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Page Four MAROON AND GOLD March 21, 1929, Easter Candy We Are Now Showing BEAUTIFUL BOXES OF EASTER CANDY. Corre in and Make Your Selection Early. Place Your Order For Easter Flowers With Us Now. J. S. WHITE DRUG CO. Elon’s Complete Drug Store sol'liers, the latter joining in on the cl orus. Ti e next number, a recitation, “Faits divers,’’ was omitted on account of the absence of the student to whom this had been assigned. A very humorous saynette, “En cl emin de fer, ” was rendered by [Ntessrs. Hartley, Lily and Williams. This gives an idea of the three classes of travel by rail in P'rance. The travel- i ers are of third class and they mcck- ingly describe them as A—Aristocrat, B—Bourg ‘asie and C—Canaille, or jEiff rafr. I The program w’as concluded with a I ^ ame, “ Ma tant part en voyage, qu’ I omportera-t-clleV Each player was sup- pcesd to name all articles of previous players and add one himself. At the end of the game only four players re- nuiined and the list of articles had reached 35 or 40. The next meeting will be held in the Y. W. C. A. Hall on Tuesday, March 26, at 4:30 o’clock. All members are urged to come, and French students are cordially asked to join. a Acme Cleaners and Dyers “YOU MUST BE PLEASED” HAT CLEANING AND BLOCKING BURLINGTON, N. C. IF YOU CAN’T PAY YOUE BILLS PLEASE EXPLAIN Greensioro,MC Day Phone 777—Night Phone 377 C. A. LEA Taxi & U Drive It Co. Taxi Drivers C. A. Lea and D. L. Sykes CATES, LOWE & CHEEK Incorporated AMBULANCE SERVICE FUNERAL DIRECTORS Day Phone: 93 Night Phones; 429, 973-J, 382-J BURLINGTON, N. C. A. D. Pate & Co. PRINTERS TELEPHONE 216 Corner Davis and Worth BURLINGTON, N. C. NEVER Has an Easter season found our stock of Shoes and Hose more complete than now. We have just the shade to complete that Easter Costume in-Step In Pumps and One Straps. With Hose to Match WON T YOU COME IN? Foster Shoe Co. 305 Main Street BURLINGTON, - - - N. C LE CERCLE FRANCAIS (The follow’ing is a letter received by “Crusty” Ring from a certain countryman on the hill explaining why he has not paid his Phipsicli bill): March 18, 1929. Elon College, N. C. Dear Mr. Ring: I received your letter a few days ago. “Got no money,” so thought I would answer and tell you the circum stances that I am living under. First, my wife has been in bad health for the past three months. The doctor has taken all the money I could rake up. I even had to sell old “Zonie,” that old cluib footed mule. My crop is looking bad. The weather is so wet that I don’t think I will make enough corn for the sow. I planted yellow' corn and I think I will reap yel low corn for it is still yellow. That little patch of corn down in the bot toms has gone to the bad. The cut worms have just about ruined it. You should see my beans, why, the blue bugs have got the best of them. We never have got but one mess. I don’t see how I could pay you now. Maybe you will understand. I forgot to tell you about another debt. My old rooster and two hens got in my neighbor’s garden, and he is suing me for damage. My children are crying and begging for something to eat. What must I do? “Got no money.” Last night the old sow got in the corn and it is ruined. We had roasting ears for din- rer. Don’t know what I w’ill feed the old mare on. She has been picking a little nib of grass here and there, and I tried to get her to eat broom sage, but it did not work. Leaves “A Body” in an awful shape. If my wife gets along alright, and I win my lawsuit and the corn grows out again, T will try to get another dollar for you in a pair of months. I’ll drap by and sec you the next time I sell my chickens. 1 w'ill close. I mean you will find inclosed $1.00 toward my bill, Yours truly, THE GREATEST POETESS IN C03STTEMF0RARY AMERICA (This is a continuation of this re- ser\’od column dealing with our greatest contemporary figures. Next week, this column will be filled with the life of cur greatest contemporary poet.) The most phenojninal poetess in con temporary America, the greatest, the poetic sensation of the age, was per haps made pheno'iiiinal, great by her one poem, ‘ ‘ Renascence. ’ This poem was written before slie was twenty years of age. And she, cryptic sur prising, “different,” has w’on her place as the outstanding poeteFs in America by this one poem. This poetess labored not in drudgery, but in love of her work, writing a poem here, a story there fro'm day to and. And lo, one day she woke up and found herself famous. Tt is believed that this poem, “Renascence” won the poet a patron, wdio sent her to Vassar College. She was graduated from here in 1917 with her A. B. degree. This poetess was born in Rockland, Maine, February 22, 1892. She lived a humble life. Nevertheless, it proved a fruitful one. Her tenacity it was that gave her the Pultitzer prize, a prize secured by the select—the few. Her poems play w’ith the griefs that come as the obituaries of love. And they contain nn ironical sadness peculiarly masculine. They are the half-humorous apologies offered for the failures of emotions. And they are more premising of unfortunate, s^Tntom O'f ti e feminine emancipation froni illusions. She sees her time, she sees herself: she knows her hermitage in the heart of Nature. Reverting for a moment to the ques tion of her form, the fact is noteworthy tliat in her limpid stanzas and in those clear flowing sonnets, she has so' in fused her new spirit into old forms that her stanzas and sonnets seem fresher than all the technical variations of the experimentalists. Seventeen years have passed since appearance of Ren. and for this poem this poetess holds a securer place in Am. letters than do any of her contem poraries. Quoting from “Renascence”: “All 1 could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood, I turned and looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay.” The rain, I said, is kind to come And speak to me in my new home. I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain. To drink into- my eyes, the shine Of every slanting silver line.” (The lesson of the poem) “The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two. And let the face of God shine through But East and West will pinch the heart That cannot keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat—the sky Will cave in on him by and by.” You have no doubt guessed who this perscn is, by the mention of her great est poem. It is no other than Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, the greatest contemporary poetess of America! Washington Cafe We Serve The Very Best Elon Students' Center BURLINGTON, - - - N. C. Phone 492 DR. J. B. NEWMAN Dentist Burlington, N. C. Office in the Fonville Building Phone 422 NORTH STATE CREAMERY COMPANY The Famous “Dixie Brand" Butter Milk Fed Poultry Telephone 6ii BURLINGTON, N. C. RADIO HARDWARE SPORTING GOODS GREENSBORO, N. C "The Carolinas’ Greatest Hardware House’’ —THE— HOME BAKERY, INC. HERE AND THEEE RAUHUX’S The Roadside Lunch HOT DOGS & BAR-B-Q That Bring You Back The U-Savc-lt Store BURLINGTON, N. C. All Kinds of Banquet Needs J. V. SIMPSON, Prop. The French Club held its regular meeting in the Y. W. C. A. Tuesday af ternoon at 4:30 o’clock. The meeting was called to order by the vice presi dent. IMiss Margaret Lineberger. Due to the absence of Miss Rebecca Taylor, Miss Nellie White was appointed to act as se‘retary for the meeting. After a brief business session the program was rendered. The club, accompanied at the piano by Miss Nellie White and directed by Professor Guillet, sang “En passant par la Lorraine.” In this song a Lorraine peasant girl, who is wearing wooden shoes, passes some French of ficers. She is very much embarrassed at her dress and feels that the officers are conscious of her appearance. Yet, despite her ragged appearance, she thinks herself pretty. This is an old French folk song wdiich originated among the peasants. Professor Guillet then related one of his experiences in a French camp. At this camp a French Prima Donna sang this song to an army of gassed j red. Miss Miriam Gibson, 17, of Syden ham, Eng., was granted court permis sion to marry when she testified that her mother disappeared 10 years ago. * * * * Pieces of bone from his leg w’ere grafted into the spine of Albert Tamp- sett of London and he has completely recovered from the effects of an acci dent that had left him helpless. ■ « « « Seven w'ives whose husbands had lost money to Warren V. Moore, of Chicago, secured his conviction. « « « » Four men employed by St. Mary’s Church of Torquay, Eng., have rung its bell for 50 years or more. « « * • Aaron Solomon, of San Francisco, caused the arrest of Miss Myra King for stealing his silk pajamas. * * « • In North Dakota there is a law com pelling that a copy of the Ten Com- mnndments be displayed in every school room. • • * « Many of the numerous temples throughout China are painted bright Bread. Cakes, Pies, Pastry Attention Given To Special Orders Front Street Phone 950 BURLINGTON, N. 0. MB Have You Visited the Tonsorial Artist? L. 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After 30 years work by Mr. and Mrs. Buskin, Belgian Congo missio-naries, the first dictionary of an African tongue has been published. * * * » Aviation has claimed the lives of 61 military flyers this year, as against 55 during all of 1927. * * * * Funerals for which they are paid on the installment plan are now being con ducted by many undertakers in Eng land. « « w « Thomas Mann, ofiicial scavanger fo'r Litchfield, Eng., got a $50.00 verdict for libel against a citizen w'ho called him “la»y.” * * * * A personal advertisement published in London reads: “A full moon, an Italian lake, and a broken heart.” It is addressed to “B” and signed “A.” * * * * Miss Edna Dalben, of Dover, was caught tryin gto smuggle diamonds into England from Ho-lland in her hat. * * * * A badger w’eighing 60 pounds was caught in a trap by Niels Gorenson of Jamestown, N. D. Now You Will Hear As Well As See Pictures at The GrandTheatre VITAPHONE Grand Theatre BURLINGTON, N. C. A SPLENDID CAFETERIA TO SERVE STUDENTS —and— THE PUBLIC Now Open In Burlington The Southern Cafeteria ‘ ‘American Pood by American Woman" Burlington, N. C. Jo-seph Williams, of Birmingham, Eng., went into the field on his 102nd birthday and pitched hay for several hours.
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