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Show THE DIXIE NEWS THE DIXIE NEWS Students of the D. C. Published Once Every Three Weeks by the Subscription price fifty cents per year. editorial staff Irma Nelson Maurice J. Miles Mary Graham Vervene Naegle A. K- - - Editor Associate Editor - Hafen Associate - - - Editor-Associat- e Editor .... Advisory - Editor-Busines- s Manager Wendell Robinson EDUCATION AS AN JUST GIRLS Class Reporters LaRue Nelson, Edith Harris, Bernice Benson, Snow Nina Nisson, Mary Nelson and George Jensen, Mr. Reid, Mr. Other contributors to this issue are: Pres. Smith, Mr. Harirson, Miss Bryner. ' SET TO SUCCESS Winning Girls Day Prize Story, Written by Grace Starr. Whack! The door of the Mason twins bed room flew, open with such a force that the breeze it created blew a pink invitation from the dresser table in a fluttering course toward the floor. A hurricane of bobbed curls and fluffy silks, in the form of the Mason twins, followed the breeze into the room. They rushed over, caught the bit of declining pink, then turned squarely around and threw themselves, simultaneausly into the center of a pile of sofa pillows. I think its just too awful! al- A MANS OPINION OF GIRLS It would be very hard indeed for any man to render a really unbiased opinion about girls, either singly or collectively. For the simple reason one never sees a girls face and the face is supof the posed to be the mirror coverso are mirrors The soul. ed with the dust of the earth, in the form of powder, one gets no reflection. Girls are somewhat behind the times, they are still using wartime methods in the form of Paint to the right camouflage. of them; paint to the left of them, as the poet said. We used to call our girls chickens because they used up our chicken feed, but now we call them Auntyed snapped Mart. him should most lead you to think she wasan in faith that joys never fail. angel when she was young, the thousand a down us He sent way she justifies herself in not our decked ways He charms, letting us do things. with golden curls This statement cleared the And laughing eyes and dimpled mist and the Mason twins sat arms. He let us have his pouting and beating sofa pillows. Then Meg exploded. pretty girls. Will this beauty and charm of Here is a perfectly good ingirlhood last or will it die with vitation, to a perfectly good the passing of the health and place, to a perfectly good house vitality of youth? If beauty of party. I dont see any special feature has crushed beauty of harm, as Aunty does, in Teds enspirit it will die. But if vision, tertaining the bunch the week loyalty, truth, and right have end at a house party, even if his grown with girlhood, beauty can folks are in New York. You bet never fade with age. he would if his folks were here. A youth of true beauty of Oh, we might not get the cocktail character, which will last he promised us, if they were through the years, alone will home, but all the better, they create the true , happiness for arent. In the stand Meg took, which all long and live. she could see nothing but justiL. S. fication in their going to the By Dr. Frank Crane No matter what a mans work he can do it better if he is well informed. Education, while it has a larger bearing than a mere preparation for ones trade or profession, is the very best equipment for any sort of efficiency. Just Girls Girls Day Prize Poem written by Jennie Empey. In grandmothers day girls were so serene, No bobbed haired flappers or dollies were seen. No rolled-dow- n hose, or elbows, or knees Were exposed to view, as in days like these. Whatever your peculiar cayour expertness is more telling if it rests upon a basis of general culture. As a stenographer you will do lling, No painted lips or rouged cheeks, No marcelled locks or girlish sheiks, In grandmothers day the girls were sedate, They courted at the house, not at the gate. They thought naught of dancing in calicos, With good stout shoes and cotton hose, They went to parties in buggies and sleds, With woolen mufflers wrapped round their heads. In better work and your tticelli is ! ! But now that daughter holds the stage, Bobbed hair and lipstick are all the rage, Tis mothers turn to gasp and sigh, And think of her girlhood days gone by. But just the same, tho time rolls on, Girls are the same at each years dawn, Mother with wigs, and daughter with curls, What matters age? At heart theyre just girls. ! w-a-y ! d, the name of a cheese or a violin. As a lawyer, doctor or preacher, your reputation will very likely rest as much upon your all aroundness, your wide acquaintance with the inside of great books and the general impression that you are not a For such unheard of things were said, As putting up the hair at sweet sixteen, And dancing parties with car rides between. narrow- specialist, as it will upon your technical finish. Culture means intellectual background. It means accumulated force behind your stroke. It means that you are not only capable yourself, but that you know how to absorb and use the capability of wiser persons. It gives you perspective. It increases your personality. It strengthens your influence. It keeps you from settling down to become a mere cog in the wheel, a little specialized piece of machinery to do a certain task, and makes you a Human Being, alive, vibrant, radi- -minded V V V V- worked as successfully as it had of the cottage, two faces, sad and At in the afternoon, so, at 8 :30, via, disappointed, looked out. the laundry chute, Meg and Mart the bottom were these words: went to Teds house party. May my little girls guard their such a party! Bathing And girlhood, so they may look party. Easter eggs; they are hard on it as a pathway where in back were and We will go! screamed Mart canoeing enjoyed The dream of the girls of the boiled and painted. of beauty, chastity, the flowers and bed. on the the anything afternoons, Girls are treacherous. The Dixie is about to come true and as she danced of to love and their discover could make else God, are all perechoed You bet well go, they Rest Room is very first one I ever remember, the longed-fo- r Dinnot one a blemish. cause or a rebelsome thrill. of fun fect, hiding first fed me, and cuddled me, really going to materialize. The Meg, catching the spirit on a girllook not And in stars under the served ners lion. may they and the next minute spanked me. efforts of the Amitia girls have hood of sailas these crushed with the but she is ideals, darned Aunt garden, dancing, good, A girl is the most mysterious been centered on this objective windlook from sad their and and want. How we know what ballons, girls dont now ing time. are bursting and the most understandable; for a long They God womanhood. will of ows it and little sudden with can Then she? to and know at are curling the serpentine, that they the most treacherous delighted while cocktake heed that tables the where in dark tears her may they of most room faithful eyes, promised the Student large same time the Body promised beings. She will ruin you then for their own. The proceeds If Mother dear were only here, tail was served, helped out by they are just girls, before it is handy hip pocket flasks. All too late. wait a lifetime for you to make from their dance will go toward Mart, shed tell us what to do. Dont you know, Meg, I miss such things, and many more, Silently each girl read the sacgood. She drags you to the low- furnishing the room for next Mother dear more than I ever caused Friday and Saturday to red line. A long silence was est depths and inspires you to year. dreamed I ever could miss any- sail by, loaded so heavily with broken by a long sigh which was the highest achievements. She un that the crowd wondered af really a prayer for forgiveness one. is most pleasing and most agand of thanksgiving, given to its most Just them the telephone rang. rapid speed. winning gravating, the OUR WOES and the most repulsive, the sanWhen Teds roadster stopped their God and to their Mother. Again the twins changed into a est and craziest thing in all the If we could have our topics hurricane and blew down the at their gate, late Saturday Meg, whispered Mart, slipto world. hall the phone. Written for the News night, the twins thought for the ping her arms tighter around Then we have so many types Fore the printer needs to Ted! Arent Oh, its whispered first time of how they were going her only sisters neck. print of girls : Long girls, short girls, still were that as to she on you one glad foot !Meg, into Deback the house. hopped just get them, large girls, small girls; pretty Lest the time alloted might slip and then on both of Marts. termined to face the music, girls? Saw your aunt pass by, just they opened the door and walked girls, witty girls, broad girls, Yes, I am, Mart, and its no by, narrow girls; light girls, heavy We could score them for the er- now, all starched and too late. in. The house was pressed, empty. Then two heads of dark bobgirls, blonde girls, dark girls, and rors especially the expression on her Then their aunts threat sounded bed curls were pressed closely togirls with red hair. Nimble girls, And mistakes we often use. face. Whats wrong with the in their ears. clumsy girls, speedy girls, slow Wed correct them or old voice Ill dame, bet she Teds has anyway? just reject gone? gether as a consecration of their girls, and girls with a dignified In fact, they were boomed cheerfully through the Meg made this statement in a promise. them air. Amateur girls, profession- So the students who rather solemn tone. Silently pressed so closely together that read receiver. might al girls, neat girls, slouchy girls, them Oh, Ted, its just too awful! they climbed the stairs and soon they did not see the limp figure happy girls, grouchy girls, and Wouldnt think we hadnt done She wont let us go because were lost in a slumber. of their aunt turn away from girls with a permanent wave. our best. folks are your away. Well go Sunday morning the twins the door with a promise in her Mighty girls, flighty girls, vampIf we could If we could awoke if heavy-eyeanyway, and with dull heart that she would never speak youll help us get ing girls, tramping girls, trapper from headaches. the house. In away this humble con- of the scene she was leaving. girls, flapper girls, brainy girls, If we could have some jokester Sure, anything you say. dition they realized fully that dumb girls, city girls, skitty Write the funny things we do Whats the plan? they had disobeyed their aunts girls, and girls from the farm. So the mention wouldnt hurt us GUM wishes. The one for whom they Oh, stammered Why Meg Spoony girls, moony girls. And the joke would seem worth at the telephone. felt the most repentant was Snobbish girls, roguish girls. while Tell him to come with the car their poor dead mother. Gen- We are chewing daily chewing Flying girls, lying girls. Sly Then we wouldnt have to bor- and Jack at Countless cuds of good and ill 8:30, and well meet uinely sorry, they went to her row girls, shy girls. Awkward girls, Scattered on the chairs and them on the back steps, cried room, unlocked the rough, red spry girls. Clever girls, silly From the papers as we do. tables Mart with a triumphant voice. chest, and began to look through Cast upon the window sill girls. Cold girls, warm girls. If we could know the ins and After Marts message had the ribbons and laces, and letters Home girls, school girls. Dear outs Wads that sink in rich brown been given to Ted, the twins, left and paintings. girls, queer girls, and girls that The locals and faces in the house alone, tried out the Whats this? frowned Mart love to go. So how to give an abouts Soft between their pearly teeth scheme Mart had created. From through her tears, Why Meg, We could write them and not opinion, darned if I know. that show upon the surLumps the garage they got a long piece we never have seen this one beslight them. From The Faculty. face of rope and tied it to a leg of the fore. If we could If we could Like a silkworm on a leaf bathtub, poked it down the Pulling the wrapping from GIRLS If the class and club reporters straight laundry chute and then around a gilt frame they beheld Daubs that fall amid the dancers Could report when theres noth- they followed. The tour was a perfect picture. On the oak floor in the Be thankful, every gym successful! home, They landed in the ing much to write, Why, its one of Mothers, too. Daubs cast up in crowded school, and Community for the And places She made it, Meg, with her the typist didnt need to basement, OK. Tiodden under foot of men dear voices and faces of young That evening when Mart and darling hands. worry. Chews by idle hearts girls who carry about with them Nor the forgotten came down to dinner Meg Theie sat the Mason columns of the all at random on the seats they Flung paper the sunshine of strength and twins, were be filled; 'greeted by their aunts locked in each other arms, their Chews by faithful souls confidence and hope. Youth is rememGills, I m glad to know you are large, dark eyes If the editor were not so human bered the time of sweetness, of beauty, And overflowing not would never through saying more about that fool- with tears, as they and of love. Loveliness and gently Mashed by oxfords on the feet. ish house party. I take sil- smoothed the surface of the oversight your charm, which afford pleasure to Let an error shock you with its ence to mean that you now intend painting with trembling and lov- Gobs that lie unchanged but others, are the power of every to stay at home, like slickened terror any decent ing hands. girl. Guest says should. Lifeless girl on the glazened floor Then The the saff would come much Remember, Im picture had two parts God knew that earth would not trying to be Gobs a that nearer one, ; tripped the bright garden with bright, fresh crabby Im iust never do, unless a bit of heavfantastic to please you. trying to help yep. sit, if you flowers along the path which Wiiting in a en it had. had gone against If We Could But We Cant. my will, I tell lead to a low, yet cheery cottage. To be chewed by man no more. Men needed eyes divinely blue to you both, right now, Id have From the cottage windows peep- By a whisper so we bless thee toil by day and still be glad. The Staff. been through! ed two bright and a A world where only men and contented fac- By breath we do implore As silence seemed to be es. our words our looks and acThe other picture the was of By boys made merry would in Girls used to dress like Mother best policy, the twins only nod- - the same garden, but tions, time grow stale. the path Hubbard ; now dress like ded meekly. was lumpy, the flowers Do not spit upon the floor. And so he shared his heavenly Mother Hubbardsthey along it The chute to the cupboard. basement crushed, and from the windows You who suffer from this weak- ! chances of advancement are much greater if you are familiar with history know your Shakespeare, and are not in doubt as to whether Bo- mothers day grandma shook her head, V AS ating. It makes you just Anybody. Somebody, not Many a mother has realized too late that she has no hold upon her children because of her lack of knowledge. They have grown up and gotten away from her. Many a man has risen in the business world only to be humiliated because he has neglected to acquire that education which alone would qualify him to mingle on terms of quality with people. In fact, no man or woman, who has neglected an education, does not bitterly regret it soowell-inform- ed ner or later. And no living person was ever an sorry that he had secured education. There never was an age in the was history of the world when it so true as it is now that Knois Power. And Knowledge is open to uEverybody. Its gates are its nlocked, its door is unlatched, road is as free as the kings wledge highway. The only things that prevent usany person from acquiring eful knowledge are laziness, weakness and pro crastination. Even if you did not get a chance to go to school, of if you faik to improve your opportunity ou when young, you can still set Education upon the royal road to if you have the will. And even in the case of thosee t who are college graduates, education best part of their in gotten from their studies school. ten years after leaving essen There is no single thing so calltial to Success, in whatever ing, as Education. - ness Tho we know youre not alone,a his Bid thy neighbor guard tions Where these precious lumps , thrown Till the gum thats chewed glory Served its purpose thio e dcHlC0 windo Then eject it thro the Lest it soil some young H. Forsha. English IF |