March 24. 1944.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
Salem Girls Sew, Walk, Flirt,
Study, and Take Cold Baths
(By Sarah Merritt)
About sixty-five moth eaten years
ago the third floor of Sister’s House
■creaked from tlie hurried industry
of prim young ladies—prim young
ladies who were' just peeping into
their teens.
Suddenly the spot-light of happy
jnemories engrosses Mrs. Mary
Sieeloff, one of these young ladies
•who still remembers the stiff old
BUiid sphool-te'aohcrs and rigid rules
of Salem Female Academy in 1879,
’80, and ’81.
“T know that Salem has changed
a great deal since I was there—it
must have,” mused the delightful
old lady from Mount Airy, N. C.
Then her eyes lefl tlu' quiet room,
and she laughingly told me how
hard it was never to be allowed to
talk at all when living in the dor-
jtnitorv with all the other girls. The
teachers who were assigned to each
,end of the line of beds were very
■strict. One could not even whisper
■to her “bed-mate” after the .gas
lights had been put out. Two girls
rshared a small alcove with twin
beds which were pushed together
so that the cover reached over both
beds. She said it was yet quite cold
and dark w'hen they got up before
day and traipsed down to the base
ment of Sister’s to brush their teeth
and wash. Down here also were two
:8mall tubs with a dividing curtain.
If the girls hurried on Fridays
they might be lucky enough to
have hot water; how'ever, many
Fridays produced nothing but cold
“baths like the other days of the
week.
“Vte wouldn’t dare to speak to
the boys. Sometimes the boys would
come under the windows and whistle,
and we’d peep out! We were
punished if we were caught! We
went to the Moravian Church then
too, and we would all sit in the
balcony. The boys would come too
and just look up—oh, but we could
never talk to them.”
Sleeping and flirting was not all
they did—they had various classes
or study periods until supper. They
did not have to wash their own
clothes, but the teacher would hand
out the laundry and put aside all
the clothes that needed mending.
Friday aff/ernoon was “mojiding
day,” and the girls were graded in
sewing and mending as they were
in other clases. Mrs. Sieeloff eTcplain-
ed':
‘ ‘ I will never forget trying to
learn to work a button-hole that
first week. And one white stocking—
why, I darned for weeks on that
stocking!”
There was very litle free time,
but the girls could shop with a
teacher on Saturday morning. A
compulsory after-supper walk to
‘ ‘ Old Tow^n ” was their main re
creation. All of their walks were
strictly chaperone'd by several
teachers. If it rained, which was the
constant hope of the girls, they
played tin-pins under the porch.
Then Mary became Mrs. Sieeloff
again and smiled: “You have a good
time now—we did, because' we didn’t
, know any better ...”
FILTH COLUMN
REPORTING:
“In Spring a young man’s fancy
of ten turns to. . . ” Well, you
know the rest. From all appearances,
we’d say that Salemites’ fancies
have started turning, too.
I)ot Iieonard is hopping a train
to New Orleans to sefe Willard . . .
Snzaoue is expecting Jake Friday
week! . . . Paul has been on cam
pus and Mildred’s all smiles. What
we’d like to know is how she got
him in the dinning room! V. V.’s ex
pecting Woodie sometime soon.
Sanls can smilef again, and don’t
ask why. Ah! Lamar, I’amour!
With Junior-Senior on its way,
what to do, what to do? Seems
that only two seniors can secxire
dates of their own. Well—there’s
a war on.
“Ian” is making a surprise visit
home spring holidays. Mary Le'ms
IB having a wonderful reunion with
“Daddy”—He’s been in Trinidad
for two years. Normie is le^aving
Tuesday for Little Washington to
see Cootie. Mac and Iea are off
again—this time to Philadelphia.
'Mary Jane and Geachie are on their
way to Fayetteville again.
Marie has lost Graham’s pin again.
Help hot look, girls! Crowell, Oal-
veen, and the rest seem to have
had, a great week-end at VPI.
Doris Swann, on _ a carroit diet,
acquired a new variety last Satur
day. This one’s a carat diamond
engagement ring!
Martha Walton went home for the
weekend, bringing back a box of
wonderful yon know what choco
late candy.
Everyone was. gls-d to see tall,
dark, and handsome Vawter Steele
back on campus again, especially
Mary Lib AUen.
flrrHTTHEATRES
Carolina:
Mon. Tues. Wod. "Song of Russia”
Thurs. Fri. Sat. “Tender f!omrade”
State:
Mon. Tues. Wed. “.lack London”
Thurs. Fri. Sat. “Million Dollar
Kid”
It Was Something
To Write Home About
Sophomores Live
To Tell Story
Sophomore tests? They’re over
now. Gruesome groanings, grindings,
an.d grittings are through. Goodbye)
to that phase of life for the present.
The questions (doubtless many)
ran something like this: where did
the sehaijlha faphaghi and the
veganhij zuchelbqa occur? Out of
five generous answers any sophomore
would know that the answer is
metnorlumo. Easy as taking candy
from a baby, providing the baby
is ten feet tall and has the candy
chained to his hand.
When the victims arrived in the
Old Chapel, the fatal morning of
Wednefsday, March 15 (the Ides of
Mjarch and inco'me tax day—by
chance. It drained us, too, by way
of brainstorms and ideas), they
found their soft chairs lined with
baby blue satin awaiting their ar
rival. On the folding mahogany desk
were presented two gifts to all
sophomores. One was a gorgeous
yellow tinted sheet of paper and
the other a white card with the
name of the raptuous person
written in gold ink. Four proctors
filled every desire of each sophomore
such as bringing pink lemonade,
fluffy white pillows and a parade
of soldiers marching up and down
the aisles. After lunch at the Robert
E. Lee Hotel all sophomores were
grief stricken to learn that the rest
of the tests didn’t arrive.
But with all kidding aside, these
tests are going to prove to' be per
haps the most helpful in a sopho
more’s career. Not only will these
tests check up on the average of
a Salem sophomore as compared with
sophomores of other colleges, but
they will also show that other things
should be studied for a well-round
ed mind.
From Dr. Eondthaler’s cheerful
until he practically had to push us
out the door, the Senior dinner was
wonderful. The miracle was the
way in which Mrs. Kondthaler man
aged to put approximately 65 people
happily at case in the prettily de
corated house.
The military motif w'as complete
in red, white and blue with a
“date” for each—in the form of a
handsome soldier (our paper-doll
place cards). Sarah Haltiwangers
and Terrell Weaver’s music be-
twe(»ii courses was, no doubt, inspired
by the presence of Dr. Vardell. Con
versation never lagged, for our hos
tess [irovided questions to keep us
mentally alert. When we changed
] tables (we were in groups of four),
. we were guided by the arms of our
i escorts which bore the table num-
. bers, and we carried our flags of
, truce, napkins. We were continually
I entertained with one attractive
, favor after another, such as: drum-
major hats, lovely corsages, and
novelty pins.
Course by course, the dinner,
which makes my mouth water even
now, was:
Orange and grapefruit sections
on lettuce with a luscious cherry on
top.
Green beans, mashed potatoes,
turkey, drwsing, dainty rolls, oyster
patty, apple ring .=itiiffed with cran
berry sauce;
Ices in the form of a P38 or a
cruiser, fl.ag-dccoratod piece of cake;
■'ind salted almonds;
Coffee and mints.
Indeed, it was an evening to re
member and to write home ab^ut.
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We are standing on a mouiitain-
siile. It is an autumn midafternoon
and the w'armth of Indian summer
encloses us. All around is the glorj^
of autumn coloring—greens, rilssets,
golds. Par down in the golden valley
a lazy blue stream meanders along,
and even further away in the dis
tance to the west purple' peaks rise
through the afternoon haze. The
rich earthy smells of autumn are
all around.
With a jolt we are transported
back to Salem library. Hack to
weather which is now winter, now
spring. The mountains of our re
cent visit are there on the west
wall of the reference room—onlv a
painting. Only a painting? But now
we must know the krtist—who and
what is he?
Research in Who’s Who In Amer
ica reveals to us that Frederick
Ballard Williams is a landscape and
figure painter, that he has been an
exhibitor at important art exhibi
tions in United States and in Lon
don, Paris, Venice, and Rome. He
has paintings in the National Mu
seum of Art in New York, at the
National Art Gallery, in Washington,
at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Science's, at numerous other
Art Museums—and, we add to our
selves, at Salem College Library.
IIow does it happen that ISalem
possesses such a picture? At Mont
clair, N. J. Ballardi Williams be
came a personal friend of Mr. and
Mrs. Holt Haywood of Winston-
Salem. When the library was built,
the north wing containing the re
ference room was given by Mr.
Agnew Bahnson, Mrs. Haywood’s
brother, in memory of his wife,
Elizabeth Hill Bahnson of the class
of 1911. When a suitable painting
for the library was desired Ballard
Williams was thought of. At that
time he had begun a picture of the
Smoke Mountains, and appropriately
this identical picture was finished
especially for Salem College Library.
It is called “An Autumn Glimpse
in the Smokies,” and^ it hangs, back
ed by genuine American walnut, and
placed logically at the west end of
the room.
Anytime when studies and school
affairs become too great a burden,
“An Autumn Glimpse in the
Smokies” is there waiting to give
you a trip to the smokies—go west!
“Battle of Britain” Is
Fourth in Series
WEBSTER’S WORST
defeat—things that cause the loss
of stamp 18
adore—opening into a room
c;yntalou{)o—what father says to
daughter and what daughter says to
fiance.
grime—does not j>ay
hymn—what all girls chase
ground-hog—Hitler
minus—keep care of us
deceit what you sit down upon
abet well, don’t you know what
a bet is????T
gem where basketball is played
defer the outside cov'ering of an
animal
wolf—need I say more??????
ideal—iny turn to deal the cards
this game
decide—where you appendix is
yukon—don’t say you can’t
despair—the extra tire we don’t
have
frizz-—past tense of freeze
fealty—dirty
appeal—covering of an orange
before—prize of the Army Air Corps
“Battle of Britain,” fourth in the
series of movies on the W'ar, spon
sored by the International E.elations
Club, was shown last night at 6:45
in the Hay Student’s Center.
The movie was an exceptional in
teresting one. It began with the
revealing of Hitler’s plans for con
quering Britain. He seemed quite
confiedent, for did not he have the
might and material? Britain was
weak and her people untrained.
But Hitler had to alter his love
ly blueprints. He found out that,
although the British were weaker in
the number of guns and planes, they
had a dbg-like tenacity which kept
them from quitting. He tried to
panic them by mammoth bombings—
first during the day and then dur
ing the night—but the British caimly
turned from their factory jobs to
man their anti-aircraft guns, going
back to work when the ordeal was
over. They gradually built up their
defenses so that they were ■ readv
for the biggest attacks, which, be
ginning on September 7, 1940, con
tinued periodllally for a whole year.
Then the Battle of Britain W'as
over—but the Nazis weren’t the
victors; the British were.
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