UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
GET RIGHT AND
JOIN SPUG CLUB
Organized for the Prevention of Useless Buying at Christmas
Are you a member of the Spur Society? If you are not, it is just because you know nothing about it. The Spur organization affords those who are members more satisfaction and enjoyment at Christmas time in both giving and receiving presents. The Spur organization for the Prevention of Useless Giving.
No one likes to get a funny little gift that has no earthly use except to be put away in a box and hauled out the next Christmas to pass on to some friend whom you had forgotten until he gave you something. If you are going to give at all, put a liddle thought behind the opening, and both sides will get will will get more fun out of it. It is probably due to ignorance of the realy useful things that one may buy, that such mistakes are made.
Now, many students may want to do their Christmas shopping, for friends and family, before they leave town. They can better opportunity along this line than the smaller town from which they might spring. So here is a partial list of really useful things that they might have less than $5 right here in Lawrence.
Soft woolly bathrobes in sombre and brilliant hues are fine for father and brother. Along this line, smoke and lounging robes are also very good.
If your sister is young and the least bit frivolous, a pair of pink or white silk teddies would tickle her to death. By the just as fastidious a silk shirt or a black coat de-chipper muffler would be gladly received.
A very acceptable gift for a middle-aged or just under middle-aged man is a good madras shirt, with ties and handkerchiefs to match and a box of tissues. A man, your age or old, ever had too many ties, shirts, handkerchiefs, or hose.
Now, maybe you cannot afford to get mother that whole set of spoons that she wants, but did you ever think that you might get her three or four of them for a starter, and then you may add to them any time you are able, and she may add to them when ever she wishes? This can be done the kind of silverware at the jewelry stores of Lawrence. Mother might also like some comfy and warm bedroom slippers, or a pretty silk waist.
Stationery is always good. Especially as it seems to be an unwritten law that a man should give a girl who is hardly more than an acquaintance, nothing which she can keep to remember him by. So now men have fallen back on flowers, candy, and stationery. Good books, however, are acceptable at any time by anybody from any one.
All these things may be gotten in stores in Lawrence, and the clerks are more than glad to help you make an appropriate choice. So ask them, and with a little thought you will become a staunch member of the Spugs.
TUMBLERS ARE AT WORK
Kansas Team to Compete With Aggies in Gymnastic Meet
The tumbling team of the department of physical education, which will compete with the Kansas Aggie team some time after the Christmas holidays, is about to twelve or fifteen men have been reporting for practice at 4:30 each Tuesday and Thursday evening. Many of them have had previous tumbling experience before entering the University of Missouri; players are now free to take up this sport, the tumbling team will be strengthened.
Aside from the hip, the head and hand spring, rolls, jumps, and dives from the spring board, and pyramid work, many new and unique features are being worked out under the training of Coach Charles B. Harrison. After a few weeks fun, the men will begin their work with partners and then present the finished work of the professional tumbler. This team will compete in the state school gymnastic meet at Emporia, as well as take part in the annual exhibition of the department of physical education in the spring.
Announcement
Ladies desiring to make a purchase of Christmas cigars, smoking sets, stands, ash trays, pipes, or men's pocket books are especially invited to make them here. Every courtesy will be shown by our clerks and we shall also be glad to assist you in making a selection. Carroll—Adv.
JUPITER, BIGGEST STAR,
LOOKS FOR YOU NIGHTLY
The big, bright star that can now be seen in the east about 35 degrees above the horizon before any other appears is Jupiter, according to Prof. E. B. Stouffer of the department of astronomy. This is the brightest one of the planets, but it is 90,000 miles in diameter—nearly eleven times that of the earth. If all the other planets could be made into one, Jupiter would still be one and one-half times larger. It would take less than three planets the size of Jupiter to fill up the space between them. There are 480,000,000 miles from the sun and makes only one revolution around Old Sol in twelve years.
With a three inch telescope, Jupiter and four of its nine satellite or moons can be seen. The four satellites, all larger than the earth's moon, appear to be orbiting around them they are in a straight line. As the satellites are close to Jupiter and it is so large, eclipses are frequent there, often two or three occurring at once. Seen through a telescope the eclipse may be small, black speck across the planet.
Jupiter is so large that it has not cooled off and is still in a molten or gaseous condition.
RANKS THIRD IN FLIES
Museum Now Has 350,000 Specimens
The University Museum now ranks third in the United States with respect to number of types of files in its collection. This is a distinction, considering the many advantages of larger institutions.
The Museum now has about 350,000 specimens of flies which may be classified under five hundred different types. This collection was begun in 1870 by Prof. F. H. Snow and has been growing steadily ever since. His first collection contained about five hundred specimens.
The work for the past three years has been carried on by R. H. Beamer, assistant curator of the entomological museum. He has spent the past three years making a systematic survey of each county and township in the southern part of the state. Such a survey has now been made in sixty-three counties, including all the western and southern parts of the state. With proper care these specimens may be preserved for an indefinite period of time.
Fifty new specimen cases which arrived during the past week were necessary for a part of the specimens which were collected last summer.
Cornell University statistics show that the enrollment for this year is 1128 less than it was at this time last year. The decrease in the College of Agriculture can more than account for this loss, as it alone shows a decrease of 148 from last year's enrollment.
Christmas cigars, headquarters for
name. Carroll's.-Adv.
Take home a box of Carroll's cigars for Dear old Dad.-Adv.
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SENDS SKULLS AGED 1206
The University paleontological museum has received two skulls of the extinct Incas Indians from Peru, South America. Wrapped about the skulls were pieces of cloth that were made by the Inca people old. The cloth is well preserved and the hand-woven designs are still plainly marked.
Former Graduate Makes Contribution to Museum
One hundred and seven universities and colleges are represented by the seven hundred and eighty members of the faculty of Cornell University. The foreign universities are represented by the University of Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Canada.
The finest assortment of smokers articles in the city, Carroll's.—Adv.
Christmas cards at Carroll's.—Adv.
The skulls with their wrappings were found in a dry, sandy plain of Peru, where the Incas Indians formerly lived. They were sent to the University by Miss Beryl Lovejoy, a graduate of the University in 1911, who is at the head of a school called Peru. Mrs. Lovejoy became interested in ancient civilization while studying anthropology and paleontology at the University, and has done some collecting since going to South America.
The only way that H. T. Martin, assistant curator in charge of the paleontological museum is able to explain why the cloth has stood the test of hundreds of years is the fact that they found shark wrappings were found is extremely dry. The skulls are a valuable addition to the paleontological museum.
"It is unfair to visitors or guests to hang photographs in the front room or parlor of a home," says William H Hekking, associate professor of drawing in the University of Kansas. "You always have a feeling of strangeness for a few minutes. Naturally, a caller looks about him. If he sees a picture he is familiar with or a picture of something of general interest, he at once feels more at home. When he sees something common with his hosts. But if he sees photographs—remember the time you were ushered into the best room and saw great-great-father of your friend's wife scowling down upon you? That's in a degree the feeling photography takes on, and personal belongings. Keep them in the bedrooms and hang good prints or other pictures in the living room. Make the parlor friendly."
A "Poe Memorial Cup" is to be awarded each year to the Princeton football player who best exemplifies these traits and characteristics: Loyalty and devotion to Princeton's interests, courage, self-control and modesty, perseverance and determination under discouraging conditions, observance of the rules of the game, and fairness toward the opponent. The mother of John P. Poe, who played on the football team during 1891-92 and 1892-93. When the war broke out Mr. Poe enrolled in the British army and was killed at Loos, September 25 during a battle.
Take home a pillow top from Carroll's.—Adv.
For Christmas, a box of Allegretto's chocolate creams. Here only Cuisine.
Allegretti's Famous Chocolate Creams
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CARROLL'S (Next to Eldridge)
HANKS for the patronage that you have extended to us during the past year. We hope our service has been such as to merit its continuance.
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That your Christmas will be a joyous one is our wish.
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Get Right and Join the Spug Club—
Organized for the Prevention of Useless Buying at Christmas.
The Spurs believe in economy as well as appropriate and useful gifts—and economy and useful gifts is our "Hobby"—
So here is a partial list of really useful gifts that may be bought at this "Young Men's Store" for less than
Five Dollars
$3.50 up
Soft wooly Bath Robes in sombre and brilliant hues are fine for Father or Brother—also for "Sis"
$3.00 up
For your fastidious brother, a silk
shirt___
$1 and up
Beautifully silk muffers in plain and fancy silks as low in price as
And for "Dad" who is not so "fussy"
a neat Madras Shirt, with starched
cuffs—we've lots of good patterns—
$1.50 and up
Gloves are always acceptable, and you'll find them here in all styles—like lined—unlined—fur lined—in fact most of the people you might want can be found here.
$1.50 and up
And then there's Neckwear. No man ever had enough good looking ties—You'll find plenty here—
50c up
Hose—in fancy holiday boxes, packed in an assortment of colors or solid colors—any number of pair to the box
$1 up
Combination Sets—of tie, hose and handkerchief to match—a very neat
$1 up
There's a world of neat inexpensive gifts to be found here that are too numerous to mention—but every one can find one. Our O.K. and our salesmen are more than anxious to help you make a selection—so come on down tomorrow.
The Young Men's Store
And our wishes to you is A Great Big Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year-
STUDENTS: We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. SENIOR: Come in when you get back and let us fix you up on those Jayhawker pictures.