Saturday, February 23, 1929.
THE SALEMITE
THREE
.TOGETHERNESS
Did you ever watcli a fire sl(
die away as one by one tlie lo>-s
apart; tlien suddenly burst into fl
as they were brouglit together?
log alone may glow, but it will not
produce fire.
Life is like a fire. It comes in
richness when people are together.
The shipwrecked sailor marooned
alone on a bit of island, the narrow-
hearted person marooned on a littl
island of self, are logs fallen apart;
the fires of the mind and the heart
flicker low little by little, grow cold,
and the gray ash creeps over them.
A fire can use all kinds of wood—
’ apple, pine, beech, big knotty sticks,
and kindling. Heap it with differ
ent kinds and see how beautiful it
is. A great backlog for the flame
pour over; little twigs to c.atch and
crackle; a bent, heavy piece from
the crotch of a limb to draw up the
fire like a roaring chimney; birch
to pop and send sparks flying; drift
wood, sea soaked, if you are lueky,
to color the flame violet and green
and strange jewel-blucs; or a sugar
pine cone from some mountain for
est, to turn, like molten metal and
hold its glowing shape a long time
in the heart of the fire. How i
drum and uninteresting it is in com
parison if the sticks arc all off the
same tree and all chopped and sr
alike.
So life, yours and mine, as
as world life, needs all kinds of
people in it, strong friends, little
folk, “kindred spirits,” girls who
are “different,” families, and for
eigners. Do you know the joy of
belonging to such a fellowship?
the spirit in your school like
glorious fire, or more like a series of
little, isolated bonfires?
—The Girl’s Everij Baij Booh.
Foolish Things
ANONYMOUS
These lines were received on Sa
il Day, February 3rd, by Presi
dent Rondthaler xoitliout signature
a Special Delivery letter post-
arkcd Winston-Salem.
Tlie Salemite acknowledges for
e College this anonymous contri-
DKAR OLD SALEM!
alem! Salem!! Dear Old Salem
School of mother, sister, friend,
low our thoughts entwine around
you
And all those who now attend
low our mothers learned of lifc-
I.earned the ways of truth and
love,
I.enrned to love their classmates,
neighbors,
I.earned of God, who rules above.
ere they learned the things that
need be
Stored in mind and heart for ayi
Things of earth, and things o
heaven
That one needs along life’s way.
Salem! Salem!! Dear Old Salem
Rich in memories of yore,
3U have much work yet before you
Greater things arc still in store.
Salem calls to Trustees, Teachers
And Alumnae, young and old.
To prepare for greater service
And for usefulness untold.
B.^OK REVIEW
KRLSTIN' LAVRANSDATTER
By Sigrid Undset
“Common sense is good to have
But never let it master you—
For then it might deprive you of
The foolish things it’s fun to do.
'^Aren’t the above lines true, though
Here we are in this big old world
with many problems and responsibil
ities. We' are supposed to be very
practical and to face life with great
determination and hard common
sense. Often we read about famous
men who have owed their success to
the use of good judgment, yet, did
they not occasionally do some fool
ish things and enjoy them:' Whaf
on earth made young George Wash
ington cut down the cherry tree?
Was there much common sense jn
that? He probably did some other
rather foolish things but today the
world honors him as a great man.
If noted people have found pleas
ure in sometimes becoming absurd
instead of always being wi.se, it
follows that many of us have great
futures ahead, have we not?
Origin of Playing Cards
Many nations claim the invention
of playing cards, but it is generally
believed that they came from Asia,
probably China. The great Chinese
dictionary (1678) states that they
were invented in the reign of the
Emperor Seun-ho in 1120 A
Some authorities arc of the opinion
that they were invented in 1.390 to
amuse Charles VI., king of France,
who was subject to fits of melan
choly. The inventor proposed tc
represent the four classes of men ir
the kingdom—the clergy of hearts;
the nobility and military by points
of the spears, now known as spades;
white diamonds stood for citizens,
merchants and trades people, the
clubs referring to peasants and
farmers.
The Book-of-the-Month Club
enthusiastically recommending this
trilogy of novels to its readers for
the month of February. It is made
up of three novels concerning the
life of one Viking woman, Krispin
Lavransdatter. The books, The
Bridal Wreath, Mistress of Husaby,
and The Cross, have been published
separately but they are even too con
tinuous to be called sequels. Miss
Undset was awarded the Nobel Prize
several months ago and the critics
believe unanimously that
given because of her stupendous
achievement in this work,
novel of greatness, wonder, nobility
and human warmth. It achieves
reality and leaves memories. The
picturesque Vikings of the four
teenth century have been the themeu
of many novels of .sea-faring ro-j
manee. dash, color, cruelty and “d-|
They havr '
An Amphibiology
On Dieting
We have become very abstemious,
especially of all amylacious foods,
that the antipaschal season is
approaching. Our motive is by no
is abstruse to anyone who has
ever tried to squeeze into a size 16
that would exactly match the new
hat picked out for spring. Mr.
Roberts probably feels that it is a
serious aberration on our part, es
pecially when he has just success
fully accoutered his shop. But we
; tread this long and acclivious
path without any ambient ramblings
if we expect to become the slight
adumbrations of ourselves that will
fit our Easter garments. The
perity of our rigid diet with
adscitious duties within this apiary
are seriously affecting our hitherto
lovely disposition. They are really
acescent and aculeate these days and
the span of our once almost ancillary
temper is now positively araneous.
Our exercise we take only i
agrestic wanderings for if we stroll
ed about the streets with their
amnestic store windows and adver
tisements they would tempt our ap-‘
petitcs. With such an attollent mo
tive—and one that has such aurifer
ous advantages also—-we are suc
ceeding in this bouleversement of
our dining engagement. The blan-
diloquence of our friends and even
our bellicose health instructors are
unable to turn us from our bumptious
designs. A piece of chocolate can
dy would have the most antalgic ef
fect already. If we become posi
tively ravenous we promise to seek
totally azoic regions and fast in
solitude. Being really exhausted,
we bring to close our amphibolous
balderdash. The fact that the Fresh
men are going to edit next week’s
paper is most consoling to us. We
shall find a much-needed rest and
be ready to fight to win back those
laurels whicli they will surely take
veight can be read in an instant,
stood side by side with models show
ing that centuries ago Leonardo da
Vinci designed a self-indicating ma
chine on exactly the same principle.
Among the sets of standard
weights was one row which had come
down from pre-Norman days and
which still is legal standard in the
Channel islands, although no longer
There were weights of glass and
rock crystal and, in contrast with a
Chinese balance of ivory which
which would slip into a vest pocket,
were photographs of modern r
ster weights, weighing hundreds of
Most of Them Do
Can a girl do anj-thing about a
unattractive knee?
Nothing but grin and bare it.
Modern Introduction
Dick: “You remtmber Miss Jones,
don’t you?”
Dave; “I don’t recall her face,
but licr knees are very familiar.”
Meet Me At
WIN-SAL
DRUG CO.
Cor. 4th & Cherry Sts.
SODAS
Phones:
DRUGS
228 - 229
tte PICTURE
TELLS th^
%;ST0KY: i
HEDMONT
ENGRAVING CO.
Plrmtin!^ "plates
from Pictures'
Now, girls and boys, we will take
the C and D list for next lesson.
All this does not mean that
have recently had a letter from Cath
erine Miller, We did it with the
aid of a pocket edition of W^ebster.
Think what bigger and better things
we are going to do with that Oxford
Edition!
BANK ACCOUNT BELIED
OLD MAN’S APPEARANCE
rale
From the Back Seat
Husband (in car) : “Great Heav
ens I The engine is terribly
heated.”
Wife (calmly): “Then why don’t
you turn off the radiator?”
; to be I
A woman who does much free
lance charity work was accosted on
the street by a bent-over old man
.-filing lead pencils,
I having a handful of the
i-trade thrust under her nose
-■he opened her handbag and offered
ireaHty, disUnet and set remarking;
I „{ 4-1,.„ of-, pencil. I do not need it.”
Upon further inspection of the old
peddler’s rags and his feeble frame
her huge heart outswclled its bounds.
“Suppose,” she said, “I take you
into that bank and start a small sav
ings account for you. You are get
ting old and will not be able to sell
pencils much longer?”
“I have a bank account there,
thank you,” was the old man’s
joinder.
“Well, then,” she persisted,
low me at least to add a few dollars
to it.”
The old man agreed and they
walked together a half block to the
bank.
“Now let me have your book,”
said the woman as they entered the
bank building.
As she approached the receiving
teller’s cage she casually opened
the book. His account toi
All of this adventurous
iphere has been retained in Miss
Undset’s book but she has managed
to humanize people and definitely
them in that half-barbaric half-
•istianized period of the Middle
Ages. She has kept the warriors
ith their bloodthirsty desires but
she has also introduced women and
•hildren. She has brought Chris-
ianity among them with its soften
ing influence.
Krispin, who is the charming hcr-
nc, is drawn typically Norwegian;
yet her life is any woman’s life, her
problems any woman’s. Her appeal
lias universality. Her entire life—
from the day when she was a little,
indcring, imaginative girl, to the
last black days of sacrifice in the
Black Plague—is related here. It is
a smooth, life-like narration dealing
with incidents as peculiar as life
presepts to any woman. There is
nothing bombastic and shocking *
about it at all. It is a picture of |‘'■_J
long, changing years and their im
print on the life of Krispin and the
women about her. As a psycholo
gical story it is unsurpassed and
still there is nothing mechanical or
technical in its method. The work
is easily described in the sentence:
“It is a simply glorious pageant and
.1 magnificent achievement to make
the past so live again ,with all its
color, and yet with every appearance
of complete verity.
Tested
“Rastus, is my bawth warm?’
“Yessah, the wahmest Ah
Modern Scales Changed
Little From Old Ones
London_—There is little or no
difference between the scales used
today and those used in the days
of ancient Egypt, judging by an
exhibition in the Scicnce museum.
South Kensington, recently.
Illustrating the history of weigh
ing as far back as is known, a steel
yard used by a Roman butcher iden
tical to the present-day “meat pur
veyor” was on show.
Modern scales of nickel and enam
el, with multi-olored dials, on which
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KODAKS, VICTROLAS & RECORDS
LEATHER GOODS
WATKINS’ BOOK STORE
The First
Perfect
II
All Talking Picture
“THE CANARY
MURDER CASE”
Louise Brooks - Janies Hall
William Powell
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AT THE
COLONIAL
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The College Drug Store
Service to Salem Girls
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Fashionable new TWEEDS, KASKAS, TWILL
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