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THE CHOWANIAN, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C.
Thursday, December 6, 1923.
Freshies Take The
Townes Cat Census
Freshmen Make Survey of Fe
lines in Murfreesboro With
Interesting Results, Last Or
deal of Sophomore Week
The cat census as computed by the
Freshman class last week showed that
Murfreesboro can boast of only
seventy of these animals. This
might seem to be a small number per
capita for the human population, but
be it remembered that each cat has
nine lives.
This body of worthy deputies en
listed under the rigid generalship of
the Sophomores, equipped with note
books and pencils, and armed with
looks of sedateness and smiles of
courtesy, canvassed from house to
house until the town had been thor
oughly covered. Busy housewives
laid aside their work to summons
from barn and attic their collection
of felines in order to ascertain the
kind of eyes, color, age and other in
formation officially required.
A summarized report of all of the
individual reports was read to the
College by the president of the
Freshmen class. This showed that
Murfreesboro's seventy cats are wide
ly different. They vary in age from
five months to six years. There are
three blondes, twenty brunettes, sev
en golden haired blondes, and forty
greys or disappointed blondes. Among
the other startling revelatiops made
was the fact that most of these cats
have reached such a high state of
domestication as to have denomina
tion affiliations. There are twenty-
eight Baptists, twenty Methodists,
three Episcopalians, six Holy Jump
ers, and ten make no pretense of any
kind of religion and hence are listed
as Pagans. A number of these grace
ful quadrupeds had not been deemed
of sufficient importance to have been
named. In the emergency one color
ed woman was driven to propose the
names of three of her children, Na
poleon, Lolly Pop, and Roseola, for
the nameless cats. This was follow
ed by a concert of sharp outcries of
anguish and resentment from the
three little pickaninnies. Failing to
find appellations more mutually sat
isfactory to named and namesakes,
the hitherto nameless cats were called
Tom, Kitty and Snookums. Twenty
were called Kitty, thirty Bill, ten
Tom, and ten Snookums.
This being an age in which for
every act there must be a reason, it
would not be surprising should some
one ask the question—Why did the
Freshmen take the cat census of Mur
freesboro. The answer is not at all
difficult. It is because they are
Freshmen. It is similar in logic to
the reply given by a gallant young
suitor when asked by the indignant
father of his sweetheart why he want
ed to marry his daughter. Frankly
but not curtly the young man replied,
“Sir, there is no reason; we’re in
love”. When the Freshmen accosted
every stranger with the question—
“How many cats have you?”—they
themselves were invariably question
ed with words, obviously prompted by
feelings mingled with curoisity,
amazement, and sympathy, like these:
“What on earth do you want to know
about my cats for?” The most direct
and simple, and in fact the only way
to respond was, “I’m a Freshman”.
Was that not amply sufficient.
This was the last of a series of or
deals inflicted upon the Freshmen by
the Sophomores. The townspeople at
first might have thought they were
being raided by an avalanche of luna
tics escaped from the insane asylum.
But they soon were brought to the
conclusion that the girls were a band
of sound and healthy college stu
dents, and the best sports to be
found.
DRAMATIC CLUB TO
PRESENT TWO PLAYS
The Dramatic Class will present
two programs in December. On
Thursday evening, December 13, the
Dramatic Class will present “The
Photograph Album” and a one act
play entitled “Glory of the Morning”
by William Ellery Leonard. It is an
Indian play of unusual plot and set
ting. The cast includes;
Black Wolf, a visionary old medicine
man Estelle Carleton
Half Moon, a white nobleman now an
adventurer in the fur trade___Lu-
cille Holloman
Glory of the Morning, Half Moon’s
Winnebago squaw Jewel Askew
Red Wing, Oak Leaf; their children
Moella Askew, Hilda Matthews
On Wednesday evening, December
19, the class will present a pageant
“The Birth of Christ” arranged by
Miss Gertrude Knott.
LUCALIANS TALKED
ABOUT THANKSGIVlNj^
TheLucalian Literary society met
Saturday evening, November 24- An
interesting program on Thanksgiving
was given as follows:
Song Society
Comparison of First Thanksgiving
with that of the Present Hazel
Griffin
John Alden Agnes Cobb
Thanksgiving Reading. _
Estelle Carleton
Jokes Viola Winslow
Thanksgiving’s Appeal to Appetite
--Lucile Overby
Piano solo Carrie Hobbs
Priscilla Dean Thelma Finch
Debate, Resolved: That the Modern
Way of Observing Thanksgiving is
a Violation to its Name.
Affirmative; Margaret Parker, Eliz
abeth White. Negative; Helen Brett,
Beulah Lowe.
The debators spoke with a great
deal of conviction. The judges ren
dered the decision in favor of the
negative. After a splendid report
from the censor and critic, the society
adjourned.
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