DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, November 6, 194
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Pharmacists Use Roosters
In Life-Saving Discovery
By Pat Chamberlin.
Did you know that a rooster
might save a life?
The classes in bioassy of Dr. H.
Hoick, associate professor of
pharmachology use White Leg
horn roosters in testing ergot,
used by doctors to control bleed
ing. Ergot saves human lives every
year, but in order to make it safe
for common use, each preparation
must be tested to determine its
strength. This is done by trying
it first upon White Leghorn
roosters.
Causes Epidemics.
A fungus that is apt to grow
on grains in moist seasons, ergot
has been the cause of many se
rious epidemics of chronic poison
ing since 857 A. D. These epidem
ics have today been successfully
stamped out in all countries ex
cept Russia, where almost every
peasant lacks the tip of the nose,
finger, or earlobe, because the
blood supply has been cut off from
the tissue by the contracting of
the blood vessels, the usual result
of ergot poisoning.
Russia has failed at eliminating
this danger to her people because
in moist seasons, contaminated
grain is sold at a price prohibitive
to the peasant, who consequently
must use infected grain in mak
ing his bread.
Although ergot is produced in
plants as a poison, it is, like many
poisons, a powerful medicine, and
is particularly employed in ob
stetrics and for migraine. The
greatest setback to its universal
use as a medicine, however, is
that nature does not make uni
form ergot. The problem facing
doctors is then to be sure that a
dose of ergot is strong enough to
do the trick and yet not so strong
as to injure the patient.
Despite the fact that no chem
ical test has been discovered that
will reveal the strength of a given
amount, pharmacologists have
found a sure way in the use of
the White Leghorn. If a small
dose of the crude drug is Injected
into the breast of a rooster, the
degree to which the tips of his
comb and wattles turn blue indi
cates the strength of the ergot, by
comparison with the degree to
which standardized ergot colors
the comb.
Grill Has Sadie
Hawkins Day
Li'l Abner and Winston Church
ill supply the inspiration for Sat
urday's Union activities.
The grill will sponsor a "Sadie
Hawkins" deal in which the wom
en do the paying. Notice on the
special menu reads: "Ladies,
please pay the cashier" and "Men,
wear your hats dogpatch style."
Fountain specialty will be a very
fancy "Daisy Mae" sundae.
And in the lounge students are
invited to the "Blood, Sweat and
Tears" session. Said event will
merely consist of listening to the
Nebraska-Minnesota game but ac
cording to Biff Jones, "from now
on our games are going to be
Blood, Sweat and Tears.'" Who
the we to argue with the Biffer?
Yahoo! Cowboys
Set Campus Fad
Influences from the golden west
are sifting over the campus. Color
ful, studded belts and jewelled
waistbands are being worn with
all types and tones of costumes to
give them added zest and eye-appeal.
Thanks be given to the Amer
ican cowboy a new fad has been
initiated.
New Dresses
For Old, Says
Canny Male
BY ALAN JACOBS.
When winter comes, you can
expect certain repurcussions. And
one sure result is new clothes, for
women always manage to secure
outfits that mark the change
from one season to another.
But there is always "That dress
I bought last year, and I have
hardly worn at all." You know
the kind of dress that isn't new,
but yet isn't old. Here Is the so
lution with an extra tip on making
the dress presentable any time of
the day and yet not tire of the
same old dress. The secret is COL
LARS. Pique for Morning.
For morning wear, a V-neck
pique collar is just the thing if
your dress has a V-neck. If it has
a round neck, a round neck pique
is the answer. Simplicity key
notes both of these styles.
When afternoon comes, you can
get the effect of a new dress by
switching to a reverse type col
lar of eyelet batiste with ruffled
edge and insertions of alternate
rows of lace and batiste this for
the V-necked dress. If you are
wearing a round neck style, wear
a round neck, square yolk, appen
sezell collar.
For the evening wear, the V
neck dress takes over the grace
ful, informal evening touch with
addition of a collar of three fluffy
mousseline rows. An embroidered
cut out organdy collar with edging
Dessey Hall Brainstorm ...
Refrigerated Snakes' One
Novelty of Zoo Department
Every once in a while Edson
Fichter and Don Davis, of the zo
nlne'v denartment at Bessev hall.
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get a peculiar idea about the ani
mals placeM under their care like
putting snakes in their ice box to
spend the winter.
Yet there is method in the mad
ness for the gentlemen believe
that if they can refrigerate snakes
in the winter they can do the same
in the summer, all of which will
greatly simplify keeping snakes
in captivity.
The whole idea grew out of a
necessicy for keeping snakes over
. . . Prevents Hibernatio
the summer to be ready for t
snake exhibition at the state fa
every year. Snakes have a p
culiar habit of disappearing abo
August, which would be the lo
cal time to get specimens for t
show as snakes do not take ve
well to captivity and many
them if they are acquired earli
In the year die of starvation t
fore the fall.
But ifthe snakes can be i
duced to accept artificial hibern
tion the ico box it will not
necessary to feed them and spe
mens can be kept over the sui
mer.
Lovely Wrap
Just the Thing
For Big Night
Those first Impressions are all
important when it comes to mak
ing a knock-out appearance on the
night of the BIG formal. And it's
the formal wrap that does it.
Wool capes are of high-light
importance now. One of the most
striking is the black, full length
of lace and top center with small
pearl buttons makes the round
necked dress resplendent for evening.
cape lined with the brightest
reds, with red hood to match. Wi
pastel and with formals, wh:
wool is most effective, trimm
with gold braid.
Fitted coats of wool and flar
skirts are also flattering to a:
figure and gown. And for tl
frigid winter weather fur wra
and coats do double-duty. Wh:
bunny furs look elegant over a
formal, and, as Mademoiselle
Vogue advise, fur capes are rig
for any and all evening affal
Hoods and muffs that match
contrast are cozy and .attract!
accompaniments.
Prospective students are eligil
for a scholarship at Princeton, a
several of them at the Universi
of Pennsylvania, if their fatri
worked on the Pennsylvania ra
way.
Shop Thursday Till 9 P. M..
With the Best Sellers
By H. Jayne Lynne
I'll Never Go There Any More,
by Jerome Weidman (Simon and
Schuster)
This Jerome Weidman is the
same man of whom John Cham
berlain said in Harper's "Mr.
Weidman deserves to be knighted
for his courage." And the glori
ous thing is that it's true. Mr.
Weidman certainly does possess
an unusual amount of literary
courage. His other books, partic
ularly I Can Get It For You
Wholesale, should have prepared
his readers for I'll Never Go
There Any More, but Mr. Weid
man's books have a habit of tak
ing readers by surprise.
If you remember the song from
which the title of the book was
taken, you are already well pre
pared for the story. The signifi
cant part of the song goes like
this:
"Oh, they do such things
And they say such things
In the Bowery, the Bowery,
I'll never go there any more.'
Which thought is practically the
the burden of the book.
The story is of a young man
who believes New York to be the
Mecca of adventures. He lives in
Albany with his guardian and
uncle, has taken two years of an
engineering course, and feels that
hp is entirely on the wrong track.
His uncle gets him a job in New
York for the summer. The story
is his reactions to the .people he
meets, lives with and gets to know
during that eventful summer.
Mr. Weidman has a passionate
Interest in humanity, either in the
abstract or in the concrete. His
analysis of what makes his char
acters tick is something: to De
hold. He may show the petty
meanness of his characters, but
he shows it with such warm af
fection for their humanness that
his readers are inclined to feel
that it doesn't really matter, after
all, how bad people are, as long as
they are sincere. Which is my at
titude exactly give me an honest
crook, every time.
The Incomplete Enchanter, by
Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de
Camp (Holt).
Henry Holt and Company have
for some time pursued a policy of
publishing at least one book a
year "for the sake of imagina
tion." Wherefore I am inclined
to say, with fervour, "Thank God
for small favors!"
The Incomplete Enchanter is
the most recent of these oasis in
the desert of exposition which ex
tends over such vast reaches of
the literature of today, and a very
refreshing oasis it is.
Harold Shea is a psychologist.
His superioror. Reed Chalmers,
has a theory that there exist any
number of possible worlds. Get
ting into and out of these worlds
is to him a simple matter of think
ing according to the rules of logic
which govern the world to be at
tained.
Harold Shea, bored with his
work, relentlessly chased by i
hefty maid named Gertrude Mug
ler, decides to test Dr. Chalmers'
theory. He manages to gain en
try to several of the possible
worlds, gains quite a reputation as
a hero through his fencing ability
and becomes a powerful magician
When you start this book, take
a deep breath, sit down in a com
fortable chair with a glass of
water close by. You'll need it.
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