swear by it. Where womankind is the powder puff is also. The principle is Homeric in its antiquity. Although Helen may not have needed it and could not have used it even had she needed it, so great was the haste of Paris when she embarked with him for Troy, and although neither history nor literature records whether Circe took strategic measures against a shiny nose, there is good reason for believing that Cleopatra had an antidote.
THE POWDER PUFF
When man begins to think on we man in man, he does this whenever woman in particular will not think of him, he works on the hypothesis that beauty is only skin deep. Reasoning further, he reaches the cynical conclusion that from the skin outward is mostly whitewash, calcineum, enamel. This theory is old, but its application has changed with the generations of progress.
Grandmother dusted her face with a mere suspicion of starch or rice powder. Mother graduated into the chamois skin stage. That chamois skin has been envied by daughter for its convenience, especially when it was of the kind which had an outer circular drawstring and had a record for indestructibility.
But the chamois couldn't last. Perhaps the animals gave out; the buffaloes did and the robes become merest imitations. Anyway it was not long after people got used to writing 19-something instead of 18-something when some genius invented powder paper. These powder papers came bound in little booklets, editions de luxe of powdered leaves that looked as innocent as any shopping memorandum. It was easy to extract one and do the deed when he wasn't looking. In fact, there was a ninety-five per cent guarantee against detection.
For some typically irresponsible feminine whim the papers did not stay; perhaps there was an unpleasant analogy to sandpaper in their friction capabilities. Came another genius then. Necessity mothered another invention and this time went back to stealing skins of animals again. The lamb's wool puff, the highest evolution of the science to date, is the simplest in operation. Just dip it into the powder box and then, with the wind right, shake it in the correct direction.
Improvements on the origina lamb's skin range from the time a girl tending sheep on a New Hampshire hillside filled a lamb's tail full of pulverized white moss and then sat down while lambie wagged his tail in her face,—ranged from this quaint pastoral idyll to the efficient creation demanded by modern requisiions of perfect utility. The Dorine Box does it all. Diminished size of puff, dainty powder magazine, all compactly folded together—take the combination everywhere you go.
That New Hampshire pasture and all its appertenances in miniature safe within her bosom, my lady ventures and is not afraid. Venus has not forgotten her daughters. She never will. And, thanks to the Dorie box, she is willing to adopt a few who were not originally hers.
There will be no junior prom this year at the University of Oklahoma on account of the war. The armory, where the prom was to be given, is being used by the war department.
It will be an unusual spectacle to see the best fighting race on earth under the necessity of being drafted against their will. There is no analogy between the proposed Irish draft and the American selection. But they are in striking contrast, this Irishman of the British Isles and that Irishman of America. To the rythmic roll of their drums, the all-Irish-American Fighting Ninth of Massachusetts marched away chanting, "Oh the Irish ain't much! Oh the Irish ain't much!—They're a darn site better than the blim-blam Deutsch!"
Dr. J. A. Wessinger, city health officer of Michigan, asserts that the large clouds of dust which have been blown about recently are responsible for the present epidemic of gripe among the students at Ann Arbor.
ON OTHER "HILLS"
Ability to buy trench knives, grenades, surgical instruments, rifles, ammunition; providing cavalry, artillery or other service with horses and mules that are subduing the soldiers; what is submitting for a Liberty Loan Bond means?
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Madam or Sir Roomy:
In my official capacity as professor in the University of Kansas, I am beginning to experience annoying difficulties with my supercranial hirsute surface. In fact I find little bays of baldness in among what was once a shore of luxuriant foliage. This grieves me much. It reminds me of passing years. I grow retrospective and consequently introspective and fear to lose the necessary academic perspective. Have you any remedy or recommendation to provide for these gravitating filaments whose recession is so symbolical of things that cause my heart to ache?
Conscientious Interrogator.
I have nothing to propose. I will suggest nothing. I don't want to illusion you; neither do I want to discourage you. Go bheaded and pray for rain. Or if a dry season is on, occasionally poke your head into the cistern. Wheel grease has been known to start hair growing, and some kinds of snakes will start hair rising. I recommend sternly that you think less and talk less. You need morals or workadows a rest. Hair can't grow when it is tired; you ought to know that. Now be reasonable. Go to bed at 8 p.m. Let all classes out fifteen minutes early. Assign less. Keep your sacred peace. I am willing to bet that some of those funny little nitches above your brow will soon get a regular landslide of new hair. There's hope; only do your duty by yourself!
ROOMY
Dear Editor: I am an upper classman and am continually bothered by a freshman who lives on the hall. He argues that he should not wear a freshman cap because it is not heavy enough to balance his pedal impediments, because it has a button and buttons on caps are not in style, and does not such thing was done in hush school. How can I knock down his arguments?
Would Know.
Dear Editor: What is the antidote for eclair poisoning?
Would Know.
The best way to knock down such a person's argument is to trip up his speech.
A Reader.
As you do not give particular I cannot answer you specifically. But here is an antidote a dear old lady sent me twenty-five years ago. If the poisoning is contracted in the light of the moon, bury a bon-bon three feet underground beneath the front porch. If in the dark of the moon, carry an onion and a grain of sand in the pocket next to your heart. Take plenty of sleep and do not become nervous.
Reau Bum.
Dear Roomie: What is the best way to take a date to a dance at Robiason Gymnassium?
It all depends. If she lives in North Lawrence, I would advise crossing the bridge and going down Massachusetts Street to Ninth and there shooting toward the athletic grounds to take the path over the old golf links. Should she live elsewhere send a stamped, self-addressed envelope and I will give you the information. Do not, however, send a pink or screted envelope.
First get a firm, dark brown sponge and a pail of warm soapsaups. With this wash off the radiator. Blow gently down the hot-air shaft with a belows. Then carefully insert a pinch of imported Brazilian snuff into the shaft, and the nickel will come up.
Dear Roomy: I dropped a nickel down the hot-air radiator in my rooming house. What shall I do?
Privit—"Yes, sir, but we had a little trouble with one of them."
Kernel: "Did you bury all the dead as I ordered this morning?"
Anxious.
Privit—"Why, one of them raised up on his上呼 and said he wasn't dead, but then he was one of them d——d Germans, and you can never believe anything they say, so we buried him anyway." —Awgwan.
Sergeant to Recruit—"Explain what is meant by "Mark time."
EXPLAINED
Stude—“If it heads, we go to bed.
If it's tails, we stay up, and (nervous)
if it stands on edge, we study.—
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Recruit—You lift the left foot up and place the right foot alongside of it and continue the motion—Judge.
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WEDNESDAY The Production
A special effort has been made in staging the play to give it the proper local setting of a student union.
The play is under the personal direction of Prof. Arthur MacMurray, who coached "The Checkmate" and other big plays of the K. U. Dramatic Club. The performance will be above the standard of the usual Senior Plays. Curtain rises at 8:30 sharp.
The K. U. Orchestra will furnish some popular music between acts.
APRIL 24
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