UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AFRICAN CURIOS ENGASED
In contrast to the modern intricate piano there are several primitive pianos, both those used for solos and those for accompanying. These instruments are composed of simple reeds or metal reeds and band instruments or ornamented slabs of wood. In order to play the scale the player had to pick with his thumbs alternate reed staring from the ones in the middle. On the higher class musical instruments the reeds are arranged with in order to give pure tones.
New Collection From Congo Ready for Exhibition at the Museum
The unique collection of curios from the South East Belgium Congo secured by Claud Brown, a graduate of the School of Engineering, has been encased and is now on exhibition on the third floor of the museum. This collection is valued at about $4,000 but it would have cost at least $2,500 to have sent a collector over after it. In order to prevent this collection from being deposited from the University of Kansas where it had been temporarily deposited Mr. H. T. Martin, Asst. Curator of Paleontology, purchased it.
A FORGE FOR METALLURGY
LOVE FOR BRILLIANT COLORS
The collection is composed of several hundred pieces including household utensils, implements of the field, and weapons of the chase and war, all of which were used by the Lunda tribe. Practically every specimen has been marked with the image of their Petish man.
There is a miniature forge on display. This crude machine enabled the natives to separate metal from the ore which is used in the construction of their weapons. The arrows are somewhat different from those used by the North American Indians. As most of their hunting consisted in shooting fish, the heads of the arrows are half moon shaped with a little latch in the front from glancing off the backs of the fish. All the knives, axes and spears are ornamented with odd and intricate designs.
The savages' love for gaudy display is shown in the beaded headbands of the women, the brilliant hat gears of the chiefs, and the beaded armlets, some of which are tipped with leopard's teeth. The hair combs and hair pins are made of wood and are highly ornamented.
Although the tribe was not inclined towards agriculture it apparently raised a little corn. In the collection are samples of ingeniously made reed sifters through which they sifted the corn after it was ground up on stones. There are several reed baskets in which they saved the flour. Aide from the tribe are a few samples of cloth made from a species of grass known as the Rafia grass. SAMPLES OF FURNITURE ALSO PRESENT
CHARTERS OF FURNITURE ALSO PRESENT There is a very unique set of chairs which formerly belonged to one of the chiefs of the Bachohe, a tribe which is very warlike and has driven out the Lunda tribe from which this collection was formed. Upon the large number of lowhill chairs are carved sets of figures which represent the different stages of the life of the native individual.
Order McNish's sulphosaline. Both phones 198...Adv.
Easy to take and stop the shake Red Cross Cough Drops. 5c per box Adv.
There are twelve expert photographers working at the Squires Studio—and they can get your picture out in time for the Annual." Adv.
When you eat a dish of our chili you know its the real dope. Reynolds Bros.—Adv.
Friday and Saturday will be fruit salad days at Wiedmann's...Adv.
BOTANISTS HEARD ABOUT
HIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA
At the regular meeting of the Botany Club Wednesday night in Snow Hall the members were entertained by Miss Marie Shade, a fellow-member, with the subject, "Big Trees of California and Their Value in the Interpretation of Past Climates." Miss Slade illustrated her talk with stereoptic views.
Next week Mr. Peus, a member of the club, will talk on "Insect Pollination of Flowers."
NO FEE FOR SPECIALS
Dean Butler Advocates Abolition Of
Fees for Seeing In Fine Arts
School
Dean H. L. Butler of the School of Fine Arts announces that with the recommendation of the Board of Administration the matriculation fees assessed special students will no longer be taken and that they will be charged for this year will be returned to the special student enroll-
It is the desire of Dean Butter to secure a much larger enrollment for the School with this fee not only because students who have desired only a little work in music have gone to instructors that have come in from surrounding cities. This rule will not affect student payings only the regular fees.
JUST A WHISTLE
JUST WHISIT
"That man will succeed," said a professor at a passant student the other day, "because he has learned the value of whistling." And there he was, walking along with his lips puckered up, manufacturing the merriest tune. Every note submarined a file of gleam throuthiness and happiness and pain to follow. That student was whistling his way through life, and it's far better than whining or be-moaning one's fate.
One can't think of mean things and whistle. One can't be depressed, either, when whitling. Whistling is an antidote for mean thoughts and a tonic for depression. A philosophy of whistling means initiation into the great army of optimists. Try the cure some times. It's a panacea for any mental trouble. A whistle' in the classroom when everyone is out of sorts may be impractical but a pedagogical time where children weren't even allowed to stretch during school hours.
Whistle when you receive your dean's report and you'll see the light of day. Whistle when anything else goes wrong and readjustment will knock on your door. Just whistle, that's all—Ohio State Lantern.
Sign Delta Chi, honorary journalistic fraternity, held initiation at the Kanza house last night for the following: Alfred Hill, Cargill Sproull, Raymond Fagan, Ralph Ellis, Hugh B. McGuire, and Paul Ratbonh.
Sigma Delta Chi Initiates
The members of the K. U. Debating Society will have their pictures taken at Squires' Saturday, January 15, at two o'clock. As this picture is for the Annual, all of the books needed to be there and to be prompt.
“Nope, my roommate quit!”—Penn Punch Bowl.
Sufficient Reason
He—Do you take Logic?
She—Of course not. I'm a woman.
Chaparral, .
What's good for Charlie's lady?
Red Cross Cough Drops. 5c per box.
—Adv.
"I've given up smoking."
Our chili doesn't take a back seat for any of them. Reynolds Bros. Adv.
LEND FARMERS MONEY
Seven Commonwealths Make Purchase of Land Possible for Poor Tenant
"Most progressive states of the Union are awakening to the realization of the evils resulting from a system of large landholding and many dependent tenure units," professor of economics at the University of Kansas.
- Seven states have enacted laws governing the formation and management of credit unions or co-operative credit associations, the most important being concerns over reform. Massachusetts, Utah and Wisconsin have made special provisions for the establishment of competitive farm banks, New York has provided for the organization of a Land Bank of the State of New York, while Missouri, Oklahoma and Montana have abandoned all domestic loan problems through private initiative and have modified programs of state loans.
"The reasons for the action of state legislatures in the field of rural credit legislation are not far to seek," says Professor Putnam. "With the practical exhaustion of the supply of loans, who aspires to land ownership is now obliged to depend upon his borrowing power with the various financial institutions rather than upon the generosity of the federal government. Land values throughout Mid-West and land is being held for speculative purposes."
"It is undoubtedly true that the adoption of a land credit system providing for a low rate of interest and a long term of loans, would enable a farmer to acquire land eventually to come a land owner. The short term loan at a high rate of interest, such as are made by banks run by private individuals, will not solve the problem, but these rural credit schemes, in coining of the state, granting the farmer a sum of money for a long time at a reasonable rate of interest will make it possible for the states that take the lead to give the man a bank account and expects to make the farm his home a chance to own a share of the land he works."
ANNOUNCEMENTS
An examination to remove conditions in Physiological Chemistry will be given in Room 205, Chemistry building, Saturday, January 8.
The Deutsche Verein will have a Children's Evening, by grown ups Monday afternoon at 4:30. Officers for the coming year will be elected.
Get Cosmopolitan, on sale tomorrow, at Carroll's.-Adv.
Read second issue of Owen Johnson's story in Feb., Cosmopolitan. Get it tomorrow at Carroll's.-Adv.
WILL SOON EXPERIMENT
IN NEW ANIMAL HOUSE
IN NEW ANIMAL HOUSE
The new animal house of the department of biology which is being constructed south of Snow Hall is nearing completion and is expected to be in use by the beginning of next semester. The hall will be used principally for research work by the instructors of biology, although some advanced classes in psychology and bacteriology experiment there. Cages and other suitable plays for the animals and insects to be experimented upon will be provided. The first floor will be used by the physiology, zoology and entomology departments and the second floor by the bacteriology department. A greenhouse, in which plants for the animals and insects will be raised, is to be built south of the new building.
Do You Bowl?
Just opened
BRUNSWICK BOWLING ALLEYS
714 Mass. St.
Pete Classen Visits Hill
P. W. Classen visited friends at the University Tuesday on his return to Cornell where is doing research work in Entomology.
Mr. attended the Entomology Club meeting and gave a short talk on his experiences at Cornell. Mr. was enrolled as a graduate student here in the University last year.
It is a bit too doubled that the students, J. D. Bowersock, and Robert Rowland ever had good intentions in the destruction of the Thirteenth street non-skid walk. Now that the snow has arrived the students, co-eds included, have made the self same walk into a first class skid coasting place. Like third grade school children ten to fifteen students can be found in the early hours of the night coasting on late hours the night coasting on the side of an inch of sole leather. To add to the grown-up sport the foremost skider usually "accidently" falls and causes the others to pile up. Again like third grades they sit and laugh and laugh.
A Non-Skid Coaster
Friday and Saturday will be charlotte russe days at Wiedemann's... Adv.
Prof. Arthur C. Terrill found an unwelcome, quite unwelcome, visitor one day this week when he went to open up a tool chest in the mining building annex. The cold weather had forced the animal to take refuge in warmer winter quarters. The professor decided suddenly that he would not need tools for a time and then the striped visitor might retain the shelter unmolested until some immune medical student removed the "pet."
Is the location of a life insurance company as important to you as low management expenses?
LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas.
wants ambitious young people to enroll and prepare for exceptional positions, as bookkeepers, stenographers, private secretaries, civil service. Positions secured as soon as competent. Enroll any Monday. Write, phone or call for catalogue. 645 Mass. St., Two Floors.
W. H. QUAKENBUSH President
E. S. WEATHERBY, Superintendent.
can get a new "John David" scarf at this store tomorrow they're special values at
55c
YOU
can get a New 1916 Suit or Overcoat at this store, tomorrow—styles we've just received $15-$17-$20
YOU can get "Manhattan" and our Own Label shirts, tomorrow at reduced prices.
Seniors
Your time is limited to take advantage of the combination of Loomas Quality and Loomas Rates for Jayhawker pictures. Take advantage of those rates today. Pictures are due January 20.
Juniors - Sophomores Organizations
Talk over your photograph troubles with Mr. Loomas. For $3.00 a dozen he will make your gloss print for the Jayhawker and give you one dozen quality photographs. Your pictures are due Feb. 1.
The LOOMAS STUDIO (Over the Electric Light Office)
719 Mass. St.
Phone H-210
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"The Witching Hour"
Seat Sale Next Monday a.m.
Presented by the K.U. Dramatic Club Prices: 25c - 50c - 75c
Bowersock, January 12
BASKETBALL = AMES vs. K.U FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS, 7:15 O'clock
Game over by 8:30. Student coupons Nos.6 and 7 admit. Admission 50c. Reserved seats 75c. Student tickets reserved 25c. Tickets at Carroll's and Manager's office.