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University Missourian
A n evening newspaper published at Columbia,
Mo., every schoolday by the Department of
Journalism of the Unizersity
0 Missouri.
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UNIVERSITY
Oct. 22.
CALENDAR
Oct.
Oct. 24.
Song rchear-al by students,
University Auditorium, at 10
a. m.
Oklahoma Club meeting, Aca
demic Hall, Room 44, 10 a. m.
Kentucky Club meeting,
Barn-Warming." by Agricul
tural students at State farm
barn, 8 p. m.
Football Missouri vs. "West
minster. Reception by Junior Academic
students to Freshman Academ
ic student, Academic Hall, 8
). m.
Laying of the cornerstone of
new agricultural building.
Meeting of Executive Board,
p. m., Academic Hall.
Oct. 30. International Symphony Club,
Missouri Auditorium.
Football Missouri vs.
Football Missouri vs.
ington.
Lecture bv George
Sweeney, auditorium.
Lecture by Jolui T. McCutch
eon, auditorium.
Lecture by Lorado Taft, auditorium.
Oct. 2G.
Oct. 2S.
Oct. 31.
Nov. 14.
Nov. 19.
Dec. 4.
Dec. 18.
When You've Done Your Best.
When you've done your best, having
hoped and planned,
And, in spite of all, you have failed to
land;
When you've done the thing that for
many days
You have banked upon, and no word of
praise,
Brings the flush of joy to your careworn
cheeks
When you've done your best, and when
no one speaks
The cheering word you have longed to
hear,
And nobody seems to know or care
When you've done your best and your
rivals sneer
And the hopes are shattered that were
so fair,
When the dreams are ended that were
so sweet
And the victory that had seemed so
near
Has been turned, somehow, into sore defeat-
When you've done your Iwst after plan
um" long,
When you've had your chance and have
failed to score,
When you shrink from the gaze of the
passing throng
And wonder why you had hopes be
fore Then then, when your best has been
done and all
The airy castles around you fall,
Be a victor yet with a conqueror's will
Fling your challenge forth and do bet
ter still! S. E. Kiser.
SOCIETY
Prospective Guests for
D. A. R. Conference
and Hostesses.
THE
Ames.
Wash-
Z. T.
AM) THE MISSOURI.
Mr. Taft probably hit the sentiment
of the majority of the people of the
middle west, when he declared, before
the Deep Waterway Conference at Chi
cago that we want a "complete system
of inland waterways."' Yet President
Kavanaugh's statement: '"Let us begin
with the Mississippi and let other rivers
and other sections follow as soon as pos
sible" undoubtedly found support among
the 3,000 delegates.
This fake notion of economy, Mis-
sourians will not be long in setting to
rest. The commercial value of such a
cross-state highway precludes the idea
of leaving the Missouri out of the first
great plan of river improvement. If it
comes to states paying part of the cost,
Missouri would be fully compensated in
lands reclaimed from frequent inunda
tions. Now we have it that engineers be
lieve if the Mississippi alone is improv
ed, its channel will have to be dredged
constantly for Missouri silt and be
guarded by a line of tugs against Mis
souri snags. There can be but little
doubt that this would bo the true state
of affairs. The proper course is to im
prove the Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska
and the other states of the Northwest
would welcome the move and could be
counted upon to do their part further
up. The cost of confining the Missouri
mile for mile would not be much greater
than that of controlling the Mississippi;
and there is 110 reason why penny-wis
dom should obtain in matters -o inti
mately connected with public welfare.
Let the old road across Missouri be
lebuilt! Not even the railroad men
object. They realize that it is time for
good canals. Already the railroads are
crowded almost to the limit. They are
complaining of lowered dividends, when
there are some clashes of freight that
ought to have still cheaper rate. Grain,
for instance, must have less handling
if it is longer to compete in the mar
kets of other countries Far-seeing
railroad men see in the future a state
of congestion we are likely to overlook.
How is the question of transportation
to le met Since the railroads con
fess their inability we shall have to turn
to canals, a Europe ha- done. The
time for waterways is at hand, and let
the ditch from the lake to the Gulf
K- 14 feet or 24. The Missouri, the
real Father of the Waters must share
in the improvement.
Consigned to the verbal inferno by the
Bookman are the following popular
phrases :
"Along these lines."
"Automobile."
"Brainy."
Clubman."
"Dandy" (as an adjective).
"Exclusive" (as a social term).
"Gentlemanly."
"He (she, it) struck a new note."
"In touch with" (except as a techni
cal term in military or naval discourse).
"Locate" (as an intransitive verb).
"Lunch."
"Nom dc plume."
"Phone," for telephone, cither as noun
or verb.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Social standing."
"Stylish."
"Sur le tapis."
"The four hundred."
"Up to date."
The Bookman's lessons in etiquette
are to continue. They have, somehow,
a tinge of snobbishness.
A pupil of one of the public schools
in Chicago sends this communication:
Dear Sir: In our school this morning
an amusing dialogue took place.
A primary teacher of Chicago, wishing
to impress on her pupils the necessity of
greater quiet, said:
"I am a great deal larger than any of
you, yet I don't make any noise when I
walk around the room."
"Perhaps,'' remarked little seven-vear-
old Kenneth, "you don't wear shoes."
"Oh, yes I do," quicklv replied the
teacher; just look. Did you ever see
any larger than mine?"
Kenneth surveyed them carefully.
"Yes," he replied slowly, "once in a
show."
A French lady living in America en
gaged a carpenter to do some work for
her at a stipulated price. She was sur
prised later to find that he charged more
than the price agreed upon. When she
attempted to remonstrate with him,
however, her English failed her and she
said: "You arc dearer to me now than
when we were first engaged." Success
"I saw the major's wife at her win
dow early this morning. She looked 40
years old!"
"You must Iks mistaken, your high
ness; no woman is as old as she looks
in the morning!" Fliegende Blaettcr.
Beer vs. Water.
The remark of our distinguished ex
mayor, foreign tourist and commenta
tor on thing abroad ("Dearo" Fitzger
ald) that he found the price of a glass
of beer ia Germany to le only two
cents, while water is ten cents, deserves
elucidation. No doubt Itottled mineral
water is as cheap and as pure in Ger
many as it is anywhere. In German
hotels, where foreign tourists most do
congregate, the managers have a habit
of making water as expensive and as
difficult to get as possible. It helps
their wine and beer business. Boston
Herald.
The Uses of Thrift.
Be thrifty, but not covetous; there
fore give
Try need, thine honor, and thy friend
his due.
Never was scraper brave man. Get, to
live;
Then live, and use it; else it is not
true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use
alone
Makes money not a contemptible
stone.
G. HERBERT.
HE coming conference of the Daugh-
rs of the American Revolution,
which will be held here Oct. 22 and
23, promises to be a social event of
importance.
Invitations are out for a luncheon
at Read Hall, Thursday, and in the
evening there will be a reception at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Stephens,
at 8:30 o'clock.
Arrangements are being completed for
the arrival of the visiting delegates, who
will come from all over the state. The
names of the visitors and the members
of the Columbian Chapter, whose guests
they will be, are as follows:
St. Louis Chapter, St. Louis, Regent.
Mrs. J. W. Williamson, 5G00 Gates
avenue, guest of Mrs. J. M. McAfee;
Delegates and Alternates: Mrs. Wes
tern Bascome, 3739 West minster
place, Gordon hotel; Mrs. Robt. Funk
houser, 4354 Olive Street, Stephens
College, Mrs. E. R. Templin; Mrs. A.
E. Whittaker, 4220 Maryland avenue,
the Athens, Mrs. G. C. Broadhead;
Mrs. Win. Gardner, 5915 Maple ave
nue, Mrs. John Piekard; Mrs. J. C.
Barrows, 5735 Von Verson avenue.
Miss M. McAfee; Mrs. Herbert Parker,
39 Washington Terrace, the Athens.
Mrs. J. M. Frederick; Mrs. M. II. Tay
lor, Barthold, Missouri, Mrs. J. 1).
Lawson; Mrs. Geo. Bowman, 3005
Delmar avenue, Mrs. J. D. Law-son;
Mrs. J. D. Marshall, 5100 Washington
Boulevard, the Athens, Mrs. Mary B.
Breed; Mrs. Ashley CaMl, Kirkwood.
Mo., Mrs. E. W. Stephens; Mrs. Mil
ton Marshall, 4202 Westminster Place,
the Athens, Mrs. II. T. Lee, Mrs.
John Slaughter, 4914 McPherson ave
nue, the Athens; Mrs. John Duncan.
4229 Westminster avenue, The
Athens; Mrs. Isaac G. Baker, 20 Lenox
Place, The Gordon, Mrs. J. C. Jones.
Jefferson Chapter; St. Louis, Mrs. Betty
D. Carmack, 5031 Ravmond avenue.
Regent The Gordon, Mrs. L. N.
Fitch; delegates and alternates: Mrs.
Wm. D'Oeuch, 5210 Vernon Aenue.
the Athens, Miss Eva Johnston; Mrs.
M. P. Morrell, 3093 Olive Street, The
Athens, Mrs. G. L. Magill.
Laclede Chapter; St. Louis, Mrs. G. A.
Newcomb, 5710 Cates avenue, Regent,
Mrs. Rosa R. Ingcls; alternate, Miss
Jane M. Glover, St. Louis, Mrs. Rosa
R. Ingels.
Kansas City Chapter, Kansas City; Mrs.
B. T. Whipple, 518 Garfield avenue.
Regent, Miss Elizabeth Spalding;
delegate and alternates: Mrs. J. K.
Rogers, 3240 Flora avenue, Mrs. Hart
ley Banks; Mrs. Win. Barton, 3310
Harrison avenue, Athens, Mrs. J. G.
Babb; Miss Elizabeth Gentrv, 2000
Troost avenue, Athens, Mrs. E. 15.
Gentry.
St. Joseph Chapter, St. Joseph: Mrs.
Harriet K. Owens, Regent, Mrs. C. W.
Greene; Mrs. B. G. Woodson, delegate.
The Athens, Miss Clara Hickman.
Elizabeth Benton Chapter; Kansas City:
Mrs. H. M. Meriwether, 3010 Glad
stone Boulevard, Mrs. Berry MeAlcs
ter; delegates and alternates: Mrs.
A. W. McAlester, Mrs. Joe Estes; Mis.
W. E. Swentzel, Stephens College.
Miss J. Sampson; Mrs. Montgomery
D. Stevenson, Gordon hotel, Mrs. W.
Niedermeyer; Mrs. W. W. Stevens.
Gordon Hotel, Mrs. Joe Estes; Mrs.
Joseph II. Hunter, Athens Hotel. Mrs.
Jno. S. Enkeney; Mrs. John J. Green,
Misses E. and M. Robnett; Miss Carrie
Lewis, Mrs. T. W. Whittle.
Jane Randolph Jefferson Chapter; Jef
ferson City: Mrs. J. II. Cutten, Re
gent, Mrs. II. B. Shaw; delegates and
alternates; Mrs. allie B. Ewing.
Athens hotel, Mrs. R. L. Todd; Mrs.
T. O. Towles, Mrs. W. D. Vandiver:
Mrs. Cecil Thomas, Gordon, Mrs. T.
S. Gordon.
Fraternities Dance and
Dine Columbia
Marriages.
THE Sigma Nu Fraternity enter
tained seventeen couples at an in
formal dance at the chapter house
Monday night in honor of Miss Kather
ine Ferguson of Rich Hill and Miss
Maud Bittle of Kansas City.
Miss Ferguson is a sister of William
Ferguson, now a student in the Univer
sity of Missouri and was formerly a
Christian College girl. She has been
visiting in Columbia since the Iowa
game and will return home this even
ing. Miss Bittle has lcen visiting Miss
Sarah Moss and some Kappa friends
since Saturday and will return home
tonight.
M'
ISS MARY MACHIR DORSEY,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Dorsey, and Dr. Andrew J. Bass,
of St. Joseph. Mo., were married at 10
o'clock this morning at the home of the
bride's parents, six miles southeast of
Columbia. The Rev. W. S. St. Clair sol
emnized the nuptials. A china shower
was given for Mrs. Bass at the home
of Miss Zannic May Estes Monday afternoon.
Roy Elmer Brown and Miss Fairie
Doggett, whose home is in Centerville,
la., will be married here this evening.
Miss Doggett and Mr. Brown were
schoolmates in Quincy, 111., and later
met in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Brown
will be at home after a short wedding
tour at their new home, 113 South Sixth
street.
Mrs. Snodgrass and Mrs. Webber of
Kansas City have been visiting their
daughters, Laura Snodgrass and Helen
Webber, who are attending the Univer
sity, since Saturday. They will return
to Kansas Citv tonight.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Conley have re
turned to Columbia from their bridal
trip and are at the home of Mrs.
Kate Conley. They will move soon to
714 Maryland Place.
TOLD ACROSS THE
BREAKFAST TABLE
"The Ashland editor who said after
the fire that wiped out the business
section of his town, 'We intend to put
Ashland back on the map,' hit the Mis
souri spirit squarely on the head," be
gan the man who reads the University
Missourian. "It's the spirit the men
who crossed the Mississippi and built
Missouri out of the wilderness carried
with them. That spirit has made it a
great state."
"We had an exhibition of it here on Rol
lins Field not so very long ago, don't
you forget," reminded the red-headed
Soph with the wart on his nose.
The solicitor for the Oven nodded.
"I'll admit for one cheering didn't come
so easy to me when Iowa made that
touchdown. That 21-to-G score of last
year kept bobbing up in my mind, and
the words sort o' stuck in my throat,
but 1 did the best I could."
"Sort o' stunned those JIawkeyes,
too; they found they had more things
to buck than that Tiger line," the
Freshman finished.
"Well, winter is on the way," re
marked the Junior Medic, glancing at
the raindrops trickling down the window
pane. "Good thing, too, for these warm
nights weren't made for study."
"Talking about studying," cut in the
football man, "the Scientific Association
had a discussion on scientific grading
in t.ie Universities. Our system came
in for a good deal of attention."
"Wait until next June when we begin
to give it some attention," the Soph
added. "We'll be able to advance a few
original pointers ourselves."
"At last it has happened," the man
who reads the University Missourian
said after a pause.
"What has J" someone queried.
"The Wabash has discovered Colum
bia."
"Balloon pr airship?" inquired the
wag.
"Neither. It happened per letter,"
the reader of the Missourian went on.
"Well," the Junior Medic concluded,
pushing his chair back, "with a new
station promised, two railroads break
ing their necks to serve us, the theat
rical season finally on and a winning
football team, Coumbia can't exactly
be called the lost citv anv longer."
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VIEWPOINTS
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buttons, not to exceed 200 words on
of University interest. Th n.m.
writer afaonld ipnmininr nh t. -
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not ie printed unless desired. The ni-?i?
sltj- Missourian does not express annmV.i!'
disapproval or these communications h7LSri
In them.) ' W(
Ill-bred Audience.
To the Editor of the UnlTerslrjr MIssonrltn:
The theater assuredly is no place' for
babies, and humane parents don't gnj.
ject tliem to the excitement, glare of
light, bad atmosphere and long horn
there. But babies from six months to.
six years old were much in evidence
at the Columbia theater last nilit.
So was the noisy loafer in front of
the foyer. So was the gentleman who
sticks his knee into the back of vm
chair. So was the ill-bred gallery go4
Catcalls, whistles, hisses and jeert.
are not tolerated in well-regulated the
aters. The Columbia theater, as I un
derstand it, can draw on the intelligent
patronage of a university communhr
of more than 2,000 here, if properly
conducted.
Miss Mary Alice Herron and Miss
Cornelia Ellison, of Maryville, Mo.,
alunuiac of the University, are guests
at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
Mrs. J. S. Ankeny is in Kansas City
to attend the wedding of her niece, Miss
Ruth Gentry, of 2000 Troost avenue, to
William II. Bush of Chicago.
G. A. Underwood, A. B. '05, A. M. '00,
is doing work toward a Ph. D. degree
at Harvard. His address is 43 Conant
Hall. Cambridge, Mass.
o1
The local Zcta Phi chapter of the
I Jet a Theta Pi fraternity will give a
dance at Entertainment Hall, Friday
eening. Oct. 30.
The Sigma Chi fraternity will give
an informal dance Saturday evening at
the chapter houe on College avenue.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will
give an informal dance at their chapter
house Saturdav evening.
Loren B. Boyd, who was in the sec
ond-year law class last year, is now at
the University of Kansas.
The Senior girls at the Y. W. C. A.
house will entertain the Alpha Phi,
Sigma this evening.
E. A.
F.
Best Time for Cold Bath.
The best time to take a cold bath for
its tonic effects is immediately on ris
ing. To lessen the shock, draw a few
inches of warm water and stand in it.
Let the cold water flow in, or, letter
still, if it is possible for you to do so,
draw the cold water at night, allowing
it to stand in the tub all night. It is
then about the temperature of the room.
Remain in the water not longer than six
minutes.
Joplin Chapter; Joplin: Mrs.
Norris, Regent, Gordon Hotel.
Mexico Chapter; Mexico: Mrs. B.
Robertson. Regent, the Athens, Miss
C. Wilhite; alternate Miss Emma L.
Locke, the Gordon, Mrs. G. B. Macfar-lane.
The Polly Carroli Chapter, Palmyr.i:
Mrs. Estelle Mackey Head, Regent.
Mrs. A. White, Jr.; alternate: Mis
Francis White, Mrs. A. White, Jr.
Jemima Alexander Sharp Chapter; Boon
ville: Mrs. Jennie D. Andrews Re
gent, Mrs. N. Dudley Robnett: alter
nate; Miss Andrews, Mrs. N. Dudley
Robnett.
Carrollton Chapter, Carrollton: Mrs. W.
E. Cason, Regent; the Athens, Mrs. J.
E. Thornton.
Ann Haynes Chapter, Kirksville: Miss
Alethea M. Ringo, the Athens, Mis
Z.M. Estes; alternates: Mrs. Blanche
Still Laughlin, the Athens, Mrs. E. B.
Bedford; Mrs. Edith Campbell, Mrs.
S. A. Smoke.
Roger Nelon Chapter, Marshall: Mrs.
Eugenia N. Fleming. Regent; alter
nate, Miss Roberta Napton, the Ath
ens. Miss E. Bouchelle.
The Charity Still Langstaff Chapter,
Fulton; Mrs. G. P. Glenn, Regent;
delegate and alternate: Mrs. A. C.
Buh, Mrs. R. L. Holland; Miss Belle
H. Heriulon. Mrs. R. L. Holland.
The Sarah Bryan Chinn Chapter, Wentz
ville: Mrs. Jennie E. L. Forestelle.
Regent, .Mrs. Lizzie D. Morris; alter
nate: Mrs. Arthur McClucror, Mrs.
E. C Peers, Mrs. A. Shore.
Osage Chapter. Sedalia: Mrs. D. T.
AMI. Regent, alternate: Mrs. Wil
liam Harde, Mrs. Sidney Calvert.
Nancy Hunter Chapter, Cape Girardeau:
Mrs. R. L. Wilson, Regent, Mrs. W.
1). Vandiver.
Columbia Chapter, Columbia: Mrs. Alice
O. Macfarlane. Regent, -delegates and
alternates: Miss Mary B. Breed; Mrs.
R. L. Todd, Mrs. Kate Conley; Mrs.
Lizie B. Morris.
Hannibal Chapter, Hannibal: Mrs. Thos.
G. Dulaney, Regent, Mrs. B. McAles
ter; delegate: Mrs. Bozarth, Mrs. C.
B. Miller.
Lafayette Lexington Chapter, Lexing
ton: Mrs. Matthew D.Wilson, Regent,
.Mrs. . S. Williams.
Macon Chapter, Macon: Mrs. Mary C.
Doneghy, Regent, Mrs. Mattie C.
Sears; alternate: Mrs. Webb M.
Rubey. the Athens, Mrs. C. B. Bowling.
Louisiana Chapter, Louisiana. Mrs.
Augusta P. Buell, Regent, the Athens,
Mrs. Jno. N. Belcher.
Gallatin Chapter, Gallatin: Mrs. Mollie
Price Brosiu, the Athens, Mrs. Wm.
Hirth.
Warrensburg: Mrs. Mary T. McClunev,
Mrs. W. S. Williams.
Chillicothe: Mrs. Emma P. Tracy,
St. Charles: Mrs. Wm. Lee Parson,
Defiance, Mo., Mrs. Mitchell Castlio.
CURIOUS ECHO
NE of the wonders of St. Louis
is the echo in the old Court
house rotunda at Broadway
and Market street. If one stands upon
the stone floor directly beneath the
apex of the dome and speaks in an
ordinary tone he will hear it repeated
and echoed from point to point above
his head and the echo sounds loud in
the hollow of the dome.
In the Courthouse in Minneapolis,
Minn., is a similar echo, but more won
derful, according to the following ac
count of it written by a correspondent
from that city:
"Minneapolis has the eighth or at
least the ninth wonder of the world.
Lurking somewhere in the rotunda of
its Courthouse is an echo which de
fies all the laws of phonetics and ac-
coustics by working backward. A series
of syllables addressed to this echo wih
be returned clearly and distinctly, but
reversed in their order.
"So far as the public is concerned
this phenomenon has only just been
discovered, and its discovery was an
accident. A man who recently came to
.Minneapolis to live was engaged in
showing a party of friends through the
Courthouse several days ago, when it
was suggested that one of the women
in the party, a noted vocalist, should
sing a few notes to test the accoustic
conditions of the rotunda. The sinner
was standing then about twelve feet
to the west of the statue of the Father
of Waters and she sounded four notes
of the scale in full tones "do, me, sol,
do."
Almost immediately the sounds were
repeated, and so like in tone that the
singer and all of her friends supposed
for a moment that some person was
imitating her.
Other tests showed that the repeti
tion of sounds really was caused by an
echo, and then it was noticed that the
echo was reversed. Instead of coming
back in the original order, the syllable
uttered last would 1h echoed first, and
when the young woman would sing "do,
me, sol, do," the echo would reply, "do,
sol, me, do." St. Louis Post -Dispatch.
Shopping in Columbia.
To the Editor of the University MIsour!n-
I have wondered whether other womea
encounter the difficulties in shopping
here that I have?
I have shopped in much smaller town
and in large cities but I have never
encountered saleswomen so irritating u
in Columbia dry goods stores. I wonder
that the employers do not notice and
adjust tfiese things. Such experience
make one long to avoid these unpleaa
antnesses by shopping out-of-town.
I have been shouted at from across the
store and from the rear to the middle
of the store by saleswomen too indolent
or too thoughtless to come any closer or "'
to remain silent until I was within rea
sonable speaking distance. In one case
in particular I was challenged with "Did
you get what you wanted " the length
of the store after I had made my pur
chases and was passing out.
Not less irritating is the other ex
treme. I have stood and waited at a
counter while a saleswoman unconcern
edly rolled up dress goods and replaced
it on the shelf. Another saleswoman I
encountered lolled on the pattern coun
ter and did not change position when I
asked to see a style book. "It's down
there," she vouchsafed me, with an in
different side movement of her head
toward the right. Another saleswoman
and her customer were covering the book
with some dress trimmings and I stood
helpless. Finally I left without being
waited on.
Saleswomen can make friends for their
business house if they know how to be
courteous and tactful. MRS. X.
A Reflection.
"The late Senator Allison," said a
Dubuque lawyer, "was a stickler for
personal cleanliness, even for personal
elegance. There was no quicker way
for a man to get on his black books
than to be unshaven, to have the trous
ers impressed, the boots unpolished.
"We used to have here in Dubuque
a decidedly slovenly lawyer. This law
yer appeared one afternoon at a meet
ing with a rose in his buttonhole. The
sight of a rose in the buttonhole of such
a sloven excited a good deal of com
ment.
"I wonder where on earth he got it!"
said I.
Senator Allison smiled.
"'Probably,' said he, 'it grew there.'"
Minneapolis Journal.
Carnival-Week in the Cities.
To the Editor of the University Mlssourlin:
Far along in the night the street
cleaners are at work so that when Sun
day comes no evidence will remain to
tell the tale of the reign of carnival
which has endured from Tuesday till
Sunday of last week in St. Louis," Kan
sas City and many other of the larger
ciues 01 tne United States. The con
fetti is swept up and burned, discarded
horns, broken "feather ticklers," false
faces, masks, all signs of the "revelry
by night" are carried away and made
the funeral pyre of an era the like of
which comes but one a year and that
once is "carnival week." That week ia
the circus day of a large city, but on
a grander scale in proportion as the
city is larger.
Strange, isn't it, that some people
do not approve of carnival week? Some
people, however, do not approve of cir- I
cus day. It interferes with business.
Oh, that almighty dollar again! Our
pity is with that unfortunate individual
whose life is entomlied within the four
walls which enclose his business; whose
eye can see none of the things in life
which are really worth while, whose
ear can hear no sound save the elusive
jingle of money.
Most persons arc glad when carnival 4
week comes. After waiting a whole J
year between times and attending -to"?
business, they are more than glad to
have their thoughts stolen away from
the office or the factory. Nothing is
quite so fascinating as to mingle with
the crowd. There's real music in the &
confusion of laughing and talking andv&
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... ..., uiouiig ui jiuriis. ji vu"
if you're looking for something exclu
sive, carnival streets are the wrong
place to look; carnival week belong
to the newsboy and policemaS as much
as to anyone and a quarter of a doUar
will buy a good time. The fuji is really
in the people while the spirit of the
carnival is lo-e of human cpmpanioa
ship surely a harmless and admirable
spirit.
Saturday night ends it, "out people do j
not mind. They have had " a royw
time all week and work doesn't see 3a
such drudgery now. Then there are tie j
memories which will endure even thoag
the confetti must be burned and the a
flags must be folded awav until ne
year. They're willing to go to work
now and work hard till next carnit!
week, but don't count on them
then; they've got something on for the
week. 1
The UjJrvEBsrnr Missoubus is i
sale at the Drug Shop at two cents i
copy.
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