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Show THE DIXIE NEWS THE DIXIE NEWS MOTHER GIRLS WERE EVER THE WORST? by the Just how does it make you feel girls, Published students of the Dixie Normal College. When you hear it so often rehearsed That of all the girls who ever lived, EDITORIAL STAFF The girls of today are the worst. LaRue Snow Editor said to my mother, Juanita Davis My grandmother Business Mgr to me: said mother And my Karl Snow Alumni Oh! you girls of today are so foolish, Letha Taylor Literary and lack dignity. Ruth Walker You lack pride Devotional Gems Helena Graham And you girls will say to your daughSociety & Locals Gertrude McGregor ters William Snow Oh! your dress is most shocking to Exchange Wise and Otherwise... .Conrey Bryson see, Karl Winsor When I was a girl of sweet sixteen, Ezra Tobler My skirts came down to my knee. Calendar Special Reporters Do you mind, when grown-u- p people, Vernon Church Verna Cox Measure morals by the length of your Irma Nelson Pearl Christian frock? Lillian Atkin Conrey Bryson And when they see you dancing They hardly survive the shock. A BIGGER DIXIE Do you konw that while our grandmother to us of of each is business the It Danced that quaint, tinkling, slow promote the spirit of a Bigger Dixie minuet, College and do our part in making it Her mother who looked on and such. watched her Students, the Bigger Dixie College will mean more than it has ever Was worried and very upset. meant before. It will help us to de- There is something that Id better tell velop our resources, to know the you problems which confront us, and to While Im talking of follies and find a solution for them. faults, Students, this Bigger College chalTis this, our very own mothers enmore to us live abundantly, lenges Shocked grandmas by learning to ter into the fields of the unknown and waltz! make a contribution to civilization and the world. Today oyu girls are wearing French We must accept the challenge, supheels port the Bigger College and do our And you Babcock Twist your hose, part to make this Dixie College big- And in a dance Ive often seen ger and better in order that coming Powder streaks on the coats of your beaux. generations may enjoy it. semi-month- ly A (Collected from Girls Day contest) Mother! A sweeter word has neer descended, From human lips with greater love 'Twas she who has our frailties ment-e- d, 'Twas done with help from God above. Mother! All our days shes toiled and labored To try and make our life worth while, And now at last shes gained her reward, In our gentlest work and sweetest smile. Mother! To her we owe all that we are, To her who has our work begun; Shell always be our guiding star, From now until this life is done. Mother! Her advising thoughts well love and treasure, Long after she has gone above; And know that for our slightest pleasure She sacrificed to prove her love. Mother! And when us An interesting bird speciman was brought into the laboratory a few days ago by Glen Graff of Santa Clara. An examination of the bird g showed that it was a Sonora blackbird. The normal length of the 0 inches bill in this species is. In this rare speciman the uplong. per mandible is 2.1 inches long, while the lower mandible is normal length. The bird was an adult male and very fat showing that he was surviving in spite of this handicap. An examination of the digestive tract revealed that the recent diet was entirely of weed seeds. Pictures were taken of this by Mr. Stewart after which it was skinned and stuffed. Any one interested in this abnormality may satisfy their curiosity by calling at the Biological laboratory. red-win- .88-1.0- V. M. T. MOTHER MINE (Collected from Girl's Day Contest) I reflect on what youve done for me, Your enveloping love, the care youve given Oh, how can I repay you, Mother at last she's gone and left When tribute we must pay to her And may that tribute be to tell her That we appreciate her care. A Jennie Empey. MUNICIPAL PRIDE Theres a certain something called municipal pride. Students, if you get it. Something havnt this Dont you think we should have our bigger College a cleaner College. Let us finish the task that was begun on And you wear thin georgette blouses, Much improvement was D GIRLS EDITION day. And you dont wear flannel at all, in the outward appearance; but made And you dont wear woollen stockings The extra quarto of this issue of In winter and why leave the task before it is done. damp, chilly fall. Dont you think we should unite ni the paper was put out by the girls of an effort to make our municipal pride the college, or the Amitia Girls Club. Oh! you shun the sensible slippers, reflect upon our College building. If And you dont buy sensible shoes, of any- not just observe conditions for a day wear much Oh! dont you GEMS or two. thing to the blues. mothers Its give enough Conceit may puff a man up but it Ive heard it hinted and believe its can never prop him up. Go look in the old family album true is picture Learning without thot is labor where grandmothers That Eve worried Adam in Eden. found. lost, thot without learning is perilNote the tight basque with number- Oh! the worlds headed on to destrucous. tion, less buttons Wisdom is knowing what to do, For ages its headed that way. to the down And clear skirt hoop skill is knowing how to do it, virtue But we just as well keep on moving, ground, is doing it. For it surely wont get there today. to one of your mother, If anyone comes to you to reason Then turn and curly banged Three things are always in fashion, the bustle Note that it is right to steal, do not argue Good in spite of all follies and haste. hair, with him search him. use moderation, And her waist squeezed in till you The first is: The second: use ever good taste. Gentleness is not a sign of weakwonder, ness, it is a sign of strength. Now comes the third and the moral, Why she didnt just perish for air. I beg of you take no offense. One today is worth two tomorrows. Mothers skirts quite hid her ankles; Tho youd rather use autos than to are the with to bound The man who has nothing change say Styles horses, almost always succeeds in saying it. years. Scorn not the use of horse sense. Tho today your skirts seem The hero is the man who does his Grace A. Woodbury. work. You surely do hide up your ears. Anyone can ask questions, but not God made many women smart, a And the slang that you use is awful, every question can be answered. few clever; and some good. the but your grammars Goodnight! How prudently most men sink into limit. Fools God bless them! What now and then Why I know less slang in an hour, nameless graves, while would we do if everyone were wise. a few forget themselves into immor- Than you Janes know in a minute. Thought is the first faculty of tality. Not much money, Oh, but honey, man; to express it is one of his first Accuse not nature, she hath done My but that song is a fright, 'desires; to spread it is his dearest her part, do thou but thine. The songs we sang were real classic privilege. Were it not for our friends this Theres a hot time in the old town i In this inquisitive age it is a wonworld would indeed be a lonely place. tonight. der no one has instituted an inquiry But girls are tho same the world over, as to who weeded the flower-bed- s in The Homeland Concert Company In China, in England and Sweden. the Garden of Eden. t SCIENCE NEWS Blackbird With A Suits Bill. Mine? Theres not reward enough this side of Heaven. If I could just be all you hope Ill be. If I could be your dreams epitomized, And inhibitions which your girlhood knew Should wake in me youd see them realized Could this be true, yet twould not be enough Abundant is the gratitude I feel, It overwhelms me, my expression fails, V.e thoughts I fain would speak emotions seal. in the If all the sweetest song-bird- s land Should carol forth your name with one accord, If all the flowers should mix their perfume sweet. And call the odor Mother, sweetest word ; If every breeze would whisper songs of you And every leaf should rustle to your praise, If all the sunshine were a flood of love It wouldnt equal half your true loves rays stars that deck the firmament Should suddenly be shaken from their place And so arrange themselves that MOTHER there Would shine, and neither storms nor time efface, If all the Then, even then, your name would not assume One half the glory that to me it means, That each throb of my heart says it deserves, Oh Mother mine, the queen of e Vilate Roundy. |