Friday, January 16, 1942.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three
9 MeoAd 9t
Assuming that you all had a very merry Christmas and
a still merrier New Year, we shall immediately get down to
the facts without further beating about the bush . . . frankly
now, is there anyone among us who isn’t suffering from either
post-vaeation or pre-exam morbidity? If there is, please notify
the editor and we will see that she gets a headline in the next
issue. For the rest of us, we suggest that one of the people
with lots of spare time at this point get busy concocting some
little brew which will daze us off into a trance and at the same
time force us to be prodigies without all the nail-biting and
hair-tearing that usually accompanies passing exams.
Speaking of exams reminds us of the extensive review
which will be thrust upon advanced zoo students . . . they were
informed the other day that the hundred and fifty pages which
they ain’t covered yet will be included( in their little quiz ilext
week. Gruesome! And all this while, we see various study-
bugs toting around material for art term-papers and Shake
speare term-papers which will also be due before Wednesday.
Gruesome, again! And finally there are the music people who
spend their forty leisure hours huddled up to the victrola in
the music place . . . and that is the gruesomest thing of all!
But have cheer, Little Ones, not ALI> of us will nervously
break-down before the first of February.
In a pleasanter vein we have (praise Allah!) all the
people who emerged from vacation with either a husband or
an engagement ring or a fraternity pin. It s amazing what
three weeks at home will do!
And now, Dear R«ader (we hope there IS one some
where!), we shall stop this rattling to go out and commit sui
cide . . . au revoir!
THE SHELF BEHIND THE DOOR
New Year’s kisses — sad good
byes — welcome. Misses, dry your
eyes . . • Since exams will keep
most of us chained to the campus
for the next week 11 two — the
shelf is in order to cheer us with
fond; memories and hopes for a hec
tic future: (P. S. Beware those va
cation romances,and stop going to
the P. O. eight times a day —
it doesn’t bring that letter you’re
waiting for. We know — we’re the
gal you always bump into in front
of the boxes.)
Avis has been turning the library
up side down looking for a copy of
the I'nfternational Morse Code.
Seems Dick, who’s studying to bo a
signal operator, writes his secret
thoughts so secretly even she can’t
read ’em. WJien finally translated,
though, the message was worth the
effort . . . ahem . . . Avis went him
one better and wrote his whole let
ter in the same. And what’s this
we hear . . . Avis taps Morse in
her sleep, now, instead of talking;
she’s driving Seville crazy
Rousseau said “they” told her
she had a good timo at the Med.
School dance . . . not to be carry
ing a good thing too far — but
have you noticed the pin? Mary
Tennille’s trip to New York was
quite successful — we hear we may
be losing our brunette beauty to
Conover or Powers come next sum
mer . . . Wo wonder if Martha Ilino
is still flying high-with the B.F.T.
Students . . . Speaking of aviators
(and don’t we all like to) “Barrel”
hasn’t been seen lolling around the
campus lately — whassamatta, Annt
.... Mr. Campbell advocated park
ing as aiding defense — now it’s
legal, girls! .... Do the “Five
Muskeeters,” Betty Goslen, Ann
Page, Tara Lou McNair, and Betty
Withers have a “Buddy” or is
there only one, who is mutual prop
erty-puzzling, isn’t it? . . . Sara
Hester admits she is terribly afraid
of Snakes — reptile or human (Sal
em variety, Sara?)
Did you hear the one about the
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on a below-zero night because he
didn’t want those cold things in
bed with him.
N'ormie Tomlin gathered up her
many charms and spread them
around Statesville — result: mid
winters at Carolina.
Mary Lib will make her first ap
pearance at Wake Forest mid-wint
ers with Harold — no, not Nebel’s
Harold.
The army, navy and air corps
really made the small towns ‘ ‘ man-
less” this Christmas. If you don’t
believe me just ask Cootie.
Have you ever seen so many frat
pins and engagement rings going
around? LaMott with a Kappa Cig,
Miiry Boylan, Margie, Nona Lee,
and yes. Cress still has hers.
Seville was bemoaning the fact
(hat her high school sweethearts are
gi'ttingi married. He was married in
November, but Aileen has just found
out about it — to quote her; “I’ll
soon be an old maid.”
Has everybody seen Craig's new
ly-acquired dream-man? And his
name is Hill — Bill Elder.
ICemp wired Roy: “Baby girl
liorn this morning.” Of course
Kempsey is proud of her baby sis
ter.
Nancy Lewis doesn’t seem to have
changed her mind or heart over the
holidays — It’s still Frank.
Arabella sides with me — she
had difficulties too. In fact four
of them.
Eddie got a telephone call from
(loorgia. Ves, Alee is going in the
air corps.
Veda is on her way to Langley
[,'ieid — Dick is being sent some-
(Contlnued on Page Four)
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Martha’s
Musings
Reece Thomas has scored again
— she and Joe Louis do beat every
body. She announces that she, too,
will soon be working for the U. S.
although I believe she doesn’t in
tend to ‘ ‘ fight.” Here is the title
of her position —i as nearly as I
can remember: she is to be on the
editorial staff of the Research De-
jiartment of the Wilson Dam — A
T. V. A. project. Her salary? Well,
it’s not to be sneezed at. And she is
after graduation — unless the Japs
after graduation — unless the japs
get there before she does.
I jvas just wondering why in the
world Salem was so quiet since the
hoiiday, and suddenly I realized
that the reason is this: the liveliest
student on the campus is still lying
in the City Memorial Hospital in a
cast, recovering from injuries which
she received from a fall off her
horse. But Lucy is beginning to
feel as if she is very important
now. When the Rockingham news
paper wrote up the accident, it de
voted as much space to Miss Farm
er ’s accident as it did to Winnie
Churchill’s arrival in the U. A. —
fully 2 5-8 inches.
This year I made one New Year’s
resolution fcr my column: not to
mention Wake Forest.
Nor the Editor-in-Chief of the
“tJalemite*’ in the same paragraph.
But I’m still wondering why Miss
Donnell is so excited about going
to Flora Avera’s house Sunday
night.
And about another visit from the
Wake Forest Annual head.
Louise Bralower is already be
ginning to pose because someone
told her that she loks just like one
of A1 Capp’s drawings of Society
girls. But I think she doesn’t par
ticularly like to be called “Andy
Fringe” with her new style or does
»lie? She’s just like Cleopatra al
ways keeps you questioning.
Most poor Salemites are worried
stiff because they have so much to
do and so little tinnJ to do it — all
exce[rt Sara Hest^ir (our “Men
tally unbalanced one”) and she —
imagine I is worried because she has
lu'r lessons done for two days in
advance and doesn’t have anything
to do!!! Except study for s.
(I have resolved, also, not to men
tion that word. It gives me the
creeps.
A parting thought; As a come
dian said, if you’re over down in
till' dumps, don’t forget to get me
a tire.
There is a tide in the affairs of
men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on
to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of this life
Is liound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are wo now
afloat;
And we must take the current
when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
—Shakespeare.
‘ ‘ Is there hot water in your
liouse?” asked one small boy of an-
otiier.
“There is,” replied the other,
‘ ‘ and I am always in it. ”
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LIFE WITH
THE INFIRM
■\fter being rudely awakened
from a peaceful night’s rest, Mrs.
Stuart was caught hauling Ellen
Stucky (pronounced STUKY, Dr.
McEwen) to the City Hospital with
a red hot appendix. The new nurse,
undoubtedly thought that would be
the extent of her initiation. But
little did she realize she’d have to
cope with your rei>orter, who trans
ported herself to the Salem College
‘ ‘ straight-jacket. ”
Life in the infirmary is idylic.
Anyone can darken the door and
emerge a well por.son — that is if
she doesn’t mind her month’s con
finement.
While there, the patient has the
anxiously-awaited opportunity for
sleep — the long soothing hours of
slumber that poets write about. Mind
you in the local sick hole the un-well
is allowed to loll ’round in the bed
’til 7:00 in the morning. Anyone
nmy do this provided there are no
academies present. If this bo the
case, only the “Sfunriso Serenade,”
tite squeakin’ of those comfortable
Beauty Rost mattresses, the reaction
of last night’s medicine, or an oc
casional pillow-smothered giggle dis
turbs the. would-be-sleepor.
If the patient isn’t aroused by
that time, nothing except the chill
ing feeling of being gagged by au
ice-box heated thermometer further
disrupts her sound slumber. Oh yea,
the arm must venture forth from be
neath the Cannon Percale sheets and
Chatham blankets( take heed, the
college refuses to accept a substitute
so that Flora might determine the
]>atient’s pulse rate. (By the time
she got to mine, my heart was pound
ing like a Deisel engine in a vain
attempt to generate a warm blood
vein in the exposed appendage).
This poking and gagging process
is repeated at intervals throughout
the day namely every five minutes.
After au a|»petizing breakfast
(the coffee is above reproach) the pa
tient can dust off those neglected
books — those that haven’t been
touched since the preceding day . . .
This period is always the day’s high
light aftiir tlie fifth week of con-
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But there is always the afternoon
visiting hour to cheer the otherwise
glum patient. Your reporter sug-
gestes that the prospective laryngitis
victim not neglect her FRIEND (the
infirmary ain’t a very good place to
test your personality). Be sure that
the one gaining entrance ia anmed
to the teeth. A battering ram is a
good beginner. If the visitor has
had track experience there is a re
mote chance that she might whiz by
the bed, and, in a combination run-
ning-toss, sling a couple of books in
the room.
At night, after the academies have
I>ooj>ed out, the victim may gaze for
hours at the beautiful picture o’cr-
hnngiiig the mantle. Only one of his
eyes has been stolen at this point . .
(Too, I didn’t mention the fact that
he is graying a bit.)
If that becomes boring, the pa
tient may amuse herself for hours
thinking about the last drag from
her cigarette . . . the one a month
ago.
Kach morning the patient can look
forward to the aforementioned day
jammed and packed with activity
. . . The second verse is same as the
first; life in the infirnmry is idyllic.
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