Friday, November 6, 1936.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
ADVICE TO THE
LOVELORN
i " .—
Dear Miss Nix:
Do you believe in love at flrat sight t
Thia miracle happened to me Mon
day night. However, the object of
my affections ties his necktie in too j
small a knot — or so my friends
think. What shall I do about it? i
Fearful of love, j
Cramer Percival. I
Dear Cramer:
Why not have some of those same
friends write him a note — or were
not they successful the last time
they tried it? j
N. N. I
!
Dear Miss Nix;
How can I let a disappointed
“friend” know that I do not love
him?
Perplexed, j
Va. Lee.
Dear Virginia: '
Get a way “Bill”.
N. N. '
Doar Miss Nix:
I do not know whether or not I
should act dignified when I am con
ducting my modified gym class. How
should I treat the students.
Wondering,
Eugenia McNew.
Dear Hiss McN.:
Treat them to ice cream sodas —
or butterscotch sundaes would do in
a pinch.
N. N.
Dear Miss Nix:
How should I act at Davidson this
■week-end? j
Sincerely,
Emily Eichardson. !
Dear Em.:
What’s the matter — a-Fred?
N. N. ;
Doar Miss Nix:
I have ancestors in my family.
What shall I do about them?
In a stew,
Mary Hannah.
Dear M. T. H.:
Keep them to your self. It’s a
cinch other people don’t want them.
N. N.
HERE AND THERE
Mary Turner, Julia and Kate think
the boy.s at oak Eidge are mighty
cute. And what’s this we hear about
a picture?
Peggy Bowen has a secrct admirer,
who sends boxes of nuts.
Blevins Vog’er is going to stay
home this week-end for a change.
What’s the trouble, Can’t you get
the right man?
McCarty’s going over to Davidson,
so it doesn’t look as if she’s very
disappointed about last week-end.
Why does Mary Louise Siewers
look so worried these days? Could
it be over a certain Itter she wrote.
Mary Lib Walston shouldn’t let:
fall dances get her down.
QUESTIONS
1. How old is Mickey Mouse? '
2. What size dress does the “av
erage woman” wear? i
3. Bob Burns, bazooka-man, re-!
ceived $3.00 a week for his first
job on the stage. How much
does he average now? |
4. How do you spell 12th? i
5. What American soeiety-woman
holds the title of “The Best-
Dressed Woman in the World”?
6. About how many people attend
U. S. movie-theatres every day?
7. What is said to be Shirley Tem
ple’s favorite toy?
8. Who was Septimus Banks?
9. What was Wallace Beery’s pro
fession before he became an ae-
tor?
10. The word “alopecia” means
what?
Answers on Page Four
EMILY AND ETIQUETTE!
Etiquette is not only a requisite
of good building and refinement, but
it is, also, the balloon tire which
eases the jolt of living. I agree with
Mr. Richard Duffy when he says,
“People who ridicule etiquette as a
mass of trivial and arbitrary con
ventions seem to forget the long,
slow porgress of social intercourse in
the upward climb of man from the
primeval state.” I have not for
gotten, Mr. Duffy, and I respectfully
and sincerely give thanks to my fore
fathers. The thing that I can not
that the majority of the Eoftmocah
understand, however, is the fact
that the majority of the American
people, today, has become dependent
upon Emily Post for its definition of
etiquette. We let the opinion of one
woman determine all the details of
sociability for the entire country,
from Monday’s hash to Boston balls.
Any originality in ideas or individ
ualism in taste has been mercilessly
quelled by the “Blue Book of Social
Usage,” with its illustrations, its
“facsimiies” of social forms,” and
its “48 pages of answers to read
ers’ questions.”
I do hope that I am not one of the
people to whom Mrs. Post refers in
her introduction, “To you my
friends whose identity in these pages
is veiled in fictional disguise—”,
don’t you? Yes, indeed — “Best
society always says, ‘Don’t you?’ ”)
I should hate to think that I was the
kind of person who would make re
marks such as, “Oh, but your son’s
lameness is gating much worse I”
and “Well’ what do you hear about
your ex-wife?” It seems to me that
behavior like that is not su much a
case of impoliteness as of outright
stupidity.
Some of us must be trusting souls
who have either never carefully
read Mrs. Post’s book, or have over
looked the absurdity of some of her
remarks. Doesn’t it strike you as
rather strange that whole nation
must say “I beg your pardon,” and
never, never “pardin me,” just be
cause Emily Post likes one better
than the other? Must we go on un
til the end of time introducing our
friends as, “Mr. Neighbor, I want
you to meet Mr. Du.sting, ho has just
returned from Egypt, whore he’s been
searching for buried Pharaohs,” be
cause the woman who apparently has
a corner on the morals and manners
of the universe directs thus? I don’t
happen to have any friends who
look for buried Pharaohs, but rather
than disregard a boasted “facsim
ile,” I suppose I shall have to choose
my friends accordingly.
Emily Post is a connoisseure of
bows. “Southern women always bow
with the grace of a flower bending
in the breeze and a smile like golden
sunshine.” That set hundreds of
American Women to bowing with a
sway that looks more like intoxica
tion than grace, and a grin that has
more Ipana tooth paste in it than
golden sunshine!
Mrs. Post, in warning us against
speaking in a loud voice, praises a
young girl who, when separated from
her friends at a baseball game, had
the “presence of mind to put her hat
on her parasol and leave it above
the people surrounding her so that
her friends might find her.” That
may be voice control, but wouldn’t
she look silly?
The last straw in the way of self
esteem — the thing that always
throws me into a rage — is Mrs.
Post’s advice in asparagus eating,
“Don’t take a long, drooping stalk,
hold it up in the air and catch the
end of it in your mouth like a fish.
Don’t .squeeze the stalk or hold your
hand below the end and let the
juice run down your arm.”
Our authority on etiquette says
that one may “put something Span
ish, something French, something
Italian, and something English into
an American house and have the re
taste.” If that heterogeneous mix-
suit the perfection of American
ture is American taste, I am ready to
forsake the stars and stripes 1
Yet we all go on serving oysters
and grapefruit, firing our servants,
greeting the president, tucking our
napkins under our knees, getting our
selves born, married, and buried, ex
actly as Emily Post — the Emily
Post—dictates, because someone un
fortunately decided that she was the
capital E in etiquette.
Saturday afternoon The fCpmmun-
ity Service Committee of the Y. W.
C. A. gave a Hallowe’en party for
twenty little boys and girls at the
Methodist Children’s Home. These
children were chosen from the group
of unsponsored orphans and were
mostly between the ages of six and
twelve. The party was held in the
new library building which was dec
orated for the occasion. Hallowe’en
gmaes were played favors fished for,
and refreshments consisting of pea
nuts, candy, and apples served dur
ing the course of the afternoon. Two
of the older orphanage girls, Edna
Shell, and Louise Eobbins, helped
with the party. The girls from Sa
lem who went were: Virginia Crump-
ler, Mary Francis Hayworth, Mary
Lee Salley, Helen Totten, Caroline
Byrum, and Helen Savage.
YWCA
Y.WC A
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NOTES
The vesper meeting last Sunday
evening was a candle light service
praising nad showing gratitude for
the beauty of the earth. Mary Fran
cis Hayworth led the servico and
the responsive readings. In the be
ginning of the program, Helen
Griffin played a lovely selection from
Schopin and later Harriet Taylor
gave two voice solos. In the last
one she was caaccompanied by the
Vesper choir. Two beautiful redings
from “The Prophet” were given by
Dorothy Jane Thompson and a selec
tion from Bach played by Mary
Francis Hayworth. The service was
closed with the Y. watchword.
Evening Watch this week was a
musical, candle light servico.
“If you have built castles in the
air your work need not be lost; that
is where they should be. Now put
foundations under them. ’ ’
—^I’horeau.
Bob (reading death statistics):
Say, Bill, every time I breathe a man
dies.
Bill: Ever try using a mouthwash?
Diary — “December 26 — Snow
in’. Can’t go huntin’.”
“December 27 — “Still snowin’.
Can’t go huntin’.”
“December 28'— “Still snowin’.
Shot grandma.”
According to the Freshman class re
ports at Mississippi College:
Epistle — a pop gun.
Senor—Funny noise made in sleep.
Malta—A soda fountain drink.
Propaganda—A daddy goose.
Study—Something that just ain’t.
Debit—A girl's first apixsarance in
society.
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RESTAURANT
Hand writing experts claim that
nobody can write his name exactly
the same,twice; try it some time.
The height of something or other
is a dumb girl turning a deaf ear to
a blind date.
Make the K & W a rendezvous
when you feel the urge to com
panion with a good meal.
FOR SMART WEARABLES
M ROBIN H
WEST FOURTH ST. g
SYRACUSE STUDENT
WINS VOTING RIGHT
Syracuse, N. Y.—Challenged while
registering, Henry Loweth, Syracuse
senior, carried his franchise fight in
to court, winning his case in the
county court. Eequirement of three
year county and four month town
residence was considered fulfilled,
although Loweth’s summer residence
at his fraternity was not continuous.
Further reasons for the challenge
were ascribed to the fact that De
mocratic watchers at the polls raised
the issue on seeing Loweth’s Landou
lapel sunflower.
SPORTS SUIT
Host: There are my grandma’s
ashes over there.
Guest: You mean the poor soul
has passed on?
Host: Nope. Just to lazy to look
for the ash tray.
Lady: So you left your last place
because your master and mistress
fell out? Why what has that got
to do with you?
Chauffeur: Well, ma’am, if you
must know, they fell out of the car.
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