UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THEATRE VARSITY The College Theatre TONIGHT ONLY 7:40 and 9:15 Earl Williams and Anita Stewart in MY LADY'S SLIPPER Tomorrow, Clara Kimball Young in "Camille"
If it's $20 or so
that you care to pay for your Spring Suit,
by all means have it tailored to order by
M. V. Price & Co., Merchant Tailors,
Coleman is a recognized fact, that no
ready made shop can small tailor can give
you equal value for the same money.
See me today.
SAMUEL G. CLARKE, 707 Mass. Street.
Our face lotions and preparations all bear the state pure food stamp. We buy nothing from supply houses which is not guaranteed to us to be pure and reliable. All preparations must contain medicinal properties which we know are needed for the treatment of particular skins and scalp. We select our preparations with a view to caring for individual needs and demands, your needs, the next fellow's, the needs of every patron.
Never worry about contracting any of the irregularities of the skin or hair, common in many shops, at Houk's. Cleanliness and a rigid observance of sanitary practices insure you against skin and scalp diseases here.
HOUK'S The Shop of the Town
Sold by PECKHAM
Organize Supervisor's Department
Through the influence of Dean H. L. Butler, of the School of Fine Arts, the supervisor's department of public school music has become organized. The object of the organization is to foster music in state schools and to control, as well as to systematize, the work of teachers of this subject. The officers elected for 1916 are president, Ruby Whitcroft; vice president, Treasurer; secretary, Helen Topping; treasurer, Margaret DeForest.
Blanche Mullen, senior College, and Thyra Amos, special, have been appointed laboratory assistant department of psychology for this term.
To Speak In K C
Olive Clapper, sophomore College, will go to Kansas City, Kans., tomorrow morning, where she is to Mothers Club. Mothers Club on "Play Grounds."
Get your Heart's for March at Carroll's—Adv.
General Meeting of the engineers will be held Wednesday at 10:30 AM
Our ice cream sodas are as good as the hot cocoa they had surpassed by none. Try them at it.
Kayla Monroe, Messiah
Good Housekeeping for March at Carroll's—Adv.
Chocolates, to be good must be fresh. We make our own Wiedemanns.
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UNIVERSITY WOMEN WRITE
MORE LETTERS THAN MEI
University women are far ahead of the men when it comes to corresponding with individuals of the opposite sex, if one may judge from the daily pass through the hands of the men. The man has been estimated that from one-fourth to one-third of the women get daily letters from "him," while the number of men who receive them is considerably less. It is difficult to judge how many of the men are consistent in writing the return letters, because so many of them are inclined to work down to the postoffice after night with the letter to "her" and thus depriving the mail carrier of his data.
Monday is the big day in the sending of letters both by men and women, thus pointing to the fact that all seem to regard Sunday as the proper time to write to "her" or "him" as the case may be. Even here the number of letters which the mail carrier gets is not truly indicative of the actual number because of the tenderness of men who take their Sunday evening walk to office in order that they may have the pleasure of seeing their token of remembrance safe in the keeping of the government.
Watching the stream of students Sunday evening from the Eldridge House corner makes an interesting speculation for any one interested and by using the imagination one can see young men and women all in some bite cutting across corners in some little house. To get to the office so that "he" or "she" in Lawrence may get the usual letter in due time.
Thermostat Arrives
A Freas water thermostat was received today at Snow Hall for use in the department of botany. This apparatus, invented some years ago by Dr. Freas of the University of Chicago is a machine for the electro-thermal control of temperature. It consists of a number of lights in a body of water which is protected from outside changes of temperature. When the lights are turned on, the water heats until a certain point is reached, when they are automatically extinguished only to be turned on again when the temperature falls a thousandth of a degree. With this thermostat it is possible to perform an experiment at practically even temperature throughout.
A time-saver in the shape of a cold-slaw cutter has come to the aid of the busy house-wife in the making of marmalade. The usual process of cutting the rind of grapefruit or orange in slender strips by hand is a time-consumer; the idea of running it through a meat grinder and makes an ill-looking piece, but the use of the slaw-cutter has solved the problem. The strips come out, uniform in size, thin as tissue paper, and very little time is consumed in the process.
SCRUBS THE PLATTER
"Make Your Business as Clean As It Looks," Says John Strong
Stuffed birds, mounted in small glass cases, will be furnished free by the University of Kansas to the public for use in nature study work. Accessible men will be printed descriptions of the habits and nature of the bird. The University's collection includes most of the birds living in the state and it provides a foundation to finish these specimens to schools which could not otherwise have them.
"Beware of making clean merely the outside of the platter," is the way John Strong, senior member of Strong Brothers' Grocery, 1021 Massachusetts street, explains that qualification matters in things that go to make up a well-patronized store. Profit for the grocer receives a secondary consideration.
Professor Kester of the Physics department will address the Geology Club at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. The subject subject will be "X-rays and the Study of Crystals." The lecture will be illustrated.
Saturday Evening Post today at Carroll's...Adv.
Pop corn crisp. Fresh every day
Twenty cents per pound. Wiede
mole sauce.
Twenty-five years of active service have served to make Mr. Strong an authority on grocery matters and he is the man who understands" of a grocery's life as few men can.
He is known as a progressive and successful business man. His new store, 117½ by 25 feet, containing approximately a stock valued at $8,000, sees the shifting of about $6,000 worth of business a month.
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"Success is based on understanding and good judgment," said Mr. Strong to a reporter. "Men come to me with no idea of the grocery business and want to know how to begin. To them it is merely the proposition of somebody they argue that everybody has to eat or stand why they shouldn't reap the profit. They forget that half the people never think of the grocer, except to order more groceries. When tell these beginners that the United States did 1913 list the grocers as 94 per cent failures, they retreat in a hurry.
"EVERYBODY EATS; BUT—"
The three great causes of failures are, credit, losses in perishable goods, and inexperience. Limited capital is another drawback to success. Profit in the grocery business is small and the responsibility large.
CASH BUSINESS BROUGHT CASH
CASH BUSINESS BROUGHT CASH
"I know a man in Tapeo who gave me so much credit that he went bankrupt. He financed his business on a cash, no delivery basis, and today he is out of debt and has a nice little balance in the bank. He is rated as a successful business man, but he was driven to it by necessity. Although I extend to keep my losses down to a minimum. They run one-fourth of one percent of the volume of business.
WOULD CHARGE FOR DELIVERY
the cost of delivery is another thing to be considered. I have figured that it could cost 5 per cent of the volume of business delivered deliveries a day. My idea is to do away entirely with free delivery and to charge the customer five cents for each order delivered. This would work to the advantage of both grocer and buyer. For instance: suppose a customer's order runs, I买 of cocoa, 3 lbs. rice, 25c; 1 lb. butter, 35c. We purchased a delivery cut down, I could reduce the cost of 41c; that of rice to 19c, and button to 32c; the cost of delivery to the purchaser would be 5 cents, netting him a saving of seven cents, or 7½ per cent on his investment.
INSTALLING NEW SYSTEM
Mr. Strong, at present, has a credit, bookkeeping system, which he intends to replace with an automatic, bookkeeping register, adding machine and bookkeeping system combined in one. This will eliminate errors that have heretofore crept in and will keep every business transaction before the eye of the grocer at all times.
"There is a great deal in letting the people see your goods," said Mr. Strong, whose windows, with their tempting display of fruit and vegetables, attract a good deal of attention. Mr. A. Martz, a clerk, is responsible for that, the credit for Strong gives him the money interest they have created. They are air-tight and dust proof and the fruit displayed there cannot pick up the dirt that it would if it were hung in the open.
Mr. Strong does not always take his business seriously; occasionally there is a little fun to be gotten out of it. For instance, there is the customer who is always trying to get something for nothing by claiming that it isn't good. That is the humor in the grotesque. It brings a smile to the face of the person to learn of the woman who ordered it, said he was bitter and returned a quarter of a pound. And of the woman who ordered a luscious forty-cent melon, phoned that it was overripe and when the delivery boy asked for it, he found it half eaten and the other in the icebox waiting for supper. Also in the icebox who ordered the can of tomatoes and who ordered can was delivered, the first was found on the stove in the process of preparation for the evening meal.
PAN-HELLENIC SMOKER TO ADVANCE GOOD FELLOWSHIP
"It will be the biggest and best ever," said "Duke" Kennedy, in speaking of the Pan-Hellenic team at F. A. U. Hall Thursday evening.
WHAT MAKES A GROCER LAUGH
HIS TEMPER STAYS SWEET
Such are the trifles to be contended with, but they haven't sourced the disposition to be Strong. He has been a Kansas boy from a memorable year, which ushered him into the life of a farmer. For the first few years he didn't take an active part in the work, but as soon as he became interested, he left the farm for a more lucrative line of business and began to succeed indeed. He began to sense groceries at the fourteen. He says that interest, stimulated by common sense, is a necessary element of success.
A fine lot of stunts have been prepared and the programs are now being printed. On account of the number of fraternities on the Hill, the program has been on the program each year has been adopted. This gives time for a more elaborate entertainment than otherwise. Sigma Chi, Pi Delta Tau, Delta Delta, Alpha Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Sigma Nu are on for stunts.
All fraternity men, "stray" and past Greekes on the hill or in town, are urged to come. The object is to become acquainted and promote better fellowship among the various organizations.
CO-EDS WILL HAVE REAL
TRACK MEET THIS SPRING
"A real live field meet to be held the latter part of April, will be the spirit of April," Miss Hazel Pratt, sport, directs. "The indoor sports will close up soon, and then all women interested in golf would come out for out-door practice."
The meet will consist of ten or twelve events. Freshmen, sophomores, junior and seniors will compete in sprinting, hardling, throwing, running the high and broad jumps, running the relay and in several novelty events.
The basketball season closes the early part of March and then field practice will commence. The different basketball squads, some of the women now taking floor work, and several upperclass women are interested in making this affair a success.
Vernon H. Frank, a sophomore in the College, who has not been attending classes this week on account of sickness, went to the University of Minnesota where it was announced that he had attacked measles. His condition is rather serious and he probably will not be able to be out for a couple of weeks.
March Red Book here now. Carroll's—Adv.
We have a large assortment of individual ice cream molds. See us when planning your parties. Wiedemann's—Adv.
KANSAS HIGH SCHOOLS
WANT FACULTY SPEAKERS
High schools from twenty-four towns over the state have applied to the University Extension Division for speakers to deliver addresses at the commencement exercises in May. These applications will be filled by members of the faculty but the students also yet are invited. University men will deliver the commencement addresses at the following towns:
Hays, Beverly, Republic, Cedar Vale, Grenola, Waverley, Hanover, Potter, Spring Hill, Harper, Mulvane, Lewis, Eureka, Woodston, Glen Elmer, Randolph, Coffeyville, Soldier, Hoisigron, Jetmore, Little River, Atchison, Ford, and White City.
Allegretti's famous chocolates at Carroll's.-Adv.
WANTED-Young man or woman with teaching experience to do educational work during their vacation.
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Peshman 10 'West Point
Hardy, Thorpe, 19 College, from
Larkin, has just received word of
his appointment to West Point for
1917.
The most delicious candy made is Allegretti's at Carroll's—Adv.
Before coming to K. U. Thorpe had an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis but failed to attend the physician's examination and was declared ineligible. he hopes his gym work here will put him in shape for next year's appointment. Thore's father was here Friday to visit his son and to attend University, Mr. Thorpe a former member of the state legislature.
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