TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1935.
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blinded domicile on "R" street. In practically no time at all,
she was surrounded by some fifteen Alpha Tau Omega's, all sug
gesting ways and means to fix the shoe. How they did it, we
don't know, but now it's rumored that the A. T. 0. slogan is
"Let the boys of the Maltese Cross Take Care of Your Soles."
And accommodation like that is not to be scorned so, if any de
serving person wants a bit of shoe repairing let her see The
Knights on the Range just any one of them. They'll take care
of it.
SCENE over the weekend: Jack
Pace dancing at the Sig Alph brawl
with an umbrella over his head . . .
showera of confetti and pink
punch at the Kappa Sig house...
Betty Hillycr and Don McDowell
rushing back and forth between
the Sig Alph and the Sigma Nu
parties... Jack Fate calling for
his date in that dilapidated white
ambulance. ..Caroline Skans, Al
pha Phi pledge, and Malcolm Mc
Farland at the Xi Psi Phi party
and Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Brewer
(Alice Beekman).i. looking very
happy and lovely in brown velvet
...Cynthia Pedley, backstage at
the Kosmet show, waiting for the
presentation and playing bridge
with three A. T. o. cowDoys...
Muriel Hook in her Eskimo cos
tume announcing that she was
nervous ... Marge Souders and
Art Ball discussing the relative
merits of revolvers ... Betty Cher
ny in blue checked gingham...
Bruce Campbell and Mary Louise
Dow arrayed in every color of the
rainbow and looking hopefully
orund the Tasty for an unoccupied
booth. . .Ruth DeKlotz and Duncan
Sowles, together again. . .Jerry La
Noue and Jean Woodruff .. .Jean
isn't In school but Lincoln seems to
be an attractive place to spend the
weekend especially when the
football team is at home. . .a trail
of confetti through the Corhusker
lobby... and most of the campus
sophisticates gone rowdy Satur
day night... in outlandish cos
tumes... and Herb Walt and San
oha Kilbourn, sitting in silence at
the Tasty.
SUNDAY afternoon the w. a. A.
council entertained the Board of
Regents and members of the fac
ulty, who contributed to the build
ing of the W. A. A. cabin, at the
cabin. Tea was served by the
Juncuring Turkish leaf tobacco. The
tobacco is strung leaf by leaf and hung
cn long racks like you see below.
CHESTERFIELD A BLEND
AIMEE SEMPLE M'PHERSON AND
Sir Walter Raleigh have nothing on the
A. T. 0. '8. Just to show that chivalry is
not dead, even on the Nebraska campus
where the Awgwan and the Vigilantes
flourish, the Daily Nebraskan cites the ex
amle of the GAL WHO LOST HER
SOLE or how Little Red Riding- Hood
overcame the Big Bad Wolf. Along1 about
noon when the brethren were rushing
home to lunch, some poor bewildered girl
caught the sole of her slipper on the bad
- fsidewalks in front of the white Venetian
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WHATS DOING
Monday
Business Administration Wo
man's Club at the home of Mrs.
Dane Cole, 3 o'clock.
Tuesday
Chi Omega alumnae at the
home of Mrs. E. B. Schmidt,
7:30 o'clock.
Gamma .Phi .Beta .mothers
club, 1 o'clock luncheon at the
chapter house.
Wednesday.
VACATION starting at noon.
council members ana Faith Arnold,
Ruth Fulton and Sarah Meyer
were in charge of the tea. Thirty
attended the affair.
THERE ARE case of hero wor
ship, and cases but the one that
really comes thru is the tale of the
girl at the Dorm who has fourteen
different pictures of Johnny Will
iams plastered about her room.
ANNOUNCED Sunday was the
engagement and approaching mar
riage of Thelma Walvoord of Hick
man to Dr. R. M. Chamberlain of
Falls City. Both Moss Walvoord
and Dr. Chamberlain have at
tended Nebraska, where she is a
member of Alpha Delta Pi, and he,
of Delta Chi, and Xi Psi Phi. The
wedding will take place some time
this winter.
AND DECEMBER 39. Gertrude
Jane Heiks of Dakota City will be
married to Urban Wendorff of
Western. Miss Heiks is a former
student here, and Mr. Wendorff
will graduate in January.
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SATURDAY evening at the
United Presbyterian Church. Dor-1
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STUART
"A NIGHT AT THE OP
KRA" LINCOLN
"THE THREE
MUSKETEERS"
ORPIIEUM
"TO BEAT THE BAND"
and "PERSONAL MAID'S
SECRET"
LIBERTY
"BIOGRAPHY OF A BACH
ELOR GIKL"
SUN
"MARK OF THE VAMPIRE"
and "HARD ROCK
HARRIGAN"
COLONIAL
"THE LAST OUTPOST"
Westland Theater Corp.
VARSITY
"THE NUT SHOW"
KIVA
"BETWEEN MEN"
othy Kellemyn was married to
Elmer Hanson of Lincoln. Mrs.
Hanson has attended the Univer
sity and Mr. Hanson, the Lincoln
School of Commerce. ' The couple
will live in Lincoln.
MARRIED November 1 9 in Port
land, Oregon were Edith Marik of
Lincoln and Jack Armfield of Rig-
gins, Idaho. Mrs . Armfield is a
former Nebraska student, and Mr.
Armfield attended the University
of Oregon.
Lorraine Hitchcock, Alpha O
Mortar Board, and Leo MacMahon,
P. A. D expressed their feelings
about each other more definitely
Monday night with candy and
cigars.
Weaver Portrays Plant's Strug
gle During Drouth in Eco
logy Article.
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peratures and low humidity, but
primarily to low water content of
soil, since plants in watred areas
continued to thrive. The authors
describe conditions at the start of
the long dry period as follows:
"After an unusually warm
winter with light snowfall, the
spring of 1934 began very dry.
March had practically no efficient
rainfall, a total of .8 of an inch
occurring in seven different
showers. Temperatures were often
abnormally high. Notwithstanding,
blue grass and other early grasses
developed rapidly and all grew
well during April. Later, however,
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the number of flower stalks was
greatly redmed and their height
was about one-third to one-half
normal. The Inability of bluegrass,
which is an introduced grass, to
adapt itself to the drouth was well
illustrated, and its early drying
gave the ralrle its early dead ap
pearanco. By the last week In May
the drouth had become announced
and June grass, a shallow rooted
plant, failed to reach Its normal
stature of twenty or thirty inches,
Instead It attained a height of only
eight inches.
Few Showers.
"The dry period had not yet
gradually affected the dominant
bluestem grasses, but by the first
wee in June the water content of
the top soil was greatly reduced
and the drouth had made a deep
impress upon the uplands. A few
scattered showers early in June
brought littlo relief and the July
rainfall of .4 of an Inch was die
sipated In seven showers.
"Even as early as June 7 the
soil moisture was so depleted on
the higher ground that the leaves
of Indian grass were tightly folded
and a few inches of the tips had
dried, indicating that this plant
had migrated too far up the slopes
during years of abundant moia
ture."
No Flowers on Prairie.
The ecologists found from their
weekly checks that the endency of
plants to blossom early was
marked in many species. But In
general, the prairie was all but
void of flowers after June 35.
Again the authors describe the
appearance of the country at this
stage of the droith.
"Over the enti'e prairie there
was a yellowish grt cn tone rather
than the characteristic one of
deeper green. Since the grasses
were short and some plants were
dead, the grays and browns of
last year's debris showed un
usually well as the dry winds
whipped the vegetation. A re
markable feature was the brighter
green of the scattered tufts of big
bluestem which absorbs moisture
to a depth of 6 and 7 feet, as con
trasted to the reddish brown of
little bluestem whose roots scarce
ly exceed 4 feet in depth."
Plants whose roots extended
down into the earth grew well in
spite of adverse weather condi
tions. The common prairie rose
with roots twenty feet long,
showed no wilting even during
greatest period of stress.
Heat Waves Terrific.
Even tho plants and animals
had suffered considerably from
the ravages of the drouth thruout
the spring, the most devastating
period began June 20. Terrific heat
waves swept the prairies and a
scorching sun seared vegetation
as if by fire and even big blue
stem showed signs of succumbing.
"By now," the authors state,
"there was no moisture available
in the upper foot of eartlv-Wind'
movement was high and the rates
of evaporation were often twice
and sometimes three times as
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great as the average rate recorded
during previous years. The mois
ture In the uir decreased from the
usual 40 to 60 percent to only 15
or 20 and on some afternoons to
only 5 percent.
"No rain fell. Clouds were rare
and the light was Intense, the
dust-flllod yellow, western sky in
the evening portending another
day of drouth. Hot southerly
winds blew as from a desert.
Drouth that had bleached the
green hilltops to patches of brown
alternating with white, now crept
down the slopes." In pastures and
fields great cracks had formed
which only made evaporation more
rapid. Still, however, in the
prairie, no cracks were observed,
because soil was held by roots
and covered with a mantle of
vegetation.
"Bv the middle of July the tops
and drier slopes of prairie covered
hills appeared as dry as the blue-
grass pastures and even in me
deeper ravines the darker greens
of May had been bleached consid-
erbly."
Life Hangs On.
But life hune on desperately.
Only after weeks of wilting and
burning did many of the plants
make their retreat underground to
await the advent of rain. Even
the autumn bronzes, yellows and
golds normally appearing late in
the fall were of short duration.
Rays from the blazing sun
bleached vecetation to a winter
gray. Cloudless days continued to
take tseir toll. Man, plants ana
animals were losing ground.
By Aug. 5, at tho end of the His
toric heat wave, the bluestem
grasses had lost their last vestiges
of green and were wilted and dried
even on the lowest slopes. Big
bluestem, tough as it was, gave
upthe struggle. First, two or three
of its basal leaves turned brown
and died and a little later the re
maining leaves died at the tips
and then progressively towards
the base.
Small Plants Die.
And with the death of big blue-
stem, many smaller plants which
thrived in its shade, showed great
distress. The water table in the
ravines on tne ueimont prairie,
normally at or near the surface,
had lowered to 5.5 feet by the first
week in August and to 6.5 feet
by the end of the month.
Scattered snowers ana penoas
of cool weather mitigated the
drouth at this time and before the
end of the -month more than an
inch of rain had been received.
"By this time," says Dr. Weaver,
and his assistants, "returned
greening and growth was noi
general among most of the plants.
The general bleached aspect of the
prairie remained unchanged and
common bluegrass made no new
growth at all. After the rains of
early September some of the
grasses of both uplands and low
lands made some new growtn, dui
the season Was too far advanced
for much development and many
of the plants appeared dead."
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aromatic Turkish tobaccos
used in Chesterfield give
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Every year we import thousands of pounds
from Turkey and Greece
THE IMPORT DUTY alone is 35 cents a
pound but Turkish tobacco is necessary to
a good cigarette.
The right amount of Turkish tobacco,
blended with our mild, ripe home-grown to
baccos helps to give Chesterfields more aroma,
helps to give them a more pleasing taste.
ROUND
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With
Sarah Louisa Meyer
Irish-tongued James Stephens,
poet, Is today's man of every
body's eleven o'clock hour sup
posedly. At least he will be mine.
Excerpts from his lecture at the
University of California, Timely
spoken, would seem to substan
tiate vague hints in advance pub
licity as to his conversational ge
nius. Two of his platform state
ments, decidedly gentler than his
private ones: "I know when I
have a poem the same way a hen
knows she has an egg."
"All perfect ladles are or should
h rats: If thev aren't they have
lost their femininity and are part
male.
Patter "Ideal spot for a good
time: just the right degrees of
loungitude and lassitude."
Surely It's no longer Indelicate
to speak frankly ofthat perennially
washed-up inner sport, bathing.
Not in the light of a Saturday
night dreaded duty, but In a cos
mopolitan sense of a social op
portunity. Of course some sorority girls
regard chats during wholesale
ablutions as pretty much a thing
of custom. Confidences are
shouted from tub to tub or voiced
to a non-performer called in for
the conversation in a delightfully
intimate fashion. It's so much a
matter of course that we are sur
prised at the down-the-snoot-ish
account in a recent New Yorker
of the installation of twin tubs by
the wife of the New York City
Chamberlain, Mrs. Adolph Berle,
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It seems that the unique fix
tures "had become a necessity,
because Mr. Berle's most brilliant
remarks were made in the tub and
Mrs. Berle was unwilling to miss
them. The Berles an now bathe
simultaneously and wittily, side by
side, a living mass of soap-suds
and epigrams. We understand thsy
are very serious about this, as
they are about everything."
The Berles, despite the metro
politan organ's raising of blase
eyebrows, have plenty of prece
dent. Of course little freshmen are
embarrassed at viewing the pic
tures of Ethiopian guileless com
munity clean-ups with their guf
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AT I C T U R K IS H
fawing dates, the Russians were
considered too pleblan in their
mass bathing, and the mixed nude
swimming of health cultists is
thought thoroughly shocking.
But public bath houses are al
most as well-known edifices his
torically as the purely political
buildings. The Greeks, Romans,
Persians even the Inca Indians,
I guess placed bathing high so
cially as well as hyglenlcally. The
most prominent present day set
ups In the wholesale cleansing lino
is that of the ingenious Japanese.
For centuries the Nipponese, most
proprietous of all people, indulged
in their passion for cleanliness In
chummy mixed parties.
Even those forced to bathe In
primitive Individual tubs arenever
sentenced to Isolation. Our own
slightly modest Bernard Jennings
confesses to have been a bit dis
concerted at the omnipresence of
the solicitous chambermaids dur
ing his baths in the Land of the
Rising Sun. The girls seemed
quaintly unaware of the Western
world's deference to the principles
of Victoria of England.
H. Carew, in writing of "Honor
able Bath" fcnnrlpnspH
wood's Magazine in the Readers'
uigesij maKes out that Bernie's
experiences are not unusual.
"Wooden bathinar tuba with rh-.
coal furnaces are often found in
tne most surprising places in the
small country inns. A corrideron
the way to the kitchen is niiit n.
favorite place, where you can sit
ana enjoy your bath with a con
stant stream of servants passing
to and fro. In the hot
they are often placed out in the
Dacnyara, ana it is quite a com
mon Sicht to see flomp rpsnert oH
guest enjoying his soak with thr,-
or four people sitting around talk
ing 10 mm.
The Japanese like their hnHi
very hot, 120 degrees hot in fact.
tsecause or tnis the immersion is
a slow, unpleasant process, and,
once. in. the bather must not mov
the slightest fraction of an inch.
tiacn nppie is the source of ut
most discomfort to other soakers.
From the baths thev hiimw "th
color of boiled lobsters and en
veloped in steam."
Wiser than Westerners, the Ja
panese know that cone-p.nial nar.
boiling is far better than confes
sion tor me soul.
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