UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MARCH 26,1918.
Kansas Snakes Are Friends of Mankind Says Professor Bunker
Eat Many Pests Which Destroy Crops—Birds Are Also Useful
"As a rule the average man or boy on a farm will go half a mile for a club to kill a bull snake, when he is killing the best friend he has," said C. D. Bunker, assistant curator at Dyche Museum. There are areas in part of the country that are poisonous, the rattle snake and the cornerhead.
There is some doubt as to the good derived from the spreading viper. This species feeds on toads, which are advantageous because they eat insects. Mr. Bunker pointed out the mistake commonly made by hunters and fishermen of this country; they refer to all varieties of water snake as water moccasins. The true水 moccasin is a native of the south and is not found in Kansas. It is one kind of copperhead.
Mr. Bunker began his experimenting with snakes and animals when he was quite young. He has always spent much of his time out-of-doors, living in the open. He has gone on numerous tours of collection. As a result of this he has gained an intimate acquaintance with fowls and animals, and especially snakes. He knows them all by their first names. He has been connected with the University since 1895.
"Most of the others are not only harmless, but beneficial. Some of them eat eggs and chickens to a small extent, but they eat more varniments and field pests such as rats, mice and gophers. The worst objection to snakes is an inherent personal horror."
From his experiments he has found that even the chicken-hawk eats very few chickens. In a test made last spring it was found that all birds ate the elm worms which were threatening the life of the shade trees of Lawrence.
"If I were to destroy some bird I do not know which I would destroy. They all fill their place. While some may do harm, their good overbalances it."
Mr. Bunker is also a friend of the rabbit. While it is destructive in a small degree, it is useful for food. On the other hand, the prairie dog should be eliminated. It is destructive and the only good it does is to furnish food for the more beneficial animals, such as the coyote. The method of elimination of the prairie dog is simple.
Mr. Bunker said there is one pest which should be eliminated, one of the worst detriments to the farmer. This is the pocket gopher. It destroys pastures, and especially alfalfa fields. There has been no effective method of destroying the gopher as yet. Because of its habit of working underground it is difficult to trap. And since it lives largely on roots it is not easily poisoned.
Etons and Pony Jackets With Silk Braidings and Buttons Predominate
Spring Styles Vary In Color and Fabric
The tailored suit for this spring season appears in many charming models and styles, as may become the various types of women. For the shorter set, and especially those of slender figures, the eton or pony jacket suit is quite the vogue, with silk braiding and many buttons as trimming. Others are shown with high waist line with belt and buckle at back, the belt being almost universal. Over collars of white or contrasting high shades are used, the eton, the sailor, and the soft roll coat of satin extending well down the coat lapel. Skirts are plain and narrower, and worn not quite as short as last season, about shoe top length, though quite a tendency toward shortness still prevails.
Suits for more mature women are on plainer tailored lines. Coats are somewhat longer with belts of self material fastening with buckle or tied with loose ends, sash like. Many are shown with vestes of plque, fancy white materials, or silk, silk braid and buttons are much used, some being elaborately embroidered in silk on collar, cuffs and around bottom of coat.
Skil suits are much in favor, taffeta, silk poplin, khaki baron, koren satin and satin America. Some sleeveless jackets are shown in colors contrasting with skirt. Suit cloths varying with the investment are serges, poplins, tricotines, velours, silvertones, tweeds, delilh coat, poiret twills and garabardine, in staple shades of navy, gray, tan and the newer colorings of pokin blue, clay, sammy and polu.
The suit of wool jersey cloth is very popular for general wear and is shown with coats of loose sack or sweater style, with belt or girdle. Skirts are plain and clinging with shirred back. Dresses are also worn in this style. Son are rose, turquoise, pokein and French blue, also tan, gray and leather.
Easter Bonnets Are Old as Mother Eve
(By Vivian Sturgeon)
The Easter Bonnet through all time has been, is, and forever will be an institution among women. It is set securely above the feminine mind and will remain ever unalterable, immortal, invariable, fixed and permanent, a custom which watches happily for Easter to come.
Not long after the Book of Genesis began to deserve permanent record, Eve saw blossoms coming on the apple tree. Simultaneously something bloomed in her heart. The hat she had worn all the time so long, so patient, at last so painfully—simply could not be endured for another evening stroll down Brachopod Beach.
Adam was yawning over his morning "Eternal Times" which had a circulation that positively included every last inhabitant of Eden. He answered the hat proposition with a reminder about expense and the primordial h. c. of l. Eve looked glorious, exalted, magnificent in her soul-assertive defiance. "Hang expense!" she cried. "I want that hat!
She got it. She came home with a perfect dream of a hat. Then she convinced Addie that it was a bargain. And finally she put it on. Adam didn't care whether it was a bargain or not. He was satisfied with her, with the hat, and supremely with himself. He never missed the rib again. But this was a tremendous occasion. Eve had started something; Adam had only set a precedent.
The Easter Bonnet is not a frivolous luxury; it is a spiritual necessity. Breathes there a woman with soul so dead that when the grass greens overnight and the lilacs come out she never to herself hath said, apropos disgust of her winter one, I must get a spring hat!
Time may change the form of the Easter Bonnet but the Grim Reaper will never scythe its function, never steal its attractiveness from the feminine soul.
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Wreckers Remove Roof Of Old North College First Building at K. U.
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walls, Which Have Stood Fifty-
two Years, Probably Will
Fall Next Week
Almost the entire roof of old North College has been removed in the process of wrecking the University's 52-year-old cradle. A large amount of the lumber has been carted off. In removing the roof, the wall was so weakened it was in danger of falling. It apparently had been made by the building of heavy ropes through the windows and around the wall. As a precaution, only the men working on the building are allowed within.
The dandelion captains down in their dark dugouts are planning a foray on the blue grass troops; the scene of the attack to be the campus terrain of the University of Kansas. The annual baseball tournament is to bow and unleash the blue grass battalions put up a stubborn resistance of reiterated bayonet attacks,
Considerable interest is being exhibited in the removal of the cornerstone, and the uncovering of the contents that have been buried fifty-two years.
The wreckers suggest placing the corner-stone in a glass case and present it to the museum. Others beaten down by the building next building erected on the site.
The exact date on which the walls will be pushed over has not been determined, but probably will be the early part of next week.
Invading Dandelions
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gain the field by summer. Dandelion pickets are even now going over the top. For the present the fighting will be entirely a ground struggle, in which the opposing forces will contend for the supplies of Mother Nature. The dandelion will therefore be better able to withstand shortage of water and poor land than the more highly cultured and better-bred blue grasses.
the invading dandelions are going to rain the field by summer.
Next month will see the hottest fighting of the season. It is then that the dandelions will launch their great aerial campaign in which millions of little white craft will be sent up. These little sailors are camouflage for the tiny and deadly seed bombs which they scatter. The grass troops expect to offset this move by levying another draft of young blades which will increase their numbers more than 100 per cent.
The blue grass empire has sent an appeal for aid to their powerful friend man, without whose timely aid they will certainly be defeated.
Note: The moral of this fable is:
Get Your Hoe!
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*A gorgeous display of blooming plants and freshly cut flowers, radiant-ness there are now on display. Easter Lilies were never prettier than they are now.*
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Easter
ever suggesting the beauty and symmetry of nature—the time when trees, fields and the wiry shrubs cast off their somber nakedness and don the fresh attire of Spring.
No less suggestive of skill, art and beauty, combined, is the Squire's photograph. In its delicate lines of reproduction are found the painstaking care of an artist; the conscientious effort of a studio dating back to 1848.
Editing the Chemallurgist
The "Chemallurgist" is being prepared by the students and the faculty of the department of chemistry. Frank Parley is editor; Fay Walters, advertising manager; Harry Van Velzer, circulation manager. Prof. W. A. Whitaker was advisor editor only when he left the University recently. The magazine will be issued April 10.
Before you leave, don't forget your supply of films for Easter. Evan's Drug Store.—Adv.
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Order your coal now for spring and summer delivery. You may have part or all of your order delivered during the summer and the remainder after school opens.
Arkansas Semi-Anthracite--you may get this coal now. This is the coal that most of the professors buy.
Deep Shaft Cheroke—we are taking orders for spring and summer delivery. Fraternity and sororites use this coal.
The price of the coal will be the government price at the time of delivery. By ordering now for summer delivery, you will get the benefit of the probable drop in price.
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