MAY 19, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
By The Way
Sigma Nu Mothers' Day
Guests at the Sigma Nu house for its annual Mothers' Day Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. A. Blair, Carthage, Mo.; Mrs. A. Blair, Schitzler, Ms. W. McPherson, Wichita; Mrs. W. E. Bartier, Eldorado, Mrs. C. W. Smith, Topea; Mrs. D. L. Kollman, Man, Bixby Willis, Miss Mary A. Herrington, Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels, Paola; Mrs. J. H. Youngmeier, Mrs. E. S. Engel, Mrs. D. Kane, Mrs. W. H. Sears, A. Mascarie Watson, Mrs. A. Arthur MacMurray, Mae Peell, Lawrence; Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Salathiel, Indere; Mrs. R. M. Crawford, Paola; Mrs. R. S. Elliot, and Miss Smith, Bronson.
Phi Alpha Tau Initiation
I
Phi Alpha Iota
Philip Phiota, honorary dramatic fraternity held initiation at the Acacia house Thursday night for Herman Fleming, Paxton Kayton, Edwin Patton, Joe Schwarz, David Sheffre, and Neale Carman.
Emsley Johnson, and Fred McEwen of Rosedale spent the week-end at the Phi Delta Theta house.
Phi Delta Theta will entertain with its Mothers' Day Saturday and Sunday.
Phi Beta Pi will give its annual banquet at the Hotel Muelbach in Kansas City Saturday evening.
Mr. Earl Hovey of Kansas City visited friends in Lawrence Saturday.
Maurine Clark, e19, is visiting at her home in Fredonia.
Alfred B. Richmond, a former student in the University is visiting at the Acacia house. He will return to school next fall.
Miss Opal Plank of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Gertrude Sponsler of Hutchinson are guests at the Gamma Phi Beta house.
Kappa Alpha Theta will entertain with its annual Mothers' Day Saturday.
Willard Thompson, B. S. '18, visited at the Alpha Chi Sigma house Sunday.
Sigma Phi Sigma gave its spring party at the Country Club Friday night.
Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae were here for the Kappa Formal Friday night day are: Helen Clark, Kansas City, Mo.; Janet Clark, Elmwood; Mélissa Gilmore, Eldorado; Victoria Burroughs, Salina; Hester Jackson, Lincoln.
Capt. Joseph A. Murray Writes of an Entomological Side of the World War
My Friend, the Cootie
Love at first sight between a human being and a cootie occurs rarely, if ever. The cootie is the kind of friend that grows on you.
Americans have a world-wide reputation for the ease with which they pick up new friends. Nevertheless it took two wars and increasing persecution to establish himself firmly in the regard of the present generation.
Boys who came home from the Spanish-American war would sometimes confess to their mothers in the privacy of the home that they had known the cootie, who then went under a different and much less chummy moniker. Invariably mother disapproved of the intimacy that son admitted, but not explicitly ment it when the neighbors were around. For a long time the cootie's social prospects languished, but in his quiet way he kept at it.
KOOTIE TO REPLACE THE HUN
ROUTE TO REPEAT
Then the war came again. It's close saw the ecotie established in his place on the news column, and mentioned in the news columns and the editorial page and admitted in polite literature. You met him in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Atlantic Monthly. The doctrine of the right of self-determination for small peoples had here an auspicious beginning.
As the Prussian has descended in the world's scale, the cootie has risen. The world is getting back its long-lost perspective.
Little is known of the cootie's activities as a civilian, but observation of those of his number who served in the great war shows that he is a true democrat. Wherever soldiers went on duty or for rest after war's end, they would be held in palace or the grand chateau, but in the dark dugout and the common barracks he made his abode, mingling with the soldiers, sharing their beds. His quiet friendly ways made it impossible for soldiers of a democracy to ignore him, and with Yank, Polio or Tommy he seemed equally at home among the army. Happily, he risked, fastening with field marshal and buck private alike. Occasionally you meet an officer returned from overseas who will admit that he seemed to have no attraction for cooties. This admission is always
made in a low tone and reluctantly,
and unhappy of the fact that a cooch
will not associate with the teacher.
It is a suspicion of unfitness for the
friendship and confidence of men.
The annals of the cootie have their darker side. Occasionally, when soldiers are filled with that blood lust for which they are so noted, they will begin a campaign of extermination against the cootie. They ensues vast activity—hot baths, boiling of clothes, application of cootie powder, and killing many members of destruction. And the cootie casualties mount up shockingly.
One soldier admitted with that callousness which is the mark of the militaristic mind that by employing the means above outlined he had slaughtered single-handed about two-thirds of his personal following of cooties. And then, he said, the remaining 30,000 had died of loneliness.
COOTE JOINS THE BOLSEVHIRE
Such treatment as this, after months of close companionship, is more than even the forgiving and position of a guardian. It is not surprising that he has largely abandoned his erstwhile allies, and is now to be found in the ranks of the bolsevhiire. The instinct of survival forces him into any cause that is opposed to soap and water.
Yleptet pedicoccosis corporea by the cold men of science, the subject of this sketch seemed always more at home where known by the less formal term of "cootie." Men returned from German prison camps, from duty in the Balkans and from far Russia say that in whatever clime or language he is encountered, the cootie's essential nature is the same. Volia!
Get a shinola inbox today. Rankins Drur Store—Adv.
Send The Daiyiy Karisan Home.
SOME LITTLE BUY IS GOING TO
FIND YOU SOME DAY
—From the song by Benjamin Harpgood Burt and Roy Atwell.
Some little bug will creep behind you
one day.
Some little bug is going to find you some day,
n these days of indigestion, t is oftentimes a question,
some day,
Then he'll send for his bug friends.
And all your earthly trouble ends,
Some little bug is to find you
It is oftentimes a question,
As to what to eat and what to leave
abbrev.
For the microbe and bacillus
Has a different way to kill us,
And in time they always claim for
'heir own.
...the bug is going to find you some day.
There are germs of every kind,
In any food that you can find,
In the market or upon the bill of fare.
Drinking water's just as risky,
As the so-called deadly whisky,
And it's often a mistake to breathe
Take a slice of nice fired onion,
And you're fit for Doctor Munion;
Apple dumplings kill you quicker than
a train;
ou it's often a mistake to breathe the air.
Chew a cheesy midnight rarebit,
And the grave you'll soon inhabit,
Oh, to eat at all is such a foolish game.
lating huckleberry pie,
s a pleasing way to die:
This complaint here
of the brain;
When you eat banana fritters,
Every undertaker fitters.
And the market makes, soon go in.
While sauerkraut brings on softening of the brain;
. the casket makers nearly go insane.
TODAY and TUESDAY
Mat. 2:30----4:00
VARSITY—BOWERSOCK
Night 7:30—9:00
Dorothy Dalton
in a fine western drama
"The Lady of Red Butte"
TODAY ONLY
Also Burton Holmes Travel
Hale Hamilton in
"After His Own Heart"
Would you sell you heart for a fortune?
Also Burton Holmes Travel
Eating juicy sliced pineapple,
Makes the sexton dust the chapel;
Some little bug is going to find you
Somewhere.
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Some day;
Eat the sauce, they call it chili.
On your breast they place a lily.
Some little bug is going to find ou
Sold overwhores ~ families supplied by
Villains are corrally invited to inspect our plant
some day.
Read the Daily Kansan.
Send The Daily Kansan Home.
NEARLY ALL the
SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS
and
ONE DOLLAR
Seats Are taken,
but there are several
FIFTY-CENT
ones left for the
Helen Topping RECITAL
Bowersock Theatre
MAY20,1919
SALESMEN on the road or at home or hotel know what a help in their high tension work is
CORONA
The Personal
Writing Machine
F. I. CARTER
Phone 1051 1052 Mass.
Use Sterno canned heat for quick lunches while traveling, camping, or hiking. Rankins Drug Store—Adv.
C. E. ORELUP, M. D., Eye, ear, nose, and throat. Glass work guaranteed. Phone 445. Dick Building--Adv.
Our own fresh chocolates in plain and fancy boxes. Also Elmers and Whitmans. Wiedemanns.—Adv.
We make our own candies and chocolates to be good must be fresh. Wiedmanns. - Adv.
Engraved Cards for Commencement A. G. ALRICH
Thesis Binding
736 Mass. St. Phone 288
John Stambaugh of Youngstown,
Ohio, a member of the class of 1884 of
Cornell, has given Cornell $100,000 for
elements of a professorship of
history.
When down town call in at Woidemanns for that dish of cream or drink at the fountain.
Your class parties will not be complete without candy and cream from Wiedenmanns — Adv.
AUGUST J. PIERSON
Drop in to the
CIGAR STORE
A full line of cigars, tobacco and pipes, also pipe repairs.
902 Mass.
Watkins National Bank
Surplus $100,000
Careful Attention Given to All Business.
Capital $100,000
For Lunches
We always go to Brick's for our lunches, for it saves so much time, and because we always get such good things to eat.
It saves a lot of strength as well, for it does take energy to climb the hill.
On dark, rainy days like this, Brick always makes special provision, because his cafe is so conveniently located that he knows he will have lots of rushing business.
It is a good place to meet between classes, also, for it's
THE OREAD CAFE E. C. BRICKEN, Proprietor
Just a Step from the Campus
DO YOU KNOW YOUR MOTHER GOOSE?
Trip upon trenchers and Do you know the rest of that?
Jack Sprat could eat no—
What could he not eat? Do you know the rest of that?
Taffy was a— What was he? Do you know the rest of that?
Jack and—
Who was Jack's consort? Do you know the rest of that?
Humpty Dumpty sat—
Where did he sit? Do you know the rest of that?
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ADMISSION 35 CENTS
CHILDREN 25 CENTS
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