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' ^1 W ■ i’ t - ■> / Pa^a 4 THE CHOWAWIi^. CHOWiW CCTJJECBy MURFKEESBOItO, W. C. ThE CHINA PAINTING DEPARTMENT AT CHOWAN flies mistake for a bare wall—it 1 such people who have discarded takes him twice as long to wash I fences! (Continued from page one) have been pAinted this year. Arrayed in a china closet were several dinner sets. Some had conventional designs in blue, black, and gold,—very simple, yet attractive. Others were done in green, pink, and gold and in blue with white gold! bands. There was a lovely little breakfast set in a semi-conventional daisy de sign. As I looked from shelf to shelf, my eyes fell upon a most beautiful tea pot painted in gold luster. It sparkled and shone so that I could see myself in it. By it, stood a big electric lamp, painted in blue dusting powder. On a table near by was a large rose bowl of plain white china with a rose design. Another attractive piece was a pitcher with a Japanese design. The background was delft blue, with gaily dressed Japanese girls sitting ready for tea. In less conspicious places were numerous small pieces of china. The satsuma bonbon dishes were lovely with the light colored enam els used as a back ground. Then, there were pieces of belleck china, and ivory-tone wear. The designs and colors are too many for me to name. If you are interested in beautiful things, just take a few hours from your regular routine of work and find your way to “Ye Old Art Shop.” his face. And if he wears a wig, the slightest wind makes him ner vous and he grasps his hat tight ly in both hands, while the pack ages he is carrying drop heedless ly to the ground, and so, there you are. If you have hair, it is a trouble, and if you do not have it, it is a trouble. What are we going to do about it? That is the question. TRUTH; NOT FICTION IMPRESSIONS MADE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN SOON fContinued from page one) thoroughly appreciated by the au dience. They were in keeping with the sermons. Dr. Haywood and Mr. Betts have left an impression on Mur freesboro and the surrounding communities which will not soon be erased. HAIR Hair! Perhaps no other word suggests to us quite so many dif ferent things. Brown hair, black hair, red hair, auburn hair, gold en hair, white hair; straight hair, curly hair, kinky hair, wavey hair, curled hair, fine hair, coarse hair, short hair, thick hair, thin hair, pretty hair, ugly hair, and permanently waved!! All of us have one kind of hair, and most of us have a combination of two —or mois kinds mentioned. But, in stead of thinking about all of these various types of hair, each of us thinks of his own particular kind, when the word hair is men tioned. The girl whose beautiful curly hair is the envy of all of her friends, remembers the time when her mother pulled a comb mercilessly through the tangles. For this reason she probably grew to hate her hair and would gladly exchange it for the straight, shiney hair, which another girl finds so distasteful. The girl who stands before a mirror on a hot summer day and painstakingly puts curls in her otherwise shape less hair, only to have all of her efforts wasted when her head be comes damp, or when a sudden summer sho'v^er overtakes her, al most wished, sometimes, that she ‘ had no hair. The person who is responsible for the worn expres sion that a woman’s hair is her crowning glory, surely must have ' been a man! He did not know the agony which most women suf fer in order to attain their “crowning glory”! When hair be gan to be bobbed, woman thought ' her troubles were over, but she soon found that it required more time to keep shott hair looking at tractive than it had taken to tan gle said hair and insert a few rats. And now they are letting It grow long again! And it is more trouble than it ever was. Hair pins refuse to stay in, unruly ends refuse to be tucked under, none of it stays in place. Truly, hair is a nuisance! But a woman’s hair is not the only kind which is troublesome. A man’s hair is often just as un ruly as that of a woman. Man, like the curly haired girl, dates his worry over hair back to the time when his mother was always tak ing off his hat and slicking his hair before he entered the church or anyone’s house. When the babyish bob gjave way to the boyish cut, the little fellow thought that now, surely, his mother would let him alone, but alas! When she wasn’t trying to train his hair to grow a certain way, she was telling him to go and comb it, please. Or, perhaps his hair was the lovely, curly kind which fond mothers adore, and he had to wear it cut like a girl’s un til everybody called him “Mama’s little girl”. The empty grrease- cans and hair-tonic bottles lying around in the young man’s room attest to the fact that a man spends about as much time on his hair as a girl does on hers. But it seems to me that hair is a greater problem to the bald-head man than it is to anyone else. If the bald spot is small, he is kept busy carefully combing hair over it to keep it from showing; but if the spot is large—the kind that Jane, returning from her ex pression class, rushed into her room and began to cut gay cap ers. “I’m thrilled,” she replied, when her room-mate asked her what had happened. “My expres sion teacher. Miss Greene, has been preaching to me again this morning. I told her when I first went to class that I was tired of expression. I could not see any results from my two years’ work in it, and I was going to stop it. I also said that I did not have any time to put on it any way.” “Well, what did Miss Greene say?” “Oh, she said everything that anyone could say. Not even Byron King, head of King’s School of Oratory in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, could think of any more benefits derived from study ing the art of expression than she pointed out to me. In the first place, she says it develops the art of conversation in one. She knew that I would be interested in that point as I like to talk. She ar gued that after I have studied beautiful poems, dramas, and so forth, I will always have some thing interesting to talk about. Some phase of something that I have studied will be sure to inter est practically every one with whom I may come in contact. “In the second place the study of expression develops person ality. One’s personality must be made up of, or at least colored, by the things which he has stud ied. They become a part of him —even though he may not be con scious of it. In the third place, by studying different kinds of dramas, poems, and vivid prose, one increases his love for beautiful things. I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls, I saw her sable skirts all fring ed with light From the celestial walls. Certainly a study of this poem enables one to see new beauty in a night. Thus, through word pic tures, expression trains the eye to see and the ear to hear some thing beyond the ordinary things of life. ~ veloped. In a few years the rising gen eration wfll wonder where the “Cock that crowed in the mom” performed his daily rite. Surely the architects, in planning the house that Jack built, foresaw the need of a fence, if for no other use than to serve as a perch on whilch the mythological rooster could elevate himself and crow now and then. A house without a fence re minds me of a stick of candy with its stripes licked off. It has lost half its attraction, and it has nothing left but an exposed inter ior. There is no mystery, no subtlety, no intrigue in open vis tas, but there is always, in the imagination if not in reality, a wealth of romance on the other side of a wall. Imagine an Eng lish garden stripped of its vine covered walls. Half of its inter est is lost. Walls signify privacy and pro tection. Strangers who possess courage feel as if they have ac complished something worth at taining when they have gained en trance inside the wall. Friends regard more highly the bonds of friendship when they are so shielded within the sanctity of such a fortress. Family ties are closer nurtured within fences. Sometimes I think half the charm of the American residen tial setting has been lost in the abolition of its fences. The home, whose chief attraction is its sheltering depths, has been thrust unceremoniously into the eager and curious view of the sensa- ion thirsty passerby. For the sat isfaction of the person who en joys peeping into his neighbor’s windows, this is a pacifying ac tion; but for the intimate life of the neighbor so peeped upon, it is a devastating move. Without a doubt, the peeping class must have advanced, sponsored, and passed the No-Fence Law. Mrs. John Sewell. one’s thoughts better than he is able to do. Ano'ther form of Fine Arts is the art of being kind, unselfish, and loving. The person who has learned to smile at some one who has wounded his feelings has at tained an art that many great men envy. The person who re mains cheerful in spite of adverse circumstances, who can smile in the face of defeat, has acquired a great art. These are arts which may be attained without book knowledge; the poor and the rich may possess them. COLEMAN’S STORES Sell For Less Because They Sell For Cash BROWN’S SERVICE STATION Rich Square, N. C. ‘Let us be your Servant” HOWELL’S THEATRE —Special Features— Monday, Thursday, and Saturday nights Main Street Murfreesboro, N. C. BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL ENLARGEMENT CAMPAIGN Two Chowan students, Eliza beth Middleton and Louise Mc Daniel, aided in the Baptist Sun day School Enlargement Cam paign which was held in Pasquo tank county, March 3-11, and which included eight churches in and around Elizabeth City. Both taught classes in “Build ing a Standard Sunday School”, by Dr. Arthur Flake. Miss Mc Daniel taught at Raymoth Gilead, a church fifteen miles north of Elizabeth City. Thirty of her students received certificates. Miss Middleton taught, at Salem The imagination is de- Church, Weeksville, N. C. Twenty three received certificates. “The fourth, fifth and sixth! Campaign was conducted benefits of expression are: cul-1 purpose of making stan- ture, a well modulated voice, and poise. “After hearing Miss Greene’s sermon, I believe I agree with Charlotte Cushman when she said: ‘I think I love and honor all the arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; be cause in it I recognize the union and culmination of them all. To me it seems as if when God con ceived the world, that was poetry; He colored it, that was Painting; He peopled it with loving beings; and that was the irrand, divine, eternal Drama’.” ON FENCES Zane Grey has given to poster ity the story of the “Vanishing American”; ledgermains grow breathless telling of the mystery connected with vanishing stage properties; women are loquacious on the subject of vanishing creams; mothers with adolescent sons are frank to tell us of van ishing cookies; but everyone seems to be avoiding the subject of vanishing fences. What will become of the mid night cat, and what will be the end of old shoes saved especially to knock down the vocal animal, now that fences are gone? Will the cat lose his four appendages as the human family has lost the sixth finger—so the followers of Darwin like to tell us—and is now losing the smallest toe thru lack of use? Or will we have, in a few generations, cats with legs greatly shortened, say to an inch? If for no other reason than for the benefit of cats, it seems that we should begin a movement for fence preservation. Of course, there will always be inhuman in dividuals who care not in what direction cats shrink. In fact, if cats should shrink to nothingness like that of Alice’s, they would be glad. Such people would be jus tified in abolishing fences. But, for those who believe in the trans migration of souls, and who feel sure that some alley cat is the embodiment of the soul of some departed progenitor, such an abolition of fences would be in viting disaster. For, suppose the cat, after dwindling for the want of a fence, should be transformed into a tiger or a lion, and in this form of transmigration should re- retum to avenge his inflictions while he was a cat. Woe be unto dard Sunday schools, and enlist ing the men and women, boys and girls, who have not been at tending Sunday School. The first meeting was held Sat urday afternoon, March 3, in the First Baptist Church of Elizabeth City. Besides the speakers and leaders of the campaign, there were a number of delegates from the various churches of the coun ty. The first meeting was very helpful and inspiring. Mr. Perry Morgan, Secretary of Sunday Schools in North Carolina, dis cussed the needs of city and county Sunday schools; he also presented the plan of work for the week. After Mr. Morgan’s ad dress he introduced the teachers and assigned them to their re spective churches. Many of the teachers were our Baptist Sunday School Board workers. Others were youngs men and women who are deeply interested in the work of the Lord. Each evening. Dr. Arthur Flakes book, **Building a Stand ard Sunday School,” was taught in the eight churches. At ten o’clock each morning, the workers and representatives from the churches met at the First Church of Elizabeth City to discuss their various problems and report what had been accomplished the day before. The campaign was a great suc cess, and will mean much toward pushing forward Sunday school work in Pasquotank county. OVERLOOK QUALITIES IN TALKING OF FINE ARTS We talk much about Fine Arts —Music, Drama, Painting—but there are certain intangible, in definable qualities which we ig nore in our eulogies. The beauti ful thoughts that the first violet awakens in the mind of man or the great aspirations which are often aroused by sweet melodies seldom receive mention in a categery of Fine Arts, and yet they are the finest of fine arts. Many of the great accomplish ments which the world has known have been the result of such in spiration. The thing which makes music is not the sweet harmonious chords, but the memories or thoughts which the chords awaken in one’s soul. The same thing is true of poetry. The truly great poet is the one who can express The New Market Murfreesboro, N. C. Groceries Heavy and Fancy Fresh meats a Specialty Free Delivery Telephone orders given prompt attention D. F. PAYNE—M. H. BABB Telephone 24 STONEWALL HOTEL Franklin, Va. Good eats every day in the week. Sunday—spe cial chicken dinner.— Hearty welcome to Cho wan College students and faculty. TRIANGLE FILLING STATION Buy Your Gas and Oil With Us Rich Square, N. C. FRANKLIN THEATRE Franklin, Va. ALWAYS A PLEASING PROGRAM Change Daily Phone 323 GO TO U. VAUGHAN’S FOR DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, ETC. Murfreesboro, N. C. BIG ANNUAL CLEARING SALE NOW ON AT E. N. 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